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This is the first volume of the complete publication of Panskoye I, a rural settlemt in Northwestern Crime which dates from c.400-270 BC and was founded by Olbia, the most important Greek city on the northern shores of the Black Sea. Fifty years later the fortress was destroyed and the settlement was taken over by the Greek city Chersonesos Taurica which controlled Panskoye until its final destruction. This volume publishes research results concerning a monumental building (U6) which was erected after the takeover by Chersonesos and reports on the building's varied and rich assemblage of finds, including sculpture, pottery, lamps, coins, metalwork, glass objects and graffiti. The volume provides a useful insight into a Greek city's exploitation of its territory and the interaction between Greek settlers and local tribes, in this case the Scythians and the Taurians. Volume 2 will examine the necropolis of the settlement and the final third volume will deal with the earliest fortress.

Conation is defined in this study as a striving that may manifest itself in consciousness as volition or desire, or in behaviour as action. The author argues that conation is even more fundamental than cognition, in as much as true cognition has developed on the basis of conative activities.

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Lars Morell vil endnu en gang revolutionere opfattelsen af Per Kirkebys værk og går i denne bog på tværs af hans arbejder for at finde svaret på, hvad den røde tråd gennem hans kunst er. Handler den om ham selv, om naturen eller om noget helt tredje? Morell analyserer Kirkebys billeder ud fra ideen om, at afsættet for hans værker er forholdet mellem kunst og videnskab.

Complex global patterns of behavior can often be explained by simple local interactions: for example, the complex shifting patterns of flocking birds can be generated by interactions involving only a bird and tis immediate neigbors. But can the large-scale patterns re-influence the local interactions that generated them? Is there an influence down-wards from the whole to its parts? Does the cell reorganize the biochemical processes inside it in a new way? Do psychosomatic illnesses exist?.....

During the last half-century, historians and anthropologists have become increasingly aware of the importance of feud in pre-modern societies. Recent research emphasises that feuds are not to be preceived as expressions of chaos, anarchy and lawlessness. On the contrary, in the absence of a state monopoly on violence, feuds played a fundamental role in shaping the society and functioned as a means of sanctioning rules and law and resolving conflicts.The aim of Feud in Medieval and Early Modern Europe is to present some of the principal positions of this new research. Contributions by leading scholars cover a large span of years, from the classic Icelandic feuds of the Sagas to more recent early modern incidents. One contribution even takes us back to the roots of mankind, but the focus is on the medieval and early modern periods - such as feuds in fourteenth century Marseille, Italian medieval vendettas, and feuds in medieval Germany and Denmark. A comprehensive introduction establishes the framework for the following chapters.

En ny ungdomskultur er undervejs i det mo­derne Mellemøsten. Denne kultur er baseret på et ungdomsbegreb fra sidst i 1800-tallet, som spille­de en rolle i den anti-koloniale kamp, og som på­virker, hvordan ungdommen iscenesætter sig selv i forhold til traditionelle værdier og til Vesten.

I Radical-Local Teaching and Learning præsenteres den pædagogiske teori "radikal-lokal undervisning og læring", som vægter, at børns hverdagsliv og kulturtraditioner bliver integreret i undervisningen: Børn med en multikulturel baggrund lærer lettere generelle begreber, når undervisningen tager udgangspunkt i deres nærmiljø. Bogen introducerer ideen bag teorien ved at trække på den kultur-historiske forskningstradition og beskriver dernæst et konkret undervisningsprojekt for børn med puertoricansk baggrund i East Harlem, New York. Radical-Local Teaching and Learning viser undervisere, hvordan man laver undervisnings­forløb, der er gearet til multikulturelle skoleklasser.

Krigsstudier har ofte behandlet krig som noget enestående, næsten personificeret. Forfatterne til de 28 bidrag til denne bog har taget de antropologiske og arkæologiske analytiske briller på for at se på det altid komplekse forhold mellem krig og samfund.Emnerne spænder over teoretiske opfattelser af krig inden for forskellige discipliner, krig i før-statslige samfund og krigs relation til statsdannelse, rituel krig og massegrave, gamle våben og materiel kultur samt krig og identitet. Bogens eksempler går fra Fiji til vore dages Kroatien og fra Gilgamesh til ´Terminator´, og forfatterne supplerer de arkæologiske og antropologiske værktøjer med historie, samfundsvidenskab og filosofi. Bogen stiller nye spørgsmål til årsagerne til krig og finder - om ikke alle, så dog nogle - svar. Bogen henvender sig med en blanding af teori og dramatiske case-studies både til akademikere og lægfolk.