This places the major texts of Western and Oriental philosophy and religion, both ancient and modern, onto one comparative framework. The study reveals affinities between thinkers who lived centuries and continents apart and produces insights by putting philosophical texts into a single purview.

A reference for divorcing parents, lawyers, and social workers. By a leading expert on child-support, practising attorney, U.S. Senator, former attorney general of Connecticut, and candidate for Vice President.

Addresses the history and future of homegrown, mass Chinese Christianity. This title traces the transformation of Protestant Christianity in twentieth-century China from a small, beleaguered 'missionary' church buffeted by antiforeignism to an indigenous popular religion energized by nationalism and millenarianism.

Looks at an important constitutional freedom that today is largely forgotten: the right of assembly. This title demonstrates that the forgetting of assembly and the embrace of association loses sight of important dimensions of our constitutional tradition.

In the 1950s, Yale University Press published a number of Gertrude Stein's posthumous works, among them her incomparable Stanzas in Meditation . Since that time, scholars have discovered that Stein's poem exists in several versions. This title intends to confront the complicated story of the work's composition and revision.

Examines two masterful armours for man and horse acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This title discusses the function, design, decoration, and manufacture of these masterpieces and situates them within German art, culture, and politics, and within the development of European armour in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance.

Covers two counties, Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion (formerly Cardiganshire) in the South-west of Wales. This book presents an architecture still little known, but encompassing a sweep from prehistoric chambered tombs to the high technology of the world's largest single-span glasshouse. It also includes detailed accounts of few varied small towns.

Here, environmentalists argue that in order to solve global environmental problems, we must view them in a broad interdisciplinary perspective that recognizes the relationships among ecology, economics and ethics. Concerns addressed include loss of forests, species extinction and toxification.

Describes and cites examples of pitch-class sets and relations in atonal music.

Literature on domestic interior decoration first emerged as a popular genre in Britain during the 1870s and 1880s, as middle-class readers sought decorating advice from books, household manuals, women's magazines, and professional journals. This book examines that literature and shows how it was influenced by the liberalism of the middle class.

This volume sheds light on the pride of the region - the great medieval churches of York Minster, the Minster and St Mary at Beverley, and Holy Trinity at Hull, but also on less well known architectural pleasures of town and county.

Demolishes the facade of objective research behind which the revolution in psychiatry has hidden. This book finds psychiatry as a profession riddled with backbiting and jockeying, and a profession increasingly beholden to its corporate sponsors.