The Gift in Antiquity presents a collection of 14 original essays that apply French sociologist Marcel Mauss’s notion of gift-giving to the study of antiquity.

•  Features a collection of original essays that cover such wide-ranging topics as vows in the Hebrew Bible; ancient Greek wedding gifts;...

• A practical step-by-step tutorial which will help you to replace the...

Philosophy After Deleuze providesa concise and accessible introduction to Deleuze in relation to philosophicalinquiry. The book shows how Deleuze's work contributes to contemporary debatesin each of the major areas of philosophy: metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, andpolitical philosophy. Hughes begins by examining Deleuze's style,...

Improving your people skills and becoming a people-person is a surefire route to success, happiness, and confidence. Weíve all looked enviously across the room at that person who seems to effortlessly interact with everyone – humorous, confident and well liked. That person is confident with...

• Construct a series of Flume agents using the Apache Flume service to efficiently collect, aggregate, and move large amounts of event data
• Configure failover paths and load balancing to remove...

• Discover how Hive can coexist and work with other tools in the Hadoop ecosystem to create big data solutions
• Grasp the skills needed, learn the best practices, and avoid the...

• Improve performance and robustness when you create, query, and maintain your graph database
• Save time by writing powerful queries using pattern matching
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Peptides are used ubiquitously for studies in biology, biochemistry, chemical biology, peptide based medicinal chemistry, and many other areas of research. There is a number of marketed peptide drugs, and the prospects for the development of new peptide drugs are very encouraging.  The second edition of  Peptide Synthesis and...

Polymer science is now an active and thriving community of scientists, engineers and technologists, but there was a time, not so long ago, when there was no such community. The prehistory of polymer science helps to provide key insights into current issues and historical problems. The story will be divided into an ancient period ( from Greek...

• Understand the basic concepts of cloud computing and learn...

• Create presentations inside the infinite canvas of modern web browsers
• Build presentations that work anywhere, any time, and on any device
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Lao Tzu's Tao Te Ching is the second most translated book in the world, and the practice of religious Taoism is on the rise in China, where adherents currently number in the hundreds of millions. Yet there remains a remarkable...