Télécharger le livre :  From Reformation to Improvement
Between the early sixteenth and the early eighteenth centuries, the character of English social policy and social welfare changed fundamentally. Aspirations for wholesale reformation were replaced by more specific schemes for improvement. Paul Slack's analysis of this...

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Télécharger le livre :  Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: Volume 2: The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion
This second volume begins with a Section on the religion of the people. The clergy offered the liturgical services, sermons, evangelistic missions, and the offices sanctifying birth, marriage, and death; distinctions are made between what they intended and how their...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1998-08-27
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Télécharger le livre :  The Case for Women in Medieval Culture
Misogyny is of course not the whole story of medieval discourse on women: medieval culture also envisaged a case for women. But hitherto studies of profeminine attitudes in that periods culture have tended to concentrate on courtly literature or on female visionary...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: Volume 1: The Clerical Establishment and its Social Ramifications
This, the first volume, begins with a Section on Church and State, the theology and political theory justifying their alliance, the wealth of the Clergy and their Assemblies voting taxation, their role in the official life of the nation, from the Court at Versailles to...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1998-07-30
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Télécharger le livre :  People and Parliament in the European Union
The power of the European Parliament has been steadily and visibly increasing in recent years. This arises from EU treaty changes and from the fact that more and more decisions are being made at the European level. At the same time, however, the already low rate of...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Kantian Humility
Rae Langton offers a new interpretation and defence of Kant's doctrine of things in themselves. Kant distinguishes things in themselves from phenomena, and in so doing he makes a metaphysical distinction between intrinsic and relational properties of substances. Kant...

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Télécharger le livre :  Pluralism and the Politics of Difference
Is a plural, polyethnic, democratic society possible? Starting with Ernest Gellner's observation that `culturally plural societies worked well in the past', but `genuine cultural pluralism ceases to be viable under current conditions', this study explores pluralism in...

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Télécharger le livre :  The Art of the State
Why does public management–the art of the state–so often go wrong, producing failure and fiasco instead of public service? What are the different ways in which control or regulation can be applied to government?Why do we find contradictory recipes for the improvement of...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1998-07-10
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Télécharger le livre :  Medicine and Religion c.1300
This book takes a fresh look at the cultural role of medicine among learned people around 1300. It was at this time that learned medicine came to be fully incorporated into the academic system and began to win greater social acceptance. Joseph Ziegler argues that...

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Télécharger le livre :  Out of Equilibrium
Standard equilibrium economic models focus on interdependencies. In Out of Equilibrium, Amendola and Gaffard develop a theory also dealing with interdependencies, but based on disequilibria, which take the form of feedback mechanisms over time. The way in which these...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1998-07-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Liberalism, Justice, and Markets
This important new study presents a systematic and definitive critique of Ronald Dworkin's highly influential theory of liberal equality. Focusing on the connection Dworkin attempts to establish between economic markets and liberal egalitarian political morality, the...

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Parution : 1998-07-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Fundamentalism and Evangelicals
This study examines the contentious claim that much evangelicalism is fundamentalist in character. Within Protestantism, the term `fundamentalism' denotes not only a movement but also a mentality which has greatly affected evangelicals, and which involves preserving as...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1998-06-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Canon and Criterion in Christian Theology
The book provides an original and important narrative on the significance of canon in the Christian tradition. Standard accounts of canon reduce canon to scripture and treat scripture as a criterion of truth. Scripture is then related in positive or negative ways to...

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Télécharger le livre :  Fundamental Determinants of Exchange Rates
Existing models fail to explain the large fluctuations in the real exchange rates of most currencies over the past twenty years. The Natural Real Exchange Rate approach (NATREX) taken here offers an alternative paradigm to those which focus on short-run movements of...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1998-04-30
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Télécharger le livre :  A History of the Popes 1830-1914
Could a Pope ever consent to be the subject of a political power? Owen Chadwick presents an analysis of the causes and consequences of the end of the historic Papal State, and the psychological pressures upon old Rome as it came under attack from the Italian...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1998-04-17
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Télécharger le livre :  Ernie O'Malley
Ernie O'Malley (1897-1957) was one of the most talented and colourful of modern Irish republicans. An important IRA leader in the 1916-1923 Irish Revolution, this bookish gunman subsequently became a distinguished intellectual, and the author of two classic...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1998-03-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Rational Risk Policy
Rational Risk Policy is based on Viscusi's Arne Ryde Memorial Lectures, delivered at Lund University in 1996. The organizing principle of these lectures is that the irrationality of individual decisions is often embodied in government regulations. Rather than overcoming...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
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Télécharger le livre :  Concepts
Oxford Cognitive Science Series General Editors: Martin Davies, Wilde Reader in Mental Philosophy, University of Oxford, UK, James Higginbotham, Professor of General Linguistics, University of Oxford, UK, John O'Keefe, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, University...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1998-02-05
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Télécharger le livre :  Value Judgement
James Griffin asks how, and how much, we can improve our ethical standards not lift our behaviour closer to our standards but refine the standards themselves. To give an answer to this question it is necessary to answer most of the questions of ethics. So Value...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
Parution : 1998-01-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Value Judgement
James Griffin asks how, and how much, we can improve our ethical standards not lift our behaviour closer to our standards but refine the standards themselves. To give an answer to this question it is necessary to answer most of the questions of ethics. So Value...

Editeur : Clarendon Press
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