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Introductory Sanskrit Reader
Improving Reading Fluency
Häftad, 2021
719 kr
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This Reader aims to help students start reading original Sanskrit literature.When we study ancient languages, there often is quite a gap between introductory, grammar-based classes and independent reading of original texts. This Reader bridges that gap by offering complete grammar and vocabulary …
Human Nature in Gregory of Nyssa
Philosophical Background and Theological Significance
Häftad, 2014
930 kr
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This volume explores Gregory Of Nyssa's concept of human nature. It argues that the frequent use Gregory makes of phusis-terminology is not only a terminological predilection, but rather the key to the philosophical and theological foundations of his thought.Starting from an overview of the …
The Qurʾān in Context: Historical and Literary Investigations Into the Qurʾānic Milieu
Av Angelika Neuwirth, Nicolai Sinai
Häftad, 2009
4799 kr
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Snow in the Tropics
A History of the Independent Reefer Operators
Av Thomas Taro Lennerfors, Peter Birch
Inbunden, 2019
942 kr
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Snow in the Tropics by Thomas Taro Lennerfors and Peter Birch offers the first comprehensive history of the independent reefer operators. These shipping companies, such as Lauritzen, Salén, Seatrade, Star Reefers, and NYK Reefer, developed the dedicated transport of refrigerated products like meat, …
Liquid Ecclesiology
The Gospel and The Church
Av Pete Ward
Häftad, 2017
914 kr
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In Liquid Ecclesiology Pete Ward explores the theological contours of the turn to ethnography in the study of the Christian Church. His approach rests on a theology of culture that holds in tension and paradox the expression of the Church and divine presence. This theological framework is then …
Pentecostal Hermeneutics
A Reader
Häftad, 2013
806 kr
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In Pentecostal Hermeneutics: A Reader Lee Roy Martin brings together fourteen significant publications on biblical interpretation, along with a new introduction to Pentecostal hermeneutics and an extensive up-to-date bibliography on the topic. Organized chronologically, these essays trace the …
Ranks of the Divine Seekers
A Parallel English-Arabic Text. Volume 2
Häftad, 2022
862 kr
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Winner of the 2021 Sheikh Hamad Award for Translation and International Understanding (category: translation from Arabic into English)This is an unabridged, annotated, translation of the great Damascene savant and saint Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya’s (d. 751/1350) Madārij al-Sālikīn. Conceived as a …
Hundred Years of Han (vol.1)
Being the Chronicle of the Later Han Dynasty for the Years 57 to 156 AD as Recorded in Chapters 44 to 53 of the Zizhi tongjian of Sima Guang
Inbunden, 2025
2648 kr
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This is Volume 1 of a 2-volume set: Compiled by the scholar statesman Sima Guang of the Song dynasty, Zizhi tongjian is well recognised as one of the major histories of China.In length and extent, Later or Eastern Han was one of the great empires of east Asia, and its eventual failure led to the …
Pseudo-Paracelsus
Forgery and Early Modern Alchemy, Medicine and Natural Philosophy
Av Didier Kahn
Inbunden, 2021
2566 kr
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The production of forgeries under the name of the Swiss physician Paracelsus (1493/94-1541) was an integral part of the diffusion of the Paracelsian movement in early modern Europe. Many of these texts were widely read and extremely influential. The inability of most readers of the time to …
Shock and Naturalization in Contemporary Japanese Literature
Inbunden, 2007
2078 kr
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This study introduces the concepts of naturalization and naturalized modernity, and uses them as tools for understanding the way modernity has been experienced and portrayed in Japanese literature since the end of the Second World War. Special emphasis is given to four leading post-war writers – …
Exegesis in the Making
Postcolonialism and New Testament Studies
Häftad, 2018
745 kr
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The last thirty years have witnessed increasing diversity in methodology and perspectives within biblical studies. One of the most dynamic and continually expanding contributions to this development is that of postcolonial studies, known for its fresh approaches as well as for its complex …
Gospel of Thomas
Introduction and Commentary
Häftad, 2014
1345 kr
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In this new commentary on the controversial Gospel of Thomas, Simon Gathercole provides the most extensive analysis yet published of both the work as a whole and of the individual sayings contained in it. This commentary offers a fresh analysis of Thomas not from the perspective of form criticism …
Theorizing Language: Analysis, Normativity, Rhetoric, History
Inbunden, 1997
802 kr
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Although what language users in different cultures say about their own language has long been recognized as of potential interest, its theoretical importance to the study of language has typically been thought to be no more than peripheral. "Theorizing Language" is the first book to place the …
Integrational Linguistics
Häftad, 1998
1103 kr
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This collection of readings is complementary to Introduction to Integrational Linguistics (Language & Communication Library, Vol.17), but can be used independently. It brings together for the first time 24 key papers in integrational linguistics, and is intended to serve as a basic reading list for …
War Words: Language, History and the Disciplining of English
Inbunden, 2001
1331 kr
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Debates about the nature of literacy and literacy practices have been conducted extensively in the last fifteen years or so. The fact that both previous and current British governments have effectively suppressed any real debate makes the publication of this book both timely and important. Here, …
Mental Lexicon
Core Perspectives
Inbunden, 2007
1712 kr
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This volume reflects a consensus that the investigation of words in the mind offers a unique opportunity to understand both human language ability and general human cognition. It brings together key perspectives on the fundamental nature of the representation and processing of words in the mind. …
Handbook to Service the Deaf and Hard of Hearing
A Bridge to Accessibility
Av John W. Adams, Pamela Rohring
Inbunden, 2004
1438 kr
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This is a handbook for readers who wish to learn more about providing services to individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing. It provides basic knowledge of Deaf Culture and the hard of hearing population, the aesthetics of American Sign Language, and an awareness of hearing loss and its influence …
The Evolution of Lateral Asymmetries, Language, Tool Use, and Intellect
Av John Bradshaw, Lesley Rogers
Inbunden, 1992
1389 kr
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Investigates lateral asymmetries in the human brain and contrasts these with asymmetries in invertebrates, primitive vertebrates, rats, birds, mammals and primates. This book explains why lateralization of function depends upon a complex interplay of genetic, structural and environmental factors.
Theoretical Morphology
Approaches in Modern Linguistics
Av Michael Hammond, Michael Noonan
Häftad, 1988
1761 kr
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Theoretical Morphology provides a comprehensive and coherent treatment of contemporary morphological research and theory. A variety of theoretical paradigms are reviewed and illustrated by specific topics of debate within the field. The twenty-one chapters are divided into sections on inflection, …
Social and Functional Approaches to Language and Thought
Av Maya Hickmann, Maya Hickman m. fl.
Inbunden, 1987
1751 kr
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Comprehending Oral and Written Language
Av Horowitz, Samuels Hrowitz m. fl.
Inbunden, 1987
1242 kr
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Written by researchers in their field, this book is about the skills beyond basic word recognition that are necessary for the processing and comprehension of spoken and written language. It offers topics such as: language and text analysis; cognitive processing and comprehension; development of …
Generative Phonology
Description and Theory
Av Michael J. Kenstowicz, Charles W. Kisseberth
Häftad, 1986
809 kr
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This volume explains the generative approach to phonological analysis and theory through a rigorous examination of data from a diverse sample of languages. It will give students the theoretical background necessary to read the phonological literature critically, and the analytical tools required …
Handbook of Child Language Acquisition
Av Tej K. Bhatia, William C. Ritchie
Inbunden, 1998
2295 kr
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What allows children to acquire language so effortlessly, with such speed, and with such amazing accuracy? Capitalizing on the most recent developments in linguistics and cognitive psychology, this volume sheds new light on the what, why, and how of the child's ability to acquire one or more …
Marriage in the Western Church
The Christianization of Marriage During the Patristic and Early Medieval Periods
Av Reynolds
Häftad, 2001
1227 kr
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Author Philip Reynolds examines how marriage acquired a specifically Christian identity in the Latin West during the first millennium after Christ. Beginning with Jesus, everything the Christians did, including getting married, began a process of differentiation. Reynolds offers three themes for …
Septuagint in Context
Introduction to the Greek Version of the Bible
Av Natalio Fernández Marcos, Wilfred Watson
Häftad, 2001
1110 kr
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The Septuagint, the first translation — or as Fernández Marcos points out, a “collection of translations”— of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek figures prominently in both the history of Second Temple Judaism and early Christianity. In this second, revised edition of the successful Spanish …
Seers, Sibyls and Sages in Hellenistic-Roman Judaism
Av Collins
Häftad, 2001
1227 kr
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John J. Collins offers readers a model for the scholarly study of all aspects of Judaism, from the Persian period through Late Antiqity, including its influence on early Christianity. The essays are thematically grouped to cover the problem of the Canon in Second Temple Judaism and deal with …
