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Although much has been written on standardized testing policy, most of the material has been written by opponents. The contributing authors of this volume are both accomplished researchers and practitioners who are respected and admired worldwide. They b

This is the first book to summarise the 20th century economic history of the Netherlands from a business history perspective.

Marriage today is a prime social and legal institution. Historically, it was also the main economic institution. The essays presented here offer a wealth of original research into the economic, social and legal history of marriage in Northern Europe over a 500-year period.

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Written over a span of more than two decades, the essays by Iris Marion Young collected in this volume describe diverse aspects of women's lived body experience in modern Western societies. Drawing on the ideas of several twentieth century continental philosophers--including Simone deBeauvoir, Martin Heidegger, Luce Irigaray, Julia Kristeva, and Maurice Merleau-Ponty--Young constructs rigorous analytic categories for interpreting embodied subj...

Special Relativity provides the foundations of our understanding of space and time. Without it, elementary particle physics would be unthinkable, and modern navigational systems could not function. This book aims at giving a modern, compact and elementary introduction to Special Relativity. It is gentle yet serious introduction, in that it tries to convey a true understanding rather than just report the basic facts. Only very elementary mathem...

Truth, Language, and History is the much-anticipated final volume of Donald Davidson's philosophical writings. In four groups of essays, Davidson continues to explore the themes that occupied him for more than fifty years: the relations between language and the world, speaker intention and linguistic meaning, language and mind, mind and body, mind and world, mind and other minds. He asks: what is the role of the concept of truth in these explo...

The Revised Standard Version dramatically shaped the course of English Bible translation work in the latter half of the Twentieth Century. It is still the translation used in official Church pronouncements, and serves as the basis for the scriptural text used in the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The Oxford RSV Catholic Bible features a Presentation Section, the Dogmatic Constitution on Divine Revelation (Dei Verbum), a section of Prayers a...

Democracy used to be seen as a relatively mechanical matter of merely adding up everyone's votes in free and fair elections. That mechanistic model has many virtues, among them allowing democracy to 'track the truth', where purely factual issues are all that is at stake. Political disputesinvariably mix facts with values, however, and then it is essential to listen to what people are saying rather than merely note how they are voting. The grea...

In this innovative study of French political culture, Sudhir Hazareesingh re-examines the origins of modern republicanism through the writings and political practices of five key nineteenth century intellectuals: Jules Barni, Charles Dupont-White, Emile Littr, Eug ne Pelletan, and Etienne Vacherot.

Europe Undivided explores how the leverage of an enlarging EU has facilitated a convergence toward liberal democracy among credible future members of the EU in Central and Eastern Europe. It reveals how variations in domestic competition put democratizing states on different political trajectories after 1989, and illuminates the changing dynamics of the relationship between the EU and candidate states from 1989 to accession, and beyond. Albeit...

These essays not only describe the major changes in British society in recent years, but seek to understand and explain what is happening. They consider the wide variety of mechanisms that underlie these changes, in particular processes of social interaction. The ill-understood nature of these mechanisms may be a major reason why so much social reform has proved ineffective. By highlighting the complexities of the causal mechanisms, sociologic...

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Frontmatter -- Inhaltsverzeichnis -- Band 1. Biographische Artikel A-G -- Vorwort -- Einführende Literatur zur Geschichte Bayerns -- Autorenverzeichnis -- Hinweise für den Benutzer -- Abkürzungsverzeichnis -- A -- Aachen - Amann -- Amantius - Ayrer -- B -- Baade - Bausch -- Bausch - Berthold -- Berthold - Böschenstein -- Boß - Brill -- Brill - Bys -- C -- Caesar - Coelestin -- Coester - Cziffra -- D -- Dabelow - Dietzel -- Dietzfelbinger - Dyr...

The first work of prose from the prize-winning poet. He tells the heart-breaking and at times darkly comic story of his unconventional reunion between father and son, his early life with his mother and his enduring struggle for survival. This is already one of the most eagerly anticipated literary debuts in the USA this year. "No one who reads "Another Bullshit Night" will ever walk through a city in the same way again" Michael Cunningham