A musician of penetrating insight, Hans Keller (1919-1985) was also an exceptional writer whose importance for post-war music in Britain is fundamental. Witty, passionate, sometimes disarmingly honest
Although several U.S. and European airlines have started providing human factors training to their maintenance personnel, the academic community (some 300 academic programs in the United States and se
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
The notion of a soul - an immaterial bearer of consciousness distinct from the body - enjoyed traditional popularity but recently the idea has been questioned, frequently rejected, and sometimes ridic
A passion for justice and truth motivates the bold challenge of Revisioning Gender in Philosophy of Religion. Unearthing the ways in which the myths of Christian patriarchy have historically inhibited
In the view of this text, the maritime disputes between Greece and Turkey require juridical settlement. Reviewing the major disputes, the author examines and evaluates the legal arguments of the two 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
North American and British circles often assume that Barth was the great opponent of modern theology. German interpreters, however, have viewed Barth's appropriation of modern philosophy in much more
Research on international exchange rates and cashless payments, long a key topic in the field of monetary and currency history, has been progressively aided by works aiming to document money and excha
This book offers a controversial reanalysis of the rise and dominance of managerialist approaches to development. Linking two British inner-city community development projects with projects in the de
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
Gregor Reisch's The Philosophical pearl (Margarita Philosophica), first published in 1503 and republished 11 times in the sixteenth century, was the first extensive printed text which discussed the di
The debate over clerical celibacy and marriage had its origins in the early Christian centuries, and is still very much alive in the modern church. The content and form of controversy have remained r
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
Tuori (law, U. of Helsinki), who has written several books on legal theory and public law, critically examines legal positivism as the basis for modern legal scholarship. He discusses the traditional
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
The relationship between Islam and human rights forms an important aspect of contemporary international human rights debates. Current international events have made the topic more relevant than ever i
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
Nowadays, rights are frequently ascribed to groups distinguished by their nationality, culture, religion or language. Rights are also commonly ascribed to institutionalised groups, such as states, bus
Who is God? The variety of images of God tends to overwhelm us in the present age. Is 'God' a fiction of human construction, or a reality that makes claims upon how we practice 'faith in God'? How doe
This study of Burchard's 'Decretum', a popular book of Catholic canon law compiled just after the year 1000, sheds new light on the development of law and theology long before the Gregorian Reform, no
Westen (law, U. of Michigan) became engaged with the concept of consent during the middle 1980s with feminist critiques of rape laws. After analyzing the use of the term, and more importantly non-cons
The on-time delivery of goods is regarded as a primary factor of the urban economy and is being monitored by businesses and government alike. However, much analysis of freight transportation and the f
This book focuses on unfair contract terms in consumer contracts, in particular the existing legislation and the proposals by the Law Commissions for a new unified regime. In this context it considers
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
The astonishing success of J.K. Rowling and other contemporary children's authors has demonstrated how passionately children can commit to the books they love. But this kind of devotion is not new. Th
John Owen is considered one of the sharpest theological minds of the seventeenth century and a significant theologian in his own right, particularly in terms of his contributions to pneumatology, chri
There are approximately ten million Roma in Europe, making them the continenta€?s largest non-territorial minority. Despite this fact, the Roma continue to experience routine discrimination and margin
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
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
Most regard the Marian Church as one-dimensional, retrograde, sterile and violent. This collection of 12 essays begs to differ, asserting that although the return of Roman Catholicism under Mary I was
Barlow, a scholar of English popular music of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, studies the musical references in the paintings of William Hogarth (1697-1764). He first describes the context of B
The volume collects recent papers from Electronic Imaging and the Visual Arts (EVA) conferences, where leading international practitioners in electronic imaging help art organizations incorporate mult
Knighton (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies, Britain) investigates the religion in Karamoja, in the northeast corner of Uganda bordering Sudan and Kenya. His topics include the challenges of circumscr
A strikingly interdisciplinary figure in Victorian literary history, Grant Allen (1848-1899) has thus far managed to elude the focused scrutiny of contemporary scholarship. This collection offers a va
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
Wainwright (music, U. of York, UK) and Holman (music, U. of Leeds, UK) compile 14 essays and two workshop reports from the 1999 National Early Music Association Conference, which was held to investiga
Wright (ecclesiastical history, U. of Leeds, UK) finds event the term "counter-Reformation" to be a 19th-century construct. He argues that both the Reformation and the so-called counter-Reformation we
