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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume brings together papers by some of the leading figures working on virtue-theoretic accounts in both ethics and epistemology.A collection of cutting edge articles by leading figures in the field of virtue theory including Guy Axtell, Julia Driver, Antony Duff and Miranda Fricker.The first book to combine papers on both virtue ethics and virtue epistemology.Deals with key topics in recent epistemological and ethical debate.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This guide provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies.Provides an overview of the most significant issues and debates in Gothic studies.Explains the origins and development of the term Gothic.Explores the evolution of the Gothic in both literary and non-literary forms, including art, architecture and film.Features authoritative readings of key works, ranging from Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto to Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho .Considers recurrent concerns of the Gothic such as persecution and paranoia, key motifs such as the haunted castle, and figures such as the vampire and the monster.Includes a chronology of key Gothic texts, including fiction and film from the 1760s to the present day, and a comprehensive bibliography.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This thematic history of the world from 1780 to the onset of the First World War reveals that the world was far more 'globalised' at this time than is commonly thought.\* Explores previously neglected sets of connections in world history.\* Reveals that the world was far more 'globalised', even at the beginning of this period, than is commonly thought.\* Sketches the 'ripple effects' of world crises such as the European revolutions and the American Civil War.\* Shows how events in Asia, Africa and South America impacted on the world as a whole.\* Considers the great themes of the nineteenth-century world, including the rise of the modern state, industrialisation and liberalism.\* Challenges and complements the regional and national approaches which have traditionally dominated history teaching and writing.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In December 1997, in a small town in rural Australia, a fight broke out among local Aborigines that turned into a full-blown riot when police intervened in force. In Blackfellas, Whitefellas, and the Hidden Injuries of Race, anthropologist Gillian Cowlishaw uses this vivid incident as a means of launching a larger discussion about race, identity, and racialized violence.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This core text provides an excellent concise introduction to infectious diseases. The book integrates basic science with clinical practice with disease-orientated descriptions and clinical presentations on a system-by-system basis. It is therefore ideal for both the student and the practitioner.For this new sixth edition the text has been brought fully up to date throughout. The highly structured and improved text is designed to facilitate easy access to information, making the book an ideal resource for clinical attachments and revision. There is a new chapter that covers infections in special groups, as well as coverage of sepsis and septic shock. The Introductory chapter also takes into account new control measures, emerging infections, and infections linked with bioterrorism. Information on global occurrence is added to the epidemiology sections where relevant and web site information has been included to provide up-to-date resources on fast moving topics such as AIDS, and travel-related infections such as SARS.The result is a text that is a compact yet comprehensive guide to infectious diseases. It will appeal to medical students, junior doctors, general practitioners, and allied health professionals who want a concise introduction to the subject or an ideal revision companion.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This reader brings together classic and contemporary contributions to debates about social justice.A collection of classic and contemporary contributions to debates about social justice.Includes classic discussions of justice by Locke and Hume.Provides broad coverage of contemporary discussions, including theoretical pieces by John Rawls, Robert Nozick and Ronald Dworkin.Contains papers that apply theories of justice to concrete issues, such as gender and the family, the market, world poverty, cultural rights, and future generations.Philosophically challenging yet accessible to students.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written by a leading authority on William Carlos Williams, this book provides a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to twentieth-century American poetry.A wide-ranging and stimulating critical guide to twentieth-century American poetry.Written by a leading authority on the innovative modernist poet, William Carlos Williams.Explores the material, historical and social contexts in which twentieth-century American poetry was produced.Includes a biographical dictionary of major writers with extended entries on poets ranging from Robert Frost to Adrienne Rich.Contains a section on key texts considering major works, such as 'The Waste Land', 'North & South', 'Howl' and 'Ariel'.The final section draws out key themes, such as American poetry, politics and war, and the process of anthologizing at the end of the century.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Philosophy: The Big Questions occupies a unique position among introductory texts in philosophy. Designed for a single-semester introductory course in philosophy, it includes both classic readings in philosophy and newer articles.Presents, in one volume, canonical and contemporary works in ethics, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and epistemology.Topics discussed include knowledge, religion, freedom, morality, and the meaning of life.Serves as a comprehensive and compelling introduction to philosophy.Together with traditional readings it also presents non-traditional, feminist eadings from a continental perspectives.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From amusement park rides to critical environmental issues such as energy generation-physics affects almost every aspect of our world. In PHYSICS MATTERS, James Trefil and Robert Hazen examine the fundamental physics principles at work behind the many practical applications that fuel our society and individual lives. Their goal is to promote a deeper understanding of how the great ideas of physics connect to form a much larger understanding of the universe in which we live.HighlightsHelps readers build a general knowledge of key ideas in physics and their connection to technology and other areas of science.Promotes an appreciation of what science is, how scientific knowledge is developed, and how it differs from other intellectual activities.Examines modern technologies, including GPS, the Internet, and information technologies, as well as medical technologies, such as MRI, PET scans, CAT scans, and radioisotope tracers.Explores key issues facing the world today, such as global warning, nuclear waste, and government funding for research.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Outlining the challenges of working in a multi-disciplinary context, this book provides key theoretical cocepts and describes how to conduct joint assessments and design, deliver and evaluate interventions. Taking a life-span approach to working with children of all ages from infant to adolescents, the key emphasis of the book is on the prevention of children's emotional and behavioural difficulties through effective interdisciplinary working.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This Sixth Edition helps readers understand the interrelationships among basic physics concepts and how they fit together to describe our physical world. Throughout the book, the authors emphasize the relevance of physics to our everyday lives.Real-world physics applications, including many biomedical applications, show how physics principles come into play over and over again in our lives.Problem Solving Insights explain each calculation in detail, guiding readers through the quantitative processIncludes a CD containing physics simulations.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This accessible and timely book uses a Christian perspective to explore ethical debates about nature.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This text introduces students to the key issues in the study of childhood, from infancy through to adulthood, from an interdisciplinary and multi-professional perspective.A broad-ranging introductory guide to key issues in the study of childhood.Approaches childhood studies from an interdisciplinary and multi-professional perspective.Presents the basics of psychology, social welfare, education, health, law, culture, rights, politics, and economics as they relate to children.For each discipline, the role of relevant professionals, such as social workers, nursery teachers, paediatric nurses and child lawyers, is also considered.Contributors have both practical and academic backgrounds in a range of specialist areas.Each chapter includes an independent learning activity, case studies, a glossary and annotated bibliography.Will inspire debate in the classroom about childhood issues.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The most comprehensive reader on kinship available, Kinship and Family: An Anthropological Reader is a representative collection tracing the history of the anthropological study of kinship from the early 1900s to the present day.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - First Language Acquisition: The Essential Readings is a collection of pioneering classics that provide a framework for understanding current work in each of the basic areas of language acquisition: morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.Collects classic works that provide the foundation for current research in the field of first language acquisition.Includes selections from Noam Chomsky, Jean Piaget, Eric Lenneberg and Roman Jakobson, as well as others who contributed groundbreaking discoveries, insights, concepts, and methods.Presents framework for understanding current work in each of the basic areas of language acquisition: morphology, phonology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics.Provides valuable resource for students and scholars of language acquisition, cognitive development, and cognitive science.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The latest edition of this highly acclaimed title introduces the reader to a wide range of spectroscopies, and includes both the background theory and applications to structure determination and chemical analysis. It covers rotational, vibrational, electronic, photoelectron and Auger spectroscopy, as well as EXAFs and the theory of lasers and laser spectroscopy.\* A revised and updated edition of a successful, clearly written book\* Includes the latest developments in modern laser techniques, such as cavity ring-down spectroscopy and femtosecond lasers\* Provides numerous worked examples, calculations and questions at the end of chapters.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This single, comprehensive resource responds to the high demand for specialitsts to be able to provide advice to users, as well as day-to-day administration, maintenance, and support of computer systems and networks. Readers will learn how to discover customer needs and then use that information to identify, interpret, and evaluate system and network requirements.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This accessible and timely book uses a Christian perspective to explore ethical debates about nature.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Philosophy: The Big Questions occupies a unique position among introductory texts in philosophy.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Multivariable Mathematics combines linear algebra and multivariable mathematics in a rigorous approach. The material is integrated to emphasize the recurring theme of implicit versus explicit that persists in linear algebra and analysis. In the text, the author includes all of the standard computational material found in the usual linear algebra and multivariable calculus courses, and more, interweaving the material as effectively as possible, and also includes complete proofs. Contains plenty of examples, clear proofs, and significant motivation for the crucial concepts. Numerous exercises of varying levels of difficulty, both computational and more proof-oriented. Exercises are arranged in order of increasing difficulty.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 'This text offers a current, condensed treatment of advanced accounting topics and a unique emphasis on accounting research. Taking a macro approach and then relating it back to an application, the text attempts to explain the 'why' behind accounting, in addition to the procedural methods. The authors are active teachers and have been successfully using this material in the classroom for many years. Each copy of the textbook is accompanied by a current FARS (Financial Accounting Research System) CD-ROM.'.