William thought trust was a good idea, Terry needed a lover who would keep his little secret. But how does accidental monogamy survive in a world ruled by illness and denial? By the author of "Lantern Lecture", winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.
Urban ceremonial in the Middle Ages took various forms and served a number of different ends--private, collegial, political, and religious. Broadly construed, urban ceremonial included public functions of multiple sorts. From private, but public, celebrations of births, marriages, and deaths to the grand entries of rulers into cities, the spectacles were designed to impress events on collective memory. - from the Introduction.
Controversies over how to manage health and environmental risks are among the most bitter disagreements in contemporary society. Trying to determine what is in the public interest is at the heart of these disagreements, but the core concerns of major sectors industry, governments, and voluntary associations are also at stake. In Canada and elsewhere, defusing the controversies and finding solutions acceptable to all parties have met with littl...
In this book, the Fields, through a series of case studies drawn from the UK and Australia, focus on the changing roles and responsibilities of those central to the preparation of the next generation of teachers.
The understanding of the musical techniques of composition cannot be reduced to a handbook of simplified rules. Music is complex and ever changing. It is the purpose of this book to trace the path of musical growth from the late Romantic period to the serial techniques of the contemporary composer. Through the detailed analysis of the musical characteristics that dominate a specific style of writing, a graduated plan is organized and presented...
This genealogy begins around 1890, when American literature as defined by institutions outside the academy, such as magazines and publishing houses, acquired much of the ideology it would display in later phases, including sexism, racism, and class bias.
For 200 years a quarter of the world's population has engaged in indiscriminate economic development. Systematic damage to the earth and its population means that business might pursue a new path of discriminating 'sustainable development'. This has become an urgent imperative.
A new and very provocative discussion of a thinker who has made a fundamental impact upon modern social and philosophical thought The author is a thinker of international renown The book offers a balanced interpretation of Nietzsche. .
∗ well respected editor and well known, international contributors ∗ wide audience, familiar with Journal of Advanced Nursing ∗ presents an extensive range of approaches and methods and their application to practical nursing ∗ discussion by leading world authorities of conceptual structures relating to areas from breastfeeding to weight loss.