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Ein knappes Jahrzehnt ist vergangen, seit der Literaturprofessor Grady Tripp (Michael) Douglas seinen ersten und bisher einzigen Roman veröffentlichte. Einst als "Wunderknabe" gefeiert, steckt er heute in einer handfesten Schaffenskrise: seit Jahren arbeitet er an seinem neuen Roman und selbst nach 2000 geschriebenen Seiten ist noch kein Ende in Sicht. Doch dies ist beileibe nicht Gradys einziges Problem an diesem Wochenende, an dem die Li...

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In Anabaptism Revisited, distinguished Anabaptist scholars offer essays on important issues in Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies. Many essays focus on sixteenth and seventeenth century studies. They address various aspects of such key Anabaptist topics as baptism, the sacraments, conversion, and the "inner" versus the "outer" word. Several essays bridge the gap between past theologies and the current applications. These essays focus on current...

Presents integrated perspective on the role of risk assessment in managing contaminated properties. This book describes how to integrate the risk assessment process into impact decision making. It explains the scientific strategies and cost-effective techniques required for using Risk-Based Analysis to its full potential.

This text uses realistic case examples, discussion questions, and self-tests to illustrate principles of workplace psychology. Each chapter begins by posing a difficult work situation, which may be a conflict, a motivation problem, or an issue of diversity, then goes on to discuss principles and the

Offers an overview of sources of radioactive waste. This book provides an introduction to radioactive decay and radiation shielding calculations. It covers management and disposal of spent nuclear fuel and high-level waste, low-level waste, transuranic waste, Uranium mill tailings, mixed waste, and, transportation of radioactive waste.

Rather than considering thought as just an individual act, Culture in Mind considers it in a social and cultural context. Covering such diverse topics as the nature of evil, the process of storytelling and the defining mental illness, these essays offer fresh insights into the functioning of the mind.

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Banking, Capital Markets and Corporate Governance explores the fragility of the banking system, corporate governance, and the increasing securitization of corporate finance. The contributors address the following issues. The impact of banking during a crisis in providing an incentive for the managers of failing banks to restructure their assets, the way in which economic and legal institutions can control the management of banks and firms, and...

This guide to global education policy looks at the role of the OECD in co-ordinating and changing education policy, making clear how processes of persuasion may work. Aspects such as ideological tensions, and the politics of educational factors are also considered.

In the 1890s, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Theodore Roosevelt led a campaign to modernize the navy. Paramount in Roosevelt's vision was the creation of a fleet of modern, steel-hulled warships armed with the most powerful weapons available. The future president and his intellectual soul mate, Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, firmly believed that America's emerging global expansion would only reach its full potential through sea. power. The swif...

This "Companion" illustrates the vitality and diversity of dramatic work 1660 to 1710. Twenty-five essays by leading scholars in the field bring together the best recent insights into the full range of dramatic practice and innovation at the time. Introduces readers to the recent boom in scholarship that has revitalised Restoration drama Explores historical and cultural contexts, genres of Restoration drama, and key dramatists, among them Dryd...

Justus Möser (1720-1794) gehört zu den wichtigsten deutschen Staatsdenkern des 18. Jahrhunderts. Vor allem als Kritiker der egalitären Naturrechtslehre seiner Zeit und Fürsprecher der historisch gewachsenen politischen Rechte und Privilegien der Stände steht er am Übergang von der Aufklärung zum Historismus. Der juristische Praktiker, der im heimatlichen Fürstbistum Osnabrück zahlreiche öffentliche Ämter bekleidete, hat ein umfangreiches Oeuvr...