Category: Encyclopedias Subject Guides

By Philip Bader

By Harewood

Now, after greater than ten years, this recognized paintings of the tales of greater than three hundred of the world's nice operas has been totally revised, up-to-date, improved, and reset in a way zestfully attentive to the explosion of enthusiasm for opera during the last decade.

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By Peter Young

By R. Mesthrie

Presents uniquely complete and authoritative details on all facets of sociolinguistics.

By Harvey Einbinder

By C. Alan Jennings PRP

Discover why Robert's ideas "rule"

If you belong to any form of organization—from tuition board to backyard membership to bowling league to alternate association—chances are this ebook can prevent many dull assembly mins. This pleasant consultant interprets Robert's principles of Order, the fundamental consultant for accomplishing conferences of all kinds, into ideas you could comprehend and follow the subsequent time "Billy Bully" attempts to dominate the dialogue or "Debbie Dictator" concerns one other edict.

If you have ever been pissed off on the approach residence organization company used to be (or wasn't) carried out or fidgeted whereas PTA individuals debated even if to have goldfish or pencils as prizes for the basic tuition carnival, this can be the publication for you. Written through a qualified Registered Parliamentarian, it covers every little thing from the fundamentals of bylaws that determine the true framework of your company to the necessities for a criminal assembly, from tips to use an time table to devise your subsequent assembly and preserve issues on course to vote casting process and placing rules into motion—and quite a bit more.

• This re-creation is released in keeping with the revised eleventh variation of Robert's principles of Order
• Techniques for following parliamentary techniques to successfully deal with conferences of any size
• Helps you remain present with the newest updates to the foundations of order and parliamentary procedure

Complete with a thesaurus of parliamentary phrases and pattern agendas, experiences, and mins, this consultant has every little thing you would like yet a gavel. no matter if you belong to an elite kingdom membership or a civic association, an funding membership or a volunteer fireplace division, in case you use the rules during this e-book, conferences will not be ruled via the loudest or pushiest member or cross on and on and on and on and on . . .

By Colin Howson

The expansion of technological know-how and a correspondingly medical means of taking a look at facts have for the final 3 centuries slowly been gaining floor over spiritual reasons of the cosmos and mankind's position in it. even though, not just is secularism now below renewed assault from non secular fundamentalism, however it has additionally been extensively claimed that the medical facts itself issues strongly to a universe intentionally fine-tuned for all times to conform in it. furthermore, sure features of human existence, like recognition and the power to realize the lifestyles of common ethical criteria, appear thoroughly immune to evolutionary clarification. during this ebook Colin Howson analyses intimately the facts that is claimed to help trust in God's lifestyles and argues that the declare isn't really well-founded. additionally, there's very compelling facts that an omnipotent, all-knowing God not just doesn't exist yet can't exist, a end either fabulous and provocative.

By Colin Jarman

A wickedly pleasing number of caustic quips and witty criticisms.

By H. R. Loyn

Approximately 1000 entries masking medieval background from the 5th century the start of the Renaissance describe the folk, occasions, and concepts of t center a long time.