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A compelling and moving history of how poets from Homer to Springsteen have written about war.

Devoting especial attention to questions of rationality, scriptural fidelity, and the construction of 'orthodoxy', this volume introduces key Muslim theories of revelation, creation, ethics, scriptural interpretation, law, mysticism, and eschatology. The treatment is firmly set in the historical, social and political context in which Islam's distinctive understanding of God evolved.

Traces the development of the idea that the improvement of human understanding requires public activity.

Novel analysis that looks at early Southeast Asian history in terms of integration and collapse.

Seminal essays on Descartes by Daniel Garber, a pre-eminent scholar of early-modern philosophy.

Die vorliegende empirische Untersuchung mit 500 Kindergartenkindern liefert erstmals tragfähige Argumente für eine ungeahnte pädagogische Ressource, auch angesichts der Ergebnisse der PISA-Studien. Singen fördert in bisher folgenschwer unterschätztem Maße die physische, psychische und soziale Entwicklung von Kindern. Viel singende Vorschulkinder sind im Vergleich zu wenig singenden Vorschulkindern nicht nur signifikant häufiger schulfähig, son...

Research in strategy has shifted significantly towards strategy as something organizations have, rather than strategy as something that managers do. The activities of the people who actually manage and develop organizational strategy have become marginalized. Strategy as Practice argues the reverse: that research on strategy needs to take seriously what strategists do and the effects of what they do. Written by a distinguished team of research...

This volume examines the emerging forms and themes of theologies in Asian Christianity.

In this book contemporary Judaism is presented in all its rich diversity. While the focus of the book is on developments that have taken place in the past two hundred years, they are set against a historical background, going back to the Bible.

A new agenda for studying advocacy organizations which treats them as 'firms' operating in policy markets.

Henry Sidgwick is one of the great intellectual figures of 19th century Britain. He was first and foremost a great moral philosopher, whose masterwork Methods of Ethics is still widely studied today. But he was many other things besides, writing on religion, economics, politics, education and literature. He was deeply involved in the founding of first college for women at the University of Cambridge. He was a leading figure in parapsychology. ...

Nicholas Capaldi's biography of John Stuart Mill traces the ways in which Mill's many endeavors are related and explores the significance of his contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, social and political philosophy, the philosophy of religion, and the philosophy of education. Capaldi shows how Mill was groomed for his life by both his father James Mill and Jeremy Bentham, the two most prominent philosophical radicals of the early...

Exploring the impact of journalism and journalistic rhetoric on the development of Spanish American narrative, Gonzalez offers a broad historical panorama of the journalist/narrative interaction.