The Roman Empire is widely admired as a model of civilisation. In this compelling new study Neil Faulkner argues that in fact, it was nothing more than a ruthless system of robbery and violence. War was used to enrich the state, the imperial ruling classes and favoured client groups. In the process millions of people were killed or enslaved.Within the empire the landowning elite creamed off the wealth of the countryside to pay taxes to the state and fund the towns and villas where they lived. The masses of people – slaves, serfs and poor peasants – were victims of a grand exploitation that made the empire possible. This system, riddled with tension and latent conflict, contained the seeds of its own eventual collapse.

Server Tanilli'nin Türkiye'deki kültür eğitiminin eksikliklerini gidermek ve ''gençlerin gözlerinin önüne duman perdesi çeken egemen sınıfların oyununu bozmak'' amacıyla 1971-1975 yılları arasında kaleme aldığı bu kitap, ''uygarlık tarihi'' zemininde ve ''çağdaş tarih''in çerçevesi içinde, gençler kadar temel kültüre meraklı herkesi bilgilendirmeyi ve bilinçlendirmeyi amaçlıyor.

Ne olursa olsun tecavüz normalleştirilmemesi ve asla kanıksama potasına düşmemesi gereken bir eylem. Tecavüz eden kişinin koşulları ve durumu hangi parametreler içerisinde olursa olsun cezalandırılmalı ya da kontrol altına alınmalı. Bu anlamda tecavüz üzerine bir araştırma metnini okumak iyi olacaktır diye düşünmüştüm. Hevesli başlayan okumam bir süre sonra işkenceye dönüştü.Araştırmacı, araştırmasını istediği kadar sosyolojik temelde yapabilir. İstediği argümanları kullanabilir ve açabilir. Ancak yazarın, psikoseksüel gelişimi reddetmesi, resmen psikolojiyle dalga geçmesi benim kabul edebileceğim bir şey değil. Sosyal bilimlerdeki araştırmalarda bu tarz taraflı tutumlar her daim gözlenmiştir. Bu araştırmalar genellikle bir algı operasyonu yaratma çabasındadır. Burada da psikanalik kuramı tamamen reddederek yazarın ancak böyle bir yere varabileceğini düşündüm. Bu araştırma ne tecavüzü anlamama ne de buna bir çözüm bulmama yardım edebilir. Feminist bir yazarın, çılgın suçlamalarını haklı çıkarır ki yalnız tecavüzü haklı göstermeye çalışan kimse yok, bunu gözden kaçırıyor sanırım Scully. Böyle bir psikiyatrik yaklaşım olabilir mi ayrıca? Zaten araştırmanın yapıldığı sene, araştırmayı tozlu raflara kaldırmayı gerekli kılacak kadar geçmiş durumda. Tıbbi argümanlar seneler içerisinde daha çok gelişti ve giriftleşti. Bir daha böyle bir araştırma okuyacak olursam bunun tıp ile sırt sırta vermiş olmasına dikkat edeceğim. 3/10

How lessons from kindergarten can help everyone develop the creative thinking skills needed to thrive in today's society.In kindergartens these days, children spend more time with math worksheets and phonics flashcards than building blocks and finger paint. Kindergarten is becoming more like the rest of school. In Lifelong Kindergarten, learning expert Mitchel Resnick argues for exactly the opposite: the rest of school (even the rest of life) should be more like kindergarten. To thrive in today's fast-changing world, people of all ages must learn to think and act creatively--and the best way to do that is by focusing more on imagining, creating, playing, sharing, and reflecting, just as children do in traditional kindergartens.Drawing on experiences from more than thirty years at MIT's Media Lab, Resnick discusses new technologies and strategies for engaging young people in creative learning experiences. He tells stories of how children are programming their own games, stories, and inventions (for example, a diary security system, created by a twelve-year-old girl), and collaborating through remixing, crowdsourcing, and large-scale group projects (such as a Halloween-themed game called Night at Dreary Castle, produced by more than twenty kids scattered around the world). By providing young people with opportunities to work on projects, based on their passions, in collaboration with peers, in a playful spirit, we can help them prepare for a world where creative thinking is more important than ever before.

Librarian's note: See alternate cover edition of ISBN 0571225381 here.In the summer of 1956, Stevens, a long-serving butler at Darlington Hall, decides to take a motoring trip through the West Country. The six-day excursion becomes a journey into the past of Stevens and England, a past that takes in fascism, two world wars, and an unrealised love between the butler and his housekeeper.

İlk kez yayımlandığı 1983'ten günümüze defalarca baskı yapmış ve okurla kurduğu yapıcı ilişkiyi kanıtlamış olan bu kitabında Engin Geçtan insan olmanın ikilemini şöyle anlatır: "Çağdaş toplumlar kendine özgü bir olguyu da birlikte getirmiştir. İnsan eskisinden çok daha fazla sayıda insanla, çok daha kısa süreli, daha yüzeysel ilişkiler kurma eğilimindedir. Bu, soğuk bir günde karşılaşan bir grup kirpinin öyküsüne benzer. Kirpiler ısınabilmek için birbirlerine sokulurlar, ama dikenleri birbirine batar. Birbirlerinden ayrıldıklarındaysa soğuktan rahatsız olurlar. İleri geri hareket ederek sonunda dikenlerini batırmadan birbirlerini ısıtabilecekleri en uygun uzaklığı bulurlar."Son yirmi yılın dünyasındaki sosyal ve maddi değişimler düşünülürse, kirpilerin birbirine daha da çok ihtiyaç duyduğunu, her kirpinin bu ikilem karşısında kendi cevabını bulması gerektiğini, tam da bu yüzden İnsan Olmak'ın bugün daha da güncel olduğunu söyleyebiliriz.

The French government's 2004 decision to ban Islamic headscarves and other religious signs from public schools puzzled many observers, both because it seemed to infringe needlessly on religious freedom, and because it was hailed by many in France as an answer to a surprisingly wide range of social ills, from violence against females in poor suburbs to anti-Semitism. Why the French Don't Like Headscarves explains why headscarves on schoolgirls caused such a furor, and why the furor yielded this law. Making sense of the dramatic debate from his perspective as an American anthropologist in France at the time, John Bowen writes about everyday life and public events while also presenting interviews with officials and intellectuals, and analyzing French television programs and other media. Bowen argues that the focus on headscarves came from a century-old sensitivity to the public presence of religion in schools, feared links between public expressions of Islamic identity and radical Islam, and a media-driven frenzy that built support for a headscarf ban during 2003-2004. Although the defense of la�cit� (secularity) was cited as the law's major justification, politicians, intellectuals, and the media linked the scarves to more concrete social anxieties--about communalism, political Islam, and violence toward women. Written in engaging, jargon-free prose, Why the French Don't Like Headscarves is the first comprehensive and objective analysis of this subject, in any language, and it speaks to tensions between assimilation and diversity that extend well beyond France's borders.

Yokuşun başında ha düştü ha düşecek bir siluet görüyorum. Yaklaşıyor mu, uzaklaşıyor mu... Birazdan odamız odun ateşiyle, kandil aleviyle, ıhlamur kokusuyla, radyonun duyulur duyulmaz sesiyle ısınıyor. Kar uyuşturuyor aklımızı. Neredeyse yeniden uykumuz gelecek. Yokuştan inip gelen adam unuttuğum bir anda pencerenin dibinde beliriveriyor. Ay batarken, ay susarken… Uzun ve eski acılarla sokaklar, siluetler, arsız gözler, kimsesiz sesler, dolmuşun kokusu, başka türlü olsaydı acısı, kuytu pencereler, ölmeye yatan aşk. Radyoda şarkılar şarkılar… Pelin Buzluk, şehrin en koyu gecesinin öykülerini yazıyor En Eski Yüz'de. Kuruyan, gelip geçen. Doğan güne karşı. Hayat, izbe bir meyhanede tek başına bir kadın…

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1841–1935) is generally considered one of the two greatest justices of the United States Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Marshall being the other. In more than 2000 opinions, he delineated an impressive legal philosophy that profoundly influenced American jurisprudence, particularly in the area of civil liberties and judicial restraint. At the same time, his abilities as a prose stylist earned him a position among the literary elite.In The Common Law, derived from a series of lectures delivered at the Lowell Institute in Boston, Holmes systematized his early legal doctrines. The result was an enduring classic of legal philosophy that continues to be read and consulted over a century later. Beginning with historical forms of liability (thought to have originated in the desire for vengeance in ancient Roman and Germanic blood feuds), the book goes on to discuss criminal law, torts, bails, possession and ownership, contracts, successions, and many other aspects of civil and criminal law.Encompassing Holmes's profound, wide-ranging knowledge of the law in its historical aspects, yet written in a manner easily accessible to the layman, The Common Law provoked this observation from another famed jurist; "The book is a classic in the sense that its stock of ideas has been absorbed and become part of common juristic thought … they placed law in a perspective which legal scholarship ever since has merely confirmed." — Felix Frankfurter, Of Law and Men.Now the influential ideas and judicial theory of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. can be studied and appreciated in this superb edition — the only one in print — of his magnum opus. This edition also features a new introduction by Professor Sheldon M. Novick, author of Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes. First published in 1881, this book is still indispensable reading for lawyers, political scientists, historians, general readers — anyone interested in the origins, development, and continuing evolution of the laws that govern human society.

Life in the woods: Creative cabin architecture Ever since Henry David Thoreau's described his two years, two months, and two days of cabin existence at Walden Pond, Massachusetts in Walden, or, Life in the Woods (1854), the idea of a refuge dwelling has seduced the modern psyche. In the past decade, as our material existence and environmental footprint has grown exponentially, architects around the globe have become particularly interested in the possibilities of the minimal, low-impact, and isolated abode. This new TASCHEN title, combining insightful text, rich photography and bright, contemporary illustrations by Marie-Laure Cruschi, explores how this particular architectural type presents special opportunities for creative thinking. In eschewing excess, the cabin limits actual spatial intrusion to the bare essentials of living requirements, while in responding to its typically rustic setting, it foregrounds eco-friendly solutions. As such, the cabin comes to showcase some of the most inventive and forward-looking practice of contemporary architecture, with Renzo Piano, Terunobu Fujimori, Tom Kundig and many fresh young professionals all embracing such distilled sanctuary spaces. The cabins selected for this publication emphasize the variety of the genre, both in terms of usage and geography. From an artist studio on the Suffolk coast in England to eco-home huts in the Western Ghats region of India, this survey is as exciting in its international reach as it is in its array of briefs, clients, and situations. Constant throughout, however, is architectural innovation, and an inspiring sense of contemplation and coexistence as people return to nature and to a less destructive model of being in the world.

"Kublai Khan does not necessarily believe everything Marco Polo says when he describes the cities visited on his expeditions, but the emperor of the Tartars does continue listening to the young Venetian with greater attention and curiosity than he shows any other messenger or explorer of his." So begins Italo Calvino's compilation of fragmentary urban images. As Marco tells the khan about Armilla, which "has nothing that makes it seem a city, except the water pipes that rise vertically where the houses should be and spread out horizontally where the floors should be," the spider-web city of Octavia, and other marvelous burgs, it may be that he is creating them all out of his imagination, or perhaps he is recreating fine details of his native Venice over and over again, or perhaps he is simply recounting some of the myriad possible forms a city might take.

Contains thirty-six original essays by the celebrated Viennese architect, Adolf Loos (1870-1933). Most deal with questions of design in a wide range of areas, from architecture and furniture, to clothes and jewellery, pottery, plumbing, and printing; others are polemics on craft education and training, and on design in general. Loos, the great cultural reformer and moralist in the history of European architecture and design was always a 'revolutionary against the revolutionaries'. With his assault on Viennese arts and crafts and his conflict with bourgeois morality, he managed to offend the whole country. His 1908 essay 'Ornament and Crime', mocked by an age in love with its accessories, has come to be recognised as a seminal work in combating the aesthetic imperialism of the turn of the century. Today Loos is recognised as one of the great masters of modern architecture.

A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed.Marketers at Procter &amp; Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new product called Febreze, on track to be one of the biggest flops in company history. Suddenly, one of them detects a nearly imperceptible pattern—and with a slight shift in advertising, Febreze goes on to earn a billion dollars a year.An untested CEO takes over one of the largest companies in America. His first order of business is attacking a single pattern among his employees—how they approach worker safety—and soon the firm, Alcoa, becomes the top performer in the Dow Jones.What do all these people have in common? They achieved success by focusing on the patterns that shape every aspect of our lives. They succeeded by transforming habits.In The Power of Habit, award-winning New York Times business reporter Charles Duhigg takes us to the thrilling edge of scientific discoveries that explain why habits exist and how they can be changed. With penetrating intelligence and an ability to distill vast amounts of information into engrossing narratives, Duhigg brings to life a whole new understanding of human nature and its potential for transformation. Along the way we learn why some people and companies struggle to change, despite years of trying, while others seem to remake themselves overnight. We visit laboratories where neuroscientists explore how habits work and where, exactly, they reside in our brains. We discover how the right habits were crucial to the success of Olympic swimmer Michael Phelps, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, and civil-rights hero Martin Luther King, Jr. We go inside Procter &amp; Gamble, Target superstores, Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, NFL locker rooms, and the nation’s largest hospitals and see how implementing so-called keystone habits can earn billions and mean the difference between failure and success, life and death.At its core, The Power of Habit contains an exhilarating argument: The key to exercising regularly, losing weight, raising exceptional children, becoming more productive, building revolutionary companies and social movements, and achieving success is understanding how habits work. Habits aren’t destiny. As Charles Duhigg shows, by harnessing this new science, we can transform our businesses, our communities, and our lives.

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