Academic Press: 465 books
'Goodbye, Spain?'
The Question of Independence for Catalonia
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
'Goodbye, Spain?' discusses the question of Catalan independence and is fully up-to-date with respect to the most recent elections. Support for independence in the autonomous community of Catalonia has risen significantly since 2005. Opinion polls confirm that the idea of holding a legally binding...
The Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain
Volume I Crisis, Renewal, and the Ministers' Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
The Huguenots in Later Stuart Britain examines the history of the French communities in Britain from the Civil War, which plunged them into turmoil, to the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, after which there was no realistic possibility that the Huguenots would be readmitted to France. There is a particular...
On the Teaching of Literature
From Charismatic Secrecy to Joyful Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Drawing on the author’s teaching practice and experience, this book is based on the premise that reading and analyzing literary texts are rewarding pursuits. The target group is grammar school pupils and students at colleges of education and universities. Pedagogic theories are dealt with only in...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2015
A selection of essays and sermons on the matter of Christianity, spirituality and ethics to mark the retirement of Dr Michael Pearson. By demonstrating their impact on fellow sojourners, this Festschrift attempts to mirror the breadth and depth of Mike's thinking, teaching and writing.
Jacob L. Talmon
Mission and Testimony: Political Essays
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Talmon was chosen by an international committee of scholars as one of the twenty major historians of the twentieth century, declaring that “his historiography was a convincing apologia for human freedom.” He owes his fame primarily to his magnum opus, the trilogy that began with The Origins of...
The Poetic World of Emily Brontë
Poems from the Author of Wuthering Heights
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2014
Bringing an unjustifiably marginalized poet out of the shadows, this book presents Emily Brontë’s poetry in a way that enables readers, even those who shy away from poetry, to appreciate her work. She is widely known as a novelist, but she was first and equally a poet. Her poems are varied, lyrical,...
Eliot's Objective Correlative
Tradition or Individual Talent? Contributions to the History of a Topos
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Eliot’s dictum about the objective correlative has often been quoted but rarely analysed. This book traces the maxim to some of its sources and places it in a contemporary context. Eliot agreed with Locke about the necessity of sensory input, but for a poet to be able to create poetry, the input...
Situating Child Consumption
Rethinking Values and Notions of Children, Childhood and Consumption
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Providing extensive examples of the conditions of children's everyday consumption as well as how children themselves understand issues of work, money, scarcity, and consumer products, this book challenges the prevailing theories of consumption and opens up new ways of thinking about children. Arguing...
The Wrong Country
Essays on Modern Irish Writing
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
This engaging, personal chronicle by Irish poet Gerald Dawe explores the lives and times of leading Irish writers, including W.B. Yeats, Elizabeth Bowen, Samuel Beckett and Stewart Parker, alongside lesser-known names from the earlier decades of the twentieth century, such as Ethna Carberry, Alice...
Global Jihad and the Tactic of Terror Abduction
A Comprehensive Review of Islamic Terrorist Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In recent decades, the taking of hostages has proven to be a particularly effective tactic for Islamic terrorist organizations worldwide, including al Qaeda. The global jihad movement regards citizens of foreign (mainly Western) countries as prime targets for abduction, although in fact local residents...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
In this anthology a group of ethnologists and anthropologists demonstrate creative ways of relating phenomenology to the study of culture. A detailed overview of how perspectives like being” and life-world” can be applied to studies of everyday life as well as a historical background of phenomenology...
Heretics Within
Anthony Wotton, John Goodwin, and the Orthodox Divines
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The polemical revisionary writings of 17th-century puritan pastor Anthony Wotton on topics such as Christ’s redemptive suffering and the imputation of justifying righteousness, God’s saving grace and the moral law, faith and works, and the gracious covenant and legal covenant—as well as the...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
This study of civil–military relations in Latin America begins by noting that, since 2000, military dictatorships in the region have virtually disappeared, with the political role of the military in many countries dramatically diminished. The book then examines the new types of regimes, including...
The Muslim Struggle for Civil Rights in Spain
Promoting Democracy Through Migrant Engagement, 19852010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
This book looks at how Muslims in Spain have changed legislation linked to religious pluralism and immigration and have fortified Spain’s frail history and practice of democracy since 1975. Spanish Muslims have achieved this through active civil engagement and a persistent struggle for rights and...