A unique insider's account of day-to-day life inside a Tibetan monastery, 'The Sound of Two Hands Clapping' reveals to Western audiences the fascinating details of monastic education.
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Genre, Myth, and Convention in the French Cinema, 1929--1939 examines classic French film, exploring and analyzing the cinema as an institution, the textual system to which it gave rise, and the light that such an approach can shed on the process of production and reception of s…
The Cambridge history of nineteenth-century music
by Samson, Jim
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The most informed reference book on nineteenth-century music currently available. Essays investigate the intellectual and socio-political history of the time, and examine topics such as nations and nationalism, the emergent concept of an avant garde, and musical styles and langu…
In this important book, Onora O'Neill suggests that the conceptions of individual autonomy so widely relied on in bioethics are philosophically and ethically inadequate, and that they undermine rather than support relations of trust. Her book will appeal to a wide range of reade…
""The intellectual heritage of Ancient Egypt"" - once wrote Jan Assmann - ""can hardly be said to have become part of our cultural memory. It is a subject of fascination, not of understanding."" This fascination began when ancient Greek travellers started visiting Egypt, and con…
This famous series provides a contemporary assessment and history of the entire course of philosophical thought. Each book constitutes a detailed, critical introduction to the work of a philosopher or school of major influence and significance.
This text considers how people talk about the location of objects and places. It reports on the developments in the field of spatial language and sets an agenda for future research on spatial conceptualization and communication in cognitive science, computer science, psychology,…
For someone directing a "small" academic institution, Peter Schafer has managed during his academic career to guide and influence a large number of students in their scholarly pursuits in Jewish studies. This work covers topics such as mysticism and magic, and Rabbinic Judaism.
"The fourth edition of Uwe Flick's Introduction to Qualitative Research remains the most comprehensive and thorough text in qualitative research. It is student-and user-friendly, thoroughly up-to-date in terms of the latest developments in the field, imminently practical. it is …
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Addressing a fundamental dilemma in religious studies, this text explores the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion. Daniel Gold develops a line of argument that begins with the aesthetics of academic writing in the fi…
