There’s the theology of it, but also how market garden towns worked, how peasants lived, what beliefs people had and how those were challenged or changed. Both The Books of Jacob and A New Name are dealing with the numinous, a sense of God. But Jacob Frank is an apostate, he’s ...
Leningrad, 1932.Marx, K. “Formy, predshestvuiushchie kapitalistich. proizvodstvu.” In K. Marx and F. Engels. Soch., 2nd ed., vol. 46, part 1.Engels, F. “’Proiskhozhdenie sem’i, chastnoi sobstvennosti i gosudarstva.” In K. Marx and F. Engels, Soch., 2nd ed.. ...
1. <operating system> The Unix superuser account (with user name "root" and user ID 0) that overrides file permissions. The term avatar is also used. By extension, the privileged system-maintenance login on any operating system.See root mode, go root, wheel. This article is provided by ...
noun[Lat.,=name], in English,part of speechof vast semantic range. It can be used to name a person, place, thing, idea, or time. It generally functions as subject, object, or indirect object of the verb in the sentence, and may be distinguished by a number of formal criteria. A ...
First, the values of α and δ for the observed body are obtained from an astronomical catalog, and the body’s zenith distance ζ at the momentTis measured. Equations (1) and (2) can then be used to calculate the clock correctionuif ϕ is known, or to calculate ϕ ifuis known....
there were always rumors of the latest cloak-and-dagger tactics being used by spies.I know I said I wanted to meet you in private, but you didn't have to be so cloak-and-dagger about it. A parking garage isn't what I had in mind.A: "Use this cell phone if you need to contact...
Now he is meeting the mother of that young boy. She feeds him tortillas, asking him to repeat again what happened out there. Atoning for his loss, he will atone for hers. Tell me more, she says, pushing the plate of tortillas towards him as if she were paying him to tell the tale...
The plotters of a coup attempt against Gorbachev were immediately arrested. Most remained in jail for more than two years. After Mikhail Gorbachev became General Secretary of the former Soviet Union…
The Lie-tseu divides dreams into several different classifications, such as: ordinary dreams, which are merely random byproducts of the mind without any previous emotion or influence; dreams of terror; dreams of what the dreamer thought of the previous day; dreams of waking, which are the ...
What claim there is to originality lies in identifying the network that linked India’s wealth and wisdom to the world that lay beyond its shores, the array of “navigable sea roads and maritime trade routes” that Dalrymple dubs “The Golden Road”, which “up to now has never been given...