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Marginal Jew Volume 5: Probing the Authenticity of the Parables (Rethinking the Historical Jesus)
ISBN: HB: 9780300211900, Yale University Press, December 2015
464 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.
Since the late nineteenth century, New Testament scholars have operated on the belief that most, if not all, of the narrative parables in the Synoptic Gospels can be attributed to the historical Jesus. This book challenges that consensus and argues i...
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£45,00
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Pompeo Batoni A Complete Catalogue of His Paintings
ISBN: HB (SET): 9780300148169, Yale University Press, December 2015
750 pp., 30.5x24.8 cm, 420 colour illus., 40 black&white illus.
This meticulously researched catalogue presents an authoritative assessment of the works of Pompeo Batoni (1708-1787), one of the 18th century's most celebrated painters. Born in Lucca, Batoni established himself in Rome and received commissions from...
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£195,00
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Ruth A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: HB: 9780300192155, Yale University Press, December 2015
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm
In recent years, students, scholars, and lay readers of the Bible have been increasingly drawn to the book of Ruth. Delving deeply into the complicated nature of its characters' relationships, Jeremy Schipper encourages readers to consider the roles...
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£45,00
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Philosophy of Living
ISBN: HB: 9780857422163, Seagull Books, December 2015
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Living holds us between two places. It expresses what is most elementary – to be alive – and the absoluteness of our aspiration – finally living! But could we desire anything other than to live? In "The Philosophy of Living", Francois Jullien meditat...
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£20,50
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Secure the Base Making Africa Visible in the Globe
ISBN: HB: 9780857423139, Seagull Books, December 2015
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
For more than sixty years, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has been writing fearlessly the questions, challenges, histories, and futures of Africans, particularly those of his homeland, Kenya. In his work, which has included plays, novels, and essays, Ngugi narrat...
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£19,00
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This Strange Idea of the Beautiful
ISBN: HB: 9780857420107, Seagull Books, December 2015
256 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
In "This Strange Idea of the Beautiful", Francois Jullien explores what it means when we say something is beautiful. Bringing together ideas of beauty from both Eastern and Western philosophy, Jullien challenges the assumptions underlying our commonl...
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Aberdeenshire: South and Aberdeen The Buildings of Scotland
ISBN: HB: 9780300215557, Yale University Press, November 2015
800 pp., 21.6x12.1 cm, 120 colour illus.
The second of two books exploring the buildings of the north-east of Scotland, this volume surveys Aberdeen – the nation's third-largest city – and the southern area of Aberdeenshire, including the former county of Kincardineshire. Among Aberdeen's a...
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£60,00
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Revelation A New Translation With Introduction and Commentary
ISBN: PB: 9780300216912, Yale University Press, November 2015
928 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 38 black&white illus.
In this landmark commentary, Craig R. Koester offers a comprehensive look at a powerful and controversial early Christian text, the biblical Book of Revelation. The author provides richly textured descriptions of the book's setting and language, maki...
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£35,00
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Proust The Future's Secret
ISBN: HB: 9780300164169, Yale University Press, November 2015
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm, 8 black&white illus.
An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. Taylor's endeavor is not to explain the life by the novel or the novel by the life but to show how different events, different...
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£16,99
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Afterall Autumn/Winter 2014, Issue 37
ISBN: PB: 9781846381553, University of Chicago Press, November 2015
160 pp., 29.8x19 cm, illustrated in colour throughout
Since its launch in 1999, "Afterall", a journal of art, context, and enquiry, has offered in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with essays that broaden the context in which to understand it. Published three times a year,...
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£7,50
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