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This volume, orginally published in 1925, outlines the historical
development of the Muslim law of inheritance in pre-Islamic Law. It
discusses the ranking of heirs and guardians, reforms introduced by
Muhammad, subsequent development of the law, and rise of the
orthodox schools.
Rhetoric, as a general teaching -- while preaching locality of
action and guidelines for handling that locality -- has tended from
the beginning to serve as a universality. It has offered a
generalized "techne" with only limited categories, appropriate for
all discursive situations, at least for those that were not
excluded from the realm of rhetoric. Nonetheless, from its
beginnings, rhetoric limited its interests to certain activity
fields such as law, government, religion, and most important, the
educators of leaders in these activity fields.
This collection presents landmarks showing where the
Writing-Across-the-Curriculum (WAC) and Writing in the Disciplines
(WID) movements have gone. They have opened up a number of
prospects that were impossible to see when rhetoric and composition
confined their gaze to relatively few discursive activities. This
suggests that the rhetorical landscape is becoming more complex and
interesting, as well as more responsive to life in the complex,
differentiated societies that have emerged in the last few
centuries. This volume will reveal to scholars and researchers a
range of possibilities for the study of disciplinary discourse and
its teaching, and suggest to them new prospects for the future --
and for the better.
Governments around the world are struggling to meet their
commitments to achieve targets relating to reductions in greenhouse
gases. Many writers advocating ways to achieve these targets offer
radical but often impractical approaches that do not offer a way
forward within the existing economic model. In contrast, Towards
Ecological Taxation is a pragmatic consideration of realistic
possibilities by an author from the world of accounting. Based on
his research into the implications of changes in the UK motor
taxation regime for company cars, David Russell considers the
broader efficacy of taxation policy as a mechanism for reducing
demand for fossil fuels and encouraging a shift towards
carbon-neutral energy production. He incorporates the findings of a
number of studies into his analysis, along with a wider
consideration of tax regimes. Dr Russell suggests a way forward
that will attract the interest of researchers, policy makers and
decision makers wanting a better understanding of how taxation
could be used innovatively, but within the existing economic status
quo, to deliver specific and measurable reductions in CO2. Such a
distinctive approach makes this book a valuable addition to the
literature on environmental issues and the always thought provoking
titles in the Corporate Social Responsibility Series.
This volume, originally published in 1925, outlines the
historical development of the Muslim law of inheritance in
pre-Islamic Law. It discusses the ranking of heirs and guardians,
reforms introduced by Muhammad, subsequent development of the law,
and rise of the orthodox schools.
The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth
century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented
urbanization, industrialization, and population growth. In an era
when more and more people lived more closely than ever before with
people they knew less and less about, tact was a new mode of
feeling one's way with others in complex modern conditions. In this
book, David Russell traces how the essay genre came to exemplify
this sensuous new ethic and aesthetic. Russell argues that the
essay form provided the resources for the performance of tact in
this period and analyzes its techniques in the writings of Charles
Lamb, John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Walter
Pater. He shows how their essays offer grounds for a claim about
the relationship among art, education, and human freedom--an
"aesthetic liberalism"--not encompassed by traditional political
philosophy or in literary criticism. For these writers, tact is not
about codes of politeness but about making an art of ordinary
encounters with people and objects and evoking the fullest
potential in each new encounter. Russell demonstrates how their
essays serve as a model for a critical handling of the world that
is open to surprises, and from which egalitarian demands for new
relationships are made. Offering fresh approaches to thinking about
criticism, sociability, politics, and art, Tact concludes by
following a legacy of essayistic tact to the practice of British
psychoanalysts like D. W. Winnicott and Marion Milner.
'the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric
acts' The greatest 'state of the nation' novel in English,
Middlemarch addresses ordinary life at a moment of great social
change, in the years leading to the Reform Act of 1832. Through her
portrait of a Midlands town, George Eliot addresses gender
relations and class, self-knowledge and self-delusion, community
and individualism. Eliot follows the fortunes of the town's central
characters as they find, lose, and rediscover ideals and vocations
in the world. Through its psychologically rich portraits, the novel
contains some of the great characters of literature, including the
idealistic but naive Dorothea Brooke, beautiful and egotistical
Rosamund Vincy, the dry scholar Edward Casaubon, the wise and
grounded Mary Garth, and the brilliant but proud Dr Lydgate. In its
whole view of a society, the novel offers enduring insight into the
pains and pleasures of life with others, and explores nearly every
subject of concern to modern life:. art, religion, science,
politics, self, society, and, above all, human relationships. This
edition uses the definitive Clarendon text.
This book presents the latest research on mechatronic systems
engineering. By bringing together the most important papers from
the 2018 Mechatronics Forum Conference 'Reinventing Mechatronics,'
it outlines key trends in research and applications that will
define mechatronics for the next 50 years. Mechatronics was
established as an engineering discipline over 50 years ago, as the
integration of electronics and information technology with
mechanical design. Given major technological advances and the
growth of systems-level concepts such as Cyber-Physical Systems and
the Internet of Things, along with Cloud Technologies and Big Data,
it's now high time to reconsider the role of mechatronics,
particularly within engineering design. Past and ongoing
technological changes are impacting how systems are designed and
configured in ways that could never have been envisaged when the
field of mechatronics was first introduced.
Considering areas as diverse as travel literature, fiction,
dialect, the stage, radio, television, feature film, music and
sport, this book assesses the portrayal of the North within the
national culture and how this has impacted upon attitudes to the
region and its place within notions of 'Englishness'. The
relationship between culture and our understanding of regional
identity has received only limited consideration and this
fascinating work provides not only much new information, but also a
map for future writers. The North, although seen ultimately as
'other' and the subject of much critical comment, is also shown
here as capable of stimulating the creative imagination and
invigorating English culture in sometimes surprising ways. Rooted
in extensive research, this scholarly and enjoyable to read book is
accessibly written and will be of interest to those interested in
the representation, position and future role of the North of
England.
While traditions are very important to a culture, there is a need
to challenge, as well as to respect, those traditions that have
given rise to a particular rural research and development system.
The authors examine the broad themes of "knowledge transfer" and
the organization and conduct of research and development, based
particularly on the system operating in the rangelands of
Australia. The need to adopt a novel approach arose because the
existing practice of agricultural extension did not meet the needs
of the farming community there, and the funding bodies were
dissatisfied with the return on their investment. The way in which
the relationship between the rural community and researchers might
be differently, and perhaps more fruitfully, managed are discussed.
The issues addressed have relevance in a wider context and, as a
result, this book will be of importance to any professional
involved in agricultural management and policy making.
This book presents the latest research on mechatronic systems
engineering. By bringing together the most important papers from
the 2018 Mechatronics Forum Conference 'Reinventing Mechatronics,'
it outlines key trends in research and applications that will
define mechatronics for the next 50 years. Mechatronics was
established as an engineering discipline over 50 years ago, as the
integration of electronics and information technology with
mechanical design. Given major technological advances and the
growth of systems-level concepts such as Cyber-Physical Systems and
the Internet of Things, along with Cloud Technologies and Big Data,
it's now high time to reconsider the role of mechatronics,
particularly within engineering design. Past and ongoing
technological changes are impacting how systems are designed and
configured in ways that could never have been envisaged when the
field of mechatronics was first introduced.
While traditions are very important to a culture, there is a need to challenge, as well as to respect, those traditions that have given rise to a particular rural research and development system. The authors examine the broad themes of "knowledge transfer" and the organization and conduct of research and development, based particularly on the system operating in the rangelands of Australia. The need to adopt a novel approach arose because the existing practice of agricultural extension did not meet the needs of the farming community there, and the funding bodies were dissatisfied with the return on their investment. The way in which the relationship between the rural community and researchers might be differently, and perhaps more fruitfully, managed are discussed. The issues addressed have relevance in a wider context and, as a result, this book will be of importance to any professional involved in agricultural management and policy making.
This step-by-step manual explains how to adapt CBT (Cognitive
Behaviour Therapy) approaches to OCD (Obsessive Compulsive
Disorder) for autistic children and adults. It outlines why there
is the need to adapt treatment for the autistic population, and
includes detailed guidance on each phase of the approach. It
explains assessment of OCD in autism, the links between the two
conditions and difficulties in identifying aspects of OCD in
autistic people. The book offers advice on dealing with difficult
issues and on the next steps after treatment is complete.
Accompanying worksheets and handouts are available to download.
The information in Healthy Solutions can help readers maintain and
enhance their own health. Readers will come to understand how
natural medicine views health, disease, and healing. Also, how to
interpret the body's reaction to illness, and become familiar with
self-care remedies for more than 50 health conditions. Explains how
to use homopathic tissue salts for treating symptoms, and how to
master the therapeutic uses of herbs, spices, and foods.
This study explores a wide range of Victorian and Edwardian musical
life including brass bands, choral societies, music hall and
popular concerts, and analyzes the way in which popular cultural
practice was shaped by, and in turn, helped shape social and
economic structures. The text has been fully revised in order to
consider recent work in the field.
Anthropogenic climate change is becoming a reality, and in
Australia this means longer wildfire seasons with more intense
fires across a wider area. The GunaiKurnai people of southeastern
Victoria saw a large proportion of their Country decimated by the
Gippsland Fires of ‘Black Summer’ (2019/2020), prompting
questions about both the management of Country and its heritage
resources moving forward and what role traditional (‘cultural’)
burning could play. This volume, written at the request of the
GunaiKurnai Land and Waters Aboriginal Corporation (GKLaWAC), seeks
to investigate these twin issues. Bringing together a
multi-disciplinary team including archaeologists, environmental
scientists, historians, art historians and Elders, we consider the
histories of GunaiKurnai and European settler burning-based
landscape management practices, the impacts of fire on specific
classes of cultural materials, and the broader impact of changing
wildfire patterns on cultural sites in the landscape. this is a
truly collaborative venture between GKLaWAC and the academic
collaborators that sees GunaiKurnai and academic expertise brought
to bear in the service of common and pressing issues.
The social practice of tact was an invention of the nineteenth
century, a period when Britain was witnessing unprecedented
urbanization, industrialization, and population growth. In an era
when more and more people lived more closely than ever before with
people they knew less and less about, tact was a new mode of
feeling one's way with others in complex modern conditions. In this
book, David Russell traces how the essay genre came to exemplify
this sensuous new ethic and aesthetic. Russell argues that the
essay form provided the resources for the performance of tact in
this period and analyzes its techniques in the writings of Charles
Lamb, John Stuart Mill, Matthew Arnold, George Eliot, and Walter
Pater. He shows how their essays offer grounds for a claim about
the relationship among art, education, and human freedom-an
"aesthetic liberalism"-not encompassed by traditional political
philosophy or in literary criticism. For these writers, tact is not
about codes of politeness but about making an art of ordinary
encounters with people and objects and evoking the fullest
potential in each new encounter. Russell demonstrates how their
essays serve as a model for a critical handling of the world that
is open to surprises, and from which egalitarian demands for new
relationships are made. Offering fresh approaches to thinking about
criticism, sociability, politics, and art, Tact concludes by
following a legacy of essayistic tact to the practice of British
psychoanalysts like D. W. Winnicott and Marion Milner.
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