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What is culture? What are cultures? Are literary texts and cultural texts different? What do literature and other fields engaged in cultural work hav in common? What can literary studies profitably do with other disciplines? What can cultural studies tell us about culture? This volume of work, fresh from the dig, presents a timely account of current thinking on central issues within and beyond the humanities today. Field Work brings together s...

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This is a pioneering, systematic study of the role of violence in the structure of the political order, formulated in relation to what is characterized as the civil and fraternal orders.

This book is a unique Russian-English reference work that provides learners of Russian with well-formed factual conversational statements from over fifty national areas. It is the first Russian-English reference work to arrange complete sentences according to their meaning.

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Some of the more pressing matters confronting us¿as individuals, as communities and as a nation¿involve fundamental issues of intergenerational justice. These include caring for aged parents, balancing the rights and well-being of our children with our own rights and well-being, financing Social Security, allocating the costs of our federal budget deficits and our mushrooming national debt, and imposing delayed environmental costs on future ge...

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Chronicles the extraordinary career of Father John LaFarge, a prominent American Roman Catholic clergyman, a civil rights activist and editor of America. The book examines his youth in Rhode Island, through the founding of the Catholic Interracial Council, the writing of his encyclical on racism (at the request of Pope Pius XI in 1938), and his continued presence in the civil rights movement.

Nine authors combine their experience and expertise to discuss the realities of circulation, interlibrary loans and document delivery, and fee-based services in health sciences libraries.

The concept of fitness to plead has its origins in the medieval courts of England, where the ritual of court proceedings demanded that accused individuals respond to the charges against them. Being fit to plead, however, has evolved into a fundamental principle of British law and those legal systems that have evolved from it, and it is now associated with the principle of a fair trial. But in spite of its long heritage, the meaning of "being f...

Best known for his work on the atomic bomb, Leo Szilard made important contributions to twentieth-century physics, biology, and information theory.

Scarcity of scientific data, a real interest in the physical world, and the need to validate the scriptures encouraged seventh-century Irish scholars toward critical reflection on scientific matters. This volume looks at the Irish contribution to the development of western thought in the early middle ages.

This book Trees IV, like the previous volumes (Trees I, II, III published in 1986, 1989, 1991, respectively), is special in its approach. It elucidates the case history and biotechnology of individual fruit, forest, and ornamental trees, and discusses the present state of the art, with particular reference to in vitro propagation. It comprises 24 chapters contributed by international experts, and deals with the importance, distribution, conven...

Das vorliegende Buch gibt eine Einführung in folgende moderne Verfahren der Proteinanalytik: Aminosäure-Sequenzanalyse, Prinzipien und Techniken der Chromatographie und Elektrophorese, Massenspektrometrie, UV/Vis-, CD-, IR-, Raman-, NMR- und ESR-Spektroskopie, Lichtstreuung, Sedimentationsanalyse, immun- und biochemische Verfahren, datenbankgestützte Strukturvorhersagen, chemische Modifizierung von Proteinen. Es verbindet eine abgerundete Dars...

Robbie Castleman believes reclaiming purity in relationships is a journey toward holiness. In sprightly, straight-for-the-target prose, she shows how unmarried Christians can wait until marriage without turning into prudes or wallflowers.

Fourteen key Bible doctrines--including grace, repentance, sanctification, security, and predestination--are explained in everyday terms.

Near-Death Experiences (NDEs) are a mystifying and challenging state of consciousness. The incredible experiences reported by survivors of NDEs provide stimulating interdisciplinary research in several fields, from medical to mystical. This book offers the most comprehensive collection of NDE cases and interpretations ever assembled for this rapidly growing field, with contributions from Melvin Morse, Raymond Moody, Carol Zaleski, and others.

High Risk Children in Schools" offers a way for psychologists and educators to see and talk about the growing population of "at-risk" children--those likely to fail at formal schooling--while helping to redefine the relationship between schools and families. Using systems theory and developmental psychology, the authors present a new framework for the study and education of children who are at-risk. This framework--the Contextual Systems Model...