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Samuel Pufendorf's seminal work, "The Whole Duty of Man, According
to the Law of Nature" (first published in Latin in 1673), was among
the first to suggest a purely conventional basis for natural law.
Rejecting scholasticism's metaphysical theories, Pufendorf found
the source of natural law in humanity's need to cultivate
sociability. At the same time, he distanced himself from Hobbes's
deduction of such needs from self-interest. The result was a
sophisticated theory of the conventional character of man's social
persona and of all political institutions.Pufendorf wrote this work
to make his insights accessible to a wide range of readers,
especially university students. As ministers, teachers, and public
servants, they would have to struggle with issues of sovereignty
and of the relationship between church and state that dominated the
new state system of Europe in the aftermath of the Peace of
Westphalia (1648)."The Whole Duty" was first translated into
English in 1691. The fourth edition was significantly revised--by
anonymous editors--to include a great deal of the very important
editorial material from Jean Barbeyrac's French editions. This was
reproduced in the fifth edition from 1735 that is republished here.
The English translation provides a fascinating insight into the
transplantation of Pufendorf's political theory from a German
absolutist milieu to an English parliamentarian one.Samuel
Pufendorf (1632-1694) was one of the most important figures in
early-modern political thought. An exact contemporary of Locke and
Spinoza, he transformed the natural law theories of Grotius and
Hobbes, developed striking ideas of toleration and of the
relationship between church and state, and wrote extensive
political histories and analyses of the constitution of the German
empire.Jean Barbeyrac (1674-1744) was a Huguenot refugee who taught
natural law successively in Berlin, Lausanne, and Amsterdam, and
edited and translated into French the major natural law works of
Grotius, Pufendorf, and Cumberland.Andrew Tooke (1673-1732) was
headmaster of Chaterhouse School and professor of geometry at
Gresham College, London.Ian Hunter is Australian Professorial
Fellow in the Centre for the History of European Discourses,
University of Queensland.David Saunders is Professor Emeritus in
the Faculty of Arts at Griffith University.Knud Haakonssen is
Professor of Intellectual History at the University of Sussex,
England.
Leading experts in the field bring together diverse aspects of
insect timing mechanisms. This work combines three topics that are
central to the understanding of biological timing in insects:
circadian rhythms, photoperiodism, and diapause. The common theme
underlining each of the contributions to this book is an
understanding of the timing of events in the insect life cycle.
Most daily activities (emergence, feeding, mating, egg laying,
etc.) undertaken by insects occur at precise times each day.
Likewise, seasonal events such as the entry into or termination
from an overwintering dormancy (diapause) occur at distinct times
of the year. This book documents such events and provides an
up-to-date interpretation of the molecular and physiological events
undergirding these activities.
The study of circadian rhythms has undergone a flowering in
recent years with the molecular dissection of the components of the
circadian clock. Now that many of the clock genes have been
identified it is possible to track daily patterns of clock-related
mRNAs and proteins to link the entraining light cycles with
molecular oscillations within the cell. Insect experiments have led
the way in demonstrating that the concept of a "master clock" can
no longer be used to explain the temporal organization within an
animal. Insects have a multitude of cellular clocks that can
function independently and retain their function under organ
culture conditions, and they thus offer a premier system for
studying how the hierarchical organization of clocks results in the
overall temporal organization of the animal. Photoperiodism, and
its most obvious manifestation, diapause, does not yet have the
molecular underpinning that has been established for circadian
rhythms, but recent studies are beginning to identify genes that
appear to be involved in the regulation of diapause. Overall, the
book presents the rich diversity of challenges and opportunities
provided by insects for the study of timing mechanisms.
This new scholarly edition of Samuel Pufendorf's seminal The Whole
Duty of Man According to the Law of Nature is among the first to
suggest a purely conventional basis for natural law. Pufendorf
wrote this work to make his insights accessible to a wide range of
readers, especially university students, who were struggling with
issues of church and state. Although indebted to Hobbes and
Grotius, the work outlines a new understanding of ethics and
politics, one suited to states that were emerging from the
aftermath of religious civil war.
Chronobiology is the study of timing mechanisms in biological
systems as diverse as plants, animals and some micro-organisms. It
includes rhythmic phenomena ranging from short period (ultradian)
through daily (circadian) to long period (monthly, annual) cycles
of behaviour, physiology and biochemistry. In recent years
spectacular advances have been made, particularly in the field of
circadian rhythms, and hardly a week passes without important
papers appearing in the major scientific journals.
The third edition of "Insect Clocks," like its predecessors, deals
with the properties and functions of clock-like processes in one of
the planet's most abundant groups of organisms. The first half of
the book is concerned with circadian rhythmicity, the second with
annual responses such as over-wintering diapause, seasonal morphs
and cold hardiness. "Insect Clocks" puts modern developments in
these fields into a secure framework of the 'classical' literature
that has defined the subject.
The book is directed at active researchers in the field as well as
newcomers and scientists working in many other areas of modern
biology. It will also serve as a textbook for advanced and less
advanced students and should find its way into university libraries
wishing to keep abreast of the times.
This book contains detailed notes on how to play BWV 827 Scherzo
and BWV 934 Little Prelude on Classical Guitar. Every single note
has both right and left hand fingerings to ensure the reader knows
how to play them.
Detailed Sheet music for Classical Guitar in both Tab and Standard
Notation showing every fingering for every note for both hands. JS
Bach BWV 911 Fugue part 2.
BWV 776, BWV 800, BWV 825, BWV 848, BWV 858; 5 detailed
arrangements for Classical Guitar.
J.S.Bach, Solo Classical Guitar Transcriptions.
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This book examines the escalation of an organizational conflict
to one of the most talked about industrial crises of the past
decade: the demise of Eastern Airlines. Through an analysis of the
messages exchanged by some of its key participants--the
representatives of the pilots and management of Eastern--this study
attempts to explain how and why some 4,000 men and women walked
away from high-paying glamour jobs and toppled an institution. The
book is not an evaluation of the economic climate or financial
events that put Eastern into a critical bind; instead, it is an
analysis of the human cost of an organizational tragedy that might
possibly have been avoided.
The results of the study support communication theory that
predicts that when an agitative group bearing the characteristics
of the pilots of Eastern Airlines conflicts with an establishment
such as Eastern's management under Frank Lorenzo, the establishment
can always successfully avoid or suppress agitative movements. This
work will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in
industrial relations, labor-management studies, corporate
communication, and American industrial history.
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