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The Grail Messenger
It is 2060 and a drought is devastating the planet. With an evil water cartel breathing down her neck, a spunky young woman devises a plan to refurbish a castle in King Arthurs time and utilize it to train promising candidates from a previous generation on how to tackle complex environmental problems. If everything goes the way Rowan hopes, the future may change in unpredictable ways. Before Rowan voyages back to Camelot to execute the project, she chooses time traveler pioneers, Nathan and Lindsey, to be her Grail Guardians. In order to fight the water cartel, Nathan and Lindsey must learn how to combat the drought and develop the chivalric qualities of courage, truthfulness, and determinat...
The Church Music of Fifteenth-century Spain
He moves on from this to set Penalosa's work, written in a more mature, northern-oriented style which influenced Iberian composers for generations after his death."--BOOK JACKET.
Conversos, Inquisition, and the Expulsion of the Jews from Spain
The Jewish community of medieval Spain was the largest and most important in the West for more than a thousand years, participating fully in cultural and political affairs with Muslim and Christian neighbors. This stable situation began to change in the 1390s, and through the next century hundreds of thousands of Jews converted to Christianity. Norman Roth argues here with detailed documentation that, contrary to popular myth, the conversos were sincere converts who hated (and were hated by) the remaining Jewish community. Roth examines in depth the reasons for the Inquisition against the conversos, and the eventual expulsion of all Jews from Spain. “With scrupulous scholarship based on a ...
King Tut's Tomb Robbers
In the year 2025, time travel has become the latest rage. Nathan and his family are looking forward to visiting ancient Alexandria, but something goes terribly wrong during the transfer back in time. After Nathan lands alone near the palace of Tutankhamun, he soon realizes that unless he can convince the captain of the guards that he is not a tomb robber, a painful death awaits him. Eventually Nathan is introduced to the young king and becomes a high-ranking member of Tuts court, where he learns about the life and politics of the ancient Egyptian monarch. Assigned to watch for anything that might harm the king, Nathan is devastated when he witnesses a horrifying accident that endangers the life of the boy-king. Meanwhile, as his family tries to rescue Nathan and bring him back to the present, the threat of a major time paradox emerges. Nathan, accompanied by his sister, Lindsey, must return once more to the tomb of King Tuta dark world filled with coffins and the threat of curses and magic spellsin a last-ditch effort to prevent the destruction of their timeline. But have they arrived in time?
Organizational Risk Management
Every organization faces difficult decisions when managing risk and the potential consequences of its manifestation. For a more thorough outlook on risk, organizations should also evaluate and engage with its advantages. Organizational Risk Management: Managing for Uncertainty and Ambiguity covers a series of perspectives that represent both causal and interpretative frameworks. These perspectives shed light on how organizational structures and processes adapt amid a complex, dynamic organizational environment in an effort to manage and exploit the accompanying risks of that environment. This volume will oftentimes challenge the expectation for and utility of clarity in crisis situations, th...
Courts, Justice, and Efficiency
This study explores the socio-legal context of economic rationality in the legal and judicial systems. It examines the meaning and relevance of the concept of efficiency for the operation of courts and court systems,seeking to answer questions such as: in what sense can we say that the adjudicative process works efficiently? What are the relevant criteria for the measurement and assessment of court efficiency? Should the courts try to operate efficiently and to what extent is this viable? What is the proper relationship between 'efficiency' and 'justice' considerations in a judicial proceeding? To answer these questions, a conceptual framework is developed on the basis of empirical studies a...
Democratizing Constitutional Law
This volume critically discusses the relationship between democracy and constitutionalism. It does so with a view to respond to objections raised by legal and political philosophers who are sceptical of judicial review based on the assumption that judicial review is an undemocratic institution. The book builds on earlier literature on the moral justification of the authority of constitutional courts, and on the current attempts to develop a system on “weak judicial review”. Although different in their approach, the chapters all focus on devising institutions, procedures and, in a more abstract way, normative conceptions to democratize constitutional law. These democratizing strategies ma...
Companion to Music in the Age of the Catholic Monarchs
The Companion to Music in the Age of the Catholic Monarchs, edited by Tess Knighton, offers a major new study that deepens and enriches our understanding of the forms and functions of music that flourished in late medieval Spanish society. The fifteen essays, written by leading authorities in the field, present a synthesis based on recently discovered material that throws new light on different aspects of musical life during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabel (1474-1516): sacred and secular music-making in royal and aristocratic circles; the cathedral music environment; liturgy and power; musical connections with Rome, Portugal and the New World; theoretical and unwritten musical practices; women as patrons and performers; and the legacy of Jewish musical tradition. Contributors are Mercedes Castillo Ferreira, Giuseppe Fiorentino, Roberta Freund Schwartz, Eleazar Gutwirth, Tess Knighton, Kenneth Kreitner, Javier Marín López, Ascensión Mazuela-Anguita, Bernadette Nelson, Pilar Ramos López, Emilio Ros-Fábregas, Juan Ruiz Jiménez, Richard Sherr, Ronald Surtz, and Jane Whetnall.
