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The idea of free (or laissez-faire) banking has enjoyed a remarkable renaissance in recent years. It is a novel idea that challenges much of what many banking scholars still take for granted - that banking is inherently unstable, that the banking system needs a lender of last resort or deposit insurance to defend it in a crisis, and that the government has to protect the value of the currency. Against this free banking sets an argument which i...

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William Simon argues that we can only make sense of our sexuality within the larger project of understanding our humanity. This book will be essential reading for all those with an interest in sexuality.

Surveying the historical development and the present condition of utilitarian ethics, Geoffrey Scarre examines the major philosophers from Lao Tzu in the fifth century BC to Richard Hare in the twentieth.Utilitarianism traces the 'doctrine of utility' from the moralists of the ancient world, through the Enlightenment and Victorian utilitarianism up to the lively debate of the present day. Utilitarianism today faces challenges on several fronts...

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Includes eight transcriptions of Chet's improvised solos for B flat and C concert instruments. Chet's solo were spliced out on eight tracks of the CD, so you can "sit in" and play Chet's solos along with his original accompaniment, or improvise your own ideas.For inspiration the CD contains three complete tracks. Some of the tracks feature an intimate accompaniment of vibes, bass (sometimes an additional guitar and flute), while others are fro...

An introduction to the meaning and use of language specifically in terms of the study of the environment and the formulation and implementation of policy, drawing on a wide range of sources from the mass media to the specialist article.

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This edition of an English-language dictionary of Italian literature has been expanded to include entries on contemporary authors not covered in the first edition and has been revised to reflect current scholarship. Included are some 400 entries on Italian writers, periods, and more.

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In recent years, historians and social scientists have questioned the continued relevance of social class. These essays are a multi-disciplinary critique of the new revisionism, demonstrating the continued vitality and promise of non-reductionist and non-determinist modes of class analysis.

The editors have bridged the gap between scientific rigour and accessibility to produce a book which helps members of the primary health care team to fulfil their obligation to identify people with cardiovascular risk factors among their patients and set up clinics to help reduce that risk. After chapters on how to recognize the risk factors they are given practical methods of risk reduction and guidelines for implementation in practice.

Some birds mate for life, while others have many partners. Why? In this book, fourteen classic studies are brought together to compare different partnership patterns from ecological and evolutionary perspectives. The subjects have been chosen to include the same species living in different habitats (Sparrowhawks) and at different population densities (Great Tits). There are comparisons between closely related species (Mute Swans and Bewick's S...

In this book Hayward Alker presents his principal methodological 'rediscoveries'.

The Politics of Climate Change provides a critical analysis of the political, moral and legal response to climate change in the midst of significant socio-economic policy shifts. Evolving from original EC commissioned research, this book examines how climate change was put on the policy agenda, with the evolution of the United Nations Framework Convention and subsequent Conference of Parties.The international team of contributors devote in-dep...

A clear introduction to the idea of the canon, exploring the process by which certain works, and not others, receive high cultural status. The work of Shakespeare and Aphra Behn is used to illustrate and challenge this process.

Moving Words provides a direct line into the most pressing issues in contemporary dance scholarship, as well as insights into ways in which dance contributes to and creates culture. Instead of representing a single viewpoint, the essays in this volume reflect a range of perspectives and represent the debates swirling within dance.The contributors confront basic questions of definition and interpretation within dance studies, while at the same ...