Greek Mavericks

Author : Jason S Ridler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2023-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780811767767

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Mavericks of War by Jason S Ridler Pdf

During World War I, Oxford-trained archeologist Lawrence of Arabia used his knowledge of the Middle East to help organize the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. In this entertaining and insightful book, Jason Ridler profiles the intellectuals, outsiders, and eccentrics who followed in Lawrence’s footsteps across the next hundred years of warfare and who relied on creativity, curiosity, and outside-the-box thinking to shape battlefields from World War II and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. They were Ivy Leaguers and Oxford scholars, anthropologists and archeologists, an ad executive, an international activist, a Peace Corps veteran, an émigré journalist (and former teenage member of the French Resistance), a diplomat—mavericks and oddballs, men and women—who, not always heralded or heeded and sometimes hated, challenged traditional military thought and helped win wars, secure peace, and change the face of modern war.

Author : Simon Pearson,Fiona Gorman
Publisher : American University in Cairo Press
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781649032935

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A Surgeon and a Maverick by Simon Pearson,Fiona Gorman Pdf

“[A] remarkable journey.”—The Telegraph The incredible life story of legendary cardiac surgeon and scientist Magdi Yacoub, an outsider who succeeded against the odds Veteran journalists Simon Pearson and Fiona Gorman follow the remarkable life of heart surgeon Magdi Yacoub from his formative years in Egypt, through spectacular success at Cairo University, to his long and distinguished career in Britain. Although at times he clashed with the medical establishment in London, Yacoub pioneered great advances in heart surgery. He was knighted in 1992, and in 2014, he was awarded the highest honor in the gift of the Queen, the Order of Merit. Written with unprecedented access and drawing on extensive interviews and research, the biography recounts how Yacoub transformed the treatment of children with congenital heart disease. He performed some of the first heart transplants in Britain and the first heart-lung transplants in Europe. At London’s Harefield Hospital, he created the greatest heart transplant center in the world. Among his patients are men and women who are still thriving more than thirty-five years after he gave them new hope. This story is also about science, the development of new medical techniques, and a deeper understanding of how the human body works. Today, at an age when most people have long since retired, Yacoub is still pushing the boundaries of scientific understanding and surgical know-how. He is also taking heart surgery to places that until now have had little access to cardiac treatment, developing centers of excellence across Africa, including in Egypt, where his hospital in Aswan has an international reputation, and a new center is rising in Cairo. Yacoub’s life is one of triumph and tragedy, success and failure, fierce criticism and high praise—it is also an enthralling journey through the worlds of scientific research and medical politics and ethics at the highest levels.

Author : Asaph Ben-Tov
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047443957

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Lutheran Humanists and Greek Antiquity by Asaph Ben-Tov Pdf

This book probes attitudes towards Greek antiquity by Lutheran humanists, posited in their sixteenth century context within the framework of Protestant universal history, pedagogical concerns, and the newly made acquaintance with Byzantine texts and post-Byzantine Greeks.

Author : Michael Shanks
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134693184

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The Classical Archaeology of Greece by Michael Shanks Pdf

Archaeologists do not discover the past but take the fragmentary remains which they recover and make something of them. Archaeology is a process of detection and supposition; this is what makes it so fascinating. However, the interpretations of archaeologists differ and change over time. They depend upon the amount of evidence available, the ideas and preconceptions of the archaeologist and their interests and aims. Michael Shanks's enlivening work is a guide to the discipline of classical archaeology and its objects. It assesses archaeology as a means of reconstructing ancient Greek society using the latest approaches of social archaeology. In addition, The Classical Archaeology of Greece outlines the history of the discipline and discusses why Classical Greece continues to fascinate us and why it has had such an impact on European civilization and identity.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Geology
ISBN : MINN:31951D00331363B

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Geological Survey Professional Paper by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert Kysar
Publisher : Presbyterian Publishing Corp
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780664230562

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John, the Maverick Gospel by Robert Kysar Pdf

John, the Maverick Gospel has long been regarded as one of the most trustworthy introductions to the Fourth Gospel, paying special attention to the literary and theological dimensions of this Gospel without neglecting historical and other approaches. Robert Kysar, an international expert on John's Gospel, has now revised this useful classroom tool to bring the scholarly discussions up to date and to add sections on women in the Gospel of John as well as postmodern appraoches to the Gospel. This classic text provides an accessible entry into the important critical issues of John's Gospel, both on its own terms and in comparison to the Synoptic Gospels, offering a sure foundation for scholarly study of the book as well as theological interpretation and preaching.

Author : Yoginder Sharma
Publisher : Prowess Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788194398851

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Musings of a Military Maverick by Yoginder Sharma Pdf

‘Maverick’s Musings’ start with a tender tribute to a soul-mate. The young officer (YO) who had wooed and won the heart of a girl from an alien land shares his ‘Jab We Met’ (when we met!) moments of 1958. There was little in common between them except their humanity and core values of two ancient civilisations. They overcame impossible odds to create a relationship that lasted for 55 years. It is a heartwarming story that triggers emotions at a deeper level. The ‘episodic’ narrative then follows a linear timeline. It runs on two intertwined tracks. The personal thread follows his life from infancy to an awkward adolescence. Fortunately he finds a more confident life partner. The Greek girl uproots herself in pursuit of love and finds a new family in the warm folds of Indian military-life. Their life together matures into a well-rounded family. On the professional track the YO becomes a General in 30 years, after a series of trials and triumphs. The challenges include a resignation, a traumatic war injury, sadistic seniors, a cadet’s suicide and so on. He survives and succeeds. The family goes through phases of agony and ecstasy. Their ability to roll with the punches lies in their inner strength which this narrative shows in flashes- that source may be explored later!

Author : Nikos Stabakis
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780292773424

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Surrealism in Greece by Nikos Stabakis Pdf

In the decades between the two World Wars, Greek writers and artists adopted surrealism both as an avant-garde means of overturning the stifling traditions of their classical heritage and also as a way of responding to the extremely unstable political situation in their country. Despite producing much first-rate work throughout the rest of the twentieth century, Greek surrealists have not been widely read outside of Greece. This volume seeks to remedy that omission by offering authoritative translations of the major works of the most important Greek surrealist writers. Nikos Stabakis groups the Greek surrealists into three generations: the founders (such as Andreas Embirikos, Nikos Engonopoulos, and Nicolas Calas), the second generation, and the Pali Group, which formed around the magazine Pali. For each generation, he provides a very helpful introduction to the themes and concerns that animate their work, as well as concise biographies of each writer. Stabakis anthologizes translations of all the key surrealist works of each generation—poetry, prose, letters, and other documents—as well as a selection of rarer texts. His introduction to the volume places Greek surrealism within the context of the international movement, showing how Greek writers and artists used surrealism to express their own cultural and political realities.

Author : Michael Broyles
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300127898

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Mavericks and Other Traditions in American Music by Michael Broyles Pdf

From colonial times to the present, American composers have lived on the fringes of society and defined themselves in large part as outsiders. In this stimulating book Michael Broyles considers the tradition of maverick composers and explores what these mavericks reveal about American attitudes toward the arts and about American society itself. Broyles starts by examining the careers of three notably unconventional composers: William Billings in the eighteenth century, Anthony Philip Heinrich in the nineteenth, and Charles Ives in the twentieth. All three had unusual lives, wrote music that many considered incomprehensible, and are now recognized as key figures in the development of American music. Broyles goes on to investigate the proliferation of eccentric individualism in all types of American music—classical, popular, and jazz—and how it has come to dominate the image of diverse creative artists from John Cage to Frank Zappa. The history of the maverick tradition, Broyles shows, has much to tell us about the role of music in American culture and the tension between individualism and community in the American consciousness.

Author : Sawyers, June Skinner
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 616 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1455608661

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Maverick Guide to Scotland by Sawyers, June Skinner Pdf

Author : Stan Draenos
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780857722553

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Andreas Papandreou by Stan Draenos Pdf

Greece in the 1960s produced one of Europe's arguably most controversial politicians of the post-war era. The contrarian politics of Andreas Papandreou grew out of his conflict laden re-engagement with Greece in the 1960s. Returning to Athens after 20 years in the US where he had been a rising member of the American liberal establishment, Papandreou forged a social reform-oriented, nationalist politics in Greece that ultimately put him at odds with the US foreign policy establishment and made him the primary target of a pro-American military coup in 1967. Venerated by his admirers and despised by his detractors with equal passion, the Harvard-educated Papandreou left in his wake no clear-cut answer to the question of who he was and what he stood for. Andreas Papandreou chronicles the events, struggles and ideas that defined the man's dramatic, intrigue-filled transformation from Kennedy-era modernizer to Cold War maverick. In the process the book examines the explosive interplay of character and circumstance that generated Papandreou's contentious, but powerfully consequential politics.

Author : Keith Rutter
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780748679850

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Word And Image In Ancient Greece by Keith Rutter Pdf

In ancient Greek society communication was largely oral and visual. The contributors explore the ways in which word and image interact in Greek culture, throwing new light on their many and related functions.

Author : Scott Malensek
Publisher : Virtualbookworm Publishing
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2002-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1589392345

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Sixth Fleet Under by Scott Malensek Pdf

Nuclear War is obsolete in the 21st Century. With the scientific mapping of the human genome the same medicine that targets specific cancer-causing genes can be turned into precision-guided, chemical/biological weapons of genocidal destruction.Terrorist attacks in the Holy Land finally lead to a vigilante attempt at genocide. The Arab World unites in vengeance, and the largest coordinated air and naval attacks in the history of the world are launched. The confined space of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea is filled with hundreds of ships, planes, and submarines. Only the U.S.S. George Washington Carrier Battlegroup stands in the way!

Author : Peter J. Ochs, II
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999-11-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1565546873

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Maverick Guide to Oman by Peter J. Ochs, II Pdf

With the endorsement and assistance of the Omani government, the only guide to Oman has been thoroughly updated for the second edition. For naturalists, the rock formations, minerals, and fossils of Oman are textbook-quality, and the variety of flora and fauna is awe-inspiring. For adventurers, there is wadi bashing, hiking, camping, and rock climbing. The landscape ranges from desert to oasis to mountain to coast, and the Omani people are among the most hospitable in the world. This guide utilizes the familiar Maverick format to communicate everything a first-time traveler needs to know. The author lives in Oman and has made many of the treks he writes about. He gives insight into the customs, history, and culture of the country, as well as how to get along with the Omanis in the best possible fashion. Advice is given on everything from asking permission to take pictures, to what type of vehicle to drive in certain areas, to which forts are open to the public, to what kinds of clothes to wear.

Author : Burcu Alkan,Çimen Günay-Erkol
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501358036

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Turkish Literature as World Literature by Burcu Alkan,Çimen Günay-Erkol Pdf

Essays covering a broad range of genres and ranging from the late Ottoman era to contemporary literature open the debate on the place of Turkish literature in the globalized literary world. Explorations of the multilingual cosmopolitanism of the Ottoman literary scene are complemented by examples of cross-generational intertextual encounters. The renowned poet Nâzim Hikmet is studied from a variety of angles, while contemporary and popular writers such as Orhan Pamuk and Elif Safak are contextualized. Turkish Literature as World Literature not only fills a significant lacuna in world literary studies but also draws a composite historical, political, and cultural portrait of Turkey in its relations with the broader world.