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Two thirds of our planet is covered by oceans and seas. Over recent decades developments in ocean science have dramatically improved our understanding of the key role oceans play in the Earth System, and how vital they are for regulating global climate. Humans depend on the oceans for many resources, but at the same time their impacts on the marine systems around the world are of increasing concern. Introducing Oceanography has been written by two leading oceanographers to provide a succinct overview of the science of the study of the seas for students and for the interested adult wanting a topical guide to this enormous and complex subject. The initial chapters describe the oceans and the forces at work within them. The authors then discuss the effects of light, the chemistry of the seas and the food web before surveying biological oceanography in the main oceanic regions. The final chapter looks at the methodology of ocean study. Copiously illustrated, this book is intended for those whose interest in oceanography has been stimulated, perhaps by media coverage of declining resources or climate change and who want to know more. Technical terms are kept to a minimum and are explained in a glossary.

Always at the centre of her books and performances are the experiences of the body, and, whether she is exploring racism, violence, the experiences of diaspora communities in India, England or America, what emerges is a heart-stopping, life-affirming way of telling the near impossible-to-be-told.

This book provides all that is needed to study Plato's Atlantis story: Greek text, commentary, vocabulary of Greek terms, new translation and full introduction.

Andrew Murphy charts the trajectory of Heaney's career as a poet and places his work within its various contexts.

A group of Argive women has come to Eleusis to ask King Theseus and his city of Athens to bring about the burial of their sons who are being denied it by their Theban conquerors. Theseus is confronted with a challenge which at first he declines to take up, but then does so magnificently. The range of the play's debate is astonishing.

Orosius's work is therefore crucial for an understanding of early Christian approaches to history, the development of universal history, and the intellectual life of the Middle Ages, for which it was both an important reference work and also a defining model for the writing of history.

English translations of four mid twelfth-century novels from Constantinople, with notes and commentary.

For students of Middle English, Andrew and Waldron's The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript has been the key edition of the four Pearl poems (the best-known of which is Gawain and the Green Knight) for 30 years.

The only Latin art of war to survive, Vegetius' Epitome was for long a part of the medieval prince's military education. The core of his proposals, the maintenance of a professional standing army, was revolutionary for medieval Europe, while his theory of deterrence through strength remains the foundation of modern Western defence policy.

Starting with a focus on past objects, this volume brings together essays from art historians, historians, archaeologists, literary scholars and museum curators to reveal the different disciplinary approaches and methods taken to the study of objects and what this can reveal about transformations in material culture 1000-1700.

Ovid's calendar poem the Fasti is a vivid journey through ancient Rome via the calendar. The reader triumphantly tours the monuments of the Augustan-era city, witnesses urban and rustic seasonal festivals, and commemorates epic events of history and myth. Includes Latin text, English prose translation, introduction, and extensive commentary.

Libanius of Antioch (AD 314-93), teacher and rhetorician, was one of late antiquity's most prolific letter writers. This volume contains the first English-language translation of all 273 letters written between 388 and 393. They provide insights into his professional and personal circumstances as well as the political and social environment of the age.

Sounds Senses takes sound as a point of departure for engaging the francopphone postcolonial condition. Offering a synthetic overview of sound studies, the book dismantles the oculocentrism and retinal paradigms of francophone postcolonial studies. It introduces two primary theoretical thrusts - the unheard and the unintegrated - to the project of analyzing, extending, and rejuvenating francophone postcolonial studies.

The essays of this volume examine physical culture in literature written in French from around the Francophone world, focusing on texts from a wide variety of periods and genres in order to consider the fundamental - yet highly neglected - place of athletic activities in literature and culture from the French-speaking world.

In 1234, four mendicant friars arrived in the Byzantine city of Nicaea to discuss the possibility of a union between the Greek and Roman Churches. Brought together, these sources represent the largest collection of material describing any dialogue between the churches in the thirteenth century.

This interdisciplinary collection explores how Irish people - both at home and abroad - thought about the future during the long nineteenth century. It showcases new scholarship on utopian and dystopian visions, and includes chapters on Ireland and empire, emigration, female agency, the Irish language, and on technology as a modernizing force.

This volume argues that our oldest styles of poetic articulation - the elegy, the ode, the hymn - have figured all too briefly in modern genealogies of the lyric poem, and have proved especially popular among experimental poets since 1945. Their recourse to familiar forms and shapes of thought should prompt us to reconsider late modernism as a crucial phase in the evolving history of lyric.

Migrant Representations pairs twenty-four carefully selected histories in order to compare how migrants themselves - Irish labourer, Lithuanian refugee or Indian doctor - and their social investigators capture in words and images defining private and historical moments.

Charting new territory in filmmaking technologies and Steven Spielberg's oeuvre, MinorityReport (2002) portrays a dystopian near-future that comments on our increasingly science-fictional world and pays homage to the history of SF cinema. In this comprehensive monograph, D. Harlan Wilson recounts the film's inception, production, reception, and afterlife since its release in 2002 while depicting it as a symptom of contemporary media pathology, post-9/11 paranoia, consumer-capitalist aggression, religious mania, and above all, the screen culture that has come to define the human condition. At the same time, Wilson explores the many self-reflexive flourishes that render the movie a commentary on Spielberg's style and the precession of the SF genre.