This paper compares psychostasia and/or kerostasia concepts from Indo-European, Semitic and adjacent cultures, and relates them to Cognitive Metaphor Theory. In the context of metaphysical weighing, the religions of ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome all associated lightness with goodness and/or a favourable outcome; Hinduism does likewise. The…[Read more]

Images of the Tower of Babel (Gen 11:1-9) in illustrated Christian manuscripts are suggestively similar to representations on the Tower card in many versions of the Tarot deck; both genres show the Tower being destroyed from above, with oversized persons falling head-first from it. In terms of connections between heaven and earth, the antithetical…[Read more]

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A new museum has opened in Tbilisi at the Writer’s House of Georgia: The Museum of Repressed Writers. The museum honours the executed poets from Georgia’s Soviet past, poets whose identities Soviet authorities tried to destroy. This article examines the story the museum tells about Soviet literary and political history.

Line breaks are arguably the defining feature of poetry, in the absence of which a text becomes prose. Consequently, the translation of line breaks is a decisive issue for every poetry translator. Classical and modern literary theorists have argued that the potential for enjambment, which we understand as the effect that makes line breaks possible…[Read more]

Lawrence K. Wang, Nazih K. Shammas, William A. Selke, and Donald B. Aulenbach (2010). Flotation Technology, Humana Press, Springer Nature, USA. 680 pages. doi = 10.1007/978-1-60327-133-2; ISBN : 978-1-58829-494-4 ……. ABSTRACT: This flotation technology book has four special features: (a) Detailed coverage of the principles of air…[Read more]

The model serves the purpose of computing basis adjustments for credit spread curves of the constituent obligors of the indexes such that the market price of the index can be repriced exactly. These adjusted index constituent curves are then used to compute index base correlations and mapped base correlations for bespoke trades, price the standard…[Read more]

Within contemporary society, there has been a greater understanding of issues of mental health and well-being. However, it could be argued that this awareness heavily focuses on issues of depression and anxiety and negates research into more complex issues such as non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI). This paper seeks to explore the issue of NSSI and…[Read more]