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Revelation and Authority Sinai in Jewish Scripture and Tradition
ISBN: PB: 9780300234688, ISBN: HB: 9780300158731, Yale University Press, May 2018
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
At once a study of biblical theology and modern Jewish thought, this volume describes a "participatory theory of revelation" as it addresses the ways biblical authors and contemporary theologians alike understand the process of revelation and hence t...
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Stillborn Notebooks of a Woman from the Student-Movement Generation in Egypt
ISBN: HB: 9780857424839, Seagull Books, February 2018
168 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
Arwa Salih was a member of the political bureau of the Egyptian Communist Workers Party, which was founded in the wake of the Arab-Israeli War and the Egyptian student movement of the early 1970s. Written more than a decade after Salih quit the party...
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Hour Between Dog and Wolf
ISBN: HB: 9780857424730, Seagull Books, February 2018
184 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm
A young woman who has been living abroad returns to her hometown of Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Her sister Ines – a beautiful, impetuous painter – who still lives there, soon appears and promptly asks for financial help. But the returning sister kn...
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50 Photographers You Should Know New Edition
ISBN: FLEXI: 9783791383590, Prestel Publishing, September 2017
160 pp., 24x19.5 cm, 90 colour illus., 46 black&white illus.
This dynamic introduction to the most important photographers from the inception of photography to today bears witness to the magic of the camera. From Felix Nadar's awe-inspiring aerial photos and Eugene Atget's images of fin de siecle France to Wal...
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Knights Chivalry and Violence
ISBN: PB: 9781612005171, Casemate, September 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.
Originally warriors mounted on horseback, knights became associated with the concept of chivalry as it was popularised in medieval European literature. Knights were expected to fight bravely and honourably and be loyal to their lord until death if ne...
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Fighter Aces Knights of the Skies
ISBN: PB: 9781612004822, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.
Just over a decade after the first powered aeroplane flight, fearless pioneers were flying over the battlefields of France in flimsy biplanes. As more military aircraft took to the skies, they were equipped with weapons and their pilots began to deve...
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Tommies The British Army in the Trenches
ISBN: PB: 9781612004846, Casemate, June 2017
160 pp., 19.8x12.5 cm, 30 black&white illus.
British soldiers have been known as Tommies for centuries, but the name is particularly associated with the British soldier in World War I. In 1914, a small professional force of British soldiers crossed the Channel to aid the French. It soon became...
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Aftermath of War
ISBN: PB: 9780857424471, ISBN: HB: 9781905422883, Seagull Books, February 2017
368 pp., 20.4x13.2 cm
"The Aftermath of War" brings together essays written in Sartre's most creative period, just after World War II. Sartre's extraordinary range of engagement is manifest, with writings on post-war America, the social impact of war in Europe, contempora...
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Critical Essays
ISBN: PB: 9780857424495, Seagull Books, February 2017
554 pp., 25x15 cm
"Critical Essays" ("Situations I") contains essays on literature and philosophy from a highly formative period of French philosopher and leading existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's life, the years between 1938 and 1946. This period is particularly inte...
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Portraits
ISBN: PB: 9780857424488, ISBN: HB: 9781906497170, Seagull Books, February 2017
686 pp., 20.6x13.5 cm
Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre counted among his friends and associates some of the most esteemed intellectuals, writers, and artists of the twentieth century. In "Portraits" ("Situations IV"), Sartre collected his impressions and accounts of many of h...
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