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American Sociology: Perspectives, Problems, Methods
by Talcott ParsonsThis volume provides a welcome opportunity to piece together at least a partial picture of the state of a rapidly growing and changing discipline in the social science area.
Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology (PDF) (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies Ser. #25)
by A. P. Martinich David SosaFeaturing updates and the inclusion of nine new chapters, Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology, 2nd Edition offers a comprehensive and authoritative collection of the most influential readings in analytic philosophy written over the past hundred years.
Asia's Old Dwellings: Architectural Tradition And Change (Asian Cultural Heritage Ser.)
by Ronald G. Knapp
At The Northern Frontier Of Near Eastern Archaeology: Recent Research On Caucasia And Anatolia In The Bronze Age
by Elena Rova Monica Tonussian Der Nordgrenze Der Vorderasiatischen Archaologie - Neue Forschung Uber Kaukasien Und Anatolien In Der Bronzezeit
The auto/biographical I (PDF): Theory and Practice of Feminist Auto-biography
by Liz StanleyThis feminist literary study discusses postmodern ideas about the self, particularly about the way in which selves are constructed by biography and autobiography. The author particularly examines the manner in which women write about themselves.
The Barbarous Years (PDF): The Peopling Of British North America - The Conflict Of Civilizations, 1600-1675
by Bernard BailynBernard Bailyn gives us a compelling account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard.
Bede's Ecclesiastical History Of The English People: A Historical Commentary (Oxford Medieval Texts)
by J. M. Wallace-HadrillBede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People is recognized as a masterpiece among the historical literature of medieval England and Europe. Completed in 731, it comprises in a single flowing narrative a coherent history of the conversion of the English peoples to Christianity, and thestory of the island kingdoms and churches from the 590s to the early eighth century, prefaced by a sketch of the earlier history of Britain. In 1969 the Clarendon Press published the new edition in Oxford Medieval Texts, edited by Bertram Colgrave and Sir Roger Mynors. Mynors's masterly text and textual introduction replaced much of Charles Plummer's great edition of 1896; but the historical notes did not attempt to match in scale anddetail Plummer's second volume of commentary. To fill this gap the late Professor J. M. Wallace-Hadrill devoted the last years of his life to a new commentary, one of the finest and most mature fruits of his scholarship - more succinct than Plummer, tauter, more relevant, above all drawing togetherand adding to the findings of a galaxy of modern scholars. Prepared for the press by Thomas Charles-Edwards, helped by Patrick Wormald and others, this book completes the new Bede, and is prefaced by a paper characteristic of Professor Wallace-Hadrill on 'Bede and Plummer'.
Bolton Priory: The Economy Of A Northern Monastery, 1286-1325 (Oxford Historical Monographs)
by Ian KershawThe history of the priory, 1120-1330. The priory's exploitation of its estate. Pasture farming. Investment. Provisions and food consumption at the priory. The priory's finances. The last two centuries.
Britain And The ILO (PDF)
by Keith EwingThe last fifteen years have been a sorry tale in Britain of anti-trade union legislation, clamps on democracy and the deliberate breaking of this country's international obligations under important conventions of the International Labour Organisation (ILO), which is the authoritative agency of the United Nations covering human rights.
Butterworth's Commercial Court And Arbitration Pleadings
by Charles Macdonald Chirag KariaCommercial Court and Arbitration Pleadings provides detailed, expert guidance on the techniques and skills that can be learnt and built upon by all Barristers and Solicitor Advocates involved in this specialised area of law. Step-by-step the authors explain the applicable rules, advise on the art of good pleading and provide precedents for common forms of pleadings, applications and other formal documents most likely to be encountered in the commercial field. This book will provide you with: detailed guidance for preparing a lucid and effective commercial court or arbitration pleading; a summary of the substantive law the pleader must bear in mind; a precedent based on stated facts, showing the form the relevant pleading should take.
Canons And Canonic Techniques, 14th-16th Centuries: Theory, Practice, And Reception History (Analysis In Context. Leuven Studies In Musicology Ser. #1)
by Katelijne Schiltz Bonnie J. Blackburn B. J. Blackburn K. Schiltz
The Clearest Promises Of God: The Development Of Calvin's Eucharistic Teaching (Studies In Religious Tradition #No. 1)
by Thomas J. DavisThis work provides a detailed analysis of the development of Calvin's eucharistic doctrine. In doing so, it demonstrates the importance of examining the full range of Calvin's writings and dispels the notion that one need look only at the 1559 ""Institutes"" to grasp Calvin's eucharistic theology. Davis pinpoints the doctrine as the work of the Holy Spirit in the Eucharist, accommodation, instrumentality, and the Eucharist as a means of grace. There is a nuanced discussion of substantial partaking not duplicated elsewhere. Davis's work makes clear the exegetical foundations for much of Calvin's teaching on the Eucharist. Finally, Davis demonstrates that there are eucharistic gifts according to Calvin. The more general gift is that of true communion with the body and blood of Christ. However, the specific gift of the Eucharist is the assurance it brings believers of God's good will towards them. Thus, the text underscores Calvin's understanding of the Eucharist as an exhibition of the ""clearest promises of God"", namely, the promise of union with Christ and all which that entails.
Cognitive and Language Development in Children (Child Development)
by John Oates Andrew GraysonThis is one of a series of four books that forms part of the Open University course on child development. The series provides a detailed and thorough introduction to the central concepts, theories, issues and research evidence in developmental psychology. Cognitive and Language Development in Children gives an up–to–date and accessible account of how thinking and language develop during childhood. The book is innovative in its approach: it starts by considering cognition and language in infants and continues to weave together these two areas in subsequent chapters that cover aspects of their development through childhood. The chapters have been prepared by leading researchers and theorists in collaboration with members of the Open University course team. Building on the themes in The Foundations of Child Development, a previous book within the series, the editors provide a fully up–to–date, broad and engaging overview of the field, ranging from modern understandings of brain architecture and function to the social and cultural contexts of learning. The chapters have many features to assist and facilitate understanding, including defined learning outcomes, research summaries, activities, readings, definitions of key terms and section summaries.
Common Prayer: The Language Of Public Devotion In Early Modern England
by Ramie TargoffCommon Prayer explores the relationship between prayer and poetry in the century following the Protestant Reformation. Ramie Targoff challenges the conventional and largely misleading distinctions between the ritualized world of Catholicism and the more individualistic focus of Protestantism. Early modern England, she demonstrates, was characterized less by the triumph of religious interiority than by efforts to shape public forms of devotion. This provocatively revisionist argument will have major implications for early modern studies. Through readings of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Richard Hooker's Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry and his translations of the Psalms, John Donne's sermons and poems, and George Herbert's The Temple, Targoff uncovers the period's pervasive and often surprising interest in cultivating public and formalized models of worship. At the heart of this study lies an original and daring approach to understanding the origins of devotional poetry; Targoff shows how the projects of composing eloquent verse and improving liturgical worship come to be deeply intertwined. New literary practices, then, became a powerful means of forging common prayer, or controlling private and otherwise unmanageable expressions of faith.
The Cosmic Fragments
by Heraclitus G. S. KirkThis work provides a text and an extended study of those fragments of Heraclitus' philosophical utterances whose subject is the world as a whole rather than man and his part in it. Professor Kirk discusses fully the fragments which he finds genuine and treats in passing others that were generally accepted as genuine but here considered paraphrased or spurious. In securing his text, Professor Kirk has taken into account all the ancient testimonies, and in his critical work he attached particular importance to the context in which each fragment is set. To each he gives a selective apparatus, a literal translation and and an extended commentary in which problems of textual and philosophical criticism are discussed. Ancient accounts of Heraclitus were inadequate and misleading, and as Kirk wrote, understanding was often hindered by excessive dogmatism and a selective use of the fragments. Professor Kirk's method is critical and objective, and his 1954 work marks a significant advance in the study of Presocratic thought.
Critical Models: Interventions And Catchwords (European Perspectives: A Series In Social Thought And Cultural Criticism)
by Theodor W. Adorno Henry W. PickfordTwo volumes by Theodor W. Adorno are combined in this volume: "Interventions - Nine Critical Models" (1963) and "Catchwords: Critical Model II" (1969). Both books are examples of Adorno's postwar commitment to unmasking the culture that engendered Nazism.
Daniel: A Commentary on the Book of Daniel (Hermeneia)
by John J. Collins Adela Y. Collins Frank Moore Cross
Defend America First: The Antiwar Editorials Of The Saturday Evening Post, 1939-1942
by Garet Garrett Bruce Ramsey
Different Bodies: Essays On Disability In Film And Television
by Marja Evelyn MogkThis is a collection of 19 new essays by 21 different authors. It focuses on contemporary film and television (1989 to the present). The essays are divided into three sections. The book as a whole is designed to be accessible to readers new to disability studies, while also contributing significantly to the field
