Economic historian Niall Ferguson writes in his book The Ascent of Money that Perkins's contention that the leaders of Ecuador ( President Jaime Roldós Aguilera ) and Panama ( General Omar Torrijos ) were assassinated by US agents for opposing the interests of the owners of their countries ' foreign debt " seems a little odd " in light of the fact that in the 1970s the amount of money that the US had lent to Ecuador and Panama accounted for less than 0. 4 % of the total US grants and loans, while in 1990 the exports from the US to those countries accounted for approximately 0. 4 % of the total US exports ( approximately $ 8 billion ).

Claudius ' Ascent to Power ", Ancient History, 22 25 – 31.

The Ascent of Woman – A History of the Suffragette Movement and the ideas behind it, Time Warner Book Group London, 2003, ISBN 0-349-11660-1

* The Ascent of Woman: A History of the Suffragette Movement and the Ideas Behind it, Little, Brown, 2003, ISBN 0-316-72533-1.

* Melanie Phillips ; The Ascent of Woman — A History of the Suffragette Movement and the ideas behind it, Time Warner Book Group London, 2003.

The following year, Taylor released his second solo album, A Briefing for the Ascent, this time inspired by the loss of his grandmother.

Flesch also produced Terry Scott Taylor's second solo album, A Briefing for the Ascent.

The Voskhod programme (,, Ascent or Dawn ) was the second Soviet human spaceflight project.

Stevenson's character became a subject of historical discussion after the publication of Means of Ascent, the second volume of Robert Caro's best-selling biography of Lyndon Johnson, which covers the disputed 1948 election.

The British documentary series " The Ascent of Man " ( 1973 ) in the first part of its second episode, " The Harvest of the Seasons ," also shows the Bakhtiari making the annual migration to the summer pastures.

Ascent and acceptance below ), it is generally accepted that Zurvanism was a branch of greater Zoroastrianism ( Boyce 1957: 157-304 ); that the doctrine of Zurvan was a sacerdotal response to resolve a perceived inconsistency in the sacred texts ( Zaehner, 1955, intro ; See development of the " twin brother " doctrine below ); and that this doctrine was probably introduced during the second half of the Achaemenid era ( Henning, 1951 ; loc.

The film spawned four sequels: The Prophecy II ( 1998 ), The Ascent ( 2000 ), Uprising ( 2005 ) and Forsaken ( 2005 ).

* Gaius Demetrius ( 2006 ) Ascent of an Eagle tells the story of the early part of Llywelyn's reign.

In 2007, Anderson contributed vocals to an album Culture of Ascent by American progressive rock group Glass Hammer ; and appeared as part of a vocal ensemble on the track " Repentance " from the Dream Theater album Systematic Chaos.

Also forming part of the 18th-century Spanish collection is a large group of still lifes by Luis Meléndez ; small, cabinet paintings by Luis Paret y Alcázar such as The Masked Ball and Charles III eating before the Court ; tapestry cartoons by the Bayeu brothers ; and other paintings such as Antonio Carnicero's The Ascent of a Montgolfier Balloon in Aranjuez.

" However Bronowski is best remembered for his thirteen part series The Ascent of Man ( 1973 ), a documentary about the history of human beings through scientific endeavour.

In 1973 the physicist Jacob Bronowski produced The Ascent of Man, which summarised a magnificent thirteen part BBC television series about all the ways in which humans have moulded the Earth and its future.

Starfleet assigns Nog to Deep Space Nine as part of his cadet field training (" The Ascent ").

Auden's " Funeral Blues " ( also known as " Stop all the clocks ", later to become famous through its use in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral ) was originally written for Anderson and set to music by Britten as part of Auden and Isherwood's play The Ascent of F6 ( 1936 ), then revised by Auden as a separate poem.

He is now part of the Curriculum Development team for Ascent Flight Training Ltd, part of UKMFTS.

The Ascent of Man is a thirteen-part documentary television series produced by the BBC and Time-Life Films first transmitted in 1973, written and presented by Jacob Bronowski.

The book of the series, The Ascent of Man: A Personal View, is an almost word-for-word transcript from the television episodes, diverging from Bronowski's original narration only where the lack of images might make its meaning unclear.

He is best remembered as the presenter and writer of the 1973 BBC television documentary series, The Ascent of Man, and the accompanying book.

During the course of the series Attenborough, following the format established by Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man ( both series which he designed and produced as director of BBC2 ), travels the globe in order to trace the story of the evolution of life on the planet.

The different remit of BBC2 allowed its first controller, Sir David Attenborough to commission the first heavyweight documentaries and documentary series such as Civilisation, The Ascent of Man and Horizon.

Watts Towers were highlighted in the 1973 television series, The Ascent of Man and shown in the episode, The Grain in the Stone – Tools, and the development of architecture and sculpture.

The series ' groundbreaking format, in which Clark travelled around the world to illustrate his thesis, became a template for later programmes such as Alistair Cooke's America ( 1972 ), Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man ( 1973 ), Life on Earth ( 1979 ) and sequels by David Attenborough, and Robert Hughes ' series on modern art The Shock of the New ( 1980 ).

* May 5 – July 28-BBC Television series The Ascent of Man, written and presented by Jacob Bronowski, first airs ; there is also an accompanying bestselling book.

* BBC series ; The Ascent of Man: The Harvest of the Seasons

* Grunion feature at the beginning of the first episode of the 1970s documentary series The Ascent of Man written and presented by Jacob Bronowski.

The Prophecy 3: The Ascent is a fantasy horror-thriller film, and the third motion picture ( of five ) in The Prophecy series.

* 1980 – Mount Everest, 1st Winter Ascent by Krzysztof Wielicki and Leszek Cichy.

* The Ascent of Wonder by David G. Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer.

The terms hesychia and Hesychast are used quite systematically in the Ladder of Divine Ascent of St John of Sinai ( 523 – 603 ) and in Pros Theodoulon by St Hesychios ( c.

Books used by the Hesychast include the Philokalia, a collection of texts on prayer and solitary mental ascesis written from the 4th to the 15th Centuries, this collection existing in a number of independent redactions ; the Ladder of Divine Ascent ; the collected works of St Symeon the New Theologian ( 949 – 1022 ); and the works of St Isaac the Syrian ( 7th C .?– 8th C .?

* The Ladder of Divine Ascent by St John of Sinai.

An icon known by the same title, Ladder of Divine Ascent, depicts a ladder extending from earth to heaven ( cf.

This volume contains the Life of St. John by Daniel, The Ladder of Divine Ascent, and To the Pastor, and provides footnotes explaining many of the concepts and terminology used from an Orthodox perspective, as well as a General Index.

Ascent of the Blessed by Hieronymus Bosch ( after 1490 ) depicts a tunnel of light and spiritual figures similar to those reported by near-death experiencers.

* April 26 – Ascent of Mount Ventoux by the Italian poet Petrarch: he claims to be the first since classical antiquity to climb a mountain for the view.

This understanding is taught within the works of ascetics like Evagrius Ponticus, and the most seminal ascetic works read most widely by Eastern Christians, the Philokalia and the Ladder of Divine Ascent ( the works of Evagrius and John Climacus are also contained within the Philokalia ).

One book commonly read during Great Lent, particularly by monastics, is The Ladder of Divine Ascent, which was written in about the seventh century by St. John of the Ladder when he was the Hegumen ( Abbot ) of St. Catherine's Monastery on Mount Sinai.

After buying the team, COMSAT organized its Denver sports franchises under a separate subsidiary, Ascent Entertainment Group Inc., which went public in 1995, with 80 % of its stock bought by COMSAT and the other 20 % available on NASDAQ.

Icon of the Passion, detail showing ( left ) the Flagellation and ( right ) Ascent to Golgotha ( fresco by Theophanes the Cretan, Stavronikita Monastery, Mount Athos ).

Buzkashi is described at length in Episode 2, " The Harvest of the Seasons ", of the documentary The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski.

The Ascent of Man was placed 65th on a list of the 100 Greatest World Television Programmes voted for by industry professionals and drawn up by the British Film Institute in 2000.

* The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski-review ( 15 April 2011 )