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Drawing on a wide range of church records, pamphlets, private papers, and periodicals, Richard Vaudry has written an authoritative study of the formation and development of the Free Church in mid-Victorian Canada. He traces the institutional development of the denomination, its intellectual life, and its attitudes to contemporary political and social questions and describes, another subjects, missionary activity, theological education, worship...

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Belcanto steht für einen epochalen Entwurf, in dem sich der Geschmack, die Sinnlichkeit und die geschärfte Vorstellungskraft des Barock musikalisch verdichten. Am Leitfaden einer "Poetik des Wunderbaren" modelliert das italienische Musiktheater die phantastische Gegenwelt des "melodramma". Auf seiner Bühne schlägt die Stunde des Belcanto.Rodolfo Celletti, Musikkritiker und Opernfachmann, Journalist und Schriftsteller, destilliert so sprachgewa...

The funerary shrine of the Confucian scholar Wu Liang, created in AD 151, is the most important surviving pre-Buddhist monument in China. That is to say, it is the most important single work of visual art from the centuries that set the patterns of Chinese thought for almost two millennia. The importance of the shrine lies in the beauty of the stone reliefs on its walls and, especially, in the remarkably comprehensive iconography of its nearly...

Anti-communism: end of an industry / Leonardo Boff -- Sport, society and religion / Gregory Baum, John Coleman -- Sport and society: the major questions / Klaus Heinemann -- Sport and the contradictions of society / John Coleman -- Social factors influencing sport and violence: on the "problem" of football fans in West Germany / Gunter Pilz -- Sexism and sport: a feminist critique / Nancy Shinabargar -- Sports in society: futebol as national d...

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This book, like the post-Heideggerian reception of Nietzsche, rides out the splits and frays of the text offering an up-to-date look at international Nietzsche scholarship. Included are topics such as the collaboration of German thought with the rise of National Socialism and the alliance between Nietzschean genealogy and Freudian culture criticism in regard to technology and the unconscious, the status of moral imperatives from Kant to Heideg...

This is a developmental study of men in mandatory military service based on indepth interviews of young soldiers who had recently completed their service in Israel. The book deals with the central issues of transition to adulthood and the psychological effects of military service in the context of the previous research and theory concerning these subjects.

This is a developmental study of men in mandatory military service based on indepth interviews of young soldiers who had recently completed their service in Israel. The book deals with the central issues of transition to adulthood and the psychological effects of military service in the context of the previous research and theory concerning these subjects.

This book argues that the "authoritarian" depiction of Frederick Taylor trivializes his important contribution. Schachter's analysis of Taylor's work shows that he actually originated many of the human relations insights that the literature attributes to Mayo, Maslow, and McGregor. Introduced are two major arguments. Through an examination of Taylor's work, a new way of understanding his actual approach to management is opened. Also discussed ...

Schumacher has written a provocative work in the philosophy of science. In presenting posture as the most important aspect of life, Schumacher examines how the terms of posture encompass all the major disciplines and provide a means for resolving human dilemmas through a humanistically oriented philosophy of inquiry. He investigates a variety of important philosophical topics: abstract thought, perception, time, space, sexuality, education, an...

For a writer who once professed If in the course of my life I can get half a dozen stories printed, I'll be satisfied', "Flying a Red Kite" (1962) marked the start of a very much more productive career. A new edition of that title, released by the Porcupine's Quill in 1987, formed volume one of a proposed Collected Stories'. "A Short Walk in the Rain" (Volume Two) includes thirteen stories written between 1957 and 1961, which for one reason or...

George R. Lucas, Jr., is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Clemson University in South Carolina.

The events described in this volume took place during al-Tabari's own time. Al-Tabari was thus writing "contemporary history, " and his narrative, often based on first-hand reports, is drawn in vivid and arresting detail. The volume portrays the summit of "the Samarra period, " following al-Mu'tasim's transfer of the 'Abbasid capital upstream from Baghdad to Samarra. Three caliphs are portrayed in this volume: al-Mu'tasim's son and successor, ...

This book examines the phenomenon of apprenticeship by exploring it as a social, economic, and educational institution. Studies of apprenticeship in both craft occupations and supernatural specializations in Africa, Latin America, North America, and Asia are offered. The authors also look at apprenticeship as a method in anthropological field research. Many of the contributors have apprenticed themselves in other-cultural settings, providing a...

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(Piano Ensemble). Two Pianos, Four Hands. 2 Copies needed to perform. To see other NFMC selections, click here.

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An anthology describing the landscape and coastline of north Wales and its heartland, Snowdonia an area of outstanding natural beauty which has been celebrated in both English and Welsh poetry for centuries. Many translations from the Welsh are included, together with poems by visitors such as Wordsworth, Shelley, and Hopkins. The poetry of Dylan Thomas, R.S. Thomas, Alun Lewis, Christine Evans, Robert Graves, Geoffrey Faber, Duncan Bush, and ...

This volume of Contemporary Authors(R) New Revision Series brings you up-to-date information on approximately 250 writers. Editors have scoured dozens of leading journals, magazines, newspapers and online sources in search of the latest news and criticism. Writers appearing in this volume include: Brian W. Aldiss Joseph Campbell Bernard Malamud A. E. Van Voigt