Books published by Continuum Publishing Corporation

Presents a fresh approach to the Our Father, Jesus' own prayer, through the eyes of one of the greatest saints, Thomas Aquinas.

Against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world, formal schooling is frequently following rather than leading. The impression is given by central government that the education system serves as a ''thermostat'' restoring society''s settings in areas such as productivity, citizenship, health, sexual mores and behaviour. Educational reform over the last twenty years has clarified an existing educational process, reformatted the financial management of schools and resuscitated the inspection system. It has not, however, laid the foundations of a world-class future responsive educational system. Shaping a New Educational Landscape brings together writers considering a wide range of possibilities for future development in education and society from different perspectives. Exploring alternative scenarios and strategies, they are not engaged in making accurate predictions but in unsettling present thinking and stimulating discussion. Together they form a fascinating contribution to the growing debate about how we might generate an educational process that will sponsor new economic paradigms and create a bold participative society on the new global stage.

There has been a significant renewal of interest in the British Idealists. Scholars have acknowledged their critical contribution to the development of a communitarian theory of the relation of the individual to society and a widely accepted theory of rights. This guide offers an account of this key philosophical movement.

Stylistics is the study of the ways in which meaning is created and shaped through language, in literature and in other types of text. This book provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the field, along with sections that explain relevant terms, concepts and key thinkers, listed from A to Z.

Suitable for research students in education embarking upon their PhD, EdD or MPhil, this book encourages students to contextualise their understanding of quantitative and qualitative research methods by drawing links between the research question and its theoretical framework with the choice of the quantitative/qualitative methodology.

John Howard, baron Howard and first duke of Norfolk, was one of the most important men of the Yorkist period. This biography of the fifteenth century peer uses a collection of evidence he left behind him to reveal his day to day life.

Formulaic sequences are more or less fixed word combinations such as idioms, collocations, lexical bundles, and phrasal verbs. This title draws together diverse international work on formulaic language such as idioms, collocations, lexical bundles and phrasal verbs.

Presents the conservative and liberal arguments on eight key policy issues: trickle-down economics, welfare, social security, health care, immigration control, religion, the war in Iraq, and economic prosperity. This book is suitable for those interested in policy reform, party politics, and American politics.

Depression is being experienced in epidemic proportions in many Western societies, and there is great concern over the number of young people who are suffering, sometimes to the extent of committing suicide. This book aims to help prevent stress and depression by taking a positive approach to the promotion of health and well being in young people.

Suitable for students coming to philosophy of religion for the first time, this title sets traditional arguments such as the problem of evil or the concept of God within the contexts of contemporary debates.

Focuses on the profound impact that the author's Midwestern roots have had on his songs, politics, and prophetic character.

Oscar Wilde's reputation has shifted dramatically during the twentieth century from outcast in the wake of his trials for homosexual offences, to martyr to the gay cause in the 1980s and 90s, to important figure in the history of writing in English. This title offers readers a short, readable introduction to Oscar Wilde's life, work and afterlife.

A study of how the Hollywood film industry has treated the 'Other' throughout its history. It argues that the Hollywood system has been the only national cinema with the resources and inclination to explore images of others through stories set in exotic and faraway places.

Medieval and Renaissance Europe marked the high water mark for astrology. This book examines the foundation of modern astrology in the medieval and Renaissance worlds. It challenges the historical convention that astrology flourished only between the twelfth and seventeenth centuries.

Argues that the Enlightenment conception of rationality that feminists are fond of attacking is no longer a live concept. The author shows how contemporary theories of rationality are consonant with feminist concerns and proposes that feminists need a substantive theory of rationality, which she argues should be a virtue theory of rationality.

A guide to contemporary debates and issues in the sociology of religion providing an examination of classical secularization and the post-secularization paradigm. It provides an overview of major debates in the sociology of religion, exploring changing patterns of religious practice in the West during the past 150 years.

An original investigation of the structure of human morality, that aims to identify the place and significance of moral deeds. It revokes and renews the tradition of Kant's moral philosophy. Through a novel reading of contemporary approaches to Kant, it draws a new map of the human capacity for morality.

Through the confrontation of Heideggerian and Thomist thought, this book offers an original rethinking of the nature of temporality and the origins of metaphysical inquiry. It offers a treatment of the inception and deterioration of the four-fold presuppositions of Thomistic metaphysics: intentionality, causality, finitude, and ananke stenai.

Mathematics is a core subject and using and applying mathematics in problem solving activities is crucial in enabling children to use their knowledge and skills in a range of situations. This book includes case studies from practicing teachers that enable readers to easily relate the theoretical information to their classroom and teaching.

Examines the cultural encounter of Confucianism and Christianity with particular reference to death rites in Korea. This book employs the idea of the 'total social phenomenon', a concept first introduced by the French anthropologist Marcel Mauss (1872-1950).

Cornelius Castoriadis (1922-1997) was a philosopher, social critic, political activist, practicing psychoanalyst and professional economist. This collection of interviews discusses some of his most important ideas with leading figures in the disciplines that play such a crucial part in his philosophical work: poetry, psychoanalysis, and biology.

Presents an account of how some citizens actively assist state surveillance by 'informing' on others, such as during the Cold War and the current campaign against terrorism. This title is suitable for those interested in security and intelligence as well as in issues surrounding the use of informers, especially in democratic societies.

Understanding Hinduism requires an understanding of how it is practised in the contemporary world. This title presents an introduction that tackles these central issues, beginning with case studies of the grassroots practice of Hinduism in India and in diaspora communities.

Reveals how novels of political estrangement have drawn on cultural narratives to capture the zeitgeist of the 20th Century and the disillusionment of modernism. In this book, the author adds political novels to those inquiries and argues that they make a distinctive and hitherto neglected contribution to the collective memory of the 20th Century.

Offers a fresh approach to the traditional mythology and literature of the afterlife, focusing on tensions and polarities in the afterlife concepts. This title depicts the many rich mythologies of the afterlife from the ancient Mesopotamians, Japanese, Greeks of the Homeric era, to Christian views of heaven or the Buddhist western paradise.

Examines our society's struggle with the concept of belief. This book shows how the religious outlook connects with our human longings, how it links up with our moral and aesthetic experience, how it is integrally involved in the quest for self-understanding, and how it is not after all in conflict with a scientific understanding of the world.

Presents an analysis of transatlantic security relations from the preparation of the North Atlantic Treaty to the Obama administration. This book discusses the global trends that are changing the environment for transatlantic relations, such as European integration, global security, emerging powers, and the role of the United States as a leader.