There are significant variations in how healthcare systems and health professionals are regulated globally. One feature that they increasingly have in common is an emphasis on the value of including members of the public in quality assurance processes. While many argue that this will help better serve the public interest, others question how far the changing regulatory reform agenda is still dominated by medical interests.Bringing together leading academics worldwide, this collecti...

William Walker fue llevado ante un consejo de guerra el 11 de septiembre y, después de un breve examen, fue condenado a morir fusilado a la mañana siguiente. Escuchó su sentencia con calma y fue devuelto a prisión para pasar la noche preparándose para la muerte. A las siete y media de la mañana del 12 de septiembre fue conducido al lugar de ejecución. Caminaba sin grilletes, con paso sereno y firme. Llevaba un crucifijo en la mano izquierda y un sombrero en la derecha.Publicado por...

Why has our preoccupation with concepts, standards, and theories of the beautiful not resulted in a correspondingly comprehensive theoretical treatment of the ugly? Theories of Ugliness remedies this by gathering and scrutinising ideas of the ugly and unsightly from across the history of Western aesthetic and philosophical writing.Taking in ancient, medieval and early modern concepts, all the way through to more recent Anglo-American conceptions, this book...

Maintaining its status as the gold standard in medicinal chemistry education, Foye's Principles of Medicinal Chemistry, 9th Edition, presents a renewed focus on the fundamental concepts that form the backbone of this critical discipline. This latest edition, helmed by new senior editors Marc Harrold and Kim Beck, continues the text's legacy of excellence while streamlining content for today's pharmacy students and practitioners. Expert contributions from experienced educators, research sci...

In a world where the value of a liberal arts education is no longer taken for granted, Mark William Roche lucidly and passionately argues for its essential importance. Drawing on more than thirty years of experience in higher education as a student, faculty member, and administrator, Roche deftly connects the broad theoretical perspective of educators to the practical needs and questions of students and their parents.Roche develops three overlapping arguments for a strong liberal a...

This book probes the intersection of the beautiful and the ugly, offering a systematic framework to understand, interpret, and evaluate how ugliness can contribute to beautiful art.Many great artworks include elements of ugliness: repugnant content, disproportionate forms, unresolved dissonance, and unintegrated parts. Mark William Roche’s authoritative monograph Beautiful Ugliness: Christianity, Modernity, and the Arts, which includes 63 color illustratio...

This vintage text contains a comprehensive guide to leadwork, and covers a variety of different methods, applications, and items ranging from decoration, to the construction of lead coffins. Clear, concise, and profusely illustrated, this text will be of much value to those with an interest in leadwork and the historical development of the practice. The chapters of this book include: 'Of Material and Craftsmanship', 'An Historical Sketch', 'Of Lead Coverings to Buildings', 'Of Leaded Spire...

In Consequences: The Rise of a Fractured World Order, William Priest, David Roche, and Alex Michailoff deliver an engaging, timely, and insightful analysis of identifying the sources and challenges facing liberal democracies and their ability to confront autocracies and autocratic behavior. The authors identify and address structural flaws present in both democracies and autocracies.The book explains why the creation and distribution of wealth matters in creating nations w...

An engrossing and practical discussion of how to deal with contemporary challenges to democracy and civilization.In Consequences: The Rise of a Fractured World Order, William Priest, David Roche, and Alex Michailoff deliver an engaging, timely, and insightful analysis of identifying the sources and challenges facing liberal democracies and their ability to confront autocracies and autocratic behavior. The authors identify and address structural flaws prese...

Many attempts have been made in recent decades by liberal market economies to reconstruct public workplace conflict resolution agencies in response to major changes in patterns of workplace conflict. These have often been hampered or stymied by political schisms, stalemate or inertia. The radical reconstruction of conflict resolution in Ireland marks out a major exception to the international pattern and represents a case of successful adaptation and innovation in conflict resolution servi...

Die Geschichten, die jeder Mensch in seinem Leben erleben sollte – in dieser Sammlung finden Sie die wahren Meisterwerke der Weltliteratur, die bahnbrechenden Bücher, die zeitlosen Klassiker, die ewig bewegende Poesie: Selbstbetrachtungen (Marcus Aurelius) Aphorismen zur Lebensweisheit (Arthur Schopenhauer) Grashalme (Walt Whitman) Der Prozess (Franz Kafka) Das Herz der Finsternis (Joseph Conrad) Der seltsame Fall des Dr. Jekyll und Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) Winnetou I-IV (Karl May...

Der 'Herz-Sammelband zum Fest' präsentiert eine fesselnde Sammlung von literarischen Meisterwerken, die eine breite Palette von Themen von Liebe und Verlust bis hin zu gesellschaftlichen Zwängen und persönlichem Streben erkundet. In dieser Anthologie finden sich Werke, die von der Intensität von Goethes klassischer Kunst bis zur sozialen Kommentierung von Dickens reichen, von der emotionalen Tiefe der Brontë-Schwestern bis zu den schillernden Romantiken eines Dumas oder Hugo. Solche Vielfä...