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A concise account of our relationship with water throughout history and around the word, latest title in "The Edible Series".

Investigative Ethics: Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators presents applied philosophical analyses of the ethical issues that arise for police detectives and other criminal investigators in contemporary society.

A brilliant, sometimes unsettling look at how ancient codes of honor figure in the social discomforts of everyday life.

The Zen approach to mowing lawns, whacking weeds, and harvesting crops Practical how-to advice that can make your homestead hum with the music of self-reliance more efficiently and eclectically than you ever imagined. JOEL SALATIN, Polyface Farm DREADING the weekly lawn mow? Need to whack the weeds in your orchard? Cringing at the drudgery and incessant blare of the mower? Imagine instead long sweeps of an elegant scythe cutting your grass and...

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Analysing the law of the talion - an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth - William Ian Miller presents an original meditation on the concept of pay back. Millers unique theory of justice offers redemption through retaliation, espousing the view that revenge requires a deep commitment to balance in order to get even in a strict but fair manner. Looking at concepts such as Shylocks pound of flesh bargain, blood oaths, and other societies and cul...

In an inquiry which ranges from ancient Greece to Vietnam, Miller culls sources as varied as soldiers' memoirs, heroic and romantic literature, and philosophical discussions to get to the heart of courage and to its role in generating the central anxieties of masculinity and manhood.

A guide to scything by hand, covering assembly, perfecting the stroke, keeping the blade sharp, uses, aftercare and more. For gardeners, allotmenteers and smallholders who are tired of their noisy, heavy, fuel-dependent machines. 58 b/w line drawings.

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Inspector of Reformatory Schools of Ireland - twenty-ninth report is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1891. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres.As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature.Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as an...

Our Glory and Our Grief offers a fresh look at the First World War's effect on Canada's second largest city. What happened in Toronto? What did citizens know about the front? How were the enormous sacrifices of the war rationalized?

This is the first exploration of the relationship between the abdomen and British society between 1800 and 1950. Miller demonstrates how the framework of ideas established in medicine related to gastric illness often reflected wider social issues including industrialization and the impact of wartime anxiety upon the inner body.

Edited by Ian Greaves. This is a fully authorized comprehensive collection of Miller's best-known writing from one of the world's leading public intellectuals. Also features previously lost and undiscovered material.

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The first dedicated study of how and why Irish consumption and production customs dramatically transformed after the famine and independence -- .

William Miller details our anxious relation to basic life processes, eating, excreting, fornicating, decaying, and dying. But disgust pushes beyond the flesh to vivify the larger social order with the idiom it commandeers from the sights, smells, tastes, feels, and sounds of fleshly physicality. Disgust and contempt, Miller argues, play crucial political roles in creating and maintaining social hierarchy. Democracy depends less on respect for ...

This book is about roles and identity and our engagement in the roles people play.