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Ramism and the Reformation of Method explores the popular early modern movement of Ramism and its ambitious attempt to transform Church and society. It considers the relation of Ramism to Reformed...

Created in 2000 following a long-standing regional movement, Jharkhand-the land of forests-represents an important experiment in regional autonomy and self-determination for indigenous communities in...

Religious Studies, Theology, and Human Flourishing contains essays by nine prominent scholars of religious studies and theology on approaches to cultivating human flourishing within the field of...

Representing Rome's Emperors brings together an international team of experts to examine the literary and artistic representations of Roman emperors across more than two thousand years of history,...

The teenage years. . . parents fear this stage, dreading it even while watching their adorable toddlers explore the world. When it arrives, they try to control their teenager, in turn causing their...

Rhetoric and Homiletics in Fourth-Century Christian Literature: Prose Rhythm, Oratorical Style, and Preaching in the Works of Ambrose, Jerome, and AugAuthor: Steven M. OberhelmanPublisher: Oxford...

Tracing a developing fascination with rhythm's significance, its patterns, and its measures, across philosophy, psychology, science, and the whole range of arts, Rhythmical Subjects shows how and why...

Alongside description of a number of specific rites, this volume explores ritual from both theoretical and historical perspectives. Barry Stephenson focuses on the places where ritual touches...

Author: Phil HusbandsPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Jan 03, 2022Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0198845391ISBN-13: 9780198845393

In this Very Short Introduction Jan Zalasiewicz looks at the structure and diversity of rocks, and the processes by which they form. He describes their formation during the birth of our planet;...

This volume provides an accessible, English prose translation of Wace's Roman de Brut, in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons.Author: Wace, Glyn S. BurgessPublisher: Oxford...

Plutarch introduces the reader to the major figures of classical Rome. He portrays virtues to be emulated and vices to be avoided, but his purpose is also to educate and warn those in his own day who...

Between the fall of the western Roman Empire in the fifth century and the collapse of the east in the face of the Arab invasions in the seventh, the remarkable era of the Emperor Justinian (527-568)...

Novelized, televised, and endlessly scrutinized by scholars, the fall of the Roman Republic marks one of history's great turning points. Historians have studied the descent of the Republic into civil...

Author: Greg WoolfPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Sep 10, 2021Number of Pages: 512 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0190687452ISBN-13: 9780190687458

This exciting new series, produced in partnership with the RSC, is designed to introduce students to Shakespeare's plays. Using trusted and established RSC approaches and vibrant RSC performance...

This exciting new series, produced in partnership with the RSC, is designed to introduce students to Shakespeare's plays. Using trusted and established RSC approaches and vibrant RSC performance...

Author: Michael WertPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Jul 01, 2019Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 0190932945ISBN-13: 9780190932947

A concise, authoritative overview of a little-understood yet extremely important phenomenon in world politics: the use of economic sanctions by one country to punish another. It's hard to browse the...

An original approach to the iconic landscape of California--the beaches of Los Angeles--this book recovers untold stories of presidential jaunts, wild spring break celebrations, underground gay...

Scenes Of Clerical Life (Oxford World'S Classics)Author: George EliotPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2015Number of Pages: 416 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Schelling came of age during the pivotal and exciting years at the end of the eighteenth century, as Kant's philosophy was being incorporated into the German academic world. Distinguishing himself...

The internet has transformed the ways in which scholars and scientists share their findings with each other and the world, creating a scholarly communication environment that is both more complex and...

Towards the close of his long and brilliant career as the preeminent spokesperson for empirical theology, Henry Nelson Wieman (1884-1975) began writing Science Serving Faith, clearly intending it to...

What makes a state? This question has attracted more and more attention in recent years with Catalan's illegal vote for independence from Spain and Palestine's ongoing search for international...

In The Second Treatise of Government, John Locke answered two objectives: to refute the concept of the monarchy's divine right and to establish a theory reconciling civil liberties with political...

Martin Stevens explores the extraordinary variety of senses in the animal kingdom, and discusses the cutting-edge science that is shedding light on these secret worlds. Our senses of vision, smell,...

Many of us, even on our happiest days, struggle to quiet the constant buzz of anxiety in the background of our minds. All kinds of worries--worries about losing people and things, worries about how...

Selected Poems: With Parallel French Text (Oxford World'S Classics)Author: Guillaume ApollinairePublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 2016Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage:...

Seneca's Anapaests: Metre, Colometry, Text, and Artistry in the Anapaests of Seneca's TragediesAuthor: John G. FitchPublisher: Oxford University PressPublication Date: May 01, 1987Number of Pages:...