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Heavy Metal at the Movies

Heavy Metal at the Movies

The chapters collected in this volume shed light on the areas of interaction between film studies and heavy metal research exploring how the audio-visual medium of film relates to builds on and shapes metal culture. At one end of the spectrum metal music serves as a form of ambient background in horror films that creates an intense and somewhat threatening atmosphere; at the other end the high level of performativity attached to the metal spectacle is emphasized. Alongside these tendencies the recent and ongoing wave of metal documentaries has taken off relying on either satire or hagiography. | Heavy Metal at the Movies

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Sport Gender and Power The Rise of Roller Derby

Sport Gender and Power The Rise of Roller Derby

As a new breed of lifestyle sport enthusiasts ’derby grrrls’ are pushing the boundaries of gender as they negotiate the nexus of pleasure pain and power relations. Offering a socio-cultural analysis of the rise and reinvention of roller derby as both a new globalized women’s sport and an everyday creative leisure space this book explores the manner in which roller derby has emerged as a gendered space for self-transformation belonging and embodied contest in which women are invited to experience their emotions differently embrace pain and overcome limits. Sport Gender and Power: The Rise of Roller Derby presents detailed interview ethnographic and autoethnographic material together with a range of media texts to shed new light on the complex relationships of power experienced by women in derby as a sport culture whilst also examining the darker relationships that characterise the sport including those of inclusion and exclusion difference and identity and competition and participation. A contemporary feminist study of empowerment sexual difference gender and affect this book will appeal to scholars of gender and sexuality embodiment feminist thought and the sociology of sport and leisure. | Sport Gender and Power The Rise of Roller Derby

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Gender Sport and the Role of Alter Ego in Roller Derby

Gender Sport and the Role of Alter Ego in Roller Derby

Gender Sport and the Role of the Alter Ego in Roller Derby focuses on the resurgence of roller derby by examining the appeal and dedication to a sport that combines the masculine aggression and physicality of sport with a more feminine or alternative style of organizing and community building. No longer a scripted sport filled with fake fighting and hair pulling derby though still dangerous has nevertheless exploded in popularity around the world. Drawing on data from in-depth interviews with women players Colleen Arendt reveals how derby has come to serve as a site of gender rebellion and emancipation that empowers participants. She demonstrates how players find roller derby a place to build friendships and support networks while giving back to their community. The book also analyzes the adoption of derby personas or alter egos which many players use. While many players derive joy and other benefits from their derby personas others argue that personas and alter egos detract from the athleticism and legitimacy of the sport. Finally by considering the relationship between gender sport society and power this book tries to answer the question: Why derby? Why now? | Gender Sport and the Role of Alter Ego in Roller Derby

GBP 18.99
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First-Line Clinical Approaches with Active Duty Service Members and Veterans

First-Line Clinical Approaches with Active Duty Service Members and Veterans

This book offers a culturally responsive and empirically based approach to working with active-duty service members veterans and their families. It examines the assessment and evidenced-based treatment of sexual trauma alcohol and substance abuse depression insomnia intimacy issues and OCD in service members and veterans and the major ethical and clinical challenges for licensed independent providers. The chapters are written by distinguished scholars and experienced healthcare providers who deliver health-focused interventions and integrate relevant cross-cultural factors for working with diverse patients. Loaded with clinical examples and up-to-date research this book is essential for all mental health professionals working or in training to serve military personnel or veterans in the United States. | First-Line Clinical Approaches with Active Duty Service Members and Veterans

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Metal Music Manual Producing Engineering Mixing and Mastering Contemporary Heavy Music

Metal Music Manual Producing Engineering Mixing and Mastering Contemporary Heavy Music

Metal Music Manual shows you the creative and technical processes involved in producing contemporary heavy music for maximum sonic impact. From pre-production to final mastered product and fundamental concepts to advanced production techniques this book contains a world of invaluable practical information. Assisted by clear discussion of critical audio principles and theory and a comprehensive array of illustrations photos and screen grabs Metal Music Manual is the essential guide to achieving professional production standards. The extensive companion website features multi-track recordings final mixes processing examples audio stems etc. so you can download the relevant content and experiment with the techniques you read about. The website also features video interviews the author conducted with the following acclaimed producers who share their expertise experience and insight into the processes involved: Fredrik Nordström (Dimmu Borgir At The Gates In Flames) Matt Hyde (Slayer Parkway Drive Children of Bodom) Ross Robinson (Slipknot Sepultura Machine Head) Logan Mader (Gojira DevilDriver Fear Factory) Andy Sneap (Megadeth Killswitch Engage Testament) Jens Bogren (Opeth Kreator Arch Enemy) Daniel Bergstrand (Meshuggah Soilwork Behemoth) Nick Raskulinecz (Mastodon Death Angel Trivium) Quotes from these interviews are featured throughout Metal Music Manual with additional contributions from: Ross Drum Doctor Garfield (one of the world’s top drum sound specialists with Metallica and Slipknot amongst his credits) Andrew Scheps (Black Sabbath Linkin Park Metallica) Maor Appelbaum (Sepultura Faith No More Halford) | Metal Music Manual Producing Engineering Mixing and Mastering Contemporary Heavy Music

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Coal-Mining Women in Japan Heavy Burdens

Coal-Mining Women in Japan Heavy Burdens

In the years Bbetween the Meiji Restoration in 1868 and the beginning of the war mobilization boom in 1930 collieries in Europe and America embraced new technologies and had long since been excluded women from working underground. In Japan however mining women witnessed no significant changes in working practices over this period. The availability of the cheap and abundant labor of these women allowed the captains of the coal industry in Japan to avoid expensive investments in new machinery and sophisticated mining methods; instead they continued to intensely exploit workers and markets intensively making substantial profits without the burdens of extensive mechanization. This unique book explores the lives of the thousands of women who labored underground in Japan’s coal mines in the years 1868 to 1930. It examines their working lives their family lives their aspirations achievements and disappointments. Drawing heavily on interview material with the miners themselves W. Donald Burton combines translations of their stories with features of Japanese society at the time and coal mining technology. In doing so he presents a complex account of the women’s lives as well as providing a keen insight intoon gender relations and the industrial and labor history of Japan. Coal Mining Women in Japan will be welcomed by students and scholars of Japanese history gender studies and industrial history. | Coal-Mining Women in Japan Heavy Burdens

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Virtues in the Public Sphere Citizenship Civic Friendship and Duty

Virtues in the Public Sphere Citizenship Civic Friendship and Duty

Virtues in the Public Sphere features seventeen chapters by experts from a variety of different perspectives on the broad theme of virtue in the public sphere. Spanning issues such as the notion of civic friendship and civic virtue it sheds light on the role that these virtues play in the public sphere and their importance in safeguarding communities from the threats of a lack of concern for truth poor leadership charlatanism and bigotry. This book highlights the theoretical complexity of putting virtue ethics into practice in the public domain at a time when it has been shaken by unpredictable political social technological and cultural developments. With contributions from internationally acclaimed scholars in the fields of philosophy psychology sociology and education this book highlights the main issues both theoretical and practical of putting virtue ethics into practice in the public domain. Split into three sections – Virtues and vices in the public sphere Civic friendship and virtue and Perspectives on virtue and the public sphere – the chapters offer a timely commentary on the roles that virtues have to play in the public sphere. This timely book will be of great interest to researchers academics and post-graduate students in the fields of education character and virtue studies and will also appeal to practitioners. | Virtues in the Public Sphere Citizenship Civic Friendship and Duty

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Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities

Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities

Heritage is not what we see in front of us it is what we make of it in our heads. Heritage sites have been connected to a range of identarian projects both spatial and non-spatial. One of the most common links with heritage has been national identity. This book stresses that heritage has developed powerful links to regional and local identities. Contributors deal explicitly with regions of heavy industry in different parts of the world exploring non-spatial forms of identity: including class religious ethnic racial gender and cultural identities. In many heritage sites non-spatial forms of identity are interlinked with spatial ones. Civil society action has been important in representations of regional identities and industrial-heritage campaigns. Region-branding seems to determine the ultimate success of industrial heritage a process that is closely connected to the marketing of regions to provide a viable economic future and attract tourism to the region. Selected case-studies on coal and steel producing regions in this book provide the first global survey of how regions of heavy industry deal with their industrial heritage and what it means for regional identity and region-branding. This book draws a range of powerful conclusions about the path dependency of particular forms for post-industrial regional identity in former regions of heavy industry. It highlights both commonalities and differences in the strategies employed with regard to the regions’ industrial heritage. This book will appeal to lecturers students and scholars in the fields of heritage management industrial studies and cultural geography. | Industrial Heritage and Regional Identities

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Why It's OK to Ignore Politics

Why It's OK to Ignore Politics

Do you feel like you’re the only person at your office without an I Voted! sticker on Election Day? It turns out that you're far from alone – 100 million eligible U. S. voters never went to the polls in 2016. That’s about 35 million more than voted for the winning presidential candidate. In this book Christopher Freiman explains why these 100 million need not feel guilty. Why It’s OK to Ignore Politics argues that you’re under no obligation to be politically active. Freiman addresses new objections to political abstention as well as some old chestnuts (But what if everyone stopped voting?). He also synthesizes recent empirical work showing how our political motivations distort our choices and reasoning. Because participating in politics is not an effective way to do good Freiman argues that we actually have a moral duty to disengage from politics and instead take direct action to make the world a better place. Key Features: Makes the case against a duty of political participation for a non-expert audience Presupposes no knowledge of philosophy or political science and is written in a style free of technical jargon Addresses the standard much-repeated arguments for why one should vote (e. g. one shouldn’t free ride on the efforts of others) Presents the growing literature on politically motivated reasoning in an accessible and entertaining way Covers a significant amount of new ground in the debate over a duty of political participation (e. g. whether participating absolves us of our complicity in state injustice) Challenges the increasingly popular argument from philosophers and economists that swing state voting is effective altruism Discusses the therapeutic benefits of ignoring politics—it’s good for you your relationships and society as a whole. | Why It's OK to Ignore Politics

GBP 19.99
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Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

The achievements of the Greek cavalry on the battlefield were monumental and yet until now the heavy infantry - the hoplite - has received by far the most attention from military historians. This book traces the history of the Greek cavalry offering a reassessment of the place of mounted troops in the warfare of Ancient Greece. Its historical sweep is broad with coverage which extends from 1400 BC through the Archaic period to the Classical period. | Hippeis The Cavalry Of Ancient Greece

GBP 36.99
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Subcultures: The Basics

Subcultures: The Basics

Subcultures: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to subcultures in a global context. This fully revised new edition adds new case studies and an additional chapter on the digital lives of subculturists as well as reflections on the relationships between subcultures and globalisation and the resurgence of the far-right. Blending theory and practice this text examines a varied range of subcultures including hip hop graffiti writing heavy metal punk gamers burlesque parkour riot grrrl straight edge roller derby steampunk b-boying/b-girling body modification and skateboarding. Subcultures: The Basics answers the key questions posed by those new to the subject including: What is a subculture? What are the significant theories of subculture? How do subcultures emerge who participates and why? How do subcultural identities interact with other aspects of self such as social class race gender and sexual identity? What is the relationship between deviance resistance and the ‘mainstream’? How have both progressive and reactionary subculturists contributed to social change? How does society react to different subcultures? How have subcultures spread around the world? In what ways do digital technologies and social media influence subcultures? What happens when subculturists age? Tracing the history and development of subcultural theory to the present day this text is essential reading for all those studying subcultures in the contexts of sociology cultural studies history media studies anthropology musicology and criminology. It pushes the field forward with cutting-edge theories of resistance and social change place and space critical race and queer studies virtual participation and ageing and participation across the life course. Key terms and concepts are highlighted throughout the text whilst each chapter includes boxed case studies and signposts students to further reading and resources.

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The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work

The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work

Green social work espouses a holistic approach to all peoples and other living things – plants and animals and the physical ecosystem; emphasises the relational nature of all its constituent parts; and redefines the duty to care for and about others as one that includes the duty to care for and about planet earth. By acknowledging the interdependency of all living things it allows for the inclusion of all systems and institutions in its remit including both (hu)man-made and natural disasters arising from the (hu)made ones of poverty to chemical pollution of the earth’s land waters and soils and climate change to the natural hazards like earthquakes and volcanoes which turn to disasters through human (in)action. Green social work’s value system is also one that favours equality social inclusion the equitable distribution of resources and a rights-based approach to meeting people’s needs to live in an ethical and sustainable manner. Responding to these issues is one of the biggest challenges facing social workers in the twenty-first century which this Handbook is intended to address. Through providing the theories practices policies knowledge and skills required to act responsibly in responding to the diverse disasters that threaten to endanger all living things and planet earth itself this green social work handbook will be required reading for all social work students academics and professionals as well as those working in the fields of community development and disaster management. | The Routledge Handbook of Green Social Work

GBP 42.99
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Marine Insurance Law

Marine Insurance Law

Marine Insurance Law introduces and clearly explains all topics covered in undergraduate and postgraduate-level courses offering students and those new to the area a comprehensive and accessible overview of this important topic in maritime law. Observing the general principles of the subject and structure and formation of insurance contracts this text goes on to look at individual considerations in detail including the duty of utmost good faith/fair presentation of the risk insurable interest terms of insurance contracts warranties and conditions brokers the premium causation and marine perils losses sue and labour subrogation fraudulent claims and reinsurance. The third edition has been fully updated and expanded to cover additional pre-Marine Insurance Act 1906 (MIA 1906) cases as well as the implications of the Insurance Act 2015 on the duty of fair presentation of the risk in business insurance and on the remedy for breach of a warranty. The reader will also read about the emphasis placed by the UK Supreme Court on the construction of s. 55 of the MIA 1906 and the challenges faced in respect of claims for a constructive total loss of the subject matter insured which are especially current at the time the book is being prepared for its publication. This textbook is the ideal companion for any student academic and practitioner wishing to study the subject and to explore more detailed information on the principles of marine insurance law.

GBP 49.99
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Trade Policy Protectionism and the Third World

Trade Policy Protectionism and the Third World

The 1980s saw an alarming revival of protectionism among Western countries as a result of a decade of persistent economic crises slow growth industrial decline and rising unemployment. The two major actors the US and the European Community between them bore the major responsibility for the breakdown of the liberal world trading system. Protection in the 1970s and 1980s took the form of replacing free international markets by bilateral agreements. This book first published in 1986 examines the European Community’s Generalized System of Preferences whereby the manufactured exports of developing nations would have duty-free access to the markets of the EEC and the consequences to this System of the new protectionism. | Trade Policy Protectionism and the Third World

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Development and the Law A Guide for Construction and Property Professionals

Development and the Law A Guide for Construction and Property Professionals

A gap has long existed between construction professionals – such as architects engineers quantity surveyors and consultants – and the property development process. The underlying development structures expressed in terms of legal obligation and accountability are all too little understood. This practical guide by a highly experienced lawyer identifies the role of the construction professional in a wider context and looks beyond their relationship with their immediate employer. It provides the development professional with an understanding of the many relationships involved in projects both in terms of contractual obligation and duty of care. This encourages more effective communication between those involved including joint venture partners bankers funders landowners with an interest in the outcome and tenants. | Development and the Law A Guide for Construction and Property Professionals

GBP 44.99
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The Theology of Unity

The Theology of Unity

Originally published in 1966 this was the first of Muhammad ‘Abduh’s works to be translated into English. Risālat al Tauhid represents the most popular of his discussion of Islamic thought and belief. ‘Abduh is still quoted and revered as the father of 20th Century Muslim thinking in the Arab world and his mind here accessible constituted both courageous and strenuous leadership in his day. All the concerns and claims of successive exponents of duty and meaning of the mosque in the modern world may be sensed in these pages. The world and Islam have moved on since ‘Abduh’s lifetime but he remains a source for the historian of contemporary movements and a valuable index to the self-awareness of Arab Islam. | The Theology of Unity

GBP 27.99
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Moral Enhancement and the Public Good

Moral Enhancement and the Public Good

Currently humans lack the cognitive and moral capacities to prevent the widespread suffering associated with collective risks like pandemics climate change or even asteroids. In Moral Enhancement and the Public Good Parker Crutchfield argues for the controversial and initially counterintuitive claim that everyone should be administered a substance that makes us better people. Furthermore he argues that it should be administered without our knowledge. That is moral bioenhancement should be both compulsory and covert. Crutchfield demonstrates how our duty to future generations and our epistemic inability to promote the public good highlight the need for compulsory covert moral bioenhancement. This not only gives us the best chance of preventing widespread suffering compared to other interventions (or doing nothing) it also best promotes liberty autonomy and equality. In a final chapter Crutchfield addresses the most salient objections to his argument.

GBP 130.00
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Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School A Practical Guide

Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School A Practical Guide

Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School helps mentors of trainee and newly qualified primary school teachers to both develop their own mentoring skills and provide the essential guidance their beginning teachers need as they navigate the roller-coaster of the first years in the classroom. Offering tried and tested strategies based on the best research it covers the knowledge skills and understanding every mentor needs. Together with tools for self-evaluation this book is a vital source of support and inspiration for all those involved in developing the next generation of outstanding teachers. Key topics for primary mentors include: the role of the mentor mentoring relationships mentoring in specialist areas mentoring development. Filled with guidance to support mentors’ own development as well as the development of beginning primary teachers Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School is a vital guide for mentors of primary school teachers both trainee and newly qualified with ready-to-use strategies that support and inspire mentors. | Mentoring Teachers in the Primary School A Practical Guide

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Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese System and Theory behind cai jiu dou and ye

Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese System and Theory behind cai jiu dou and ye

This is an investigation into the grammaticalized system of focus-background agreement in Mandarin Chinese. The particles cái jiù dou and ye are in a specific use type shown to form the core of a highly systematic paradigm. This book is not just a valuable companion for anyone interested in core aspects of Mandarin Chinese grammar. It caters for the interests of theoretical linguists as well as for linguists from other fields with an interest in information-structure focus and contrastive topics and quantification. The outstanding characteristic of this book viz. its effortless integration of findings from formal semantics without heavy formal load makes it rewarding reading both for linguists with a less formal background and for researchers with some knowledge of formal semantics. | Focus and Background Marking in Mandarin Chinese System and Theory behind cai jiu dou and ye

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At Home with Ivan Vladislavić An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City

At Home with Ivan Vladislavić An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City

At Home With Ivan Vladislavić is the first comprehensive analysis of the works of Ivan Vladislavić. Bringing a flaneur’s internal GPS to postcolonial Johannesburg Vladislavić established a critical sense of home via an intimate knowledge of geography and history. This sense of belonging can have positive ecological effects as we tend to protect what we know. The flaneur’s deep word hoard also helped him to develop a minimalist style which was not only a means of living sustainably in the city but in its humour and close attention to detail a way to make greening the city more of a joy than a duty. In this way Vladislavić created a culture of sustainability. Introduction and Chapter 6 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www. taylorfrancis. com under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4. 0 license. | At Home with Ivan Vladislavić An African Flaneur Greens the Postcolonial City

GBP 135.00
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The Ethics of Climate Engineering Solar Radiation Management and Non-Ideal Justice

The Ethics of Climate Engineering Solar Radiation Management and Non-Ideal Justice

This book analyzes major ethical issues surrounding the use of climate engineering particularly solar radiation management (SRM) techniques which have the potential to reduce some risks of anthropogenic climate change but also carry their own risks of harm and injustice. The book argues that we should approach the ethics of climate engineering via non-ideal theory which investigates what justice requires given the fact that many parties have failed to comply with their duty to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions. Specifically it argues that climate justice should be approached comparatively evaluating the relative justice or injustice of feasible policies under conditions that are likely to hold within relevant timeframes. Likely near-future conditions include pessimistic scenarios in which no available option avoids serious ethical problems. The book contends that certain uses of SRM can be ethically defensible in some pessimistic scenarios. This is the first book devoted to the many ethical issues surrounding climate engineering. | The Ethics of Climate Engineering Solar Radiation Management and Non-Ideal Justice

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The Architecture of Ethics

The Architecture of Ethics

Ethics is one of the most important and least understood aspects of design practice. In his latest book Thomas Fisher shows how ethics are inherent to the making of architecture – and how architecture offers an unusual and useful way of looking at ethics. The Architecture of Ethics helps students in architecture and other design disciplines to understand the major approaches to ethics and to apply them to the daily challenges they face in their work. The book covers each of the four dominant approaches to ethics: virtue ethics social contract ethics duty ethics and utilitarian ethics. Each chapter examines the dilemmas designers face from the perspective of one of these categories. Written in an accessible jargon-free style the text also features 100 illustrations to help integrate these concepts into the design process and to support visual understanding. Ethics is now a required part of accredited architecture programs making this book essential reading for all students in architecture and design.

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The Psychology of Counselling

The Psychology of Counselling

What is counselling and how can it help? Does counselling work? How is counselling different from talking to my family and friends about my problems? The Psychology of Counselling explains the different approaches to therapy and how they are used in practice giving information on what counselling can help with and what it cannot do. It looks at cognitive and behavioural therapies psychoanalysis and humanistic psychology as well as exploring positive psychotherapy and the move away from a disease-based approach to counselling. It also reflects upon the broader landscape of therapeutic spaces and gives consideration to professional issues in counselling such as ethics supervision and duty of care to clients. At a time when mental health and psychological well-being are central subjects of conversation in modern society The Psychology of Counselling sheds light on the therapeutic process what it involves and how it works to help all those seeking assistance for relieving emotional or psychological issues and improving their psychological wellness.

GBP 12.99
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A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum

A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum

The Sylloge Tacticorum is a mid-Byzantine example of the literary genre of military manuals or Taktika which stretches back to antiquity. It was one of a number produced during the tenth century CE a period when the Byzantine empire enjoyed a large measure of success in its wars against its traditional enemy the Arabs. Compiled to record and preserve military strategies know-how and tactics the manual discusses a wide variety of matters: battle formations raids sieges ambushes surprise attacks the treatment of prisoners of war and defectors distribution of booty punishment of military offences how to mount effective espionage and how to send and receive envoys. There is even advice on the personal qualities required by generals on how to neutralize enemy horses and on how to protect the troops against poisoned food. The work culminates in an account of the stratagems employed by great Greek and Roman military commanders of the past. While like so much of Byzantine literature the Sylloge often simply reproduces material found in earlier texts it also preserves a great deal of information about the military tactics being developed by the Byzantine army during the tenth century. It is the first Byzantine source to record the reappearance of a specialized heavy cavalry (the kataphraktoi) and of a specialized infantry (the menavlatoi) used to repel the attacks of the opposing heavy cavalry. There is also a great deal of information on new infantry and cavalry formations and on the new tactics that required them. This is the first complete translation of the Sylloge into English. It is accompanied by a glossary of the specialised Greek military vocabulary used in the work and by footnotes which explain obscure references and identify the author’s classical and Byzantine sources. An introduction places the work in its historical and literary context and considers some of the questions that | A Tenth-Century Byzantine Military Manual: The Sylloge Tacticorum

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