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A carefully woven, dramatic, romantic, action-packed urban fantasy. Alice and Oliver are two incredibly different twins - Alice is self assured and loveless, while Oliver is hesitant and loves so much it hurts. On their seventeenth birthday, they discover that they are no ordinary humans - they are Evolos: a secret race of superhumans originally created by mankind as a Cold War weapon. After a life-shattering event, the twins are sent plunging...

Gen 14:18-20 is a brief episode depicting the encounter between Abram and Melchizedek. Taking this episode and its context in the Pentateuch as the starting point, Mathews sets out to analyze the text as it has been composed, in order to understand the biblical and theological significance of this priest-king Melchizedek. The thesis proposed and investigated is that Melchizedek's royal priestly portrayal in Genesis initiates a priesthood that ...

For much of the last half of the twentieth century, W. G. Lambert devoted much of his research energy and effort to the study of Babylonian texts dealing with Mesopotamian ideas regarding creation, including especially Enuma Elish. This volume, which appears almost exactly 2 years after Lambert's death, distills a lifetime of learning by the world's foremost expert on these texts. Lambert provides a full transliteration and translation of the ...

Six Finnish Poets, the eleventh volume in this series, features six writers whose work is symbolic of the connection between the life of poetry in Finland and the life of the poets who write it. In Finland, poetry is a part of everyday life, a way of living, founded upon a do-it-yourself attitude that is independent of the approval of critics, publishers, or the popular masses. The poets selected here exhibit the vast range of Finnish poetry, ...

In 2011 Dr. Pearl T. Morgan-Bell received an e-mail with a list of inspirational texts organized alphabetically. From there, the Holy Spirit guided her to write Reflections and Meditations: An Annual Devotional. Dr. Bell covers the alphabet fourteen times throughout the year in the devotional, featuring a keyword in the daily Bible text, starting with A and ending with Z. Through this technique, she presents the reader with new topics each ...

Reading Essentials and Study Guide (English and Spanish): Reinforce critical concepts from the text and help students improve their reading-for-information skills with this essential resource, written 2-3 grade levels below the Student Edition

Hagit Borer develops a new model of word formation, arguing that on the one hand the basic building blocks of language are rigid semantic and syntactic functions, while on the other hand they are roots, which in themselves are but packets of phonological information, and are devoid of both meaning and grammatical properties of any kind.

Published in 1843 by a pioneer of British Egyptology, this two-volume guide is replete with information for the contemporary traveller.

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This study analyses the diverse ways in which masculinity and sexuality organize the experience of migration. By analyzing heterosexual as well as gay masculinities and incorporating race and class relations, this study shows the multiplicity and hierarchies of masculinities presented within a particular cultural context.

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This volume seeks to gauge the extent to which Pan-Africanism has penetrated various disciplines, how Pan-Africanism overlaps with the study of the African Diaspora, and why Pan-Africanism is located on the periphery as African Diaspora studies gains momentum. The contributors - coming from various geographical backgrounds and a broad range of academic disciplines - engage with each other to create cross-regional dialogues about the overlaps a...

This second special edition boxed set from the Natural History Museum contains another 16 most sought after prints from Aububon's masterpiece The Birds of America. Packaged in a shrinkwrapped presentation box, this is the perfect gift for bird enthusiasts and art lovers everywhere.

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This is the first book to provide comprehensive coverage of the full range of philosophical writing in Britain in the eighteenth century. A team of experts provides new accounts of both major and lesser-known thinkers, and explores the diverse approaches in the period to logic and metaphysics, the passions, morality, criticism, and politics.

Engaging the theology of Thomas Aquinas with the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan, Tina Beattie shows how Thomism exerted a formative influence on Lacan, and how a Lacanian approach can bring new insights to Thomas's theology. Lacan makes possible a renewed Thomism which offers a rich theology of creation, incarnation, and redemption.

In response to continuing global financial turmoil, the UN Conference for Trade and Development has produced a set of principles to govern future sovereign financing. This book expands on these principles from a legal and economic perspective to analyse how sovereign financing can be regulated to prevent similar debt crises from occurring again.

The role of investment arbitration is a controversial issue, as it is increasingly seen as a system in which private arbitrators adjudicate on the public law decisions of states. This book provides an empirical study of the function of investment arbitration, how it is impacting on international law, and the ways in which it is in need of reform.

Christopher Gill provides a new translation and commentary on the first half of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, and a full introduction to this unique and remarkable work: a reflective diary or notebook by a Roman emperor, whose content is based on Stoic philosophy but presented in a highly distinctive way.