Oxford University Press

Applications in Remote SensingThis is a monograph concerning the scattering of electromagnetic waves from surfaces to generate information for the purposes of remote sensing. It combines, for the first time, a treatment of two important new ideas, namely information from the orientation or polarisation of the wave and how it can be combined with...

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This book explores the diverse views of Gentile impurity found in Second Temple and raddinic sources. Christine Hayes seeks to determine the role such views played in the rise and development of sectarianism within late antique Jewish society and in the regulation of Jewish-Gentile others. Hayes discovers that different views on the question of...

Aelius Aristides and the Cult of AsklepiosA fully illustrated study of healing pilgrimage in the Roman empire during the        second century AD. The focus is upon one particular pilgrim, the famous orator        Aelius Aristides, whose Sacred Tales is examined in the context of the sanctuary of        Asklepios at Pergamon, where the author spent...