In April 1982, Argentina surprised the world by invading the Falkland Islands in the Atlantic Ocean. The tiny islands had long been the subject of a fierce territorial dispute between Argentina and the UK, and the occupation quickly escalated into a terrifying full-blown conflict between the two countries.Part Three - Doing the BusinessFacing extreme conditions, British troops fought their way across demanding territory to retake the Falkland ...
Presenting a unified view of the emotions in the social universe, in this volume Turner explores the relationships between, emotions, social structure and culture, and hypotheses how social structure and culture affect emotional arousal in humans, and vice versa.
With the epidemic showing scant signs of slowing down anywhere in the developing world, this volume assesses how HIV/AIDS affects governance, and conversely how governance affects the course of the epidemic. It employs an analytical and polemic framework for mapping the multiple dynamic mechanisms of governance and HIV/AIDS.
Sound Sentiments seeks to open a new path in the philosophy of emotion. The focus of most recent work on the philosophy of emotion has been on the nature of emotion, with some attention also to the relation of emotion to ethics. This book explores the idea that emotions admit of valuation, of degrees of adequacy. What does it mean for emotion to be well-constituted? What distinguishes good feeling from (just) feeling good? Is there such a dist...
Barbara Owen provides performers, students, and scholars of the organ with the first in-depth study of the organ works of Johannes Brahms, contextualized against other church and concert organists' repertoire of the time.
This systematic presentation of the parametric approach to child language considers the nature of the information the child must acquire according to the various linguistic theories. In doing so it sets out in detail the practical aspects of acquisitional research, addresses the challenges of working with children of different ages and backgrounds, and shows how the resulting data can be used to test theories of grammatical variation. It prese...
This Handbook brings together leading international scholars to comment on key current issues in Public Management. The individual chapters include a mix of broad overviews, in depth exploration of particular thematic areas, and analyses of different theoretical perspectives such as political science, management, sociology, and economics.
Recent understanding of the involvement of carbohydrate molecules and conjugates in many vital biological processes and, consequently, the appreciation of their tremendous therapeutic potential has stimulated the development of new methods for the synthesis of this class of compounds. The main efforts in the field of synthetic carbohydrate chemistry have been focused on the development of new glycosylation methodologies and convergent strategi...
The use of embryonic stem cells has sparked a debate around the ethics of such research, usually pitting pro-life advocates versus the promise of curing some of humanity's most persistent diseases. In this invaluable primer on the subject, Cynthia Cohen highlights the need for a consensus of policy on the issue of how we treat the embryo.
The Loss of Sadness argues that the increased prevalence of major depressive disorder is due not to a genuine rise in mental disease, but to the way that normal human sadness has been 'pathologised' since 1980. That year saw the publication of the landmark third edition of The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-III), which has since become a dominant force behind our current understanding of mental illness. The result o...
Leading evangelical theologian Marsh offers a powerful indictment of the political activism of evangelical Christian leaders and churches in the United States. This book represents a unique entry into the increasingly pivotal debate over the role of faith in American politics.
Irvine looks at what modern science can tell about desire--what happens in the brain when one desires something and how animals evolved particular desires. He suggests that people who can convince themselves to want what they already have dramatically enhance their happiness.
