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Bovine surgery is both challenging and complicated. Not only does the surgeon have to decide whether surgery is economically justified, but surgery often has to be performed in a sub-optimal environment.

What is Meaning? Fundamentals of Formal Semantics is a concise introduction to the field of semantics as it is actually practiced. Through simple examples, pictures, and metaphors, Paul Portner presents the field's key ideas about how language works.

The Divine Attributesis an engaging analysis of the God of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the perspective of rational theology.

Developmental Psychology and Youis a lively and accessible introduction to the psychology of human development. The authors, who all have extensive experience in teaching and research, have selected topics that will appeal to new students of this subject and have presented them in a way that demonstrates their relevance to everyday life.

Including three of his most famous and important essays, Utilitarianism, On Liberty, and Essay on Bentham, along with formative selections from Jeremy Bentham and John Austin, this volume provides a uniquely perspicuous view of Mill's ethical and political thought.

This ground--breaking commentary on The Revelation to John (the Apocalypse) reveals its far--reaching influence on society and culture, and its impact on the church through the ages. * Explores the far--reaching influence of the Apocalypse on society and culture. * Shows the booka s impact on the Christian church through the ages.

This text systematically reconstructs the origins and advances in economic sociology. By presenting both classical and contemporary theory and research, it identifies and describes the continuity between past and present, and the move from economics to economic sociology.

* Introduces students to the field of political geography * Takes a distinctive political economic approach * Incorporates critical approaches to human geography such as the a cultural turna and recent work on the theory of the state * Packed with interesting and relevant examples.

This engaging story of an eighteenth century Scottish laird whose brief arranged marriage was annulled on the grounds of his mental capacity -- which seen through modern eyes can be identified as autism. It is a story of villainy and innocence, and provides a fascinating historical context to which the latest theories on autism are applied.

Offers a view of how Britain made a peaceful transition to representative democracy. This book attempts to take the reader into the minds of the politicians of the day. It presents an account of how Britain was transformed from a society governed by the landed gentry to one responsive to the pressures of the newly-industrialized masses.

An introduction to an age of conflict. Taking account of political, economic and social developments, the author examines the lines of division in late 16th-century Europe: between a Protestant North and a Catholic South; between the rich economy of the West and the poverty of the agrarian East.

With a critical focus on US-Latin American encounters, this book analyses geopolitical issues from a post-colonial perspective. It critically considers the genesis of US power, and interweaves ideas and events, interventions and representations. It also highlights the contribution of Third World intellectuals.

* Ties together eucharistic theology with concrete eucharistic practice* Includes interviews with ecclesiastical officials and grassroots Church workers in Chile. .

This books explores why it is we believe what we believe about language, and why we persist in handing down from generation to generation a rag bag collection of fact and fantasy about language.

Presents a 'total history' of the British Isles from the outbreak of the First World War through to the late 1990s. This volume offers readers a multi-layered narrative combining social, economic, cultural and political perspectives on this era of significant and rapid change. It also describes the 'big events' that dominated British politics.

Written by one of the foremost and widely-respected writers in the field, this volume sheds new light on the forms and premises of the communicative experience. In doing so, it challenges the theoretical positions of marxist and "political economy of media" analysts who focus largely on the structure of economic and social power within the media.

This work examines the structures of power and jurisdiction that operated in Tudor England. It explains what the institutions of central government were designed to do, and how they related to each other. It also discusses how order and obedience were supposed to be preserved in the countryside.

* Explores religion both as a social phenomenon and as a form of inner experience. * Explains why people believe what they do. * Looks at the effects of religious and spiritual belief upon behaviour, and upon physical and psychological health.

Comprises an introduction to human cognition and focuses on the key topics of perception and attention, individual differences, memory, reading, thinking and problem-solving, and the production and perception of language.

* Initiates students to the linguists' way of observing and analyzing data by making the methods and the process of inquiry visible and accessible. * Engages students in analyzing the breadth and depth of two phenomena in a variety of languages-the expression of noun phrase plurality and the formation of questions.

Written by a renowned scholar of critical race theory, The Threat of Race explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how it continues to be articulated, if often denied, in today's world.

A bold and insightful departure from related texts, Descartes goes beyond the categorical associations placed on the philosopher's ideas, and explores the subtleties of his beliefs. * An elegant, compelling and insightful introduction to Descartes' life and work.

This authoritative work examines recent changes in Russia's relations with the EU and NATO and explores the patterns of support for these various orientations among its own elites and public. * Investigates Russian engagement with the enlarged European Union and NATO.

Raman spectroscopy is an analytical technique used for solving problems in a wide variety of applications. This book provides detailed information and worked examples on how to carry out Raman experiments and interpret Raman spectra. The author also covers Resonance Raman and SERS, which are two emerging areas of Raman.

This book details the technologies used in water and wastewater management today, including standard practice and state of the art. Its main focus is on the mechanics of processes to treat water or wastewater.

Extensively revised and updated with additional material included in existing chapters and new material on angle resolved XPS, surface engineering and complimentary methods. aeo Includes an accessible introduction to the key spectroscopic techniques in surface analysis. aeo Provides descriptions of latest instruments and techniques.

This study looks at the question of difference in feminist theory, from liberal, radical, lesbian and socialist theories to black and post-colonial feminisms. It relates feminist approaches to difference and diversity to the tendency within postmodernism to celebrate them without due attention.

Addresses the question of gender and feminism in western political theory and practise. This book provides you with both theoretical and historical underpinnings of women's exclusion from politics, and the feminist response to this exclusion. It offers a history of feminism seen from the perspective of its own evolution.

* Investigates the cultural and social factors that make American vocabulary unique * Offers a systematic treatment of word-formation in American English with up-to-date examples * Provides extensive coverage of pragmatics and grammatical features .

Responds to the separation of 'youth' and 'pop' in the 1980s and the fragmentation of the audience for popular music in the 1990s, arguing for a redefinition of the conceptual apparatus needed to explain developments in popular music culture - from the rise of 'Clubcultures' to the future of the popular music scene.