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Negating the Image contains seven historical studies of the changing causes and meanings of iconoclasm and the radical transformations in the function of images it has brought about in societies around the world, from Ancient Egypt to Islamic India and Revolutionary Mexico, as well as Medieval and Reformation Europe. Scholars of art history, history and archaeology explore shifting definitions of art and the forms of representation in delineat...

Offering an understanding of the participation of women in the Orthodox Church, this book contributes to the ongoing debates and feminist analysis of women's participation, ministry and sexuality in the life and practice of the Church universal. The book reveals both the positive contributions to ecumenism and the difficulties confronting Orthodox women wishing to participate more fully in the leadership and ministry of their church.

This new edition covers the topics that affect the regulated community, environmental managers, lawyers, and lenders the most. Focusing on the state's major regulatory schemes_environmental quality review, air, water, hazardous waste, and wetlands_this handbook examines recent changes that have occurred in New York environmental law, including New York's Superfund statutes amendment. All statutes and regulations are liberally footnoted for eas...

Der Bundesgerichtshof hält auch nach seiner neuesten Rechtsprechung daran fest, daß die Bestimmungen der VOB/B zumindest im Grundsatz keiner AGB-rechtlichen Inhaltskontrolle unterzogen werden dürfen. Das Anliegen der Arbeit ist es, herauszustellen, daß diese Privilegierung der VOB/B aus den verschiedensten Gründen nicht gerechtfertigt ist. So hat das für die Baupraxis sehr wichtige Regelwerk seit seiner erstmaligen Bekanntgabe vor knapp 80 Jah...

Evaluates issues of offending and victimization amongst South Asian Muslims. This book develops an understanding of Islamic criminal law and its influence on crime and social control by means of a comparative evaluation between Britain and Pakistan and explores the American 'Critical Race Theory' perspective within British and Pakistani contexts.

Retirement.whose idea was this anyway! And where in the world are you going with it? Today, millions of hard-working Americans frantically search for that dream retirement like Granddad once enjoyed. You know how it's supposed to go, land a secure job with a big company, work hard for thirty or forty years, then, on that magic day, you retire with a guaranteed pension income and plenty of "mailbox money, " compliments of Social Security. If yo...

Retirement.whose idea was this anyway! And where in the world are you going with it? Today, millions of hard-working Americans frantically search for that dream retirement like Granddad once enjoyed. You know how it's supposed to go, land a secure job with a big company, work hard for thirty or forty years, then, on that magic day, you retire with a guaranteed pension income and plenty of "mailbox money, " compliments of Social Security. If yo...

The petting farm drew a crowd everywhere they volunteered or were hired to go. If the city was not able to come to the county-the county farm animals would go to the city. These adventures are described through the eyes of a phenomenal horse, Jett, who learns some of life's important lessons through the human encounters experienced in the petting farm. In "Jett's Job, " Jett has an opinion, and a good sense of humor, about the other farm anima...

Statement: A poet is an individual who has the ability to express his disappointment in mankind. An individual who finds beauty that other don''t see and has the audacity to write about his pain and observance of life. In essence a poet is someone who has too much leisure time. Book summary: A collection of poems about lost love and the journey on the road of life.

Stranger in Baja takes the reader to sun-struck and tawdry Cabo San Lucas, the overdeveloped resort outpost on Mexico's bone-dry southern Baja peninsula and the setting for a street war between evangelical foreigners and local Catholics. Troubled by doubts and demons, naive missionary volunteer Rob Hudson arrives in Cabo on a soul-seeking mission and finds a world of inept arsonists, wily healers, prying journalists, Machiavellian bosses, trou...

The proliferation of environmental agreements is a defining feature of modern international relations that has attracted considerable academic attention. Typically focusing on happy-end stories of policy creation, the cooperation literature often ignores issue areas where policy agreements are absent. Science and International Environmental Policy introduces nonregimes into the study of global governance, and compares successes with failures i...

The central role that bureaucracy plays in the policy process is played by individuals, namely, by subject matter experts and managers we call political executives. The context in which these executives play their roles is defined by three key forces--the organizational environment of bureaucracy itself, our governing philosophy stressing responsiveness, respect for individual rights, and accountability, and the demands of the people and the i...

Comprehensive in its chronology, the works it discusses, and the commentators it critically examines, Alexis de Tocqueville and American Intellectuals tells the surprising story of Tocqueville's reception in American thought and culture from the time of his 1831 visit to the United States to the turn of the twenty-first century.

This book provides an antidote to the ungrounded, anecdotal components that define the contemporary conversation regarding policies of standardized dress in American K-12 districts and schools. The contributing authors draw upon years of educational teaching and administrative experience and research directed at objectively and empirically understanding the issue of school uniform policies at two focal levels of schooling: elementary and middle.

Presents an analysis of religion in Northern Ireland. Drawing on interview material, this book traces how individuals and groups in Northern Ireland have absorbed religious types of cultural knowledge, belonging and morality, and how they reproduce these as they go about their daily lives.

I can always sell the land, if I have to." Jess knew in his heart that Reau would do it. All of his hard work since he was able to help his mother in the fields would have gone to waste. He hated Reau then with a greater capacity than he knew existed within him. The depth of his feelings frightened him into silence, and he walked away from the house and across the fields to the riverbank. He sat in the growing darkness, throwing bits of bark a...

No Whining" is one man's gut-wrenching yet humorous account of his eight-week journey through Craig Hospital's Spinal Cord Injury (SCI) rehabilitation program. Paralyzed from the waist down, author Herb Tabak credits Craig's 'no nonsense" rehabilitation philosophy as a major factor in the progress he has made to date towards recovery. Tabak relates the range of adventures he experienced while an SCI patient at Craig Hospital's world-renowned s...

The American frontier was a land of opportunity. It called to the hearts of men and women who longed for freedom, for new beginnings, and for adventure. But for many, this untamed territory turned out to be a proving ground, where a person's strength was tested beyond civilized limits. Some gave up the fight and traveled back to the East. Others didn't survive the challenges that faced them. But for those with the strongest of character, the W...

Johnie lie there in bed alone. She had just awakened and didn't have a clue what the time was. God, she hurt from the inside out. She had never experienced such conflict. She had Elwood, and she had the love of her life in him. Spike could be her friend, not her lover, and yet, she ached for him. She had never known anything like this kind of love before, her body, mind and soul. Spike entered his bedroom and began to take the rock star away. ...

Samuel Andrews came from a family of 14 was abused mentally and sexually as a child. He led a colorful life of lies ending up in Frankfur Germany where he struggled for years. Here are a selection of poems and lyrics based on his experiences you see some of the people he met and some of the motivational thoughts he held that brought him thru. You will see that poem can be in anyone and that we can survive anything.