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The letter of the Apostle Paul to the Romans has played a vital
role in the Christian church through the centuries. It sets out the
doctrine of the Gospel in detail and with great clarity. This book
aims to guide the newcomer to Romans by adopting a pictorial
analysis, which will more readily fix the subject-matter in the
reader's memory. It will also help the reader who is more familiar
with it, but still finds its concepts difficult. It is the product
of decades of meditation upon the letter by the author of this
book. May it lead those who read it to exclaim, with the Apostle,
Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How
unsearchable are His judgments and how inscrutable His ways!"
The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses contains
one of the most comprehensive listings and descriptions of Egyptian
deities. Now in its second edition, it provides:
- a new introduction
- updated entries and four new entries on deities
- names of the deities as Hieroglyphs
- a survey of gods and goddesses as they appear in classical
literature
- an expanded chronology and updated bibliography, together with
a list of relevant websites
- drawings of the gods and emblems of each district
- a map of ancient Egypt and a time chart
Presenting a vivid picture of the complexity and richness of
imagery in Egyptian mythology, students studying Ancient Egypt,
travelers, visitors to museums and all those interested in
mythology will find this an invaluable resource.
The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses contains
one of the most comprehensive listings and descriptions of Egyptian
deities. Now in its second edition, it provides:
- a new introduction
- updated entries and four new entries on deities
- names of the deities as Hieroglyphs
- a survey of gods and goddesses as they appear in classical
literature
- an expanded chronology and updated bibliography, together with
a list of relevant websites
- drawings of the gods and emblems of each district
- a map of ancient Egypt and a time chart
Presenting a vivid picture of the complexity and richness of
imagery in Egyptian mythology, students studying Ancient Egypt,
travelers, visitors to museums and all those interested in
mythology will find this an invaluable resource.
Because of the potential ease with which transnational corporations
can relocate, many governments have avoided direct attempts to
intervene in their activities. Nonetheless, the major economies
have adopted a wide range of policies towards transnational
corporations. Some (Japan and France in particular) have been very
concerned by the impact of such firms. Others (most notably
Britain) have had a relatively relaxed attitude. This book offers
an account of policy towards transnationals over the last 30 years
or so. It features: detailed, up-to-date accounts of policy in
Japan, France, Germany, the United States and Britain; the role of
organizations other than governments, including trade unions,
business and opposition parties; summaries of which issues have
most concerned which countries overall characterizations of each
country's policy stance. The result should appeal to those
interested in industrial economics, international business, global
political economy, and international law.
Transnational corporations are now of immense significance for most
economies. However, by definition they are involved in
international production and this poses problems for national
governments. The threat of a major company leaving gives it
leverage over its host government. This means that even though
there is a broad consensus that in some respects the impact of a
transnational on an economy can be negative, there is a marked
reluctance on the part of governments to try to do anything about
it. Although they remain sensitive to the problems posed by
transnationals, the authors of "Making Transnationals Accountable"
do not accept that there is nothing that can be done to influence
the behaviour of transnationals. The authors advocate a policy of
monitoring their activities and use a comparative approach to show
that many governments know surprisingly little about the impact of
transnationals on their economies. They identify areas which
governments might like to know more about. In an attempt to show
what their approach might mean in practice, they draw upon the new
techniques developed in social accounting to prepare a detailed
social and economic account of "Glaxo".
Transnational corporations are now of immense significance for most
economies. However, by definition they are involved in
international production and this poses problems for national
governments. The threat of a major company leaving gives it
leverage over its host government. This means that even though
there is a broad consensus that in some respects the impact of a
transnational on an economy can be negative, there is a marked
reluctance on the part of governments to try to do anything about
it. Although they remain sensitive to the problems posed by
transnationals, the authors of "Making Transnationals Accountable"
do not accept that there is nothing that can be done to influence
the behaviour of transnationals. The authors advocate a policy of
monitoring their activities and use a comparative approach to show
that many governments know surprisingly little about the impact of
transnationals on their economies. They identify areas which
governments might like to know more about. In an attempt to show
what their approach might mean in practice, they draw upon the new
techniques developed in social accounting to prepare a detailed
social and economic account of "Glaxo".
The biography of a poet seminal to postwar American poetry Â
The poet Larry Eigner (1927–1996) was a key figure in New
American poetry, which grew out of the Black Mountain School and
San Francisco Renaissance, and a major influence on the Language
poets. Eigner also had cerebral palsy as the result of an accident
at birth. It is fortuitous that the poet lived his life in two
locations vibrant in both poetics and disability activism. Except
for brief periods attending camp and school, he lived with his
parents in Swampscott, Massachusetts, until the age of 51. Later,
he moved to Berkeley, California, at the height of the disability
rights movement. In the 1950s, Eigner attended Camp Jened, which
later became famous in the film Crip Camp. Bartlett’s biography
covers every significant phase of Eigner’s life: his childhood
and young adulthood when he began typing poems with one finger on
the manual typewriter that was a bar mitzvah gift; his first
publications and the maturation of his poetic interests through
correspondence with poets of the era; and after his move to
Berkeley, the ever-expanding circle of friends, poets, caretakers,
and collaborators he established there. The result is a deeply
insightful account of an utterly distinctive voice whose influence
widens and deepens with each new generation that encounters him.
From 1920 until his death in 1962, consciousness and its effect on
the natural world was Robinson Jeffers's obsession. Understanding
and explaining the biological basis of mind is one of the towering
challenges of modern science to this day, and Jeffers's poetic
experiment is an important contribution to American literary
history no other twentieth-century poet attempted such a thorough
engagement with a crucial scientific problem. Jeffers invented a
sacramental poetics that accommodates a modern scientific account
of consciousness, thereby integrating an essentially religious
sensibility with science in order to discover the sacramentality of
natural process and reveal a divine cosmos.
There is no other study of Jeffers or sacramental nature poetry
like this one. It proposes that Jeffers's sacramentalism emerged
out of his scientifically informed understanding of material
nature. Drawing on ecocriticism, religious studies, and
neuroscience, Inventing the Language to Tell It shows how Jeffers
produced the most compelling sacramental nature poetry of the
twentieth century.
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