Art of Destiny, Volume 3
Immerse yourself in the stunning, dynamic world of Destiny with never-before-seen art and exclusive interviews from the Bungie team. The Art of Destiny, Volume 3 is a celebration of the stunning, dynamic visual style beloved by Destiny fans. Featu...
Ira Gershwin
The Pulitzer Prize-winning American lyricist Ira Gershwin (1896-1983) has been hailed as one of the masters of the Great American Songbook-songs written largely for Broadway and Hollywood from the 1920s to the 1950s. Now, in the first full-length ...
Michael Owen
Michael Owen reveals the highlights and pitfalls of being a professional footballer in his first official autobiography, which contains his personal reflections on eight years in the game, including two World Cups, two European Championships and g...
On War and Leadership
What can we learn about leadership and the experience of war from the best combat leaders the world has ever known? This book takes us behind the scenes and to the front lines of the major wars of the past 250 years through the words of twenty com...
Folkloristics
"Excellent." -The Reader's Review "Anybody contemplating the study and pursuit of folklore . . . will benefit from reading this presentation thoroughly to determine your place in this most exciting scholastic world." -Come-All-...
The Organ Music of Johannes Brahms
Barbara Owen provides performers, students, and scholars of the organ with the first in-depth study of the organ works of Johannes Brahms, contextualized against other church and concert organists' repertoire of the time.
From Bossuet to Newman
The coming of modern historical research had religious consequences, especially in the more traditional churches to which history was very important and which themselves helped to create the historical sense. In this classic work, long unobtainabl...
Aesthetic and Artistic Autonomy
Whether art can be wholly autonomous has been repeatedly challenged in the modern history of aesthetics. In this collection of specially-commissioned chapters, a team of experts discuss the extent to which art can be explained purely in terms of a...
Rethinking Hegemony
Hegemony has long been a key concept within the study of international politics. This new text re-assesses its various meanings in light of recent world events, and uses core theory to assist a nuanced understanding of its historical importance an...
The Early Reformation on the Continent
The Early Reformation on the Continent offers a fresh look at the formative years of the European Reformation and the origins of Protestant faith and practice. Taking into account recent work on Erasmus and Luther, Owen Chadwick handles these and ...
Smoking in Bed
'I've sometimes thought in the dead of night, "Look at your life, Bruce, rip out the writing, and with all these boiling frustrations and opinions what would you be?" I'd be in trouble, wouldn't I? Or I'd be in jail. Hard-talking, boiste...
Magic
Defining 'magic' is a maddening task. Over the last century numerous philosophers, anthropologists, historians, and theologians have attempted to pin down its essential meaning, sometimes analysing it in such complex and abstruse depth that it all...
Ten Riddles of Eartha Quicksmith
When puzzle-loving Kip Bramley receives a cryptic invitation, delivered by a beetle-shaped drone that appears to be breathing, he has no idea that his world is about to change forever. Very soon he finds himself at Quicksmiths College of Strange E...
Bodhisattva's Brain
The Bodhisattva's Brain
A Supernatural War
A Supernatural War reveals the surprising stories of extraordinary people in a world caught up with the promise of occult powers. It was a commonly expressed view during the First World War that the conflict had seen a major revival of 'superstiti...
Living with the Enemy
'This isn't living, this is just existing.' A long-term physical health condition - a chronic illness, or even a disability - can take over your existence. Battling against the effects of the condition can take so much of your time and energy that...
America Bewitched
America Bewitched is the first major history of witchcraft in America - from the Salem witch trials of 1692 to the present day. The infamous Salem trials are etched into the consciousness of modern America, the human toll a reminder of the dangers...
The Secularization of the European Mind in the Nineteenth Century
The declining hold of the Church and its doctrines on European society represents a major shift in Western life and thought. Owen Chadwick's acclaimed lectures on the secularisation of the European mind trace this movement in the nineteenth centur...
Newman
The religious leader John Henry Newman (1801-1890) started his long career as a devout Protestant; he later became the head of a new movement of Catholic ideas within the Church of England, and finally joined the Catholic Church. He began a new ep...
Angels Through The Year
12 angels in all shapes and forms for every month of the year! A bookmark, coaster, lapel pin, doily and more are just a few of the angel designs in this book. All are made using size 10 crochet thread and a size 7/1.65mm crochet hook. Holiday ang...
Reorganizing Menstruation
Reorganizing menstruation explores what happens when menstrual practices change, and what is revealed and made possible when longstanding menstrual stigma is disrupted. Menstruation matters: how it is perceived and practiced gives us important inf...
The General History of Astronomy: Volume 4, Astrophysics and Twentieth-Century Astronomy to 1950: Part A
Volume 4 of The General History of Astronomy, originally published in 1984, concerns the birth of modern astrophysics in the nineteenth century, the growth of astronomical institutions to around 1920, and the development of instrumentation. The vo...
Science of the Mind
The Science of the Mind
Perfect Timing
'A modern-day love story with an old-fashioned warmth' Debbie Johnson 'A wonderful, witty, romantic rollercoaster of a novel' Matt Dunn When it comes to love, sometimes timing isn't so easy. . . ___________________________ For Jess and Tom, timing...
Love, Unscripted
Owen Nicholls' Love, Unscripted follows film projectionist Nick as he tries to understand why love isn't always like the movies. Perfect for fans of romcoms, David Nicholls and Nick Hornby. 'Sometimes a book comes along and it feels dusted with ma...
Paganism
'Paganism' is an evocative word that, even today, conjures up deep-seated emotions and prejudices. Until recently, it was primarily a derogatory term used by Christians to describe the non-Christian cultures confronted and vanquished by their Chur...
Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792-1815
Written by an experienced author and expert in the field, Wars of the French Revolution and Napoleon, 1792-1815 provides a thorough re-examination of the crucial period in the history of France for students of history and military studies. Based o...
The Oxford Illustrated History of Witchcraft and Magic
This richly illustrated history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the story from the dawn of writing in the ancient world to the globally successful Harry Potter films, the a...
Cosmopolitan Government in Europe
The invocation of 'the market' has been omnipresent in media discussions of 'crisis Europe'. On the one hand, 'the market' is presented as that to which EU member states must collectively respond. It is the very purpose of a post-national governme...
State, Power and Politics in the Making of the Modern Middle East
Roger Owen has fully revised and updated his authoritative text to take into account the latest developments in the Middle East. This book continues to serve as an excellent introduction for newcomers to the modern history and politics of this fas...
