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22 produkter
Victorian Relativity
Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery
Inbunden, 2001
979 kr
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This text challenges the assumptions that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essence from the genius of Albert Einstein, and that scientific relativity is unconnected to ethical, cultural or epistemological relativisms. It unearths a forgotten tradition of avant-garde speculation …
Victorian Relativity
Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery
Häftad, 2001
351 kr
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This text challenges the assumptions that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essence from the genius of Albert Einstein, and that scientific relativity is unconnected to ethical, cultural or epistemological relativisms. It unearths a forgotten tradition of avant-garde speculation …
Victorian Relativity
Radical Thought and Scientific Discovery
E-bok, 2010
683 kr
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One of the articles of faith of twentieth-century intellectual history is that the theory of relativity in physics sprang in its essentials from the unaided genius of Albert Einstein; another is that scientific relativity is unconnected to ethical, cultural, or epistemological relativisms. …
Culture and Anomie
Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 1991
1155 kr
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Few ideas are as important and pervasive in the discourse of the twentieth century as the idea of culture. Yet culture, Christopher Herbert contends, is an idea laden from its inception with ambiguity and contradiction. In Culture and Anomie, Christopher Herbert conducts an inquiry into the …
Culture and Anomie
Ethnographic Imagination in the Nineteenth Century
Häftad, 1991
557 kr
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Few ideas are as important and pervasive in the discourse of the twentieth century as the idea of culture. Yet culture, Christopher Herbert contends, is an idea laden from its inception with ambiguity and contradiction. In Culture and Anomie, Christopher Herbert conducts an inquiry into the …
Gold Rush Manliness
Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope
Häftad, 2018
473 kr
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The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: educated men who valued morality and order. …
Gold Rush Manliness
Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope
Inbunden, 2018
1926 kr
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The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: educated men who valued morality and order. …
Gold Rush Manliness
Race and Gender on the Pacific Slope
E-bok, 2018
535 kr
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The mid-nineteenth-century gold rushes bring to mind raucous mining camps and slapped-together cities populated by carousing miners, gamblers, and prostitutes. Yet many of the white men who went to the gold fields were products of the Victorian era: educated men who valued morality and order. …
War of No Pity
The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma
Häftad, 2009
499 kr
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On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in …
Pocket Prayers
The Classic Collection
Häftad, 2009
161 kr
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Pocket Prayers has proved itself a classic that deserves a place in the pocket of every Christian. This original collection brings together Christian prayers that have stood the test of time, from the words of Jane Austen to those of a twentieth-century African girl.This rich treasury will help …
Pocket Prayers for Children
Häftad, 2009
161 kr
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Pocket Prayers for Children is an ideal present for anyone who prays with children, to give to children who are starting to pray by themselves or as a baptism or confirmation gift.Using the Lord's Prayer as a base, the book brings together traditional and modern prayers to help inspire children in …
Pocket Prayers: The Classic Collection
E-bok, 2013
77 kr
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Pocket Prayers has proved itself a classic that deserves a place in the pocket of every Christian. This original collection brings together Christian prayers that have stood the test of time, from the words of Jane Austen to those of a twentieth-century African girl.
Pocket Prayers for Commuters
E-bok, 2014
58 kr
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Combining the timeless wisdom of Scripture and classic prayers, Pocket Prayers for Commuters offers people travelling to work a short, simple pattern of morning and evening prayer specially designed to help them through the journey to and from work.
Pocket Prayers for Children
E-bok, 2013
77 kr
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A collection of prayers for children using the Lord''s Prayer as a base, featuring traditional and modern prayers to help inspire children in their faith. An ideal present for anyone who prays with children, to give to children who are starting to pray by themselves or as a baptism or confirmation …
Evangelical Gothic
The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula
Inbunden, 2019
688 kr
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Evangelical Gothic explores the bitter antagonism that prevailed between two defining institutions of nineteenth-century Britain: Evangelicalism and the popular novel. Christopher Herbert begins by retrieving from near oblivion a rich anti-Evangelical polemical literature in which the great …
Evangelical Gothic
The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula
E-bok, 2019
853 kr
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Evangelical Gothic explores the bitter antagonism that prevailed between two defining institutions of nineteenth-century Britain: Evangelicalism and the popular novel. Christopher Herbert begins by retrieving from near oblivion a rich anti-Evangelical polemical literature in which the great …
Foreshadowing the Reformation
Art and Religion in the 15th Century Burgundian Netherlands
Häftad, 2018
768 kr
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Foreshadowing the Reformation argues that paintings are the history of ideas in visual form. It follows, therefore, that if we are to fully understand and appreciate the late Medieval and Renaissance paintings of great Northern European artists such as Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, we …
Foreshadowing the Reformation
Art and Religion in the 15th Century Burgundian Netherlands
Inbunden, 2016
2525 kr
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Foreshadowing the Reformation argues that paintings are the history of ideas in visual form. It follows, therefore, that if we are to fully understand and appreciate the late Medieval and Renaissance paintings of great Northern European artists such as Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden, we …
War of No Pity
The Indian Mutiny and Victorian Trauma
E-bok, 2021
689 kr
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On May 11, 1857, Hindu and Muslim sepoys massacred British residents and native Christians in Delhi, setting off both the whirlwind of similar violence that engulfed Bengal in the following months and an answering wave of rhetorical violence in Britain, where the uprising against British rule in …
Reflections for Sundays, Year B
Av Paula Gooder, Jeff Astley m. fl.
Häftad, 2017
281 kr
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Reflections for Daily Prayer has nourished thousands of Christians for a decade with its inspiring and informed weekday Bible reflections. Now, in response to demand, Reflections for Sundays combines material from over the years with new writing to provide high-quality reflections on the Principal …
Faith and Ethics in Health and Social Care
Improving Practice Through Understanding Diverse Perspectives
Av Ann Gallagher, Christopher Herbert
E-bok, 2019
442 kr
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Care facilities often reflect the multifaith and multicultural nature of society, not least in a very diverse population of health and social care staff and care-recipients. This book, written by expert practitioners from 11 different world faiths, helps health and social care-givers to articulate …
