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Indispensable for both the trainee and experienced professional,
this is the only truly comprehensive account of the major role of
the neurosurgeon in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain.
The elite panel of contributors were chosen due to their expertise
and international reputations. The result of their achievement
covers the whole spectrum from criteria for patient selection and
the details of operative techniques, to the risks, complications,
and expected outcomes for a wide variety of anatomic, ablative, and
augmentative neurosurgical procedures in treating chronic,
intractable pain. The neurosurgeon will find here chapters on the
latest neuroaugmentative advances utilizing electrical stimulation
and implantable drug infusion systems as well as a useful section
providing algorithms and guidelines for the evaluation and
treatment of specific pain syndromes. Over 100 photographs and
exquisite line drawings - many specifically commissioned for this
book - enhance the text. Invaluable for acquiring the critical
judgement and clinical skills necessary to apply the procedures
involved.
First full-length survey of the Temple Church, from its foundation
in the twelfth century to the Second World War. Founded as the main
church of the Knights Templar in England, at their New Temple in
London, the Temple Church is historically and architecturally one
of the most important medieval buildings in England. Its round
nave, modelled on the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, is
extraordinarily ambitious, combining lavish Romanesque sculpture
with some of the earliest Gothic architectural features in any
English building of its period. It also holds one of the most
famous series of medieval effigies in the country. Major
developments in the post-medieval period include the reordering of
the church in the 1680s by Sir Christopher Wren, and a substantial
restoration programme in the early 1840s. Despite its extraordinary
importance, however, it has until now attracted little scholarly or
critical attention, a gap that is remedied by this volume. It
considers the New Temple as a whole in the Middle Ages, and
allaspects of the church itself from its foundation in the twelfth
century to its war-time damage in the twentieth. Richly illustrated
with numerous black and white and colour plates, it makes full use
of the exceptional range and quality of the antiquarian material
available for study, including drawings, photographs, and plaster
casts. Contributors: Robin Griffith-Jones, Virginia Jansen, Philip
Lankester, Helen Nicholson, David Park, Rosemary Sweet, William
Whyte, Christopher Wilson. Robin Griffith-Jones is Master of the
Temple at the Temple Church; David Park is a Professor at the
Courtauld Institute of Art.
Despite the many years which have passed since Sweet first
published his Anglo-Saxon Reader, it remains a particularly
appealing and useful anthology for the student of Old English. It
contains extracts from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, and Bede's
Ecclesiastical History of the English People, as well as poems
(including part of Beowulf), riddles, charters and the Preface from
King Alfred's translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care. Although most
texts are in West Saxon, examples of Northumbrian, Mercian and
Kentish dialects have also been included.
Focusing on the problems and conflicts of doing African diaspora
research from various disciplinary perspectives, these essays
situate, describe, and reflect on the current practice of diaspora
scholarship. Tejumola Olaniyan, James H. Sweet, and the
international group of contributors assembled here seek to enlarge
understanding of how the diaspora is conceived and explore
possibilities for the future of its study. With the aim of
initiating interdisciplinary dialogue on the practice of African
diaspora studies, they emphasize learning from new perspectives
that take advantage of intersections between disciplines.
Ultimately, they advocate a fuller sense of what it means to study
the African diaspora in a truly global way.
This is a new release of the original 1945 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1929 edition.
This is a new release of the original 1934 edition.
Indispensable for both the trainee and experienced professional,
this is the only truly comprehensive account of the major role of
the neurosurgeon in the diagnosis and treatment of chronic pain.
The elite panel of contributors were chosen due to their expertise
and international reputations. The result of their achievement
covers the whole spectrum from criteria for patient selection and
the details of operative techniques, to the risks, complications,
and expected outcomes for a wide variety of anatomic, ablative, and
augmentative neurosurgical procedures in treating chronic,
intractable pain. The neurosurgeon will find here chapters on the
latest neuroaugmentative advances utilizing electrical stimulation
and implantable drug infusion systems as well as a useful section
providing algorithms and guidelines for the evaluation and
treatment of specific pain syndromes. Over 100 photographs and
exquisite line drawings - many specifically commissioned for this
book - enhance the text. Invaluable for acquiring the critical
judgement and clinical skills necessary to apply the procedures
involved.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
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Contents Include: The Bible, The Revelation Of God; God And His
Will; The Church; The Minister; The Home, The Family; The
Individual, His Responsibility And Opportunity; The Spiritual Life;
Evangelism; The Lord's Day; Prayer; The Cross; Time And Destiny;
And More.
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Contents Include: The Bible, The Revelation Of God; God And His
Will; The Church; The Minister; The Home, The Family; The
Individual, His Responsibility And Opportunity; The Spiritual Life;
Evangelism; The Lord's Day; Prayer; The Cross; Time And Destiny;
And More.
Exploring the cultural lives of African slaves in the early
colonial Portuguese world, with an emphasis on the more than 1
million Central Africans who survived the journey to Brazil, James
Sweet lifts a curtain on their lives as Africans rather than as
incipient Brazilians. Focusing first on the cultures of Central
Africa from which the slaves came--Ndembu, Imbangala, Kongo, and
others--Sweet identifies specific cultural rites and beliefs that
survived their transplantation to the African-Portuguese diaspora,
arguing that they did not give way to immediate creolization in the
New World but remained distinctly African for some time.
Slaves transferred many cultural practices from their homelands
to Brazil, including kinship structures, divination rituals,
judicial ordeals, ritual burials, dietary restrictions, and secret
societies. Sweet demonstrates that the structures of many of these
practices remained constant during this early period, although the
meanings of the rituals were often transformed as slaves coped with
their new environment and status. Religious rituals in particular
became potent forms of protest against the institution of slavery
and its hardships. In addition, Sweet examines how certain African
beliefs and customs challenged and ultimately influenced Brazilian
Catholicism.
Sweet's analysis sheds new light on African culture in Brazil's
slave society while also enriching our understanding of the complex
process of creolization and cultural survival.
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