This exciting new textbook gives a clear, detailed, and accessible presentation of the main features of constitutional five element acupuncture treatment. It covers the context and history of this form of acupuncture, as well as the relevant Chinese medicine theory. After examining the elements themselves, and the functions of the Organs, the book ...
Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554) trained as a painter before he became an architect. His works on architecture emphasized the importance of Vitruvius, codified the Five Orders, and standardized the drawing of projections.
Comparative research is exploding with alternative methodological and theoretical approaches. In this book, experts in each one of these methods provide a comprehensive explanation and application of time-series, pooled, event history and Boolean methods to substantive problems of the welfare state. Each section of the book focuses on a different ...
Sebastiano Serlio was the most important architectural writer and theorist of the sixteenth century. The author of the first wide-ranging illustrated book on architecture, he produced a complete set of model designs as well as practical solutions for everyday design problems. This volume, the second in a two-volume series of Serlio's entire works, ...
A collection of essays examining early editions of Vitruvius' writings and all the major Renaissance architectural treatises by authors such as Alberti, Di Giorgio, Colonna, Serlio, and Palladio. The authors look at the significance of the treaty in the Renaissance, and trace its decline in the late 17th century.
Evil and suffering have always been a part of human experience, but they present a significant challenge to Christian belief in a good and all-powerful God. Peter Hicks expounds a range of relevant biblical texts that enable readers to set the issue of evil and suffering in the context of the nature and purposes of God.
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), one of the most famous architects of all time, published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome in 1554. Striving to be both scholarly and popular, Palladio invited his Renaissance readers to discover the charm of Rome's ancient and medieval wonders, and to follow pilgrimage routes ...
An accessible Christian survey of the history of philosophy, tracing the journey of human thought about God, the world, and humanity's relation to both.
Andrea Palladio (1508-1580), one of the most famous architects of all time, published two enormously popular guides to the churches and antiquities of Rome in 1554. Striving to be both scholarly and popular, Palladio invited his Renaissance readers to discover the charm of Rome's ancient and medieval wonders, and to follow pilgrimage routes ...
New business models for a new world of business. In three geographically targeted volumes, foremost international strategy and management experts assess the theory and practice behind today's creative, cooperative international business alliances. Globalization demands adaptation, innovation, and cooperation. Joint ventures, strategic alliances, R ...
As sixty-eight year old Peter Abeles confronts his ambivalence over his mother's recent death, he laces together his childhood memories of the prewar Austrian aristocracy his Jewish family belonged to, the rising tide of hate that engulfed them and their decision to flee, and the story of his life in America. In trying to come to terms with his ...
An illustrated title from the DIGGING UP THE PAST series which looks at the events of AD79 when Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying nearby towns in volcanic ash, showing how we have learned a great deal about Roman life from these well-preserved towns and from the work of archaeologists. Relates to the National Curriculum History Key Stage 2/3.
This is a study of the American evangelist Charles Hodge. It suggests, in contrast to recent trends which stress the role of "Scottish common sense" philosophy in the development of Hodge's thought, that theological concepts of the nature of God and of human nature, and Hodge's consequent reaction to post-Kantian philosophy, were primary factors ...
New business models for a new world of business. In three geographically targeted volumes, foremost international strategy and management experts assess the theory and practice behind today's creative, cooperative international business alliances. Globalization demands adaptation, innovation, and cooperation. Joint ventures, strategic alliances, R ...
In this meditation on identity and selfhood, loss and change, the real and the counterfeit, George Dzul tells the very real but often unbelievable story of a man's life, a life that begins in 1939 and is still very much in process in 1999. An infant boy in war-torn Eastern Europe loses his mother, his past, and his heritage. Seemingly without ...
A description of the Viking civilization of Scandinavia and Northern Europe, looking at how they produced food and clothing, built their houses and their famous longships, and how they made their weapons and jewelry. Including sections on their carpentry, metalwork and medicine.
A DIGGING UP THE PAST title which recounts the stories behind the discovery of Troy and Knossos by archaeologists Heinrich Schliemann and Arthur Evans respectively. Includes a timeline, glossary, further reading list and an index. Suitable for the National Curriculum History Key Stages 2/3.
This is an ideal text for shared and guided reading for Key Stage 2 pupils within the framework of the National Literacy Strategy. It casts the reader in the role of Jim McGuire, marshal of Dustville, and looks at law and order in a violent and dangerous Wild West town in the late 1800s. The cartoon-style illustrations and descriptive text provide ...
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