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Law and PracticeWide-reaching and subject to few exceptions, the EU's new chemical regulatory programmes known as REACH impose obligations on all chemical companies, including manufacturers, importers, distributors, and product suppliers. This book addresses the key regulatory issues, management, and practical challenges associated with the...

A Theory of African American Literary CriticismHailed in The New York Times Book Review as "e;eclectic, exciting, convincing, provocative"e; and in The Washington Post Book World as "e;brilliantly original,"e; Henry Louis Gates, Jr.&'s The Signifying Monkey is a groundbreaking work that illuminates the relationship between the...

From Counterculture to Pop CulturePremodern and early modern yoga comprise techniques with a wide range of aims, from turning inward in quest of the true self, to turning outward for divine union, to channeling bodily energy in pursuit of sexual pleasure. Early modern yoga also encompassed countercultural beliefs and practices. In contrast, today,...

How Psychology is Revolutionizing WarPsychology is the science that will determine who wins and who loses the wars of the 21st century, just as physics ultimately led the United States to victory in World War II. Changes in the world&'s political landscape coupled with radical advances in the technology of war will greatly alter how militaries are...

Converts and the Making of an American Orthodox ChurchThis book examines Christian converts to Orthodoxy who served as exemplars and leaders for convert movements in America during the twentieth century. Drawing on archival resources including many unpublished Rusyn and Russian newspapers and personal archives, as well as personal interviews, it...

Paul Elbourne defends the Fregean view that definite descriptions (&'the table&', &'the King of France&') refer to individuals, and offers a new and radical account of the semantics of pronouns. He draws on a wide range of work, from Frege, Peano, and Russell to the latest findings in linguistics, philosophy of language, and psycholinguistics....