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This groundbreaking volume is the first to analyze how and to what extent bioethics considerations influence today's judges. Previous books have attended to the law that governs bioethics problems, but this is the first to examine when and how bioethical issues impact judicial reasoning and decision-making. The volume examines the cutting-edge of the relationship of bioethics to law, and explores how law receives, assesses, and uses bioethics.

Hope, forgiveness, spiritual love, natural wonder: these are just some of the themes covered in this engaging collection of poems. Open your eyes to the changing seasons, consider the joy of Christmas, look out at the starlit sea, listen to the voice that whispers. Donald C Nicolson serves up his poetry for every season with a gentle style and spiritualism that echoes from the Scottish Highlands to the last sunset of summer. So let the Chil...

John Lombard is senior policy analyst at Steward and Associates, an environmental consulting firm, and at the Sustainable Fisheries Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the protection, enhancement, and wise use of fisheries resources in the Pacific Northwest. Previously he was King County coordinator for salmon recovery planning in the Lake Washington watershed.

Our Earth is a garden, to be poetically praised and appreciated, but it is also a vulnerable garden, being abused by our ignorance and greed. These poems and pictures celebrate the beauty our Garden Earth, and warn against our wanton destruction of our Mother, the Earth.

The series Youth: Perspectives and Practice provides a distinctive and rare combination of expert commentary, new research, original theorising and critical reflection on how we should understand youth and work with young people. These books deserve a wide readership ... the way they are written and organised will make them particularly appealing to students' - Professor Robert MacDonald, University of Teesside Inventing Adulthoods offers a g...

The series Youth: Perspectives and Practice provides a distinctive and rare combination of expert commentary, new research, original theorising and critical reflection on how we should understand youth and work with young people. These books deserve a wide readership ... the way they are written and organised will make them particularly appealing to students' - Professor Robert MacDonald, University of Teesside Inventing Adulthoods offers a g...

This book provides a secure grounding in the theory and practice of finance insofar as it deals with pension matters. By using it, the reader will understand the various types of investment assets, * the allocation of personal wealth to different asset classes* corporate pension finance* the financial aspects of defined contribution pension plans during both the accumulation and distribution phases* the financial aspects of defined benefit pen...

Vorhofflimmern ist die häufigste Herzrhythmusstörung. Die enorme Bedeutung der Arrhythmie ergibt sich aus der Chronizität des Erkrankungsverlaufes, der komplexen Ätiopathogenese sowie einer erheblichen assoziierten Morbidität und Mortalität. In den westlichen Industrienationen wird die atriale Arrhythmie an Bedeutung zunehmen. Diese komplett überarbeitete Neuauflage gibt den umfangreichen Überblick über aktuelle Diagnose- und Therapieverfahren.

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Although cyberspace has become a reality in the daily lives of millions of people, there have been few successful attempts at charting the new virtual world(s). Cybermapping and the Writing of Myth presents, for the first time, a cogent theoretical blueprint for mapping our bearings in cyberspace. The last bastion of myth, cyberspace is a space which is continuously re-written by users who move in a city-like construct ultimately built on lang...

The Weird Sisters, from William Shakespeare's play Macbeth, are arguably the most famous trio of witches in English literature. Shakespeare's Weird Sisters are a complex trinitarian mythological construction - a unique amalgamation of classical, folkloric, and socio-political elements. This book is an archetypal exploration of the Weird Sisters, by examining this feminine trio through the lens of mythology, new insights about their significanc...

There is growing recognition that an account of God's attributes is central to the church's proclamation. This study presents three probing twentieth-century accounts - those of Karl Barth, Eberhard Jüngel, and Wolf Krötke - each of whom reformulated the classical shape of the doctrine. Giving particular attention to the divine glory, the case is made that God, rather than being an unthinkable and unspeakable horizon, is the glorious One, whos...

This book offers a comprehensive guide to political campaign communication using functional theory as a framework. An authoritative account packed with real life examples from campaigns across the globe, the book examines all of the important variables in political campaign communication. Considering campaign media - from television spots and debates to candidate webpages and direct-mail advertising - it looks closely at news coverage of campa...

Each generation of theologians must respond to the context in which they find themselves, and our context today is one of plurality. What, exactly, should a pluralistic theology look like? How can we take seriously our pluralistic context and still remain true to a tradition? This groundbreaking book moves beyond dialogue to incorporation, and develops a methodology for the future of pluralistic theology. Using postmodern epistemology, histori...

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Das Baugeschehen ist seit geraumer Zeit vom Rückgang der Neubautätigkeit und einer Verlagerung zum Bauen im Bestand geprägt. Diese Entwicklung erfordert ein Umdenken und hohe Flexibilität mit Verlagerung der Tätigkeitsschwerpunkte auf Leistungen im Vorfeld der Baumaßnahmen, wie eine Definition klarer Unternehmens- und Immobilienziele, eine Gesamtanalyse und -bewertung des Bestands unter Ableitung strategischer Handlungsfelder im Rahmen eines P...

Have you ever wondered what it might be like to teach a subject to every grade in a school? Do you think you could teach the same subject to every student in school? This book describes my experiences teaching computer to all grades, pre-K through 8th grade, in a private school. This book contains: My experiences, both good and bad, and how I corrected the bad experiences. Assessment tests on all subjects, such as history, geography, and scien...

Growth is the key goal of management. It's not just an indicator of a company's performance, but also the basis for its future success. But growth doesn't just mean getting bigger – it also means getting better. In other words, growth must be profitable, otherwise it destroys the company's value long term. And this is not the only challenge. Growth must also be made continuous. The traditional V-curve paradigm (first downsize, then grow) no lo...

How welfare states influence population health and health inequalities has long been debated but not well tested by empirical research. This book presents new empirical evidence of the effects of Swedish welfare state structures and policies on the lives of Swedish citizens. The discussion, analysis, and innovative theoretical approaches developed in the book have implications for health research and policy beyond Scandinavian borders. The boo...

Rosemary Pink has been psychic all her life. During her childhood her gift centred around her love of the elementals, fairies, gnomes, etc. She also saw her older brother, Tom, after he died in a road accident. She has had a challenging life. Her father was an alcoholic who beat her and her family. She joined the army to get away from home, only to meet, and marry, an abusive man, who imprisoned her in his sister's house in Saudi Arabia. This ...