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This book describes the transformation of Chinese medicine from a marginal, side-lined medical practice of the mid-twentieth century, to an essential and high-profile part of the national health-care system under the Chinese Communist Party.

What makes us the people we are? Culture evidently plays a part, but how large a part? Is culture alone the source of our identities? Some have argued that human nature is the foundation of culture, others that culture is the foundation of human identity. Catherine Belsey now calls for a more nuanced, relational account of what it is to be human, and in doing so puts forward a significant new theory of culture."Culture and the Real "explains w...

As summer temparatures soar she finds it increasingly difficult to adhere to her self-imposed celibacy and spends a lot of time fantasising about the attractive young artists who pass through the gallery.Among them is Michael MacKenzie, the flame-haired sculpture whose sexy masculinity sets her pulse racing.

No crime in human history is of such importance for today as the Holocaust. Hundreds of contemporary witnesses have been interviewed, for the most part surviving victims, but also perpetrators who have spoken out for the first time. This is not an attempt to rewrite the history of the Holocaust, but a searing recounting of the greatest crime of the 20th century - if not of all time - using the latest research on the subject. Editorial advisors...

This wide-ranging and up-to-date review of the nature, causes, and consequences of fluid flow in oceanic crust analyzes much recent research. The accompanying CD includes a full and easily navigable set of diagrams and captions, references, and photos of research vessels, submersibles, and tools used in marine hydrologic studies.

This is the first book to systematically evaluate e-voting from the wider European perspective. It focuses on the European experience, thereby raising key issues at the heart of the social sciences, legal scholarship and technology studies in a penetrating and interdisciplinary manner. It coincides with a crucial juncture for European integration in which the Convention on the Future of Europe and the 2004 Intergovernmental Conference will dis...

Vaskulitis ist eine Entzündung der Blutgefäße und kann sich als rheumatische Beschwerden, als Probleme am Auge oder im HNO-Bereich zeigen sowie als Hautveränderung. Meist müssen Patienten einen langen Weg bis zur endgültigen Diagnose beschreiten. Vaskulitiden entwickeln sehr facettenreiche Krankheitsbilder, was den Einbezug von Ärzten nahezu aller Fachrichtungen erfordert. In diesem Buch erklären in der Betreuung von Vaskulitispatienten langjä...

Portslade is the district furthest west in the Brighton conurbation. Originally a Downland village, it still retains a wealth of old buildings and a real sense of community. This book is the result of over 50 interviews with elderly residents of Portslade, recorded over many hours.

St Petersburg was commanded into existence by Peter the Great, and its inherent artifice has made it one of the world's most storied cities. This award-winning narrative history chronicles what is perhaps the greatest story of any modern city anywhere, from its foundation in a swampy war zone in 1703 to its role in overthrowing Soviet power.

A grand and panoramic biograhical history of the giants of classical music, The Lives and Times of Great Composers is a new, unique, and lovingly constructed modern reference--and a beguiling read which you will return to again and again. Interlinked yet self-contained, each chapter distills the life of one or more composers, set against the social, political, musical, and cultural background of the time. Read the story of Bach, the respectabl...

This new book is the first comprehensive and integrated account of the law on liability for negligent misstatements. Designed as a comprehensive guide for practitioners, it outlines the essential issues that must be considered in determining whether a client will have a cause of action for negligent misstatement. It will also discuss in detail those issues that are likely to prove most contentious.

In this major new work, leading scholars come together to evaluate the influential International Society approach to contemporary world politics. Writing from a variety of perspectives, the contributors to this book demonstrate that a proper understanding of world politics needs to incorporate many types of actor and be able to explain the different types of issue in world politics. This International Society approach offers one of the most il...

Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848, Prague) was an outstanding thinker and reformer, far ahead of his times in many areas, including philosophy, ethics, politics, logic, theology and physics, and mathematics. Aimed at historians of mathematics, philosophy, ethics and logic, this volume contains the first English translations of some of his most significant mathematical writings, which contain the details of many celebrated insights and anticipations: ...

This book revives the study of conventional implicatures in natural language semantics. H. Paul Grice first defined the concept. Since then his definition has seen much use and many redefinitions, but it has never enjoyed a stable place in linguistic theory. Christopher Potts returns to the original and uses it as a key into two presently under-studied areas of natural language: supplements (appositives, parentheticals) and expressives (e.g., ...

In this fascinating and lively study, Krishnaswamy and Burde examine how the English used by Indians has changed--and is still changing--over the last two centuries, evolving into the complex and highly diverse forms which it takes today.

Volume XIX/2 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material.

The village has epitomized Indian civilization and been the subject of much study and contemplation. The present volume attempts to address a wide number of interests--economic, political, cultural, social, gender--and presents a profile of processes and change in Indian villages based on publications over the last fifty years. The essays clearly demonstrate that every Indian village although similar in many ways, is also characterised by regi...

This volume is the first comprehensive anthology of early Yiddish literature (from its beginnings in the twelfth century to the dawn of modern Yiddish in the mid-eighteenth century) for more than one hundred years. It includes the broad range of genres that define the corpus: Arthurian romance, heroic epic, satire, lyric, drama, biblical/midrashic epic, devotional literature, biblical translations, glosses, medicine, magic, legal texts, oaths,...

This book offers a collection of twenty-nine essays by noted scholar of Gandhian studies, BR Nanda. Presenting a composite picture of Gandhi's life and thought, the essays discuss Gandhi's formative years, his struggle against racism, his views on religion and the partition of India, his public life and professional relationships, and his political and economic thought.