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Religious beliefs and practices, which permeated all aspects of life in antiquity, traveled well-worn routes throughout the Mediterranean: itinerant charismatic practitioners journeying from place to place peddled their skills as healers, purifiers, cursers, and initiators; and vessels decorated with illustrations of myths traveled with them. New gods encountered in foreign lands by merchants and conquerors were sometimes taken home to be adapted and adopted. This collection of essays by a distinguished international group of scholars, drawn from the groundbreaking reference work Religion in the Ancient World, offers an expansive, comparative perspective on this complex spiritual world. |
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Principles of Partial Differential Equations (Problem Books in Mathematics)This concise book covers the classical tools of PDE theory used in today's science and engineering: characteristics, the wave propagation, the Fourier method, distributions, Sobolev spaces, fundamental solutions, and Green's functions. The approach is problem-oriented, giving the reader an opportunity to master solution techniques. The... | | Network Security Illustrated Organized around common business problems instead of technology, this easily navigable, illustrated reference will help you: 1. Understand major security concepts and solutions 2. Identify limitations and risks in security strategies 3. Select and implement solutions that are right for your needs... | | Bionanotechnology: Lessons from Nature
Today is the most exciting time to be working in nanotechnology, and bionanotechnology
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