Understanding the passions fueling three of America's most provocative potters

"Pottery, Politics, Art" uses the medium of clay to explore the nature of spectacle, bodies, and boundaries. The book analyzes the sexual and social obsessions of three of America's most intense potters, artists who used the liminal potentials of clay to explore the horrors and delights of our animal selves.

The book revives from undeserved obscurity the far-southern Illinois potting brothers Cornwall and Wallace Kirkpatrick (1814-90, 1828-96) and examines the significance of the haunting, witty, and grotesque...

Can courts and judges be evaluated? Or are the ideals of justice incompatible with quality measurement? These questions are addressed by research into the experience of nine European countries. Issues of independence and accountability are analysed by examining the role of the courts as a branch of government that maintains legitimacy and authority as well as providing a public service. This appreciation broadens the conception of accountability, while highlighting that independence is but a means to the end of impartiality. The interests, values and traditions of the law, public management...

The much-anticipated anthology on Plato s"Timaeus" Plato s singular dialogue on the creation of the universe, the nature of the physical world, and the place of persons in the cosmos examining all dimensions of one of the most important books in Western Civilization: its philosophy, cosmology, science, and ethics, its literary aspects and reception. Contributions come from leading scholars in their respective fields, including Sir Anthony Leggett, 2003 Nobel Laureate for Physics. Parts of or earlier versions of these papers were first presented at the"Timaeus"Conference, held at the...

Dieses Buch entstand aus Lehrveranstaltungen, die ich im Laufe von zehn Jahren fUr Studierende verschiedenster Fachrichtungen an der FH Esslingen gehalten habe. Vor allem sind hier die Wahlfachvorlesungen zum Thema "Numerische Methoden" fUr Ingeni eurstudenten der Fachrichtungen Elektrotechnik, Informatik und Maschinenbau zu nen nen. Der zweite Ausgangspunkt fUr die vorliegende Datstellung sind Computer-Praktika fUr denselben Horerkreis, bei denen die Studierenden in die Anwendung des Software Pakets MATLAB eingefUhrt wurden. Besonders durch Diskussionen mit Studierenden des...

With religion at centre stage in conflicts worldwide, and in social, ethical and geo-political debates, this book takes a timely look at relations between law and religion. To what extent can religion play a role in secular legal systems? How do peoples of various faiths live successfully by both secular laws as well as their religious laws? Are there limits to freedom of religion? These questions are related to legal deliberations and broader discussions around secularism, multiculturalism, immigration, settlement and security. The book is unique in bringing together leading scholars and...