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Investigates how management systems and their dynamics can improve stewardship of selected ecosystems.

This, the first of two volumes of documents that describe the growth and development of theatre in the United States, covers the period from the beginnings of theatre in the North American colonies up to World War I.

Shape memory materials are fascinating materials, with potential for application as 'smart materials' and also as new functional materials. This book presents a systematic and up-to-date account of all aspects of shape memory materials, from fundamentals to applications. Starting from the basic principles of the martensitic transformation, on which the shape memory effect and the superelasticity of alloys are based, the mechanisms of the two p...

Lawson's Politica, a seventeenth-century treatise on politics in church and state.

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Type theory is one of the most important tools in the design of higher-level programming languages, such as ML. This book introduces and teaches its techniques by focusing on one particularly neat system and studying it in detail.The author covers all the basic ideas, including the system's relation to propositional logic, and gives a careful treatment of the type-checking algorithm which lies at the heart of every such system.The mathematical...

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This 1999 collection examines the role of the entrepreneur in the development of the US economy.

Bruce Alan Brown offers several paths towards a closer understanding of Cos fan tutte.

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This collection of essays and reviews reveals the sources and developments of popular Toronto philosopher and cultural theorist Mark Kingwell's thought and examines the nature and limits of intellectual engagement.

The Christianization of the Roman world lies at the root of modern Europe. Peter Brown's fascinating study examines the factors that proved decisive and the compromises that made the emergence of the Christian conception of existence possible. He also shows how Christian holy men were less representative of a triumphant faith than negotiators of a working compromise between the new faith and traditional ways of dealing with the supernatural wo...

First published in 1903, G. E. Moore's Principia Ethica is recognized as the definitive starting point for twentieth-century ethical theory.

Australia's John Uhr evaluates the role and performance of his country's parliament. Uhr looks at the place of representative assemblies in liberal political theory and examines ways in which deliberative democracy might be made more effective and meaningful in Australia. Combining political theory with first-hand knowledge, Uhr makes an important contribution to political debate.

This is a lively collection of 10 short, annotated and illustrated biographies of aristocratic ladies of the final years of the Byzantine Empire. Some were ambitious mothers, others, unhappy wives, some were nuns or scholars, one became the wife of a Turkish sultan and the stepmother of a famous son, another the champion of the Greek refugees in Venice after the Turks conquered Constantinople in 1453.

Owen Chadwick's acclaimed lectures on the secularisation of the European mind trace the declining hold of the Church and its doctrines on European society in the nineteenth century.

Arthur Waldron reveals that the notion of an ancient and continuously existing Great Wall, is in fact a myth.

Science has been very successful at discovering the structure and history of the physical world. However, there is more to be told of scientific fact that can be gained from impersonal experimental tests. This balanced account, written from the perspective of a physicist and a minister, goes beyond science to consider the human context in which it operates and to pursue a wider understanding of ourselves and our world.