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Our knowledge of the world comes from various sources. But it is
sometimes said that testimony, unlike other sources, transmits
knowledge from one person to another. In this book, Stephen Wright
investigates what the transmission of knowledge involves and the
role that it should play in our theorising about testimony as a
source of knowledge. He argues that the transmission of knowledge
should be understood in terms of the more fundamental concept of
the transmission of epistemic grounds, and that the claim that
testimony transmits knowledge is not only defensible in its own
right, but indispensable to an adequate theory of testimony. This
makes testimony unlike other epistemic sources.
Providing a timely analysis of the foreign policies of African
states, this volume of original essays enables the reader to assess
the position of African states within an evolving post?Cold War
environment and to judge the extent of African marginalization from
the global economy. As national foreign policies are increasingly
influenced by factors
Our knowledge of the world comes from various sources. But it is
sometimes said that testimony, unlike other sources, transmits
knowledge from one person to another. In this book, Stephen Wright
investigates what the transmission of knowledge involves and the
role that it should play in our theorising about testimony as a
source of knowledge. He argues that the transmission of knowledge
should be understood in terms of the more fundamental concept of
the transmission of epistemic grounds, and that the claim that
testimony transmits knowledge is not only defensible in its own
right, but indispensable to an adequate theory of testimony. This
makes testimony unlike other epistemic sources.
"This timely book provides insight into the changing role of the
'hospital' in the face of technological, organizational innovation
and ever-tightening health budgets."James Barlow, Imperial College
Business School, UK "This book covers various relevant aspects of
the hospital in different states and contexts. Underlining the
importance of business models for future hospitals, this
publication presents models of care from a historic and a current
perspective. All authors possess a deep insight into different
health care systems, not only as scholars but as experts working
for world-renowned health policy institutions such as the World
Health Organization, the World Bank or the European Observatory for
Health Systems."Siegfried Walch, Management Center Innsbruck,
Austria "For an organisation like mine, representing those involved
in the strategic planning of healthcare infrastructure, this book
provides invaluable insights into what really matters - now and for
the future - in the complex and contentious field of hospital
development."Jonathan Erskine, European Health Property Network,
Netherlands This book seeks to reframe current policy discussions
on hospitals. Healthcare services turn expensive economic
resources-people, capital, pharmaceuticals, energy, materials-into
care and cure. Hospitals concentrate the use and the cost of these
resources, particularly highly-trained people, expensive capital,
and embedded technologies. But other areas of health, such as
public health and primary care, seem to attract more attention and
affection, at least within the health policy community. How to make
sense of this paradox? Hospitals choose, or are assigned, to
deliver certain parts of care packages. They are organised to do
this via "business models". These necessarily incorporate models of
care - the processes of dealing with patients. The activity needs
to be governed, in the widest senses. Rational decisions need to be
taken about both the care and the resources to be used. This book
pulls these elements together, to stimulate a debate.
The financial crisis of 2007-11 has now been analysed and explained
from almost every conceivable standpoint. Far less attention has
been paid to the long business cycle expansion that started in 1992
and provided an exceptional period of macroeconomic stability in
the UK. To many it seemed that the main problem of the UK economy
had been solved: that of sustained non-inflationary economic
growth. This book brings together senior macroeconomists from
universities and the Bank of England to look at what policy-making
lessons can be learned from looking at the period of expansion that
preceded the financial crisis. It does so with the twin aims of
encouraging more policy-focused research on the UK and encouraging
policy debate in the aftermath of the financial crisis and the
prolonged economic recession. Students, researchers and
practitioners with an interest in the UK economy will need to
absorb the lessons of this book.
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Harold (Hardcover)
Steven Wright
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This volume of thirteen original essays provides a timely analysis
of African foreign policies in a post-Cold War environment where
African marginalization from the global economy appears to be
increasing. Three thematic essays give an overview of critical
changes occurring in African foreign policies, and ten
country-by-country case studies provide specific analyses of
decisionmaking, intraregional relations, and the struggles over
policy with external agencies, including the World Bank and the
International Monetary Fund. African Foreign Policies offers
explanations for how African states are adapting to the
international challenges of the late twentieth century.
Optimization is an important tool used in decision science and for
the analysis of physical systems used in engineering. One can trace
its roots to the Calculus of Variations and the work of Euler and
Lagrange. This natural and reasonable approach to mathematical
programming covers numerical methods for finite-dimensional
optimization problems. It begins with very simple ideas progressing
through more complicated concepts, concentrating on methods for
both unconstrained and constrained optimization.
The financial crisis of 2007-11 has now been analysed and explained
from almost every conceivable standpoint. Far less attention has
been paid to the long business cycle expansion that started in 1992
and provided an exceptional period of macroeconomic stability in
the UK. To many it seemed that the main problem of the UK economy
had been solved: that of sustained non-inflationary economic
growth. This book brings together senior macroeconomists from
universities and the Bank of England to look at what policy-making
lessons can be learned from looking at the period of expansion that
preceded the financial crisis. It does so with the twin aims of
encouraging more policy-focused research on the UK and encouraging
policy debate in the aftermath of the financial crisis and the
prolonged economic recession. Students, researchers and
practitioners with an interest in the UK economy will need to
absorb the lessons of this book.
"This timely book provides insight into the changing role of the
'hospital' in the face of technological, organizational innovation
and ever-tightening health budgets."James Barlow, Imperial College
Business School, UK "This book covers various relevant aspects of
the hospital in different states and contexts. Underlining the
importance of business models for future hospitals, this
publication presents models of care from a historic and a current
perspective. All authors possess a deep insight into different
health care systems, not only as scholars but as experts working
for world-renowned health policy institutions such as the World
Health Organization, the World Bank or the European Observatory for
Health Systems."Siegfried Walch, Management Center Innsbruck,
Austria "For an organisation like mine, representing those involved
in the strategic planning of healthcare infrastructure, this book
provides invaluable insights into what really matters - now and for
the future - in the complex and contentious field of hospital
development."Jonathan Erskine, European Health Property Network,
Netherlands This book seeks to reframe current policy discussions
on hospitals. Healthcare services turn expensive economic
resources-people, capital, pharmaceuticals, energy, materials-into
care and cure. Hospitals concentrate the use and the cost of these
resources, particularly highly-trained people, expensive capital,
and embedded technologies. But other areas of health, such as
public health and primary care, seem to attract more attention and
affection, at least within the health policy community. How to make
sense of this paradox? Hospitals choose, or are assigned, to
deliver certain parts of care packages. They are organised to do
this via "business models". These necessarily incorporate models of
care - the processes of dealing with patients. The activity needs
to be governed, in the widest senses. Rational decisions need to be
taken about both the care and the resources to be used. This book
pulls these elements together, to stimulate a debate.
Optimization is an important tool used in decision science and for
the analysis of physical systems used in engineering. One can trace
its roots to the Calculus of Variations and the work of Euler and
Lagrange. This natural and reasonable approach to mathematical
programming covers numerical methods for finite-dimensional
optimization problems. It begins with very simple ideas progressing
through more complicated concepts, concentrating on methods for
both unconstrained and constrained optimization.
Unlike traditional music, film music sources are often difficult to
locate and do not follow the patterns that researchers are trained
to identify. Although there have been several self-described
introductions to the field and articles that summarize the problems
and state of research, there is no resource that gathers together
all of the basic information that is vital to film music research.
In this volume, Jeannie Gayle Pool and H. Stephen Wright address
the difficulties scholars encounter when conducting research on
film and television music. Intended as a guide for scholars and
researchers in navigating the complex world of film and television
music, this book provides a detailed taxonomy of film music primary
sources and explains how to find and interpret them. The authors
tackle the problems of determining film score authorship and
working with recordings of film music. A bibliographic essay
summarizes the major works and trends in film music research and
provides clear pointers to the most important resources in the
field. An up-to-date guide to important collections of film music
sources and other research materials is also included. Designed to
clarify the nature of film music source materials and how they are
generated, A Research Guide to Film and Television Music in the
United States provides clear signposts for scholars and identifies
opportunities for further research.
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Dan Graham (Paperback)
Alain Charre, Etc, M.P. MacDonald; Translated by Brian Holmes, Stephen Wright
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Though architecture is clearly not the sole focus of Dan Graham's
work, it is one of his themes of predilection, as much in his
photography as in his photography as in his installations and
writings. How does Dan Graham use architectural ideas and
functions, and in return, how can architectural thinking react to
his accusations and justifications? This volume attempts to
understand and evaluate his work from the perspective of modern and
contemporary architecture, the necessary meeting-point for the
basic questions he develops: urbanism, public/private space,
socio-political life, ideological critique, the role of language in
the visual-kinetic perception of the building (with ideas from the
Russian formalists, Bakhtin, Mevdev, Shlovsky), or the effects on
the constitution and transformation of the ego since the appearance
of glass as a construction material. This approach promises to shed
a clearer light on questions that belong not only to the separate
fields of art and architecture.
A fresh examination of the Baptist movement, showing its growth and
development to be more complex than hitherto assumed. This book
challenges the orthodoxy that seventeenth-century Baptists were
divided from the first into two separate denominations,
'Particular' and 'General', defined by their differing attitudes to
predestination and the atonement, showing how the position was in
fact much more complicated. It describes how from the foundation of
the 'Generals' in 1609 there were always two tendencies, one
clericalist and pacifist, influenced by the Dutch Mennonites, and
one reflecting the English traditions of erastianism and local lay
predominance in religion. It re-analyses the confessional struggle
during and after the civil war, showing how Independent and
erastian sentiment in Parliament increasingly combined to baulk
Presbyterian ambition; during and partly because of this process
(which they also influenced), the Baptists evolved into three
recognisable tendencies. Amongst General Baptists there was a
politically radical current, but also a more passive tendency which
was starting to gain ground. In 1647-9 most but by no means all
Particular Baptist leaders were hostile to the Levellers. The book
looks at the nature of religious convictionin the New Model Army,
reassessing the role and influence of Baptists in it. In the late
40s, many Baptists, soldiers and civilians, rejected formal
ordinances altogether. STEPHEN WRIGHT received his Ph.D. from the
Universityof London. He has been visiting lecturer at the
University of Hertfordshire and the University of North London.
Stephen Wright offers an American Civil War novel unlike any other.
His hero Liberty Fish is the son of fervent abolitionists and the
grandson of Carolina slaveholders. Hoping to reconcile the familial
disunion, Liberty escapes first into the cauldron of war, then into
a bedlam more disturbing still.
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