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What was the impact of the Norman Conquest on the culture of medieval and early modern England? Deanne Williams answers this question by contending that not only French language and literature, but the idea of Frenchness itself, produced England’, s literary and cultural identity. Examining a variety of English representations of, and responses to, France and ‘, the French’, in the work of Chaucer, Caxton, Skelton, Shakespeare a...

The 1980s and 1990s have seen several authoritarian governments voluntarily cede power to constitutionally elected democratic governments. John Londregan uses Chile as a case study of this phenomenon, exploring what sorts of guarantees are required for those who are ceding power and how those guarantees later work out in practice. He constructs an analytical model of a democratic transition and provides a new statistical technique for analysin...

Synthesizes research on emotion in cognitive psychology and neurology to provide an understanding of how film evokes emotion.

Perhaps the most famous proposition in the history of philosophy is Descartes’, cogito ‘, I think, therefore I am’, . Husain Sarkar claims in this provocative interpretation of Descartes that the ancient tradition of reading the cogito as an argument is mistaken. It should, he says, be read as an intuition. Through this interpretative lens, the author reconsiders key Cartesian topics: the ideal inquirer, the role of clear and di...

This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime against the monarch to a modern crime against the impersonal state. It consists of four highly detailed case studies of major state treason trials in England beginning with that of Thomas Wentworth, first Earl of Strafford, in the spring of 1641 and ending with that of Charles Stuart, King of England, in January 1649. The book examines how these trials constituted practical cont...

Lacewings are predatory insects which attack and kill large numbers of insect pests. Lacewings in the Crop Environment addresses both the theoretical and practical aspects of lacewing biology and their use in crop protection. The book opens with a section on lacewing systematics and ecology. Next, lacewings as predators in a wide variety of commercially important crops are reviewed and this is followed by a section on the principles of using l...

This book offers a highly engaging history of the world’, s most famous secret society, the Cambridge ‘, Apostles’, , based upon the lives, careers and correspondence of the 255 Apostles elected to the Cambridge Conversazione Society between 1820 and 1914. It examines the way in which the Apostles recruited their membership, the Society’, s discussions and its intellectual preoccupations. From its pages emerge such figures ...

This book is a cultural study of New Wave cinema that considers the experience of modernity and modernization in Taiwan and mainland China. While following separate paths, Taiwan and China have rapidly modernized, economically and culturally, since 1949. Despite differences in the political, social and economic systems of these countries, the process of modernization in both have challenged traditional cultural norms. Tonglin Lu examines how d...

This book is about Karl Popper’, s early writings before he began his career as a philosopher. The purpose of the book is to demonstrate that Popper’, s philosophy of science, with its emphasis on the method of trial and error, is largely based on the psychology of Otto Selz, whose theory of problem solving and scientific discovery laid the foundation for much of contemporary cognitive psychology. By arguing that Popper’, s famo...

This book provides a pedagogical introduction to the perturbative and non-perturbative aspects of quantum chromodynamics (QCD). Introducing the basic theory and recent advances in QCD, it also reviews the historical development of the subject, covering pre-QCD ideas of strong interactions such as the quark and parton models, the notion of colours and the S-matrix approach. The author then discusses gauge theory, techniques of dimensional regul...

This book is exclusively devoted to demonic possession and exorcism in early modern England. It offers modernized versions of the most significant early modern texts on nine cases of demonic possession from the period 1570 to 1650, the key period in English history for demonic possession. The nine stories were all written by eyewitnesses or were derived from eyewitness reports. They involve matters of life and death, sin and sanctity, guilt an...

My little book is a true story of struggle, prayer, faith, and survival. It tells not only my story, but the stories of family and friends alike, as we all learned to "bear" this and other storms of life. It is a story of loss, unimaginable, grief, unbearable, and a search for "hope" to help us get through all the tribulations we faced. It is the story of an American city, an American family and is my testimony of my unwavering faith in my God...

My little book is a true story of struggle, prayer, faith, and survival. It tells not only my story, but the stories of family and friends alike, as we all learned to "bear" this and other storms of life. It is a story of loss, unimaginable, grief, unbearable, and a search for "hope" to help us get through all the tribulations we faced. It is the story of an American city, an American family and is my testimony of my unwavering faith in my God...

INTEGRITY is the willingness to pay the price by standing alone, if need be, for what is right, regardless of the personal cost to you. It means standing firm against those who think you are wrong.

The original Swedish edition of this book appeared in 2004. [Hÿlsopromotion i Arbetslivet] It has gained a place of central importance in the scientific literature for educational courses in Public Health and Health promotion. In order to meet current international interest in the salutogenic perspective in Workplace Health Promotion, the original text of the book has now been directly translated into English. The aim of the book is to describ...

Talitha cumi Inspires, Encourages and Spawns women to arise to the fullness of their potential. It motivates women to get up from whatever challenges they have faced! Whether it is divorce, abuse, sickness or the loss of a loved one. 11 women share powerful stories, strategies and testimonies of how, through Christ, they were able to rise above defeat, devastation and discouragement. Their message of Hope is, You can do all things through Chri...

Pinewood is an epic story of a small lake and a young simple squirrel named Michael Takeda that is thrust into a position of duty and honor. His desires to be a noble Samurai like his father fuels him for success but when his life is forever changed one fateful night he is sent on a journey to seek out a wise old owl. This owl will teach him all he must know as a Takeda clan leader so Michael leaves his home and travels into the depths of the ...

The poems inside this book come from the pages of Street Sense over the course of its first three years of operation. Homeless and formerly homeless men and women, many of who also sell the paper, wrote all of these pieces. While some are directly about homelessness, many are far from this topic and describe love, work, friendship, sorrow and pain. These poems reflect their deepest thoughts, creative dreams, complicated pasts, and immediate ne...

Time waits for no one, life is too short to let it pass me by. I have decided to take every day and treat it as if it were my last. To find myself I had to travel to the very depths of my soul where my spirit dwells and truth is uncovered. In "DEEP IN MY SOUL" an upbeat, realistic, entertaining, and inspiring collection of poems with a unique writing style that gives the reader an up close and personal look at the soul of a young woman who has...

A young man returns home to Oregon after serving his country. He feels as a misfit in society because of constant dreams of unexplainable things. During the same time a young lady in St Louis has continuous visions of similar places and events, also hearing voices in her mind totally unexplained. To add to her confusion, she is randomly capable of mental telepathy. The two meet by chance finding commonality between them and eventually fall in ...