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Presents Buddhism as a living, practical religion, giving readers an enlightening insight into an often mystifying tradition. This book offers a fascinating perspective on Buddhism, in all its beauty and nobility, though the eyes of a practicing Buddhist born and raised in the tradition that has guided millions of people since its beginnings.

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Discusses the activism in the 60s of progressive women who came of age during the Popular Front era of the 30s and 40s. This book highlights women's activism, often been peripheral and one-dimensional in peace movement historiography which tends to dramatize men's antiwar and antinuclear activism in national organizations.

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The British fought the Second World War in Burma and India against the backdrop of nationalist unrest and revolt. The appalling Bengal famine of 1943, brought about by the loss of Burma's rice crop and the dislocation of government, would cause the deaths of many. This work provides a study of the series of battles that made up the Burma campaign.

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The gospel of Mark, especially 10:32-45, contains teachings attributed to Jesus on the use and abuse of power. This book applies different methods and approaches: orality, criticism, literary criticism and sensitivity for the social and cultural environment of the text to Jesus's message on power.

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Examines Cornelius Castoriadis' thought and the radical alternative it presents to the legacy of Michel Foucault, focusing on three central notions that are central in both scholars' theories: the subject, the production of social meaning and representation, and social/cultural change.

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Shows how Benjamin's thoughts regarding the individual's experience of the material world make significant contact with post-Freudian psychoanalytic theory.

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Articulates how theological teachings trickle down from the Vatican and influence decisions about food, marriage, sex, community celebrations, and medical care. This study of American Catholicism summarizes a widespread contemporary tendency to adapt traditional spirituality to a world of moral diversity.

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Articulates how theological teachings trickle down from the Vatican and influence decisions about food, marriage, sex, community celebrations, and medical care. This study of American Catholicism summarizes a widespread contemporary tendency to adapt traditional spirituality to a world of moral diversity.

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Offers an exploration of the phenomenon of celibate marriages in Byzantine hagiography. This book also explores the puzzling phenomenon of continent marriage as depicted in the lives of three couples who achieved sainthood. It highlights the ingenuity of Byzantine hagiographers as they attempted to reconcile this curious paradox.

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Looks at the explicit and implicit forms of censorship to which literature in translation is vulnerable

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Looks at the explicit and implicit forms of censorship to which literature in translation is vulnerable

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Offers an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues. Rather than suggesting the 'mixing' of methods, this book provides an interrogation of the arguments and practices characteristic of both sides of the divide.

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Offers an exploration of case-focused methods as a means of bridging the quantitative-qualitative divide and the key methodological issues. This book provides a thorough interrogation of the arguments and practices characteristic of both sides of the divide, focusing on how well they address the common problems that all social research faces.

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Examines the ways mid-twentieth century writers represent chance, arguing that their depictions of, and anxieties about, chance mark a new relationship between author and narrative.

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Introduces the debate surrounding teaching and learning in urban settings in contemporary Britain, and the impact this has on education. This text considers the way we approach teaching and learning in the urban context and examines the debates concerning developments in wider social, cultural, political and economic contexts.

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Combines an interdisciplinary examination of myth with the newest developments in the application of charisma theory to history and social life.

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Philosophical accounts of childhood have tended to derive from Plato and Aristotle, who portrayed children as unreasonable and incomplete in terms of lacking formal and final causes and ends. This title examines the idea that compulsory education is a social good, and that adulthood and childhood should be considered as entirely separate realms.

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Explores everyday childhood in relation to employment, religion, policing, war and migration, drawing on children's experiences in a variety of contexts and countries.

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Fascinating analysis of how children in their first year of high school feel about their schools, its place in their lives and its role in their futures.

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Examines China's access to the energy resources of the developing world and its impact on Chinese foreign relations. This book asks whether China's competition for energy resources fosters cooperation or conflict with other energy-consuming great powers.

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Examines China's access to the energy resources of the developing world and its impact on Chinese foreign relations. This book asks whether China's competition for energy resources fosters cooperation or conflict with other energy-consuming great powers.

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This book is about the state of moral theology today. It is written by an international team of academics, among them some of the best-known Christian ethicists in the English-speaking world. It is scholarly and authoritative, and it is unique in that it brings together in one volume, for the first time, all the main themes in fundamental and applied moral theology.