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COST OF WAR (HB @ PB PRICE)
: British Policy on French War Debts, 1918-1932
[Arthur Turner]
The first comprehensive account of British policy on French war debts in the period following the First World War.
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328pp,
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January 1998;
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1845192001:9781845192006
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EXILES & MIGRANTS (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Crossing Thresholds in European Culture & Society
[Anthony Coulson (ed)]
A collection of essays looking at the themes of exile and migration in European culture from the 17th to the 20th century
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230pp,
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January 1997;
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1845192079:9781845192075
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NAZIS IN PRE-WAR LONDON, 1930-1939 (HB @ PB PRICE)
: The Fate & Role of German Party Members & British Sympathizers
[James J Barnes & Patience P Barnes]
This book seeks to answer a number of questions concerning the activities of Nazi Germans in London prior to World War II: Who were they? What were they doing in London? How many of them were there, and how long did they stay? Were they mostly professional espionage agents, or simply Germans living and working in Britain?; Once war broke out, were they interned or expelled?
REVIEW: "James and Patience Barnes have engaged in some detailed detective work to uncover one of the least known and most intriguing aspects of the history of Nazism. Their study provides a fascinating insight into the previously overlooked but highly significant story of Nazi overseas operations. Neither the history of London nor the history of Nazism will look quite the same again." -- Professor Dan Stone, Royal Holloway, University of London, author of The Historiography of the Holocaust and Responses to Nazism in Britain 1933-1939: Before War and Holocaust.
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283pp,
152x229mm,
June 2005;
HB,
£19.95,
1845192192:9781845192198
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NEW ALBANIAN MIGRATION (HB @ PB PRICE)
[Russell King, Nicola Mai & Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers (eds)]
Prevented from leaving their country for over 45 years, the citizens of the Republic of Albania emigrated en masse during the 1990s and the exodus continues. According to the 2001 census, one in five Albanians was a migrant living abroad, mainly in Greece and Italy but also, and increasingly, in a range of other European countries and in North America. The volume's contributors comprise key researchers on Albanian migration from around the world. The book will reflect the wide diversity of disciplinary and interdisciplinary approaches deployed by researchers studying this phenomenon.
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218pp,
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January 2005;
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1845192206:9781845192204
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PARIS EMBASSY OF SIR ERIC PHIPPS (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Anglo-French Relations & Foreign Office, 1937-1939
[John Herman]
Sir Eric Phipps was British Ambassador in Berlin (1933-37) and at Paris (1937-39) -- two key ambassadorships which spanned the crucial period between Hitler's advent to power and the outbreak of the Second World War. This book explains the striking contrast between his reputation as a staunch anti-Nazi and an 'anti-appeaser' in Berlin, and as a 'defeatist-appeaser' in Paris.
REVIEW: "A full and valuable study." -- TLS. "A much-needed diplomatic history of a crucial figure in 1930s diplomacy." -- English Historical Review. "In a subtle and nuanced study... underpinned by first-rate research, Herman has carried out a meticulous examination... to understand the complexity of Britain's overall foreign policy in the 1930s." -- International Historical Review.
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276pp,
155x230mm,
January 1998;
HB,
£19.95,
1845192222:9781845192228
, Sussex Academic Press
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WAGE POLITICS IN BRITAIN (HB @ PB PRICE)
: The Rise & Fall of Incomes Policies Since 1945
[Peter Dorey]
This text provides a comprehensive and in-depth account of the history of incomes policies in post-war Britain, detailing in particular attempts at securing wage restraint pursued by each government up to 1979, and how and why incomes policies were abandoned thereafter.
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280pp,
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January 2002;
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£17.95,
1902210921:9781902210926
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JEWISH SOCIALISTS IN THE UNITED STATES (HB @ PB PRICE)
: The Cahan Debate, 1925-1926
[Yaacov N Goldstein]
In 1925 Abe (Abraham) Cahan, the strong and influential editor of the most important Jewish newspaper, Forward, and an outstanding leader of the Jewish Labor movement in the United States, visited Palestine in order to come to terms with the problem of Jewish mass migration from East Europe. During and following his trip Cahan published his impressions about the Jewish National Home. His publications stirred a public debate, which lasted almost a year, between the supporters and 'Bundist' antagonists to Palestine. Almost all major leaders in the Jewish labour movement participated in this debate, including Rogoff, Litvak, Panken, Pine, Charny-Vladek, Zivion and Morris Hillquit, one of the major leaders of the SP (the American Socialist Party). A major stronghold of the anti-Zionist Bund movement was, besides eastern Europe, in the United States. The perception of Jewish immigrants was that Palestine would not solve the problems and needs of the Jewish masses. The idea of establishing a Jewish state in Palestine was considered an illusion.
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259pp,
155z230mm,
January 1998;
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£19.95,
1845192176:9781845192174
, Sussex Academic Press
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JEWS OF THE CHANNEL ISLANDS & THE RULE OF LAW, 1940-1945 (HB @ PB PRICE)
: 'Quite contrary to the principles of British Justice'
[David Fraser]
A book examining the treatment of the Jews living in the Channel Islands during German Occupation.
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262pp,
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January 2002;
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£16.95,
190390028X:9781903900284
, Sussex Academic Press
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RICH & THE POOR (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Jewish Philanthropy & Social Control in Nineteenth-Century London
[Mordechai Rozin]
This book shows how a centrally planned philanthropy developed within the London Jewish community in the nineteenth century, culminating in the establishment and development of the Jewish Board of Guardians.
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268pp,
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January 1999;
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1845192273:9781845192273
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RING OF MYTHS
: The Israelis, Wagner & the Nazis
[Na'ama Sheffi]
This book examines the Israeli attitude towards Wagner in light of remembrance of the Holocaust and the shape of the new Israeli national identity. To many in Israel, Richard Wagner is a symbol of the concentration camps, or at least of a fierce sociopolitical controversy. Although the cancellation of a performance of the prelude to Wagner's Meistersinger von Nürnberg in 1938 was simply an impetuous response to the events of Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany, over the years this incident became part of a wider pattern as the Wagner boycott was extended to other composers suspected of collaborating with the Nazis.
REVIEW: "Sheffi concludes that the choice of Wagner as the target for all their abhorrance of Nazism and the Holocaust 'both sins against the man and obscures the significance of the Holocaust'." -- Choice. "Does an excellent job of showing the historical evolution of the debate, and linking this to the political and ideological evolution of the State of Israel." -- H-Net; H-Genocide. "The reception of German culture in general and Wagner's music in particular is traced to show how the taboo developed alongside the collective memory of the Holocaust... For Sheffi, the dilemma around Wagner reflects the situation of the state of Israel as a whole... She takes the musical debate... and uses it as a mirror to reflect Israeli society today. [The book] shows a profound understanding of how Israeli society emerged and how it functions today." -- The Jewish Quarterly Review.
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184pp,
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January 2002;
PB,
£16.95,
1902210530:9781902210537
, Sussex Academic Press
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SEPHARDIM OF SYDNEY (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Coping with Political Processes & Social Pressures
[Naomi Gale]
The Sydney Jewish community is dynamic and vibrant, with many communal, social and religious institutions. This book investigates the Sephardic community of Sydney -- their history, their experiences as new immigrants in a host society after arriving from traditional Moslem cultures, as well as the changes they have undergone since they arrived in Australia.
REVIEW: "Provides valuable insights into the dynamics of the formation of Sephardic Jewish identity..." -- Professor C Kessler, The University of New South Wales. "A valuable study of the problems facing a migrant ethnical community arriving in Australia..." -- Professor R Gabby, The University of Western Australia. "A commendable example of 'salvage ethnography'..." -- Professor S Deshen, Tel Aviv University.
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292pp,
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April 2005;
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1845192281:9781845192280
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ARAB WRITER IN ENGLISH (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Arab Themes in a Metropolitan Language, 1908-58
[Geoffrey Nash]
This book examines the English writings of four twentieth-century Anglo-Arab and Arab-American writers.
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177pp,
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January 1998;
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1845191935:9781845191931
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ARAB-JEWISH RELATIONS (HB @ PB PRICE)
: From Conflict to Resolution?
[Elie Podeh & Asher Kaufman (eds)]
Distinguished American, Canadian, Palestinian and Israeli contributors illuminate the building blocks on the possible path from conflict to reconciliation between Jews and Arabs. The book is divided into three parts: Part I looks at the Arab-Jewish Conflict, from early Zionism to the 1967 Arab-Israeli War; Part II, Israel and the Arab States, focuses on Israel's relations with its neighbouring countries, Syria, and Lebanon; and Part III is concerned with the Peace Process, its dynamics and the missed opportunities for peace between Israelis and Palestinians.
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386pp,
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November 2005;
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1845191943:9781845191948
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ASAD IN SEARCH OF LEGITIMACY (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Message & Rhetoric in the Syrian Press Under Hafiz & Bashar
[Mordechai Kedar]
Features quotations from newspaper sources in their original Arabic and their English translation; Looks at the new "message" period of Bashar Asad; Detailed and revealing analysis of the domestic political message of the Syrian press, and the methods used to promote that message; A well researched critique into the machinations of the Syrian state.
REVIEW: "...an outstandingly rich study of the way the Syrian Ba'th regime under Hafiz al-Asad used the Syrian media and other official information services in his search for legitimacy... ...should become a model for the analytic and systematic treatment of official rhetoric and regime-media/public relations in authoritarian regimes." -- Eyal Zisser, Head of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History, Tel Aviv University. "...a unique documentation and analysis of the Middle East as seen through the eyes of the Syrian media. ...successfully conveys a true and panoramic picture of Arabian dictatorship. Dictatorship is expertly studied... an indispensable documentary and commentary on Modern Middle Eastern history." -- Shaker Nabulsi, Head of the Arab-American Academic Association, Denver, Colorado.
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302pp,
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November 2006;
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£19.95,
1845191854:9781845191856
, Sussex Academic Press
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BLOOD REVENGE (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Family Honor, Mediation & Outcasting, 2nd Edition
[Joseph Ginat]
A book about blood homicide in Bedouin and rural Arab society in Israel.
REVIEW: "The case studies are interesting and illuminating. They add an important empirical dimension to the general theoretical discussion of conflict resolution." -- Middle Eastern Studies
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228pp,
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January 1997;
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£19.95,
1845191978:9781845191979
, Sussex Academic Press
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BRITAIN & THE YEMEN CIVIL WAR, 1962-1965 (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Ministers, Mercenaries & Mandarins -- Foreign Policy & the Limits of Covert Action
[Clive Jones]
Examines the extent to which British policy, while successful in imposing a war of attrition upon Nasser in the Yemen, contributed to the political demise of the very objective covert action was designed to secure. It breaks new ground by analyzing the extent to which Britain came to support the Royalist cause despite public declarations of non-involvement in the Yemen conflict, and details for the first time how London's tacit support for 'mercenary operations' in the Yemen came to enlist the help of Saudi Arabia and Israel.
REVIEW: "...Jones' descriptions of mercenary activities, the machinations of the Saudis and Jordanians, is all derring do and a rattling good yarn. A rare combination of a sober academic study and a riveting page-turner!" -- Asian Affairs.
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273pp,
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October 2004;
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1845191986:9781845191986
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DAVID BEN-GURION, THE STATE OF ISRAEL & THE ARAB WORLD, 1949-1956 (HB @ PB PRICE)
[Zaki Shalom]
The first book to deal primarily with Ben-Gurion's strategic-political perceptions and his images of Israel, the Arab world, and their mutual realtions
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216pp,
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January 2002;
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184519201X:9781845192013
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DECLINE OF ARAB UNITY (HB @ PB PRICE)
: The Rise & Fall of the United Arab Republic
[Elie Podeh]
Analyses the political and socioeconomic processes that led to the rise and fall of the UAR, as well as the ramifications of this episode on the Arab world. The analysis is presented in the wider context of pan-Arab ideology. The formation of the union constituted both the culmination of this ideology and the beginning of its decline. With the disintegration of the UAR, the dream of an all-Arab nation in one state evaporated. Despite its short duration, the UAR episode is considered one of the major developments in the modern history of the Arab world. This is the first book in English to tell the story of this important, yet neglected, episode in Arab history. The research is based on archival material located in the US, Britain, Canada, and Israel, as well as all the available sources in Arabic. The use of these primary sources allows for a fresh look at the UAR forty years after its establishment.
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292pp,
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January 1999;
HB,
£17.50,
1845191463:9781845191467
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DEMOGRAPHIC DEVELOPMENTS & POPULATION POLICIES IN BATH'IST SYRIA (HB @ PB PRICE)
[Onn Winckler]
An analysis of the demographic and socioeconomic developments in Syria during the late twentieth century
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218pp,
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January 1999;
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1845192036:9781845192037
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ECONOMIC RELATIONS BETWEEN EGYPT & THE GULF OIL STATES, 1967-2000 (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Petro Wealth & Patterns of Influence
[Gil Feiler]
The upheaval in oil prices in the early 1970s gave rise to major changes in inter-Arab relations. While the oil-producing countries became rich and their citizens enjoyed one of the highest standards of living in the world, the Arab World's cultural and historical leader, Egypt, was enmeshed in an economic morass, barely managing to finance the import of foodstuffs for her population and at the forefront of the Arab confrontation with Israel. The author provides a unique insight into a virtually unseen current that has shaped Middle East war and politics for over 30 years by explaining the intricate and ever shifting relationship between Egypt and the immensely wealthy Arab Gulf newcomers. The book analyses the effects economic aid and cooperation had on the political relation- ship between the two sides, and on President Sadat's peace initiative with Israel. It provides a wealth of new data and original and insightful analysis, and fills an important gap in our understanding of the inner economic workings of the modern Arab world.
REVIEW: "Feiler examines in great detail economic relations between Egypt and the Arab oil exporting countries... A concluding chapter nicely assesses why the economic ties had less impact than suggested by the rhetoric on both sides... Recommended." -- Social & Behavioral Sciences.
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407pp,
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January 2002;
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1845192052:9781845192051
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FROM WAR TO PEACE (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Arab-Israeli Relations, 1973-1993
[Joseph Ginat, Moshe Ma'oz & Barry Rubin]
A survey of Arab-Israeli relations from the Yom Kippur War to the present day. This book reveals new first-hand material based on personal involvement at a high political level, and analysis by top Middle East experts. The volume deals with two pivotal events, in 1973 and 1993, leading the Middle East from War to Peace, as well as the dramatic changes connecting these years and events over time, incorporating Israeli, Palestinian and American scholars and participants in the fighting, diplomacy and secret contacts which moved towards resolving the world's longest ongoing conflict.
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244pp,
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January 1994;
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£12.95,
1898723400:9781898723400
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ISRAELIS IN CONFLICT (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Hegemonies, Identities & Challenges
[Adriana Kemp, Uri Ram, David Newman & Oren Yiftachel (eds)]
Globalisation and increased cultural heterogeneity have had a major impact on states whose identity has been defined in terms of a single, often socially constructed, allegiance to the state and a single hegemonic ideology. Nowhere are changing notions of identity more prevalent than in Israel, a country whose dominant (Western-Jewish) society has been subject to understanding their past and present in terms of a single ideology of state formation -- Zionism. This book challenges some of the traditional analytical paradigms prevalent in Israeli social science for the past fifty years.
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333pp,
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May 2004;
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184519215X:9781845192150
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PALESTINIAN IMPASSE IN LEBANON (HB @ PB PRICE)
: The Politics of Refugee Integration
[Simon Haddad]
REVIEW: "Haddad's research is a welcome addition to literature on Middle Eastern conflicts and refugee studies in general. It highlights important interconnections between conflicts in neighbouring and supports a regional approach to understanding and resolving conflicts. At the same time, Haddad provides a rare glimpse into political attitudes in Lebanon and his research should encourage more studies of this nature in the region." -- International Journal of Refugee Law. Vol. 17: No. 4 (December 2005)
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179pp,
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January 2003;
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1845192214:9781845192211
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POETICS, POLITICS & PROTEST IN ARAB THEATRE (HB @ PB PRICE)
: The Bitter Cup & the Holy Rain
[Mas'ud Hamdan]
This book highlights the so far unappreciated merit of the Syrian playwrights Durayd Lahham and Muhammad al-Maghout, whose plays are representative of the new wave of Arab theatrical realisation in general and Syrian protest plays in particular. 'Ghawwar', the famous character type created by Lahham, combines art with politics, the past with modern times, lower class-consciousness and identity with Pan-Arab nationalism, and East with West. He also symbolizes a poetical link between the 'bitter cup' of a miserable present and the 'holy rain' of a better future.
REVIEW: "An excellent contribution to the study of the dynamics of the Arab cultural system in modern times, especially against the background of the current limited research in the field..." -- Professor Reuven Snir, Dept. of Arabic Language & Literature, University of Haifa.
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189pp,
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January 2006;
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1845192249:9781845192242
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STATE LANDS & RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN MANDATORY PALESTINE, 1920-1948 (HB @ PB PRICE)
[Warwick P N Tyler]
This book examines to what extent the League of Nations' Mandate for Palestine has been fulfilled.
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260pp,
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January 2001;
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184519229X:9781845192297
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THREAT OF BALLISTIC MISSILES IN THE MIDDLE EAST (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Active Defense & Counter-Measures
[Arieh Stav (ed)]
This book addresses the complex issue of defense against ballistic missiles by intercepting them at various stages of their trajectory: during launching -- such as the Boost Phase Interception (BPI) project being developed by RAFAEL; in the middle of their trajectory, outside the atmosphere -- such as the THAAD project of the US Army and the AEGIS project of the US Navy; or in the final stage, when the missile is approaching the target -- such as the Israeli Arrow project. This volume poses both technical and conceptual questions regarding the issue of missile-to-missile interception, in contrast to the doctrines of second-strike retaliatory capability and pre-emptive strike. The specific threats posed by ballistic missles to the State of Israel are examined. The 16 research articles, written by leading experts in Israel, the US, and Britain, represent the first serious inquiry to address the specifics of the urgent ballistic missile proliferation and threat in the Middle East.
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298pp,
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1845192303:9781845192303
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WATER IN THE MIDDLE EAST (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Cooperation & Technological Solutions in the Jordan Valley
[K David Hambright, F Jamil Ragep & Joseph Ginat]
While the book highlights the complexities pertaining to regional water scarcity and inequitable distribution, the contributors offer no definitive conclusions or facile solutions; yet there is a broad consensus that regional solutions to maximize water resources must be pursued even as desalination becomes more viable both from technical/economic standpoints. The continuing deterioration of existing water supplies in terms of quantity and quality mandate that any solution must be achieved within a political/social framework of peace, enlightened economic policies, and the application of technical solutions that take due account of environmental concerns.
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249pp,
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November 2005;
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1845192338:9781845192334
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DEMOCRACY IN CHILE (HB @ PB PRICE)
: The Legacy of September 11, 1973
[Silvia Nagy-Zekmi & Fernando Leiva (eds)]
In the 1990s, Latin America emerged from the horror of massive and systematic human rights violations as the region returned to civilian-elected regimes. Many hoped that such transitions would bring about significant political, economic and cultural change: the rebuilding a more democratic order based on a 'culture of human rights' that would reinvigorate democratic practices in the region. This volume aims to explore the lasting legacy of the transformations brought about by the oppressive regimes of the '70s and '80s as they are being experienced today in the cultural, social and intellectual life of the region.
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226pp,
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August 2005;
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1845192028:9781845192020
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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Structuring Motivation in a Green Bureaucracy -- The Conflict Between Regulatory Style & Cultural Identity
[Robert McMahon]
By utilising the lenses of institutions and culture -- examining the relationship between regulator and regulated, dominant regulatory style, and interaction with the institutions of government -- this book challenges the contemporary wisdom that recommends holistic and integrated institutional forms that result in the decimation of existing cultural identifications. No sense of bureaucratic mission can be established where cultural identifications have been destroyed, regardless of the ingenuity of the institutional form adopted. The absence of such bureaucratic mission results in green bureaucracies that are likely to fail in the pursuit of organisational goals. Examining motivations shows why cultural identifications within an organisation must be congruent with institutional structures so that these identifications can be established.
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220pp,
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1845192060:9781845192068
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FATAH & THE POLITICS OF VIOLENCE (HB @ PB PRICE)
: The Institutionalization of a Popular Struggle
[Anat N Kurz]
Explores the relations between the Fatah organisation and its national constituency; Documents the rise of Fatah in Palestinian society; Provides a comprehensive history of Fatah and the political history of the Palestinian National Movement, from 1959 through to the Second Intifada in 2000; Analyses the types of struggle that Fatah strategically adopts.
REVIEW: "...a unique contribution to both fields of political science and Middle Eastern politics..." -- Professor Abraham Ben-Zvi, Department of Government, Georgetown University, Washington DC. "...a unique book whose relevance goes beyond its empirical setting... ...an ingeniously clever volume." -- Samuel B. Bacharach, McKelvey-Grant Professor of Labor-Management Relations; Director, Institute for Workplace Studies; Director, Smithers Institute, Cornell University. "...a welcome application of the analytical tools of social science..." -- Professor Yezid Sayigh, Chair in Middle East Studies, Department of War Studies, Kings College London.
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228pp,
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January 2007;
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£19.95,
1845192087:9781845192082
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FOREIGN OFFICE & FOREIGN POLICY, 1919-1926 (HB @ PB PRICE)
[Ephraim Maisel]
The Foreign Office and Foreign Policy, 1919-1926 tells of the administrative changes of the post-war period and of the senior permanent officials, their personalities and cast of mind, who advised the foreign secretary and carried out his policies. The book goes beyond existing accounts of changes taking place after the Great War, and provides examples of the FO machine in action as seen from King Charles Street, and the uneasy relationship between 10 Downing Street and the Foreign Office.
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323pp,
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January 1994;
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£19.95,
1845192109:9781845192105
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PALESTINIAN REFUGEES (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Old Problems -- New Solutions
[Joseph Ginat & Edward Perkins (eds); Foreword by HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan; Preface by David L Boren, President of the University of Oklahoma]
There has been little progress on the refugee problem because of official Palestinian public positions, other Arab countries' approach to the 'right of return' of all Palestinian refugees, and the contrasting Israeli public policy of not allowing any refugees to return to Israel. Such polar-opposite approaches can never resolve this difficult and longstanding humanitarian problem. By working collectively, the world's leading experts from Arab countries, the Palestinian Authority, Israel, Europe and the United States have developed a chessboard of proposed solutions. The volume in part reflects the polarization that exists on the issue, and in part moves away from the political slogans of both sides, toward concrete proposals for negotiating a comprehensive agreement.
REVIEW: "The editors note that the refugee debate is polarised between the Palestinian/Arab view that all refugees should be allowed to return to their original homes inside Israel, and the Israeli view that no refugees should return to Israel. The editors and contributors argue the case for 'realistic proposals for solving the refugee problem', but most of the contributors endorse at least in principle Palestinian maximal demands for a right of return... Shlomo Gazit is willing to financially compensate the refugees, but opposes any return to Israel... Yoav Gelber argues insightfully that the respective Palestinians and Israeli arguments about solutions are based on totally different cultural assumptions. The Israelis favour resettlement, which is the traditional European approach to refugee populations, while the Arabs favour repatriation, which is the traditional pattern in the Middle East." -- The Australian Jewish News.
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341pp,
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January 2002;
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1902210875:9781902210872
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US POLICY TOWARDS ISRAEL (HB @ PB PRICE)
: The Role of Political Culture in Defining the 'Special Relationship'
[Elizabeth Stephens]
This book explains the American commitment to Israel within a framework of political culture. Although political culture is not the sole explanatory factor in the development of US policy toward Israel, it has played a key role in serving to shape and define the American approach to foreign affairs, thus contributing to decisions and operations that cannot easily be explained solely in geopolitical, economic or military terms.
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339pp,
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January 2006;
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184519232X:9781845192327
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GAMBLING IN THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY ENGLISH NOVEL (HB @ PB PRICE)
: A Leprosy is O'er the Land
[Michael Flavin]
This book explores the theme of gambling in a wide range of nineteenth-century English novels. It examines the representation of gambling in the novels themselves and the role that gambling played in the lives of the individual novelists. It also considers the significance of gambling in the novels within the wider context of the development of Victorian society. Following an historical overview, the book comprises individual chapters on: Benjamin Disraeli, Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Anthony Trollope and George Moore. Gambling in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel not only provides fresh readings of established texts within a distinctive social and cultural context, but is also a comprehensive barometer of the social history of the time as attitudes towards leisure changed. It is essential reading for all those interested in the development of English society and culture in the Victorian era. Gambling occurred in all strata of society and was a national pastime. The pursuit of gambling took many forms: from after-dinner cards to pugilism, and indeed Stock Exchange transactions were considered by many to be gambling at its worst.
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254pp,
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January 2003;
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£19.95,
1845192117:9781845192112
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KAREL CAPEK (HB @ PB PRICE)
: In Pursuit of Truth, Tolerance & Trust
[Bohuslava R Bradbrook]
REVIEW: "A splendid volume." -- Modern Language Review. "The most comprehensive treatment of Capek's life and work, not only in English but in any language, including Czech. Bradbrook has helped to fill in a lacunae in English Czech studies." -- William E. Harkins, Columbia University. "The author has accomplished a singular feat... she has unequivocally convinced the reader to return to Karel Capek's works... to regain a literary paradise." -- World Literature Today.
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257pp,
155x230mm,
January 1998;
HB,
£19.95,
1845191153:9781845191153
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PHILIP LARKIN (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Subversive Writer
[Stephen Cooper]
Critics have tended to label Larkin's poetry as sexist, racist and reactionary. However, this volume demonstrates that Larkin's artistic impulse throughout his career was to challenge orthodox models of social and sexual politics. Focusing on the Brunette Coleman novellas and the unfinished novels, a structural blueprint is identified as prefiguring the later poems' commentary on sexual and social conduct. Further unpublished material includes correspondence, workbook drafts, dream records, and a playscript, depicting, alternately, hostility to wartime heroics, revulsion from capitalism, unease with traditional gender roles and an interest in psychoanalysis. This study makes available to scholars paintings by Larkin's friend, James Sutton, which illuminate the writer's concern with social oppression, especially the predicament of women in the 1940s.
REVIEW: "Stephen Cooper's book sets a new standard in Larkin criticism..." -- Stephen Regan, Professor of English, University of Durham. "...Summing Up: Highly recommended." -- Choice.
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TRAUMA & ETHICS IN THE NOVELS OF GRAHAM SWIFT (HB @ PB PRICE)
: No Short-Cuts to Salvation
[Stef Craps]
Shows how the novels elaborate an ethics of alterity by means of a detailed study of one of Swift's most persistent and fascinating -- yet all too often ignored -- concerns: the traumatic experience of reality. Swift's texts evoke the cultural pathologies of a nation (post-war Britain) and an era (modernity) through the narratives of individual characters who are struggling to come to terms with a traumatic personal and collective past. By providing a wide-ranging and in-depth analysis of Swift's novels against the background of the 'ethical turn' in literary studies and the emergence of trauma theory, this book extends and enriches our understanding of what is arguably one of the most significant literary oeuvres of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
REVIEW: "...a detailed, carefully balanced and well-informed study of this major contemporary writer..." -- Robert Eaglestone, Royal Holloway, University of London, and Editor, Routledge Critical Thinkers. "...not only offers brilliant analyses of Swift's novels, it also makes a significant impact on trauma studies..." -- Ernst van Alphen, University of Leiden / University of California, Berkeley.
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AT THE FEET OF THE GODDESS (HB @ PB PRICE)
: The Divine Feminine in Local Hindu Religion
[Lynn Foulston]
A study of goddess beliefs and practices in Indian culture.
REVIEW: "...Foulston's work stands out through its great attention to local details and differences between individual Indian goddesses, details relating to their diverse locations, their rich phenomenology, here documented by new visual evidence, their presence and power in people's lives, and the joyous celebration of their existence and influence through numerous rituals and festivities. It is joy to read this book..." -- Professor Ursula King, University of Bristol. "...Foulston has succeeded in putting together extensive textual and ethnographic research that elegantly testifies to the complexity of not only local goddess traditions in India but broader Hindu traditions as well." -- The Journal of Asian Studies. "...A meticulous and colourful description which details not only the variety of goddesses in the two settlements but also their attendant origin myths as told by informants and these myths' relation, when applicable, to texts." -- The Journal of Religion.
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1845191951:9781845191955
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DREAMERS OF ZION -- JOSEPH SMITH & GEORGE J ADAMS (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Conviction, Leadership & Israel's Renewal
[Reed M Holmes]
This book explains the rejection by Smith and Adams of 'normal' Christian replacement theology and sets out the apologetics by which Smith and Adams promoted courage and conviction in all who joined them in encouraging the gathering of the Jewish exiles to Jerusalem. Joseph Smith Jr, founder of the Mormon movement and George J Adams, one of his least known followers -- two Gentile dreamers of Zion -- were instrumental in encouraging Jews and Christians to support the restoration of Israel.
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EDUCATION OF CHRISTIAN FAITH (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Critical & Literary Encounters with the New Testament
[Kenneth Cragg]
This study explores the taxing question of whether Christ-Learning should be an ongoing process by presenting examples of the critical and personal learning undertaken by minds exercised with scholarship, ecclesiology, poetry, the novel and sexuality. While the responses to faith in Christ of the seven chosen figures -- Richard Hooker, John Henry Newman, Robert Browning, William Faulkner, Rudyard Kipling, Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde -- are highly personal, it is the theme of "education", which was at the heart of every Messianic achievement, that throws up confrontations to the orthodox approach to faith. These individuals are eminently representative of biography wrestling with what the New Testament Scripture first understood. Their experiences can be signified in a New Testament play on words: emathen apathen (suffering they learned, learning they suffered).
REVIEW: "A fascinating and deeply learned book. The core theme is learning. The book rests on a presentation of Jesus as having undergone a process of education: he learned through suffering (Heb. 5:8). Cragg develops this theme through a many-sided conversation with some modern figures who provide case studies in Christ-learning: Hooker, Newman, Browning, Faulkner, Kipling, Nietzsche and Wilde. This is an exceptional work: first, here is a christology that refuses to downplay the full, human obedience of Jesus, and takes time, history and process seriously; second, this christology becomes integral to an engagement with contemporary culture which would be hard to match for thoroughness, sensitivity and profundity. A very significant achievement." -- The Expository Times. "Written in a strikingly subtle and penetrating style, this volume reveals an immense erudition, and a truly extraordinary moral and religious sensitivity, theological acumen and critical awareness, literary and other." -- W. D. Davies, Emeritus Professor, Duke University.
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FIGURES OF HERESY (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Radical Theology in English & American Writing, 1800-2000
[Andrew Dix & Jonathan Taylor (eds)]
'God is dead,' Nietzsche famously declared in The Gay Science; but this book will investigate God's surprising persistence and resurrection in the works of even the most seemingly atheistic of writers, who continue to deploy Judaic and Christian narratives and tropes even as they radically rewrite them in the face of new cultural, political and scientific imperatives. Contributors explore the range, power and implication of Christian and Jewish heresies in canonical Anglo-American writers -- including Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Hardy, Robert Louis Stevenson, T S Eliot, John Steinbeck and Jim Crace -- as well as in some less familiar texts: the Mormon Scriptures of Joseph Smith and various Victorian rewritings of the Book of Esther. The revitalisation of heresy in literary interpretations, as well as in our religious thinking, forms the guiding objective of this exciting critical book.
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ISLAM IN INDONESIA (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Modernism, Radicalism & the Middle East Dimension
[Giora Eliraz]
Indonesia is home to the largest Muslim community in the world. Much of the media attention given to manifestations of radical Islam in Indonesia after 9/11 and the Bali bombings of October 2002 have been limited to current affairs. This book provides a broader perspective about contemporary Islam in Indonesia through discussing two outstanding streams of thought and movements -- Islamic modernism and radical Islamic fundamentalism.
REVIEW: "Carefully researched and engagingly written, this fine book deserves to be read by everyone interested in Indonesian Islam, as well as by the general reader curious about the varieties and future of Muslim politics." -- Robert W. Hefner, Professor of Anthropology, Associate Director of the Institute on Culture, Religion and World Affairs (CURA), Boston University.
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142pp,
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1845192141:9781845192143
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JAINISM, VOLUME 1 (HB @ PB PRICE)
: The World of Conquerors
[Natubhai Shah]
REVIEW: "These two volumes provide an intimate vantage view of what the author calls ‘the world of conquerors' - a world of inner and outer space waiting to be conquered not by warlike weapons unleashed by greed, malice, domination, violence and exploitation but by peaceful conquerors following principles and practice of Right Knowledge, Right Faith, and Right Austerities, based on reverence for life, compassion, non-violence, equanimity and a sense of mutual interdependence." -- From the Foreword by His Excellency Dr L. M. Singhvi, formerly High Commissioner for India.
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JAINISM, VOLUME 2 (HB @ PB PRICE)
: The World of Conquerors
[Natubhai Shah]
The first comprehensive study of Jainism to be published in the West.
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MYTHO-EMPIRICISM OF GNOSTICISM (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Triumph of the Vanquished
[Shlomo Giora Shoham; Foreword by Giovanni Filoramo]
A learning experience of the first order, encyclopedically rich in its coverage, Shoham puts myth, religion, literature and psychology into an easily understandable analytic perspective. This book traces the influence of Gnosis in European culture.
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PROVIDENCE IN THE BOOK OF JOB (HB @ PB PRICE)
: The Search for God's Mind
[Jeremy I Pfeffer]
Discusses the origins of the Book of Job, the key personalities in its narrative (God, Satan and Job), and the workings of Providence as reflected in Scripture and Talmudic sources; A critical presentation of the sense of the Book of Job as it appears in the commentaries of R Saadiah Gaon, R Abraham Ibn Ezra, the Rashi School of exegetes, Maimonides, Nahmanides, Gersonides, R Joseph Caspi, the Zohar and Kabbalists, Rabbeinu Bachya Asher, R Zerahiah Garcian, R Simeon ben Zemah Duran and R Meir Lebush Malbim; Much of the material has never before appeared in the English language.
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SPIRITUALITY & SOCIETY IN THE NEW MILLENNIUM (HB @ PB PRICE)
[Ursula King (ed)]
This book looks at contemporary understanding and practice of spirituality under three major perspectives.
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WEIGHT IN THE WORD (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Prophethood -- Biblical & Quranic
[Kenneth Cragg]
This book explores prophethood in the Bible and in the Qur'an.
REVIEW: "This is a profound and courageous attempt to compare and contrast Islamic ideas of prophecy, as found uniquely in Muhammad, with the prophetic tradition of the Hebrew Bible." -- John Barton, Oriel & Laing Professor of the Interpretation of Holy Scripture, Oriel College, Oxford
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WITH GOD IN HUMAN TRUST (HB @ PB PRICE)
: Christian Faith & Contemporary Humanism
[Kenneth Cragg]
This book argues that theism has always understood the divine as awaiting human cognisance and worship.
REVIEW: "A challenging and profitable read." -- The Expository Times. "This book is concerned to stress the reciprocity and mutual trust that subsist between the divine and the human. Creation was not so much an act of power as a gift or delegation of God's own creativity... the act of creation was a risk in which God entrusted himself to human beings, who have the possibility of becoming co-workers, but are not forced to be such. This general thesis is then illustrated and confirmed in an examination in some of the major areas of human endeavour. The argument is enlivened throughout by a wealth of illustration from literature." -- John MacQuarrie, DD, formerly Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, Oxford. "Bishop Cragg develops the case for Christian theism in a book that will challenge the confident agnostic or atheist no less than the Muslim or Jew. This is a distinguished book in a crowded field." -- Shabbir Akhtar, International Islamic University, Malaysia.
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