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The History of the University of Oxford is an authoritative and comprehensive history of one of Britain's most important and influential institutions. Volume II examines the University during the late Middle Ages, when scholasticism was at its height. The expert contributors explore the academic pursuits of the scholars of Oxford: theology, primarily, but also philosophy, mathematics, law and medicine. They examine the nature of everyday life ...

This broad overview of contemporary philosophy of physics provides a clear and accurate guide to the key topics: the nature of space and time, the problems of probability and irreversibility in statistical mechanics, and, of course, the many notorious problems raised by quantum mechanics.

F.A. Mann is considered to be one of the finest British lawyers of this century, esteemed both as an international jurist and as a practicing solicitor. He combined a thriving and prestigious practice with a prolific output of writing and teaching, with much of his work centering on the interrelationship of international and national law. This work represents some of the finest of his writing on such diverse topics as Anglo-American Legal Harm...

Even in the eyes of many of his critics, Fodor is widely regarded as the most important philosopher of psychology of his generation.

A revised edition of the last major work of the Oxford philosopher R.G. Collingwood. For this edition David Boucher has added valuable unpublished material from Collingwood's manuscripts.

for SATB soloists, SATB chorus, 2 pianos, and harmoniumAlthough a sacred work, the mass is characteristically lyrical and effervescent, and affirms the composer's optimistic and deeply-felt faith. This is Rossini's original instrumentation, which he later orchestrated.All material is available on hire.

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A terrific first novel, warm and wise' The TimesHayat is living a life dominated by school and baseball in Midwest America. His existence is ruffled only by the tension between his parents. Then Mina appears and changes everything.Mina is beautiful, independent and fleeing a disastrous marriage in Pakistan. Her presence is healing, and her sense of spirituality reonates with Hayat as nothing has before. But this new sense of purpose is mingled...

In this clear and carefully constructed text, Frank Leeming provides a superb introduction to the changing geography of China, which will be welcomed by students and teachers alike.

Corbridge offers an exciting new approach to the study of debt and development, focusing on the international debt crisis of the 1980s and 1990s, and its economic and geopolitical consequences.

International commodity markets have traditionally attracted the attention of economists, econometricians, and policy makers especially in and following politically tumultuous times. For instance, the primary commodity price boom of 1973/74 and the subsequent period of highly volatile world market prices initiated increased research on commodity markets which quickly focused on possible price stabilization schemes, particularly on buffer stock...

This report portrays the results of experimental research on dynamic duopoly markets with demand inertia. Two methods of experimentation are studied: game-playing experiments where subjects interact spontaneously via computer terminals, and computer tournaments between strategies designed by subjects. The principal aim of this study is the understanding of boundedly rational decision making in the dynamic duopoly situation. 1. 1 Motivation The...

Stochastic Programming offers models and methods for decision problems wheresome of the data are uncertain. These models have features and structural properties which are preferably exploited by SP methods within the solution process. This work contributes to the methodology for two-stagemodels. In these models the objective function is given as an integral, whose integrand depends on a random vector, on its probability measure and on a...

Studies of the reaction of European thinkers of the Enlightenment -- Leibniz, Wolff, Hegel, Kant, et al --to Chinese culture and ideas.

International assistance programmes for developing countries are in urgent need of revision. Continuous testing and verification is required if development activity is to cope effectively with the uncertainty and complexity of the development process. This examines the alternatives and offers an approach which focuses on strategic planning, administrative procedures that facilitate innovation, responsiveness and experimentation, and on decisio...

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American author, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian.

In this series of lectures, a distinguished group of international contributors from a variety of disciplines debate the current position of the recent achievements in engineering and computer science. (Technology & Industrial)

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Readers new to ancient epic are hampered in two ways: they do not know the ancient languages, and they are unfamiliar with the ancient world. This survey addresses the needs of these readers by offering guidance through the major classical writers of epic: it begins with Homer and concludes with an overview of the development of late ancient epic and of the interface between the epic and the novel.