The Five-Minute Archaeologist is a user-friendly exploration of basic concepts within archaeology, with particular attention to the region of the southern Levant.
This book takes a comprehensive look at the ways in which Muslims interpret the Qur'an today and at the themes and structural conditions that shape their engagement with their sacred scripture.
Evans (contemporary music studies, Macquarie U., Australia) examines the use of contemporary music in modern churches. He notes that his point of view is not only as an academic but as a "committed Pr
Scholars of religion and the earth sciences explore the significance of French Jesuit philosopher and paleontologist Teilhard (1881-1955) to current debates about the human relationship with the natur
Learning to Write, Reading to Learn presents the research of the 'Sydney School' in language and literacy pedagogy. Widely known as genre-based pedagogy, this research is cutting-edge, but is built on
This guide to studying abroad is aimed at students who need to move beyond language and cultural barriers in order to extract a more meaningful and instructive experience. Jackson (English, Chinese U.
The questions of how, where, when, and why humans began to speak straddle the disciplines of linguistics and anthropology, and intellectual interest in them ebbs and flows on a cycle of about a centur
This is the first biography of the jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan (1938-72). He was a prodigy: recruited to Dizzy Gillespie's big band while still a teenager, joining Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers not long
This collection of 15 papers, presented by Hayward (Macquarie U., Australia), explores the significance of music and sound in horror films. The papers include detailed analyses of the relationship bet
Plato's work describes a gathering hosted by playwright Agathon that included a few famous people--Aristophanes, Socrates, Alcibiades--a few of whom stay sober enough to talk rationally until dawn. Bo
Murphy (history of religions, U. of Alabama) examines Saussure's crisis of representation that comes from the arbitrary, not natural relationship between a signifier and what it signifies. He focuses
Language, Identity and Study Abroad provides a unique, interdisciplinary perspective, addressing issues of importance to professionals in second language acquisition, sociolinguistics, cross-cultural
