Timothy: 2930 books
The Theater of Plautus
Playing to the Audience
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The relationship between actors and spectators has been of perennial interest to playwrights. The Roman playwright Plautus (ca. 200 BCE) was particularly adept at manipulating this relationship. Plautus allowed his actors to acknowledge freely the illusion in which they were taking part, to elicit...
by Donal Anthony Foley, Timothy Tindal-Robertson
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
Our Lady’s appeal in 1917 to the three shepherd children of Fatima, for prayer for peace and for a deep conversion of heart, rings out from the site of her apparitions at the world-famous shrine with greater relevance than ever for the people of our times. This is explained in the concise summary...
by Steffan Igor Ayora-Diaz, Beth A. Conklin, Les W. Field
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Anthropology and the Politics of Representation examines the inherently problematic nature of representation and description of living people, specifically in ethnography and more generally in anthropological work as a whole.
In Anthropology and the Politics of Representation volume...
Mayas in Postwar Guatemala
Harvest of Violence Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Like the original Harvest of Violence, published in 1988, this volume reveals how the contemporary Mayas contend with crime, political violence, internal community power struggles, and the broader impact of transnational economic and political policies in Guatemala. However, this work, informed by...
by Timothy Rosendale
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2018
What can I do? To what degree do we control our own desires, actions, and fate - or not? These questions haunt us, and have done so, in various forms, for thousands of years. Timothy Rosendale explores the problem of human will and action relative to the Divine - which Luther himself identified as...
Video Game Worlds
Working at Play in the Culture of EverQuest
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2016
As massively multiplayer online (MMO) games grow in scope and popularity, what are the characteristics of their emerging gaming culture? How is this culture shaped by the decisions made by game designers and the collective interpretations of a game’s player base? In this book, Timothy Rowlands brings...
Man vs Maths
Understanding the curious mathematics that power our world
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Could we solve queuing with an equation? How do algorithms control our news? What is the secret behind encryption codes?
Mathematics is inescapable. Wherever you go, whatever you do, however you live your life, mathematics plays a role.
From controlling a city’s traffic to finding love,...
by Timothy Baril
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Washington Irving's classic tale remade. This short story features Ichabod Crane as he contends with rakish Abraham Van Brunt for the hand of gorgeous Katrina Van Tassel, ultimately culminating in his encounter with the legendary Headless Horseman!Relive the autumn of 1790 and steep yourself...
Political Agape
Christian Love and Liberal Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
What is the place of Christian love in a pluralistic society dedicated to “liberty and justice for all”? What would it mean to take both Jesus Christ and Abraham Lincoln seriously and attempt to translate love of God and neighbor into every quarter of life, including law and politics?
Timothy...
Disturbed Consciousness
New Essays on Psychopathology and Theories of Consciousness
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Essays defend, discuss, and critique specific theories of consciousness with respect to various psychopathologies.
In Disturbed Consciousness, philosophers and other scholars examine various psychopathologies in light of specific philosophical theories of consciousness. The contributing authors—some...
Bored Again Catholic
How the Mass Could Save Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Are you BORED? Not likely, given the endless opportunities today to see, share, post, watch, and like. So are you bored? No way! (Except maybe at Mass.) We want the Mass to entertain, make us laugh, give us foot tapping music and sound-bite theology, and get it done in under an hour....
by Timothy Small
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
This book illustrates the nature of the SELF and application of universal laws to create the world you desire.
by Timothy Insoll
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2004
The archaeology of religion is a much neglected area, yet religious sites and artefacts constitute a major area of archaeological evidence. Timothy Insoll presents an introductory statement on the archaeology of religion, examining what archaeology can tell us about religion, the problems of defining...
Mapping the Cold War
Cartography and the Framing of America’s International Power
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2015
In this fascinating history of Cold War cartography, Timothy Barney considers maps as central to the articulation of ideological tensions between American national interests and international aspirations. Barney argues that the borders, scales, projections, and other conventions of maps prescribed...