Bloomsbury Academic imprint: 2928 books
by Dr David Aldridge
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
What does it mean to understand a religion?
How should the concept of truth be addressed in the contemporary classroom?
What is the proper subject matter of religious education and how does it relate to other subjects and the school curriculum as a whole?
Despite the prevalence of literature...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
This new collection covers a wide range of cutting-edge and timely questions in contemporary philosophy of religion from a rich variety of backgrounds and perspectives. The essays in the volume deal with a range of fascinating topics in the philosophy of religion such as views of God's nature in process...
Religion Explained?
The Cognitive Science of Religion after Twenty-five Years
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2017
With contributions from founders of the field, including Justin Barrett, E. Thomas Lawson, Robert N. McCauley, Paschal Boyer, Armin Geertz and Harvey Whitehouse, as well as from younger scholars from successive stages in the field's development, this is an important survey of the first twenty-five...
by
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
David Hume (1711-1776), philosopher, historian, and essayist, is widely considered to be Britain's greatest philosopher. One of the leading intellectual figures of the Scottish Enlightenment, his major works and central ideas, especially his radical empiricism and his critique of the pretensions of...
The Spanish Civil Wars
A Comparative History of the First Carlist War and the Conflict of the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017
This book provides a comparative history of the domestic and international nature of Spain's First Carlist War (1833-40) and the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), as well as the impact of both conflicts.
The book demonstrates how and why Spain's struggle...
Public Services
A New Reform Agenda
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Griffiths, Kippin and Stoker bring together many of the country's leading academic and policy experts to explore the long-term challenges facing public services, and ask what the role of government, citizens and society should be in addressing them. The book sets out a new reform agenda, exploring...
The Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-1815
A Napoleonic Outpost in Central Europe
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2016
The Duchy of Warsaw, 1807-1815 is the first academic history of the state established by Napoleon in pre-partitioned Poland at the turn of the 19th century. The book examines the political, social and cultural dynamics of the Duchy and considers its role in Napoleon's wider empire and the politics...
by Michael J. Decker
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2016
The Byzantine Dark Ages explores current debates about the sudden transformation of the Byzantine Empire in the wake of environmental, social and political changes. Those studying the Byzantine Empire, the successor to the Roman Empire in the eastern Mediterranean, have long recognized that the mid-7th...
by Professor Joseph Clair
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
Reading Augustine presents concise, personal readings of St. Augustine of Hippo from leading philosophers and religion scholars.
The looming crisis in higher education appears to be a matter of soaring costs and crushing student debt, but the problem is actually much deeper. It is a crisis...
Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700
Micro-Studies in the History of Crime
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2017
Law, Crime and Deviance since 1700 explores the potential for the 'micro-study' approach to the history of crime and legal history. A selection of in-depth narrative micro-studies are featured to illustrate specific issues associated with the theme of...
Uncertainty and Possibility
New Approaches to Future Making in Design Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Uncertainty and possibility are emerging as both theoretical concepts and fields of empirical investigation, as scholars and practitioners seek new creative, hopeful and speculative modes of understanding and intervening in a world of crisis.
This book offers new perspectives on the central...
by David Boud, Elaine Keane, Kerri-Lee Krause
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Reflective Teaching in Higher Education is the definitive textbook for reflective teachers in higher education. Informed by the latest research in this area, the book offers extensive support for those at the start of an academic career and career-long professionalism for those teaching in higher...
Content is King
News Media Management in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2015
From the viewpoint of newspaper organizations the main competitive media has shrunk to only one, the internet. But the effect of this innovation has been devastating in capturing the vast majority of the advertising revenues on which newspapers have depended. The larger the internet-based media became...
Religion in Hip Hop
Mapping the New Terrain in the US
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
Now a global and transnational phenomenon, hip hop culture continues to affect and be affected by the institutional, cultural, religious, social, economic and political landscape of American society and beyond. Over the past two decades, numerous disciplines have taken up hip hop culture for its intellectual...