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Selections from the writings of a very original author assembled under the headings of: I. Recollections II. Economics III. Creation, God and Religion IV. The Natural World V. Essays and Encounters VI. Dreaming.

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A unique collection of papers looking at how the Gallo-Romans reacted to barbarian invasion.

Veränderung negativer Verhaltensweisen von Kindern in positive Handlungen durch Kooperation, psychotherapeutische Maßnahmen und durch die Konfrontation mit Werten: Um dieses Thema geht es in dem vorliegenden Buch. Ausgangssituation für die Autorin ist die eigene Schule, ist die Alltagswirklichkeit einer Hamburger Grundschule: Kinder zeigen eine Vielfalt von Fehlverhalten bis hin zu körperlichen Angriffen und Erpressungsversuchen. Appelle an di...

Welches sind die Merkmale einer unternehmerischen Wissensgesellschaft? Worin besteht die innovative und evolutorische Funktion von Unternehmertum?Was ist unternehmerisches Lernen?Wie lernt ein Unternehmer, qualitativ Neues hervorzubringen und durchzusetzen?Läßt sich Evolution lehren und trainieren?Wie vollzieht sich der selbstevolutorische Veränderungsprozeß?Was kann eine Region tun, um ihr eigenes Innovationssystem zu entwickeln?Ist Visionsfä...

Having inherited his father's Outer Hebridean islands, known as the Shiants, Nicolson set about discovering the his own and the islands' story. The long and at times painful history and the rich array of wildlife, including puffins and seals, are combined in his book to make a fascinating celebration of this unusual legacy. Illus. Maps.

This book examines the fifteenth-century gentry of Leicestershire under five broad headings: as landholders, as members of a social community based on the county, as participants in and leaders of the government of the shire, as members of the wider family unit and, finally, as individuals. Economically assertive, they were also socially cohesive, this cohesion being provided by the shire community. The shire also provided the most important p...

Marc Cooper was a translator working for the Chilean President when Allende was overthrown by Augusto Pinochet in 1973. in this brief, compelling memoir he recalls his escape from the tightening grip of the junta and his subsequent return visits to a country that is still groping towards democratic recovery.

Siva's Dance of Bliss in poetry, iconography, ritual and philosophy is examined here.

Domesday Book contains the most comprehensive, varied and monumental legal material to survive from England before the rise of the Common Law. This book argues that it can--and should--be read as a legal text. Stripped of its statistical information, Domesday Book contains a remarkable amount of legal material, almost all of which stems directly from inquest, testimony, or from the sworn statements. This information, read in context, provides ...

In the first major study in English of Spanish agrarian history, James Simpson examines how traditional agriculture responded to population growth and the integration of commodity markets. He argues that decisive changes in farming techniques only occurred at the start of this century, development was then interrupted by the Spanish Civil War and subsequent short-sighted government policies, only resuming in the 1950s. This comprehensive study...

A collection of interdisciplinary essays on the 'theatrical' in Renaissance London.

The liturgy of the medieval church has been little studied in its relation to medieval thought and society. It has often been taken for granted that the Latin liturgy was understood by the priest, but to his congregation was only a spectacle of authority. This book begins with the hypothesis that the liturgy was, in some senses, understood by its congregations, and it attempts to discover what this understanding might have been. Through studie...

This is a major, groundbreaking study by a leading scholar in the field of continental witchcraft studies. Based on an intensive search through central and local legal records for south-eastern Germany, an area extending well beyond but including present-day Bavaria, the author has compiled a thorough overview of all known prosecutions for witchcraft in the period 1300 1800. He shows conclusively that witch-hunting was not a constant or unifor...

A history of the aluminium giant Alcoa, which became one of America's most successful monopolies.

In the eighteenth century, two rival theories of organic generation existed. The 'preformationists' believed that all embryos had been formed by God at the Creation and encased within one another to await their future appointed time of development, while the 'epigenesists' argued that each embryo is newly produced through gradual development from unorganized material. The most important clash between the two schools, the debate between Albrech...

Originally published in hardcover in 2002.

- Award-winning architectural series for students and professionals - Each volume focuses on a single celebrated building - Series covers a wide range of periods and building types from houses to public buildings and from the majesty of St Paul's Cathedral to the intimacy of contemporary homes in California - Each building has been selected for its exceptional character, innovative design or technical virtuosity - Each volume contains a detail...

PorTAL - Portugal for Natural Language Processing - follows two previous c- ferences: FracTAL, held at the Universit¿e de Franche-Comt¿e, Besan¿con (France), in December 1997, and VexTAL, held at Venice International University, C¿aF- cari (Italy), in November 1999. The main goals of theses conferences have been: (i) to bring together the NLP community in Europe, (ii) to strengthen the po- tion of local NLP research in the international NLP co...