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Watts addresses the search for meaning, satisfying relationships, a just society, and connection with the Sacred. In a conversational style free of religious jargon, he maps a spirituality that is rooted in reason and contemporary knowledge, as well as being grounded in the authentic core of the great world religious traditions.

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Watts describes the public debate around re-licensing the Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power plant. The plant's initial 40-year license expires in March 2012, and the plant's owner, the Louisiana-based Entergy Corporation requested permission to extend the license for another 20 years. This book describes the debate and ensuing "public meltdown" as plant owners announced leaking tritium and misleading comments.

Using a wide range of data from real-life speech situations, this introduction to politeness theory breaks away from the limitations of current models. It argues that the proper object of study in politeness theory must be "common sense" definitions of politeness and impoliteness. Richard Watts concludes that a more appropriate model, based on Bourdieu's concept of social practice, can thus be developed.

Using a wide range of data from real-life speech situations, this introduction to politeness theory breaks away from the limitations of current models. It argues that the proper object of study in politeness theory must be "common sense" definitions of politeness and impoliteness. Richard Watts concludes that a more appropriate model, based on Bourdieu's concept of social practice, can thus be developed.

Packaging Post/Coloniality reads the marketing matter surrounding works of Francophone literature as an important though overlooked source in the cultural history of colonialism and the articulation of new identities in France and the Francophone world.

Vorlesungsreihen zum Gefahrstoffmanagement stehen erst seit relativ kurzer Zeit auf dem Studienplan in Bau- und Chemieingenieurwesen, Umwelttechnik und Hydrologie. Jetzt endlich gibt es dazu ein richtiges Lehrbuch! Gestützt auf die Anforderungen in Industrie und Behörden bietet der Autor einen Überblick über Herkunft, Einteilung, Nomenklatur und Eigenschaften von Schadstoffen sowie über wichtige Verfahren des Gefahrstoffmanagements. (02/98)

Packaging Post/Coloniality reads the marketing matter surrounding works of Francophone literature as an important though overlooked source in the cultural history of colonialism and the articulation of new identities in France and the Francophone world.

In this second edition, the authors discuss the newly discovered entity of IgG4 related diseases, look in greater detail at the role of biologic treatment in ANCA associated vasculitis, and have revised the nomenclature in each chapter to reflect international consensus. The addition of illustrations as well as online video content helps the reader manage patients with these potentially devastating conditions.Vasculitis in Clinical Practice, S...

This book acknowledges the important contributions of Alfred Adler and illustrates the many ways in which Adlerian ideas underpin and influence contemporary therapeutic approaches. It brings together today's leading thinkers to address the practice of counseling and psychotherapy from a social-cognitive perspective.The contributors have applied the basic ideas of Alfred Adler to modern therapeutic approaches, including play therapy, parent edu...

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This book presents a wide variety of approaches to and attitudes towards multiculturalism on the level of language, on the level of education and on the level of policy making. Several of the chapters refer specifically to Australia, since that country has taken the bold step of defining what it understands by the term 'multicultural'. This book, however, also takes the reader to Europe, South-Africa, Canada and Japan. Without exception the au...

In this era of evidence-based medicine, one of the biggest challenges confronting clinicans is keeping abreast with often rapidly changing recommendations that guide clinical practice. While it is clearly helpful to have reearch-based guidelines and protocols to draw upon it is not always easy to process this information particularly at the time when it is needed most such as on a ward round or in a busy outpatient clinic. This textbook is des...

The second edition of this collection of 13 original papers contains an updated introductory section detailing the significance that the original articles published in 1992 have for the further development of research into linguistic politeness into the 21st century. The original articles focus on the phenomenon of politeness in language. They present the most important problems in developing a theory of linguistic politeness, which must deal...

International Criminology is an easy-access critical introduction to how conventional criminologists in the international arena think about and research crime. By using examples from the US, UK and Australia, the authors outline key ideas, vocabulary, assumptions and findings of the discipline while opening up a set of critical underlying issues and problems. From theoretical traditions to historical perspectives, contemporary criminology to r...