Both current and prospective online learners will benefit from this practical book, which is filled with clear, detailed assistance for learning online.
Time is more important than money! The time we have to care for one another is more precious to us than anything else in the world. Yet we have more experience accounting for money than we do for time. In this volume, experts in analysis of time use from across the globe explore the interface between time use and family policy.
Environmentalists, whether engaged in direct action or creating new models of sustainable industry and settlement, propose radical changes in the values and organization of society. This title explores if new practices in the arts and architecture can reshape values and create a new consciousness.
This text is an authoritative, wide-ranging and up-to-date A to Z guide in the field of psycholinguistics. Cross-referenced, with suggestions for further reading, this is an accessible introduction to the main terms and concepts.
What is the spirituality revolution? The spiritual life is no longer a specialist concern, restricted to those who belong to religious traditions. It is now the concern of everyone, religious or secular, young or old, atheist or believer. This revolution, then, is a spontaneous movement in society, a significant new interest in the reality of spirit and its healing effects on life, health, community and well being. "The Spirituality Revolution...
Rights of Man, " Paine's most widely read work, is considered a classic statement of faith in democracy. First appearing in 1791, this work spoke on behalf of equality and supported social security for workers, public employment for those in need of work, and other social reforms.
Can art or architecture change the world? Is it possible, despite successive failures, to think of a new cultural avant-garde today? What would this mean? "Urban Avant-Gardes and Social Transformation" attempts to contribute to debate on these questions, by looking back to past avant-gardes from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, by examining the theoretical and critical terrain around avant-garde cultural interventions, and by profiling ...
Making use of archaeological information and including clear discussions of controversial issues, this comprehensive volume provides easily accessible factual material on all major areas of warfare in the medieval West.
This collection presents the major recent writings on the Russian Revolution and its context. It brings together key texts to illustrate new interpretive approaches and covers the central topics and themes. Together, the chapters in this volume form a coherent representation of both the events and the theories and debates that relate to them.
Taking an evidence-based approach to practical problems, this book is a welcome resource for nurses, doctors and other health practitioners who deal with the consequences of domestic violence in their daily work.
Since 1989 the concept of 'civil war' has taken on new salience in international relations. Significant inquiries into inter-ethnic violence emphasising studies of political community, identity, sovereignty, and political organisation have dominated the study of civil war in the past decade. Processes of social denationalisation of national identity have become more prevalent in everyday politics. In this book leading European scholars analyse...
This book explores the diversity of meanings ascribed to the turn-of-the-century New Woman in the context of cultural debates conducted within and across a wide range of national frameworks.
How do contemporary Westerners and Tibetans understand not only what it means to be 'Buddhist', but what it means to be hailed as one from 'the West' or from 'Tibet'? This anthropological study examines the encounter between Western travellers and Tibetan exiles in Bodhanath, on the outskirts of Kathmandu, Nepal and analyses the importance of Buddhism in discussions of political, cultural and religious identity. Based on extensive field resear...
This analysis determines how particular patient and facility characteristics influence Veterans Equitable Resource Allocation (VERA) system allocations to the Department of Veterans Affairs regional service networks and simplifies and refines the models created in earlier RAND research to reflect policy changes and more recent data.
Covering both the triumph of the Sword Beach landings and the disappointment of the failure to capitalize on that early success, this text allows the reader to stand on the spot where momentous decisions were made and see how and why the battle lost its momentum.
Phage display has become established as a powerful protein engineering method for identifying polypeptides with novel properties, and altering the properties of existing ones. Although the technique is widely used in biological research and drug discovery, it remains technically challenging, and new applications and procedures continue to evolve. Phage Display--A Practical Approach is an up-to-date, comprehensive and integrated experimental gu...
In the future will there be a literary history of England, or will it be an English-language literary history? This important and concluding volume in The Oxford English Literary History covers colonial, postcolonial, and immigrant writers since 1948. Bruce King discusses such topics as Black British Poetry and Drama, Commonwealth Literature, and British African Literature, and looks in depth at writers such as V. S. Naipaul, Salman Rushdie, a...
This book presents extensive coverage of irradiated foods and food products contaminated with food borne pathogens, and the effects on irradiation and packaging materials and additives. It also shows the effects ionizing radiation has on improved functional components in fresh fruits and vegetables.
Twenty-two scholars in sixteen European countries chart the English invasion of their national languages over the last five decades. They examine the particular groups of English words that have been adopted and the ways in which their meanings have been modified and in some cases transformed. They also consider the popular and political reactions over Europe to the influx of anglicisms.
