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An eloquent and stimulating argument for an alternative history of scientific and technological imaging systems. It explores the way in which the technological medium through which a piece of visual art is rendered contributes to the experience of the human looking at it.

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This work describes in detail such issues as the concurrent development of international law and the law of the sea, the complex negotiating process that resulted in the completed Law of Sea Convention and policy directions and issues for the US in the post-convention environment.

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The author outlines an entirely different conception of what the university must become if it is to be a force for good in the world.

The author contends that the modern university actively participates in the breakdown of human communities and the destruction of the natural world.

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This collection of essays attempts to show the variety of contemporary French novelists. It is written with the non-specialist reader in mind and includes writers such as Marguerite Duras, Michel Tournier, Philippe Sollers, Marie-Claire Blais, Augustin Gomez Arcos and Patrick Modiano.

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This book reinvents the philosophy of religion, investigating how social actors perceive necessities and grapple with accidents that disrupt them. Loewen draws upon on the work of Derrida and critical theorists of religion to argue that the usual commitments to categories structured by theism no longer prevent cross-cultural studies of evil.

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This book reinvents the philosophy of religion, investigating how social actors perceive necessities and grapple with accidents that disrupt them. Loewen draws upon on the work of Derrida and critical theorists of religion to argue that the usual commitments to categories structured by theism no longer prevent cross-cultural studies of evil.

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Recent years have seen an unprecedented period of reform in the public worship of the Catholic Church. Controversy over liturgical reform was focused in England by an international conference in 1996, which led to the formation of a Liturgy Forum and the issuing of the Oxford Declaration on Liturgy. This book represents all the key elements from that important conference.

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The eight essays in this volume explore the public, or extra-domestic, lives of women, examining the connections between their activities in the public and private domains.

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Sheds fresh light on divisive issues of authority in the Christian Church and puts them in a fresh historical and ecumenical perspective. This book charts a course for convergence between the major traditions on the thorny questions of authority, primacy and unity.

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This text argues that contemporary Japanese nationalism has no connection to its pre-war embodiment. Nationalism in Japan today is manifested by a strong ethnic, cultural and racial identification and not by citizen identification with the state.

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This text argues that contemporary Japanese nationalism has no connection to its pre-war embodiment. Nationalism in Japan today is manifested by a strong ethnic, cultural and racial identification and not by citizen identification with the state.

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This book argues for a new interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Transeuphratene district of the Achaemenid Empire which included Syria, Phoenicia, Palestine and Cyprus.

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Going beyond Allan Bloom's The Closing of the American Mind, Paul Eidelberg shows how the cardinal principles of democracy--freedom and equality--can be saved from the degradation of moral relativism by applying Jewish law to these principles.

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An examination of Vida Dutton Scudder's theological ethics.

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This collection of standards-based lessons will guide middle and high school teachers while teaching the nation's history in a user-friendly, ready-made fashion.