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Imaginary Bodies is an intriguing and comprehensive investigation of the ways in which differently sexed bodies can occupy the same social or political space.

It is generally believed that the relationship between citizens and the state in Western European democracies has undergone a fundamental change in the last decades. Many observers regard this change as a challenge to representative democracy. This book addresses the problem form the citizen's perspectiv. Singling out the ten fundamental components of the view that representative democracy is under threat, the book goes on to test them empiric...

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This book discusses thoroughly the major ethical, legal and clinical issues involved in the euthanasia debate.

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This book examines the role of men in social work - the service users, practitioners, managers and academics - all of whom excercise considerable influence on social work delivery. By considering the influence of female analysis on male professional practice this book assesses the usefulness of current social work theory to male-female work relationships.

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Derek Russell Davis argues that mental health professionals working in a hospital or clinic setting can learn much from playwrights about the psychological processes in mental illness. Looking at such diverse characters as Orestes, Hamlet, Lear, Ophelia, Peer Gynt, Oswald Alving and Blanche Dubois, Dr Davis shows how madness in plays is put into the context of the crucial experiences in an individual's history and current relationships, and de...

Thinking German Translation is a comprehensive and revolutionary 20-week course in translation method with a challenging and entertaining approach to the acquisition of translation skills.

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Ion traps are powerful experimental devices in which charged particles can be confined indefinitely in a small region of space and permit experiments to be done on them. Two of the three 1989 Nobel prizes in Physics were awarded for ion trap work. Besides atomic physics they have applications in analytical mass spectrometry. This book presents principles of operation of ion traps and all applications to atomic physics, frequency standards, col...

Over the last 25 years, the performances of semiconductor devices have improved greatly, this book describes the science and technology that have made these advances possible. While mainstream silicon memory and microprocessor chips still work with uniform silicon as the starting point, the whole of both electronic and optical communication relies on multilayer semiconductor structures. The book provides a unified overview of the devices, incl...

What decision making process is used by the People's Republic of China in forming its foreign policy? Has this process changed at all in recent years, and what can the world expect in their relations with China after Deng Xiaoping? This work offers and unprecedented survey of China's foreignrelations since 1949. The contributors include leading historians, economists, and political scientists in the field of Chinese studies, as well as notewor...

Geldart" has over the years established itself as a standard account of English law, expounding the body of the modern law as set in its historical context. Regularly updated, it remains indispensable to students and layman alike as a concise, reliable guide. This new edition takes into account the Royal Commission on Criminal Justice, alterations to the law of manslaughter, and new twists in the laws concerning children, intellectual property...

This volume represents the latest work by leading scholars in the field of Aramaic, from the earliest, Persian period of the fifth century BCE to Babylonian Aramaic of the fifth century CE.

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This book explores the importance of the concious self, and of the conscious collectively', in the construction and interpretation of social relations and process.

-- Michael and Linda Hutcheon, Cambridge Opera Journal

Verificationism is the first comprehensive history of a concept that dominated philosophy and scientific methodology between the 1930s and the 1960s. The verificationist principle - the concept that a belief with no connection to experience is spurious - is the most sophisticated version of empiricism. More flexible ideas of verification are now being rehabilitated by a number of philosophers. C.J. Misak surveys the precursors, the main propon...