In 'The Atheist's Primer', a prominent philosopher, Dr Michael Palmer, reinstates the importance of philosophy into the debate about God's existence. The 'new atheism' of Richard Dawkins and others ha
Papers from N-TAG TEN, the Proceedings of the 10th Nordic TAG conference at Stiklestad, Norway 2009. Contents: Preamble: Nordic TAG 1985-2009: Past and Future (Kristian Kristiansen); 1) Introduction (
English summary: This volume documents the seventh theological conference as part of the Meissen Process involving the Church of England and the Evangelical Church in Germany. In this conference which
The book explores the twentieth-century novel from the perspective of theological debate. It reads five twentieth-century writers (Oscar Wilde, E F Benson, Edward Carpenter, Alan Hollinghurst and Jean
This study re-evaluates the previous understanding of the Later Village Period in Greater Susiana (southwestern Iran) by focusing mostly on settlement and landscape. This is addressed from the perspec
This first volume in a six volume series within the BibleWorld series forms an introduction, setting out the background information about the contents, creation, dating and audience of the Pentateuch,
Textconstitution: The Historical Poems of Theodoros Prodromos have been preserved in several medieval manuscripts and have been edited more than once; today there is also one modern critical edition o
Recently retired (English literature, U. of Cambridge), Barlow shares insights from his work at the Institute of Continuing Education. He offers personal and polemic views of the evolution of extramur
Weather affects many economic sectors, in particular sectors like agriculture, energy, construction and tourism. While this is well known to those facing losses, it is generally difficult to measure t
This book presents new ways of thinking about the historical, epistemological and institutional role of literature. It aims at providing a theoretically well-founded basis for what might otherwise be
The 17 papers in this collection emerged from two sessions at the May 2005 International Congress on Medieval Studies, held in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Historians and archaeologists profile some ancient a
Ruffini presents a collective biography of residents in the extinct village of Aphrodito, providing entries for every historical person attested in a Byzantine text found at Aphrodito, and some nearby
Bird (theology, Bible College of Queensland, Australia) finds the two New Testament books Colossians and Philemon linked with the message of reconciliation. Christ is shown reconciling people to God i
The introductory essay asking "What is comparative literature?" is followed by three chapters devoted to close analyses of Daniel Deronda, Anna Karenina, and Women in Love. The concluding discussion s
Leonard Manasseh is a British architect who came to prominence designing post-war public projects. This latest volume in the Twentieth Century Architects series showcases Manasseh's career and key wor
In The Atheist’s Creed a prominent and widely-read contemporary philosopher, Dr Michael Palmer, presents the most comprehensive anthology of the major philosophical arguments for
As a major contribution to the field of postgraduate activity in drama, theater, and performance, this resource identifies the essential characteristics of practice-based research across a range of co
From 1997 to 2001, works associated with Carlisle City Council's Gateway City (Millennium) Project on Castle Way and Castle Gardens provided an important opportunity to conduct a programme of archaeol
The landscape of Scotland is full of dramatic contrasts. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland holds the national collection of aerial photography for Scotland with
Those intested in the history of textiles and the remarkable quilts of the Cook Islands--known as tivaivai--will relish this beautifully illustrated volume. Kuchler (anthropology, U. College London, t
The proceedings of the Second International Conference about Predynastic and Early Dynastic Egypt (Toulouse, France, 2005) present the results of the latest research on the rise of the Pharaonic cultu
The cross-cultural library found at Dunhuang contained documents from the first millennium of this era and, though now dispersed throughout the world, are again being brought together virtually. Cantw
This edition of Sally Ledger's study of Henrick Ibsen includes a renewed bibliography and an expanded critical evaluation. It surveys Ibsen's total dramatic output, carefully situating his plays in th
Fenoulhet (Dutch, U. College London) emphasizes expressions of liberated womanhood, but encompasses the whole range of topics and themes addressed by Dutch women writers during the middle half of the
(Distribution outside Germany, Austria and Switzerland by University Press Leuven) Rehearsals is the first book to provide a detailed narrative history of the German invasion of Belgium in August 1914
This work defines Neolithic Near East Dark Faced Burnished Ware (DFBW), on the basis of new data, taking into account areas of production, analyses of architectural, economic and environmental informa
In this study of revenge tragedies - notably by Thomas Kyd, William Shakespeare, Thomas Middleton, John Marston and John Webster - Janet Clare suggests that genres are not passively inherited, but mad
Gabriela Mistral (1889-1967), Chile's 'other' great poet of the twentieth century, is little known outside the Spanish-speaking world, and unlike Pablo Neruda has not been extensively translated into
With the appearance of this volume, the Oriental Institute marks the true completion of the Egyptian Coffin Texts Project , an international cooperative program begun by James Henry Breasted and Alan
In his major new study, Ralph Werrell, focuses on the richness of Tyndale's intellectual background. The great reformer's theological roots lie in the Lollard tradition, but his expression and thrust
By the middle of the third century, says Polish scholar Janiszewski, the well known Greek historians were wrapping up their careers and lives, apparently without having trained any successors, because
This new edition of William Golding includes an additional chapter on Golding's posthumous book The Double Tongue, and now critically examines all Golding's novels. It is a comprehensive study, questi
Written mostly in Dutch, with some English translations, this volume describes the architecture of the U. of Aarhus in Denmark on its 75th anniversary, particularly its parks and surrounding buildings
Karanis, a town in Egypt's Fayum region founded around 250 BC, housed a farming community with a diverse population and a complex material culture that lasted for hundreds of years.
Since the rediscovery of the Canary Islands in the early 14th century, Europeans and Canarians alike have been trying to solve the question of the early colonisation of the islands.
Alice Munro’s standing as a major contemporary author has long been acknowledged in her native Canada, especially among her fellow writers. Her reputation developed slowly, from small magazines and ra
Phillippo (classics, U. of Newcastle) analyzes the underlinings, brackets, asterisks, dashes, and other markings that French playwright Jean Baptiste Racine (1639-99) made in the two copies of the Gre
First published in 1998 as the much acclaimed Concise Dictionary of Foreign Quotations, and now repackaged in fresh, convenient pocket-sized editions, here are famous sayings in five languages - Latin
In this book Amy Wygant reads Racine’s Phedre (1677) through an analysis of its seventeenth-century cultural contexts and a consideration of its subsequent reception history. She explores the construc
Following on from his first two books, Rhodes completes his edition of Thucydides' books on the Archidamian War, providing an Introduction Thucydides' history and on the Peloponnesian War, Greek text
