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By Frances Andrews

In 1274 the Council of Lyons decreed the tip of varied 'new orders' of Mendicants which had emerged in the course of the nice push for evangelism and poverty within the thirteenth-century Latin Church. The Franciscans and Dominicans have been explicitly excluded, whereas the Carmelites and Austin friars have been allowed a remain of execution. those final have been ultimately capable of gather approval, yet different smaller teams, particularly the Friars of the Sack and Pied Friars, have been pressured to disband. This ebook outlines the historical past of these who have been threatened by means of 1274, tracing the advance of the 2 greater orders all the way down to the Council of Trent, and following the fragmentary resources for the short histories of the discontinued friaries. For the 1st time those orders are taken care of relatively: the amount bargains a complete background, from their origins, spirituality and pastoral influence, to their tune, structures and runaways.FRANCES ANDREWS teaches on the college of St Andrews and is the writer of The Early Humiliati (CUP 1999).

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Small lovely lively pages with plenty of colour. what's the earth, what's area, why do seasons swap, the human physique, existence within the ocean, bushes and vegetation, ships, sounds, air and water, myths, crafts, song, writing and books

By Mitch Weiss

By Phillip E. Hammond, Mark Juergensmeyer, Mark (EDT) Juergensmeyer, Wade Clark (EDT) Roof Wade Clark Roof

The multi-volume Encyclopedia of world faith offers a complete review of the globalization of spiritual tradition and society around the globe in either its old and modern elements. The encyclopedia contains themes relating to the diaspora of cultures and dispersions of peoples; the transitional facets of non secular rules and practices; the cultural variety of spiritual traditions; and the responses of religion—both destructive and positive—to multicultural society. The volumes contain essays at the modern spiritual society of each kingdom within the world.

The participants to the encyclopedia are prime experts on those themes from worldwide. The editors, Mark Juergensmeyer and Wade Clark Roof., are sociologists of faith on the collage of California, Santa Barbara.

By OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

This file analyses the partnerships that governments shape with electorate, clients and CSOs with a view to innovate and carry stronger public provider results. those methods can supply artistic coverage responses that allow governments to supply greater public providers in occasions of financial constraints.  even supposing co creation and voters involvement are nonetheless within the developmental level in lots of nations, early efforts seem to result in expense savings, larger carrier caliber and stronger consumer pride. This document identifies the dangers of citizen and consumer involvement in provider supply, and the limitations that needs to be triumph over to make those versions paintings. Top-level political dedication, sufficient public region skill, and aligned monetary incentives are the main elements for fulfillment.

By Bradley Bowden, David Lamond

This publication has huge reasons. First, it seeks to figure out even if there's a “universal” administration version via an exam of condition in a couple of various countries and industries. moment, it brings to a much broader viewers a number of the best examine within the box of administration historical past. In doing so, it highlights the significance of the administration heritage department of the Academy of administration in fostering and disseminating new understandings of administration and its improvement. The ebook shows that, whereas there was a lot variance in managerial practices throughout time and house, we will however communicate of a “universal” managerial version. rising in organization with Britain's commercial Revolution, the unfold of aggressive pressures steadily demanded that corporations reply in greatly universal methods in the event that they have been to outlive. those huge commonalities might be noticeable within the various industries that this booklet considers – the meat of the Northern Plains of the U.S. within the 19th century, the buying and selling actions of the Dutch East India corporation, the USA and Australian railroads, and the producing tools of the Ford Motor corporation in the course of the early 20th century. In each one of those situations, industries and companies needed to consistently adapt to alterations in either capital and client markets. this is often glaring even in relation to the Ford Motor corporation which, as James Wilson's bankruptcy shows, was once in its early days “flexible” instead of Fordist, always adjusting construction and inventories according to customer call for. Such responses to worldwide markets is usually present in the nation-states of rules and schooling, the place the book's research of traits in enterprise schooling highlights the starting to be dominance of business components and of highbrow strategies stemming from the USA. the facility of administration commonalities can be present in the book's examine of Australia and the USA. In Australia, governments l

By Mark Valeri

Heavenly Merchandize bargains a severe reexamination of religion's function within the construction of a industry economic system in early the USA. concentrating on the industrial tradition of recent England, it perspectives trade during the eyes of 4 generations of Boston retailers, drawing upon their own letters, diaries, enterprise documents, and sermon notes to bare how retailers outfitted a latest kind of alternate out of profound transitions within the puritan knowing of self-discipline, windfall, and the which means of latest England. Mark Valeri strains the careers of guys like Robert Keayne, a London immigrant punished by way of his church for competitive company practices; John Hull, a silversmith-turned-trader who helped to set up advertisement networks within the West Indies; and Hugh corridor, certainly one of New England's first slave investors. He explores how Boston ministers reconstituted their ethical languages over the process a century, from a scriptural discourse opposed to many industry practices to a providential worldview that justified England's advertisement hegemony and legitimated the industry as a divine build. Valeri strikes past simplistic readings that lessen advertisement job to secular mind-sets, and refutes the preferred concept of an inherent affinity among puritanism and capitalism. He exhibits how altering rules approximately what it intended to be pious and puritan trained the enterprise practices of Boston's retailers, who crammed their deepest notebooks with meditations on scripture and the ordinary order, based and led church buildings, and inscribed non secular reflections of their letters and diaries. exceptional in scope and wealthy with insights, Heavenly Merchandize illuminates the background in the back of the ongoing American quandary over morality and undefined.

By John Gross

The dictionary defines an anecdote as "a brief account of an enjoyable or attention-grabbing incident," and the anecdotes during this assortment greater than reside as much as that description. a lot of them provide revealing insights into writers' personalities, their frailties and insecurities. a number of the anecdotes are humorous, frequently explosively so, whereas others are touching, sinister, or downright bizarre. They convey writers within the English-speaking international from Chaucer to the current performing either unpredictably, and deeply in personality. the diversity is extensive -- this can be a booklet that reveals room for anecdotes approximately Milton and Margaret Atwood, George Eliot and Salman Rushdie, Chinua Achebe and Bob Dylan, Harriet Beecher Stowe and Wittgenstein. The authors of the anecdotes are both various, from the diarists John Aubrey, John Evelyn and James Boswell to fellow writers equivalent to W. H. Auden, Harriet Martineau, Walter Scott, Evelyn Waugh, and Vanessa Bell. it's also a publication during which you will discover out which nice historian's face used to be unsuitable for a baby's backside, which movie megastar left a haunting account of Virginia Woolf no longer lengthy prior to her loss of life, and what Agatha Christie rather considered Hercule Poirot. the recent Oxford booklet of Literary Anecdotes is a ebook not only for fanatics of literature, yet for somebody with a flavor for the curiosities of human nature.

By Richard Strasser

Song enterprise: the main techniques is a finished advisor to the terminology general within the track company this present day. It embraces definitions from a couple of proper fields, including:
- normal business;
- marketing;
- e-commerce;
- highbrow estate law;
- economics;
- entrepreneurship.
In an obtainable A-Z structure and completely cross-referenced all through, this booklet is key studying for tune company scholars in addition to these drawn to the song undefined.

By Mary Meghan Ryan

The Handbook of U.S. exertions Statistics is well-known as an authoritative source at the U.S. hard work strength. It keeps and complements the Bureau of work Statistics's (BLS) discontinued publication, hard work Statistics. The eighteenth variation permits the consumer to appreciate fresh advancements in addition to to match brand new economic system with prior background.

The Handbook is a entire reference offering an abundance of knowledge on various subject matters including:

• employment and unemployment;
• earnings;
• prices;
• productivity;
• consumer expenditures;
• occupational safeguard and health;
• union membership;
• international hard work comparisons;
• and a lot more!

Features of the publication
In addition to over 225 tables that current functional information, the Handbook provides:

• introductory fabric for every bankruptcy that includes highlights of salient facts and figures that decision realization to noteworthy developments within the data;
• notes and definitions, which comprise concise descriptions of the knowledge resources, recommendations, definitions, and method from which the information are derived;
• references to extra accomplished studies which supply extra facts and extra broad descriptions of estimation tools, sampling, and reliability measures.

New within the 18th version of Handbook of U.S exertions Statistics:

• A part on employee displacement in bankruptcy 1 in addition to a brand new part on neighborhood region unemployment information in bankruptcy 7
• Several new tables on occupational security and overall healthiness in bankruptcy 14 in addition to new info on worker advantages in bankruptcy 6
• Figures on quite a few themes together with productiveness, labor-management kin, costs, and office fatalities