Prelude to Disaster is the most comprehensive account of the fateful decision to tax American colonists. Unlike other studies, it emphasizes the central role of the young George III in the process. Ce
K. H. Ting (1915–2012) was an important Christian leader and theologian in China. Indeed, since the late-1970s, he has been seen as the spokesperson for Christianity in China. Many stories surround hi
"This book is about a collection of one hundred letters written by German artist Bernhard Epple to his wife Gudrun between 1940 and 1945. Unlike many war letters, Epple's letters tell us little about
Measuring Change provides voluminous data substantiating the claim that students can and do experience personal formation in the context of Christian higher education. This volume is a one-of-a-kind,
The book is divided into 5 parts: 1) Emotions, Imagination, and Physiology of Relationships, 2) Bases of Relational Scripts, 3) Relational Escalation and Deescalation, 4) Relationship Scripts in Conte
Religion: An Anthropological Perspective provides a critical view of religion focusing upon important but overlooked topics such as religion, cognition, and prehistory; science, rationality, and relig
To examine the ancient and widespread story of finding a valuable object inside a fish, Segal confines himself to a few texts that present themselves as independent works not derived from earlier ones
Violent Disruptions: American Imaginations of Racial Anxiety in William Faulkner and Richard Wright examines two authors who have powerfully predicted the formation of racial identities and its surrou
International Justice After the Cold War: Essays with Applications considers, analyzes, and evaluates the theoretical and conceptual contributions to the novel multidisciplinary field of "internationa
In this work, Xavier Lakshmanan argues for a textual linguistic approach to Christian theology. The book takes its shape in conversation with Paul Ricœur’s philosophical thought, demonstrating how Ric
This book surveys the breadth of mankind’s postmodern malaise, which is achieved through a discussion of the major challenges, social and psychological, which every individual faces in the effort to l
Philosophy, when understood to embody the values that are fundamental to modernity, is biblical in origin, both historically and ontologically. Central to this idea is the question famously posed by T
In this close analysis of Immanuel Kant’s aesthetics in his Critique of Judgment, Dr. Julie N. Books, explains why Kant fails to provide a convincing basis for his desired necessity and universality o
In What Is Film?, Julie N. Books critically evaluates three philosophical doctrines of film realism (transparency, illusionism, and perceptual realism) and defends her view that films are creative wor
Prigge presents students, academics, researchers, and general-interest readers with an investigation of the historical, political, and cultural contexts of the 1959 purge of the Latvian national commu
Levterov presents students, academics, researchers, and general-interest readers with an investigation of the process by which early Seventh-day Adventists justified and accepted the prophetic claims
Explores the difference between the African American and the European Bildungsroman . Focus is on issues of subjectivity, gender, and history in maturation stories by Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Ga
