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The texts gathered in this book were presented at two conferences, the Sixth Week of Studies on the Hellenistic Period: Dramatic Production in the Hellenistic Period and its Influence on Later Greco-Latin Literature, held at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences of the University of São Paulo, between March 10 and 11, 2020; and in the First Journey of Studies on the Hellenistic Period: Dramatic Poetry, held at the Faculty of Arts of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, between April 12 and 13, 2021. Both events are linked to the Hellenistica research group, founded in 2011 at the University of São Paulo with the objective of periodically organizing events aimed at the study of literature from the Hellenistic period, bringing together Brazilian and foreign scholars working in this area.

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Kapitalmarkthaftung ist ein stetig wachsendes Rechtsgebiet. Es besteht aus einer Vielzahl einzelner Tatbestände, die teilweise in Spezialgesetzen niedergelegt, teilweise dem allgemeinen Deliktsrechts entnommen sind und bisher eher unsystematisch nebeneinander stehen. Alexander Hellgardt unternimmt es, das Gesamtgebiet der außervertraglichen Haftung am Kapitalmarkt systematisch zu ordnen und zu einem einheitlichen System zusammenzufassen. Er bezieht sowohl die spezialgesetzlichen Tatbestände der Prospekthaftung, der Haftung für fehlerhafte Ad-hoc-Mitteilungen und die übernahmerechtlichen Haftungstatbestände als auch das allgemeine Deliktsrecht, vorrangig § 823 Abs. 2 BGB, ein. Bei der Entwicklung eines 'Sonderdeliktsrechts des Kapitalmarkts' spielen rechtsvergleichende und ökonomische Aspekte eine zentrale Rolle. Zugleich wird die Kapitalmarkthaftung an das allgemeine Deliktsrecht zurückgebunden. Dabei arbeitet der Autor heraus, dass ein zentrales Regelungsziel des Kapitalmarktdeliktsrechts neben dem Anleger- und Funktionenschutz in der Gewährleistung guter externer Corporate Governance der Emittenten besteht. Anschließend entfaltet der Autor die Konsequenzen dieses Ansatzes für die Einzelfragen der Kapitalmarkthaftungstatbestände. Beginnend mit einer Untersuchung der haftungsrelevanten Pflichten am Primär- und Sekundärmarkt sowie im Rahmen öffentlicher Übernahmen, entwickelt er entlang des Tatbestandsaufbaus und unter Einbeziehung prozessrechtlicher Aspekte das Kapitalmarktdeliktsrecht als eigenständiges Teilrechtsgebiet. Die Arbeit wurde 2009 mit dem Deutschen Studienpreis der Körber-Stiftung ausgezeichnet.

Urban farming is the cultivation of vegetables, fruit, herbs, and edible plants in the city. The City’s Farmers is a story about growing food in public space. Can we use the city’s parks, squares, power-line corridors, and roadside verges for cultivation? Whether you are a resident engaged in your city and neighborhood, a city planner, politician, or activist, this graphic novel will show you more about what can happen when cultivation is brought into public space—and what consequences it can have for our lives in the city.

This Reprint, titled "Air Pollution Control and Sustainable Development: Urban Air Quality Assessment and Pollution Control Technologies," focuses on urban air quality monitoring, assessment methodologies, and advanced pollution control technologies. It brings together research exploring spatial–temporal dynamics of air pollution in urban agglomerations, innovative emission reduction technologies including SCR systems, biological treatments for volatile organic compounds, and cyclone separators. The studies span diverse geographical contexts, from PM2.5 evolution patterns in Chinese urban clusters to air quality monitoring in decarbonization contexts. By emphasizing both assessment methodologies and practical technological solutions, this Reprint offers insights into how monitoring systems and control technologies can address urban air pollution challenges. It examines relationships between population mobility, urbanization, economic growth, and air quality, providing a holistic understanding of factors influencing urban atmospheric environments. This collection serves as an essential resource for researchers, policymakers, and practitioners implementing evidence-based strategies to improve urban air quality and support sustainability objectives in urbanizing regions worldwide.

Fictions of African Dictatorship examines the fictional representation of the African dictator and the performance of dictatorship across genres. The volume includes contributions focusing on literature, theatre and film, all of which examine the relationship between the fictional and the political. Among the questions the contributors ask: what are the implications of reading a novel for its historical content or accuracy? How does the dictator novel interrogate ideas of veracity? How is power performed and ridiculed? How do different writers reflect on questions of authority in the postcolony, and what are the effects on their stories and modes of narration? This volume untangles some of the intricate workings of dictatorial power in the postcolony, through twelve close readings of works of fiction.

The image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the Old English heroic poem Beowulf. This meticulously researched book investigates the nature and significance of this golden-hilted weapon and its likely relatives within Beowulf and beyond, drawing on the fields of Old English and Old Norse language and literature, liturgy, archaeology, astronomy, folklore and comparative mythology. In Part I, Pettit explores the complex of connotations surrounding this image (from icicles to candles and crosses) by examining a range of medieval sources, and argues that the giant sword may function as a visual motif in which pre-Christian Germanic concepts and prominent Christian symbols coalesce. In Part II, Pettit investigates the broader Germanic background to this image, especially in relation to the god Ing/Yngvi-Freyr, and explores the capacity of myths to recur and endure across time. Drawing on an eclectic range of narrative and linguistic evidence from Northern European texts, and on archaeological discoveries, Pettit suggests that the image of the giant sword, and the characters and events associated with it, may reflect an elemental struggle between the sun and the moon, articulated through an underlying myth about the theft and repossession of sunlight. The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf' is a welcome contribution to the overlapping fields of Beowulf-scholarship, Old Norse-Icelandic literature and Germanic philology. Not only does it present a wealth of new readings that shed light on the craft of the Beowulf-poet and inform our understanding of the poem’s major episodes and themes; it further highlights the merits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach alongside a comparative vantage point. As such, The Waning Sword will be compelling reading for Beowulf-scholars and for a wider audience of medievalists.

Estos escritos son el esfuerzo por ordenar las ideas surgidas en el fragor del trabajo de investigación de años, de narrar ese estar y hacer con escuelas, vecinos/as, docentes, estudiantes. Un narrar colectivo que guarda afectos y efectos con quienes habitamos nuestras investigaciones que, luego de estar cerca de dos decenios en la escuela y en el barrio, lo que acontece allí se hace cuerpo y carne cotidianamente. Son esas múltiples aristas de una misma cotidianeidad aquella que nos atraviesa y transforma. En este libro relatamos esos diálogos, encuentros y afectos que nos atraviesan, con profundas esperanzas que las sensibilidades sigan disputando, las obstinaciones irrumpan, los acontecimientos sorprendan y sean la bienvenida a las palabras políticas de los sujetos, aquellos y aquellas son quienes hacemos investigación. Son esas esperanzas y esas luchas discretas e indiscretas del día a día en las escuelas y de los/as docentes.

The third book in Strabo’s Geography describes Iberia from the viewpoint of a Greek citizen living in Rome during the rules of Augustus and Tiberius, both Roman emperors in Strabo’s lifetime. Having himself witnessed the expansion of the Roman Empire to the western edge of Europe, the geographer from Amaseia highlights the importance attributed to the civilizing and appeasing role exercised by Rome in the westernmost region of the known world. This present edition contains the translation of the Greek text complemented by explanatory footnotes as well as an introduction that includes elements of general interest about the author and his work, a brief outline of the most influential sources in the geographer’s writings and the structure of book three of his Geography. In addition the current publication also features an index of geographical terms and another with ancient sources, a map illustrating the contours of the regions referenced by Strabo and a detailed bibliography at the end.

Les noms de Machiavel, Vettori et Guicciardini sont unis par la riche correspondance qu’ils ont entretenue, témoignage de leur indéfectible amitié. Ce lien est né des missions qu’ils ont menées, individuellement ou à deux, pour le compte de la République florentine entre 1500 et 1513. Les textes réunis, traduits et commentés dans ce volume sont les témoignages de ces légations en France, en Allemagne et en Espagne, rédigés tantôt dans le but d’informer et de conseiller les autorités florentines, tantôt pour le simple plaisir de conserver le souvenir de ce qu’avait capté leur regard. Hétérogènes par leur forme et par leur destination, ces écrits illustrent la curiosité, l’intérêt et, souvent, le trouble que ressentent ces jeunes voyageurs face à des univers nouveaux pour eux, alors que les guerres d’Italie déchirent déjà l’Europe. Cette expérience de l’autre se révèle ainsi être un moment crucial dans la structuration de la pensée politique de ces trois auteurs majeurs, à un âge où leur processus de formation intellectuelle est encore en développement. Le Prince de Machiavel, comme l’Histoire d’Italie de Francesco Guicciardini, ouvrages fondateurs de l’historiographie moderne, trouvent dans ces missions plus que de simples prémices : chacune de leurs pages porte la réminiscence d’une volonté inédite d’appréhender différemment le monde, pour mieux le comprendre.

The Australian “Better Strangers” project has begun exploring the potential of gamified learning scenarios to enrich teacher professional development and student learning at high school and university. In May 2016, Shakeserendipity became the subject of an unsolicited newspaper review by 16-year-old South Australian student Dylan Carpinelli. Australian high school teacher Catherine Hicks shared the Macbeth Shakespeed module with her Year 12 class in North Queensland as part of a larger learning activity. Students were to write a memoir from the perspective of a minor character in Macbeth and Hicks used Shakespeed “as an activity to help them brainstorm the themes and ideas and create modern interpretations of the play.” In the Macbeth Shakespeed game the Wild Card is a YouTube audio clip of the song “Metaphor” by Swedish alternative metal band In Flames. The song’s persona reflects on the pain, sickness, and entrapment of his desire.

1. This chapter argues that our self-knowledge is often mediated by our affective self-knowledge. In other words, we often know about ourselves by knowing our own emotions. More precisely, what Cassam has called “substantial self-knowledge” (SSK), such as self-knowledge of one's character, one's values, or one's aptitudes, is mediated by affective forecasting, which is the process of predicting one's emotional responses to possible situations. For instance, a person comes to know that she is courageous by predicting her own emotional reactions to possible risks and dangers. This hypothesis explains why attaining substantive self-knowledge tends to be difficult. Attaining substantive self-knowledge is difficult because, first, SSK is mediated by affective forecasting and, second, we tend to be wrong about predicting the intensity and duration of our own emotional reactions. As a result, we can identify what is common to central cases of SSK: such cases require knowledge about complex dispositions whose manifestations involve affective responses that one is not sufficiently familiar with. One thus needs to resort to the highly fallible method of affective forecasting.

This edited volume, Cosmetic Surgery, is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters that offer a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of medicine. The book comprises single chapters authored by various researchers and edited by an expert active in the cosmetic surgery research area. All chapters are complete in themselves but united under a common research study topic. This publication aims to provide a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on cosmetic surgery, and open new possible research paths for further novel developments.

This reprint of the Special Issue “Advances in Developmental Biology in Tree Fruit and Nut Crops” brings together 16 diverse studies that illuminate how genetic, hormonal, and environmental factors shape the growth and productivity of key tree fruit and nut species. Several articles explore hormone-mediated processes, such as the role of exogenous abscisic acid in anthocyanin biosynthesis in blueberry leaves, the effects of gibberellic acid on Shine Muscat grapes, and the influence of endogenous hormones on seed hardness in pomegranate. Other contributions focus on molecular and genomic insights, including the characterization of the PpEXPs family in peach for fruit texture development, identification of laccase genes in grapevine under pathogen stress, and genome-wide analyses of the PYR/PYL/RCAR gene family in pomegranates. Germplasm diversity and phylogenetic relationships also feature prominently, highlighted by research on Caribbean breadfruit, almond S-RNase genotypes, and chloroplast genome profiling of “Qixiadaxiangshui” pear. Meanwhile, integrated transcriptomic and metabolomic approaches uncover stress responses in strawberry and blueberry, and shed light on photoprotective mechanisms in Torreya grandis. Further articles address flower-to-fruit ratios in olives, selective fruitlet retention in avocados, and lipoxygenase gene expression in sweet cherries. Together, these 16 papers offer a comprehensive perspective on the developmental biology driving innovations in tree fruit and nut crops.