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Presenting a collection of articles on the politics and party system in India, this book examines the Congress system, the national parties, as well as the regional parties. Discussed in terms of their connection with caste, class, and communal and regional politics, these parties are also analyzed by their impact on the changing nature of Indian politics.

Those who have been displaced from their home by war and political violence--at least 33 million worldwide--have high rates of psychological distress that affects their ability to adapt and cope. This book describes innovative, culturally grounded, community-based interventions, developed in the framework of an ecological model of care, to address their mental health needs.

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Helps learners of British English master key concepts in grammar easily and quickly.

Essays convey the full and varied signifigance of time for human life and thought

Bringing to life the world portrayed in the stories in Judges and Ruth, this commentary offers readers an "insider" perspective on the narratives. After establishing a cultural and literary context, Victor Matthews analyzes each episode separately and as a whole.

Table of ContentsIntroduction, by Valerie Z. NollanDialogics and Dialectics: Bakhtin, Young Hegelians, and Dramatic Theory, by David KrasnerBakhtin's Ethics and an Icanagraphic Standard in Crime and Punishment, by Jacqueline A. ZubeckLet us say that there is a human being before me who is suffering: Empathy, Exotapy, and Ethics in the Reception of Latin American Collaborative Testimonia, by Kimberly A. NanceToward a Philosophy of the Art: Russ...

In this thoroughly revised and updated edition of a widely used practical guide to flow cytometry, leading experimentalists describe in step-by-step detail an array of time-proven and cutting-edge techniques much needed in today's advanced laboratories. These readily reproducible methods deploy emerging flow cytometry technologies in many new applications, especially in the fields of stem cells, functional genomics and proteomics, and microbio...

This commentary on the book of Revelation, part of a series designed to assist laity in their study of the Bible, focuses on the contemporary applicability of the message of Revelation to our situation is a society where death, injustice, and idolatry are rife.

In Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia, Rodan rejects the notion that the 1997-98 Asian economic crisis was further evidence that ultimately capitalism can only develop within liberal social and political institutions, and that new technology necessarily undermines authoritarian control. Instead, Rodan argues that in Singapore and Malaysia external pressures for transparency reform were, and are, in many respects, being met w...

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Wie soll der Mensch mit dem Tier umgehen? Soll er überhaupt auf Tiere Rücksicht nehmen oder Tiere schützen? Der Autor behandelt diese Fragen im Rückgriff auf die philosophischen Grundlagen jeder Tierethik. Er zeigt, daß sich weder auf eine religiöse noch auf eine metaphysische Normenordnung Forderungen nach einem Tierschutz stützen lassen. Als einzige rationale Basis des Tierschutzes kommt eine altruistische Einstellung des Menschen zum Wohl d...

Johannes Mario Simmel hat eine ebenso bezaubernde wie bewegende Erzählung über die verschiedenen Arten der Liebe geschrieben, über die Leidenschaft, die Treue und den Tod, nicht zuletzt über die glitzernden Städte und die stillen Dörfer der französischen Mittelmeerküste.   »Simmel hat wie kaum ein anderer zeitgenössischer Autor einen fabelhaften Blick für Themen, Probleme, Motive.« Marcel Reich-Ranicki

Peru ist ein spektakuläres, ein extremes Land: Zum einen locken die weltberühmten Überreste indianischer Hochkulturen in Landschaften von schroffer Schönheit. Zum anderen zieht sich durch die peruanische Geschichte eine Spur massiver Gewalt: Sie zeigt sich in ungleichen Lebenschancen und krassen sozialen Unterschieden ebenso wie in bewaffneten Auseinandersetzungen, die das Land in den vergangenen Jahrzehnten geprägt haben. Die Autoren bieten e...

John lives with his elderly mother and is helping the police with their enquiries. Barnaby and Louisa feel unable to give their new baby a name. Three households live side by side in isolation. Then the lights go out . . The Dark by Charlotte Jones premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in March 2003.

A witty tale about the unlikeliest of friends.

Two Gentlemen of Verona is commonly agreed to be Shakespeare's first comedy, and probably his first play. A comedy built around the confusions of doubling, cross - dressing and identity, it is also a play about the ideal of male friendship and what happens to those friendships when men fall in love. William Carroll's engaging Introduction focuses on the traditions and sources that stand behind the play and explores Shakespeare's unique and bol...

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