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This book calls for a renewed examination of the professions as public or semi-public institutions with significant influence on civic culture. It offers a treatment of twelve different professions, showing how each traditionally understood itself, how it functioned within society, and how it understands itself today.

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This book tells the story of a period of suffering for new professors quite comparable to the description of purgatory in Dantes Divine Comedy.

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Covering the years leading up to the Progressive Era through the 1920s, this book provides entries on the central figures, events, crusades, legislation, publications and terms of the health reform movements, while a detailed timeline ties health reform to political, social, and religious movements.

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This fascinating guide documents the transformation of government from passive observer to active participant and ally of the American people during the late-19th and early-20th centuries.

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Beginning with an extensive overview essay of the period, this book focuses on the issues of the Progressive Era through contemporary accounts of the people involved.

The General Post Office (GPO) Film Unit sat at the creative epicentre of Britain in the 1930s. Here, the insights of an archivist, a musicologist, a design historian, a sports historian, a geographer and a postman among others have been edited into a rich critical archaeology of a compelling moment in cinematic history.

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Undertaking a sequential reading of the "Prologue of John's Gospel", this book highlights several aspects of the reading process: ambiguity and disambiguation; resemanticization; antilanguage; community development; and intertextuality. It also discusses the role of the reading process in developing a specific community language.

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Are we environmentally victimizing, perhaps even poisoning, our minority and low-income citizens Proponents of "environmental justice" assert that environmental decision making pays insufficient heed to the interests of those citizens, disproportionately burdens their neighborhoods with hazardous toxins, and perpetuates an insidious "environmental racism".

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The stem cells at the center of the cluster have the potential to become specialized cells that could one day benefit millions of Americans. Confounding the traditional polarized politics of the country previously dominated by anti-abortion and pro-choice politics, the politics of stem cell research may be redrawing the contours of public life.

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An account of the theoretical and political debates central to European security cooperation. The essays analyze the interaction between states and institutions as they shape European security cooperation in the wake of the cold war.

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Offers a defence of a mediatorial interpretation of the atonement, that is one in which Christ is held to have become as we are, so that he might on our behalf make peace with God. It is argued that such an interpretation is not one of a number of valid descriptions of Christ's saving work, but the normative redemptive account.

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Offers a defence of a mediatorial interpretation of the atonement, that is one in which Christ is held to have become as we are, so that he might on our behalf make peace with God. It is argued that such an interpretation is not one of a number of valid descriptions of Christ's saving work, but the normative redemptive account.

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A reissue of a brilliant and accessible introduction to Trinitarian thought. Colin Gunton argues that the theology of the Trinity has profound implications for all dimensions of human life. Central to his work is his argument that the doctrine should offer ways of articulating the being of God and of the world so that we may be better able to live before God and with each other.

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What is race-based hierarchy The Promise of Whiteness focuses on the impact of the promise of "whiteness" upon American society in the past and future by examining its creation and evolution. Particular attention is given to the psychological needs met-and the fears, anxietie...