5798 results for '"Christian de Perthuis'

How the internet transformed televisionBefore HBO’s hit show Insecure, Issa Rae’s comedy about being a nerdy black woman debuted as a YouTube web series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, her...

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...

An introduction to a new way of looking at history, from a perspective that stretches from the beginning of time to the present day, Maps of Time is world history on an unprecedented scale. Beginning...

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...

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,...

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 The author has used in his groundbreaking research previously unpublished documents from the...

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...

This is the most comprehensive survey in many years of the work of one of the 20th century's greatest artists, Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). Published to celebrate the centennial of his birth, the...

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

Este galardonado clásico moderno —imprescindible en la biblioteca doméstica de todo niño— es una oda inclusiva a la bondad, la empatía, la gratitud y a encontrar alegría en lugares inesperados, y...

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...