Money Circulation in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times: Time, Range, Intensity

Money Circulation in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Modern Times: Time, Range, Intensity Review

The question as to how money circulated in Europe from Antiquity to the 17th century still remains unsolved. The studies in this volume, based on new finds and new scientific methods, contribute more results. They concern different aspects of the question, including the role of Celtic coins in Moravia in the light of the sensational finds from Nemcice, the inflow of dirhams and their imitations into Baltic, and the comparison of silver circulation in Scandinavia, old Prussia and Germany in the Viking-Age. The beginnings of coinage in Bohemia and Lithuania are also studied. -------------------------- CONTENTS: Preface / Ryszard Kiersnowski (Wilno 4 November 1925 - Warszawa 7 July 2006) / The Fiftieth Anniversary of 'Wiadomosci Numizmatyczne' / Fundmuenzen vom Keltenzentrum Nemcice (Maehren): Beitrag zum keltischen Muenzumlauf im Mitteldonaugebiet / Some Remarks on Monetary Circulation in Viking-Age Scandinavia / Monetary Circulation in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries: A Short Survey in the Light of Die Studies / The Marking of Dirhams at Some Principal Samanid Mints / Coin Finds in the Viking-Age Emporium at Janow Pomorski (Truso) and the 'Prussian Phenomenon' / Coin Circulation in Viking-Age Germany / The 10th Century Bohemian Deniers in the Light of Revised Finds / Die Muenzen des Fundes von Ulejno (Grosspolen), tpq 1009 / Monetary Circulation in Denmark from c. 1100 to c. 1500 / Coins and Coin Circulation in Medieval Finland / The Circulation of the Earliest Lithuanian Coins / Zur Interpretation der Zeugenaussage der Muenzfunde ueber den Geldumlauf in Boehmen im 16. und in der 1. Haelfte des 17. Jahrhunderts

Perfect Phrases for Writing Grant Proposals (Perfect Phrases Series)

Perfect Phrases for Writing Grant Proposals (Perfect Phrases Series) Review

The Right Phrase for Every Situation…Every Time

These days, it's not enough to work for a good cause or worthy organization. If you want to receive funding from a corporation, community, foundation, or government institution, it all comes down to one thing: your proposal. With hundreds of ready-to-use “Perfect Phrases,” you'll quickly know the right words to use for the three major sections of every successful grant proposal:

• How to introduce yourself, your program, and your achievements
• How to describe your goals-and what funding will accomplish
• What you should include as your supporting documents

With this comprehensive, user-friendly approach to grant writing, you'll be able to tackle the various proposal formats, create a professional purpose statement, and back up your plan with solid data. Plus, you'll discover some insider secrets that will really get the attention you want-and the funding you need.

Personality Disorders and Older Adults: Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment

Personality Disorders and Older Adults: Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment Review

The older adult population is booming in the United State and across the globe. With this boom comes an increase in the number of older adults who experience psychological disorders. Current estimates suggest that about 20% of older persons are diagnosable with a mental disorder: Personality disorders are among the most poorly understood, challenging, and frustrating of these disorders among older adults. This book is designed to provide scholarly and scientifically-based guidance about the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of personality disorders to health professionals, mental health professionals, and senior service professionals who encounter personality-disordered or "difficult" older adults.

Our Turn Our Time: Women Truly Coming of Age

Our Turn Our Time: Women Truly Coming of Age Review

Our Turn Our Time: Women Truly Coming of Age Feature

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Our Turn, Our Time is an amazing collection of essays written by women who are committed to celebrating and valuing the passage into the second half of life. These women are redefining the role older women play in contemporary society by embracing creativity, spirituality, and sisterhood. These essays are filled with insight, humor, and compassion on a broad variety of topics: the richness of women's groups, the rewards of volunteering, the power of crone ceremonies, the fires of creative expression, the challenges of a changing body, and the confidence that comes from success in later life.

 

Individually, the essays are inspirational and motivating. As a collection, the book becomes a unique support system for women as they age together, providing the opportunity to embrace each passing year with grace and enthusiasm. You will not find celebrities in this book. Our Turn, Our Time is written by everyday women for everyday women, creating equality and unity. The women in this book are positive role models and they will encourage other women to have an enriching, uplifting, and a refreshingly new perspective on the second half of life!

In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age

In Our Prime: The Invention of Middle Age Review

From the New York Times reporter whose beat is culture and ideas comes a fascinating, revelatory, and timely social history of the concept of middle age. For the first time ever, the middle-aged make up the biggest, richest, and most influential segment of the country, yet the history of middle age has remained largely untold. This important and immensely readable book finally fills the gap. In Our Prime is a biography of the idea of middle age from its invention in the late nineteenth century to its current place at the center of American society, where it shapes the way we view our families, our professional obligations, and our inner lives. Patricia Cohen ranges over the entire landscape of midlife, exploring how its biological, psychological, and social definitions have shifted from one generation to the next. Middle age has been a symbol both of decline and of power and wealth. Explaining why, Cohen takes readers from early-twentieth-century factories that refused to hire middle-aged men to twenty-first-century high-tech laboratories where researchers are currently conducting cutting-edge experiments on the middle-aged brain and body.

Television as Digital Media (Console-ing Passions)

Television as Digital Media (Console-ing Passions) Review

In Television as Digital Media, scholars from Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States combine television studies with new media studies to analyze digital TV as part of digital culture. Taking into account technologies, industries, economies, aesthetics, and various production, user, and audience practices, the contributors develop a new critical paradigm for thinking about television, and the future of television studies, in the digital era. The collection brings together established and emerging scholars, producing an intergenerational dialogue that will be useful for anyone seeking to understand the relationship between television and digital media.

Introducing the collection, James Bennett explains how television as digital media is a non-site-specific, hybrid cultural and technological form that spreads across platforms such as mobile phones, games consoles, iPods, and online video services, including YouTube, Hulu and the BBC’s iPlayer. Television as digital media threatens to upset assumptions about television as a mass medium that has helped define the social collective experience, the organization of everyday life, and forms of sociality. As often as we are promised the convenience of the television experience “anytime, anywhere,” we are invited to participate in communities, share television moments, and watch events live. The essays in this collection demonstrate the historical, production, aesthetic, and audience changes and continuities that underpin the emerging meaning of television as digital media.

Contributors. James Bennett, William Boddy, Jean Burgess, John Caldwell, Daniel Chamberlain, Max Dawson, Jason Jacobs, Karen Lury, Roberta Pearson, Jeanette Steemers, Niki Strange, Julian Thomas, Graeme Turner

The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom

The Unschooling Handbook : How to Use the Whole World As Your Child's Classroom Review

To Unschoolers, Learning Is As Natural As Breathing
Did you know that a growing percentage of home schoolers are becoming unschoolers? The unschooling movement is founded on the principle that children learn best when they pursue their own natural curiosities and interests. Without bells, schedules, and rules about what to do and when, the knowledge they gain through mindful living and exploration is absorbed more easily and enthusiastically. Learning is a natural, inborn impulse, and the world is rich with lessons to be learned and puzzles to be solved.
Successful unschooling parents know how to stimulate and direct their children's learning impulse. Once you read this book, so will you!