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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
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Graduate nurses are expected to 'hit the ground running', taking on
complex care challenges in a stressful and fast-paced environment.
This comprehensive yet accessible textbook provides expert guidance
for students and commencing nurses on the contexts for their
practice. Part 1 presents a pragmatic insight into the
intersection, tensions and complexities of practice and
professional issues for Australian nurses. It outlines the nature
of nursing roles and professional codes of conduct, national health
priority areas and legal and ethical issues including the growing
use of health informatics. There is an examination of the diverse
career paths available in nursing, a focus on nurses' mental health
and well-being and a special examination of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander health issues. Part 2 unpacks key issues across a
range of clinical contexts that will be a key resource for clinical
practicums. Contexts covered include acute care, community nursing,
paediatric nursing, mental health nursing and aged care. Part 3
examines the professional and practice issues of nursing in
diverse, distinctive and emergent practice areas including
aesthetic nursing, military nursing and international nursing with
case studies and vignettes highlighting common issues and
challenges. Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of Australian
clinical and academic nursing professionals, this text is a key
reference for all nursing undergraduates seeking to enter
successfully into the profession.
Using the example of the Lord's Prayer, Peter Lewis shows how an
intimate relationship with God is a reality that can be experienced
today. "Our Father ..." Quoted, memorised, spoken and sung, the
Lord's Prayer is an inspiration to millions. Down the centuries and
around the world it has expressed the deepest longings of all true
Christians. However, the prayer that Jesus taught his followers
reveals something far greater the character and purposes of God
himself. In this sensitive and often moving book, Peter Lewis shows
how an intimate relationship with God is a reality that can be
experienced today.
Today the idea of natural law as the basic ingredient in moral,
legal, and political thought presents a challenge not faced for
almost two hundred years. On the surface, there would appear to be
little room in the contemporary world for a widespread belief in
natural law. The basic philosophies of the opposition--the
rationalism of the philosophes, the utilitarianism of Bentham, the
materialism of Marx--appear to have made prior philosophies
irrelevant. Yet these newer philosophies themselves have been
overtaken by disillusionment born of conflicts between "might" and
"right." Many thoughtful people who were loyal to secular belief
have become dissatisfied with the lack of normative principles and
have turned once more to natural law. This first book-length study
of Edmund Burke and his philosophy, originally published in 1958,
explores this intellectual giant's relationship to, and belief in,
the natural law. It has long been thought that Edmund Burke was an
enemy of the natural law, and was a proponent of conservative
utilitarianism. Peter J. Stanlis shows that, on the contrary, Burke
was one of the most eloquent and profound defenders of natural law
morality and politics in Western civilization. A philosopher in the
classical tradition of Aristotle and Cicero, and in the Scholastic
tradition of Aquinas, Burke appealed to natural law in the
political problems he encountered in American, Irish, Indian, and
British affairs, and in reaction to the French Revolution. This
book is as relevant today as it was when it was first published,
and will be mandatory reading for students of philosophy, political
science, law, and history.
"The Making of the Bible is invaluable for anyone interested in
Scripture and in the intertwined histories of Judaism and
Christianity." -John Barton, author of A History of the Bible: The
Book and Its Faiths The authoritative new account of the Bible's
origins, illuminating the 1,600-year tradition that shaped the
Christian and Jewish holy books as millions know them today. The
Bible as we know it today is best understood as a process, one that
begins in the tenth century BCE. In this revelatory account, a
world-renowned scholar of Hebrew scripture joins a foremost
authority on the New Testament to write a new biography of the Book
of Books, reconstructing Jewish and Christian scriptural histories,
as well as the underappreciated contest between them, from which
the Bible arose. Recent scholarship has overturned popular
assumptions about Israel's past, suggesting, for instance, that the
five books of the Torah were written not by Moses but during the
reign of Josiah centuries later. The sources of the Gospels are
also under scrutiny. Konrad Schmid and Jens Schroeter reveal the
long, transformative journeys of these and other texts en route to
inclusion in the holy books. The New Testament, the authors show,
did not develop in the wake of an Old Testament set in stone.
Rather the two evolved in parallel, in conversation with each
other, ensuring a continuing mutual influence of Jewish and
Christian traditions. Indeed, Schmid and Schroeter argue that
Judaism might not have survived had it not been reshaped in
competition with early Christianity. A remarkable synthesis of the
latest Old and New Testament scholarship, The Making of the Bible
is the most comprehensive history yet told of the world's
best-known literature, revealing its buried lessons and secrets.
Graduate nurses are expected to 'hit the ground running', taking on
complex care challenges in a stressful and fast-paced environment.
This comprehensive yet accessible textbook provides expert guidance
for students and commencing nurses on the contexts for their
practice. Part 1 presents a pragmatic insight into the
intersection, tensions and complexities of practice and
professional issues for Australian nurses. It outlines the nature
of nursing roles and professional codes of conduct, national health
priority areas and legal and ethical issues including the growing
use of health informatics. There is an examination of the diverse
career paths available in nursing, a focus on nurses' mental health
and well-being and a special examination of Aboriginal and Torres
Strait Islander health issues. Part 2 unpacks key issues across a
range of clinical contexts that will be a key resource for clinical
practicums. Contexts covered include acute care, community nursing,
paediatric nursing, mental health nursing and aged care. Part 3
examines the professional and practice issues of nursing in
diverse, distinctive and emergent practice areas including
aesthetic nursing, military nursing and international nursing with
case studies and vignettes highlighting common issues and
challenges. Drawing on the expertise of a wide range of Australian
clinical and academic nursing professionals, this text is a key
reference for all nursing undergraduates seeking to enter
successfully into the profession.
Hitler's tyranny is still difficult to understand today. In this
book, Ralf Georg Reuth examines ten aspects of this catastrophe.
Among other things, he asks: Was anti-Semitism more pronounced in
Germany than elsewhere? Was Versailles responsible for Hitler's
rise, and why did the Germans follow a racial fanatic like him? How
did his war differ from all others before it? The disturbing
answers provide an overall picture that shows: Hitler was not just
the consequence of German history, but the result of chance,
deception, and seduction. This thought-provoking new study takes
aim at several of the 'sacred cows' of Hitler scholarship from the
past forty years. Reuth interrogates and challenges a range of
orthodox views on such topics as how mainstream politicians
facilitated Hitler's rise to power, the Fuhrer's infamous pact with
Stalin, and the complicity of ordinary Germans in his genocidal
tyranny. Eschewing a conventional chronological approach in favour
of a forensic analysis of Adolf Hitler's mainsprings of action both
as chancellor and military commander, Reuth portrays Hitler as the
apotheosis of a specifically German strain of militarism and
imperialism, shifting the focus firmly back on to the mindset and
modus operandi of Hitler himself. The portrait that emerges is one
of a murderous fantasist and political opportunist driven by an
all-embracing ideology of racial superiority. Reuth's account
courts controversy on a few points but offers a fascinating
counterpoint to much recent scholarship.
In What Do Animals Think and Feel?, the biologist Karsten Brensing has something astonishing to tell us about the animal kingdom: namely that animals, by any reasonable assessment, have developed the sophisticated systems of social organization and behaviour that human beings call 'culture'.
Dolphins call one another by name and orcas inhabit a culture that is over 700,000 years old. Chimpanzees wage strategic warfare, while bonobos delight in dirty talk. Ravens enjoy snowboarding on snow-covered roofs, and snails like to spin on hamster exercise wheels. Humped-back whales follow the dictates of fashion and rats are dedicated party animals. Ants recognize themselves in mirrors and spruce themselves up before they return home. Ducklings can pass complicated tests in abstract thinking. Dogs punish disloyalty, though they are also capable of forgiveness if you apologize to them.
Brensing draws on the latest scientific findings as well as his own experience working with animals, to reveal a world of behavioural and cognitive sophistication that is remarkably similar to our own.
The Fertile Crescent region has long been regarded as pivotal to
the rise of civilisation. Alongside the story of human development,
innovation, and progress, there is a culinary tradition of equal
richness and importance. The Culinary Crescent shows Heine's deep
knowledge of the cookery traditions of the Umayyad, Abbasid,
Ottoman, Safavid, and Mughal courts. In addition to a fascinating
history, Heine presents more than seventy recipes-from the modest
to the extravagant-with dishes ranging from those created by the
celebrity chefs of the bygone Mughal era, up to gastronomically
complex presentations of modern times. Beautifully produced, and
designed for both reading and cooking, The Culinary Crescent is
sure to provide a delectable window into the history of food in the
Middle East.
An enthralling narrative history of Weimar Berlin in the three
years before the Nazi takeover and a dramatic account of Germany's
slide from parliamentary democracy to dictatorship. Combining
meticulously researched historical writing on the one hand with
gripping storytelling on the other, Peter Walther examines the
mounting crisis during the dying years of the Weimar Republic
through the prism of nine principal protagonists, whose lives are
profiled deftly and in fascinating detail; they include leading
Weimar politicians of the right, left, and centre and prominent e
migre s resident in this most cosmopolitan of capital cities. The
louche and febrile nightlife of early 1930s Berlin - 'a playground
for charlatans and prophets, madmen and crooks' - is memorably and
atmospherically evoked. Peter Walther pulls together the threads of
these nine lives to chart the demise of German parliamentary
democracy and the rise of National Socialist tyranny, the story
ending with the terrifying 'Finale furioso' of Hitler's seizure of
power in January 1933. Along the way, we gain remarkable insights
into the machinations in the corridors of power to try to keep the
'Bohemian corporal' from the chancellorship and the venality of the
Nazi elite and its fellow travellers from the demi-monde of early
1930s Berlin.
'Gripping and all too timely' James Hawes 'A brilliant mix of
detailed research and vivid storytelling' Julia Boyd 'History at
its very best - and a fabulous translation, too' Graham Hurley In
March 1930, after the collapse of the coalition that had ruled
Germany since 1928, President Hindenburg asked Heinrich Bruning,
bespectacled and scholarly leader of the Catholic Centre Party, to
form a government. Some three years later, in January 1933,
Hindenburg appointed as chancellor the demagogic, virulently
anti-Semitic leader of the National Socialist party. Within weeks,
Adolf Hitler has begun the process of dismantling the flawed
democracy of the Weimar Republic and replacing it with a one-party
totalitarian state. Darkness Falling depicts in compelling fashion
the serial crises and mounting violence of a febrile era. Peter
Walther examines the slow death of Weimar through the prism of nine
colourful protagonists, including leading German politicians of
right, left and centre, the clairvoyant and occultist, Erik Jan
Hanussen and the formidable American journalist Dorothy Thompson.
He profiles these heterogeneous characters in intriguing detail,
pulling together the threads of their lives to chart the demise of
German parliamentary democracy and the rise of National Socialist
tyranny. Along the way we gain fascinating insights into the
machinations in the corridors of power to keep the 'Bohemian
corporal' from the chancellorship, and the venality of the Nazi
elite and its fellow travellers from the demi-monde of early 1930s
Berlin. Walther evokes the louche nightlife of the German capital -
'a playground for charlatans and prophets, madmen and crooks' -
memorably and atmospherically. A masterly fusion of meticulously
researched historical writing and vividly propulsive storytelling,
Darkness Falling is a distinctive and enthralling account of
Germany's slide from democracy to dictatorship. Translated by Dr
Peter Lewis.
In the decades since independence, the countries of sub-Saharan
Africa have faced three central dilemmas of development. The first
has been the challenge of state building. In the wake of colonial
rule, governments have encountered the problems of establishing
legitimate authority and constructing capable states. A second
dilemma has been that of n
Named "Man of the Millennium" in 1999, Johannes Gutenberg was the
creator of one of the most influential and revolutionary inventions
in Europe's history: a printing press with mechanical movable type.
This development sparked the printing revolution, which is regarded
as the milestone of the second millennium and represents one of the
central contributions in the turn to modernity. His printing press
came to play a key role in the development of the Renaissance, the
Reformation, and the Age of Enlightenment, providing the material
foundation for the modern knowledge-based economy and the spread of
learning to the masses. His invention revolutionized the way that
information is shared and broadened the boundaries of who has
access to written knowledge. Paving the way for bibliophiles of
today, the Gutenberg Bible of 1454 remains one of the most famous
books in history. Gutenberg's technical innovations remained
unrivalled for almost 350 years, until industrialization of the
printing industry and the digital revolution built on the advances
that he began, increasing the rate at which information is spread.
Despite his significance in forming the world as we know it, there
has not yet been a rigorous and accessible biography of Gutenberg
published in English. Written by the leading expert on Gutenberg, F
ssel's biography brings together high academic standards and
thorough historical details in a highly readable text that conveys
everything you need to know about the man who changed printing
forever.
Allen argues that two major but problematic French medieval
literary works (Andreas Capellamus's late 12th-century Latin De
Amore and Jean de Meun's encyclopedic continuation of the Romance
of the Rose, written in French in the 1720s) are central to the
courtly tradition, and follow the disruptive
Haile Selassie I, the last emperor of Ethiopia, was as brilliant as
he was formidable. An early proponent of African unity and
independence who claimed to be a descendant of King Solomon, he
fought with the Allies against the Axis powers during World War II
and was a messianic figure for the Jamaican Rastafarians. But the
final years of his empire saw turmoil and revolution, and he was
ultimately overthrown and assassinated in a communist coup. Written
by Asfa-Wossen Asserate, Haile Selassie s grandnephew, this is the
first major biography on this final king of kings. Asserate, who
spent his childhood and adolescence in Ethiopia before fleeing the
revolution of 1974, knew Selassie personally and gained intimate
insights into life at the imperial court. Introducing him as a
reformer and an autocrat whose personal history with all of its
upheavals, promises, and horrors reflects in many ways the history
of the twentieth century itself, Asserate uses his own experiences
and painstaking research in family and public archives to achieve a
colorful and even-handed portrait of the emperor."
Distinguished historians of the ancient world analyze the earliest
developments in human history and the rise of the first major
civilizations, from the Middle East to India and China. In this
volume of the six-part History of the World series, Hans-Joachim
Gehrke, a noted scholar of ancient Greece, leads a distinguished
group of historians in analyzing prehistory, the earliest human
settlements, and the rise of the world’s first advanced
civilizations. The Neolithic period—sometimes called the Agrarian
Revolution—marked a turning point in human history. People were
no longer dependent entirely on hunting animals and gathering
plants but instead cultivated crops and reared livestock. This led
to a more settled existence, notably along rivers such as the Nile,
Tigris, Euphrates, Ganges, and Yangzi. Increased mastery of metals,
together with innovations in tools and technologies, led to
economic specialization, from intricate crafts to deadlier weapons,
which contributed to the growth of village communities as well as
trade networks. Family was the fundamental social unit, its
relationships and hierarchies modeled on the evolving relationship
between ruler and ruled. Religion, whether polytheist or
monotheist, played a central role in shaping civilizations from the
Persians to the Israelites. The world was construed in terms of a
divinely ordained order: the Chinese imperial title Huangdi
expressed divinity and heavenly splendor, while Indian emperor
Ashoka was heralded as the embodiment of moral law. From the latest
findings about the Neanderthals to the founding of imperial China
to the world of Western classical antiquity, Making Civilizations
offers an authoritative overview of humanity’s earliest eras.
A deftly crafted biography of the author of Siddhartha, whose
critique of consumer culture continues to inspire millions of
readers. Against the horrors of Nazi dictatorship and widespread
disillusionment with the forces of mass culture and consumerism,
Hermann Hesse's stories inspired nonconformity and a yearning for
universal values. Few today would doubt Hesse's artistry or his
importance to millions of devoted readers. But just who was the
author of Siddhartha, Steppenwolf, and Demian? Gunnar Decker weaves
together previously unavailable sources to offer a unique
interpretation of the life and work of Hermann Hesse. Drawing on
recently discovered correspondence between Hesse and his
psychoanalyst Josef Lang, Decker shows how Hesse reversed the
traditional roles of therapist and client, and rethinks the
relationship between Hesse's novels and Jungian psychoanalysis. He
also explores Hesse's correspondence with Stefan Zweig-recently
unearthed-to find the source of Hesse's profound sense of
alienation from his contemporaries. Decker's biography brings to
life this icon of spiritual searching and disenchantment who
galvanized the counterculture in the 1960s and feels newly relevant
today.
Today the idea of natural law as the basic ingredient in moral,
legal, and political thought presents a challenge not faced for
almost two hundred years. On the surface, there would appear to be
little room in the contemporary world for a widespread belief in
natural law. The basic philosophies of the opposition--the
rationalism of the "philosophes," the utilitarianism of Bentham,
the materialism of Marx--appear to have made prior philosophies
irrelevant. Yet these newer philosophies themselves have been
overtaken by disillusionment born of conflicts between "might" and
"right." Many thoughtful people who were loyal to secular belief
have become dissatisfied with the lack of normative principles and
have turned once more to natural law. This first book-length study
of Edmund Burke and his philosophy, originally published in 1958,
explores this intellectual giant's relationship to, and belief in,
the natural law. It has long been thought that Edmund Burke was an
enemy of the natural law, and was a proponent of conservative
utilitarianism. Peter J. Stanlis shows that, on the contrary, Burke
was one of the most eloquent and profound defenders of natural law
morality and politics in Western civilization. A philosopher in the
classical tradition of Aristotle and Cicero, and in the Scholastic
tradition of Aquinas, Burke appealed to natural law in the
political problems he encountered in American, Irish, Indian, and
British affairs, and in reaction to the French Revolution. This
book is as relevant today as it was when it was first published,
and will be mandatory reading for students of philosophy, political
science, law, and history.
In the decades since independence, the countries of sub-Saharan
Africa have faced three central dilemmas of development. The first
has been the challenge of state building. In the wake of colonial
rule, governments have encountered the problems of establishing
legitimate authority and constructing capable states. A second
dilemma has been that of nation building and state-society
relations. African countries have confronted the difficulties of
managing ethnic diversity, forging national identities, and
negotiating relations between citizens and rulers. The third
challenge encompasses problems of economic development as the
region has grappled with a legacy of poverty, slow growth, and
external dependence.This collection provides an overview of the
leading themes and issues in these three critical areas of Africa's
postindependent development. A selection of pathbreaking articles
provides insights into the key questions, the major theories, and
the outstanding challenges in African development. Written by
today's most influential African scholars, the readings cover a
variety of topics including political leadership; forms of state
power; the role of civil society; the importance of class,
ethnicity, and gender; and the prospects for democratic change in
the region. Changes in African political economies are also
addressed, focusing special attention on the debt crisis and the
problems of economic reform. A final section focuses on the
present-day challenges to African development: the spread of
refugees, pressures on the environment, the devastating toll of
AIDS, and the threat of state collapse.Providing a broad historical
perspective on Africa's political and economic development and an
overview of current problems and prospects, this collection will be
especially useful for advanced undergraduates, graduate students,
and development professionals.
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