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In this volume, an imposing roster of both internationally renowned Iranian scholars and rising young Iranian academics offer essays - many based on recent fieldwork - on the nature and evolution of Iran's economy, significant aspects of Iran's changing society, and the dynamics of its domestic and international politics since the 1979 revolution, focusing particularly on the post-Khomeini period.

Part of the "Great Medieval Thinkers" series, this book focuses on an Islamic philosopher. It offers an introduction to the thought of the philosopher, Al-Kindi (died roughly 870 AD). It surveys what is known of Al-Kindi's life, examines his thought on a range of topics, and considers the relationship of Al-Kindi's work to his Greek sources.

Presents an introduction to what the author calls common morality, the moral system that most thoughtful people implicitly use when making everyday, commonsense moral decisions and judgments. This book offers a version of Gert's influential theory of morality, as well as a look at the moral foundations of our everyday actions.

Presents the story of Caesar's contest with the Pompeian party through nineteen months of the civil war. This work offers an account of the troubled Roman empire near the turn to the common era. It shows the brilliance for which Caesar's oratory, like his generalship, was known. It includes maps, an explanation of technical terms and a glossary.

In this book David Chalmers follows up and extends his thoughts and arguments on the nature of consciousness that he first set forth in his groundbreaking 1996 book, The Conscious Mind.

Yarborough provides a comprehensive look at today's Supreme Court Justices and their record - a study all the more valuable for the Court's mixed decisions and hard-to-categorize course. Thoughtful, wide-ranging, intelligently written, this book will stand as the finest study of the Rehnquist Court for years to come.

This title combines a performance guide for violinists, an analytical study, an exploration of Bach's style, and an investigation of musical form and continuity. It also discusses what type of analysis is best applied to Bach's music. Wherever possible, Lester draws his analytical tools from 18th-century techniques, developed for this repertoire.

A discussion of the new generalism approach to medical training and its effects on doctoring, examining the skills that physicians-in-training must be taught to practice the art which centres on the person rather than a disease or organ system, and also looks at the relationship between the physician and the individual.

In this final volume of his biography of Lyndon Johnson, Dallek takes us through Johnson's tumultuous years in the White House, his accomplishments there, and the tragic war that would be his downfall.

The Band Teacher's Percussion Guide offers everything music educators need to know about snare drum, timpani, keyboard percussion, drum set, and auxiliary and Latin percussion techniques. It features discussions on effective evaluation, instruments and their care, and dozens of practice exercises along with access to a companion website of resources.

Policy and the Political Life of Music Education is the first book of its kind in music education. It brings together expert voices, defining a critical new arena for action in the field: policy. It is essential reading for anyone hoping to better understand the contingencies of change and decision-making.

Master teacher Stewart Gordon offers advice for musicians on conquering the demands of performance. It spans all aspects of the performance process from the planning and preparatory stages, through the actual performance, evaluation, and cultivation of a life devoted to performance.

Laying out foundations for a "science of morals", this book uses game theory as a systematic tool for investigating ethical matters. Beginning with individuals: rational decision-makers with the ability to emphasize with one another, it also generates different insights into the fundamental questions of social philosophy.

This is a substantially expanded and completely revised edition of a book first published by Fortress Press in 1988 as Maenads, Matyrs, Matrons, Monastics. It collects translations of primary texts relevant to women's religion (pagan, Jewish, and Christian) in Western antiquity, from the fourth century BCE to the fifth century CE.

This is the first book of case studies on animal ethics. It deals with important social controversies involving the human use of animals and analyses the moral issues involved. An excellent introduction to ethical theory provides a framework to the 16 original case studies, which include the use of animals in research, testing, and education, as food, as companion animals, and in religious rites.

This book presents the history of the development of fibre optic technology, explaining the scientific challenges that needed to be overcome, the range of applications and future potential for this fundamental communications technology. The author has followed and reported the development closely for the past 20 years, and is better placed than anyone to write the definitive history of the field.

Takes a historical and philosophical approach to examine how scientists were able to use scientific methods to test the reliability of thermometers; how they measured temperature beyond the reach of thermometers; and how they came to measure the reliability and accuracy of these instruments without a circular reliance on the instruments.

In this objective approach to the sociobiology debate, John Alcock illuminates how sociobiologists study behavior in all species. He provides an analysis of case histories that include the topics sexual jealousy, beauty, gender difference, and rape.

Some feminists see the cultural imagery of women as a fundamental threat to female autonomy because it enshrines procreative heterosexuality as well as the relations of domination and subordination between men and women. This title is about this cultural imagery and how once it is internalized it shapes perception, reflection, judgement and desire.

Christians often disagree with themselves and others over such matters as music, popular culture and worship style. Yet they usually lack theology of art or taste to deal with aesthetic disputes. This provocative book offers an "ecumenical" approach to artistic taste and aesthetic judgement.

This work investigates the historical context, meaning, and expression of early Quaker pacifism in England and its colonies. Weddle focuses primarily on one historical moment - King Philip's War, which confronted the New England Quakers with the practical need to define the parameters of their peace testimony.

This work explains hyperspace and multidimensional geometries in an effort to help readers to manipulate, visualize, and think about the higher spatial dimensions that all serious physical theories since relativity have required.

At the century's end, many societies are moving from authoritarian rule to democracy, and the question arises: should a society punish its ancien regime? Ruti Teitel explores the recurring question of how regimes should respond to evil rule, arguing against the view favouring punishment.

Fought at a strategic crossroads in the Cold War, Algeria's war for independence was a harbinger of the contemporary era. In this history, Mathew Connelly shows how the rebels harnessed the forces of globalisation to break up the French empire and how it created the conditions of the postcolonial world. It is being published on the 40th anniversary of the end of the war.