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Here, Erich H. Loewy expands on his earlier book Textbook of Medical Ethics (1989) offering healthcare workers and students a new perspective on ethical practice. Textbook of Healthcare Ethics focuses on the social conditions in which medical practice occurs and how ethical healthcare decisions involves...

John Stuart Mill described the Conservatives as 'the stupidest party', yet they governed the UK for nearly three-quarters of the twentieth century. Conservative leaders typically have been and are explicitly anti-intellectual, yet the party is not without an intellectual history of its own. Ideologies...

Wie hängen Wirtschaft und Politik zusammen? Inwiefern beeinflussen die ökomischen Voraussetzungen politisches Handeln in modernen westlichen Gesellschaften? Und welche wirtschaftlichen Konsequenzen ergeben sich umgekehrt aus politischem Handeln? Diesen Fragen geht der vorliegende Band nach - und führt...

Aus dem Grundgesetz geht hervor, dass Deutschland republikanisch, demokratisch, rechtsstaatlich, bundesstaatlich und sozialstaatlich organisiert sein muss. Doch welche dieser Prinzipien sind gleichgerichtet, welche sind einander entgegengesetzt, welche bedingen einander und welche balancieren sich wechselseitig...

Deutschland steht ein Vierteljahrhundert nach der Vereinigung im Jahr 1990 vor vielfältigen außenpolitischen Aufgaben durch Instabilitäten in Europas Nachbarschaft, globalen Herausforderungen im zunehmend unruhigen 21. Jahrhundert sowie Spannungen zwischen alten und neuen Gestaltungsmächten. Dieses...

Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit ist weit mehr als die aktuellen Urteile des Bundesverfassungsgerichts zu verfolgen. Insbesondere im politikwissenschaftlichen Bereich ist die Kenntnis von Verfassung und Verfassungsgerichtsbarkeit essentiell. Das Buch vermeidet juristische Zusammenhänge und konzentriert sich...

The prominent position occupied by Eusebius of Caesarea in the Arian controversy and the Council of Nicaea has given rise to so many important treatises on his life and character, that it would be quite superfluous to prefix a formal biography to the present edition of one among his many literary works....

A brief sketch of life in a Medieval castle, built for war and lived in during times of peace. Illustrated.

An essay written and illustrated by the Blashfields on the Florentine Artist and their role in the renascence.

Inside A Crazy Ink anthology The rules were simple: We were to accept His testimony. We were to want no worldly goods. We were to give up our ties to the outside world. We were to finish strong. We were to know this wasn't our world. That would...

Energy crises, which amount to painful combinations of energy shortages and soaring prices, have struck the United States several times in recent decades. Each time they have resulted in political and economic shockwaves because, when gasoline becomes more expensive, the American public tends to react...

The fact of the existence, within the valley of the Mississippi river and its tributaries, of many ancient monuments of human labor and skill, seems to have escaped the notice of the adventurers who first made known to the world the extent and fertility of that vast region. Except some incidental...

The title Masnavi-ye-Ma'navi means "The Spiritual Couplets". The Masnavi is a poetic collection of anecdotes and stories derived from the Quran, hadith sources, and everyday tales. Stories are told to illustrate a point and each moral is discussed in detail. It incorporates a variety of...

In fall, many green leaves turn orange, yellow, and red. See how much fun you can have with leaves after they fall off the tree.