This timely introduction to Old English literature focuses on the production and reception of Old English texts, and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon history and culture.
Introduces Old English texts and considers their relation to Anglo-Saxon culture.
Responds to renewed emphasis on historical and cultural contexts in the field of medieval studies.
Treats virtually the entire range of textual types preserved in Old English.
Considers the production, reception and uses of Old English texts.
Integrates the...
This timely introduction to Old English literature focuses on the production and reception of Old English texts, and on their relation to Anglo-Saxon ...
Infants, children and adolescents with congenital heart disease (CHD) are a challenge to manage and an ever-increasing number are reaching adulthood.
CHD is one of the most important topics in cardiology today, yet this book is the only clinically-orientated monograph devoted exclusively to ventricular function and blood flow as it relates to CHD.
Written by a distinguished panel of cardiologists, bioengineers, physiologists, and clinical investigators, Ventricular Function and Blood Flow in Congenital Heart Disease is an extensive...
Infants, children and adolescents with congenital heart disease (CHD) are a challenge to manage and an ever-increasing number are reaching adulthood.<...
This monograph concerns the psychological processes underlying the development of executive function, or the conscious control of thought and action. It has long been clear that these processes change considerably in early childhood, transforming a relatively stimulus--driven toddler into a child capable of flexible, goal--directed problem solving.
This monograph concerns the psychological processes underlying the development of executive function, or the conscious control of thought and action. ...
This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman's authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day.
The first edition was widely praised for combining sophistication and accessibility.
Covers a wide range of subjects, including geology, climate, agriculture, government and politics, culture, literature, media, foreign relations, imperialism, and industrialism.
Updated to include an epilogue on Japan today and tomorrow.
Now includes more on women in history and more on international relations.
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This is an updated edition of Conrad Totman's authoritative history of Japan from c.8000 BC to the present day.
This book demonstrates the need for a new food policy to address the challenges for the global food system posed by globalisation, urbanisation, technical change and industrialisation.
A collection of papers demonstrating the need for a new food policy.
Looks at the challenges for the global food system posed by globalisation, urbanisation, technical change, and industrialisation.
Suggests that food policy now needs to encompass issues such as obesity, food safety, and competition policy in the retail sector.
Warns that meeting...
This book demonstrates the need for a new food policy to address the challenges for the global food system posed by globalisation, urbanisation, techn...
Bringing together contributions from the eight men who have held the post of British Permanent Representative to the EC/EU, this book provides an authoritative insight into the way Britain's relationship with its EC/EU partners has developed since accession in 1973.
A unique and authoritative insight into the way Britain's relationship with its EC/EU partners has developed since accession in 1973.
Presents overviews of this relationship written by the eight men who have held the post of British Permanent Representative to the EC/EU.
Provides a...
Bringing together contributions from the eight men who have held the post of British Permanent Representative to the EC/EU, this book provides an auth...
The market for credit derivatives--financial instruments designed to transfer credit risk from one party to another--has grown exponentially in recent years, with volume expected to reach more than $4.8 trillion by 2004. With demand increasing from the private sector for finance professionals trained in the opportunities--and dangers--inherent in this fast-changing market, finance courses are already springing up to meet this need.
Credit Derivatives:
Explains the field of credit derivatives to business students with a background in...
The market for credit derivatives--financial instruments designed to transfer credit risk from one party to another--has grown exponentially in recent...
This volume provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary and multinational view of attachment theory as it applies to family systems, and family systems theory as it extends attachment theory.
Explores if and how attachment theory can be truly systemic, and what a systemic attachment theory would entail
Addresses potential clinical implications and applications of attachment and family systems theories
Raises cultural challenges to integrative theoretical development
Challenges developmental and...
This volume provides a comprehensive multidisciplinary and multinational view of attachment theory as it applies to family systems, and family systems...
The twentieth century has been a time of immense change in virtually every facet of human life in the West. This edited volume examines how marriage, and how we theorize about marriage, has been transformed. The essays included emphasize the need for new theory, research, and practice to take a more multifaceted and diverse perspective on marriage, divorce, and human pair-bonding in general into the twenty-first century.
Addresses shifting marital trends, specifically looking at divorce, rather than death, as the endpoint of marriage
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The twentieth century has been a time of immense change in virtually every facet of human life in the West. This edited volume examines how marriage, ...
