35th annual conference at Bournemouth. Traditionally this takes place the end of December, a week before Christmas and gives an term, festive feeling to otherwise serious academic content. The holiday atmosphere was heightened by title TAG-on-Sea, appropriate enough for famous seaside resort. theme represented in programme sessions on marine archaeology land-, sea-, skyscapes, but overridingly ...

WILLIAM H. HUFFMAN, Robert Fludd and the end of the Renaissance, London and New York, Routledge, 1988, 8vo, pp. xii, 252, illus., £30.00. Robert Fludd's encyclopaedic publications with their lavish and fascinating illustrations have frequently been seen as the keys to an intellectual world we have lost. His Metaphysical, physical and technical history of each cosmos, the macrocosm and the micro...

WILLIAM H. HUFFMAN, Robert Fludd and the end of the Renaissance, London and New York, Routledge, 1988, 8vo, pp. xii, 252, illus., £30.00. Robert Fludd's encyclopaedic publications with their lavish and fascinating illustrations have frequently been seen as the keys to an intellectual world we have lost. His Metaphysical, physical and technical history of each cosmos, the macrocosm and the micro...

ENCOURAGING HUMAN RIGHTS TEACHING IN THE COMMONWEALTH AND OTHERCOMMON LAW COUNTRIESMeera MathweLLM StudentIndian Law Institute, New Delhi, India Human rights, as universally accepted rights, create accountability against all kinds of dejure and de facto discrimination. The human development and prosperity are possible onlywhen rights are given its due significance. Histo...

In ancient cultures all over the world, summer and winter solstices and equinoxes had a great importance. These astronomical events had been widely considered in the planning of monuments and other architectures. But in the zone of the Earth delimited by the Tropics of Cancer and Capricorn, we can see another relevant event, the zenith passage of the sun. In this paper we will show that several...

author and an indeterminate biographical context. The same cannot be said of Mateo Alemán or of Francisco de Quevedo, in the 20.1 (2000) Imitation and the Growth of the Novel 103 case of La vida del buscón (translated by Alpert as The Swindler). Alemán and Quevedo—each in his own way—become rivals of their narrator/protagonists, by putting words into their mouths and by writing misfortune into ...

This paper investigates perspectives of applying the notion of “evolution” to the development of conceptual metaphors. It presents evidence for historical changes in mappings from the source domain of LIFE-BODYHEALTH to the target domain of STATE-SOCIETY. The data show that the body politic metaphor has retained a strong influence on popular conceptualisations of the political domain. However, ...

Ayurveda is the traditional health system of India. Maharishi Ayurveda is the restoration of Ayurveda in a system adapted for universal application in the modern world. This article explores the parallels between the writings on health and healing, and the principles of Maharishi Ayurveda. After an introduction to Ayurveda, the article provides a comparative assessment of the understanding of h...