Continuum imprint: 595 books
Sociocultural Intelligence
A New Discipline in Intelligence Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2010
This new discipline proposes a systematic understanding of the customs, moral attitudes, and cultures of foreign populations to enhance the efficacy of national security initiatives.
Life in the Psalms
Contemporary Meaning in Ancient Texts: The Mowbray Lent Book 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
The Psalms lie at the heart of Jewish and Christian worship. For thousands of years people in despair and praise have cried to God through the words of these ancient poems. Fragments of them are still widely known and loved, but such is the gulf between their ancient culture and our contemporary world...
Stairway to Heaven
Chinese Alchemists, Jewish Kabbalists, and the Art of Spiritual Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2008
Stairway to Heaven is an incredibly broad ranging new study that stretches from ancient Egypt and Babylon to Jewish and Christian Kabbalists, Chinese Daoists, Hindu Tantra and Haitian Vodun and finally to 19th and 20th century European occult societies, uncovering a hitherto unrecognized common myth...
America's Film Legacy, 2009-2010
A Viewer's Guide to the 50 Landmark Movies Added To The National Film Registry in 2009-10
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
*America's Film Legacy, 2009-2010Â *is a guide to the most significant films ever made in the United States. Unlike opinionated "Top 100" and arbitrary "Best of" lists, these are the real thing: groundbreaking films that make up the backbone of American cinema.
Each of...
by Dr. David Seawright
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2011
This book bestows academic light in place of disputed ideological heat emanating primarily from Conservative political polemicists on the role, influence and ideological trajectory of the One Nation Group of Conservative MPs. It contributes to the debates on policy and the role of 'think tanks' in...
Social Realism, Knowledge and the Sociology of Education
Coalitions of the Mind
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2011
This volume covers issues in the sociology of knowledge, the educational system and policy, professional autonomy, vocational education, educational research and teaching, as well as the nature of such disciplines as cultural studies, English, science and the arts. The chapters also directly address...
Beryl Bainbridge
Love by All Sorts of Means: A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2016
Dame Beryl Bainbridge was one of the most popular and recognisable English novelists of her generation. She was shortlisted for the Booker Prize five times, and her critically acclaimed novels The Dressmaker (1973), The Bottle Factory Outing (1974), An Awfully Big Adventure (1990), Every Man For Himself...
Turbulent Times
The British Jewish Community Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The first book-length study of contemporary British Jewry , Turbulent Times: The British Jewish Community Today examines the changing nature of the British Jewish community and its leadership since 1990.
Keith Kahn-Harris and Ben Gidley contend that there has been a shift within Jewish communal...
A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking
Critical Theory After Adorno as Applied to Jewish Thought
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2011
A New Physiognomy of Jewish Thinking is a search for authenticity that combines critical thinking with a yearning for heartfelt poetics. A physiognomy of thinking addresses the figure of a life lived where theory and praxis are unified. This study explores how the critical essays on music of German-Jewish...
by Christopher Howse
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
Christopher Howse has spent more than two decades exploring Spain. For him, its centuries-old cathedrals, monasteries and shrines demand pilgrimage more than tourism.
In a journey across the Castilian interior he follows in the footsteps of El Cid and St Dominic, examines St Teresa's arm, samples...
by Dr Katherine Thomson-Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2008
Aesthetics and Film is a philosophical study of the art of film. Its motivation is the recent surge of interest among analytic philosophers in the philosophical implications of central issues in film theory and the application of general issues in aesthetics to the specific case of film.
Of particular...
Putin's Oil
The Yukos Affair and the Struggle for Russia
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2010
Putin's Oil relates Vladimir Putin's war for control of Russia's vast oil reserves, in particular Mikhail Khodorkovsky's oil firm, Yukos.
The Face of God
The Gifford Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Roger Scruton explores the place of God in a disenchanted world. His argument is a response to the atheist culture that is now growing around us, and also a defence of human uniqueness. He rebuts the claim that there is no meaning or purpose in the natural world, and argues that the sacred and the...
by Sir Roger Scruton
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Music as an Art begins by examining music through a philosophical lens, engaging in discussions about tonality, music and the moral life, music and cognitive science and German idealism, as well as recalling the author's struggle to encourage his students to distinguish the qualities of good music....