bloomsbury publishing plc jul 2002 (13 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Michel Chion's study of this film makes the case that it is one of Kubrick's masterpieces and a fitting testament. To appreciate this, though it is necessary to look at what happens on the screen without bringing preconceptions to bear.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Millicent has been computerised. After a lifetime's work in the Obituary Department of the Morning Telegraph she has been made redundant. The firm, however, has allowed her to go out in style - she can write her last obit in her own hand with her own fountain pen. But whose last obit will it be An obscure failure A giant of history A personal friend An old lover She plunders her memories, her fantasies and her long friendship with the daft and the dead before she makes her decision. Peter Tinniswood's black comedy won the Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award in 1998.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - From apostolic times the Church has wrestled with the dilemma of how to defend its belief in the sanctity and permanence of marriage, while at the same time ministering the love and compassion of Christ to those traumatised by the experience of marital breakdown.Timothy Buckley is a Redemptorist priest who produced a report for the Catholic bishops of England and Wales on the pastoral situation among priests and people argues that the theology of the bond of marriage is responsible for an impasse which often limits the Churchæs official solutions to the granting of annulments. By tracing the history of the teaching on the bond, he concludes that the present discipline is based on disputable theiology and he proposes a way forward.An enlightened, sound, and original look at marriage today.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This fully illustrated new reference guide for Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 children provides comprehensive definitions of words and concepts used in the teaching of art.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Contains the Latin text, annotation, bibliography and two translations.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This lively study examines the poetic writings of Nizari Quhistani, one of the few Ismaili authors who survived the Mongol invasion of Iran in the 13th century. The invasion put an end to Ismaili political aspirations and independence until the 16th-century Safavid dynasty. The evidence of Nizari's writings demonstrates that during the period of the invasion the Ismaili community did not lose their internal organizational structure, and that they continued to operate in different forms through the Mongol period in Persian history.

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Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Discussing one of America's most divisive social issues, race, Dominic J. Pulera offers a roadmap to the future. The analysis covers America's 'racial' groups: whites, blacks, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and American Indians. The author concludes on a note of cautious optimism.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Explaining the subject in a way that is relevant to students, this text features European markets and institutions throughout and there is an emphasis on both the underlying economic and financial theories and trading practice.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - How and why have women come to play a central role in the political project of Islamic revivalism and in the power struggles between Islamic and secular forces in Turkey In this innovative book Ayse Saktanber rejects approaches to this issue that ask what Islam means for the position of women, or see Muslim women as the 'reverse' or the 'dark' side of modernity. Taking as her subject matter families who have come together to 'live Islam' as 'conscious Muslims' in a suburb of Ankara, she attempts instead to 'render thinkable' the experiences of women who are not situated within the discourse of modernity, and to look at the ways in which they have become crucial agents in the effort to make Islam a living social practice in a secular order.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The processes of legal and economic integration at a regional and global scale have created powerful legal and economic dilemmas. The essays in this collection argue the pros and cons of greater regional and global regulation,

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this remarkable book Jeremy Burchardt traces the influence that attitudes toward the countryside have had on the evolution of modern British life. In the 'town versus country' debate, Burchardt looks at the idealization of the countryside by artists and writers, the development of anti-urban and anti-industrial values, rural-urban commuting, environmentalist criticism of industrial farming, and the effect on government policy, social structure, and economic dynamism.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Recent leading cases have demonstrated the urgent need to modernize the learning on breach of trust. This book, written by a team of leading trust lawyers from a number of common law jurisdictions, investigates all the principal aspects of the subject.