Better Banking
Better Banking
Aesthetic Democracy
Aesthetic Democracy argues that art and the aesthetic in general are the founding condition of the possibility of establishing social and political democracy. The book examines contemporary criticism and finds that it is historically shaped by col...
Blood and Bronze
Blood and Bronze
Jewish Pseudepigrapha
An understanding of the Jewish Pseudepigrapha forms an integral part of all courses on New Testament background and Christian origins. This is a concise yet comprehensive guide to the Pseudepigrapha: the Jewish texts of the late Second Temple Peri...
The Knight Who Wouldn't Fight
Leo isn't like the other knights. He'd rather read a book than fight,which is tricky when his parents send him off to tame a dragon. But Leo knows that books are mightier than swords - and the wayto tame a dragon is to read him a story. With witty...
Into the Wild
Joe loves Wild things, but can't find any in the city he lives in. When the Wild invites him to explore the night-time city, he is going to learn that nature can be found just about everywhere.
All the Ways I Love You (PB)
If you were a bluebird, I would be your nest. I'd be a home to welcome you; a place where you could rest. With its gentle rhymes and gorgeous pictures of mums, dads and children having fun, this is the perfect book to welcome a new baby or share w...
Oxford Reading Tree Word Sparks: Level 3: The King's Ears
Can King March hide his long ears at the queen's birthday party? Using the world's largest known database of writing for and by children, our experts have defined 300 ambitious words to help children succeed at school. We've combined these with fu...
New Treason of the Intellectuals
The university is under threat. For forty years this indispensable democratic institution has been systematically betrayed by governments and the political class, who have redirected it from its proper social and cultural functions through a relen...
Someone Just Like You
A deeply moving, vitally important picture book encouraging empathy and kindness. Somewhere in this world, there is someone just like you, who finds the same things funny and who laughs the way you do. Have you ever stopped to think that there mig...
Confessions
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. This book explores what is at stake in our confessional culture. Thomas Docherty examines confessional writings f...
Postmodernism
This reader provides a selection of articles and essays by leading figures in the postmodernism debate.
Desert of Death
A devastating first-hand account of the current war in Afghanistan. Desert of Death is a brilliantly vivid on-the-ground report of the events which led to the fiercest fighting faced by UK troops since the Korean War. It is a story of bravery and ...
Universities at War
"Docherty is not only is a brilliant critic of those forces that would like to transform higher education into an extension of the market-place... he is also a man of great moral and civic courage, who under intense pressure from the punishin...
Aesthetic Democracy
Aesthetic Democracy argues that art and the aesthetic in general are the founding condition of the possibility of establishing social and political democracy. The book examines contemporary criticism and finds that it is historically shaped by col...
Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, on Tour
We got our first taste of Adrian Plass's outrageous humour in The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, Age 37 ¿ and The Sacred Diary of Adrian Plass, Age 45 ¿. With over 2 million copies sold, these beloved bestsellers naturally placed the author's fanci...
A Referential Commentary and Lexicon to Homer, Iliad VIII
This book aims to provide the reader of Homer with the traditional knowledge and fluency in Homeric poetry which an original ancient audience would have brought to a performance of this type of narrative. To that end, Adrian Kelly presents the tex...
Piracy
Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of Am...
Piracy
Since the rise of Napster and other file-sharing services in its wake, most of us have assumed that intellectual piracy is a product of the digital age and that it threatens creative expression as never before. The Motion Picture Association of Am...
Politics in Deeply Divided Societies
The establishment of durable, democratic institutions constitutes one of the major challenges of our age. As countless contemporary examples have shown, it requires far more than simply the holding of free elections. The consolidation of a legitim...
The Constitution of Risk
The Constitution of Risk is the first book to combine constitutional theory with the theory of risk regulation. It argues that constitutional rulemaking is best understood as a means of managing political risks. Constitutional law structures and r...
Common Good Constitutionalism
The way that Americans understand their Constitution and wider legal tradition has been dominated in recent decades by two exhausted approaches: the originalism of conservatives and the "living constitutionalism" of progressives. Is it t...
Common Good Constitutionalism
The way that Americans understand their Constitution and wider legal tradition has been dominated in recent decades by two exhausted approaches: the originalism of conservatives and the "living constitutionalism" of progressives. Is it t...
God, Sex, and Gender
Engagingly and clearly written by a highly respected theologian, God, Sex, and Gender is the first comprehensive introduction to a theology of both sexuality and gender available in a single volume. Makes a theological contribution to understandin...
Redeeming Gender
Redeeming Gender argues that the problems about sexuality which continue to sap the churches' energies are really about gender. The dominant understanding of women's bodies in the Christian West has been that they are inferior versions of the supe...
Cognitive Therapy of Anxiety Disorders
Cognitive therapies are based on the idea that behavior and emotions result largely from an individual's appraisal of a situation, and are therefore influenced by that individual's beliefs, assumptions and images. This book is a comprehensive guid...
Metacognitive Therapy for Anxiety and Depression
This groundbreaking book explains the "whats" and "how-tos" of metacognitive therapy (MCT), an innovative form of cognitive-behavioral therapy with a growing empirical evidence base. MCT developer Adrian Wells shows that much p...
Archaeological Theory in a Nutshell
This book provides a brief, readable introduction to archaeological theory. Adrian Praetzellis demystifies a pile of tricky contemporary concepts for the theory-phobic undergraduate or beginning graduate student. This new edition adds chapters on ...
Future of the Philosophy of Time
The last century has seen enormous progress in our understanding of time. This volume features original essays by the foremost philosophers of time discussing the goals and methodology of the philosophy of time, and examining the best way to move ...