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Maimonides
Daniel Davies
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R578
Discovery Miles 5 780
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The most famous of all medieval Jewish thinkers, Moses Maimonides
is known for his monumental contributions to Jewish law, theology
and medicine and an influence that extends into the wider world.
His remarkable work, The Guide for the Perplexed, is
notoriously difficult to interpret since Maimonides aimed it at
those already versed in both philosophy and the rabbinic tradition
and used literary techniques to test his readers and force them to
think through his arguments. Daniel Davies explores Maimonides’
approaches to issues of perennial and universal concern: human
nature and the soul, the problem of evil, the creation of the
world, the question of God’s existence, and negative theology. He
addresses the unusual ways in which Maimonides presented his
arguments, contextualizing Maimonides’ thought in the philosophy
and religion of his own time, as well as elucidating it for
today’s readers. This philosophically rich introduction is an
essential guide for students and scholars of medieval philosophy,
philosophy of religion, theology and Jewish studies.
This edited volume provides a complete introduction to critical
issues across the field of Indigenous peoples in contemporary
Taiwan, from theoretical approaches to empirical analysis. Seeking
to inform wider audiences about Taiwan's Indigenous peoples, this
book brings together both leading and emerging scholars as part of
an international collaborative research project, sharing broad
specialisms on modern Indigenous issues in Taiwan. This is one of
the first dedicated volumes in English to examine contemporary
Taiwan's Indigenous peoples from such a range of disciplinary
angles, following four section themes: long-term perspectives, the
arts, education, and politics. Chapters offer perspectives not only
from academic researchers, but also from writers bearing rich
practitioner and activist experience from within the Taiwanese
Indigenous rights movement. Methods range from extensive fieldwork
to Indigenous-directed film and literary analysis. Taiwan's
Contemporary Indigenous Peoples will prove a useful resource for
students and scholars of Taiwan Studies, Indigenous Studies and
Asia Pacific Studies, as well as educators designing future courses
on Indigenous studies.
This edited volume provides a complete introduction to critical
issues across the field of Indigenous peoples in contemporary
Taiwan, from theoretical approaches to empirical analysis. Seeking
to inform wider audiences about Taiwan's Indigenous peoples, this
book brings together both leading and emerging scholars as part of
an international collaborative research project, sharing broad
specialisms on modern Indigenous issues in Taiwan. This is one of
the first dedicated volumes in English to examine contemporary
Taiwan's Indigenous peoples from such a range of disciplinary
angles, following four section themes: long-term perspectives, the
arts, education, and politics. Chapters offer perspectives not only
from academic researchers, but also from writers bearing rich
practitioner and activist experience from within the Taiwanese
Indigenous rights movement. Methods range from extensive fieldwork
to Indigenous-directed film and literary analysis. Taiwan's
Contemporary Indigenous Peoples will prove a useful resource for
students and scholars of Taiwan Studies, Indigenous Studies and
Asia Pacific Studies, as well as educators designing future courses
on Indigenous studies.
Offers expansive and intersecting understandings of erotic
subjectivity, intimacy, and trauma in performance ethnography and
in institutional and disciplinary settings. Focused on research
within Africa and the African diaspora, contributors to this volume
think through the painful iterations of trauma, systemic racism,
and the vestiges of colonial oppression as well as the processes of
healing and emancipation that emerge from wounded states. Their
chapters explore an acoustemology of intimacy, woman-centered
eroticism generated through musical performance, desire and longing
in ethnographic knowledge production, and listening as intimacy. On
the other end of the spectrum, authors engage with and question the
fetishization of race in jazz; examine conceptions of vulgarity and
profanity in movement and dance-ethnography; and address pain,
trauma, and violation, whether physical, spiritual, intellectual,
or political. Authors in this volume strive toward empathetic,
ethical, and creative ethnographic engagements that summon
vulnerability and healing. They propose pathways to aesthetic,
discursive transformation by reorienting conceptions of knowledge
as emergent, performative, and sonically enabled. The resulting
book explores sensory knowledge that is frequently left
unacknowledged in ethnographic work, advancing conversations about
performed sonic and somatic modalities through which we navigate
our entanglements as engaged scholars.
This book creatively explores the gold rushes in the Tasman World
through an examination of the Otago gold rushes, revealing how
transnational connections and local social and natural environments
shaped colonial identities. The first monograph-length study on the
Otago gold rushes and their place in the histories of British and
Irish migration, it increases our understanding of the British
World by grounding transnational networks in the local ecologies,
geologies and weather patterns which shaped local social structures
and profoundly affected migrants' relationships to loved ones in
Britain, Ireland and elsewhere.
Cutting-edge and fresh new outlooks on medieval literature,
emphasising the vibrancy of the field. New Medieval Literatures is
an annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage
with intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and
now. Its scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical,
archival, philological, and historicist methodologies associated
with medieval literary studies, and embraces the range of European
cultures, capaciously defined. Essays in this volume investigate a
range of writers from late antiquity to the fifteenth century. They
explore encounters between humans and animals in French romance;
reflect on what contemporary sound studies can offer to
Anglo-French poetry; trace how the reception of Trojan history is
influenced by late medieval military practices; attend to the
complex multilingualism of a devotional poetry that tests the
limits of both language and theology; analyse the ways in which
Christ's sexuality upsets religious typology inlate medieval drama;
document the lines of national and European affinities found in
French poetic manuscripts; and argue for why we should study "ugly"
manuscripts of practical instruction not only for what they teach
us but alsofor their insights into medieval literacy. Texts
discussed include romances such as Chretien de Troyes's Yvain and
Beroul's Tristan; the theologian John of Howden's adaptation of the
Philomela legend in his Rossignos; Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde
read alongside siege chronicles of the Hundred Years War; Bruder
Hans's quadrilingual Ave Maria; the York Corpus Christi Plays; the
poetry of Charles d'Orleans; and a group oflate medieval
manuscripts which include herbals, account books, and medical
treatises. KELLIE ROBERTSON is Professor of English and Comparative
Literature at the University of Maryland; WENDY SCASE is Geoffrey
Shepherd Professor of Medieval English Literature at the University
of Birmingham; LAURA ASHE is Professor of English at the University
of Oxford and Fellow and Tutor at Worcester College, Oxford; PHILIP
KNOX Is University Lecturer inEnglish and Fellow of Trinity
College, Cambridge, Contributors: Lukas Hadrian Ovrom, Terrence
Cullen, Steven Rozenski, Tison Pugh, Rory G. Critten, Daniel
Wakelin.
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To Make (Hardcover)
Danielle Davis; Illustrated by Mags Deroma
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R316
Discovery Miles 3 160
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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A stunning picture book ode to the joys of the creative process and
the spirit of collaboration. This lyrical story from Danielle Davis
and Mags DeRoma is perfect for fans of Kevin Henkes, Gyo Fujikawa,
and Julie Fogliano. To make . . . a cake, a garden, a song, you
first gather, then make-and wait. To make a story (like this one),
you gather, make, wait. To make anything-big or small-it will take
some time. You may have to gather more, make more, and wait a
little more, but you can create wonderful things if you just
gather, make, and wait. This gorgeous, timeless book gently
emphasizes patience as part of the making process and is a fitting
book for all homes, classrooms, and makerspaces everywhere.
From England and France to the Low Countries, Wales, Scotland, and
Italy, the Hundred Years War (1337-1453) fundamentally shaped
late-medieval literature. This volume adopts an expansive focus to
reveal the transnational literary consequences of over a century of
international conflict. While traditionally seen as an Anglo-French
conflict, the Hundred Years War was a multilateral conflict with
connections across the continent through alliances and proxy
battles. Writers, whether as witnesses, diplomats, or provocateurs,
played key roles in shaping the conflict, and the conflict equally
impacted the course of literary history. The volume shows how a
wide variety of genres and works are deeply engaged with responses
to the war, from women’s visionary writing by figures like
Catherine of Siena to anonymous lyric poetry, from Christine de
Pizan’s Book of the City of Ladies to Geoffrey Chaucer’s
Canterbury Tales. -- .
The Adjunct Dilemma is a concise guide that offers higher education
professionals a way to measure the degree of equality taking place
in work environments across institutional settings. It frames the
relevant issues and nationwide surveys that reveal the current
professional landscape. The goal is to offer a standardized way to
identify both unjust and equitable labour practices that impact
adjunct faculty on campus. The main feature of this guide is The
Non Tenure Track Faculty Report Card, a tool to help evaluate
current labour practices that impact adjuncts in both positive and
negative ways. This tool measures 3 areas of labour conditions:
Material Equity: Pay, job security and benefits Professional
Equity: Opportunities for advancement, academic freedom and
professional development Social Equity: Gender and racial parity
between contingent and non-contingent faculty in proportion to
populations served
The Adjunct Dilemma is a concise guide that offers higher education
professionals a way to measure the degree of equality taking place
in work environments across institutional settings. It frames the
relevant issues and nationwide surveys that reveal the current
professional landscape. The goal is to offer a standardized way to
identify both unjust and equitable labour practices that impact
adjunct faculty on campus. The main feature of this guide is The
Non Tenure Track Faculty Report Card, a tool to help evaluate
current labour practices that impact adjuncts in both positive and
negative ways. This tool measures 3 areas of labour conditions:
Material Equity: Pay, job security and benefits Professional
Equity: Opportunities for advancement, academic freedom and
professional development Social Equity: Gender and racial parity
between contingent and non-contingent faculty in proportion to
populations served
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Maimonides
Daniel Davies
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R1,614
Discovery Miles 16 140
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The most famous of all medieval Jewish thinkers, Moses Maimonides
is known for his monumental contributions to Jewish law, theology
and medicine and an influence that extends into the wider world.
His remarkable work, The Guide for the Perplexed, is
notoriously difficult to interpret since Maimonides aimed it at
those already versed in both philosophy and the rabbinic tradition
and used literary techniques to test his readers and force them to
think through his arguments. Daniel Davies explores Maimonides’
approaches to issues of perennial and universal concern: human
nature and the soul, the problem of evil, the creation of the
world, the question of God’s existence, and negative theology. He
addresses the unusual ways in which Maimonides presented his
arguments, contextualizing Maimonides’ thought in the philosophy
and religion of his own time, as well as elucidating it for
today’s readers. This philosophically rich introduction is an
essential guide for students and scholars of medieval philosophy,
philosophy of religion, theology and Jewish studies.
July 1, 1863, had gone poorly for the Union army’s XI Corps.
Shattered in battle north of the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg,
the battered and embarrassed unit ended the day hunkered at the
crest of a cemetery-topped hill south of the village.
Reinforcements fortified the position, which extended eastward to
include another key piece of high ground, Culp’s Hill. The
Federal line also extended southward down Cemetery Ridge, forming
what eventually became a long fishhook. July 2 saw a massive
Confederate attack against the southernmost part of the line. As
the Southern juggernaut rolled inexorably northward, Federal troops
shifted away from Culp’s Hill and Cemetery Hill to meet the
threat. Just then, the Army of Northern Virginia’s vaunted Second
Corps launched itself at the weakened Federal right. The very men
who, just the day before, broke the Union army resolved to break it
once again. The ensuing struggle—every bit as desperate and with
stakes every bit as high as the more-famous fight at Little Round
Top on the far end of the line—left the entire Union position in
the balance. “Stay and fight it out,†one Union general
counseled. The Confederates were all too willing to oblige. Authors
Chris Mackowski, Kristopher D. White, and Daniel T. Davis started
their Gettysburg account in Don’t Give an Inch: The Second Day at
Gettysburg, July 2, 1863—from Little Round Top to Cemetery Ridge.
Picking up on the heels of its companion volume, Stay and Fight It
Out: The Second Day at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863—Culp’s Hill and
the Northern End of the Battlefield they recount the
often-overlooked fight that secured the Union position and set the
stage for the battle’s fateful final day.
The hive of honeybees living in Zinnia's hair is actually the least
of her problems. Her best friend, who also happens to be her
brother, has left home with no explanation. And the one thing that
makes her happy and keeps her sane knitting has just got her
detention. She's never felt more alone. But the bees have a lot to
say about it starting with finding her brother.
This book creatively explores the gold rushes in the Tasman World
through an examination of the Otago gold rushes, revealing how
transnational connections and local social and natural environments
shaped colonial identities. The first monograph-length study on the
Otago gold rushes and their place in the histories of British and
Irish migration, it increases our understanding of the British
World by grounding transnational networks in the local ecologies,
geologies and weather patterns which shaped local social structures
and profoundly affected migrants' relationships to loved ones in
Britain, Ireland and elsewhere.
Anytown, England, Jeremy Shepherd has reached post-ambition, giving
up the trappings of his London life (flash job, flash cars, even
flashier girlfriends) and moved back to his home town and his
parents' house. By day, he is a low-level civil servant, chained to
his desk and content to idle away the hours filing and answering
emails. There isn't a lot to do in a small town, but the English
are very resourceful and Jeremy quickly finds a hobby that delivers
lots of fresh air and exercise. By night, he prowls local car parks
to indulge in altogether more challenging pursuits - anonymous sex
with strangers. This is no ordinary hobby - each encounter is
tinged with a definite air of danger, as police stake out each site
and the cloak of anonymity brings its own risks.As the scene's
night-time liaisons increasingly threaten the sensibilities of the
local Daily Mail readers, things take a turn for the worse. Locals
take a dislike to the illicit rendezvous and as the police step up
surveillance, private pursuits risk becoming very public.
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