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For more than 40 years, NATO premised its defence on credible
nuclear deterrence. Underwriting this deterrence was NATO's
strategy, and the nuclear weapons and command and control systems
intended to make the strategy an operational reality. This work
examines NATO's attempts between 1952 and 1990 to achieve the
political and military control of nuclear weapons operations in a
multinational organization. By using case-studies of US, British,
French and NATO nuclear weapons operations, and empirical evidence
from Cold War crises, it provides an analysis of NATO's experience
and offers insights for the present day.
The chapters in this book illustrate, from a number of different
perspectives, the ways in which power is located and articulated
through gendered negotiations and acted out within the changing and
differing setting of the household. The book is divided into four
sections. The first section provides a theoretical, historical and
philosophical setting, whilst the following three sections provide
empirical contributions which examine aspects of Gendered Care ;
dimensions of Gendered Time and Space , and straddling work and
home, Gendered Work, Income and Power .
Since the end of the Cold War French defence policy has undergone a
transformation. France has reformed its national defence to
Europeanize and multilateralize its role, moved closer to NATO, and
emerged as amongst the world's most active military powers. This
book presents a wide-ranging analysis, setting out the background
and policy framework of French defence, charting the transformation
of policy between 1989 and 1996, and examining the role of the
French military within and beyond Europe into the twenty-first
century.
First published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and
Francis, an informa company.
A historical investigation of the phenomena of religious conversion
from ancient to modern times. This volume explores the subject of
religious conversion over broad expanses of time and space,
considering cases from the thirteenth through the twentieth
centuries and from settings across the world. Leading scholars from
a variety of historical sub-fields address the theme at a moment
when the utility of the concept of conversion is vigorously
debated. The historical settings treated here stretch from
thirteenth-century England to sixteenth-century southern India and
Andean Peru, from Bohemia to China during the age of the
Reformations, from the fifteenth-century Low Countries to
seventeenth-century New France and from the nineteenth-century
Minnesota borderlands to late colonial Zimbabwe and modern India.
The book's broad mixture of examples and approaches will both
encourage a deepening of specialist knowledge about particular
places and times, and spark new thinking about religious change,
cultural appropriations, and interactive emergence across
discipline and fields. This book is one of two collections of
essays on religious conversion drawn from the activities of the
Shelby Cullum Davis Center for Historical Studies at Princeton
University between 1999 and 2001. The other volume, Conversion in
Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, is also published by the
University of Rochester Press.
Video Game Law is aimed at game developers and industry
professionals who want to better understand the industry or are in
need of expert legal guidance. Given the rise in international
competition, the increasing complexity of video game features, and
the explosive growth of the industry in general, game developers
can quickly find themselves in serious trouble, becoming vulnerable
to copyright infringement claims, piracy, and even security
breaches. Not every video game company has the financial resources
to retain in-house counsel-which Video Game Law seeks to address by
discussing many of the common pitfalls, legal questions, and
scenarios facing the industry. S. Gregory Boyd, Brian Pyne, and
Sean F. Kane, the most prominent, sought after, and respected video
game attorneys in the country, break down the laws and legal
concepts that every game developer and industry professional needs
to know in order to better protect their game and grow their
company. KEY FEATURES: * Provides a solid understanding of
intellectual property (IP) concepts and laws, including copyright,
trademark, trade secret, and other protections that apply to video
games and how each can be employed to protect a company's unique
and valuable IP * Explores cutting edge legal issues that affect
the gaming industry, including gambling, virtual currency, privacy
laws, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, tax incentives, and
relevant piracy laws * Provides an overview of legal and privacy
vocabulary and concepts needed to navigate and succeed in an
industry that is constantly growing and evolving * Provides
illustrative examples and legal concepts from the video game
industry in every chapter
The chapters in this book illustrate, from a number of different
perspectives, the ways in which power is located and articulated
through gendered negotiations and acted out within the changing and
differing setting of the household. The book is divided into four
sections. The first section provides a theoretical, historical and
philosophical setting, whilst the following three sections provide
empirical contributions which examine aspects of Gendered Care ;
dimensions of Gendered Time and Space , and straddling work and
home, Gendered Work, Income and Power .
Inside the Manual of Anterior Segment Surgery is the wisdom of over
4 decades of surgical experience by Drs. S. Gregory Smith, Ryan G.
Smith, and Richard L. Lindstrom covering the essentials of anterior
segment surgery. Through this experience, one of the key
ingredients in setting yourself up for success is the position of
your hands in relation to the instrument and what you are trying to
accomplish with the instrument. In a concise yet detailed manner,
the basics of microscope management, patient head position, surgeon
hand position, the relationship of the instrument and the hands,
and how to enhance the performance of every surgical manoeuvre are
covered with helpful illustrations. Designed to enhance your
surgical techniques by putting you in a position to succeed, this
manual will make the complex manoeuvres look simple and improve
patient outcomes. The Manual of Anterior Segment Surgery is a
method to shorten your timeline to excellent surgery.
Thousands of men and women were executed for incompatible religious
views in sixteenth-century Europe. The meaning and significance of
those deaths are studied here comparatively for the first time,
providing a compelling argument for the importance of martyrdom as
both a window onto religious sensibilities and a crucial component
in the formation of divergent Christian traditions and identities.
Brad Gregory explores Protestant, Catholic, and Anabaptist
martyrs in a sustained fashion, addressing the similarities and
differences in their self-understanding. He traces the processes
and impact of their memorialization by co-believers, and he
reconstructs the arguments of the ecclesiastical and civil
authorities responsible for their deaths. In addition, he assesses
the controversy over the meaning of executions for competing views
of Christian truth and the intractable dispute over the distinction
between true and false martyrs. He employs a wide range of sources,
including pamphlets, martyrologies, theological and devotional
treatises, sermons, songs, woodcuts and engravings, correspondence,
and legal records. Reconstructing religious motivation, conviction,
and behavior in early modern Europe, Gregory shows us the shifting
perspectives of authorities willing to kill, martyrs willing to
die, martyrologists eager to memorialize, and controversialists
keen to dispute.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
While religious history and intellectual history are both
active, dynamic fields of contemporary historical inquiry,
historians of ideas and historians of religion have too often paid
little attention to one another's work. The intellectual historian
Quentin Skinner urged scholars to attend to the contexts as well as
the texts of authors, in order to 'see things their way.' Where
religion is concerned, however, historians have often failed to
heed this good advice; this book helps to remedy that failure. The
editors and contributors urge intellectual historians to explore
the religious dimensions of ideas and at the same time commend the
methods of intellectual history to historians of religion.
The introduction is followed by an essay by Brad Gregory
reflecting on issues related to the study of the history of
religious ideas. Subsequent essays by John Coffey, Anna Sapir
Abulafia, Howard Hotson, Richard A. Muller, and Willem J. van
Asselt explore the importance of religion in the intellectual
history of Great Britain and Europe in the medieval and early
modern periods. James Bradley shifts forward with his essay on
religious ideas in Enlightenment England. Mark Noll and Alister
Chapman deal respectively with British influence on the writing of
religious history in America and with the relationship between
intellectual history and religion in modern Britain. David
Bebbington provides a concluding reflection on the challenges
inherent in restoring the centrality of religion to intellectual
history.
"This terrific collection of essays will give all intellectual
historians a lot to think about. With learning, courtesy, and
precision, the authors make clear that historians of early modern
and modern thought, in Britain, Europe, and America, need to pay
far more attention than they have to religious ideas and
categories. At the same time, though, they show that historians of
ideas can provide historians of theology with important
methodological lessons." --Anthony Grafton, Princeton
University
""Seeing Things Their Way "is a unique and important volume that
explores and applies in the field of religious thought the
methodology of intellectual history pioneered by Quentin Skinner.
This rich interdisciplinary collection not only addresses for the
first time at book length the strengths, weaknesses, and
implications of this approach within the context of the history of
religious ideas, but also offers some exemplary exercises in the
good practice of that art. It will appeal to historians of
political thought and specialists in intellectual history as well
as to scholars interested in the place and treatment of religious
ideas in social history." --Richard Rex, Queens' College,
University of Cambridge
"There is no greater service that the historian can provide to
our own understanding of ourselves in time and place than to
reconstruct "how" past societies understood themselves in time and
place. When historians fail to include a clear analysis of how the
most articulate of our forebears struggled to locate God and his
immanence into their studies of themselves and the societies they
sought to build, those same historians impoverish our understanding
of how our pasts inform our present and how and at what cost (if
any) we exclude God from our sense of what makes a just society.
This book teaches us that, and much more." --John Morrill,
University of Cambridge
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
On the 500th anniversary of the Reformation comes this compelling,
illuminating, and expansive religious history that examines the
complicated and unintended legacies of Martin Luther and the
epochal movement that continues to shape the world today.For five
centuries, Martin Luther has been lionized as an outspoken and
fearless icon of change who ended the Middle Ages and heralded the
beginning of the modern world. In Rebel in the Ranks, Brad Gregory,
renowned professor of European history at Notre Dame, recasts this
long-accepted portrait. Luther did not intend to start a revolution
that would divide the Catholic Church and forever change Western
civilization. Yet his actions would profoundly shape our world in
ways he could never have imagined.Gregory analyzes Luther's
inadvertent role in starting the Reformation and the epochal
changes that followed. He reveals how Luther's insistence on the
Bible as the sole authority for Christian truth led to conflicting
interpretations of its meaning--and to the rise of competing
churches, political conflicts, and social upheavals. Ultimately, he
contends, some of the major historical and cultural developments
that arose in its wake--including the Enlightenment, individual
self-determination and moral relativism, and a religious freedom
that protects one's right to worship or even to reject
religion--would have appalled Luther: a reluctant revolutionary, a
rebel in the ranks, whose goal was to make society more Christian,
yet instead set the world on fire.
Research indicates that on average, Americans change their
religious affiliation at least once during their lives. Today, a
number of evangelical Christians are converting to Catholicism,
Eastern Orthodoxy and Anglicanism. Longtime Evangelicals often fail
to understand the attraction of these non-Evangelical Christian
traditions. Journeys of Faith examines the movement between these
traditions from various angles. Four prominent converts to Eastern
Orthodoxy, Catholicism, Evangelicalism and Anglicanism describe
their new faith traditions and their spiritual journeys into them.
Response chapters offer respectful critiques. Contributors include
Wilbur Ellsworth (Eastern Orthodoxy), with a response by Craig
Blaising; Francis J. Beckwith (Roman Catholicism), with Gregg
Allison responding; Chris Castaldo (Evangelicalism) and Brad
Gregory s Catholic response; and Lyle Dorsett (Anglicanism), with a
response by Robert Peterson. This book will provide readers with
first-hand accounts of thoughtful Christians changing religious
affiliation or remaining true to the traditions they have always
known. Pastors, counselors and students of theology will gain a
wealth of insight into current faith migration within the church
today."
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