This practical guide is designed to enable individual pilots, training departments and airline managers to better understand and use the techniques of facilitation. Based on extensive field studies by
White (philosophy, Santa Clara U., US) died suddenly in 2000 without quite finishing this study, on which she had worked for over 20 years. Mark Ralkowski (philosophy, U. of New Mexico) edits the comp
Peter Byrnea€?s study of God and realism offers a critical survey of issues surrounding the realist interpretation of theism and theology. Byrne presents a general argument for interpreting the intent
In a volume originating from an undated seminar series held at UK colleges, the editors from Keele University and the University of Manchester introduce a dozen contributed chapters seeking to integra
Menkel-Meadow (law, Georgetown U.) began her foray into the interdisciplinary field of conflict resolution from a perspective of dispute resolution in law, but gradually moved towards explorations of
Evagrius of Pontus and Gregory of Nyssa have either been overlooked by philosophers and theologians in modern times, or overshadowed by their prominent friend and brother (respectively), Gregory Nazia
Like their better studied royal sisters farther north, Spanish queens were expected to produce an heir, to raise and educate their children, to take part in ceremonial functions, to perform charitable
Eleven educators from Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the U.S. contribute 15 chapters to a resource text for practitioners who teach and assess adult learners in aviation programs in colleges and
Johann Peter Salomon, the celebrated violinist and impresario, made his debut in England in March 1781. History has credited Salomon with bringing Haydn to London, yet as Ian Woodfield reveals in this
Focusing on accident prevention rather than accident analysis, Hollnagel (human-machine interaction, Linkoping U., Sweden) uses an accident model as a primary element of prevention. After a thorough r
This analysis of the music of Britten the beloved English composer, pianist, and accompanist who died in 1976 grew out of the Britten Festival, which celebrated the composer's career with eight concer
This highly original and accessible book draws on the authora€?s personal experience as a musician, producer and teacher of popular music to discuss the ways in which audio technology and musical crea
Incorporating illustrative case material from 65 veterans he has treated over two decades, Dewey (Chief of Psychiatry at the Boise, Idaho Veteran Affairs Medical Center) explores how the trauma of war
The contributions to canon law of Roman and Byzantine church fathers from the 6th-12th centuries are analyzed and compared in this careful study by Gallagher (Oxford U., UK). The development of the s
Diesfeld (health studies, Auckland U. of Technology, New Zealand) and Freckelton (law, Monash U., Australia) present 24 papers from an international, though largely Anglophone, group of contributors c
As new medical technologies and treatments develop with increasing momentum, the legal and ethical implications of medicine are being called into question as never before. Martin Levine's collection b
The Music and Art of Radiohead provides compelling close readings of the English band's music, lyrics, album cover art and music videos as well as critical commentary on interviews, reviews and the do
Scholars of literature from around the anglophone world explore such examples of the genre as regicide and reginamanis in G. W. M. Reynolds; The Mysteries of London; the corpse, urban trade, and indus
Zen Buddhism and Environmental Ethics explores the implications of Zen Buddhist teachings and practices for our moral relations with the natural world. At once an accessible introduction to Zen and an
How do we learn about God? In an age of competing world-views, what is the basis of the Christian claim to offer the truth about God, the world and ourselves? David Heywood charts a path through the s
The biography of Jenkin, who was professor of engineering at the U. of Edinburgh from 1868 until his death and the business partner of Lord Kelvin. The authors look at his achievements in his field an
'Every Sound There Is': Revolver and the Transformation of Rock and Roll assesses and celebrates the Beatles' accomplishment in their 1966 masterpiece. The essays of Every Sound There Is examine Revol
When after 30 years, Gruber von Arni left service as a nursing officer in the British Army, he set about to record the history of military nursing before Florence Nightingale, which had not been attem
Milne (Vermont Law School) et al. compile case studies of four mountain resorts in the US and Canada to consider whether the law protects the ecological systems of mountains from their adverse impacts
This collection of essays and interviews addresses important theoretical, philosophical and creative issues in Western art music at the end of the twentieth- and the beginning of the twenty-first cent
Listing over 10,000 entries, Harrod's Librarians' Glossary and Reference Book spans everything from traditional printing terms to search engines and from book formats to URLs. Revisions for this tenth
The Danish Christian existentialist SA﹐ren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) and the Jewish Lithuanian-born French interpreter of modern phenomenology Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) have enabled theology and phil
In this book, a distinguished international group of legal theorists re-examine legal positivism as a prescriptive political theory and consider its implications for the constitutionally defined roles
Akdeniz (University of Leeds, UK) provides a critical assessment of the problem of Internet child pornography and its governance through legal and non-legal means, and offers a comparative assessment
Only 50 years after Gutenberg introduced moveable type, over 1,000 workshops were printing maps, science books, and pocket editions of romances for private reading. Soon even the less fortunate had ho
Tracing the origins of daily prayer from the New Testament and Patristic period, through the Reformation and Renaissance to the present, this book examines the development of daily rites across a broa
In his new introduction to 24 slightly revised papers presented at a conference held at his campus and first published in 1999, Knell (museum studies, U. of Leicester) explains the central theme of ch
Presenting a rich account of women's faith lives and, mapping women's meanings in their own right, this book offers an alternative to dominant accounts of faith development which failed to account for
Debate on freedom of religion as a human right takes place not only in the Western world but also in Muslim communities throughout the world. For Muslims concerned for this freedom, one of the major d
Foster (English, Loyola U.) argues for the independence of tragicomedy as a genre that perceives and communicates human experience differently from the various forms of tragedy, comedy, and the drame
This is the first volume of a multi-volume series on The Pacific World: Lands, Peoples and History of the Pacific, 1500-1900 . Journal and symposium papers from the past four decades present a macro-
'Aesthetics' and 'theological aesthetics' usually imply a focus on questions about the arts and how faith or religion relates to the arts; only the final pages of this work take up that problem. The c
This is the first book-length study of the genre of 'artist-opera', in which the work's central character is an artist who is uncomfortable with his place in the world. It investigates how three such
Starting from the premise of the letter as literary artefact, with a potential for ambiguity, irony and textual allusion, this innovative analysis of the correspondence between the Cluniac abbot, Pete
