When Olivier Messiaen died in 1992, the prevailing image was of a man apart; a deeply religious man whose only sources of inspiration were God and Nature and a composer whose music progressed along an
International insolvencies are a common feature worldwide in business and finance sectors and the scale and frequency of such occurrences have caught the attention of many academics and commentators.
There are more than 450 Moshavim settlements and about 270 kibbutzim in Israel. While there is a range of communal and cooperative kibbutz movements, all with slight ideological differences, they are
At the time of his death in 1998, at the age of 47, Norman Calder had become the most widely-discussed scholar in his field. This was largely focused on his monograph, Studies in Early Muslim Jurispru
In this comprehensive study of the illustrations of Sterne's work, Gerard (English, Auburn U.) explores the ability of Sterne's text to inspire the visual imagination. Using an innovative framework, h
Kay (U. of Kansas) attempts to solve some of the riddles that he finds in Commedia and figures Dante left hanging on purpose to engage the intellect of readers. Among these are the sins of Brunetto La
Grendler (U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) explores how schools, universities, and teachers interacted with church and state in various circumstances and contexts. Some of the 11 papers, facsimiles f
Quraishi (U. of Salford, Britain) offers a comparative study of South Asian Muslims as both perpetrators and victims of crime and deviance in Britain and Pakistan. Using data taken from 1998 to 2002,
This book takes a radical look at organizational crime and deviance through the prism of Cultural Theory derived from anthropology. It does so through case studies and by introducing new concepts such
Bangemann, an accounting consultant, offers a framework for identifying, assessing, designing, implementing, and improving shared services in the finance and accounting function. He focuses on critica
All but four of the 29 essays reproduced here were written by Oikonomides (1934-2000) in his final 11 years, while he headed the Byzantine history department at the University of Athens; 14 are in Eng
In this collection of essays first published as journal articles in the 1970s-90s, Gough examines James Cook and British enterprise in the North Pacific and the politics and decolonization of Latin Am
Jones (Liverpool Jon Mores U.) uses his experience in auditing, financial systems, and the prevention of fraud to encourage managers, accountants, compliance officers and those in the political arena
Saeed and Saeed, whose fields are not cited, re-read the relevant foundation texts of Islam to show that the punishment of apostasy--abandoning Islam--by death cannot be justified by an appeal to the
Ten articles reprinted and often translated from publication in scholarly journals or other anthologies or collections consider first magic and then divination as defined and distinguished by Medieval
Of the articles in this volume, eight concern a world-famous author (FranA§ois Rabelais); the others are studies of little-known authors (Cortesi, Corrozet, Mercier) or genres (the joke, the apophtheg
Petre Tutea (1902-91) was probably the last great political and theological thinker of twentieth-century Eastern Europe. A Christian living in Communist Romania, he spent thirteen years as a prisoner
Matthews (information and library management, University of Central England, UK) and Feather (library and information studies, Loughborough University, UK) present guidance on various aspects of disas
Toch (The Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel) presents 21 articles, originally appearing in various historical journals between 1981 and 2000, representing the major lines of enquiry he has undertaken for
This book examines how Christian faith has historically impacted the notion of Nous or divine mind in Western thought up to and including the present. Christian faith is seen to have inaugurated an es
Desmond (Katholieke U. Leuven, Belgium) was tired of writing about Hegel when he was asked to contribute to the series, but agreed to take one last round with him because of personal friendship (thoug
The series proposes to offer a critical selection of published research that has influenced the understanding of the formative period of Islamic history, approximately AD 600 to 950. The 17 facsimiles
Presenting 12 unaltered articles on British and European sea power published in the last 40 years, this volume is concerned with the roots of sea power and with how, why, and at what human cost it was
Rather than presenting a unitary history of the Ottoman Empire (1288-1918), Heywood collects 16 of his previously published studies with new material added to three of them on aspects of the Ottoman p
Most of the 21 studies, reprinted from publication between 1979 and 1990, attempt to explore the implications of the position that the Qur'an is literally the word of God, miraculous, inimitable, an
This collection of Daniel Defoe's travel and historical writings reveal the range of his intellectual interests. His "Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain", which came out be
The fourth volume of collected studies by Jacoby (Hebrew U., Jerusalem) focuses again on the medieval Mediterranean and issues of trade, politics, culture, and society. There are two articles on silk
A collection of 12 essays by the late Cranz (formerly history, Connecticut College) exploring the thought of Christian philosopher Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464). The relationship of Nicolas' thought wi
From the editor's introduction: "...natural law [which began in the 17th century and petered out in the 18th] has played a central role in the writing of the history of early modern philosophy and pol
This volume traces the evolution of the concept of Public Health and reveals the importance of political will and public spending in this field of civil engineering. Design, construction, operation an
Explains the benefits of computer-aided design and manufacturing in activities ranging from yarn and fiber production through lace-making, pattern-cutting, and grading, to client representations and p
Specially commissioned for the collection, 14 essays take up a subject that until recently seemed to be too obvious for scholars to pay attention to. They explore the varied and often conflicting tend
Explores issues regarding the notion that people make rudimentary judgements about the costs and benefits when contemplating a criminal act, and that changing the environment to reduce opportunities w
Johnson argues for the strong influence of the Tractarian movement on the early poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844- 1889), also showing how his best known, mature works evolved from the aesthetic a
This volume explores how elements of the medieval tradition were transformed into new claims of authority by the Reformation. In theological terms the volume examines how ecclesiastical, biblical and
Landscape Construction Volume 1 deals with elements of landscape construction which are required to provide enclosure, privacy, demarcation of land, shelter and security. The elements discussed inclu
The relationship between intellectual property and food affects the production and availability of food by regulating dealings in products, processes, innovations, information and data. With increasin
This book explores the contemporary phenomenon of forced marriage and a€?honoura€? killings in Britain. Set against a background of increasing a€?honoura€?-based violence within the countrya€?s South
"This collection provides a systematic survey of the wide readership the works of Godfrey of Viterbo enjoyed in the late Middle Ages. In the last years of the twelfth century this chronicler and imper
