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In the search for snakebite antidotes, the ecology and Revolution of venomous snakes is of critical importance. No previous text has addressed both the medical aspects of snakebite treatment as well as the highly relevant ecological and evolutionary aspects. This book also presents an accessible introduction to venomous snake research that will appeal to the growing number of amateur enthusiasts, and will be an essential reference work for res...

Rowland Stout presents a new philosophical account of human action which is radically and controversially different from all rival theories. He argues that intentional actions are unique among natural phenomena in that they happen because they should happen, and that they are to be explained in terms of objective facts rather than beliefs and intentions.

This book analyses changes which have occurred in the organization and management of the United Kingdom public services over the last 15 years. The authors present an up to date analysis around three main themes: the transfer of private sector models to the public sector, the management of change in the public sector, management reorganization and change. In doing so, they examine to what extent has a New Public Management emerged and ask whet...

This important new book seeks to preserve and to make accessible the substantial body of Awards and Decisions rendered by the Iran-United States Claims Tribunal during the years since it was established in 1981. The jurisprudence of this extraordinary Tribunal is of much broader interest than simply to the parties before it and the two governments that created it. Its hundreds of Awards and Decisions may be individually consulted (there are tw...

In Troilus and Cressida, Shakespeare's image of "an universal wolf" of appetite, power, and will represented and critiqued the emerging systems of modernity: mercantile capitalism, Machiavellian politics, and value-free rationality. Rereading Troilus, Othello, King Lear, and As You Like It, Grady finds many parallels between Shakespeare's criticism and that of such critics as Marx, Horkheimer, Adorno, and Foucault, among others. In particular,...

This volume looks at the costs, benefits, and preconditions of federal political systems. Distinguished contributors consider theories of federalism, dimensions of federalism (political, economic, and cultural), and the experiences of the national states of Europe, East and West. It is the first book-length treatment of the current debate over the future constitutional shape of Europe.

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This is the first comprehensive study of the Wheatstone English concertina and its music, players, and audiences in Victorian England - at its height of popularity. Developed by the physicist Sir Charles Wheatstone about 1830, the instrument quickly found a home on the leading concert stages and in upper-class salons. It attracted such composers as Macfarren, Benedict, Barnett, and Molique, who supplied its repertory with concertos, character ...

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This is the second volume of a three-volume historical and literary commentary on Thucydides, the great fifth-century BC Greek historian. Books iv-v.24 contain the Pylos-Sphakteria narrative and Brasidas' operations in the north of Greece. All the Greek is translated and there is a full index. A new feature is the provision of a thematic introduction.

Democracy has not always fostered anti-authoritarian individualism. No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideal than the Baptists. Most antebellum southern Baptist churches allowed women and slaves to vote on membership matters and preferred populist preachers who addressed their appeals to the common person. Paradoxically, no denomination wielded religious authority as zealously as the Baptists. ...

Virginia Woolf's fourth novel, "Mrs Dalloway, " was first published in 1925. A work for which she felt she had 'almost too many ideas', it was easily her most ambitious experiment to date, both in terms of form and of psychological representation. After 'a year's groping', she discovered what she called her tunnelling process', but which, as she put it, she told the past by instalments: 'I dig out beautiful caves behind my characters... The id...

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This book looks at some of the experiences of small and medium enterprises projects. Four themes considered of central importance to SME development, financial support, technical and management services, favourable policies conducive to SME development and the involvement of international donor agencies, are examined.

The clinical cases collected in this book have all been previously published in the Clinical Case series in the journal ANNALS of ONCOLOGY, from April 1993 to April 1996. They are intended as an educational series, aiming to discuss aspects of current cancer management, to highlight good practice and areas of controversy and to indicate where knowledge is lacking and where new ideas are leading. As many positive comments were received on the s...

The sixth volume of the Collected Works of Michal Kalecki, one of the twentieth-century's pre-eminent economists, contains his empirical studies of the capitalist economy, published primarily in pre-war Poland. The first part of the book collects together reviews of business conditions in commodity markets, studies of the structure and operations of large companies and cartels, and articles on international economic relations. These studies, w...

By giving an unvarnished account of the problems encountered in the crucial first years of establishing a credit programme, the book alerts potential microcredit practitioners to the pitfalls and obstacles likely to be encountered in setting up a program.