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Chilton and Neusner contend that, contrary to conventional wisdom, early Christians identified not as Christians, but as Jews. Bound to be controversial, the authors examine the New Testament as a statement of the Torah of Sinai. This important work provides a provocative and trenchant critique of existing scholarship that seeks to view Christianity as autonomous from Judaism.

Drawing on recent work in biology and philosophy of science the author identifies some unresolved issues in attempts to transfer the concepts of evolutionary biology to economics. The book poses questions which no self-conscious economist working on evolutionary issues can afford to ignore

Understanding Economics presents an interesting and accessible introduction to key economic ideas. The book clearly shows the relevance of economics to everyday situations. Examples are drawn from the internal workings of households, business firms and non-profit organizations. The book is user friendly in both style and content and requires no prior knowledge of economics and minimal mathematics.

The new institutional economics offers one of the most exciting research agendas in economics today. Yet can it really explain processes of economic change? Economic Evolution explores three of the main approaches within the new institutional economics: * the new theory of the firm, * Nelson and Winter's evolutionary economics * game theoretic accounts of spontaneous evolution.Close analysis reveals that the approaches differ on such fundament...

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Through a powerful tale of the female protagonist, Bimala, Tagore describes the battle he had with himself.The woman is torn between the duties owed to her husband, Nikhil, and the demands made on her by the radical leader, Sandip. The story based on love and political awakening illustrates two opposing ideas which reflect the history of the Bengal region and set against the backdrop of the Swadeshi movement.Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) was...

E.F. Schumacher argues that philosophy should provide a 'map' of life and knowledge which places the most important aspects of life in their correct prioritised place, and that we have too long depended on science to explain the mysteries of our lives and the universe. Reissue, to tie in with the centenary of his birth.

Follows the extraordinary development of the four self-taught musicians from Liverpool from their beginnings until the break-up in 1970

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John Gray argues that all schools of contemporary political thought are variations on the Enlightenment Project - the Westernizing project of Universalizing Civilization and that new models are now needed to cope with contemporary dilemmas.

Out of print since 1991, Two for Texas is a rip-roaring historical novel about the Texas Revolution of 1835. No reader of Burke's bestselling Dave Robicheaux detective novels will want to miss this marvelous work that pre-dates his success.

The study of gender in classical antiquity has undergone rapid and wide-ranging development in the past two decades. This collection of new assessments has been written by some of the most influential experts in this field from all over the world. The contributors reassess the role of women in diverse contexts and areas, such as archaic and classical Greek literature and culture, Roman imperial politics, ancient medicine and early Christianity...

A translation of Guibert of Nogent's memoirs. Written around the year 1115 this book of "solitary songs" offers a look at the life of a monk in the Middle Ages. They portray an intense preoccupation with the sinfulness of the soul, and visions of demons and necromancy.

Utilizing and expanding the database presented in his earlier monographs "Cranial Variation in Man" and "Skull Shapes and the Map, " Howells develops methods for allocating a human skull to one of 28 modern populations for historical or forensic purposes.

This is an assertive, feminist, at times revisionist reading of Australia's colonial history. Jan Kociumbas traces the development of the various British penal colonies during the century that followed James Coook's discovery of Australia.

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These 15 studies reflect advances in research and methodology that have been made since 1960 in the historiography of European expansion. The material focuses on the beginnings of trans-oceanic expansion by the Iberian powers and on early encounters preceding patterns of interaction.

These two immensely distinguished writers show how the writings of the early church emerged from communities which defined themselves in Judaic terms even as they followed Jesus, how the early movement is best seen as 'Christian Judaism'.

By examining the development of modern dance in the USA in the inter-war period, Thomas develops a framework for analysing dance from a sociological perspective. She applies her approach to, among others, St Denis, Ted Shawn, and Martha Graham.

Delineates the effect of different reaction variables on the outcome of heterogeneously catalyzed reactions, and explains how to optimize the product yield of specific compounds. This work discusses metal catalysis, simple and complex oxides, zeolites and clays both as catalysts and as potential supports for catalytically active metals.