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The taxonomy of recent mammals has lately undergone tremendous
revision, but it has been almost four decades since the last update
to Timothy E. Lawlor's acclaimed identification guide the Handbook
to the Orders and Families of Living Mammals. Integrating the
latest advances in research, Douglas A. Kelt and James L. Patton
provide this long-overdue update in their new, wholly original
work, A Manual of the Mammalia. Complemented by global range maps,
high-resolution photographs of skulls and mandibles by Bill Stone,
and the outstanding artwork of Fiona Reid, this book provides an
overview of biological attributes of each higher taxon while
highlighting key and diagnostic characters needed to identify
skulls and skins of all recent mammalian orders and most families.
Kelt and Patton also place taxa in their currently understood
supra-familial clades, and discuss current challenges in higher
mammal taxonomy. Including a comprehensive review of mammalian
anatomy to provide a foundation for understanding all characters
employed throughout, A Manual of the Mammalia is both a
user-friendly handbook for students learning to identify higher
mammal taxa and a uniquely comprehensive, up-to-date reference for
mammalogists and mammal-lovers from across the globe.
Who Owns Religion? focuses on a period--the late 1980s through the
1990s--when scholars of religion were accused of scandalizing or
denigrating the very communities they had imagined themselves
honoring through their work. While controversies involving
scholarly claims about religion are nothing new, this period saw an
increase in vitriol that remains with us today. Authors of
seemingly arcane studies on subjects like the origins of the idea
of Mother Earth or the sexual dynamics of mysticism have been
targets of hate mail and book-banning campaigns. As a result,
scholars of religion have struggled to describe their own work to
their various publics, and even to themselves. Taking the reader
through several compelling case studies, Patton identifies two
trends of the '80s and '90s that fueled that rise: the growth of
multicultural identity politics, which enabled a form of volatile
public debate she terms "eruptive public space," and the advent of
the internet, which offered new ways for religious groups to read
scholarship and respond publicly. These controversies, she shows,
were also fundamentally about something new: the very rights of
secular, Western scholarship to interpret religions at all.
Patton's book holds out hope that scholars can find a space for
their work between the university and the communities they study.
Scholars of religion, she argues, have multiple masters and must
move between them while writing histories and speaking about
realities that not everyone may be interested in hearing.
In the wake of the elegant master theories of Joseph Campbell,
Mircea Eliade, Georges Dumezil, and Claude Levi-Strauss, how are
mythology and the comparative study of religion to be understood?
In Myth and Method, a leading team of scholars assesses the current
state of the study of myth and explores the possibilities for
charting a methodological middle course between the comparative and
the contextual issues raised in the last ten years. In confronting
these tension, they provide an outline of the most troubling
questions in the field and offer a variety of responses to
them.
RGVV (History of Religion: Essays and Preliminary Studies) brings
together the mutually constitutive aspects of the study of
religion(s)-contextualized data, theory, and disciplinary
positioning-and engages them from a critical historical
perspective. The series publishes monographs and thematically
focused edited volumes on specific topics and cases as well as
comparative work across historical periods from the ancient world
to the modern era.
With new medications, medical therapies, and increasing numbers of
older and medically complex patients seeking dental care, all
dentists, hygienists, and students must understand the intersection
of common diseases, medical management, and dental management to
coordinate and deliver safe care. This new second edition updates
all of the protocols and guidelines for treatment and medications
and adds more information to aid with patient medical assessments,
and clearly organizes individual conditions under three headings:
background, medical management, and dental management. Written by
more than 25 expert academics and clinicians, this evidence-based
guide takes a patient-focused approach to help you deliver safe,
coordinated oral health care for patients with medical conditions.
Other sections contain disease descriptions, pathogenesis,
coordination of care between the dentist and physician, and key
questions to ask the patient and physician.
Part of the ancient Hindu epic The Mahabharata, The Bhagavad Gita
is one of the enduring religious texts of the world The Bhagavad
Gita is an early poem that recounts the conversation between Arjuna
the warrior and his charioteer Krishna, a manifestation of God. In
the moments before a great battle, Krishna sets out the important
lessons Arjuna must learn to understand his own role in the war he
is about to fight. Krishna reveals to Arjuna his true cosmic form
and counsels the warrior to act according to his sacred
obligations. Ranging from instructions on yoga to moral discussion,
the Gita has served for centuries as an everyday, practical guide
to living well. Translated with an introduction by Laurie L. Patton
In the wake of the elegant master theories of Joseph Campbell,
Mircea Eliade, Georges Dumezil, and Claude Levi-Strauss, how are
mythology and the comparative study of religion to be understood?
In Myth and Method, a leading team of scholars assesses the current
state of the study of myth and explores the possibilities for
charting a methodological middle course between the comparative and
the contextual issues raised in the last ten years. In confronting
these tension, they provide an outline of the most troubling
questions in the field and offer a variety of responses to
them.
The second installment in a planned three-volume series, this book
provides the first substantive review of South American rodents
published in over fifty years. Increases in the reach of field
research and the variety of field survey methods, the introduction
of bioinformatics, and the explosion of molecular-based genetic
methodologies have all contributed to the revision of many
phylogenetic relationships and to a doubling of the recognized
diversity of South American rodents. The largest and most diverse
mammalian order on Earth-and an increasingly threatened
one-Rodentia is also of great ecological importance, and Rodents is
both a timely and exhaustive reference on these ubiquitous
creatures. From spiny mice and guinea pigs to the oversized
capybara, this book covers all native rodents of South America, the
continental islands of Trinidad and Tobago, and the Caribbean
Netherlands off the Venezuelan coast. It includes identification
keys and descriptions of all genera and species; comments on
distribution; maps of localities; discussions of subspecies; and
summaries of natural, taxonomic, and nomenclatural history. Rodents
also contains a detailed list of cited literature and a separate
gazetteer based on confirmed identifications from museum vouchers
and the published literature.
Shaw Industries, which is based in Dalton, Georgia, is the nation's
leading textile manufacturer and the world's largest producer of
carpets. This history focuses on the evolution of Shaw's business
strategy and its adaptations to changing economic conditions.
Randall L. Patton chronicles Shaw's rise to dominance by drawing on
corporate records, industry data, and interviews with Shaw
employees and management, including Robert E. Shaw, the only CEO
the company has known in its more than thirty years.Patton situates
Shaw within both the overall context of Sunbelt economic
development and the unique circumstances behind the success of the
tufted carpet industry in northwest Georgia. After surveying the
state of the carpet industry nationwide at the end of World War II,
Patton then tells the Shaw story from the boom years of 1955-1973,
through the transitional decade of 1973-1982, the consolidation
phase of the 1980s and early 1990s, and the 'new economy' of the
mid- to late 1990s. Throughout, Patton shows, Shaw's drive has
always been toward vertical integration-controlling the outside
forces that could affect its bottom line. He tells, for instance,
how Shaw built its own trucking fleet and became its own yarn
supplier, all to the company's advantage. He also relates less
successful ventures, most notably Shaw's attempt at direct
retailing. The picture emerges of a company proud of its image as a
steady and profitable business surviving in a competitive industry.
Patton traces the history of Shaw Industries from its start as a
family-owned operation through its growth into a multinational
corporation that recently joined Warren Buffett's holding company,
Berkshire-Hathaway. The Shaw saga has much to tell us about the
continuing vitality of 'old economy' manufacturers.
This is a new release of the original 1954 edition.
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