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A comprehensive global survey of the growth, spread and development of Christianity - now available in a handy flexiback edition

A comprehensive global survey of the growth, spread and development of Christianity

The enthralling story of how Christianity emerged in the first centuries AD

Explores the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

The communication techniques used by people and organisations have changed beyond recognition in barely two decades. For many, it is difficult to imagine a world without the internet, social media and smartphones. As a result, marketers have been presented with a profusion of technology to target customers. This research study looks at the markedly different communications landscape in developing nations, where multinationals cannot assume the...

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The Architecture of Ruins: Designs on the Past, Present and Future identifies an alternative and significant history of architecture, from the sixteenth century to the twenty-first, in which a building is designed, occupied and imagined as a ruin.

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Excerpt from Psychical Miscellanea: Being Papers on Psychical Research, Telepathy, Hypnotism, Christian Science, EtcEach chapter is complete in itself, but there is more or less connexion, for each deals with some aspect of the subject to which I have given most attention during the last twelve years - namely, psychical research.I thank the editors Of the H olbom Review, National Review, World's Work, and Occult Review for permission to republ...

Occupying Architecture focuses on the importance of the user of architecture. It emphasises the cross-currents between design, theory and use, and the need for a wider cross-cultural approach to architecture. Beginning with the architect, the book proceeds to explore models for architectural practice that actively engage the issue of use, and concludes with examination of the user. The authors draw on illustrations and examples from London, La...

The aim of this book is to expand the subject and matter of architecture, and to explore their interdependence. Hill and his contributors acknowledge architecture far beyond the familiar boundaries of the discipline and reassess the object at is center: the building. It is whatever architecture is made of, whether words, bricks, blood cells, sounds, or pixels. The fifteen chapters are divided into three sections--buildings, spaces, and bodies-...

Drawing on the work of a wide range of architects, artists and writers, this book considers the relations between the architect and the user, which it compares to the relations between the artist and viewer and the author and reader. The book's thesis is informed by the text 'The Death of the Author', in which Roland Barthes argues for a writer aware of the creativity of the reader. Actions of Architecture begins with a critique of strategies ...

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How did French colonization and the war of liberation transform Algerian identities? What part has the rise of Islamism and Berberism played? Addressing such questions, the author argues that how the Algerian government defines the nation is inextricably linked to its ability now and in the future to maintain political and social stability.

Architecture is generally perceived as the solid, physical matter that it unarguably creates, but what of the spaces it creates? This book explores the immaterial aspects of architecture, the pressures on architecture and the architectural profession, and considers concepts that align architecture with the immaterial.

Ein Anruf der Anwaltskanzlei Rogers & Rogers verändert schlagartig das Leben des Literaturprofessors Samuel Anderson: Nach dem tätlichen Angriff auf den republikanischen Präsidentschaftskandidaten braucht seine Mutter dringend Samuels Hilfe - doch die beiden haben sich seit über zwanzig Jahren nicht gesehen. »Geister« ist ein allumfassender, mitreißender Roman über Liebe, Unabhängigkeit, Verrat und die lebenslange Hoffnung auf Erlösung, ein Fa...

This book provides an analysis of the legal regimes regulating the resolution of disputes arising out of non-domestic consumer contracts (for example, contracts concluded between a consumer from one country and a supplier from another country).