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San of the Kalahari (Hardcover): Jurgen Schadeberg San of the Kalahari (Hardcover)
Jurgen Schadeberg
R339 Discovery Miles 3 390 Ships in 6 - 10 working days

The San inhabited the whole of southern Africa before the spear and the gun drove them further into the desert region of the Kalahari. They are among the last of the hunting and gathering societies in an agricultural and industrialised world. Small by Western standards, the polite greeting to a San man is one of deference to his unmistakable stature "I saw your shadow looming afar". Although their lifestyle may appear haphazard to the casual eye, on closer inspection, a defined pattern appears.

Wuthering Heights (Paperback): Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
Emily Bronte
R174 Discovery Miles 1 740 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

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The unforgettable story of Heathcliff and Catherine, whose doomed love torments them in a tempest of madness, vengeance, and redemption.

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Sports Law (Paperback, 0): Adam Epstein Sports Law (Paperback, 0)
Adam Epstein
R1,847 R1,679 Discovery Miles 16 790 Save R168 (9%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Sports Law by Adam Epstein brings the multi-billion dollar business of sport to the classroom. Epstein's book delves into the world of interscholastic, intercollegiate and professional athletics by exploring various categories of law and its relationship to sport. In addition to providing an examination of the history of the NCAA, this textbook examines relevant NCAA cases along with excerpts from the most recent NCAA bylaws in chapters throughout the book. This aspect of the text is particularly helpful for those who have an interest in pursuing a career in college sports. The book begins with an examination of the most current cases and regulations governing sports agents and how such individuals have helped to shape the sport business. The author also provides the best discussion on the importance and role of contracts in the sports industry with an exploration of various sports contracts and special contract clauses. Along with the aforementioned topics, Sports Law dives into other important legal topics in the sports industry including torts, crimes, Title IX and gender issues, social media concerns, disability issues, antitrust and labor issues involving leagues and their player associations, an examination of international issues including the Olympic Movement and more. Epstein provides abridged cases involving Andy Oliver, Jeremy Bloom, Coach Jim O'Brien and others. Sports Law brings the dynamic and exciting world of sports law to the undergraduate and graduate student.

Laser - The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War (Paperback): Nick Taylor Laser - The Inventor, the Nobel Laureate, and the Thirty-Year Patent War (Paperback)
Nick Taylor
R285 Discovery Miles 2 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Gordon Gould woke up one night in his Bronx, New York, apartment, opened a laboratory notebook and wrote: "Some rough calculations on the feasibility of a LASER: Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation." That was November 1957, and the 37-year-old graduate student had coined the name for a world-changing invention. Before he stopped, he had written the first description of a working laser and how it could be used. What he didn't know was how to get a patent. So Gould, even as a radical background denied him a security clearance to work on his own invention, would spend the next thirty years fighting to prove he, and not the Nobel laureate Charles Townes, was the inventor. Finally, by 1988, Gould's legal war had won him four basic laser patents that upheld his claim. LASER is the dramatic story of a brilliant lone inventor who took on the establishment and triumphed in the end.

The History of Marriage Equality in Ireland - A Social Revolution Begins (Hardcover): Sonja Tiernan The History of Marriage Equality in Ireland - A Social Revolution Begins (Hardcover)
Sonja Tiernan
R2,333 Discovery Miles 23 330 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Ireland is the first country in the world to extend civil marriage to same sex couples through a public vote. The marriage equality referendum saw record numbers turn out to register their votes including Irish emigrants who returned from around the world to ensure an impressive majority in favour of this constitutional amendment. The overwhelming positive result marked a clear separation of church and State for possibly the first time in Ireland. The Yes Equality campaign ignited a social revolution across Ireland, witnessed more recently with further referenda decriminalising abortion and introducing a less punitive regime for obtaining a divorce. Utilising published reports, newspaper articles, marriage equality papers and extracts from Dáil debates, this book traces the key legislative and social changes surrounding Irish marriage equality, from the establishment of the advocacy group in 2008 to the referendum on the extension of civil marriage rights to same-sex couples in Ireland in 2015. With a foreword by Ivana Bacik, a Senator and Reid Professor of Criminal Law, Criminology and Penology at Trinity College Dublin, best known for her tireless work defending human rights, this book offers a concise historical record of the momentous referendum on marriage equality. -- .

Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America - Sustainable Development through Entrepreneurship (Paperback): Robert J.... Creating Private Sector Economies in Native America - Sustainable Development through Entrepreneurship (Paperback)
Robert J. Miller, Miriam Jorgensen, Daniel Stewart
R1,052 Discovery Miles 10 520 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Native nation economies have long been dominated by public sector activities - government programs and services and tribal government-owned businesses - which do not generate the same long-term benefits for local communities that the private sector does. In this work, editors Robert Miller, Miriam Jorgensen, Daniel Stewart, and a roster of expert authors address the underdevelopment of the private sector on American Indian reservations, with the goal of sustaining and growing Native nation communities, so that Indian Country can thrive on its own terms. Chapter authors provide the language and arguments to make the case to tribal politicians, Native communities, and allies about the importance of private sector development and entrepreneurship in Indigenous economies. This book identifies and addresses key barriers to expanding the sector, provides policy guidance, and describes several successful business models - thus offering students, practitioners, and policymakers the information they need to make change.

Wat se die prokureur? - In samewerking met RSG (Afrikaans, Paperback): Igna Klynsmith Wat se die prokureur? - In samewerking met RSG (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Igna Klynsmith
R285 Discovery Miles 2 850 Ships in 4 - 6 working days

Die afgelope 21 jaar lank bemagtig Igna Klynsmith luisteraars deur sy RSG-program Regsake met kundige raad en praktiese insig oor regsake wat elkeen raak. Na aanleiding van die groot reaksie op sy program het hy en sy spesialisgaste 'n bruikbare bundel saamgestel wat praktiese regsadvies bied. Dit bevat 'n keur uit regsake van algemene belang asook hofsake wat die wereld laat regop sit het. Wat se die prokureur? wil jou as leser bemagtig met deskundige advies sodat jy ingelig is en weet waar om hulp te kry. Igna bring jou selfs tot binne die hofsale waar opspraakwekkende sake afspeel: gifmoordenaresse, Nuremberg, Nelson Mandela en Rivonia, 'n hofsaak teen kewers ... Dit is min dat 'n mens so 'n bundel teekom waarin kenners saamspan om die Reg vir jou verstaanbaar te maak, maar sonder om tegniese kundigheid in te boet.

Mason’s Forensic Medicine and the Law (Paperback, 7th edition): Helen Whitwell, Katy Thorne KC, Alexander Kolar, Paul Harvey Mason’s Forensic Medicine and the Law (Paperback, 7th edition)
Helen Whitwell, Katy Thorne KC, Alexander Kolar, Paul Harvey
R4,252 Discovery Miles 42 520 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

This is the leading work on forensic medicine and the law in the UK. Written by a team of leading legal practitioners, pathologists and other experts, this Seventh Edition has been fully revised to bring it up to date with the latest legal, medical and scientific developments. It is the only book directed at both the legal practitioner and the expert medical witness. It provides unique commentary on the law in all three UK jurisdictions: England and Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland. It guides experts on their role and duties to the courts and highlights areas of current scientific and legal controversy with additional reference sources. In addition to two new chapters on forensic psychiatry and forensic science, the Seventh Edition includes updates and new material on: - Introduction to medicine, the systems of the body and autopsy procedure - Forensic medicine covering assaults, firearms, head injuries, road traffic collisions, falls, asphyxia, drowning, hypothermia, and heat and electricity - Sexual offences, deaths in detention, forensic odontology and toxicology - Guidance for the expert medical witness on giving evidence in the UK courts, covering the UK’s criminal justice systems, coroners’ courts and fatal accident inquiries This title is included in Bloomsbury Professional's Personal Injury Law online service.

Unauthorized Love - Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State (Hardcover): Jane Lilly López Unauthorized Love - Mixed-Citizenship Couples Negotiating Intimacy, Immigration, and the State (Hardcover)
Jane Lilly López
R2,668 Discovery Miles 26 680 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

A rich, narrative exploration of the ways love defies, survives, thrives, and dies as lovers contend with US immigration policy. For mixed-citizenship couples, getting married is the easy part. The US Supreme Court has confirmed the universal civil right to marry, guaranteeing every couple's ability to wed. But the Supreme Court has denied that this right to marriage includes married couples' right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on US soil, creating a challenge for mixed-citizenship couples whose individual-level rights do not translate to family-level protections. While US citizens can extend legal inclusion to their spouses through family reunification, they must prove their worthiness and the worthiness of their love before their relationship will be officially recognized by the state. In Unauthorized Love, Jane López offers a comprehensive, critical look at US family reunification law and its consequences as experienced by 56 mixed-citizenship American couples. These couples' stories––of integration and alienation, of opportunity and inequality, of hope and despair––make tangible the consequences of current US immigration laws that tend to favor Whiteness, wealth, and heteronormativity, as well as the individual rather than the family unit, in awarding membership and official belonging. In examining the experiences of couples struggling to negotiate intimacy under the constraints of immigration policy, López argues for a rethinking of citizenship as a family affair.

Meaning and Power in the Language of Law (Paperback): Janny HC Leung, Alan Durant Meaning and Power in the Language of Law (Paperback)
Janny HC Leung, Alan Durant
R981 Discovery Miles 9 810 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Legal practitioners, linguists, anthropologists, philosophers and others have all explored fundamental challenges presented by language in formulating, interpreting and applying laws. Building on centuries of interaction between legal practice and jurisprudence, the modern field of 'law and language', or 'forensic linguistics', brings insights in linguistics and related fields to bear on topics including legal drafting and translation, statutory interpretation, expert evidence on language use and dynamics of courtroom interaction. This volume presents an interlocking series of research studies engaged with different legal jurisdictions and socio-political contexts as well as with the more abstract notion of 'law'. Together the chapters, written by international leaders in their fields, highlight recent directions in research and investigate in particular how law expresses yet also conceals power relations in its crafted use of words and in the gaps and silence between those words.

Silenced Angels - The Medical, Legal, and Social Aspects of Shaken Baby Syndrome (Hardcover): James Peinkofer Silenced Angels - The Medical, Legal, and Social Aspects of Shaken Baby Syndrome (Hardcover)
James Peinkofer
R2,231 R2,062 Discovery Miles 20 620 Save R169 (8%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days

"Silenced Angels: The Medical, Legal and Social Aspects of Shaken Baby Syndrome" delves into the realms of child abuse that has never been explored before in such detail. The book examines how the physical assault of violent shaking on a young body can lead to a lifetime of despair or even death. Every important detail of this tragic form of child abuse is analyzed, providing the reader a more definitive understanding of the condition known as SBS. This is the first book written exclusively about SBS, which is 100% preventable. SBS cases can be frequently misdiagnosed and are more frequently under-investigated and poorly prosecuted, leading to a sense of injustice among families and child abuse prevention advocates.

The author breaks through the barriers of miscomprehension, misdiagnosis, and misrepresentation that typically lead to further tragedy and injustice in SBS-related cases. Advocates for child abuse prevention will gain greater information about SBS to further their cause of establishing hospital and community-based prevention and education programs. Parents and family members of SBS victims will find this book indispensable when seeking medical and legal assistance with their cases.

Wisdom from Africa - A Collection of Proverbs (Hardcover): Dianne Stewart Wisdom from Africa - A Collection of Proverbs (Hardcover)
Dianne Stewart
R173 Discovery Miles 1 730 Ships in 4 - 6 working days

In the words of author Dianne Stewart, 'African proverbs reflect both the past and the present, and are as relevant to contemporary society as they were to traditional society.' As with so much of African culture, proverbs have been passed on in the oral tradition so it's rare to find such a treasure trove as this; from across Africa, Dianne has compiled a fascination collection. The text is given in the language of origin, an English translation and an explanation of the meaning. The proverbs are divided into subject groups such as human nature, family life, good fortune, time, animals and nature. Whether you're looking for that special African gift or would like to add to your own collection of reference books, Wisdom from Africa is an excellent choice.

Divorce in Wisconsin - The Legal Process, Your Rights, and What to Expect (Paperback): Linda S Vanden Heuvel Divorce in Wisconsin - The Legal Process, Your Rights, and What to Expect (Paperback)
Linda S Vanden Heuvel
R507 Discovery Miles 5 070 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Providing accurate and objective information to help make the right decisions during a divorce in Wisconsin, this guide provides answers to 360 queries such as What is the mediation process in Wisconsin and is it required? How quickly can one get a divorce? Who decides who gets the cars, the pets, and the house? What actions might influence child custody? How are bills divided and paid during the divorce? How much will a divorce cost? and Will a spouse have to pay some or all attorney fees? Structured in a question-and-answer format, this divorce handbook provides clear and concise responses to help build confidence and give the peace of mind needed to meet the challenges of a divorce proceeding in the state of Wisconsin.

Public Health Law in Practice (Paperback): Jennifer L. Pomeranz, Thomas G. Merrill, Kevin R.J. Schroth Public Health Law in Practice (Paperback)
Jennifer L. Pomeranz, Thomas G. Merrill, Kevin R.J. Schroth
R1,569 Discovery Miles 15 690 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Public Health Law in Practice offers an accessible deep dive into public health law for public health students and practitioners with or without a legal background. It provides a detailed overview of the American legal system with clear explanation of the government's abilities and limitations to promote public health through policies and programs. Chapters further describe the influence of law by subject, with excerpts from real legal cases across topical areas like tobacco, firearms, reproductive health, and nutrition policies. The volume concludes with practical strategies for legislation drafting and coalition building with government and community groups. Enriched with insights into the inner workings of public health departments, Public Health Law in Practice is the crucial public health law textbook that prepares public health students for work in the field of public health outside the classroom.

Africa In My Bones - A Surgeon's Odyssey Into The Spirit World Of African Healing (Paperback): Dr Dave Cumes Africa In My Bones - A Surgeon's Odyssey Into The Spirit World Of African Healing (Paperback)
Dr Dave Cumes
R294 Discovery Miles 2 940 Ships in 4 - 6 working days

On a visit to South Africa in 1981, Dave spent a month with the Bushmen in the Kalahari Desert. During this visit, he felt that he had finally returned to his roots and he started formulating his theory around the use of wilderness for spiritual practice. On later trips to Peru he came into contact with shamans and these meetings made him realise that the shamans had a deep knowledge of healing, that he, in spite of his medical training, was not privy to. On subsequent trips to Zimbabwe and South Africa Dave consulted various sangomas, and through the bone readings of the sangomas it was eventually revealed to him that he had been ignoring his destiny and needed to be trained or undergo thwasa. After finding an elderly Zulu mentor, Dave began his training at the beginning of 2000. During the months in training he had to undergo cleansing practices, practice bone readings, collect his own bones, connect with his ancestors and learn how to channel through the ancestors. After months of rigorous training in very basic circumstances, he returned to California as a qualified sangoma. Here he built in his garden a hut or ndumba in honour of the ancestors. He does bone readings for patients, but he remains an allopathic physician. Through dreams and bone readings it was revealed to him that he should not give up his Western practice, and that by remaining in the Western system, he believes that he is giving more credibility to the indigenous one. The book is a fascinating account of a surgeon's odyssey into the spirit world of African healing. It is the story of his initiation as a sangoma and how his life had been changed and enriched by the experience. It includes photographs of the author's training.

Inventor's Complete Handbook - How to Develop, Patent & Commercialize Your Ideas (Paperback): James Cairns Inventor's Complete Handbook - How to Develop, Patent & Commercialize Your Ideas (Paperback)
James Cairns
R474 R449 Discovery Miles 4 490 Save R25 (5%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Dangerous Materials: Control,  Risk Prevention and Crisis Management - From New Global Threats to New Global Responses: A... Dangerous Materials: Control, Risk Prevention and Crisis Management - From New Global Threats to New Global Responses: A Picture of Transition (Hardcover, 2010 Ed.)
Alberto Brugnoli
R4,233 Discovery Miles 42 330 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

ADRIANO DE MAIO IReR President This publication originated from the workshop on "Control and risk prevention of dangerous materials and crisis management" that took place in Sofia, Bulgaria, in March 2009. The basic idea is that international scientific cooperation can effectively contribute to security, stability and solidarity among nations, through increased collaboration, networking and capacity-building and supporting democratic growth and economic development in Partner Countries. We are all facing new needs and threats, deriving from a world changing constantly its social, political and economic dimension and, for this reason, the international dialogue through civil science represents a way forward to comm- ment to global common issues. In fact, the Lombardy Regional Institute for Research has developed some international activities aiming at establishing networks of scientists and experts in defined areas and subjects. Through one of these activities, the Institute entered in touch with the Science for Peace and Security Programme. In this framework, we decided to share the experience of Lombardy Region on transportation of dangerous materials (half of their total transport in Italy): research and studies in civil area conducted in Lombardy Region are considered the most innovative in Europe for the results obtained. Comparison with diverse international experiences is a great opportunity of implementing present results and applying them to different applications (from civil to anti-terrorism) and extending them to countries other than Italy.

The Conundrum of Corruption - Reform for Social Justice (Paperback): Michael Johnston, Scott Fritzen The Conundrum of Corruption - Reform for Social Justice (Paperback)
Michael Johnston, Scott Fritzen
R1,236 Discovery Miles 12 360 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This book argues that it is time to step back and reassess the anti-corruption movement, which despite its many opportunities and great resources has ended up with a track record that is indifferent at best. Drawing on many years of experience and research, the authors critique many of the major strategies and tactics employed by anti-corruption actors, arguing that they have made the mistake of holding on to problematical assumptions, ideas, and strategies, rather than addressing the power imbalances that enable and sustain corruption. The book argues that progress against corruption is still possible but requires a focus on justice and fairness, considerable tolerance for political contention, and a willingness to stick with the reform cause over a very long process of thoroughgoing, sometimes discontinuous political change. Ultimately, the purpose of the book is not to tell people that they are doing things all wrong. Instead, the authors present new ways of thinking about familiar dilemmas of corruption, politics, contention, and reform. These valuable insights from two of the top thinkers in the field will be useful for policymakers, reform groups, grant-awarding bodies, academic researchers, NGO officers, and students.

Why Inequality Matters - Luck Egalitarianism, its Meaning and Value (Paperback): Shlomi Segall Why Inequality Matters - Luck Egalitarianism, its Meaning and Value (Paperback)
Shlomi Segall
R976 Discovery Miles 9 760 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Equality is a key concept in our moral and political vocabulary. There is wide agreement on its instrumental value and its favourable impact on many aspects of society, but less certainty over whether it has a non-instrumental or intrinsic value that can be demonstrated. In this project, Shlomi Segall explores and defends the view that it does. He argues that the value of equality is not reducible to a concern we might have for the worse off, or to ensuring that individuals do not fall into poverty and destitution; instead he claims that undeserved inequalities, wherever and whenever we might find them, are bad in themselves. Assessing the strength of competing accounts, such as sufficientarianism and prioritarianism, he brings together for the first time discussions of the moral value of equality with luck- or responsibility-sensitive accounts of distributive justice. His book will interest readers in political and moral philosophy.

International Association of Auto Theft Investigators (Hardcover, Limited ed.): International Association of Auto Theft Investigators (Hardcover, Limited ed.)
R629 Discovery Miles 6 290 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

A history of the organization, as well as member roster, chapters in the IAATI, and many photos!

To Every Birth Its Blood (Paperback): Mongane Wally Serote To Every Birth Its Blood (Paperback)
Mongane Wally Serote
R190 R173 Discovery Miles 1 730 Save R17 (9%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

To every birth its blood, Serote's first novel, was originally published in 1981. It was written over a period of six years and combines the piercing subjectivity of Serote's earlier works with a broad canvas of characters and time sequences. Whether his characters are young or old, men or women, Serote's extraordinary empathy takes us into the interior of their lives.

The Beijing Consensus? - How China Has Changed Western Ideas of Law and Economic Development (Paperback): Weitseng Chen The Beijing Consensus? - How China Has Changed Western Ideas of Law and Economic Development (Paperback)
Weitseng Chen
R1,145 Discovery Miles 11 450 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Is there a distinctive Chinese model for law and economic development? In The Beijing Consensus scholars turn their collective attention to answer this basic but seemingly under-explored question as China rises higher in its global standing. Advancing debates on alternative development programs, with a particular focus on social and political contexts, this book demonstrates that essentially, no model exists. Engaging in comparative studies, the contributors create a new set of benchmarks to evaluate the conventional wisdom that the Beijing Consensus challenges and that of the Beijing Consensus itself. Has China demonstrated that the best model is in fact no model at all? Overall, this title equips the reader with an understanding of the conclusions derived from China's experience in its legal and economic development in recent decades.

On the Lam - A History of Hunting Fugitives in America (Hardcover): Jerry Clark, Ed Palattella On the Lam - A History of Hunting Fugitives in America (Hardcover)
Jerry Clark, Ed Palattella
R1,244 Discovery Miles 12 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Fugitives occupy a unique place in the American criminal justice system. They can run and they can hide, but eventually each chase ends. And, in many cases, history is made along the way. John Dillinger’s capture obsessed J. Edgar Hoover and helped create the modern FBI. Violent student radicals who went on the lam in the 1960s reflected the turbulence of the era. The sixteen-year disappearance and sudden arrest of gangster James “Whitey” Bulger in 2011 captivated the nation. Fugitives have become iconic characters in American culture even as they have threatened public safety and the smooth operation of the justice system. They are always on the run, always trying to stay out of reach of the long arm of the law. Also prominent are the men and women who chase fugitives: FBI agents, federal marshals and their deputies, police officers, and bounty hunters.  A significant element of the justice system is dedicated to finding those on the run, and the most-wanted posters and true-crime television shows have made fugitives seemingly ubiquitous figures of fear and fascination for the public. In On the Lam, Jerry Clark and Ed Palattella trace the history of fugitives in the United States by looking at the characters – real and fictional – who have played the roles of the hunter and the hunted. They also examine the origins of the bail system and other legal tools, such as most-wanted programs, that are designed to guard against flight.

Migration and Urban Transition in India - A Development Perspective (Hardcover): R.B. Bhagat, Archana K. Roy, Harihar Sahoo Migration and Urban Transition in India - A Development Perspective (Hardcover)
R.B. Bhagat, Archana K. Roy, Harihar Sahoo
R4,916 Discovery Miles 49 160 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Migration has emerged as an important issue in contemporary global politics and in the discourse around human development. This book highlights the role of migration in socioeconomic development and its interdependence with urbanization, employment, labour and industry. This volume identifies the challenges which migration and the subsequent dynamism in population and spatial parameters pose to land-use patterns, ecology, social politics and international relations. Through a study of migration patterns and trends in different parts of India, this collection analyzes the relationship of migration with social and occupational mobility, poverty and wealth indices, inequality, distribution of resources and demographic change. It also explores policy measures and frameworks which can bring migration into the fold of national development strategies. Timely and comprehensive, the book underscores the importance of migration and urbanization, sustainability and inclusivity to economic growth and development. It will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of migration studies, political studies, sociology, urban studies, development studies and political sociology.

Shifting Sands - The Rise and Fall of Biblical Archaeology (Hardcover, New): Thomas W. Davis Shifting Sands - The Rise and Fall of Biblical Archaeology (Hardcover, New)
Thomas W. Davis
R1,500 Discovery Miles 15 000 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Before the 1970s, "biblical archaeology" was the dominant research paradigm for those excavating the history of Palestine. Today this model has been "weighed in the balance and found wanting." Most now prefer to speak of "Syro/Palestinian archaeology." This is not just a nominal shift but reflects a major theoretical and methodological change. It has even been labeled a revolution. In the popular mind, however, biblical archaeology is still alive and well.
In Shifting Sands, Thomas W. Davis charts the evolution and the demise of the discipline. Biblical archaeology, he writes, was an attempt to ground the historical witness of the Bible in demonstrable historical reality. Its theoretical base lay in the field of theology. American mainstream Protestantism strongly resisted the inroads of continental biblical criticism, and sought support for their conservative views in archaeological research on the ancient Near East. The Bible was the source of the agenda for biblical archaeology, an agenda that was ultimately apologetical.
Davis traces the fascinating story of the interaction of biblical studies, theology, and archaeology in Palestine, and the remarkable individuals who pioneered the discipline. He highlights the achievements of biblical archaeologists in the field, who gathered an immense body of data. By clarifying the theoretical and methodological framework of the original excavators, he believes, these data can be made more useful for current research, allowing a more sober, reasoned judgment of both the accomplishments and the failures of biblical archaeology.

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