5884 results for '"Christian de Perthuis'

Do you want to make a true difference in the world Dr. Ron Sider does. He has, since before he first published Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger in 1978. Despite a dramatic reduction in world...

This book endorses feminist critiques of gender, yet upholds the insight of traditional Christianity that sex, commitment and parenthood are fulfilling human relations. Their unity is a positive...

A native of St. Thomas, West Indies, Edward Wilmot Blyden (1832-1912) lived most of his life on the African continent. He was an accomplished educator, linguist, writer and world traveller, who...

Written between the mid-fourth and late sixth centuries to commemorate and glorify the achievements of early Christian saints, these six biographies depict men who devoted themselves to solitude,...

This book highlights the intimate relationship between landscape and portraiture in the work of the Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele (1890-1918).Plants, natural environments, and townscapes...

"A terrific summary of the intertwined history of art and technology."—ARTnews. "Infused with the spirit of innovation."—Publishers Weekly. Digital technology has revolutionized the way we produce...

Financial econometrics is a great success story in economics. Econometrics uses data and statistical inference methods, together with structural and descriptive modeling, to address rigorous economic...

One hundred of the most evocative modern poems on joy, selected by an award-winning contemporary poet "Bursting with energy and surprising locutions. . . . Even the most familiar poets seem somehow...

An examination of the practice and philosophy of sacrifice in three religious traditionsIn the book of Genesis, God tests the faith of the Hebrew patriarch Abraham by demanding that he sacrifice the...

First published in 2002, this book offers an authoritative and accessible introduction to the New Testament and early Christian literature for all students of the Bible and the origins of...

Se abordan aspectos del turismo canario como las tensiones entre lo local y lo global, la extinción de todo vestigio de naturaleza intacta, la pérdida del sentido histórico, la hegemonía de la imagen...

World Full of Gods: Pagans. Jews and Christians in the Roman Empire

Seventy years after the Chinese Revolution of 1949, what remains of Mao’s communist legacy?Afterlives of Chinese Communism comprises essays from over fifty world-renowned scholars in the China field,...

Access to land and property is vital to people’s livelihoods in rural, peri-urban, and urban areas in Africa. People exert tremendous energy and imagination to have land claims recognized as rights...

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"On 12 August 1944, a unit of the 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division arrived in the village of Sant'Anna, hidden high in the olive groves and chestnut woods of the Tuscan mountains. Seeking reprisal,...

A new biography written by an art historian and renowned specialist on this Italian painter and sculptor. The author has used in his groundbreaking research previously unpublished documents from the...