The Biblical Canon Lists from Early Christianity - Texts and Analysis - Bok av Edmon L. (Associate Professor of Christian Scripture Gallagher - Inbund

A volume of texts and translations of canon-lists in early Christianity, specifically from the first four centuries CE on the grounds that this is the most formative period in the development of the early Christian canon.

Holy Scripture - Canon, Authority, Criticism - Bok av James Barr - Häftad

The Sprunt Lectures delivered at Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia, February 1982. The men of the Bible did not themselves have a Bible to be their supreme guide and authority. This book discusses the way in which the canon of scripture was formed and the effects that it has.

Tradition in Transition - Women Writers, Marginal Texts, and the Eighteenth-Century Canon - Bok - Inbunden

Written in honour of Professor Roger Lonsdale, the 18 contributions to this text focus on the three main areas of scholarship: women writers; marginalized authors and texts; and the shape of the 18th-century canon.

Homer in the Twentieth Century - Between World Literature and the Western Canon - Bok - Häftad

A collection of essays exploring the crucial place of Homer in the cultural landscape of the twentieth century. It contributes to current debates about the nature of the Western literary canon, the evolving notion of world literature, the relationship between orality and the written word, and the dialogue between texts across time and space.

The Uses of the Canon - Elizabethan Literature and Contemporary Theory - Bok av Howard (Professor of English Felperin - Häftad

This treatise explores the connection between new historicism and Renaissance literature and explores its significance for English studies as a whole. It details fresh readings of a number of classic texts, as well as an understanding of the complex functions of the canon itself.

Science in the Looking Glass - What Do Scientists Really Know? - Bok av E. Brian (Department of Mathematics Davies - Häftad

How do scientific conjectures become laws? Why do some laws turn out to be wrong? Why does proof mean different things in different sciences? Experience shows that disentangling scientific knowledge from opinion is harder than one might expect. Full of illuminating examples and quotations, this book brings alive issues at the heart of all science.

Think, Play, Do - Technology, Innovation, and Organization - Bok av Mark (Director Dodgson - Häftad

Without innovation, companies die. Managing the innovation process well is important for companies and for nations as a whole. This book shows how the innovation process is changing profoundly, with implications for managers and public policy-makers. It outlines a scheme for the innovation process: Think, Play, Do.

Financial Crises and What to Do About Them - Bok av Barry ( Eichengreen - Häftad

This work explains the patterns behind financial crises, examines international financial architecture, makes recommendations for avoiding the dangers of crises (and managing them better when they do occur), and shows how official efforts to strengthen the international financial system may have made life more difficult for the poorest countries.

How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation - Bok av Tom (Lecturer in Research Methods Clark - Häftad

For final-year social science undergraduates, 'How to do your Social Research Project or Dissertation' is the most student-led guide to confidently navigate the research process. It shares real student and supervisor experiences to help motivate you; provides advice for efficient time management; and tracks your progress through focused checklists.

Knowing What To Do - Imagination, Virtue, and Platonism in Ethics - Bok av Sophie Grace (The Open University Chappell - Häftad

Sophie Grace Chappell develops a picture of what philosophical ethics can be like, once set aside from the idealising and reductive pressures of conventional moral theory. Her question is 'How are we to know what to do?', and the answer she defends is 'By developing our moral imaginations'.

The New Testament and Other Early Christian Writings - A Reader - Bok av Bart D. (Professor and Chair of Religious Studies Ehrman - Häftad

This second edition includes virtually every piece produced during the first 100 years of Christian history. Ehrman shows how the canon of the New Testament was formulated and how other texts were excluded from the canon. He also provides brief up-to-date introductions to each of the texts.

What Do Dreams Do? - Bok av Sue (Professor in Humanities Llewellyn - Inbunden

Dreams are a puzzle. We don't know what to make of them. This book explores the evolutionary significance of dreaming, its role in memory, unconscious prediction, creativity and psychiatric illness. It will be compelling reading for anyone interested in psychology, psychiatry, consciousness, and the arts.

Foundational Texts in Modern Criminal Law - Bok av Markus D Dubber - Häftad

This volume contributes to the emergence of a transnational canon of criminal law by critically engaging with formative texts in criminal legal thought since Hobbes.

Political Choice in Britain - Bok av Harold D. ( Clarke - Häftad

Why do people vote as they do? Indeed, why do they vote at all? What do they think about elections and democracy? This book addresses these questions by focusing on the explanatory power of rival sociological and 'individual rationality' models.

Aquinas's Theory of Natural Law - An Analytic Reconstruction - Bok av Anthony J. (Professor of Philosophy Lisska - Häftad

This new critique of Aquinas's theory of natural law presents an incisive, new analysis of the central themes and relevant texts in the Summa Theologiae which became the classical canon for natural law.

Francophone Literatures - An Introductory Survey - Bok av Belinda (Lecturer and British Academy Post-Doctoral Fellow Jack - Häftad

The canon of French literature has undergone substantial transformation in recent years and francophone literature is now an increasingly important element in French literature courses. This study considers important texts from French speaking countries worldwide.

The Emotional Life of the Great Depression - Bok av John (Associate Professor of English Marsh - Inbunden

A new take on the Great Depression that offers a fresh perspective on the 1930s by expanding the canon of Great Depression emotions beyond despair and fear, and by mining a wonderfully eclectic archive of sources.

The Game Designer's Playbook - An Introduction to Game Interaction Design - Bok av Samantha (Game Artist Stahlke - Inbunden

This book is about game interaction design-in other words, shaping what players can do and how they do it to make a game satisfying and memorable.

The Multilingual Instructor - What foreign language teachers say about their experience and why it matters - Bok av Claire Kramsch - Häftad

Claire Kramsch and Lihua Zhang use an ecological approach and a complexity thought model to examine the identities, experiences, and practices of foreign language teachers as native or non-native speakers, multilingual instructors, and professional educators. What is their sense of legitimacy? How do they bridge the historical and cultural gaps between them and their students? What stories do they share in the classroom? Which do they not share? How do they viewtheir ethical responsibility?

Spenser's Monstrous Regiment - Elizabethan Ireland and the Poetics of Difference - Bok av Richard A. ( McCabe - Häftad

A study of Spenser and nationhood that examines the poet's canon within the dual contexts of imperial aspiration and female 'regiment'. This book shows how the experience of writing from Ireland, intensified Spenser's sense of alienation from female sovereignty.

Principled Agents? - The Political Economy of Good Government - Bok av Timothy (Professor of Economics and Political Science Besley - Häftad

What is good government? Why do some governments fail? How do you implement political accountability in practice? What incentives do you need to put in place to ensure that politicians and public servants act in the public interest and not their own? These questions and many more are addressed in Timothy Besley's intriguing Lindahl lectures.

Theories of Performance - Organizational and Service Improvement in the Public Domain - Bok av Colin (Professor of Public Policy and Management Talbot

How well do governments do in converting the resources they take from us - like taxes - into services that improve the well-being of individuals, groups, and society as a whole? In other words: how well do they perform? In this book, Colin Talbot examines how we can understand this issue of performance in the public services.

Composing Canon in the German Democratic Republic : Narratives of Nineteenth-Century Music

Rethinking Political Thinkers - Bok - Häftad

The first textbook to challenge and expand the canon of political thinkers, Rethinking Political Thinkers presents political thought in a new light, invites debate, and brings diverse perspectives to the fore, giving students the tools to think about political concepts, theories, and arguments critically and analytically.

Epicureanism at the Origins of Modernity - Bok av Catherine (City University of New York/University of Aberdeen) Wilson - Häftad

This engaging and richly documented book examines the Scientific Revolution and the formation of the canon of early modern philosophy in light of the rediscovery and reworking of the materialistic philosophy of the ancient atomists, Epicurus and Lucretius. It is written equally for philosophers and historians.