1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450240403321

Autore

Speidel Michael

Titolo

Ancient Germanic warriors : warrior styles from Trajan's column to Icelandic sagas / / Michael P. Speidel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-38420-3

1-280-23182-3

9786610231829

0-203-47587-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (308 p.)

Classificazione

15.70

Disciplina

355.1/09363

Soggetti

Military art and science - Europe, Northern - History - To 1500

Germanic peoples - History, Military

Sociology, Military - Europe, Northern

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-307) and index.

Nota di contenuto

BOOK COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; FIGURES; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 WOLVES; 2 BEARS; 3 BUCKS; 4 MARTENS; 5 NAKED BERSERKS; 6 GHOSTS; 7 CLUB-WIELDERS; 8 WIELDERS OF HUGE SPEARS; 9 SHIELD CASTLES; 10 CHANTING; 11 WAR DANCES; 12 DART-THROWERS; 13 ROCK-THROWERS; 14 LANCERS; 15 SPEAR-THROWERS; 16 WHEELING RIGHT; 17 HORSE-STABBERS; 18 HORSE-HEWERS; 19 LONG-HAIRS; 20 HELMET-WEARERS; 21 IRON AGE WARRIORS AND THE CIVILIZATIONS OF GREECE AND ROME; 22 END AND AFTERGLOW; CONCLUSION; TIMETABLE; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Sommario/riassunto

Presenting a range of evidence for these diverse styles, from Roman art to early medieval bracteate amulets, and from classical texts to Beowulf, the Edda and Icelandic sagas, Professor Speidel here details seventeen different Germanic warriors styles, including berserks, wolf-warriors, club-wielders, long-hairs, ghost warriors and horse-stabbers, and how they indicate an unbroken continuity of customs, beliefs and battle-field tactics.Ancient Germanic warriors played a decisive role in



historical events from 200 BC, when Germanic culture first became identifiable, to AD 1000 when Ch

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787701803321

Autore

Seekdaur Lukmaan Hakim Khan

Titolo

Malcolm x : the pragmatic nationalist / / Lukmaan Hakim Khan Seekdaur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hamburg, Germany : , : Anchor Academic Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

3-95489-705-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (61 p.)

Disciplina

920.009296073

Soggetti

African Americans

Black Muslims

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Malcolm X; Tale of contents; INTRODUCTION; 1 THE DOMESTIC PARAMETERS: AFRICAN AMERICANS AND THE STRATEGIC USE OF RACE; 1.1. Black Solidarity as a Reaction to American Racism; 1.2  Whiteness as a Site of Privilege; 1.3 Black Skin, White Masks: The Black Bourgeoisie/ Elite and the Grassroots.; 2 THE INTERNATIONAL DIMENSION: PAN AFRICANISM, SUBALTERN POLITICS AND ISLAM; 2.1. Recovering a Lost Base: The (Re)turn to Africa; 2.2 Blackness as Oppression: Malcolm X and Pragmatic Nationalism; 2.3 Universal, yet Exclusive: Islam in Malcolm X's Political Ideology; 3 CONCLUSION

Sommario/riassunto

This book tracks the evolution of Malcolm X from a racist, espousing the essentialist ideals of the Nation of Islam to a human rights activist, aware of the broader early 1960's struggle against imperial forces. Central to this was his strategic use of race to unite African-American initially and then the oppressed people in the world. Race was used as a strategy with the aim to abolish racial oppression. In the first chapter of this study we look at the constraints, most notably the white power structure, present in the United States during the mid-1960's which, on one hand gave form to Malcolm



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557608703321

Autore

Di Gregorio Raffaele

Titolo

Kinematics and Robot Design II (KaRD2019) and III (KaRD2020)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2022

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Soggetti

History of engineering & technology

Technology: general issues

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This volume collects papers published in two Special Issues "Kinematics and Robot Design II, KaRD2019" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/KRD2019) and "Kinematics and Robot Design III, KaRD2020" (https://www.mdpi.com/journal/robotics/special_issues/KaRD2020), which are the second and third issues of the KaRD Special Issue series hosted by the open access journal robotics.The KaRD series is an open environment where researchers present their works and discuss all topics focused on the many aspects that involve kinematics in the design of robotic/automatic systems. It aims at being an established reference for researchers in the field as other serial international conferences/publications are. Even though the KaRD series publishes one Special Issue per year, all the received papers are peer-reviewed as soon as they are submitted and, if accepted, they are immediately published in MDPI Robotics. Kinematics is so intimately related to the design of robotic/automatic systems that the admitted topics of the KaRD series practically cover all the subjects normally present in well-established international conferences on "mechanisms and robotics".KaRD2019 together with KaRD2020 received 22 papers and, after the peer-review process, accepted only 17 papers. The accepted papers



cover problems related to theoretical/computational kinematics, to biomedical engineering and to other design/applicative aspects.