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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): Continuum • Publisher: Continuum • Publisher Imprint: Continuum • Subject: Religion and Philosophy • BISAC: Comparative ReligionThis is a book of the key text of the Kabbalah, a work known as the Zohar ("Splendour"). The Zohar is a c...

• 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): 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): John J. Collins • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Comparative Religion"Apocalypticism has been the source of hope and courage for the oppressed, but has also given rise, on many occasions, to fa...

• 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): Christopher Norris • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernIn this path-breaking study Christopher Norris proposes a transformed understanding of the much-exaggerated dif...

• 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): Paul Manning • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Customs & TraditionsDrink, as an embodied semiotic and material form, mediates social life. This book examines the fundamental nature of drink ...

• 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): Anthony K. Fleming • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Law EnforcementThe shooting at Virginia Tech in 2007 was one of the worst mass murders in the U.S., but it did not lead to any new federal gu...

• Author(s): Jingrong Tong • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Media StudiesIn the framework of democratic societies, investigative journalism is deemed as serving the public interest, helping maintain a healt...

• 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): 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): Kitty Millet • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: HistoriographyThis book provides a sophisticated investigation into the experience of being exterminated, as felt by victims of the Holocaust, and ...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Pridham • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralA systematic comparison of three cases of democratization and regime transformation in Europe since 1945, this bo...

• 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): Chantal Bax • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernAlthough Wittgenstein is often held co-responsible for the so-called death of man as it was pronounced in the course o...

• Author(s): Marcela Tovar-Restrepo • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThis book examines Cornelius Castoriadis' thought and the radical alternative it presents to the legacy of ...

• 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): Markus Gabriel • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Movements - GeneralMythology, Madness and Laughter: Subjectivity in German Idealism explores some long neglected but crucial themes in German ide...

• 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): Maire Byrne • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Comparative ReligionThis book offers a welcome solution to the growing need for a common language in interfaith dialogue; particularly between the t...

• 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): 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): 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): Dennis Haslop • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThe length, scale and intensity of the Battle of the Atlantic led the British and German navies to ma...

• 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): W. D. Davies • Publisher: Continnuum-3pl • Publisher Imprint: Continnuum-3pl • BISAC: Comparative ReligionThis volume gathers together studies on various ""engagements"" between Judaism and Christianity. Following an introduction on ...

• 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...