Arabs

The level of noise about the Arab world is increasing. Security and energy are major concerns. Wars and globalisation are pushing the Arabs and Westerners into closer contact. Understanding the Arabs has never been more important, never so critical to our dealings with the Arab ...

Thinking geographically

space, theory and contemporary human geography

Dictionary of jewish biography

Women, crime, and punishment in Ancient Law and society

.Vol.2: Ancient Greece

Crime and punishment, criminal law and its administration, are areas of ancient history that have been explored less than many other aspects of ancient civilizations. Throughout history women have been affected by crime both as victims and as offenders. Yet, in the ancient world, customary ...

Kabbalah and cristicism

The Gospel of Mary

beyond a gnostic and a biblical Mary Magdalene

The success of Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code has raised new interest in Mary Magdalene and in the Gospel of Mary. Here, the author examines Mary Magdalene's influence on the beginnings of Christianity and asks what was her impact and her message and ...

Medieval monasteries

This book provides an account of the archaeology of medieval monastic houses throughout Great Britain and Ireland. The application of a wide range of archaeological techniques, allied to historical investigation, has awakened interest in monasteries. Important new sources of information have transformed knowledge of monastic ...

Scandalizing Jesus?

Kazantzakis's The Last Temptation of Christ fifty years on

2005 marks the fiftieth anniversary of Nikos Kazantzakis' "The Last Temptation of Christ". Since Kazantzakis ranks as one of the twentieth century's most important European writers, and given that this particular work of his has garnered so much publicity, this collection of essays re-assesses ...

Is religion killing us?

violence in the Bible and the Quran

A provocative look at the violent content of 'sacred scripture' and what Jews, Christians, and Muslims must do to re-vision their faiths away from justifying violence. Post 9/11 attention has focused on Islam as a violent religion, but Nelson-Pallmeyer shows that the Bible and ...

The soul of the embryo

an enquiry into the status of the human embryo in the Crhistian tradition

Jesus, a jewish galilean

a new reading of the Jesus-story

In his latest book, Sean Freyne draws on his detailed knowledge of Galilean society in the Roman period, based on both literary and archaeological sources, to give a fresh and provocative reading of the Jesus story within its Galilean setting. Jesus, a Jewish Galilean focuses ...

Women, crime and punishment in Ancient law and society

.Vol.I: the Ancient near east

Management accounting

The fifth edition of this text has been fully revised to include: new questions from professional examinations bodies including, the Institute of Chartered Accountants, the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and the Institute of Company Accounants; extended treatment of balancing scorecards; international aspects of transfer pricing ...

Essentials of Management Acco in Busines

Management accounting is crucial for efficient business management, especially in the areas of: formulation of strategy; planning; the measurement and control of performance; decision-making; ascertaining income and costs and establishing prices. In this authoritative introduction to the subject, the authors explain and illustrate the ways ...

Globalization: theory and practice

This volume brings together many leading figures from different disciplines to present a range of contributions covering key dimensions of globalization. These contributions reflect on the limitations of existing theoretical approaches and indicate possible future directions for development. This second edition includes a new introduction ...

A history of modern Germany since 1815

Germany has fascinated its own people as well as onlookers in the twentieth century because, unlike the history or national existence of other European states, its very being has been posed as a question. Why was there no unified German state, until late in the ...

Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the World

.Vol 1: Media industry and society

Continuum encyclopedia of popular music of the world

.Vol 2: Performance and production

The great deception

a secret history of the European Union

As the European Union moves next year towards adopting the constitution which will mark its final emergence as a 'United States of Europe', The Great Deception shows how the most ambitious political project of our time has for more than 50 years been based on ...

Killing Freud

Twentieth-Century culture and the death of psychoanalysis