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The Chronicles of Narnia; The Silver Chair, Book 6 (PDF)

A beautiful paperback edition of The Silver Chair, book six in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia. This edition is complete with cover and interior art by the original illustrator, Pauline Baynes. Through dangers untold and caverns deep and dark, a noble band of friends is sent to rescue a prince held captive. But their mission to Underland brings them face-to-face with an evil more beautiful and more deadly than they ever expected. Enter a land where enchantment rules in The Silver Chair, the sixth book in C. S. Lewis’s classic fantasy series. For over sixty years it has been drawing readers of all ages into a magical land with unforgettable characters. This is a complete stand-alone read, but if you want to discover what happens in the final days of Narnia, read The Last Battle, the seventh and concluding book in The Chronicles of Narnia.

Collected Papers of Stig Kanger with Essays on his Life and Work (Synthese Library #303)

Stig Kanger (1924-1988) made important contributions to logic and formal philosophy. Kanger's dissertation Provability in Logic, 1957, contained significant results in proof theory as well as the first fully worked out model-theoretic interpretation of quantified modal logic. It is generally accepted nowadays that Kanger was one of the originators of possible worlds semantics for modal logic. Kanger's most original achievements were in the areas of general proof theory, the semantics of modal and deontic logic, and the logical analysis of the concept of rights. He also contributed to action theory, preference logic, and the theory of measurement. This is the first of two volumes dedicated to the work of Stig Kanger. The present volume is a complete collection of Kanger's philosophical papers. The second volume contains critical essays on Kanger's work, as well as biographical essays on Kanger written by colleagues and friends.

Collected Papers of Stig Kanger with Essays on his Life and Work Volume II (Synthese Library #304)

Colouring Textiles: A History of Natural Dyestuffs in Industrial Europe (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science #217)

Colouring Textiles is an attempt to provide a new cross-cultural comparative approach to the art of dyeing and printing with natural dyestuffs in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Divided into thematic chapters, it uncovers new data from the vast historical heritage of natural dyestuffs from a range of European cities, to present new historiographic insights for the understanding of this technology. Through a sort of anatomic dissection, the book explores the study and cultivation of dye-plants in botanical gardens and plantations, and the tacit values hidden in dyeing workshops, factories, laboratories, or national and international exhibitions. It metaphorically submits the natural dyestuffs of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries to a series of systematic historical tests, and traces back the circulation of those sources of colours through colonial spaces, dye works, cross-cultural networks, schools of artistic design, and science-based industries for the making of synthetic colorants. Colouring Textiles contributes to a better understanding of the role of natural dyestuffs in the processes of industrialization in Western Europe. Audience: Historians of science and technology, historians of chemistry, philosophers, economic historians, professional chemists, arts and crafts historians, and cultural anthropologists.

Comparative Legal Reasoning and European Law (Law and Philosophy Library #50)

Comparative Legal Reasoning and European Law deals with the use of comparative law in European legal adjudication. It describes the different forms of the use of comparative law in legal reasoning, argumentation and justification in several national legal orders and in European level legal institutions. The book begins with an inquiry into the nature of comparative law as a legal source. After the description of the empirical study it ends to the general theory of European law and several hard cases of European law are examined. The book is intended for students and researchers in European law but it also contains aspects to be taken into account in the practical work in European legal orders and legal institutions by judges and legal practitioners.

Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico

Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico includes approximately 250 articles on the people and topics most relevant to students seeking information about Mexico. Although the Concise version is a unique single-volume source of information on the entire sweep of Mexican history-pre-colonial, colonial, and moderns-it will emphasize events that affecting Mexico today, event students most need to understand.

Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico

Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico includes approximately 250 articles on the people and topics most relevant to students seeking information about Mexico. Although the Concise version is a unique single-volume source of information on the entire sweep of Mexican history-pre-colonial, colonial, and moderns-it will emphasize events that affecting Mexico today, event students most need to understand.

The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature

This abridgement of The Oxford Companion to African American Literature will make the entries of the greatest general interest available to a wider audience, providing the same calibre of scholarship and information as the original volume. The Concise collects more than 400 biographies (authors, critics, literary characters and historical figures) of both well-known figures and the lives and careers of writers not found in other reference works. The abridgement also includes the 150 plot summaries of major works. The editors briefly update the biographic details for author entries to include mention of major new works, death dates, and awards since the Companion's 1997 publication. A revised introduction, contributors list, subject index, cross-references, and updated bibliographical notes are also included. The volume reprints in its entirety the five-part fifteen page essay, "Literary History", capturing the full sweep of African American writing in the U.S. from the colonial and early national eras to the present day.

Conscience and Belief: The Supreme Court in American Society

Available as a single volume or as part of the 10 volume set Supreme Court in American Society

Conscience and Belief: The Supreme Court in American Society (The\supreme Court In American Society Ser. #Vol. 8)

Available as a single volume or as part of the 10 volume set Supreme Court in American Society

Conscience and Love in Making Judicial Decisions (Law and Philosophy Library #54)

THE CONSCIENCE OF JUDGES AND APPLICA nON OF LEGAL RULES The book is devoted to the problem of the influence of moral judgements on the result of judicial decision-making in the process of application of the established (positive) law. It is the conscience of judges that takes the central place in the research. Conscience is understood in the meaning developed in the theory of Thomas Aquinas as the complex capacity of the human being to make moral judgements which represent acts of reason on the question of what is right or wrong in a particular situation. The reason why we need a theory of conscience in making judicial decisions lies in the nature of the positive law itself. On the one hand, there is an intrinsic conflict between the law as the body of rigid rules and the law as an living experience of those who are involved in social relationships. This conflict particularly finds its expression in the collision of strict justice and equity. The idea of equity does not reject the importance of rules in legal life. What is rejected is an idolatrous attitude to the rules when the uniqueness of a human being, his well­ being and happiness are disregarded and sacrificed in order to fulfil the observance of the rules. The rules themselves are neither good or bad. What makes them good or bad is their application.

Conscience, Expression, and Privacy: The Supreme Court in American Society

Available as a single volume or as part of the 10 volume set Supreme Court in American Society

Conscience, Expression, and Privacy: The Supreme Court in American Society (The\supreme Court In American Society Ser. #Vol. 9)

Available as a single volume or as part of the 10 volume set Supreme Court in American Society

Crimean War: 1854-1856 (Essential Histories #2)

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Crimean War (Essential Histories)

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Currency Futures: Currency Risk Management (Glenlake Series in Risk Management)

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Currency Futures (Glenlake Series in Risk Management)

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Currency Options: Currency Risk Management (Glenlake Series in Risk Management)

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Currency Options (Glenlake Series in Risk Management)

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Dance Masters: Interviews with Legends of Dance

Dance Masters is a lively ensemble of conversations with seven celebrated dancers and choreographers. In these intimate interviews, dance critic Janet Lynn Roseman probes the heart of dance: * The creative process * The role of dream and rituals * The interplay between dancer and audience * The spiritual aspects of performance These dance masters offer rare insights into the internal world of the artist as they reveal their philosophies on dance training, discuss their mentors, and speak candidly about the artistic process of dance-making and how it actually feels to dance.

Dance Masters: Interviews with Legends of Dance

Dance Masters is a lively ensemble of conversations with seven celebrated dancers and choreographers. In these intimate interviews, dance critic Janet Lynn Roseman probes the heart of dance: * The creative process * The role of dream and rituals * The interplay between dancer and audience * The spiritual aspects of performance These dance masters offer rare insights into the internal world of the artist as they reveal their philosophies on dance training, discuss their mentors, and speak candidly about the artistic process of dance-making and how it actually feels to dance.

The Dawn of Cognitive Science: Early European Contributors (Synthese Library #295)

Current debate in cognitive science, from robotics to analysis of vision, deals with problems like the perception of form, the structure and formation of mental images and their modelling, the ecological development of artificial intelligence, and cognitive analysis of natural language. It focuses in particular on the presence of a hierarchy of intellectual constructions in different formats of representation. These diverse approaches, which share a common assumption of the inner nature of representation, call for a new epistemology - even a new psychophysics - based on a theory of reference which is intrinsically cognitive. As a contribution to contemporary research, the reading presents the core of theories developed in Central Europe between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by philosophers, physicists, psychologists and semanticists who shared a dynamic approach and a pronounced concern with problems of interaction and dependence. These theories offer innovative solutions to some of the epistemological and philosophical problems currently at the centre of debate, like part-whole, theory of relations, and conceptual and linguistic categorization.

Defining a British State: Treason and National Identity, 1608-1820 (Studies in Modern History)

Explores the formation of the British state and national identity from 1603-1820 by examining the definitions of sovereignty and allegiance presented in treason trials. The king's person remained central to national identity and the state until republican challenges forced prosecutors in treason trials to innovate and redefine sovereign authority.

Der Wille des Menschen zwischen Leben und Sterben — Patientenverfügung und Vorsorgevollmacht: Ausgewählte medizinrechtliche Aspekte (MedR Schriftenreihe Medizinrecht)

Angesichts zunehmender medizinischer Erkenntnisse und Errungenschaften sind viele Menschen besorgt, am Ende ihres Lebens einer Apparatemedizin ausgesetzt zu sein und sinnlose lebensverlängernde Maßnahmen erdulden zu müssen, obwohl das Leben unaufhaltsam verlöscht und keine Aussicht auf echte Heilung mehr besteht. Viele Menschen haben Angst vor einer nur am Leben haltenden und aus ihrer Sicht unsinnigen Maximaltherapie, die vielleicht auch gelegentlich nur wissenschaftlich begründbar ist. Patientenverfügungen und Vorsorgevollmachten können helfen, den Willen des Menschen am Ende des Lebens für alle Beteiligten klar zu machen. Rechtliche und gesetzliche Vorgaben machen die Durchsetzung des Patientenwillens oft schwierig. Die Deutsche Gesellschaft für Medizinrecht (DGMR) e.V. hat sich diesem Spannungsfeld zwischen Medizin, Ethik und Recht im Rahmen eines Workshops in Heidelberg angenommen und griffige Empfehlungen für alle Beteiligten abgegeben.

Dictionary of Psychology

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.