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    • The Virtuoso Teacher: Teaching Method 

      Harris, Paul (Faber & Faber, 2012)
      By considering The Virtuoso Teacher and how a teacher might attain virtuoso status, renowned educator and writer Paul Harris delves into the core issues of being a teacher and the teaching process. A fascinating look at ...

    • Is That a Fish in Your Ear?: Translation and the Meaning of Everything 

      Bellos, David (Faber & Faber, 2011)
      A New York Times Notable Book for 2011 One of The Economist’s 2011 Books of the Year People speak different languages, and always have. The Ancient Greeks took no notice of anything unless it was said in Greek, the Romans ...

    • Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past 

      Reynolds, Simon (Faber & Faber, 2011)
      One of The Telegraph’s Best Music Books 2011 We live in a pop age gone loco for retro and crazy for commemoration. Band re-formations and reunion tours, expanded reissues of classic albums and outtake-crammed box sets, ...

    • For the King 

      Delors, Catherine (Dutton, 2010)
      From the author of the critically acclaimed Mistress of the Revolution comes a spellbinding historical thriller set in post- revolutionary Paris. For her first novel, Mistress of the Revolution, which the Associated Press ...

    • Creation and Humanity: A Constructive Christian Theology for the Pluralistic World, Volume 3 

      Kärkkäinen, Veli-Matti (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2015)
      The third installment in a wide and deep constructive theology for our time This third volume of Veli-Matti Karkkainen’s ambitious five volume theology project develops a Christian theology of creation and humanity ...

    • Knowledge and Christian Belief 

      Plantinga, Alvin (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2015)
      In his widely praised Warranted Christian Belief (Oxford, 2000) Alvin Plantinga discussed in great depth the question of the rationality, or sensibility, of Christian belief. In this book Plantinga presents the same ideas ...

    • Beyond the Abortion Wars: A Way Forward for a New Generation 

      Camosy, Charles C. (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2015)
      The abortion debate in the United States is confused. Ratings-driven media coverage highlights extreme views and creates the illusion that we are stuck in a hopeless stalemate. In this book Charles Camosy argues that our ...

    • Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview 

      Collins, John J.; Harlow, Daniel C. (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2012)
      Culled from The Eerdmans Dictionary of Early Judaism, a monumental, groundbreaking reference work published in late 2010, Early Judaism: A Comprehensive Overview contains fifteen first-rate essays from a diverse group of ...

    • The Sacredness of Human Life: Why an Ancient Biblical Vision Is Key to the World's Future 

      Gushee, David P. (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2013)
      This authoritative book is the most comprehensive examination ever of the sacredness of human life. Never before has one volume explored this subject in such a multifaceted way, encompassing biblical roots, theological ...

    • The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bible 

      VanderKam, James C. (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2012)
      The substantial value of the Dead Sea Scrolls for biblical studies is well known. However, it can be difficult to remain on the cutting edge of Dead Sea Scrolls scholarship. In this volume leading expert James C. VanderKam ...

    • The big picture: on the origins of life, meaning, and the universe itself 

      Carroll, Sean M. (Dutton, 2016)
      Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in modern physics, Sean Carroll is emerging as one of the greatest humanist thinkers of his generation as he brings his ...

    • Meet Me in Atlantis My Obsessive Quest to Find the Sunken City 

      Adams, Mark (Dutton, 2015)
      While the author has made every effort to provide accurate telephone numbers, Internet addresses, and other contact information at the time of publication, neither the publisher nor the author assumes any responsibility ...

    • Countdown to extinction 

      Northcutt, Wendy (Dutton, 2010)
      Features examples of people whose lack of common sense resulted in their demise, in a tribute to how the evolutionary process is improved when individuals of questionable intelligence accidentally remove themselves from ...

    • The Universe in the Rearview Mirror How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality 

      Goldberg, Dave (Dutton, 2013)
      There is a gleeful skepticism of the orthodox i n popular discussion of science. Reading some of the twittering, blogging chatter out there, you might suppose that relattivity is nothing more than the ...

    • Deeper Than the Dead 

      Hoag, Tami (Dutton, 2010)
      California, 1985-Four children and young teacher Anne Navarre make a gruesome discovery: a partially buried female body, her eyes and mouth glued shut. A serial killer is at large, and the very bonds that hold their idyllic ...

    • Kurt Godel: Collected Works: Volume IV 

      Godel, Kurt (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      Kurt Godel (1906 - 1978) was the most outstanding logician of the twentieth century, famous for his hallmark works on the completeness of logic, the incompleteness of number theory, and the consistency of the axiom of ...

    • The Oxford Handbook of Happiness 

      David, Susan; Boniwell, Ilona; Ayers, Amanda Conley (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      In recent decades there has been a shift in focus from psychological and social problems-what might be called the "dark side" of humanity-to human well-being and flourishing. The Positive Psychology movement, along with ...

    • Exploring Quantum Mechanics: A Collection of 700+ Solved Problems for Students, Lecturers, and Researchers 

      Galitski, V.; Karnakov, B.; Kogan, V. (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      A series of seminal technological revolutions has led to a new generation of electronic devices miniaturized to such tiny scales where the strange laws of quantum physics come into play. There is no doubt that, unlike ...

    • Firm Commitment: Why the corporation is failing us and how to restore trust in it 

      Mayer, Colin (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      The corporation is one of the most important and remarkable institutions in the world, affecting all of us all the time-feeding us, entertaining us, employing us. But corporations are also the cause of immense suffering, ...

    • Strategy: A History 

      Freedman, Lawrence (Oxford University Press, 2013)
      Selected as a Financial Times Best Book of 2013 In Strategy: A History, Sir Lawrence Freedman, one of the world's leading authorities on war and international politics, captures the vast history of strategic thinking, in ...