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Religious organizations have a long history of providing a social safety net in society. The role of congregations and religiously affiliated groups has varied from being the sole providers of charity to playing a small, but important support function in multifaceted social service systems. Over the last three decades, U.S. social welfare policy has increasingly shifted responsibility for social services to faith-based and community organizati...

A higher production performance make today's chickens more susceptible to heat stress than ever before. The increasing proportion of poultry production in tropical and subtropical regions makes it necessary to reconsider the long-term selection strategy of today's commercial breeding programmes. The importance of the potential use of the naked neck and frizzle genes is accentuated. The effect of presence naked neck (Na), frizzle (F) and double...

Le contact pneumatique/chaussée représente la principale source de bruit de roulement dès la vitesse de 50 km/h. Dans ce contexte, une nouvelle démarche de modélisation de l'interaction dynamique du couple pneumatique/chaussée est développée. Au niveau du pneumatique, un modèle périodique est adopté pour calculer les fonctions de Green du pneumatique dans la zone de contact. Ces fonctions sont ensuite, décomposées dans une base modale pour con...

La docencia remite a una actividad filantrópica cuando florece como empleo de derechos quebrantados, escaso reconocimiento social, dirigido por la burocracia administrativa, gobernado por palabras. Cada escrito aborda el problema de los significados vetustos, las representaciones objeto de observación, luego, reflexión. Cada escrito discute, de diversas maneras, la idea de "Apostolado" perdurable en los intercambios comunicativos de los sujeto...

Covering the Hellenistic and Imperial periods in both pagan polytheistic as well as Jewish monotheistic settings, this edited collection focuses on individuation in everyday religious practices across the ancient Mediterranean as identified in institutional developments and philosophical reflections on the self.

Thinking about Reasons collects fourteen new essays on ethics and the philosophy of action, inspired by the work of Jonathan Dancy-one of his generation's most influential moral philosophers. Many of the most prominent living thinkers in the area are contributors to this collection, which also contains an afterword by Dancy himself.

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On a ten-day a visit to San Miguel de Allende, Judith Gille falls in love...with a hot pink house on a rundown alleyway. Without consulting her husband or knowing how she's going to pay for it, she makes the owners a full price offer. Despite a rough start in the new culture, Gille and her family eventually befriend their neighbors on callejón de Chepito and form a close bond with the Cordova clan. As their affection for the lively Mexican fam...

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A comprehensive guide to the bird life of Madagascar, the Seychelles, the Comoros, and the Mascarenes. Covers over 500 species.

Chris, Lisa and Tom spend their days in their secret hide-out in the Castle, an old WWII pill-box. But the Castle is on Old Rafferty's land, and he hates kids. They find themselves in big trouble when some local lads lock them in and there is no one around for miles...

Oxford Studies in Metaethics is the only publication devoted exclusively to original philosophical work in the foundations of ethics. It provides an annual selection of much of the best new scholarship being done in the field.

The study of classical languages by earlier generations of English-speaking students was greatly facilitated by the study of English grammar in the schools, a tradition now out of favor but one that emphasized precisely the concepts, terms, and constructions needed for the study of Greek and Latin. Recent classical language textbooks, while presuming little or no grammatical sophistication on the part of their students, often provide little mo...

This book is about poverty in the Global South. It presents results from a wide range of mixed method, or Q-Squared (Q²) - combined qualitative and quantitative approaches - studies conducted in sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and Latin America about who are poor and why.

A full, contextual study of Irenaeus of Lyons, the first great theologian of the Christian tradition. John Behr sets Irenaeus both within his own context of the second century and our own contemporary context.

Matthew Stuart offers a fresh interpretation of John Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding, arguing for the work's profound contribution to metaphysics. He presents new readings of Locke's accounts of personal identity and the primary/secondary quality distinction, and explores Locke's case against materialism and his philosophy of action.

A revised and updated edition of a classic work originally published by the Clarendon Press in 1977, in this fascinating study Partha Mitter traces the history of European reactions to Indian art, from the earliest encounters of explorers with the exotic East to the more sophisticated but still incomplete appreciations of the early twentieth century.

Jennifer Church presents a new account of perception, which shows how imagining alternative perspectives and possibilities plays a key role in creating and validating experiences of self-evident objectivity. She explores the nature of moral perception and aesthetic perception, and argues that perception can be both literal and substantive.

This book tackles the issue of civil society's democratic input to EU governance. It looks at how participatory democracy, laid down in the Lisbon Treaty and advocated by the Commission, is put into practice and whether the involvement of civil society lives up to the high expectation of upgrading the Union's democratic legitimacy.

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