Stein: 929 books
A Basic Guide to Interpreting the Bible
Playing by the Rules
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
In this accessible guide to interpreting the Bible, senior New Testament scholar Robert Stein helps readers identify various biblical genres, understand the meaning of biblical texts, and apply that meaning to contemporary life. This edition has been completely revised throughout to reflect Stein's...
by Rick Stein
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
This charming gift book contains 12 of Rick Stein's favourite recipes for main courses, hand-picked by Rick from his entire recipe collection.
From the chef famed for his championing of home-produced fresh ingredients, it is a selection of delicious and inspiring dishes.
The pocket-sized...
Endliches und ewiges Sein
Ein Grundriss der Ontologie (mit dem Denken von Thomas von Aquin, Husserl und Heidegger)
Language: German
Release Date: April 20, 2017
"Endliches und ewiges Sein" ist ein Grundriss der Ontologie. Edith Stein setzte sich darin mit dem Denken von Thomas von Aquin, Husserl und Heidegger auseinander. Inhalt: Die Frage nach dem Sein Akt und Potenz als Seinsweisen Wesenhaftes und wirkliches Sein Wesen – Substanz, Form und Stoff...
by Edith Stein
Language: German
Release Date: December 10, 2018
Language: German
Release Date: December 10, 2018
"Die vollständige Arbeit, der die folgenden Ausführungen entnommen sind, begann mit einer rein historischen Darlegung der Probleme, die in der vorliegenden Einfühlungsliteratur nacheinander aufgetaucht sind: der ästhetischen Einfühlung, der Einfühlung als Erkenntnisquelle für fremdes Erleben,...
by Diane Stein
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2011
Originally published as The Women's Spirituality Book, this guide describes the beliefs and practices of the Goddess craft as it relates to the daily lives of women. It emphasizes achieving power and control through healing, visualization, Tarot, and the women's I Ching.
Diane Stein teaches...
Apogee of Empire
Spain and New Spain in the Age of Charles III, 1759–1789
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Once Europe's supreme maritime power, Spain by the mid-eighteenth century was facing fierce competition from England and France. England, in particular, had successfully mustered the financial resources necessary to confront its Atlantic rivals by mobilizing both aristocracy and merchant bourgeoisie...
by Rick Stein
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2017
For most of us, fish is something to be eaten in restaurants. The occasional prawn might sneak into our stir-fries or the odd sardine pop up on the barbecue but, for the most part, preparing and cooking fish at home on a regular basis is seen as difficult and time-consuming. Rick Stein would have...
Prologue to Violence
Child Abuse, Dissociation, and Crime
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2013
Despite mounting references to the "transgenerational transmission of violence," we still lack a compelling understanding of the linkage between the interpersonal violence of early life and the criminal violence of adulthood. In Prologue to Violence, Abby Stein draws on the gripping narratives...
by Rebecca Stein, Philip L. Stein
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
This concise and accessible textbook introduces students to the anthropological study of religion. Stein and Stein examine religious expression from a cross-cultural perspective and expose students to the varying complexity of world religions. The chapters incorporate key theoretical concepts and...
by Abby Stein
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
Much domestic violence literature has called attention to the fact that women's material needs for shelter, daycare, employment, and legal protection may render them helpless to leave toxic relationships. Yet, even with the provision of these, many women remain tightly wound in their abusers' embrace....
Playing against Nature
Integrating Science and Economics to Mitigate Natural Hazards in an Uncertain World
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2014
Defending society against natural hazards is a high-stakes game of chance against nature, involving tough decisions. How should a developing nation allocate its budget between building schools for towns without ones or making existing schools earthquake-resistant? Does it make more sense to build...
Tschüss Deutschland
Aufzeichnungen eines Ausgewanderten
Language: German
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Von einem, der auszog, die Fremde kennenzulernen … Was kommt heraus, wenn einer der klügsten und komischsten Essayisten Deutschlands eine Greencard gewinnt? – Ein Glücksfall für den Leser. Denn der Autor braucht auf die alte Heimat keine Rücksicht mehr und auf die neue noch keine zu nehmen…...
Family Papers
A Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2019
An award-winning historian shares the true story of a frayed and diasporic Sephardic Jewish family preserved in thousands of letters
For centuries, the bustling port city of Salonica was home to the sprawling Levy family. As leading publishers and editors, they helped chronicle modernity as...
by Gertrude Stein
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Gertrude Stein moved to France at the beginning of the 20th century and became a notable art collector. Stein is now perhaps best known for her contributions to lesbian literature, particularly The Autobiography of Alice Toklas, which was written in the voice of her life partner.
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