This book has been largely based upon some informal instruction which I have given to my pupils in Oxford. But I have endeavoured to make every chapter intelligible to readers who are unacquainted ...
MUDÉJAR ART: Islamic Aesthetics in Christian Art reveals the fascinating exuberance
of a unique cultural and artistic symbiosis that characterises Christian Spain after
the Re...
Radical Hospitality addresses a timely and challenging subject for contemporary philosophy: the ethical responsibility of opening borders, psychic and physical, to the stranger. The book eng...
Science has its roots in human curiosity. It is the process of exploration and research that has led to a better understanding of our surroundings: Copernicus set the Earth in its right place in...
WORLD WAR II POP QUIZAfter losing World War I, Germany was disarmed, forbidden to build an air force or submarines, and its army could not exceed 100,000 men. So how was ...
G.I.I.F.T.S. is a book that illustrates the heart and mind of God when it comes to his creation. God has divinely engineered each of his children to manifest his glory and be a function of ...
While other research books offer standard operating procedures, this book provides something more durable in the real world. It's a practical field guide that will give you the encouragement...
As The New York Times wrote after his death, Henry B. Fried was "widely acknowledged as the dean
of American watchmakers." In the revised, 1961 edition of his classic book The Watch ...
You are controlled by countless programs. They create most of your behavior and thinking. The core of these programs is the idea, developed over tens of thousands of years, of what a human is, w...
As we try to understand ourselves and the world we live in, all too often we look first to science-and then, if gaps remain in our understanding, we try to fill the gaps with reference to God an...
n this book, readers will enjoy a fascinating and cordial discussion between N. T. Wright and Simon Gathercole on the meaning and nature of the doctrine of atonement. These two highly respected ...
Created as an aid for the astronauts training for Skylab missions, this Skylab Saturn IB Flight Manual is a comprehensive reference that contains descriptions of ground support interfaces, prelaunc...
Using first-person accounts in historical archives, David Roberts presents many sides of the Indian rebellion that began in the mid-1800s. Here is the epic and tragic story of Indian heroes--men an...
First published in 1892, "Foil and Sabre" is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to fencing. It aims to provide the student with a complete course of instruction in the contemporary European fencin...
This book details how semiotics furthers an understanding of the science of Christology. In the light of the trend towards evolutionary worldview, the book goes beyond description and critically en...
In this book, we are going to follow one colony of bees through their year of gathering pollen, to see what they find, and how they use it. We will look at the plants which make the pollen too, ...
The Iconography Of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909 : Compiled From Original Sources And Illustrated By Photo-Intaglio Reproductions Of Important Maps, Plans, Views, And Documents In Public And Private ...