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The New Theory of Time

By: Professor L Nathan Oaklander,University Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Philosophy Quentin Smith

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The New Theory of Time

By: Professor L Nathan Oaklander,University Distinguished Faculty Scholar and Professor of Philosophy Quentin Smith

The most important debate among twentieth-century philosophers of time has been whether events that have happened, are happening, or will happen are equally real (the tenseless theory of time) or whether there is a fundamental distinction between past, present, and future, with only present events possessing full existence (the tensed theory). In the 1980s a new version of the tenseless theory of time emerged. While advocates still posit that all events are equally real, they depart from the old tenseless theory by conceding that tensed expressions cannot be translated into tenseless ones, and support their view of time using other arguments." "This anthology offers the latest turns in the debate over the new theory of time, with essays written by many of the most prominent contemporary thinkers in the philosophy of time. There are discussions on the role - or nonrole - of language in determining which theory is true; McTaggart's paradox and the logical difficulties that defenders of the tenseless theory say are inherent in tensed theory; and the nature of our experience of time, which proponents of both theories claim can now be explained. The Preface and the General Introduction to the book set the debate within the wider philosophical context and show why the subject of temporal becoming is a perennial concern of science, religion, language, logic, and the philosophy of mind."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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Yale University Press

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0300057962

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Making Tort Law

What Should be Done and who Should Do it

By: Charles Fried,David Rosenberg (Professor of law)

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Making Tort Law

What Should be Done and who Should Do it

By: Charles Fried,David Rosenberg (Professor of law)

Two Harvard law professors make the case for improving tort law to better protect individuals and discipline businesses.

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American Enterprise Institute

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0844741787

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Nicholas of Cusa – A Companion to his Life and his Times

By: Professor Morimichi Watanabe

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Nicholas of Cusa – A Companion to his Life and his Times

By: Professor Morimichi Watanabe

This work is a guide to the life, thought and activities of Nicholas of Cusa (1401-1464), the great fifteenth-century philosopher, theologian, jurist, author of mystical and ecclesiastical treatises, cardinal and reformer. It is intended not only for advanced scholars, but also for beginners and those simply curious about a man who has been called 'one of the greatest Germans of the fifteenth century' and a 'medieval thinker for the modern age'. The book provides a series of detailed but readable essays on ideas, persons, and places, a work developed over the course of nearly three decades. First, it contains articles on the important events and concepts that affected Cusanus--philosophical, religious, intellectual and political. Then it turns to his precursors and contemporaries, both friendly and critical. These include philosophers, theologians, politicians, and canon lawyers. And third, the book follows the footsteps of the man from Kues and examines various sites where he lived, studied, or visited. Because the author has also visited many of these sites, he can contribute personal observations to enliven the journey. To add to the book's usefulness as a resource and reference tool, each entry is followed by a bibliography containing both recent and older works. The purpose of the volume is to gain a greater appreciation of Cusanus and his legacy by striving for a total view of his thought and experience instead of narrowly focusing on specific philosophical, theological or intellectual ideas, or certain periods of his activities in isolation from other facets of this compelling figure.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409482537

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Predictable and Avoidable

Repairing Economic Dislocation and Preventing the Recurrence of Crisis

By: Professor Ivo Pezzuto

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Predictable and Avoidable

Repairing Economic Dislocation and Preventing the Recurrence of Crisis

By: Professor Ivo Pezzuto

Much has been said and written about the 'financial tsunami' and subsequent economic dislocation that occurred in the opening decade of the 21st Century. Professor Ivo Pezzuto is described by business scholars as an expert on the global financial crisis. He has lectured about it at conferences and seminars; written some of the most read and quoted papers; contributed to what is considered the most authoritative book on the subject; and to one of the best known US-based blogs dealing with it. In Predictable and Avoidable, Dr Pezzuto offers business school students; academics; and industry experts in the fields of finance, risk management, audit, corporate governance, economics, and regulation, a truly independent and unbiased analysis of the financial crises starting in 2007 and one of the first fully considered expositions of the financial, governance and regulatory reforms needed for the future. Augmented with personal interviews involving selected global thought leaders and industry experts, the author's narrative focuses on the technical issues that led to the global crisis, but also addresses the human, cultural, and ethical aspects of the events from both sociological and managerial perspectives. The book exposes the root causes and contributes significantly to the debate about the change needed in the banking and finance industries and to supervisory frameworks and regulatory mechanisms. This analysis enables readers to understand that the crisis we have seen was predictable and should have been avoidable, and that a recurrence can be avoided, if lessons are learned and the right action taken.

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Gower Publishing, Ltd.

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1409473589

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Theological Reflection and Education for Ministry

The Search for Integration in Theology

By: Professor John E Paver

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Theological Reflection and Education for Ministry

The Search for Integration in Theology

By: Professor John E Paver

A major and continuing problem for theological education and the practice of Christian ministry is how to best achieve a genuine integration between theory and practice, theology and experience. The key claim of this book is that theological reflection, beginning with experience, is a method of integration and that pastoral supervision is a vehicle for theological reflection. In establishing this claim, John Paver demonstrates that the model and method have potential to be a catalyst for reform within theological colleges and seminaries. Three different theological reflection models are developed and critiqued in this book, and their capacity to be developed in particular contexts is explored. This book does not stop at ministry, cultural and personal integration, but is bold enough to make recommendations for structural integration within the theological institution.

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140947741X

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Election Law and Democratic Theory

By: Professor David Schultz

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Election Law and Democratic Theory

By: Professor David Schultz

While numerous books and articles examine various aspects either of democratic theory or of specific topics in election law, there is no comprehensive book that provides a detailed and scholarly discussion of the political and democratic theory underpinnings of election law. Election Law and Democratic Theory fills this important gap, as author David Schultz offers a scholarly analysis of the political principles and democratic values underlying election law and the regulation of political campaigns and participants in the United States. The book provides the first full-length examination of the political theories that form the basis for many of the current debates in election law that structure both Supreme Court and scholarly considerations of topics ranging from campaign finance reform, voting rights, reapportionment, and ballot access to the rights of political parties, the media, and other players in the system. It challenges much of the current debate in election law and argues for more discussion and development of a democratic political theory to support and guide election law jurisprudence.

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1472434986

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Living in the Shadow of Blackness as a Black Physician and Healthcare Disparity in the United States of America

By: Professor Valiere Alcena M.D.MACP

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Living in the Shadow of Blackness as a Black Physician and Healthcare Disparity in the United States of America

By: Professor Valiere Alcena M.D.MACP

The book is written to bring to light the magnitude of healthcare disparity in the United States of America and the many entities responsible for this disparity. In addition, the book tells young black men and women how to go about becoming physicians.

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1532021933

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Healthy Eating to Reduce The Risk of Dementia

By: Margaret Rayman,Katie Sharpe

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Healthy Eating to Reduce The Risk of Dementia

By: Margaret Rayman,Katie Sharpe

Dementia affects nearly 36 million people worldwide, with 7.7 million new cases every year, and has a dramatic impact on sufferers and their families. There is evidence, however, that a healthy lifestyle and diet, especially in mid-life, can help to reduce the risk of developing dementia. In this much-needed book, Margaret Rayman and her team of nutritional experts give clear and effective guidelines on how to adapt your diet and lifestyle to help protect you against this condition. In addition to general dietary advice, it includes 100 delicious and easy-to-follow recipes, all of which are based on two years of careful research. The detailed introduction summarises the team's findings and explains, in a clear and concise manner, what foods, food components and nutrients can help to protect the brain and keep it functioning to its best capacity. The introduction is followed by a tempting collection of recipes, such as Blueberry and Wheatgerm Pancakes for breakfast, Warm Chicken and Grapefruit Salad for lunch, and Baked Trout with White Wine and Fennel for dinner, with a tempting Chocolate Orange Mousse or a bright and zingy Cranberry Sorbet for dessert. The fantastic health benefits of these dishes are sure to make them a welcome addition at any stage of life.

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Kyle Books

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0857836579

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Seeing Cities Change

Local Culture and Class

By: Professor Jerome Krase

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Seeing Cities Change

Local Culture and Class

By: Professor Jerome Krase

Cities have always been dynamic social environments for visual and otherwise symbolic competition between the groups who live and work within them. In contemporary urban areas, all sorts of diversity are simultaneously increased and concentrated, chief amongst them in recent years being the ethnic and racial transformation produced by migration and the gentrification of once socially marginal areas of the city. Seeing Cities Change demonstrates the utility of a visual approach and the study of ordinary streetscapes to document and analyze how the built environment reflects the changing cultural and class identities of neighborhood residents. Discussing the manner in which these changes relate to issues of local and national identities and multiculturalism, it presents studies of various cities on both sides of the Atlantic to show how global forces and the competition between urban residents in 'contested terrains' is changing the faces of cities around the globe. Blending together a variety of sources from scholarly and mass media, this engaging volume focuses on the importance of 'seeing' and, in its consideration of questions of migration, ethnicity, diversity, community, identity, class and culture, will appeal to sociologists, anthropologists and geographers with interests in visual methods and urban spaces.

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1409495132

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Anorexia Nervosa

Patient's Log Book

By: Professor A H Crisp,A.H. Crisp

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Anorexia Nervosa

Patient's Log Book

By: Professor A H Crisp,A.H. Crisp

This log book brings together the in-patient version originally designed by Professor Arthur Crisp and Dr Kingsley Norton for use by people undergoing treatment in the Anorexia Nervosa Unit at Atkinson Morley's Hosptial, and the out-patient version published by Professor Crisp in 1993. The latter has been used by those attending the out-patient treatment programme of St George's Hospital Medical School and the related Highly Specialist Services section of Pathfinder Mental Health Services NHS Trust, and in other centres in the UK. The overall treatment programme is presented in the author's Anorexia Nervosa: Let me Be, first published in 1980 and now reprinted by Psychology Press. The Patient's Log Book is intended for both in-patient and out-patient use, as part of a clinically supervised treatment programme based on the "St George's" approach outlined in Anorexia Nervosa: Guidelines for Assessment and Treatment in Primary and Secondary Care.

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Psychology Press

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1135064482

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Europe & The Near East: The Presence And Absence Of Metals

By: Professor Jack R. Goody

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Europe & The Near East: The Presence And Absence Of Metals

By: Professor Jack R. Goody

Europe and the Near East: The Presence and Absence of Metals queries the assumption of the earlier advantage of the West in attaining industrialization. Professor Goody contends that the Near East (an area which includes the Middle East) started what archaeologists call civilization with the Bronze Age, developing its own renaissance and extension of trade influencing Europe. However, it was always handicapped by the absence of iron and coal. And it was the plentiful exploitation of these in Britain, with the help of German metallurgists, that made way for the industrial revolution in Europe, rather than any Protestant ethic which represents a Europeanist point of view.

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1945886102

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Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis

By: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

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Franz Kafka's the Metamorphosis

By: Sterling Professor of Humanities Harold Bloom

Presents a collection of critical essays about Kafka's The metamorphosis.

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Infobase Publishing

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1438114028

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Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment

'Industry, Knowledge and Humanity'

By: Professor Roger L Emerson

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Essays on David Hume, Medical Men and the Scottish Enlightenment

'Industry, Knowledge and Humanity'

By: Professor Roger L Emerson

The Scottish Enlightenment was a period of intellectual and scientific progress, in a country previously considered to be marginal to the European intellectual scene. Yet the enlightenment was not about politeness or civic humanism, but something more basic – the making of an improved society which could compete in every way in a rapidly changing world. David Hume, writing in 1752, commented that 'industry, knowledge and humanity are linked together by an indissoluble chain'. Collectively this volume of essays embraces many of the topics which Hume included under 'industry, knowledge and humanity': from the European Enlightenment and the Scots relation to it, to Scottish social history and its relation to religion, science and medicine. Overarching themes of what it meant to be enlightened in the eighteenth century are considered alongside more specific studies of notable figures of the period, such as Archibald Campbell, 3rd Duke of Argyll, and David Hume, and the training and number of Scottish medical students. Together, the volume provides an opportunity to step back and reconsider the Scottish Enlightenment in its broader context and to consider what new directions this field of study might take.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409480224

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Multinationals on Trial

Foreign Investment Matters

By: Professor Henry Veltmeyer,Professor James Petras

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Multinationals on Trial

Foreign Investment Matters

By: Professor Henry Veltmeyer,Professor James Petras

The role and economic power of corporations that dominate the world economy has generated considerable controversy. The most heated debate and the most critical questions surrounding the role of multinational corporations relate to foreign direct investment (FDI). This key volume offers an entirely fresh perspective of the role of multinationals and the development impact of FDI. Contrary to prevailing opinion, it examines whether imperialism is a much more useful concept for describing and explaining the dynamics of world development than globalization. FDI is a mechanism for empire-centred capital accumulation, a powerful lever for political control and for re-ordering the world economy. This is a much needed analysis of global capitalism and its impact around the world, resulting in an excellent resource for students, academics and activists.

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1409498158

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The Oxford Handbook of Deification

By: Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy Paul L Gavrilyuk,Ordinary Professor of Patristics and Ancient Languages Andrew Hofer O P,James N Jr and Mary D Perry Chair of Theology Matthew Levering

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The Oxford Handbook of Deification

By: Aquinas Chair in Theology and Philosophy Paul L Gavrilyuk,Ordinary Professor of Patristics and Ancient Languages Andrew Hofer O P,James N Jr and Mary D Perry Chair of Theology Matthew Levering

This handbook offers a comprehensive and varied study of deification within Christian theology. Forty-six leading experts in the field examine points of convergence and difference on the constitutive elements of deification across different writers, thinkers, and traditions.

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0198865171

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Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell

By: Professor Julie Nash

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Servants and Paternalism in the Works of Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell

By: Professor Julie Nash

Writing during periods of dramatic social change, Maria Edgeworth and Elizabeth Gaskell were both attracted to the idea of radical societal transformation at the same time that their writings express nostalgia for a traditional, paternalistic ruling class. Julie Nash shows how this tension is played out especially through the characters of servants in short fiction and novels such as Edgeworth's Castle Rackrent, Belinda, and Helen and Gaskell's North and South and Cranford. Servant characters, Nash contends, enable these writers to give voice to the contradictions inherent in the popular paternalistic philosophy of their times because the situation of domestic servitude itself embodies such inconsistencies. Servants, whose labor was essential to the economic and social function of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British society, made up the largest category of workers in England by the nineteenth century and yet were expected to be socially invisible. At the same time, they lived in the same houses as their masters and mistresses and were privy to the most intimate details of their lives. Both Edgeworth and Gaskell created servant characters who challenge the social hierarchy, thus exposing the potential for dehumanization and corruption inherent in the paternalistic philosophy. Nash's study opens up important avenues for future scholars of women's fiction in the nineteenth century.

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1409489876

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Pro Ecclesia Vol 25-N1

A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology

By: Joseph Mangina, Associate Professor of Theology & Director of Advanced Degree Studies, Wycliffe College, Toronto,Pro Ecclesia

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Pro Ecclesia Vol 25-N1

A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology

By: Joseph Mangina, Associate Professor of Theology & Director of Advanced Degree Studies, Wycliffe College, Toronto,Pro Ecclesia

Pro Ecclesia is a quarterly journal of theology published by the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442266449

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After Progress : American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century

American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century

By: Norman Birnbaum University Professor of the Social Sciences Georgetown University Law School

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After Progress : American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century

American Social Reform and European Socialism in the Twentieth Century

By: Norman Birnbaum University Professor of the Social Sciences Georgetown University Law School

The twentieth century witnessed a profound shift in both socialism and social reform. In the early 1900s, social reform seemed to offer a veritable religion of redemption, but by the century's end, while socialism remained a vibrant force in European society, a culture of extreme individualism and consumption all but squeezed the welfare state out of existence. Documenting this historic change, After Progress: European Socialism and American Social Reform in the 20th Century is the first truly comprehensive look at the course of social reform and Western politics after Communism, brilliantly explained by a major social thinker of our time. Norman Birnbaum traces in fascinating detail the forces that have shifted social concern over the course of a century, from the devastation of two world wars, to the post-war golden age of economic growth and democracy, to the ever-increasing dominance of the market. He makes sense of the historical trends that have created a climate in which politicians proclaim the arrival of a new historical epoch but rarely offer solutions to social problems that get beyond cost-benefit analyses. Birnbaum goes one step further and proposes a strategy for bringing the market back into balance with the social needs of the people. He advocates a reconsideration of the notion of work, urges that market forces be brought under political control, and stresses the need for education that teaches the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. Both a sweeping historical survey and a sharp-edged commentary on current political posturing, After Progress examines the state of social reform past, present and future.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0195347951

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Organizational Accidents Revisited

By: Professor James Reason

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Organizational Accidents Revisited

By: Professor James Reason

Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents introduced the notion of an ‘organizational accident’. These are rare but often calamitous events that occur in complex technological systems operating in hazardous circumstances. They stand in sharp contrast to ‘individual accidents’ whose damaging consequences are limited to relatively few people or assets. Although they share some common causal factors, they mostly have quite different causal pathways. The frequency of individual accidents - usually lost-time injuries - does not predict the likelihood of an organizational accident. The book also elaborated upon the widely-cited Swiss Cheese Model. Organizational Accidents Revisited extends and develops these ideas using a standardised causal analysis of some 10 organizational accidents that have occurred in a variety of domains in the nearly 20 years that have passed since the original was published. These analyses provide the ‘raw data’ for the process of drilling down into the underlying causal pathways. Many contributing latent conditions recur in a variety of domains. A number of these - organizational issues, design, procedures and so on - are examined in close detail in order to identify likely problems before they combine to penetrate the defences-in-depth. Where the 1997 book focused largely upon the systemic factors underlying organisational accidents, this complementary follow-up goes beyond this to examine what can be done to improve the ‘error wisdom’ and risk awareness of those on the spot; they are often the last line of defence and so have the power to halt the accident trajectory before it can cause damage. The book concludes by advocating that system safety should require the integration of systemic factors (collective mindfulness) with individual mental skills (personal mindfulness).

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1472447670

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Making Nothing Happen

Five Poets Explore Faith and Spirituality

By: Dr Nicola Slee,Professor Gavin D'Costa,Professor Eleanor Nesbitt,Mr Mark Pryce,Ruth Shelton

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Making Nothing Happen

Five Poets Explore Faith and Spirituality

By: Dr Nicola Slee,Professor Gavin D'Costa,Professor Eleanor Nesbitt,Mr Mark Pryce,Ruth Shelton

This is a conversation between five poet-theologians broadly within the Christian tradition who together form The Diviners. Each poet offers a reflection on how they understand the relation between poetry and faith, rooting their reflections in their own writing, and illustrating discussion with a selection of their own poems and opening up issues for deeper exploration and reflection. This book will interest poets, theologians and all those committed to the practice and nurturing of a contemplative attitude to life in which profound attention and respect are offered to words and to the creative Word at work.

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1409455173

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The Politics of Provisions

Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, c. 1550–1850

By: Professor John Bohstedt

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The Politics of Provisions

Food Riots, Moral Economy, and Market Transition in England, c. 1550–1850

By: Professor John Bohstedt

The elemental power of food politics has not been fully appraised. Food marketing and consumption were matters of politics as much as economics as England became a market society. In times of dearth, concatenations of food riots, repression, and relief created a maturing politics of provisions. Over three centuries, some eight hundred riots crackled in waves across England. Crowds seized wagons, attacked mills and granaries, and lowered prices in marketplaces or farmyards. Sometimes rioters parleyed with magistrates. More often both acted out a well-rehearsed political minuet that evolved from Tudor risings and state policies down to a complex culmination during the Napoleonic Wars. 'Provision politics' thus comprised both customary negotiations over scarcity and hunger, and 'negotiations' of the social vessel through the turbulence of dearth. Occasionally troops killed rioters, or judges condemned them to the gallows, but increasingly riots prompted wealthy citizens to procure relief supplies. In short, food riots worked: in a sense they were a first draft of the welfare state. This pioneering analysis connects a generation of social protest studies spawned by E.P. Thompson's essay on the 'moral economy' with new work on economic history and state formation. The dynamics of provision politics that emerged during England's social, economic and political transformations should furnish fruitful models for analyses of 'total war' and famine as well as broader transitions elsewhere in world history.

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1409480992

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Strategies for Learning

Small-group Activities in American, Japanese, and Swedish Industry

By: Bob Cole,Robert E. Cole,Professor of Business Administration and Sociology Lorraine Tyson Mitchell II Professor of Leadership and Communication Robert E Cole

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Strategies for Learning

Small-group Activities in American, Japanese, and Swedish Industry

By: Bob Cole,Robert E. Cole,Professor of Business Administration and Sociology Lorraine Tyson Mitchell II Professor of Leadership and Communication Robert E Cole

Covers the period from 1960 to 1985.

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0520065417

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Discrete Choice Modelling and Air Travel Demand

Theory and Applications

By: Professor Laurie A Garrow

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Discrete Choice Modelling and Air Travel Demand

Theory and Applications

By: Professor Laurie A Garrow

In recent years, airline practitioners and academics have started to explore new ways to model airline passenger demand using discrete choice methods. This book provides an introduction to discrete choice models and uses extensive examples to illustrate how these models have been used in the airline industry. These examples span network planning, revenue management, and pricing applications. Numerous examples of fundamental logit modeling concepts are covered in the text, including probability calculations, value of time calculations, elasticity calculations, nested and non-nested likelihood ratio tests, etc. The core chapters of the book are written at a level appropriate for airline practitioners and graduate students with operations research or travel demand modeling backgrounds. Given the majority of discrete choice modeling advancements in transportation evolved from urban travel demand studies, the introduction first orients readers from different backgrounds by highlighting major distinctions between aviation and urban travel demand studies. This is followed by an in-depth treatment of two of the most common discrete choice models, namely the multinomial and nested logit models. More advanced discrete choice models are covered, including mixed logit models and generalized extreme value models that belong to the generalized nested logit class and/or the network generalized extreme value class. An emphasis is placed on highlighting open research questions associated with these models that will be of particular interest to operations research students. Practical modeling issues related to data and estimation software are also addressed, and an extensive modeling exercise focused on the interpretation and application of statistical tests used to guide the selection of a preferred model specification is included; the modeling exercise uses itinerary choice data from a major airline. The text concludes with a discussion of on-going customer modeling research in aviation. Discrete Choice Modelling and Air Travel Demand is enriched by a comprehensive set of technical appendices that will be of particular interest to advanced students of discrete choice modeling theory. The appendices also include detailed proofs of the multinomial and nested logit models and derivations of measures used to represent competition among alternatives, namely correlation, direct-elasticities, and cross-elasticities.

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1409486338

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Honour-Based Violence

Experiences and Counter-Strategies in Iraqi Kurdistan and the UK Kurdish Diaspora

By: Dr Nazand Begikhani,Professor Gill Hague,Dr Aisha K Gill

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Honour-Based Violence

Experiences and Counter-Strategies in Iraqi Kurdistan and the UK Kurdish Diaspora

By: Dr Nazand Begikhani,Professor Gill Hague,Dr Aisha K Gill

Over the last decade, national and international efforts, including new policy development and activist campaigns, have begun to challenge the practice of honour-based violence and honour killing. Based on a pioneering and unique study, conducted collaboratively by the Centre for Gender and Violence Research, University of Bristol, the University of Roehampton and Kurdish Women's Rights Watch, this book is at the forefront of this new and challenging policy direction.

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1409421902

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Pro Ecclesia Vol 25-N2

A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology

By: Joseph Mangina, Associate Professor of Theology & Director of Advanced Degree Studies, Wycliffe College, Toronto,Pro Ecclesia

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Pro Ecclesia Vol 25-N2

A Journal of Catholic and Evangelical Theology

By: Joseph Mangina, Associate Professor of Theology & Director of Advanced Degree Studies, Wycliffe College, Toronto,Pro Ecclesia

Pro Ecclesia is a quarterly journal of theology published by the Center for Catholic and Evangelical Theology.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1442270624

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Disabled Women and Domestic Violence

Responding to the Experiences of Survivors

By: Brenda Ellis,Professor Audrey Mullender,Ruth Bashall,Gill Hague,Dr Ravi Thiara

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Disabled Women and Domestic Violence

Responding to the Experiences of Survivors

By: Brenda Ellis,Professor Audrey Mullender,Ruth Bashall,Gill Hague,Dr Ravi Thiara

Domestic violence is encountered by disabled women more frequently than non-disabled women, yet disabled women are less likely to receive appropriate services, and there has been little research on their experiences and how this problem can be addressed. This book, drawing on the first UK national study of disabled women who have suffered domestic violence, highlights the experiences of these women, the nature of the violence perpetrated against them, and the seriousness and range of its impacts. The book draws attention to the gaps in services for disabled women and discusses how professional responses should be developed and improved, pointing to current examples of good practice. It includes first-hand accounts from disabled women and includes contributions from leading disabled women activists. This book will be important reading for students, practitioners, policymakers and academics in the fields of disability and domestic violence.

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Jessica Kingsley Publishers

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0857005588

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Dictionary of British Education

By: Professor Peter Gordon,Peter Gordon,Professor Denis Lawton,Denis Lawton

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Dictionary of British Education

By: Professor Peter Gordon,Peter Gordon,Professor Denis Lawton,Denis Lawton

This is an up-to-date guide for teachers and parents, administrators, governors , students and others to help the find their way about the increasingly complex world of education. The main section provides a dictionary that is more than a simple set of definitions: many words in education have been put into some kind of historical context to become fully meaningful. The second part gives some important landmarks from the nineteenth century to the present time, and also provides a list of political heads of education since state education was established. The final section is devoted to a list of acronyms and abbreviations, both of which have been the subject of multiple definitions in recent years.

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Routledge

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1135783101

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Advanced Therapy of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Ulcerative Colitis (Volume 1), 3e

By: Theodore M. Bayless,Professor Theodore M Bayless

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Advanced Therapy of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Ulcerative Colitis (Volume 1), 3e

By: Theodore M. Bayless,Professor Theodore M Bayless

Rev. ed. of: Advanced therapy of inflammatory bowel disease / [edited by] Theodore M. Bayless, Stephen B. Hanauer. 2001.

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PMPH-USA

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1607952165

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Christian Moral Theology in the Emerging Technoculture

From Posthuman Back to Human

By: Professor Brent Waters

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Christian Moral Theology in the Emerging Technoculture

From Posthuman Back to Human

By: Professor Brent Waters

We are living in an emerging technoculture. Machines and gadgets not only weave the fabric of daily life, but more importantly embody philosophical and religious values which shape the contemporary moral vision-a vision that is often at odds with Christian convictions. This book critically examines those values, and offers a framework for how Christian moral theology should be formed and lived-out within the emerging technoculture. Brent Waters argues that technology represents the principal cultural background against which contemporary Christian moral life is formed. Addressing contemporary ethical and religious issues, this book will be of particular interest to students and scholars exploring the ideas of Heidegger, Nietzsche, Grant, Arendt, and Borgmann.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1472425812

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Stories of Dignity within Healthcare: Research, narratives and theories

By: Dr.Oscar Tranvåg,Dr.Oddgeir Synnes,Professor Wilfred McSherry

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Stories of Dignity within Healthcare: Research, narratives and theories

By: Dr.Oscar Tranvåg,Dr.Oddgeir Synnes,Professor Wilfred McSherry

Dignity is fundamental to every single person’s life and history; and every interaction with another human being can potentially influence a person’s sense of identity and self-esteem. In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the importance of ‘dignity in care’. When healthcare organisations and individuals prioritise dignity, service users, carers and staff are treated with respect, compassion and understanding, and safe, good-quality healthcare services are delivered. In contrast, when dignity and respect are neglected or violated, people experience poor-quality care and may even suffer neglect and abuse. For all these reasons, it is clearly vital that all healthcare workers have a thorough understanding of dignity and how to place it at the centre of all their activities. In this helpful and thought-provoking book, the contributors offer an overview of current research on dignity-preserving care, highlighting practical and ethical considerations in various healthcare settings. Section I introduces some key dignity theories, demonstrating how the use of narrative can offer insight and practical solutions for the delivery of high-quality care. Section II introduces actual stories from diverse settings and perspectives, enabling the reader to engage with core elements of dignity while highlighting how dignity can be preserved – even in very challenging practice situations. Critical thinking activities are also provided to encourage deep reflection and learning. This book will support students of nursing and allied healthcare professions, as well as healthcare professionals working in diverse practice settings, to reflect upon and enhance the quality of their care. Contents include: • Foreword: old and new philosophical angles on dignity in care • Preface: the necessity of dignity in healthcare • Understanding dignity: a complex concept at the heart of healthcare • Dignity and narrative: moral intuitions and contested claims • Dignity in dementia care • Dignity, protected by caring in care • Storytelling as a dignity-preserving practice in palliative care • Reintegrating spirituality and dignity in nursing and healthcare: a relational model of practice • The service provider and care perspective • Let us not forget the dignity of the professional caregiver: the necessity of dignity preservation within the therapeutic context • Dignity in suffering: a theological perspective • Learning dignity by involvement • Dignity in cancer care: a discussion based on three narratives written by nurses • A story of facilitators’ experiences of the Excellence in Practice Accreditation Scheme and its influence on quality, dignity and respect • Afterword: what gets in the way of dignity, and why you must not let it

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M&K Update Ltd

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1907830979

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9781907830976

Let the Children Play

For the Learning, Well-Being, and Life Success of Every Child

By: Pasi (Professor of Education Policy Sahlberg, Professor of Education Policy Gonski Institute for Education University of New South Wales Australia),William (University of Eastern Finland Doyle, Finland)

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Let the Children Play

For the Learning, Well-Being, and Life Success of Every Child

With research breakthroughs and case histories the authors reveal how intellectual and physical play is the ultimate engine of transforming education -- the key to giving our children the well-being, happiness, and skills they need to thrive in the 21st century.

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0192894161

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The Rule of Law

A Very Short Introduction

By: Aziz Z. Huq,Frank and Bernice J Greenberg Professor of Law Aziz Z Huq

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The Rule of Law

A Very Short Introduction

By: Aziz Z. Huq,Frank and Bernice J Greenberg Professor of Law Aziz Z Huq

This very short introduction sets out the origins and development of an English-language debate centered around the phrase "rule of law." It aims is to explore the distinctive ethical contribution offered by various thinkers to this specific phrase, first theorized by the English scholar A.V. Dicey, while largely setting aside how the same questions are framed and resolved in other traditions. The book opens by canvassing the classical and early modern sources upon which Dicey and his successors explicitly drew. It then explores the idea of Dicey, who it flags as the first self-conscious theorist of the rule of law. It then recounts his immediate successors. These include a heterogenous range of thinkers, such as Friedrich Hayek, Lon Fuller, Ronald Dworkin, and Tom Bingham. With this genealogy in hand, the book then reflects the important question of why the rule of law (in some version or other) persists-that is, why do actors with the power to cast aside the rule of law not do so? The book next turns to the ways in which the term "rule of law" has diffused across borders, making it a geopolitical phenomenon. Specifically, the phrase was taken toward the end of the twentieth century across borders by actors as diverse as the World Bank, Singapore, and the Chinese Communist Party. Finally, the book closes by examining the way that the rule-of-law tradition can be challenged both as a matter of theory and practice"--

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Oxford University Press

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0197657427

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9780197657423

Musicology and Performance

By: Frieder Lang,Paul Henry Lang,Professor George J Buelow

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Musicology and Performance

By: Frieder Lang,Paul Henry Lang,Professor George J Buelow

Arriving in the United States at age twenty-seven, Hungarian-born Paul Henry Lang (1901-1991) went on to exert a powerful influence on musical life and scholarship in his adopted country for more than six decades. As professor of musicology at Columbia University, editor of the Musical Quarterly, a founder of the American Musicological Society, and chief music critic of the New York Herald Tribune, Lang became one of Americas foremost musical scholars and commentators. This anthology of his previously uncollected writings includes essays written throughout his career on a full array of musical subjects, as well as unpublished chapters of the book on performance practice that he was writing at the time of his death. Lang was concerned above all with safeguarding the purity of musical knowledge as reflected in both scholarship and performance. Whether addressing his fellow musicologists or the general public, he expressed a broadly humanistic conception of musicology in his erudite and entertaining writings on such diverse subjects as Bach and Handel, the historical veracity of the film Amadeus, Marxist theory and music, and the controversial issue of authenticity in performance.

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Yale University Press

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0300068050

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9780300068054

In Sensible Judgement

By: Professor Max Deutscher

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In Sensible Judgement

By: Professor Max Deutscher

Taking its bearings from classic texts including Plato, Kant, Hegel and Arendt this thoughtful and intriguing book provides philosophical reflection on what it is to judge and what judgement achieves alongside, and sometimes in competition with, thinking and willing. Opening with the landmark Mabo High Court case in Australia and with detailed reference to other significant debates of judgement of the twentieth century Max Deutscher seeks to explore and explain approaches to the concepts of what is good, right and legal. Describing a connection between reason and grounds intrinsic to judgement he analyses and explores the tendency towards absolutism that displaces proper judgement. By weaving concrete instances of judgement with philosophical thought Deutscher provides a fascinating phenomenology of practices of judgement that should appeal to all readers with an interest in legal, philosophical and political thought.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409474062

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9781409474067

Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century

Keats, Tennyson, and Hopkins

By: Professor Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol

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Poetics of Luxury in the Nineteenth Century

Keats, Tennyson, and Hopkins

By: Professor Betsy Winakur Tontiplaphol

Beginning with John Keats and tracing a line of influence through Alfred Lord Tennyson and Gerard Manley Hopkins, Betsy Tontiplaphol draws on established narratives of the nineteenth century's social and literary developments to describe the relationship between poetics and luxury in an age when imperial trade and domestic consumerism reached a fevered pitch. The "luscious poem," as Tontiplaphol defines it, is a subset of the luxurious, a category that suggests richness in combination with enclosure and intimacy. For Keats, Tontiplaphol suggests, the psychological virtues of luscious experience generated a new poetics, one that combined his Romantic predecessors' sense of the ameliorative power of poetry with his own revaluation of space, both physical and prosodic. Her approach blends cultural context with close attention to the formal and affective qualities of poetry as she describes the efforts of Keats and his equally—though differently—anxious Victorian inheritors to develop textual spaces as luscious as the ones their language describes. For all three poets, that effort entailed rediscovering and reinterpreting the list, or catalogue, and each chapter's textual and formal analyses are offered in counterpoint to careful examination of the century's luscious materialities. Her book is at once a study of influence, a socio-historical critique, and a form-focused assessment of three century-defining voices.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409478599

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Jacob's Cane

A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore

By: Elisa New,Powell M Cabot Professor of American Literature Elisa New

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Jacob's Cane

A Jewish Family's Journey from the Four Lands of Lithuania to the Ports of London and Baltimore

By: Elisa New,Powell M Cabot Professor of American Literature Elisa New

Drawn to an image of her great-grandfather's ornately carved cane, Elisa New embarked on a journey to discover the origins of her precious family heirloom. In Jacob's Cane, New follows her lineage through Baltimore and back to the Baltic, encountering five generations of relatives shaped by the mass murders of the Second World War and the opportunities they found in America. A fascinating and beautifully told family saga, Jacob's Cane transforms the way we think about the immigrant experience of countless Americans.

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ReadHowYouWant.com

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1459610563

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9781459610569

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