In the Roman Empire, relations between East and West meant connections between the eastern and western parts of a unified structure of empire. Romans sometimes complained about the corrupting influence on their city of Greeks and Orientals, but they employed Greek tutors to educate their sons.

A riveting portrait of President Bush as he broadens the war on terror overseas and plunges into high stakes political battles at home They misunderestimated me, George W. Bush famously remarked on the eve of his historic presidency. Fractured syntax aside, Bush was right: his detractors misunderstood his appeal to the American public, and underestimated his considerable political skills.

This book offers an introduction to the mathematical, probabilistic and numerical methods used in the modern theory of option pricing. The text is designed for readers with a basic mathematical background. The first part contains a presentation of the arbitrage theory in discrete time.

Discover Your Spiritual Potential in the Non-Physical Dimensions
You''re resting on your couch, when suddenly you realize that you''re looking at yourselfЂ¦ from beyond your physical body. If you''ve ever had an out-of-body experience (or OBE), you know it can be a memorable-even startling-event. Are OBEs simply a novel brain state, akin to dreaming? Or can they offer real access to non-physical dimensions? For the thousands of explorers that William Buhlman has taught to enter the out-of-body state, verification often comes in a breathtaking flash-the undeniable first-hand experience of lucid awareness beyond the limits of time and space in a realm of vast spiritual potential. With How to Have an Out-of-Body Experience you will learn to safely explore this astonishing territory for yourself, to awaken untapped possibilities.

Assistive technology (AT) is a serious topic providing students with special needs tools and strategies to aid in their learning but reading about it doesnt have to be boring! In The Practical (and Fun) Guide to Assistive Technology in Public Schools, authors Christopher R. Bugaj and Sally Norton Darr throw in a few pirates, monsters, and monkeys to keep you engaged but dont sacrifice the tips, strategies, and insight that will help improve your school or district AT program.

First published weeks before Al Qaida became the most reviled Islamist movement in history, this thoroughly updated edition of Michael Griffins acclaimed book provides a cradele to grave narrative of Afghanistans Taliban movement, its relationship with Osama bin Laden, the hatching of the September 11 conspiracy and the war that followed the destruction of the World Trade Center.

This proceedings volume of the ISEA 2008 examines sports engineering, an interdisciplinary subject which encompasses and integrates not only sports science and classical engineering but also aims to bridge the gap between the analysis of the equipment and the athlete himself. The areas of interest include the mechanics, biomechanics and dynamics of sport, the physiology, anatomy and the analysis of movement, instrumentation, equipment design, surface interaction, materials and modelling, and many others. These various topics could be part of technology applications practically in every sport.

In this imaginative and comprehensive study, Edward Casey, one of the most incisive interpreters of the Continental philosophical tradition, offers a philosophical history of the evolving conceptualizations of place and space in Western thought. Not merely a presentation of the ideas of other philosophers, The Fate of Place is acutely sensitive to silences, absences, and missed opportunities in the complex history of philosophical approaches to space and place. A central theme is the increasing neglect of place in favor of space from the seventh century