Meet the Little General From his beginnings as a Corsican soldier, through his rise to power as the Emperor of France, to his final defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte built an empire . . . and a legend. Napoleon was that rarest of men - one whose life defined the age in which he lived. Now that age comes alive for your roleplaying game.
Course No. 217 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by Elizabeth Vandiver Whitman College Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin 1. Tragedy Defined 2. Democracy, Culture, and Tragedy 3. Roots of a Genre 4. Production and Stagecraft
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From Blake to Coleridge, and Wordsworth to Shelley, this volume provides a critical overview on the poets who defined the English Romantic period. This title, English Romantic Poetry, part of Chelsea House Publishers' Period Studies series, features a selection of critical essays analyzing the writers and works that defined English Romantic Poetry. In addition to a chronology of the important cultural, literary, and politcal events that shaped this period, this text includes an introduction and editor's note written by Harold Bloom, Sterling Professor of the Humanities, Yale University.
Mathematical Connections: A Companion for Teachers
This book is about some of the topics that form the foundations for high school mathematics. It focuses on a closely-knit collection of ideas that are at the intersection of algebra, arithmetic, combinatorics, geometry, and calculus. Most of the ideas are classical: methods for fitting polynomial functions to data, for summing powers of integers, for visualizing the iterates of a function defined on the complex plane, or for obtaining identities among entries in Pascal's triangle.
History of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology: With an Epilogue on Psychiatry and the Mind-Body Relation
The Romans knew that Nero was insane. Shakespeare’s Macbeth asked his doctor to treat "a mind diseased." The physicians of the Enlightenment era pondered whether the inmates in the asylums were mad or simply bad. As a discipline, psychiatry has always walked a fine if not easily defined line between social and biological science.
