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• Author(s): Brendan Bartram • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Schools - Levels - SecondaryDrawing on the results of a tri-national comparative survey of secondary pupils' attitudes towards Modern Foreign La...

• Author(s): Jack Reynolds • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: GeneralAnalytic and Continental philosophy have become increasingly specialised and differentiated fields of endeavour. This important collection ...

• Author(s): Kathrin Yacavone • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: AestheticsBenjamin, Barthes and the Singularity of Photography presents two of the most important intellectual figures of the twentieth century...

• Author(s): Stephen Stein • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Comparative ReligionHailed as the best scholarship in its field, this survey traces apocalypticism's role in Western history from its origins to t...

• Author(s): Peter Kien-Hong Yu • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsThis work, written by an expert in the politics of Mainland China and Taiwan, looks at the role the Constitution of the R...

• Author(s): Milton Scarborough • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: PhilosophyIt is a commonplace that while Asia is nondualistic, the West, because of its uncritical reliance on Greek-derived intellectual sta...

• Author(s): Andrew Hoskins • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Television - History & CriticismOur relationship with the past-whether judgment, celebration, commemoration or denial-has become an important...

• Author(s): Bruce D. Chilton • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Comparative ReligionThere have been many studies of the doctrinal and liturgical differences and similarities between formative Judaism and ear...

• Author(s): Patricia Broadfoot • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: ComparativeAre English children able to grasp grammar better or worse than that of children in other countries? Are they better or worse at n...

• Author(s): VIV Ellis • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: ResearchTeachers' knowledge of the subjects they teach has been of enduring interest to governments, the profession and the wider society. In this boo...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Carter • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Customs & TraditionsThis volume provides a thorough introduction to the major classic and modern writings dealing with religious sacrifice. C...

• Author(s): Jean Holm • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Comparative ReligionAddressing important issues of the day, this series examines how each of the eight major religions approaches a particular theme. ...

• Author(s): Jean Holm • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Christian Rituals & Practice - GeneralAddressing important issues of the day, this series examines how each of the eight major religions approache...

• Author(s): W. Owen Cole • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Comparative ReligionExamines six major world religions - Hinduism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Sikhism and Buddhism. Each chapter is written by a...

• Author(s): Paul A. Gregory • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernW. V. Quine was the most important naturalistic philosopher of the twentieth century and a major impetus for the r...

• Author(s): Thomas Merton • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Comparative ReligionFrom the Back CoverAn ecumenical anthology, Thoughts on the East gathers Merton's essential definitions of the religions that ...

• Author(s): Paul Patton • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernGilles Deleuze and Jacques Derrida are the two leading philosophers of French post-structuralism. Both theorists have ...

• Author(s): John Bowker • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Women's StudiesThe place of women in the religions, both as expressed in the classical writings and as experienced in life, is carefully considered ...

• Author(s): Wesley C. Swedlow • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: PoliticalAgainst the Personification of Democracy offers a new theory of political subjectivity that puts the dilemma of desire into the foref...

• Author(s): Arvind Sharma • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Comparative ReligionThe Parliament of World's Religions met in Chicago in 1993 to commemorate the centennial of the World Parliament of Religions ...

• Author(s): Raymond Moloney • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Comparative ReligionWhat did Christ feel and know during his life on Earth? Raymond Moloney ventures a consideration utilizing perspectives base...

• Author(s): Graeme Harper • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: PenologyThe first study to deal extensively and comparatively with capture, imprisonment and punishment in colonial and postcolonial cultures. Off...

• Author(s): Robert Ellwood • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Comparative Religion"The book will be a superb introduction to mythological studies for a long time to come." -William G. Doty, Professor Emeritu...

• Author(s): Julia Lavid • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThis book offers a systemic-functional account of Spanish, and analyses how Spanish grammatical forms compare and contrast ...

• Author(s): Roland Axtmann • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyThis book addresses one of the classical concerns of comparative politics: the formation and maintenance of stabl...

• Author(s): Jean Holm • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Comparative ReligionThis book explores the function of buildings for worship, shrines and pilgrimage centers, and the part they play in the lives of i...

• Author(s): Jean Holm • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: PrayerAddressing important issues of the day, this series examines how each of the eight major religions approaches a particular theme. Constructed to...

• Author(s): Victor Hurowitz • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Comparative ReligionThis close synchronic analysis of Exodus 1-2 looks at how the pericope's structure, language, focalization and management of...

• Author(s): Hans Kung • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Comparative ReligionFrom the Back CoverThis book presents the text of the Declaration, which had been drafted after a thorough process of interreligio...

• Author(s): Rita M. Gross • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Comparative ReligionWhat does Jesus mean to a Buddhist, or the Buddha to a Christian? What is it about the Buddha that is appealing to a Christian...

• Author(s): Tiger C. Roholt • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: AestheticsKey Terms in Philosophy of Art offers a clear, concise and accessible introduction to a vital sub-field of philosophy. The book offers...

• Author(s): Alessandro G. Benati • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralProcessing Instruction is an approach to grammar instruction for second language learning, contrasting with traditiona...

• Author(s): Gregory C. Chirichigno • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Biblical Studies - Old Testament - GeneralThis original study concerns itself with the manumission laws of Exodus 20, Deuteronomy 15 and ...

• Author(s): Magdalena Zolkos • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: PenologyThis is an examination of the difficult interplay between the collective pursuit of justice and reconciliation on one hand and the indi...

• Author(s): Steve Nolan • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Christianity - GeneralIn their study of religion and film, religious film analysts have tended to privilege religion. Uniquely, this study treats th...