Interfaces – serie
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18 produkter
Jonah�s Journey
Häftad, 2005
210 kr
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The book of Jonah has been richly commented upon by centuries of Christians and Jews. Writers of prose and poetry have loved it as well as those interested in liturgy. Jonah is a small book, and yet it is placed with issues that have shown themselves existentially powerful over time and among …
King Saul's Asking
Häftad, 2003
158 kr
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Who should lead us? Who should we, as a community, look to for guidance? These questions, as old as humankind, followed the Israelite community upon their return from the Exile: Should they return with Davidic kingship or without it? Their answer was King Saul. Reading Israel's first king as a …
Pontius Pilate
Portraits of a Roman Governor
Häftad, 2003
161 kr
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Pontius Pilate examines the portraits of this Roman governor found in the Gospels. Unlike some discussions of Pilate, this one takes Pilate's role as governor and representative of Roman imperial power seriously. It views Pilate predominantly as a strong, efficient, and astute governor, not as a …
James Of Jerusalem
Heir to Jesus of Nazareth
Häftad, 2004
316 kr
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Through the world of James of Jerusalem we discover the development of Christianity and its struggle for self-definition amidst Jewish roots and a rising congregation of newly converted Gentiles. In this time of early Christianity, James' presence testified to the church's diversity and he …
Four Times Peter
Portrayals of Peter in the Four Gospels and at Philippi
Av Richard J. Cassidy, Barbara Green
Häftad, 2007
222 kr
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Because he plays such a prominent role in the New Testament and the tradition of the church, the apostle Peter has been the focus of much scholarship over the centuries. One wonders whether there can be anything more to say about Peter. Indeed, there is. In Four Times Peter Richard Cassidy takes a …
Jesus Ben Sira of Jerusalem
A Biblical Guide to Living Wisely
Häftad, 2005
296 kr
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Questions of vocation and character formation become important to students as they continue to receive higher education. Jesus Ben Sira combines secular wisdom from Near Eastern wisdom sources and divine revelations from the Hebrew Bible to create the Book of Sirach. By applying form criticism to …
My Name is Legion
The Story and Soul of the Gerasene Demoniac
Häftad, 2004
210 kr
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Can a "legion" of demons convey a message? As Michael Willett Newheart asserts, a study of the Gerasene (Mark 5:1-20) and the demons Jesus cast from him can indeed carry an important message of faith. Although the Gerasene may have suffered from mental illness, he (like other minor characters with …
Why Machiavelli Matters Now
Av Alexander Lee, Stephen Bowd
Inbunden, 2026
218 kr
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A comprehensive exploration of Machiavelli’s life and thought – covering everything from his preoccupation with truth, fortune, and power, to his frequently bawdy poetry, love affairs, and friendships. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what Machiavelli really believed – and why …
Why Machiavelli Matters Now
Av Alexander Lee, Stephen Bowd
E-bok, 2026
205 kr
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A comprehensive exploration of Machiavelli's life and thought covering everything from his preoccupation with truth, fortune, and power, to his frequently bawdy poetry, love affairs, and friendships. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what Machiavelli really believed and why he …
Why Machiavelli Matters Now
Av Alexander Lee, Stephen Bowd
E-bok, 2026
205 kr
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A comprehensive exploration of Machiavelli's life and thought covering everything from his preoccupation with truth, fortune, and power, to his frequently bawdy poetry, love affairs, and friendships. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand what Machiavelli really believed and why he …
Towards an Ecology of Language, Communication and the Mind
Inbunden, 2013
392 kr
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This book discusses an ecological approach to communicational processes. Raising consciousness about being green is not the only concern of present-day ecological linguistics. Ecolinguistics, with its attention focused on ecosystems as well as contexts of language and communication, probes deep …
Socio-Cultural Values in the Development of Intercultural Communication Competence
Inbunden, 2013
746 kr
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How socio-cultural factors influence the development of Intercultural Communication Competence is an essential part of developing the skills to work and interact with a rapidly globalizing world. Building upon the work of Edward Hall, Geert Hofstede and Stella Ting-Toomey, this book explores the …
Anatomy of the English Metrical Foot
Acoustics, Perception and Structure
Inbunden, 2013
709 kr
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This book is an attempt to define the concept of metrical foot in acoustic terms. The foot constituent has been approached from various theoretical standpoints. Little attention, however, has been devoted to its empirical justification. The author explores the possiblity that the foot is a purely …
Impoliteness in Media Discourse
Inbunden, 2017
659 kr
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The book presents the issue of impoliteness in media discourse found in television debates, films and computer-mediated communication. The phenomenon is viewed from different theoretical perspectives, namely prosody studies, corpus linguistics, media studies and audiovisual translation, neo-Gricean …
Non-professional Interpreting and Translation in the Media
Av Rachele Antonini, Chiara Bucaria
Inbunden, 2016
907 kr
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Non-professional Interpreting and Translation (NPIT) is a recent discipline. Books and volumes on this subject that combine all the different fields are extremely uncommon and authoritative reference material is scarce and mostly scattered through disparate specialized journals. There are many …
Problems of Methodology and Philosophy in Linguistics
Inbunden, 2015
863 kr
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The book is not only dedicated to linguists, but also to readers who are not familiar with notations developed in linguistics. The first part of the study presents philosophical justifications for linguistic settlements. These are based on the phenomenological reduction of Edmund Husserl, Karl R. …
Time, Being and Becoming: Cognitive Models of Innovation and Creation in English
Häftad, 2015
549 kr
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Cognitive linguistics provides tools to discuss identity as a process. Identity depends on the underlying conceptualisation of the present, while innovation and creation are borderline phenomena in epistemology. The two may be seen as generalised accounts of causation as a process: open-ended and …
Much More than Metaphor
Master Tropes of Artistic Language and Imagination
Av Elzbieta Chrzanowska-Kluczewska, Anna Baczkowska
Inbunden, 2013
510 kr
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The monograph argues for a return to a more fine-grained repertoire of tropes than the limiting analyses focused on metaphor or on the metaphor-metonymy duet. A list of ten master tropes is proposed, not only as candidates for tropological universals but also important text-forming strategies and a …
