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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Demanding Accountability is a collection of nine original case
studies that offer insights into how local, national, and
international civil society factors mobilize to hold the World Bank
accountable for its financed projects. It is a rich source of
lessons for understanding today's emerging transnational civil
society efforts to challenge powerful global institutions.
Transparency and Apperception: Exploring the Kantian Roots of a
Contemporary Debate explores the links between the idea that belief
is transparent and Kant's claims about apperception. Transparency
is the idea that a person can answer questions about whether she,
for instance, believes something by considering, not her own
psychological states, but the objects and properties the belief is
about. This marks a sharp contrast between a first-person and
third-person perspective on one's current mental states. This idea
has deep roots in Kant's doctrine of apperception, the claim that
the human mind is essentially self-conscious, and Kant held that it
underlies the responsibility that a person has for certain of their
own mental states. Nevertheless, the idea of transparency and its
roots in apperception remain obscure and give rise to difficult
methodological and exegetical questions. The contributions in this
work address these questions and will be required reading for
anyone working on this intersection of the philosophy of mind and
language, and epistemology. The chapters in this book were
originally published in a special issue of the Canadian Journal of
Philosophy.
How have Handel's 'lives' in biographies and histories moulded our
understanding of the musician, the man and the icon? To evaluate
the familiar, even over-familiar, story of Handel's life could be
seen as a quixotic endeavour. How can there be anything new to say?
This book seeks to distinguish fact from fiction, not only to
produce a new biography but also to explore the concepts of
biography and dissemination by using Handel's life and lives as a
case study. By examining the images of Handel to be found in
biographies and music histories - the genius, the religious
profound, the master of musical styles, the distiller into music of
English sentiment, the glorifier of the Hanoverians, the hymner of
the middle class, the independent, the prodigious, the generous,
the sexless, the successful, the wealthy, the bankrupt, the pious,
the crude, the heroic, the devious, the battler of ill-fortune, the
moral exemplar - and by adding new factual information, David
Hunter shows how events are manipulated into stories and tropes.
Onesuch trope has been employed to portray numerous persons as
Handel's enemies regardless of whether Handel considered them as
such. Picking apart the writing of Handel's biographers and other
reporters, Hunter exposes the narrative underpinnings - the lies,
confusions, presumptions, and conclusions, whether direct and
inferred or assumed - to show how Handel's 'lives' in biographies
and histories have moulded our understanding of the musician, the
man andthe icon. DAVID HUNTER is Music Librarian at the University
of Texas at Austin.
Health systems everywhere are experiencing rapid change in response
to new threats to health, which include lifestyle diseases, risks
of pandemic flu, and the global effects of climate change. At the
same time, health inequalities continue to widen despite efforts to
halt and reverse them. Such developments have profound implications
for the future direction of public health policy and practice. This
book offers a wide-ranging, provocative, and accessible assessment
of challenges confronting a public health system in the UK,
exploring how its parameters have shifted over time and identifying
the origins of long-standing dilemmas in public health practice.
The book provides an overarching review of the state of public
health system, and it is based on an extensive literature review
and research. It includes historical policy and practice, and it
focuses on key issues facing UK public health services, such as
management, commissioning, workforce development, and public
engagement.
Creating Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, 1945-2015 is a timely
contribution to postwar Japan security studies. It is the first
comprehensive account of Japan's post-1945 army, including a
comprehensive institutional history, together with the evolution of
roles and missions and the adoption of successive professional
identities. The organizational history is embedded within a
thorough examination of Japan's own defense policy, as well as of
America's policy of alliance with Japan. The book examines and
challenges assumptions about the drafting and adoption of the War
Renunciation clause of Japan's postwar Peace Constitution, Article
9, which uniquely not only renounces war, but the arms to wage war.
Thus Japan's army is not called an army, but the Ground
Self-Defense Force (GSDF). The work also examines the place of an
army and soldiers in the formation of Japan's national identity
after its last devastating war, and explores the impact of
constitutional, legal and policy restrictions, as well as the power
of the legacy of the still-largely vilified Imperial Japanese Army
on GSDF members who seek to serve because "there are people we want
to protect." The study is rounded by an examination of the place of
soldiers in Japan's popular culture, focused on movies, manga and
anime, assessing the impact on the GSDF of a public imagination
that most often ignores or villainizes soldiers, though ending with
a note that some positive images of soldiers and of the GSDF
members themselves have started to appear in the last few years.
The book's author, a retired U.S. Army soldier who spent more than
twenty years working, studying and training with the GSDF, offers a
broad-ranging exploration of a unique organization. This work is
extensively researched, using English and Japanese sources, and
will appeal to anyone interested in Japanese security studies,
alliance studies, and military imagery in Japanese pop culture, as
well as to students of military history, international security,
international relations, and cultural identity.
Creating Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force, 1945-2015 is a timely
contribution to postwar Japan security studies. It is the first
comprehensive account of Japan's post-1945 army, including a
comprehensive institutional history, together with the evolution of
roles and missions and the adoption of successive professional
identities. The organizational history is embedded within a
thorough examination of Japan's own defense policy, as well as of
America's policy of alliance with Japan. The book examines and
challenges assumptions about the drafting and adoption of the War
Renunciation clause of Japan's postwar Peace Constitution, Article
9, which uniquely not only renounces war, but the arms to wage war.
Thus Japan's army is not called an army, but the Ground
Self-Defense Force (GSDF). The work also examines the place of an
army and soldiers in the formation of Japan's national identity
after its last devastating war, and explores the impact of
constitutional, legal and policy restrictions, as well as the power
of the legacy of the still-largely vilified Imperial Japanese Army
on GSDF members who seek to serve because "there are people we want
to protect." The study is rounded by an examination of the place of
soldiers in Japan's popular culture, focused on movies, manga and
anime, assessing the impact on the GSDF of a public imagination
that most often ignores or villainizes soldiers, though ending with
a note that some positive images of soldiers and of the GSDF
members themselves have started to appear in the last few years.
The book's author, a retired U.S. Army soldier who spent more than
twenty years working, studying and training with the GSDF, offers a
broad-ranging exploration of a unique organization. This work is
extensively researched, using English and Japanese sources, and
will appeal to anyone interested in Japanese security studies,
alliance studies, and military imagery in Japanese pop culture, as
well as to students of military history, international security,
international relations, and cultural identity.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
This festschrift includes papers authored by many collaborators,
colleagues, and students of Professor Thomas P Hettmansperger, who
worked in research in nonparametric statistics, rank statistics,
robustness, and mixture models during a career that spanned nearly
40 years. It is a broad sample of peer-reviewed, cutting-edge
research related to nonparametrics and mixture models.
An international collaboration between leading scholars showcases a
broad spectrum of observations on Handel and his music, covering
many aspects of modern interdisciplinary and traditional
philological musicology. As soon as Handel composed, rehearsed and
performed his music, it was already a subject of fascination for
the authors of reports, polemics and critical appraisals. The
continuous yet evolving culture of Handelian studies is represented
here in its current state by several generations of scholars who
are inspired by the research, publications and teaching of Donald
Burrows. This festschrift contains twenty essays that exemplify
aspects both of traditional philological enquiry and of modern
interdisciplinary musicology. Much like a baroque dramma per
musica, the narrative is divided into three parts. Act I, 'Handel's
Music and Creative Practices', is an exposition that sets the scene
and introduces the main characters: musical case studies stretch
from his first opera Almira (Hamburg, 1705) to his last English
oratorio The Triumph of Time and Truth (London, 1757). Act II, is
'Sources, Documents and Attributions', develops complications to
the plot: there is new information about the authenticity of
chamber cantatas and instrumental pieces, and reports on
manuscript, printed, and archival sources that demonstrate how
primary research may be interpreted and understood. Act III,
'Context and Reception', moves us towards the lieto fine: some
broad contexts of Handel in relation to his contemporaries and
colleagues are considered alongside reception studies of the
composer's music both within and after his lifetime. DAVID VICKERS
teaches Academic Studies at Royal Northern College of Music
(Manchester) and is a council member of The Handel Institute.
CONTIBUTORS: Graydon Beeks, Michael Burden, John Butt, Hans Dieter
Clausen, Matthew Gardner, Anthony Hicks, David Hunter, H. Diack
Johnstone, Andrew V. Jones, David Kimbell, Richard G. King, Annette
Landgraf, TrÃona O'Hanlon, Suzana OgrajenÅ¡ek, Leslie M. M.
Robarts, John H. Roberts, Ruth Smith, Colin Timms, David Vickers
and Silas Wollston.
Advice to young singers often follows the standard line of the
great French singer Claire Croiza: "Study the poem away from the
music, so that you know what the words really mean." But Croiza's
advice is notoriously difficult to follow when performing French
melodies. Just how do you approach a French poem? In the lyric
poetry on which the melodie is based, meaning is conveyed not just
through the words but also through the poem's formal
structure.
Understanding French Verse: A Guide for Singers explains this
formal structure and sets out the basics of French versification,
using examples drawn from a wide range of well-known song settings.
Its chapters examine French meters, stanzaic forms, sonnets,
rondels and other fixed forms, rhyme and sound patterning, and free
verse poems. Written in a clear and concise way, it explains the
Alexandrine, how to distinguish different meters by counting
syllables, and how to identify stresses in French verse. The book
also illustrates how rhyme works and the ways in which a French
sonnet differs from its counterpart in English. And it demonstrates
how the understanding of verse techniques enhances the
interpretation and enjoyment of the melodie. The book also offers
valuable resources, including a brief history of French
versification, detailed analysis of several poems, a glossary of
technical terms, and suggestions for further reading.
While other books help singers with French diction, or offer
translations of French texts, no other book helps a singer
understand the meaning behind what they are singing. Understanding
French Verse is an essential tool for singers, accompanists, and
other musicians who want to understand more about theFrench texts
with which they are working. It also provides a useful basic
introduction to students of French poetry.
The Dancing Savior"", by David Hunter, is a novel about the thin
line between madness and sanity. Readers are plunged headfirst into
a world where the bizarre is the daily norm. Hunter's story of one
cop's journey to redemption is both moving and haunting"", said
Steven Womack, Edgar-winning author of Chain of Fools.""
In this issue of Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, guest editor Dr.
David Hunter brings his considerable expertise to the topic of
Osteoarthritis. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as
obesity and nutrition influences in osteoarthritis, the genesis of
pain in osteoarthritis, overview of disease management, and more.
Contains 14 relevant, practice-oriented topics including overview
of disease management, concordance with guidelines, and strategies
to increase implementation of best evidence; obesity and nutrition
influences in osteoarthritis; pathogenesis of osteoarthritis;
behavior change barriers and facilitators in people with
osteoarthritis; suitable candidates and realistic expectations in
surgery for osteoarthritis; and more. Provides in-depth clinical
reviews on osteoarthritis, offering actionable insights for
clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely,
focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the
field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and
practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based
reviews.
These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about
propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new
approaches and the emergence of new theorists. Propositions have
been invoked to explain thought and cognition, the nature and
attribution of mental states, language and communication, and in
philosophical treatments of truth, necessity and possibility.
According to Frege and Russell, and their followers, propositions
are structured mind- and language-independent abstract objects
which have essential and intrinsic truth-conditions. Some recent
theorizing doubts whether propositions really exist and, if they
do, asks how we can grasp, entertain and know them? But most of the
doubt concerns whether the abstract approach to propositions can
really explain them. Are propositions really structured, and if so
where does their structure come from? How does this structure form
a unity, and does it need to? Are the representational and
structural properties of propositions really independent of those
of thinking and language? What does it mean to say that an object
occurs in or is a constituent of a proposition? The volume takes up
these and other questions, both as they apply to the abstract
object approach and also to the more recently developed approaches.
While the volume as a whole does not definitively and unequivocally
reject the abstract objection approach, for the most part, the
papers explore new critical and constructive directions. This book
was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal
of Philosophy.
Developing original accounts of the many aspects of belief, On
Believing puts the believer at the heart of the story. Hunter
argues that to believe something is to be in position to do, think,
and feel things in light of a possibility whose obtaining would
make one right. The logical aspect is that being right depends only
on whether that possibility obtains. The psychological one concerns
how that possibility can rationalise what one does, thinks, and
feels. But, Hunter argues, beliefs are not causes, capacities, or
dispositions. Rather, believing rationalises because possibilities
are potential reasons. Hunter also denies that believing is a form
of representing. The objects of belief are possibilities, not
representations, and belief states are not themselves true or
false. Hunter defends this modal view against familiar objections
and explores how objective and subjective limits to belief generate
credal illusions and ground credal necessities. Developing a novel
account of the normativity of belief, he argues that voluntary acts
of inference make us responsible for our beliefs. While denying
that believing is intrinsically normative, Hunter grounds the
ethics of belief in attributive goodness. Believing something is to
our credit when it shows us to be good in some way, and what we
ought to believe depends on what we ought to know, and not on the
evidence we have. The ethics of belief, Hunter argues, concern how
a believer ought to be positioned in a world of possibilities.
These are exciting times for philosophical theorizing about
propositions, with the last 15 years seeing the development of new
approaches and the emergence of new theorists. Propositions have
been invoked to explain thought and cognition, the nature and
attribution of mental states, language and communication, and in
philosophical treatments of truth, necessity and possibility.
According to Frege and Russell, and their followers, propositions
are structured mind- and language-independent abstract objects
which have essential and intrinsic truth-conditions. Some recent
theorizing doubts whether propositions really exist and, if they
do, asks how we can grasp, entertain and know them? But most of the
doubt concerns whether the abstract approach to propositions can
really explain them. Are propositions really structured, and if so
where does their structure come from? How does this structure form
a unity, and does it need to? Are the representational and
structural properties of propositions really independent of those
of thinking and language? What does it mean to say that an object
occurs in or is a constituent of a proposition? The volume takes up
these and other questions, both as they apply to the abstract
object approach and also to the more recently developed approaches.
While the volume as a whole does not definitively and unequivocally
reject the abstract objection approach, for the most part, the
papers explore new critical and constructive directions. This book
was originally published as a special issue of the Canadian Journal
of Philosophy.
Understanding French Verse: A Guide for Singers explains the formal
structure of the French language and sets out the basics of French
versification, using examples drawn from a wide range of well-known
song settings. In clear and concise style, it explains the
Alexandrine meter typically used in French-language poetry, how to
distinguish different meters by counting syllables, how to identify
stresses and rhyme in French verse, and ultimately, how to enhance
the interpretation and enjoyment of the melodie . The book also
offers valuable resources, including a brief history of French
versification, detailed analysis of several poems, a glossary of
technical terms, and suggestions for further reading. While other
books help singers with French diction, or offer translations of
French texts, no other book helps a singer understand the meaning
behind what they are singing. Understanding French Verse is an
essential tool for singers, accompanists, and other musicians who
want to understand more about the French texts with which they are
working.
Clinical Governance is integral to healthcare and all doctors must
have an understanding of both basic principles, and how to apply
them in daily practice. Within the Clinical Governance framework,
patient safety is the top priority for all healthcare
organisations, with the prevention of avoidable harm a key goal.
Traditionally medical training has concentrated on the acquisition
of knowledge and skills related to diagnostic intervention and
therapeutic procedures. The need to focus on non-technical aspects
of clinical practice, including communication and team working, is
now evident; ensuring tomorrow's staff are competent to function
effectively in any healthcare facility.
This book provides a guide to how healthcare systems work; their
structure, regulation and inspection, and key areas including risk
management, resource effectiveness and wider aspects of knowledge
management. Changing curricula at undergraduate level reflect this,
but post-graduate training is lagging behind and does not always
equip trainees appropriately for a hectic clinical environment. An
Introduction to Clinical Governance and Patient Safety presents a
simple overview of clinical governance in context, highlighting
important principles required to function effectively in a
pressurised healthcare environment. It is presented in short
sections based on the original seven pillars of clinical
governance. These have been expanded to include the fundamental
principles of systems, team working, leadership, accountability,
and ownership in healthcare, with examples from everyday practice.
This format is designed to facilitate use as a 'pocket guide' which
can be dipped into during the working day, as well as for general
reading. Examples from all branches of medicine are presented to
facilitate understanding. Contributors are taken from a broad base
- from junior doctors to internationally recognised experts -
ensuring issues are addressed from all perspectives.
Osteoarthritis is the leading cause of disability among older
adults affecting upward of 1 in 8 adults. This issue will cover
epidemiology, imaging, disease management and modification, and
many more topics.
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