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Using a wide-ranging variety of texts the author reviews and evaluates a broad range of approaches to textual commentary, introducing the reader to the fundamental distinction between `actual' and `virtual' worlds in critical practice. |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:05 | The Middle East is a region of international concern and political unrest. This book forms a complete reference to both the hydrological as well as the social, economic, political and legal issues in the region and shows how water shortages threaten the renewal of mi... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:05 | Apocalypse Observed is about religious violence. By analyzing five of the most notorious cults of recent years, the authors present a fascinating and revealing account of religious sects and conflict. Cults covered include:* the apocalypse at Jonestown* the Branch Da... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:06 | The reorganisation of the education system within Britain has vastly increased the managerial responsibilities of those working in schools, although the staff generally have received little management training. In this book, the various issues related to management a... Полное описание |
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{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:08 | Combining insights from social and literary theory as well as traditional historical studies, Mark Brett argues that the first book of the Bible can be read as resistance literature.Placing the theological text firmly within its socio-political context, he shows that... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:10 | Cephas Tushima provides a thorough analysis of the fate of Saul's heirs, focussing on whether their tragedies were due to continuing divine retribution, coincidence, or Davidic orchestration. He concludes that David was unjust and calculating in his dealings with the... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:10 | The Christian Scriptures could be theologically described as beginning and ending with an epistemological outlook. The first episode of humanity's activity centers on the knowledge of good and evil. The final stage of humanity is pictured by Jeremiah as a universally... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:10 | This innovative comparative study stresses the ways in which the development of political parties had negative effects on the quality of democracy, the nature of political representation, and political accountability in the early stages of post-communist politics. Th... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:12 | The German-speaking population of the Bohemian lands has been the centre of political controversy for over a century. The success of the fascist Sudeten German Party in the 1930s led to the Munich Agreement of September 1938 - the event that was soon to signal the be... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:13 | Young Homeless People takes a broad approach to the distressing phenomenon of youth homelessness. While politicians, researchers and the media focus on the more visibly homeless - those sleeping rough in city centres or staying in hostels - this book also considers t... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:13 | Essence of Diplomacy explores essential, timeless features of diplomacy, drawing on the richly documented history of diplomacy from the Ancient Near East to today. Viewing diplomacy as a perennial international institution, the authors aim to make international relat... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:14 | This book provides a conceptual framework to understand and analyze the decline of the telecommunications industry and the rise of information industries. This includes information distribution, banking, advertising, computing, etc. and will use a value based perspec... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:14 | Originally written for the Swedish debate before the referendum in September 2003, when the euro was rejected by a vast majority. Rational or irrational by the voters? Judge from this volume which presents significant arguments against the common currency. Includes e... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:15 | The first comprehensive critical history of SF for thirty years, this book traces the origin and development of science fiction from Ancient Greece, via its rebirth in the seventeenth century, up to the present day. Concentrating on literary SF and (in the later chap... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:17 | New classical economics makes three assumptions to explain economic phenomena. Firstly, people solve their decision problems by following the prescriptions of the expected utility theory. Secondly, people behave like econometricians in learning the structure of the e... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:18 | This second volume picks up the ongoing story in a tunnel leading out of enchanted mountain realm of Eotunlandt. Fighting their way through subterranean dangers, Nibulus and his diminished retinue of 'questers' finally reach the open again, only to discover that thei... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:20 | Asserting that a history of shopping was, until recently, a history of women, Rachel Bowlby trains her eye on the evolution of the modern shopper. She uses a compelling blend of history, literary analysis, and cultural criticism to explore the rise of department stor... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | Conflict, Conquest, and Conversion surveys two thousand years of the Christian missionary enterprise in the Middle East within the context of the regions political evolution. Its broad, rich narrative follows Christian missions as they interacted with imperial powers... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:21 | South Street is Barbara G. Mensch's evocative tribute to the lost world of Lower Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market. For more than a century, a colorful, tightly knit community of fishmongers, many of them recent immigrants and children of immigrants, thrived under the b... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | Through close readings of Jewish, Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist texts, Katherine Wills Perlo proves that our relationship with animals shapes religious doctrine, particularly through the tension between animal exploitation and the bonds of kinship. She pinpoints f... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | Shakespeare was acutely aware of our intimate struggles with aging. His dramatic characters either prosper or suffer according to their relationship with maturity, and his sonnets eloquently explore time's ravaging effects. "e;Wrinkled deep in time"e; is how ... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:22 | In 1941, Jewish American writer and avant-garde icon Gertrude Stein embarked on one of the strangest intellectual projects of her life: translating for an American audience the speeches of Marshal Philippe Ptain, head of state for the collaborationist Vichy governmen... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:23 | In Apocalypse When? Ted Harrison asks why it is that we are so determined to forecast The End. Why do many people prefer to think of the world ending in a single dramatic event than simply fading away over millions of years? Is it a way of not taking responsibility f... Полное описание |
{"o":null} {"o":null} | Добавила: Mafdet 27 марта 2010, 1:24 | A fairly touch character of Scots-Irish extraction, John McCaffery didn't want to have anything to do with the superstitious business of healings and signs and wonders; but friends kept pressing him to go and see a Franciscan Friar in the south of Italy. In the end h... Полное описание |
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