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In God and the Creative Imagination, Paul Avis argues that metaphor, symbol and myth, are the key to a real knowledge of God and the sacred.

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These groundbreaking and award winning works provide valuable in-depth information on topics which traditional reference works often neglect. Reflecting the growth of cross-disciplinary concerns, these encyclopedias covers fields such as film and media, sports, gender, food and wine, education, literature, technology, politics and linguistics. The entries include short biographies of influential figures, as well as brief factual pieces, major ...

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Newly available in paperback, this is the first book to bring together classic and contemporary readings illustrating the new subdiscipline, evolutionary psychopathology. Each chapter demonstrates how evolutionary arguments are being brought to bear on the study of a different psychiatric condition or pathalogical behaviour. The Maladapted Mind is aimed primarily at primarily at advanced students and researchers in the fields of psychiatry, ab...

This is a practical guide for building and construction contractors and sub-contractors and other construction professionals. Also for undergraduate and postgraduate students of building and construction.

An interpretative history of the Korean War within the context of Korea's history. The text assesses the role of North and South Korea and allied forces, and evaluates the contribution of UN naval forces and the impact on the homefront.

This timely collection investigates the meaning of the widely used term 'warlordism' in contemporary global politics. The introduction develops an analytical framework in order for scholars to understand the range and differing intensity of differing types of warlordist and sub-state conflict. The volume then proceeds to an examination of warlordism in relation to the international markets in light weaponry and narcotics. It also includes a se...

Karl Barth (1886-1968) is widely acknowledged as the greatest theologian of the twentieth century and is also shown in this book to be a profoundly political thinker. Though he wrote more than any other twentieth century theologian, he did not confine himself within an academic ivory tower but engaged fully in the social and political ideas and realities of life that were current throughout his life. Dr Gorringe explores this wealth of materia...

Karl Barth (1886-1968) is widely acknowledged as the greatest theologian of the twentieth century and is shown in this book to be a profoundly political thinker. Though he wrote more than any other twentieth century theologian, he was also fully engaged in social and political ideas. Dr. Timothy Gorringe explores this wealth of material and shows how it is related to the events of the twentieth century.

Why do people sing hymns? Are hymns poetry? What makes a good hymn? The author discusses the nature of hymns and their particular appeal, examines the English hymn as a literary form, and systematically describes its development through four centuries, from the Reformation to the mid-twentieth century.

This volume looks closely at the origins of the current Japanese economic system, focusing particularly on the contrast between the war period of 1930-1945 and the preceding situation.

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Frontmatter -- INTRODUCTION. View of a Hundred Years' Study of Religion -- PRELIMINARY -- PRELIMINARY -- HISTORICAL SURVEY -- Introduction: Up to the middle of the 19th century -- 1. The study of religion established as an autonomous discipline -- 2. Connections with other disciplines -- 3. Religion as a special subject of research -- 4. Later contributions from other disciplines -- 5. Perspectives of a phenomenological study of religion -- LO...

This "Handbook" brings together major aspects of Japanese linguistics, presenting overviews, current concerns and future directions of each topic. The areas included are phonology, syntax, semantics, morphology, language acquisition, sentence processing, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics. This "Handbook" is for those who are familiar with the topic at the basic level and wish to investigate it in more detail, but it also can be used as a langua...

Providing critical assessment of the 'globalization thesis' through sustained analysis of the nexus of processes underlying social and cultural relations, this book examines, explores, and teases out the many contradictions embedded within different discourses of globalization. Together, the various chapters in the collection offer a wide-ranging critique of those accounts which represent globalization primarily, if not exclusively, as the cla...

Das erfolgreiche Lehrbuch über neuronale Netzwerke für Chemiker geht in die zweite Auflage! Die Autoren erläutern Grundlagen, skizzieren die häufigsten Netzwerke und Lernmethoden und veranschaulichen sie mit einprägsamen Beispielen. Die Anzahl der Beispiele wurde erweitert, die neuen Beispiele wurden vor allem aus dem Bereich "Drug Design" gewählt. Ein Leitfaden zur praktischen Anwendung auf eigene Fragestellungen. Aus den Rezensionen zur 1. ...