Long before it cured disease, medicine aimed to relieve suffering-but despite that precedence, the relief of suffering often takes a back seat in today's biomedical research and treatment. Modern bioethics, too, has been slow to come to terms with suffering. Attention to ethical quandaries has some[...]
This revised edition presents the relevant aspects of transformational geometry, matrix algebra, and calculus to those who may be lacking the necessary mathematical foundations of applied multivariate analysis. It brings up-to-date many definitions of mathematical concepts and their operations. It a[...]
The aim of this book is to outline the main methods and techniques available to ornithologists. A general shortage of information about available techniques is greatly hindering progress in avian ecology and conservation. Currently this sort of information is disparate and difficult to locate with [...]
For undergraduate and graduate global marketing courses. The excitement, challenges, and controversies of global marketing. Global Marketing strives to reflect current issues and events while offering conceptual and analytical tools that will help readers apply the 4Ps to global marketing.[...]
All theatrical performance exists within a context and through the role accorded it by its public. The theme of the book is the function and impact of the theatre in Greek society. It is not about the interpretation of Greek dramatic texts. Instead, Professor Green examines the depictions of actors [...]
The Celtic World is a detailed and comprehensive study of the Celts from the first evidence of them in the archaeological and historical record to the early post-Roman period. The strength of this volume lies in its breadth - it looks at archaeology, language, literature, towns, warfare, rural life,[...]
Recent decades have witnessed enormous strides in the field of robust control of dynamical systems -- unfortunately, many of these developments have only been accessible to a small group of experts. This text for students and control engineers examines all of these advances, providing an in-depth ex[...]
This dictionary contains entries on aspects of Celtic myth, religion and folklore in Britain and Europe between 500 BC and AD 400. Archaeological research, classical writers and earliest recorded oral traditions provide the reader with an overview of Celtic Lore.[...]
"Copiously illustrated...well written, thoughtful, and thought-provoking."--"Library Journal"
In this authoritative account, Miranda Green unravels the truth about the Druids. Examining the archaeological evidence, Classical commentaries, and early Welsh and Irish myths, she shows that the Druid[...]
Bonhoeffer reveals a great deal of his family context, social world, and cultural milieu in this fiction from his first year in prison.[...]
Introducing the New Testament is an outstanding guide to the writings of the New Testament for readers ranging from Bible students to those approaching the Christian Scriptures for the first time. Written by three leading Bible specialists, this book discusses in a clear and balanced way the New Tes[...]
Since the appearance of the first edition in 1990, Planning Local Economic Development has become the foundation for an entire generation of planners and academics teaching planning. Building on the success of its predecessors, the Fourth Edition continues to explore the theories of local economic d[...]
Worldwide, as many as 293 million people suffer from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Yet conventional approaches to treatment, with their regimes of drugs and unceasing physical therapy, provide neither cure nor significant relief. In "Natural Therapies For Emphysema", Robert Green sho[...]