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A look at the importance that shared beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors have on combating homophobia, racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination and violence.

Seit der Frühzeit des Humanismus hatten antike Weissagungen, Mythen und Orakel eine beträchtliche Rolle bei die Begründung der "Wahrheit der christlichen Religion" gespielt. Die Entwicklung der kritischen Philologie im konfessionellen Zeitalter zeigt jedoch, daß das Wahrheitspostulat in zunehmendem Maße durch eine historische Hermeneutik ersetzt worden ist. Argumente für eine christliche Apologetik waren so kaum noch aus den heidnischen Tradit...

This Volume illuminates the notion of meaning in the arts-in literature, painting, music, and dance. Specific topics include theory in the arts, interpretations of meaning, objectivity in meaning, and the consumer as a participant in art.Brings together articles from prominent philosophers and practitioners of the arts, which illuminate the notion of meaning in the arts. Addresses meaning in literature, painting, music, and dance. Explores the...

On its initial publication, "Forgive and Remember" emerged as the definitive study of the training and lives of young surgeons. Now with an extensive new preface, epilogue, and appendix by the author, reflecting on the changes that have taken place since the book's original publication, this updated second edition of Charles L. Bosk's classic study is as timely as ever.

This book traces the formation of Australian colonial society and economy within the context of the changing fortunes of British hegemony in the nineteenth-century world economy. Australia's transition from conservative origins as a penal colony supporting a grazier class oriented to export production, to liberal agrarian capitalism, was not a simple reflex of imperial setting. Domestically, the 'agrarian question' - who should control the lan...

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DESCRIPTIONThis book presents a new theological-ethical theory of natural law.

A hero of the polar exploration age, Sir Douglas Mawson is profiled in this biography, which recounts his Antarctic expeditions of 1911-1914 and 1929-1931, which resulted in Australia claiming 40 percent of the sixth continent. The personal letters and professional correspondences included reveal Mawson's relationships with influential friends and rivals. Recounted are such adventures as Mawson's confrontation of a delusional explorer in Antar...

In this thorough confrontation of discrimination in the marketplace, Ian Ayres reveals surprising evidence that in many different types of transactions, blacks and women are routinely put at a disadvantage--by unequal offers, unequal policies, and subtle forms of discrimination.

You've had what seems like a million tennis lessons, but you get out on the court and it all goes away. You revert back to old habits and what made sense in the clean green and white world of the tennis pro is lost out there on the gritty high school courts where you are losing again to Hacker Charlie. You get steamed, throw your racket and go home frustrated. This book addresses the problem of getting what you learn in lessons out onto the co...

Seifferts schon klassische, leicht verständliche Einführung in die "ganzheitlichen" geisteswissenschaftlichen Methoden der Phänomenologie, Hermeneutik, Geschichtsschreibung und Dialektik enthält seit der 8. Auflage zahlreiche weitere Abschnitte: über "Oral History", über das Problem der Quellenbegriffe, über die modische Historismuskritik, über Thomas Kuhn und über die "Annales ", über das zentrale Begriffspaar "historisch/systematisch". Das D...

Dr. Hans H. Rhyner gilt als führender und international anerkannter Experte und Pionier der Ayurveda Medizin in Europa. Sein Wissen, seine jahrzehntelange Erfahrung mit indischer Philosophie, Yoga, Vastu, Siddha, Ayurveda und spirituellem Heilen überträgt er auf unsere westliche Lebensweise und Gedankenwelt und gestaltet östliches Heil- und Lebenswissen so für uns nachvollziehbar und vor allem nachlebbar. Die international anerkannte Spezialis...

Smail shows that the courts were quickly adopted as a public stage on which litigants could take revenge on their enemies. Even as the new legal system served the interest of royal or communal authority, it also provided the consumers of justice with a way to broadcast their hatreds and social sanctions to a wider audience and negotiate their own community standing in the process. The emotions that had driven bloodfeuds and other forms of cust...

Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Film Factory explores the period 1895 to 1914 when cinema established itself as the leading form of visual culture among rapidly expanding global media, emerging from a rich tradition of scientific, economic, entertainment and educational practices and quickly developing as a worldwide institution. This book introduces the student to the study of cinema as a series of aesthetic, technological, cultural, ideol...

50 alternative, organic, natural and chemical solutions to slug problems. Will feature in the November issue of "Gardens Monthly". A perfect gift book for gardeners.