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This work argues that ideology was the cornerstone of the Cold War. It demonstrates that Stalin's single-minded adherence to Marxism-Leninism created an atmosphere, both domestically and internationally, of constant insecurity.

A new and illuminating critique of the narrative, ethical and aesthetic strands in Joyce's masterpiece, Ulysses.

Like a peak performance book for athletes, Trumpet Technique will be a resource for performers, teachers, and students seeking to develop the highest level of skill. Frank Gabriel Campos, a trumpet professor and performer, applies the latest developments in physiology, psychology, learning theory and psychomotor research to brass technique and performance.

Tannsjo here approaches the question of how to allocate limited health-care resources from a philosophical perspective. He balanaces theoretical treatments of distributive ethics with real-world examples of how health-care is administered around the world today, arguing for the controversial position that we ought to direct more resources to the care and cure of people suffering from mental illness, and less to the marginal life extension of elderlypatients.

Saving the Dammed follows the course of the seasons throughout one representative year at a beaver meadow in Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado. The seasonal changes provide a backdrop against which to explore how beavers change river valleys and how the decline in beaver populations has altered river ecosystems.

Acute Pain Medicine tackles a large array of diagnostic and treatment consideration across a variety of surgical and non-surgical acute pain conditions. Written and edited under the auspices of the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the text reviews a variety of acute pain modulating factors followed by interventional and pharmacologic treatment options.

When so much of civic life is painful and fractious, why should we be polite? Drawing on the work of early Chinese philosophers who lived during great political turmoil but nonetheless avidly sought to "mind their manners," Amy Olberding explains why politeness still matters, and why it is essential to human life, due to our deeply social nature.

Hegel's Aesthetics is the first comprehensive interpretation of Hegel's philosophy of art in English in thirty years. It gives a new analysis of his notorious "end of art" thesis, shows the indispensability of his aesthetics to his philosophy generally, and argues for his theory's relevance today.

Offering in-depth examinations of rare and unusual snakes, this volume examines the ecological role of snakes throughout various islands of the world, from Golden Lancehead of the Queimada Grande Island in Brazil to sea kraits in Taiwan. Islands and Snakes is the first book to tackle snakes and their unique connection to islands.

Flow theorizes the rhythm of the rapping voice at the intersection of music, speech, and poetry. Author Mitchell Ohriner addresses pressing questions in theories of musical rhythm and meter through a combination of computational music analysis and humanistic close reading.

As the eponymous sacred text of a modern religious movement of global reach, The Book of Mormon has undeniable historical significance. That significance, this volume shows, is inextricable from the intricacy of its literary form and the audacity of its historical vision. This landmark collection brings together a diverse range of scholars in American literary studies and adjacent fields to definitively establish The Book of Mormon as anindispensable object of Americanist inquiry not least because it is, among other things, a form of Americanist inquiry in its own right¿a creative, critical reading of "America."

Offers an account of the transformation of political speechmaking. This book addresses such issues about public speaking as what talents and techniques differentiate eloquent speakers from non-eloquent speakers. It offers insight into public speaking, contemporary characteristics of eloquence, and the future of political discourse in America.

This dictionary explores the origins of hundreds of words. Written in anecdotal style, the book includes brief biographies of those individuals whose names have become associated with particular items or concepts, as well as information on how or when the name entered the language.

Between God and Gangsta Rap is an exploration of the ongoing debate about African-American identity which embraces the hopes of the church and the cool reality of hip-hop.

While common sense and rationality have been viewed as two distinct features in a unified cognitive map, this volume engages with this notion and comes up with different views of this relationship. It is aimed at those who are interested in considering what constitutes human rationality, behaviour, and intelligence.

Comprising over a thousand pages of densely written Aramaic, the compilation of texts known as the Zohar represents the collective wisdom of various strands of Jewish mysticism up to the thirteenth century. In this book, Pinchas Giller examines certain sections of the Zohar, and the ways in which the doctrines of kabbalah took shape around them.

A very current and comprehensive textbook for the standard undergraduate chemical engineering course in process dynamics and control. Unique topics include a unified approach to model representations, process control formulation and process identification, multivariate control, statistical quality control, and model based control.

This title argues that our conception of consciousness is based upon fundamental errors. It discusses three important philosophical puzzles, each of which presents the same problem. In highlighting this, the errors in our conception of consciousness and cognition are also revealed.

The image of Peter the Great, Tsar of Russia from 1689 to 1725, has been a central theme of Russian history, art and literature. This study draws on Russian historical accounts, folklore and the arts to demonstrate how the image of Peter has reflected the changing cultural values of Russian people.

This volume provides a description of therapeutic integration and its clinical practices by the leading proponents of the movement. The book considers two exemplars of theoretical integration, technical eclecticism, and common factors. The authors review integrative therapies for specific disorders along with integrative treatment modalities,

Does human life have meaning? Ever since Darwin, there has been great skepticism about whether a

About three-quarters of people who grew up Mormon used to remain in the LDS Church, but in recent years, this number has dropped to about half. This book draws on survey research and interviews to explain why so many young adults are leaving the faith, placing the Mormon story in the broader context of rising secularism in America. Along the way it gives personal stories of Mormons' missionary and temple experiences, unpacks changing understandings of the family, andexplores the generational fallout of the religion's political conservatism.

Making Change demonstrates the potential for youth to engage in social entrepreneurship to transform themselves and their communities. For youth in marginalized communities, where the opportunity gap, suppressed social mobility, and economic disparity are most profound, social entrepreneurship offers the exponential benefits of personal empowerment, community enhancement, and economic transformation.

This book collects together new essays by moral and legal philosophers that are aimed at knocking down a disciplinary wall that divides contemporary philosophical thinking about the nature of morality and contemporary philosophical thinking about the nature of law.

This book brings together contributions by historians of philosophy and medicine to trace the concept of health from ancient Greece and China, through the Islamic world, down to modern thinkers like Descartes and Freud. Major themes include the parallel between mental and physical health and the difficulty of defining health.

This book brings together contributions by historians of philosophy and medicine to trace the concept of health from ancient Greece and China, through the Islamic world, down to modern thinkers like Descartes and Freud. Major themes include the parallel between mental and physical health and the difficulty of defining health.

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race provides up-to-date explanation and analyses by leading scholars in African American philosophy and philosophy of race. Fifty-one original essays cover major topics from intellectual history to contemporary social controversies in this emerging philosophical subfield that supports demographic inclusion and emphasizes cultural relevance.