“Another book that captured my attention was The Roads to Rome by Catherine Fletcher, which looks at the ancient road network across the Roman Empire but also across the centuries since they were built. It’s a travelogue, kind of: you join her going around Rome—including to the Via Appi...
I drew on two corpora, the mainstream newspapers and Edward Gibbon’s The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Brad Freeman collaborated, creating the rich, dense, dark imagery on the pages through his techniques of offset overprinting. Damaged Nature Salvage Culture (2006) ...
the bilateral symmetry of the letter X and the codex form of the book. Spanish on the left, English on the right: the imposition of type and the ghostly images of the X play with one another. The two texts delight in the crossover between similarity and difference, knowingly in the whit...
History of modern Paganism In the 4th centurycethe leadership of theRoman Empireconverted toChristianityand introduced measures to penalize the pre-Christian and largelypolytheisticreligions existing within its boundaries. Although the empire collapsed in the West in the 5th century, Christianity remained ...
Click on Image to expand Bailyn, Bernard, and Jane N. Garrett: Pamphlets Of The American Revolution 1750-1776. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1965. First Edition. Near fine in green cloth covered boards with gilt text stamped on the spine. A small quarto ...
“The Country Girls” “The Country Girls Trilogy” “The High Road” “The Light of Evening” “The Little Red Chairs” “The Lonely Girl” “The Love Object” (Show more) On the Web: Irish Central - On This Day: Irish writer Edna O'Brien was born in 1930(Nov. 26, 2024) ...
Notable Novels of Fall 2021 Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor Buy now The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andrić Read expert recommendations “Written in 1943 by the Bosnian Nobel Laureate Ivo Andrić, this is a novel about the darker side of the Ottoman Empire – the enforced labour of loca...
Obviously, you’ll easily find thousands of great books and movies about the glorious Roman years of Caesar and Augustus. However, not many focus on the decline of the Roman Empire. And, by popular acclaim, none of them matchesEdward Gibbon’s “The History of the Decline and Fall of the...
“We show that the bias of self-normalizedimportance sampling is of orderN−1, and we obtain new bounds on the moments of the error in importancesampling.We then consider IMH, and show that the common random numbers coupling isoptimal. Using this coupling,we show that the total variation ...
A key theme is the Law of Reversed Effort, which is often described in analogies: When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink you float. Or another: when you hold your breath you lose your breath. This idea applies to anxiety in that it...