Covering a subject of burgeoning interest, this reference studies the most recent advances in the development of ocular drug delivery systems and offers new and expanded chapters on animal models for pharmacokinetic studies, gene therapy in the eye, and microparticulates for ocular drug delivery. Covering methods to treat or prevent ocular inflammation and proliferative eye disease, this source covers breakthroughs in the management of endophthalmitis, uveitis, and diabetic macular edema.

Following the publication of his magnum opus L'etre et l'evenement (Being and Event) in 1988, Alain Badiou has been acclaimed as one of France's greatest living philosophers. Since then, he has released a dozen books, including Manifesto for Philosophy, Conditions, Metapolitics and Logiques des mondes (Logics of Worlds), many of which are now available in English translation. Badiou writes on an extraordinary array of topics, and his work has already had an impact upon studies in the history of philosophy, the history and philosophy of science, political philosophy, aesthetics,...

Ecological Genetics addresses the fundamental problems of which of the many molecular markers should be used and how the resulting data should be analysed in clear, accessible language, suitable for upper-level undergraduates through to research-level professionals.

• A very accessible straightforward text to deal with this difficult topic - applying modern molecular techniques to ecological processes.
  
• Written by active researchers and teachers within the field.
  
• There will be an accompanying web site managed by the authors,...

In this innovative and original collection, people are seen as active agents in the development of new ways of understanding the past and creating histories for the present. Chapters explore forms of public history in which people's experience and understanding of their personal, national and local pasts are part of their current lives.

'It belongs to the weakness of our time not to be able to bear the greatness, the immensity of the claims made by the human spirit, to feel crushed before them, and to flee from them faint-hearted.' (Hegel's Lectures on the History of Philosophy, v2, p. 10) Is it becoming more obvious today that the thinkers of the post-Hegelian era were/are not 'able to bear the greatness, the immensity of the claims made by the human spirit'? Is our era the era of the 'faint-hearted' philosophy? Celebrating 200 years since the publication of The Phenomenology of Spirit this volume addresses these questions...

'The Flight into Egypt' is the story of the first ten years of the life of Jesus, about which the Bible tells us nothing. The narrator is Jesus's older brother, James. During a ten day walk across the desert to escape Herod's soldiers the family witnesses a first display of divine power by the infant Jesus, and a first attack by the jealous Egyptian gods. They settle for four years in Memphis, the second city of an Egypt. During this time, on the way home from a country wedding, Mary, Jesus's mother, is bitten by a snake and dies. James has to descend into the fearsome Egyptian underworld to...

In 2008, the Cultural Asset Mapping for Regional Australia (CAMRA) project was born with the very simple question: how can we best map regional culture in contemporary Australia, so that we can assess that culture's value? In the five years that followed, what transpired was an unpredictable journey into unlikely places and too-often neglected communities across regional Australia, from western Sydney to the central desert, from east coast surfboard-shapers to Torres Straight hip-hop musicians. Their experiences, stories, and insights confronted existing assumptions, and challenged many of...