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This book explores the anxious and unstable relationship between court poetry and various forms of authority, political and cultural, in England and Scotland at the beginning of the sixteenth century. Through poems by Skelton, Dunbar, Douglas, Hawes, Lyndsay and Barclay, it examines the paths by which court poetry and its narrators seek multiple forms of legitimation: from royal and institutional sources, but also in the media of script and print. The book is the first for some time to treat English and Scottish material of its period together, and responds to European literary contexts, the dialogue between vernacular and Latin matter, and current critical theory. In so doing it claims that public and occasional writing evokes a counter-discourse in the secrecies and subversions of medieval love-fictions. The result is a poetry that queries and at times cancels the very authority to speak that it so proudly promotes.

Poetry --- English literature --- anno 1600-1699 --- anno 1500-1599 --- English poetry --- Political poetry, English --- Politics and literature --- Authority in literature. --- Literature --- Literature and politics --- History and criticism. --- History --- Political aspects --- Courts and courtiers in literature. --- Authors and patrons --- Skelton, John, --- Dunbar, William, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Skeleton, John, --- Arts and Humanities

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This book examines the impact of the Roman cultural revolution under Augustus on the Roman province of Greece. It argues that the transformation of Roman Greece into a classicizing 'museum' was a specific response of the provincial Greek elites to the cultural politics of the Roman imperial monarchy. Against a background of Roman debates about Greek culture and Roman decadence, Augustus promoted the ideal of a Roman debt to a 'classical' Greece rooted in Europe and morally opposed to a stereotyped Asia. In Greece the regime signalled its admiration for Athens, Sparta, Olympia and Plataea as symbols of these past Greek glories. Cued by the Augustan monarchy, provincial Greek notables expressed their Roman orientation by competitive cultural work (revival of ritual; restoration of buildings) aimed at further emphasising Greece's 'classical' legacy. Reprised by Hadrian, the Augustan construction of 'classical' Greece helped to promote the archaism typifying Greek culture under the principate.

Social change --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Ethnicity --- Acculturation --- Political culture --- Cities and towns, Ancient --- Changement social --- Elite (Sciences sociales) --- Ethnicité --- Culture politique --- Villes antiques --- History --- Histoire --- Augustus, --- Hadrian, --- Influence. --- Geschichte 27 v. Chr.-14. --- Greece --- Grèce --- Civilization --- Roman influences. --- Moral conditions. --- Civilisation --- Influence romaine --- Conditions morales --- Auguste (empereur romain ; 0063 av. J.-C.-0014) --- Influence --- Elites (Social sciences) --- Ethnicité --- Grèce --- Change, Social --- Cultural change --- Cultural transformation --- Societal change --- Socio-cultural change --- Social history --- Social evolution --- Culture --- Political science --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Leadership --- Power (Social sciences) --- Social classes --- Social groups --- Culture contact --- Development education --- Ethnology --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Adrian, --- Hadrianus, --- Adriano, --- Hadrien, --- אדריאנוס, --- Octavius Caesar, --- Gaius Octavius, --- Octavius, Gaius, --- Octavianus, --- Octavianus, Gaius Julius Caesar, --- Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, --- Octavian, --- Caius Julius Caesar Octavianus, --- T︠S︡ezarʹ Oktavian Avgust, --- Oktavian-Avgust, T︠S︡ezarʹ, --- Avgust, T︠S︡ezarʹ Oktavian, --- Octavianus Augustus, --- Augusto, --- Cesarz August, --- Ogusṭus, --- Augustus Caesar, --- Gaius Octavius Thurinus, --- Octavio Augusto, --- Cayo Octavio Turino, --- Thurinus, Gaius Octavius, --- Turino, Cayo Octavio, --- אוגוסטוס --- Griechenland --- Hellas --- Yaṿan --- Vasileion tēs Hellados --- Hellēnikē Dēmokratia --- République hellénique --- Royaume de Grèce --- Kingdom of Greece --- Hellenic Republic --- Ancient Greece --- Ελλάδα --- Ellada --- Ελλάς --- Ellas --- Ελληνική Δημοκρατία --- Ellēnikē Dēmokratia --- Elliniki Dimokratia --- Grecia --- Grčija --- Hellada --- اليونان --- يونان --- al-Yūnān --- Yūnān --- 希腊 --- Xila --- Греция --- Gret︠s︡ii︠a︡ --- Rome --- Culture contact (Acculturation) --- Arts and Humanities

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This collection addresses the role of ritual representations and religion in the epic poems of the Flavian period. Drawing on various studies on religion and ritual and the relationship between literature and religion in the Greco-Roman world, it explores the poets' use of the relationship between gods and humans and religious activities.

Epic poetry, Latin --- Ritual in literature. --- Religion in literature. --- Poésie épique latine --- Rituel dans la littérature --- Religion dans la littérature --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Rome --- History --- Histoire --- Histoire des religions --- --Rite --- --Littérature latine --- --Flaviens, --- --Epic poetry, Latin --- Ritual in literature --- Religion in literature --- History and criticism --- Poésie épique latine --- Rituel dans la littérature --- Religion dans la littérature --- Ritual. --- Religion. --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Cult --- Cultus --- Liturgies --- Public worship --- Symbolism --- Worship --- Rites and ceremonies --- Ritualism --- Rite --- Littérature latine --- Epic poetry, Latin - History and criticism --- Flaviens, 69-96 --- Rome - History - Flavians, 69-96

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The tools and technique used in the Design of Experiments (DOE) have been proved successful in meeting the challenge of continuous improvement over the last 15 years. However, research has shown that applications of these techniques in small and medium-sized manufacturing companies are limited due to a lack of statistical knowledge required for their effective implementation. Although many books have been written in this subject, they are mainly by statisticians, for statisticians and not appropriate for engineers.Design of Experiments for Engineers and Scientists overcomes the

Experimental design. --- Research, Industrial. --- Contract research --- Industrial research --- Design of experiments --- Statistical design --- Research --- Engineering experiment stations --- Inventions --- Technological innovations --- Mathematical optimization --- Science --- Statistical decision --- Statistics --- Analysis of means --- Analysis of variance --- Experiments --- Methodology --- 519.87 --- 519.87 Mathematical models for operational research --- Mathematical models for operational research --- Statistiek.

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Make Time for the Stars: Fitting Astronomy into Your Busy Life Antony Cooke Hungry for an opportunity to study the stars but have little or no time to do it? Then this book is for you! Perhaps you have a telescope from years ago, which you used a few times, then put it away in a closet, where it has been gathering dust ever since. Could you still use that telescope, or do you have to buy a new one? And what about all the gadgets on the market now? Which ones do you really need? About how much will it all cost you, and what should you look for when you finally have a night out to look? Antony Cooke will give you those answers, and outline a program for star (and Solar System) gazing that you will be able to fit into your busy life. He tells why it is imperative to get yourself the right equipment from the start (without breaking the bank!) and why he thinks it is important to focus on live viewing rather than fancy gadgetry and imaging techniques. Full of sound advice and lots of encouragement, you will come away from this book prepared to take up your old hobby with new vigor and finally get the pleasure you knew was possible from studying our neighbors in space.

Astronomical instruments --Amateurs' manuals. --- Astronomy --Observers' manuals. --- Astronomy --- Astronomical instruments --- Astronomy & Astrophysics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Astronomy - General --- Astronomical Observatories & Instruments --- Astronomy. --- Physics. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Observations, Astronomical. --- Astronomy, Observations and Techniques. --- Popular Science in Astronomy. --- Observations. --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Space sciences --- Astronomical observations --- Observations, Astronomical --- Astronomy—Observations.