A contemporary of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe was one of the most influential early modern dramatists, whose life and mysterious death have long been the subject of critical and popular speculation. This collection sets Marlowe's plays and poems in their historical context, exploring his world and his wider cultural influence. Chapters by leading international scholars discuss both his major and lesser-known works. Divided into three sections, 'Marlowe's works', 'Marlowe's world', and 'Marlowe's reception', the book ranges from Marlowe's relationship with his own audience through to adaptations of his plays for modern cinema. Other contexts for Marlowe include history and politics, religion and science. Discussions of Marlowe's critics and Marlowe's appeal today, in performance, literature and biography, show how and why his works continue to resonate; and a comprehensive further reading list provides helpful suggestions for those who want to find out more.

This work examines in-depth the phenomenon of volunteer policing in the United States. Due to a combination of municipal budget cuts, decreased manpower, and a renewed interest in community partnership, everyday citizens are increasingly joining the police rank and file. This trend provides low-cost solutions for a number of policing problems, but also brings its own special challenges and considerations. This work provides a historical overview of volunteer police in the United States and abroad; an practical overview of volunteer programs throughout the United States including training programs, requirements and qualifications; a close examination of two central types of laws governing volunteer police units: the "Stand Your Ground" law and the "Good Samaritan" law; and overview of the dangers that can face volunteer police units, and a comparative analysis with volunteer programs worldwide. It will be of interest to researchers in police studies, criminal justice administration, and for policymakers and practitioners working with police organization and training.

Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title Bartels focuses on Marlowe's preoccupation with "strangers" and "strange" lands, and his use-and subversion-of Elizabethan stereotypes. Setting Marlovian drama in the context of England's nascent imperialism, Bartels probes the significance of the alien as the vital presence on the Renaissance stage and within Renaissance society.

A contemporary of William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson, Christopher Marlowe was one of the most influential early modern dramatists, whose life and mysterious death have long been the subject of critical and popular speculation. This collection sets Marlowe's plays and poems in their historical context, exploring his world and his wider cultural influence. Chapters by leading international scholars discuss both his major and lesser-known works. Divided into three sections, 'Marlowe's works', 'Marlowe's world', and 'Marlowe's reception', the book ranges from Marlowe's relationship with his own audience through to adaptations of his plays for modern cinema. Other contexts for Marlowe include history and politics, religion and science. Discussions of Marlowe's critics and Marlowe's appeal today, in performance, literature and biography, show how and why his works continue to resonate; and a comprehensive further reading list provides helpful suggestions for those who want to find out more.

Speaking of the Moor From "Alcazar" to "Othello" Emily C. Bartels "Bartels is one of the first, and certainly one of the most influential, literary critics to emphasize the crucial point that before the onset of the Atlantic slave trade, Africa's place in early modern English conceptualizations was open ended. She shows with great clarity that narratives of Africa were diverse and unpredictable."--Mary Floyd-Wilson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill "Bartels discovers a surprising openness in the treatment of the Moor in early modern England. Her book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the formative history of race and color."--Michael Neill, University of Auckland Selected by "Choice" magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title "Speak of me as I am," Othello, the Moor of Venice, bids in the play that bears his name. Yet many have found it impossible to speak of his ethnicity with any certainty. What did it mean to be a Moor in the early modern period? In the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, when England was expanding its reach across the globe, the Moor became a central character on the English stage. In "The Battle of Alcazar," "Titus Andronicus," "Lust's Dominion," and "Othello," the figure of the Moor took definition from multiple geographies, histories, religions, and skin colors. Rather than casting these variables as obstacles to our--and England's--understanding of the Moor's racial and cultural identity, Emily C. Bartels argues that they are what make the Moor so interesting and important in the face of growing globalization, both in the early modern period and in our own. In "Speaking of the Moor," Bartels sets the early modern Moor plays beside contemporaneous texts that embed Moorish figures within England's historical record--Richard Hakluyt's "Principal Navigations," Queen Elizabeth's letters proposing the deportation of England's "blackamoors," and John Pory's translation of "The History and Description of Africa." Her book uncovers the surprising complexity of England's negotiation and accommodation of difference at the end of the Elizabethan era. Emily C. Bartels is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University and Associate Director of the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College. She is author of "Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation, and Marlowe," also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. 2008 264 pages 6 x 9 ISBN 978-0-8122-4076-4 Cloth $55.00s 36.00 ISBN 978-0-8122-2101-5 Paper $22.50s 15.00 World Rights Literature Short copy: "Speaking of the Moor" explores why the Moor became a central character on the English stage at the turn of the sixteenth century. Looking closely at key early modern dramatic and historical texts, the book uncovers the Moor's complex identity as a Mediterranean figure poised provocatively between European and non-European worlds.

von Methoden und Resultaten Zu 48 ausgewahlten Fragen um die extrakorporale Zirkulation wurde eine systematische Literatursuche in zwei Datenbanken (PubMed und MedLine), die die letzten zwanzig Jahre umfasste, vorgenommen. Die hierbei von dem jeweiligen Autor verwendeten Suchbegriffe wurden von je zwei unabhangi- gen weiteren Mitarbeitern der Arbeitsgruppe, die insgesamt 38 Autoren umfasst, uberpruft, um ein moeglichst komplettes Resultat zu erzielen. Nach Durchsicht der gefundenen Abstracta wurden alle fur die jeweilige Fragestellung wesentlich erscheinenden Publikationen nach einem zuvor fest- gelegten Schema, das eine UEbersicht uber Zielsetzung, Fragestellung, Metho- dik, Resultate, Schlussfolgerungen gibt, zusammengefasst. Die adaquate An- wendung statistischer Methoden in den einzelnen Originalquellen wurde kri- tisch uberpruft und mit beratenden Statistikern diskutiert. Abschliessend wur- de fur jede Arbeit eine Einschatzung der wissenschaftlichen Evidenz gemass eines modifizierten Klassifizierungsschemas der AHA/ ACC vorgenommen: Klasse 1 Untersuchungen mit einer klaren wissenschaftlichen Evidenz, dass ein Ver- fahren sinnvoll und effektiv ist (grosse randomisierte prospektive Studien mit niedrigem Falsch-Positiven (Alpha) und Falsch-Negativen (Beta) Fehler, Metaanalysen nach Evidence-based -medicine-Kriterien). Klasse 2 Untersuchungen, die keine klare wissenschaftliche Evidenz uber die Effekti- vitat eines Verfahrens zeigen, z. B. aufgrund einer geringen untersuchten Fallzahl oder eines nicht perfekten Studiendesigns. Klasse 3 Untersuchungen, die keine wissenschaftliche Evidenz uber die Effektivitat eines Verfahrens geben koennen (Untersuchungen mit niedrigem WIssen- schaftlichen Impact, Fallreportagen-Einzelbeobachtung). Klasse 4 In-vitro-Studien, tierexperimentelle Studien, Reviews, die nicht Evidence- based-medicine-Kriterien entsprechen.

In the waning years of Latin America's longest and bloodiest civil war, the rise of an unlikely duo is transforming Colombia: Christianity and access to credit. In her exciting new book, Rebecca C. Bartel details how surging evangelical conversions and widespread access to credit cards, microfinance programs, and mortgages are changing how millions of Colombians envision a more prosperous future. Yet programs of financialization propel new modes of violence. As prosperity becomes conflated with peace, and debt with devotion, survival only becomes possible through credit and its accompanying forms of indebtedness. A new future is on the horizon, but it will come at a price.

Communication skills and conflict transformation. Barry C. Bartel's workbook includes a personal inventory on conflict management style, discussion guides, reflection exercises, and role plays for active listening and speaking. 84 pages.

In the waning years of Latin America's longest and bloodiest civil war, the rise of an unlikely duo is transforming Colombia: Christianity and access to credit. In her exciting new book, Rebecca C. Bartel details how surging evangelical conversions and widespread access to credit cards, microfinance programs, and mortgages are changing how millions of Colombians envision a more prosperous future. Yet programs of financialization propel new modes of violence. As prosperity becomes conflated with peace, and debt with devotion, survival only becomes possible through credit and its accompanying forms of indebtedness. A new future is on the horizon, but it will come at a price.