In his study of the origins of political reflection in twentieth-century African fiction, Donald Wehrs examines a neglected but import ant body of African texts written in colonial (English and French
Framed by an understanding that the very concept of what defines the human is often influenced by Renaissance and early modern texts, this book establishes the beginning of the literary development of
Communications research in aviation is widely regarded by many in the healthcare community as the 'gold standard' to emulate. Yet healthcare and aviation differ in many ways, as do the vital communica
The legal system relies on social science for answers to many tough questions. Social scientists study issues relevant to law. But are law and social science talking past one another? This collection
In a 1987 essay, Collinson described Elizabethan England as a chimera state with elements of both a republic and a monarchy. Historians, who by profession neither forgive nor forget, respond these two
Editing Music in Early Modern Germany argues that editors played a critical role in the transmission and reception of Italian music outside Italy. Like their counterparts in the world of classical le
Providing a history of theological thought by Greek philosophers from the Presocratics to the early Hellenistic period, Drozdek (Duquesne U., US) focuses on the attributes of God and the impact on for
Selecting the right aircraft for an airline operation is a vastly complex process, involving a multitude of skills and considerable knowledge of the business. Buying The Big Jets was first published i
This book presents an invaluable selection of sermons and theological treatises of the twelfth century author, Isaac of Stella. The English born abbot of the French Cistercian monastery of Stella on t
Under his real name, Bruce Montgomery (1921a€“1978) wrote concert music and the scores for almost 50 feature films, including some of the most enduring British comedies of the twentieth century, among
With massive growth taking place in the real estate industry, how can China develop a free market and private ownership of land while still officially subscribing to Communist ideology? This study use
When Charles returned to London without the Spanish Infanta as a bride, Protestants heralded the event as a religious victory, and historians have tended to follow them since. Here historians delve in
Writing for students of finance, Sutcliffe (finance, U. of Reading, UK) introduces the general properties of stock index futures markets and analyzes some of the economic forces at work in index futur
Here Mitrano (literature, U, of Maryland-Europe) provides a new biography of Stein situated in textual, visual and theory realms, presenting Stein as an American woman who fought her way into literary
Ranging from the logical to the polemical to the whimsical, Miller (philosophy, U. of Warwick) continues his work in interpreting and advancing the purist critical rationalist work of Karl Popper in t
The series provides the core essays that researchers will want to have at hand when investigating ethics in particular public and professional fields; business has its own series. The essays are repro
Drawing on the thesis he presented in his own 1998 dissertation and on perspectives that have emerged subsequently, Possamai (sociology, U. of Western Sydney, Australia) argues that the term New Age i
This collection of essays highlights ethical issues in social work which are often overlooked as well as recurring clashes that influence how they play out, for example among different values and rela
Rafuse (US Army Command and General Staff College, Fort Leavenworth) presents a sampling of scholarship on Civil War military history in the form of 29 papers previously published in such academic pub
This collection adds to the growing scholarship on early modern women by examining those women's musical activities across a broad spectrum of cultural events and settings. The shared premise in the p
Ancient Greece was the cradle of philosophy in the Western tradition. Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece brings the thoughts and lives of the pioneers of Western philosophy down from their someti
Most of the 20 papers were presented at the March 2000 annual meeting of the Renaissance Society of America, held in Florence, Italy. European, North American, and Australian scholars describe the pon
Most social histories of working women in Britain before the 19th century have focused on large groups such as factory workers and domestic servants, where the numbers might allow some quantitative co
Warfare was an integral part of the operations of the medieval eastern Roman, or Byzantine, Empire, both in its organization, as well as in social thinking and political ideology. This volume presents
Among Shakespeare's most neglected plays, says King (English and drama, Queen U. of London), Cymbeline is not a courtly romance, a royalist apology, or a warning about Scots, as previous critics would
Nine essays by European historians specializing in economics and technology focus on technological change in one of the most significant industries of 19th-century Europe. A major theme is how cheap i
Place is very much more significant than is generally recognized, says Inge. He begins by tracing how place has been eliminated from discourse in Western society, and beyond the intellectual sphere, h
The surprise resurgence of philosophical defense of theism during the final third of the 20th century is documented by 28 articles, most reproduced from English-language journals of the 1980s and 1990
Focusing on guitar-based rock and popular music, Green (Institute of Education, U. of London, UK) explores how musicians go about acquiring the skills necessary to play their instrument at a professio
Drafting Legislation sets out to prove Sir William Dale's doctrine that the rules for drafting good quality legislation are the same in common and civil systems of law. Legislative solutions can there
The strain that questions of national identity experience in the face of ethnic and/or religious minorities is the central premise of this series of essays. Lord (philosophy, Charles U., Prague, Czech
Dubernet, who is not identified, examines four post-Cold War interventions launched supposedly on behalf of people on the move, in Iraq, Bosnia, Somalia, and Rwanda. She concludes that the United Nati
Doth (Concordia U., Portland, OR), in this revision of his dissertation, analyzes the career and the prose of Martin Luther to demonstrate specific cases of humanism's influence on him. Examples of ma
The editors (all of the U. of Trento, Italy) present the results of a research project on "The Supervisory System of the ILO [International Labour Organization] and Child Labour." The volume's 19 chap
Benson (law, Wayne State U.) takes up a matter that few Americans knew or cared about until the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, when state secretaries used nefarious means to throw their states
This volume features a collection of the most important articles on the social, ethical and legal implications of a variety of problems caused by AIDS. The wide range of articles selected for inclusio
The articles in this volume explore the way in which military developments helped to sculpt, out of very strange and diverse components, our familiar Europe. The period studied covers the fall of the
Despite the fact that the vast majority of the earth's surface is made up of oceans, there has been surprisingly little work by geographers which critically examines ocean-space, our knowledge and per
Although it has a rich historiography, and from the late ninth century is rich in textual evidence, northern Iberia has barely featured in the great debates of early medieval European history of recen
Uroscopy - the diagnosis of disease by visual examination of the urine - played a very prominent role in early modern medical practice and in the lives of ordinary people. Widely considered as the mos
