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This is a sequel to Richard Viladesau's well-received study, The Beauty of the Cross: The Passion of Christ in Theology and the Arts from the Catacombs to the Eve of the Renaissance (2006). It continues his project of presenting theological history by using art as both an independant religious or theological 'text' and as a means of understanding...

The Selected Correspondence of Learned HandReason and Imagination: The Selected Correspondence of Learned Hand provides readers with an intimate look into the life and mind of Judge Learned Hand, an icon in American Law. This new book brings to light previously unpublished letters and gives readers insight into Hand's thoughts on American...

Johnson's centrality in the late eighteenth century makes his fretfulness about the social and aesthetic boundaries of writing especially fertile and influential. This book suggests that literary taxonomies, inventories, and canons simultaneously construct and reject a hierarchy of ethical as well as aesthetic values, and examines how figures of...

Going beyond human and social capital, this seminal book unveils a new resource for competitive advantage, psychological capital (or PsyCap), a result of the confluence of the positive psychology movement and the authors' pioneering work on positive organizational behavior. The positive constructs that meet the scientific requirements to be...

The Ethics of Parenthood argues for original views about the right to raise one's biological children, about paternalism, about reacting differently to bad behavior because the wrongdoer is "e;only a child,"e; about what raising a child requires, and about the obligations that parents and children have after the children are grown....

In medieval Europe hostages were given, not taken. They were a means of guarantee        used to secure transactions ranging from treaties to wartime commitments to        financial transactions. In principle, the force of the guarantee lay in the threat        to the life of the hostage if the agreement were broken but, while violation...