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"Enemies of Civilization is a work of comparative history and cultural consciousness that discusses how "others" were perceived in three ancient civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China. Each civilization was the dominant culture in its part of the world, and each developed a mind-set that regarded itself as culturally superior to its neighbors. Mu-chou Poo compares these societies' attitudes toward other cultures and finds differences and similarities that reveal the self-perceptions of each society." "Notably, this work shows that in contrast to modern racism based on biophysical features, such prejudice did not exist in these ancient societies. It was culture rather than biophysical nature that was the most important criterion for distinguishing us from them. By examining how societies conceive their prejudices, this book breaks new ground in the study of ancient history and opens new ways to look at human society, both ancient and modern."--Jacket Little more than two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. Its history and peoples were the subject of much myth and speculation—and no region aroused greater interest than Egypt, where reports of mysterious monuments, inscrutable hieroglyphics, rare silks and spices, and rumors of lost magical knowledge tantalized dreamers and taunted the power-hungry.It was not until 1798, when an unlikely band of scientific explorers traveled from Paris to the Nile Valley, that Westerners received their first real glimpse of what lay beyond the Mediterranean Sea.Under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Army, a small and little-known corps of Paris's brightest intellectual lights left the safety of their laboratories, studios, and classrooms to embark on a thirty-day crossing into the unknown—some never to see French shores again. Over 150 astronomers, mathematicians, naturalists, physicists, doctors, chemists, engineers, botanists, artists—even a poet and a musicologist—accompanied Napoleon's troops into Egypt. Carrying pencils instead of swords, specimen jars instead of field guns, these highly accomplished men participated in the first large-scale interaction between Europeans and Muslims of the modern era. And many lived to tell the tale.Hazarding hunger, hardship, uncertainty, and disease, Napoleon's scientists risked their lives in pursuit of discovery. They approached the land not as colonizers, but as experts in their fields of scholarship, meticulously categorizing and collecting their finds—from the ruins of the colossal pyramids to the smallest insects to the legendary Rosetta Stone.Those who survived the three-year expedition compiled an exhaustive encyclopedia of Egypt, twenty-three volumes in length, which secured their place in history as the world's earliest-known archaeologists. Unraveling the mysteries that had befuddled Europeans for centuries, Napoleon's scientists were the first to document the astonishing accomplishments of a lost civilization—before the dark shadow of empire-building took Africa and the Middle East by storm.Internationally acclaimed journalist Nina Burleigh brings readers back to a little-known landmark adventure at the dawn of the modern era—one that ultimately revealed the deepest secrets of ancient Egypt to a very curious continent. Little more than two hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. Its history and peoples were the subject of much myth and speculationand no region aroused greater interest than Egypt, where reports of mysterious monuments, inscrutable hieroglyphics, rare silks and spices, and rumors of lost magical knowledge tantalized dreamers and taunted the power-hungry. It was not until 1798, when an unlikely band of scientific explorers traveled from Paris to the Nile Valley, that Westerners received their first real glimpse of what lay beyond the Mediterranean Sea. Under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Army, a small and little-known corps of Paris's brightest intellectual lights left the safety of their laboratories, studios, and classrooms to embark on a thirty-day crossing into the unknownsome never to see French shores again. Over 150 astronomers, mathematicians, naturalists, physicists, doctors, chemists, engineers, botanists, artistseven a poet and a musicologistaccompanied Napoleon's troops into Egypt. Carrying pencils instead of swords, specimen jars instead of field guns, these highly accomplished men participated in the first large-scale interaction between Europeans and Muslims of the modern era. And many lived to tell the tale. Hazarding hunger, hardship, uncertainty, and disease, Napoleon's scientists risked their lives in pursuit of discovery. They approached the land not as colonizers, but as experts in their fields of scholarship, meticulously categorizing and collecting their findsfrom the ruins of the colossal pyramids to the smallest insects to the legendary Rosetta Stone. Those who survived the three-year expedition compiled an exhaustive encyclopedia of Egypt, twenty-three volumes in length, which secured their place in history as the world's earliest-known archaeologists. Unraveling the mysteries that had befuddled Europeans for centuries, Napoleon's scientists were the first to document the astonishing accomplishments of a lost civilizationbefore the dark shadow of empire-building took Africa and the Middle East by storm. Internationally acclaimed journalist Nina Burleigh brings readers back to a little-known landmark adventure at the dawn of the modern eraone that ultimately revealed the deepest secrets of ancient Egypt to a very curious continent.

Under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte and the French Army, a small and little-known corps of Paris's brightest intellectual lights left the safety of their laboratories, studios, and classrooms to embark on a thirty-day crossing into the unknown some never to see French shores again. Over 150 astronomers, mathematicians, naturalists, physicists, doctors, chemists, engineers, botanists, artists even a poet and a musicologist accompanied Napoleon's troops into Egypt. Carrying pencils instead of swords, specimen jars instead of field guns, these highly accomplished men participated in the first large-scale interaction between Europeans and Muslims of the modern era. And many lived to tell the tale.

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When 28-year-old Napoleon invaded Egypt in 1798, his band of 50,000 soldiers and sailors was accompanied by 151 Parisian scientists and artists, who laid the groundwork for what became Egyptology. Ten of these remarkable men are the focus of Burleigh's narrative. Among them, three of the most prominent were the lowborn, pugnacious mathematician Gaspard Monge, a dedicated revolutionary who invented descriptive geometry; the painfully shy chemist Claude-Louis Berthollet, who invented new ways to make gunpowder and steel; and the witty artist and diplomat Dominique-Vivant Denon, who produced 200 architecturally precise sketches of Egyptian ruins and a bestselling travelogue; later he became Napoleon's first director of the Louvre Museum. The survivors of the team brought home a vast body of knowledge, but surrendered their greatest discovery, the Rosetta Stone, to conquering British troops. The result of the savants' work was the 24-volume Description of Egypt, magnificently illustrated with engravings and maps, which helped launch Egyptomania and the rape of the Nile, though Burleigh's discussion of this is scanty. Still, Burleigh (A Very Private Woman) offers an absorbing glimpse of Napoleon's thwarted bid for a grand French empire and its intellectual fruits. 8 pages of b&w photos. (Dec.)

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here Are Eleven Exuberant Essays On The Pleasures Of Writing From One Of The Most Creative, Imaginative, And Prolific Artists Of The Twentieth Century - An Author Who Truly Enjoys His Craft And Tells You Why And How. Bradbury Shares His Wisdom And Enthusiasm For Writing As He Examines A Lifetime Of Creating And Composing Scores Of Stories, Novels, Plays, Poems, Films, Television Programs, And Musicals. Refreshingly Direct, Each Essay Shares A Single Compelling Theme: Writing Is A Celebration, Not A Chore. Unlike So Many Books On Writing, This One Does Not Belabor The Technical Or Become Obsessed With The How-to Aspects Of The Craft. What Bradbury Does Bring To Every Discussion Of Writing Is The Fever, The Ardor, The Delight That He Has Discovered And Which Can Be Yours.

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as The Title Suggests, Science Fiction Master Bradbury Occasionally Sounds Like A Zen Sage (``you Must Stay Drunk On Writing So Reality Cannot Destroy You''), But For The Most Part These Nine Lightweight, Zestful Essays Dispense The Sort Of Shoptalk Generally Associated With Writers' Workshops. The Title Piece Aims To Help The Aspiring Writer Navigate Between The Self-consciously Literary And The Calculatingly Commercial. Other Essays Deal With Discovering One's Imaginative Self; Feeding One's Muse; The Germination Of Bradbury's Novel Dandelion Wine In His Illinois Boyhood; A Trip To Ireland; Science Fiction As A Search For New Modes Of Survival; And The Author's Stage Adaptation Of His Classic Novel Fahrenheit 451. Eight Poems On Creativity Round Out The Volume; Noteworthy Are ``doing Is Being'' And ``we Have Our Arts So We Won't Die Of Truth.'' (mar.)

Natural Systems And Their Human Uses Are Of Central Importance In Urban Regions, Where Diverse Greenspaces And Built Spaces Of Essentially Value Spatially Intertwine. With Land Planning, Socioeconomics, And Natural Systems As Foundations, This Book Combines Urban Planning And Ecological Science In Examining Urban Regions. Writing For Graduate Students, Academic Researchers, Planners, Conservationists, And Policy Makers, And With The Use Of Informative Urban-region Color Maps, Richard Forman Compares 38 Urban Regions From 32 Nations, Including London, Chicago, Ottawa, Brasilia, Cairo, Beijing, Bangkok, Canberra, And A Major Case Study Of The Greater Barcelona Region. Alternative Patterns Of Urbanization Spread (including Sprawl) Are Evaluated From The Perspective Of Nature And People, And Land-use Principles Extracted From Landscape Ecology, Transportation, And Hydrology Are Stated. Good, Bad, And Interesting Spatial Patterns For Creating Sustainable Land Mosaics Are Pinpointed, And Urban Regions Are Considered In Broader Contexts, From Climate Change To Biodiversity Loss, Disasters, And Sense Of Place.--book Jacket. Regions And Land Mosaics -- Planning Land -- Economic Dimensions And Socio-cultural Patterns -- Natural Systems And Greenspaces -- Thirty-eight Urban Regions -- Nature, Food, And Water -- Built Systems, Built Areas, And Whole Regions -- Urbanization Models And The Regions -- Basic Principles For Molding Land Mosaics -- The Barcelona Region's Land Mosaic -- Gathering The Pieces -- Big Pictures. Richard T.t. Forman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 352-379) And Index.

The security criteria of the International Standards Organization (ISO) provides an excellent foundation for identifying and addressing business risks through a disciplined security management process. Using security standards ISO 17799 and ISO 27001 as a basis, How to Achieve 27001 Certification: An Example of Applied Compliance Management helps an organization align its security and organizational goals so it can generate effective security, compliance, and management programs.

The authors offer insight from their own experiences, providing questions and answers to determine an organization's information security strengths and weaknesses with respect to the standard. They also present step-by-step information to help an organization plan an implementation, as well as prepare for certification and audit.

Security is no longer a luxury for an organization, it is a legislative mandate. A formal methodology that helps an organization define and execute an ISMS is essential in order to perform and prove due diligence in upholding stakeholder interests and legislative compliance. Providing a good starting point for novices, as well as finely tuned nuances for seasoned security professionals, this book is an invaluable resource for anyone involved with meeting an organization's security, certification, and compliance needs.

Two centuries ago, only the most reckless Europeans dared traverse the Middle East. Its history and peoples were the subject of myth and speculation--and no region aroused greater interest than Egypt. It was not until 1798, when an unlikely band of scientific explorers traveled from Paris to the Nile Valley, that Westerners received their first real glimpse of what lay beyond the Mediterranean. Under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte, a small corps of Paris's brightest left the safety of their laboratories, studios, and classrooms to embark into the unknown--some never to see French shores again. Over 150 astronomers, mathematicians, naturalists, physicists, doctors, chemists, engineers, botanists, artists--even a poet and a musicologist--accompanied Napoleon's troops into Egypt. They approached the land not as colonizers, but as experts in their fields of scholarship, meticulously categorizing and collecting their finds, and secured their place in history as the world's earliest-known archaeologists.--From publisher description With land planning, socioeconomics and natural systems as foundations, this book combines urban planning and ecological science in examining urban regions. Writing for graduate students, academic researchers, planners, conservationists and policy makers, and with the use of informative urban-region color maps, Richard Forman analyzes 38 urban regions from 32 nations, including London, Chicago, Ottawa, Brasilia, Cairo, Seoul, Bangkok, Canberra, and a major case study of the Greater Barcelona region. Alternative patterns of urbanization spread (including sprawl) are evaluated from the perspective of nature and people, stating land-use principles extracted from landscape ecology, transportation and hydrology. Good, bad and interesting spatial patterns for creating sustainable land mosaics are pinpointed, and urban regions are considered in broader contexts, from climate change to biodiversity loss, disasters and sense of place. "The security criteria of the International Standards Organization (ISO) provides an excellent foundation for identifying and addressing business risks through a disciplined security management process. Using security standards ISO 27002 (formerly ISO 17799) and ISO 27001 as a basis, How to Achieve 27001 Certification; An Example of Applied Compliance Management helps an organization align its security and organizational goals so it can generate effective security, compliance, and management programs." "The authors offer insight from their own experiences, providing questions and answers to determine an organization's information security strengths and weaknesses with respect to the standard. They also present step-by-step information to help an organization plan an implementation, as well as prepare for certification and audit."--Jacket The joy of writing Run fast, stand still, or, The thing at the top of the stairs, or, New ghosts from old minds How to keep and feed a muse Drunk, and in charge of a bicycle Investing dimes: Fahrenheit 451 Just this side of Byzantium: Dandelion wine The long road to Mars On the shoulders of giants The secret mind Shooting haiku in a barrel Zen in the art of writing ... on creativity. A history of the birth of Egyptology traces the pivotal contributions of 151 European scientists, mathematicians, engineers, and artists who were brought into Egypt by Napoleon's invading army to document and classify every aspect of the region. In a series of essays, Bradbury discusses his career and his compulsion to write. Nine essays discuss the joy of writing, the writing process, inspiration, creativity, and the circumstances surrounding the writing of several of his works