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In Syntactic Heads and Word Formation, Marit Julien investigates the relationship between morphology and syntax. She examines the formation of morphologically complex words - that is, the mechanisms of grammar that may cause two or more of the simplest elements of language, or morphemes, to be combined into a single word. Combining complex...

Political theory is traditionally concerned with the justification and limits of        state power. It asks: Can states legitimately direct and coerce non-consenting        subjects? If they can, what limits, if any, constrain sovereign power?Public law is        concerned with the justification and limits of judicial power. It asks: On...

State-of-the-art critical reviews of recent scholarship on the causes of juvenile        delinquency, juvenile justice system responses, and public policies to prevent and        reduce youth crime are brought together in a single volume authored by leading        scholars and researchers in neuropsychology, developmental and social...

Kirkpatrick challenges traditional views of God's transcendence, by viewing God and the Christian community as distinct realities `together bound' in a mutual relationship of reciprocal historical action. He pursues the implications of this understanding for various theological problems....

Few constitutional issues have been as contentious in modern times as those        concerning school prayer and the public funding of religious schools. But as Steven        K. Green reveals in The Bible, the School, and the Constitution, this debate        actually reached its apogee just after the Civil War, between 1863 and 1876....

Isabel Iribarren traces the medieval controversy between the Dominican order and its most notorious member, Durandus of St Pourcain (   c.1275-1336), as he openly challenged the order's promotion of Thomas Aquinas. Through a closer look at the polemical exchange, she reveals how the Dominican intellectual tradition was in fact constructed on the...