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Shortly before he died in February 1998, Lesslie Newbigin recorded a series of eight 15-minute talks, pitched at a popular level and entitled "A Walk Through the Bible". This volume collects the eight talks.

Tackling Truancy in Schools" is specifically written for use by teachers and other professionals in the field. It brings together in twenty-four concise units the latest knowledge on the prevention and combating of truancy and other forms of non-attendance at school.

Spanish Cinema offers lively readings by established writers on Spanish cinema of key films made by leading directors working in the art-movie or 'auteurist' tradition. It aims to strike a balance between representative films, directors and periods, ranging from 1952, the first screening of Bienvenido Mr Marshall to Almodovar, Bigas Luna, Juilo Medem and beyond. Each chapter concentrates on a single film, discussing it in accessible critical l...

The most comprehensive volume on performance art from the Americas to have appeared in English, Corpus Delecti is a unique collection of historical and critical studies of contemporary Latin performance.

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This book is the first assessment of the trade and environment debate as viewed by a team of researchers in developing countries. It covers international negotiations on the environment and analyzes how these affect developing country concerns. It dissects forestry and agriculture, two sectors crucial to developing countries, and reviews the contribution made by regional integration schemes. A case study on South Africa surveys exporters' conc...

This volume describes in step-by-step detail a unique therapeutic approach developed to treat couples confronting the painful challenge of infertility. Therapists learn how they can help couples accept the possibility of not having genetically related children, acknowledge each other's feelings and deal with problems that may arise in their relationship, and assess the potential gains, pitfalls, and psychological effects of available treatment...

Written from a continental perspective, these essays reveal dimensions of Platonic texts that remain undiscovered by traditional philosophy. Particular emphasis is placed on interpretations of the Platonic dialogue as a whole, which challenges contemporary philosphical assumptions.

Arthur Madigan presents a clear, accurate new translation of the third book (Beta) of Aristotle's Metaphysics, together with two related chapters from the eleventh book (Kappa). Madigan's accompanying commentary gives detailed guidance to these texts, in which Aristotle sets out what he takes to be the main problems of metaphysics or 'first philosophy' and assesses possible solutions to them.

This book explores the ways in which organizations design, build, and use information technology systems. In particular it looks at the interactions between these IT-centered activities and the broader management processes within organizations.

This first full-scale account of Leviticus by a world renowned anthropologist presents the biblical work as a literary masterpiece. Seen in an anthropological perspective Leviticus has a mystical structure which plots the book into three parts corresponding to the three parts of the desert tabernacle, both corresponding to the parts of Mount Sinai. This completely new reading transforms the interpretation of the purity laws. The pig and other ...

Dieses zweibändige Set bietet einen Überblick über Metallocen-Katalysatoren und Polyolefine auf Metallocenbasis. Alle Bereiche der Metallocentechnologie sowie Anwendungen und Endprodukte werden umfassend diskutiert. Dieses Werk behandelt erstmals die Entwicklungen der vergangenen drei Jahre auf diesem Gebiet und analysiert die Auswirkungen der Metallocenentwicklung auf den konventionellen Polyolefinmarkt. Mit Beiträgen internationaler Chemieko...

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Journalism and Democracy" explores and challenges the commonly held view that the "dumbing down" of the public sphere, the "tabloidization" of news, and the proliferation of "infotainment" and "spin" are adversely affecting the quality of political journalism and of democracy itself. Combining textual analysis and extensive in-depth interviews with political journalists, editors, presenters and documentary makers, Brian McNair offers a more op...

Journalism and Democracy" explores and challenges the commonly held view that the "dumbing down" of the public sphere, the "tabloidization" of news, and the proliferation of "infotainment" and "spin" are adversely affecting the quality of political journalism and of democracy itself. Combining textual analysis and extensive in-depth interviews with political journalists, editors, presenters and documentary makers, Brian McNair offers a more op...

This book re-evaluates the architectural history of Nazi Germany and looks at the development of the forced-labour concentration camp system.

This book deals primarily with social costs of transformation to a market economy in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary. The transformation provisions have negatively affected the well-being of the population. They brought about unemployment, a phenomenon which did not exist in the previous, communist system, increased income inequities, reduced social programmes and expanded poverty. All these phenomena are examined in this book. In addit...

Although curriculum is central to the schooling process, debates about it are rarely well informed. Over the past ten years there has been a dearth of books that have informed the debate by examining curriculum in a broader context, beyond the National Curriculum. Ross, in this refreshing re-examination of the area, opens up a more general debate on how the curriculum is shaped and the compromises made between different ideologies of the natur...