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Asian and Pacific Islander Americans constitute the fastest-growing racial group in the United States. They are also one of the most religiously diverse. Through them Asian traditions such as Hinduism, Sikhism, Confucianism, and Buddhism have been introduced into every major city and across a wide swath of Middle America. The contributors to this volume provide an essential inter-disciplinary resource for the study of Asian and Pacific Islande...

Written by a Hollywood script supervisor, second-unit director, director and producer, this memoir describes many movie names, such as Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, Cecil B. DeMille and Billy Wilder. It also discusses the author's long working relationship with Alfred Hitchcock.

This volume provides a comprehensive view of the current issues in contemporary syntactic theory. Written by an international assembly of leading specialists in the field, the 23 original articles in this volume serve as a comprehensive and useful reference for various areas of grammar. The chapters include analyses of non-configurational languages, a crosslinguistic comparison of important grammatical features that interface with semantics, d...

A feast of spicy facts, this is an invaluable reference work for all those intrested in Indian food and the history of food. This Dictionary provides a wealth of information on the food materials, food ethos, cuisine, and recipes of India. It draws upon literature, archaeology, historical writing, botany, and genetics to place Indian food in its historical context. The details covered here include migration of food plants (such as potato, toma...

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Using an innovative theoretical approach based on 'networks of conventions', the book investigates the 'regionalisation' of the English countryside through case studies of the 'preserved', the 'contested' and the 'paternalistic' countryside.

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Mark Sacks presents an innovative study of one of the deepest philosophical problems: the nature and scope of objectivity. He critically examines the prospects for securing objectivity on the standard conception, drawing on a range of both Anglo-American and Continental European thinkers. He then argues for a different conception of objectivity which draws on the central insights of transcendental idealism, without succumbing to idealism or me...

Obsessions are repetitive, unwanted thoughts, images or impulses. This manual describes a focused cognitive approach to the treatment of patients whose primary problem is obsessions. The manual describes and explains a specific treatment protocol derived from clinical research. At the end of the manual there is a therapy tool kit consisting of forms and charts to help the therapist plan and record treatment sessions.

Targeted anti-cancer therapy in which a therapeutic agent is used specifically to target cancer cells has developed significantly over the last few years. Many of the recent developments are now beginning to move from the scientific realm into clinical practice. This book is a specialist reference text summarising the burgeoning literature on these new types of targeted therapy for molecular oncologists, cancer researchers and those involved w...

The population genetics and speciation of fungi is a rapidly developing field, heavily dependent upon the use of molecular markers. No basic text exists which describes the methods employed or the findings obtained from such investigations. This book is intended to provide such an account. It describes the methodologies employed and, for the benefit of the non-mycological reader, a brief introduction to basic fungal biology. Recent findingsrel...

The essays in this volume cover the whole of the period in which Rome dominated the Mediterranean world. The belief shared by all the contributors is that the Roman empire is best understood from the standpoint of the Mediterranean world looking in to Rome, rather than from Rome looking out. The volume reflects the immense complexity of the political and cultural history of the ancient Mediterranean, from the late Republic to the age of August...

- A panoramic history of philosophy in America, from the colonial era to the twenty-first-century

Conditionals has at its centre an extended essay on this problematic and much-debated subject in the philosophy of language and logic by the widely respected Oxford philosopher Michael Woods. It has been edited by his eminent colleague David Wiggins, and is accompanied by a commentary specially written by a leading expert on the topic, Dorothy Edgington. This masterly and original treatment of conditionals will demand the attention of all phil...

Whether or not Jesus rose bodily from the dead is perhaps the most critical and contentious issue in the study of Christianity. Until now, scholars have concentrated on explicit statements in the New Testament to support their views, but Richard Swinburne argues for a wider approach, asking instead whether the character of God and the life of Jesus support the probability of the Resurrection. His book will be of great interest not only to acad...

Walter Richard Sickert (1860-1942) was a major European artist and critic of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, whose statements on art from the 1880s to the 1930s have been used by artists and writers for more than half a century. Containing over 400 entries, this collection offers new insight into Sickert as an artist and provides valuable information about other British artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centur...

The contributors to this interdisciplinary collection of essays consider various aspects of accountability and legitimacy in the European Union. How open should the Union's decision-making be? What is the right balance between accountability and efficiency? Does the Union now need a formal constitution? How can respect for democracy, fundamental rights and the rule of law in the Union best be ensured? These are just some of the questions explo...

The Oxford Handbook of Practical Ethics is a lively and authoritative guide to current thought about ethical issues in all areas of human activity--personal, medical, sexual, social, political, judicial, and international, from the natural world to the world of business. Twenty-eight topics are covered in specially written surveys by leading figures in their fields: each gives an authoritative map of the ethical terrain, explaining how the deb...