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As founding Director of the Conflict Transformation Program and Institute of Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University, the author has provided consultation and direct mediation in a range of situations. Representing his thinking and learning, this book explores the evolution of his understanding of peacebuilding.

Consisting of nearly four hundred letters addressed to some of the most notable people of the 12th century, this correspondence reveals St Hildegard as a determined reformer, castigating seer, theoretical musician, patient adviser and exorcist.

Examines the degree to which religious experience is central to African American political involvement and success. Applying the techniques of a cultural resource model to this question, the book makes a case for the formative influence of religion.

This is the first full-length study of the phenomenon of sentential negation in French. Paul Rowlett assesses, from a generative perspective, the respective contribution made to the expression of clausal polarity by ne, pas, and elements such as jamais and personne.

A history of the first anti-cigarette movement, dating from the Victorian age to the Great Depression. The book shows how supporters of the early anti-cigarette movement articulated virtually every issue that is still being debated about smoking today.

Examining the ideal of wilderness preservation in the USA, the author shows how the early (antebellum era) conceptions of the wilderness as the place where Indians lived gave way to the idealization of uninhabited wilderness. The policies of Indian removal at Yosemite and other parks are explored.

This study shows how the writings of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce are politically subversive in the most local and dangerous sense of the term: they aim to take apart the assumptions and verbal practices that make dominance possible.

This study argues that "unplain speaking" is fundamentally embedded in the way we now talk. The author argues that "cheap talk" allows us to distance ourselves from a social role with which we are uncomfortable, while describing how what we are saying becomes separate from how we say it.

This comprehensive study of Roman sexuality and the ideologies of masculinity discusses a wide range of ancient texts, arguing that native Roman concepts of masculinity did not rely on the distinction between homosexuality and heterosexuality, but were instead structured around such antitheses as free vs. slave, dominant vs. subordinate, and masculine vs. effeminate.

In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual and its study. She presents comprehensive overviews of the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and in the process continues to develop her own distinctive position regarding the nature of ritual.

This edition provides representative texts from Eliza Haywood's career, which overlaps that of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding. The six fictions and two plays provided here illustrate the many kinds of writing she produced, and the ways she treated important themes and issues.

Collecting the articles on the metaphysics of modality, this book chronicles Plantinga's thought from the late 1960's. It covers fundamental issues in metaphysics: what is the nature of abstract objects like possible worlds, properties, propositions, and such phenomena? Are there possible but non-actual objects?

This critical study draws upon various materials and aims to show how T.S. Eliot's personal voice works through the sordid, the bawdy, the blasphemous and the horrific to create a unique moral world and the only theory of moral criticism in English literature.

The use of primates in research is an ongoing controversy. In this book, Deborah Blum gives a human face to the often caustic debate between animal rights activists and the scientists who use animals as subjects in their research. Blum criss-crosses America to show us first-hand the issues and personalities involved.

Journalists have often lost constitutional rights for coverage and commentary during America's wars. Based on analysis of two hundred years of law and history, this study argues that press freedom cannot and should not be suspended during armed conflict. The military and the media must work together because neither has authority over the other.

When Tom Gossett's book Race: The History of an Idea in America appeared more than a generation ago, it explored the impact of race theory on literature in a way that anticipated the entire scholarly discourse on the subject. With a new afterword by the author and an introduction by series editors Arnold Rampersad and Shelley Fisher Fishkin.

An examination of the social and legal changes that have transformed the juvenile court since the 1970s. The book explores the complex relationship between race and youth crime to explain both Supreme Court decisions and a political impetus to "get tough" on young offenders.

This book will review the physics of the concept of solar forcing, or driving, of climate change in manageable terms, tracing its history from its beginnings in the early 1800s to a resurgence of interest in the idea in recent years. Emphasis will be on solar variation as a driver for climate change; other mechanisms will be treated briefly.

The authors bridge the gap between the semantic and syntactic properties of verb tense and aspect, suggest a unified account of tense and aspect using Chomsky's Principles and Parameters Framework and compare tense and aspect systems in Romance languages with Germanic ones. In the OXFORD STUDIES IN COMPARATIVE SYNTAX series.

Systematic Theology is the capstone of Robert Jenson's long and distinguished career as a theologian, being a full-scale systematic/dogmatic theology in the classic format. This is the second and concluding volume of the work, and considers the works of God, examining such topics as the nature and role of the Church, and God's works of creation.

Systematic Theology promises to be the capstone of Jenson's long and distinguished career as a theologian, being a full-scale systematic/dogmatic theology in the classic format. Volume 1 begins with an extended discussion of Jenson's methodology, and addresses questions on the nature of the Christian God, including the classic christological and trinitarian questions.

Weaves geography, geology, earth history and exploration into a fascinating story about an important but little known experiment that changed how we map the earth.

A general study of Jewish participation in American sports, which focuses specifically on baseball, boxing and basketball. The author refutes the assumption that Jewish tradition has not been positive about sporting activities.

This study interprets ancient Greek verse texts and musical settings in the framework of a theory of prosody based on cross-linguistic evidence and experimental phonetic and psycholinguistic data. It reconstructs the syllable structure, rhythm, accent, phrasing and intonation of Greek speech.

Drummin' Men profiles the very best of this generation, illuminating the high-energy drive of Gene Krupa, the explosive power of Chick Webb, and the elegant style of Jo Jones. Photographs.

Offers an introduction to Christian rituals and the sacraments. This book aims to demonstrate that celebration, ritual and symbol are already central to the readers' lives, even though most do not see their actions as symbolic or ritualistic. It then connects central Christian symbols to the symbols and rituals present in the readers' lives.

Enrique Granados (1867-1916) is best known for his music inspired by the art of Francisco Goya, especially the monumental Goyescas suite for solo piano. This biography examines Granados's life and music in the context of Spanish art, literature, and history, leading to a fuller understanding of his enduring significance.

A collection of essays on comparative syntax by distinguished linguist Richard Kayne. The papers cover issues of comparative syntax as they are applied to French, Italian, and other Romance languages and dialects, together forming a cohesive text that aims to be of value to scholars and students.

This work unveils a method for understanding how Mexico's northern land, New Mexico, came under the authority of the United States and what role women played in the political game of takeover.