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Looking at the philosophical issues raised by food this short and accessible book questions the place food should have in our individual lives. It shows how traditional philosophy and its classic texts can illuminate an everyday subject.

Brigadier General Hiram Bronson Granbury led a brigade of Texans, fighting in the Army of Tennessee, for only nine months. Others had preceded him, and others would follow - only to be snatched away by death, transfer, or promotion. But Granbury remained the most popular of the brigade's list of commanders - so much so that after his death, and well after the end of the Civil War, men referred to themselves as members of Granbury's Brigade, on...

Jonson's comic masterpiece, recently revived at the National Theatre with Simon Callow in the title role.

Adults now constitute the majority of students in higher education, what they bring to it, want and need are important questions in the development of a more responsive higher education. The author discusses The Relationship Between Motives, Education, And Life History To Explore how culture and history shape people and their motives for learning, taking into account variations in gender, social background and ethnicity, challenging the orthod...

In this highly original study, Veronika Grimm discusses early Christian texts dealing with food, eating and fasting. Modern day eating disorders often equate food with sin and see fasting as an attempt to regain purity, an attitude which can also be observed in early Christian beliefs in the mortification of the flesh. Describing first the historical and social context of Judaism and the Greco-Roman world, the author then proceeds to analyse C...

The European Union and the Nordic Countries provides an authoritative assessment of the intricate relationship between the EU and the Nordic countries. The team of authors includes academics from the five main Nordic countries.The authors explore the ramification of wider Nordic EU membership for particular subject areas, such as economic and monetary union, social and environmental policy, agriculture, fisheries and foreign and security affai...

Many scholars of language have accepted a view of grammar as a clearly delineated and internally coherent structure which is best understood as a self-contained system. The contributors to this volume propose a very different way of approaching and understanding grammar, taking it as part of a broader range of systems which underlie the organization of social life and emphasizing its role in the use of language in everyday interaction and cogn...

Focuses on religion during the period of Roman imperial rule and its significance in women's lives. The work discusses the variety of religious expression, from pagan cults and classical mythology to ancient Judaism and early Christianity.

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This collection of original essays by prominent scholars of political theory contends that contemporary ideas of feminism have reached a theoretical impasse because they are unable to reconcile tensions between principles such as equality and difference. Finding A New Feminism places modern concepts of feminism within the historical context of political thought and uses feminism as a lens through which to examine the strengths and weaknesses o...

In 1994, Congress established more than sixty new capital crimes with wide public support. Davis argues that, if the U.S. is ever to join the majority of the world in abolishing capital punishment, opponents of the death penalty must make a stronger philosophical case against it. He systematically dissects the arguments in favor of capital punishment and demonstrates why they are philosophically superior to opposing arguments. By connecting th...

One of our nation's most prolific and widely discussed political theorists, Ian Shapiro speaks with a distinctive voice. His work is Deweyan in its inspiration, cosmopolitan in its concerns, and practical in its referents. In this book, he provides...

Fen Osler Hampson is Professor at the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University. Judith Reppy is Associate Professor in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at Cornell University.

This is the first book to explore the ethical thought of Pierre Gassendi, the seventeenth-century French priest who rehabilitated Epicurean philosophy in the Western tradition. Lisa T. Sarasohn's discussion of the relationship between Gassendi's philosophy of nature and his ethics discloses the underlying unity of his philosophy and elucidates this critical figure in the intellectual revolution. Sarasohn demonstrates that Gassendi's ethics was...

ANN W. ASTELL is Professor of English at Purdue University. She is the author of Political Allegory in Late Medieval England, Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth, and The Song of Songs in the Middle Ages, all from Cornell.

Michael Ann Holly is Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Clark Art Institute and teaches in the graduate program at Williams College. Her other books include Visual Culture: Images and Interpretations, The Subjects of Art History: Historical Objects in Contemporary Perspective, Art History, Aesthetics, and Visual Studies, and Panofsky and the Foundations of Art History, the latter also available from Cornell.

This is the first book to tell the story of the civil rights movement throughthe rousing and often wrenching photos that recorded, promoted, and protectedit.

This amply illustrated introduction to flatwater and river paddling will be an important resource for both instructors and those who like to teach themselves.

This collection examines for the first time a wide variety of geopolitical writing from a post-structuralist position. It is theoretically innovative with relevance to the study of international relations and political geography.

This handbook provides anyone contemplating divorce with sufficient information and support to enable them to decide what further advice they might need and subsequently, the most appropriate course of action to pursue. The handbook is sympathetic to the difficulties of separating couples and addresses current proposals for divorce reform and considers the impact of the Child Support Act, 1993.