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In this collection of sermons and reflections the author expresses her thoughts on the human capacity for change and how people can adapt to the most difficult circumstances in the world today.

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A passionate history of Shaka, the great Zulu warrior and chief. Osei leads us from his humble birth and difficult youth to his rise as one of Africa's and the worlds greatest leaders.

Exploring the crucial aspects of the recent Belfast Agreement, this book brings together leading experts on the politics and constitution of Northern Ireland. The contributors focus on the motives of its negotiators, the roles performed both by the British and Irish governments, and a number of international actors--notably the United States and South Africa--in forging the deal struck on April 10, 1998.

Is there a common ground on which a European citizenship can be constructed? This volume looks at four foundations of citizenship in Europe: the legacy of national identities, current designs and projects for social and political citizenship in Europe, a transitional public space as the basis of an active European citizenship, and a transitional collective identity as a symbolic boundary marker for European citizenship.

This study addresses one of the hottest policy questions on both sides of the Atlantic--at what level of government should regulation be undertaken?. The editors bring together leading scholars to examine the various aspects of the debate between "harmonization" and "regulatory competition" across three comparative dimensions. The book provides a sharp focus on the circumstances that would yield gains from regulatory competition and to contras...

This volume provides a selection of the shorter writings of the great nineteenth-century moral philosopher Henry Sidgwick. Sidgwick's monumental work The Methods of Ethics is a classic of philosophy, and this new volume is a fascinating complement to it. It will be a rich resource for anyone interested in moral philosophy or the development of modern analytical philosophy.

With contributions from leading scholars, this book examines the European Union in a theoretically informed, empirically grounded manner. The book begins by exploring the evolving nature of the European polity and its capacity for change. This is the fifth volume in the biannual series State of the European Union produced under the auspices of the American European Community Studies Association (ECSA).

Freedom of religion and belief is a central right set out in international human rights treaties. This book provides a detailed analysis of this law as developed under the European Convention on Human Rights. It takes a critical view of the restrictive manner in which the European Court of Human Rights has interpreted freedom of religion or belief in areas such as education, conscientious objection, proselytism, and employment.

This book provides a much-needed analysis of corporations in private international law. It discusses the principle of freedom of establishment and attempts to determine where a corporation has its "seat" for legal purposes.

This volume is a key source of information and analysis for all copyright, media, and entertainment law professionals. It responds to practical developments and problem areas such as the Internet and Multimedia while making a serious contribution to copyright and media law as a legal discipline.

Following on from the volume on The King's Theatre, Haymarket, 1778-1791 (published by OUP in 1995), this interdisciplinary study of opera and ballet now turns to London's Pantheon Opera during the period 1789-95. The Pantheon Opera, founded in 1790, aimed to give London a kind of court opera that would feature opera seria and ballet d'action. It tried to hire Mozart to compete with Haydn, but its high aspirations led only to a quick bankruptc...

This book represents the most thorough study to date of Handel's compositional procedures in his English oratorios and musical dramas. Exploring the composer's sketches and autograph scores, it offers fresh insights into the creative mind of one of the leading figures in Baroque music.

The study of 'Arianism' has proved one of the abiding fascinations and the abiding problems of early Christian studies in recent years. Here, Vaggione addresses the definition of the doctrine and why it generated such intense social turmoil by examining the standpoint of one of 'Arianism's' principal supporters, Eunomius of Cyzicus. Eunomius' life is used as a framework within which to discuss changes in the doctrine of the Trinity.

With contributions from leading scholars, this book examines the European Union in a theoretically informed, empirically grounded manner. The book begins by exploring the evolving nature of the European polity and its capacity for change. This is the fifth volume in the biannual series State of the European Union produced under the auspices of the American European Community Studies Association (ECSA).

Robert and Elizabeth Browning, Tennyson, and Clough lived and wrote in a time of "nation-building." The Realms of Verse brings that political and intellectual context to life, and traces its influence on the narratives, language, and form of their poetry. Theoretically astute and historically detailed, this study is the most far-reaching reassessment of Victorian poetry to have been published in recent years.