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This book is an examination of the uneasy alliance of two confessions, Lutheran and Catholic, at the prominent seventeenth-century court of Dresden, and the implications of this alliance for the repertoire of sacred art music cultivated there, an influential repertoire that has received only scant attention from scholars....

'Grow first, clean up later' environmental strategies in the developing economies of East Asia pose a critical regional and global sustainability challenge in this area of continuing rapid urban-based industrial growth which is the most polluted region in the world. Using detailed case studies and rigorous empirical analyses Rock and Angel show...

What is happiness? How is it related to morality and virtue? Does living with        illusion promote or diminish happiness? Is it better to pursue happiness with a        partner than alone? Philosopher Mike W. Martin addresses these and other questions        as he connects the meaning of happiness with the philosophical notion of "e;the...

Sense, Reference, and Philosophy develops the far-reaching consequences for philosophy of adopting non-Fregean intensionalism, showing that long-standing problems in the philosophy of language, and indeed other areas, that appeared intractable can now be solved. Katz proceeds to examine some of those problems in this new light, including the...

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This book presents assessments of current work in the field of developmental physiology from experimental, theoretical, and molecular perspectives, with an intent to predict the future directions this key area will take. The authors have been well-selected to provide a satisfying overview of an emerging area, which is relevant to the research of...