295 results for 'lamp therebi'

""One of the most daring and inventive writers of our time" (Elle) weaves together memoir, manifesto, and a feminist reimagining of One Thousand and One Nights in this impassioned exploration of the...

Winner of the 2025 International Booker Prize Winner of a PEN Translates Award A monumental first collection in English from Banu Mushtaq: lawyer, activist, champion of Muslim women, and winner of...

This book sets out to present a Christian understanding of God in terms of the fundamental category of 'God as Spirit'. It shows that such an approach offers an alternative and preferable way of...

When Amy Clampitt's first book of poems, The Kingfisher, was published in January 1983, the response was jubilant. The poet was sixty-three years old, and there had been no debut like hers in recent...

The elevator is today considered a safe and modern means of transportation which even a child can operate and which everyone uses as a matter of course. However, the enthusiasm for the vertical...

Retells in pictures how a pair of every manner of creature climbed on board Noah's ark and thereby survived the Flood

"This book tells the story of how a small group of Jewish scholars became religious experts within the Jewish communities of Roman Palestine from the second through fifth centuries C.E. -- thereby...

Derham here describes the principles governing the law of set-off--the right to plead a compensating debt against a creditor, thereby diminishing his or her claim to that extent. Though the law has...

Smoking Lovely's explorations of poetry and the neoliberal city at the intersection of community and commodity. In this radically revised new edition, Perdomo shifts the poem into mostly second...

In this classic work, prominent religious philosopher John Hick present a global interpretation of religion, arguing for a religious response to our ambiguous universe and showing how the world's...

Here is the first survey of the surviving evidence for the growth, development, and influence of the Neoplatonist allegorical reading of the Iliad and Odyssey. Professor Lamberton argues that this...

In this classic work which analyzes the context in which thirty years of war and revolution wracked the European continent, the great historian Arno Mayer emphasizes the backwardness of the European...

This book makes an important contribution to the..debate about the functions of ideology in social life. The author sets out to contest the (usu Marxist) view...that capitalist society..maintains and...

Wren's "Tracts" on Architecture and Other Writings is the first scholarly examination of the theoretical work of one of the most important architects of early modern Europe. From his study of ancient...

Volume 16 of Transaction's acclaimed Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities series, continues the work of Project Theophrastus on the School of Aristotle. The subject of this volume is...

Plural Temporality traces out a dynamic historical relationship between the texts of Spinoza and Althusser. It attempts to understand Spinoza's thought through Althusser's insights, and in the...

Perhaps the most famous modern-day millenarian movements are the "cargo cults" of Melanesia, active especially during the 1930s and 1950s. Melanesians had long believed that the sign of the...

Ethical leaders empower others to improve the world. Ethical leadership isn't just the province of exceptional individuals; it's a team sport open to anyone with a desire to play."Thinking Aloud" is...