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To Hegel, he was a genius; to Kierkegaard, he was the greatest humorist in Christendom; to Goethe, he was the brightest mind of his day. Though less known than many of his contemporaries, A.G. Hamann is gradually being recognized as one of the most important and original critics of the Enlightenment.

* * Presents an innovative, reception history approach to the study of Ecclesiastes, by tracing its influence on religion, culture, literature, art and social thought. * Explores a fascinating range of Jewish and Christian readings.

The links between religion and food have been known for centuries, and yet we rarely examine or understand the nature of the relationship between food and spirituality, or food and sin. Drawing on literature, politics, and philosophy as well as theology, this book unlocks the role food has played within religious tradition.

A practical and conceptual guide to treating depression using both Beckian CBT and the latest, cutting-edge third wave CBT approaches, including mindfulness and metacognitive therapy. It provides an understanding of depression and its treatment and a clear practical guidance on how to use each treatment approach.

This groundbreaking handbook provides a comprehensive picture of the ethical dimensions of communication in a global setting. The handbook includes examinations of feminism, ideology, social responsibility, reporting, metanarratives, blasphemy, development, and globalism, among many others.

With contributions from leading scholars, this is a unique cross-cultural comparison of historical epics across a wide range of cultures and time periods, which presents crucial insights into how history is treated in narrative poetry.

This succinct, yet comprehensive account of William Faulkner's literary career, novels, and key short stories offers an imaginative topography of his efforts to reckon with his Southern past, to acknowledge its modernization, and to develop his own modernist method.

This is a user-friendly guide to conducting group psychotherapy in various settings and with different populations. It is a resource for new professionals, as well as more seasoned clinicians planning to integrate group psychotherapy into their work.

International Perspectives on the Assessment and Treatment of Sexual Offenders: Theory, Practice and Research provides the first truly global perspective on the assessment and treatment of sex offenders.

Bringing together an international team of specialists from the fields of applied linguistics, second language acquisition, linguistics, education, and psychology, The Handbook of Language Teaching is a wide-ranging and invaluable reference guide.

The underlying knowledge and mechanisms that enable language acquisition are hidden inside the mind of the child, and researchers depend on an array of tools to better understand children s language skills and knowledge at different levels of development.

Upon its initial publication, Children's Testimony garnered widespread acclaim as a valuable resource for academics and practitioners alike. The second edition reflects the substantial progress made in the field over the past decade and includes the results of ongoing international research.

Ancient Rome was a highly militaristic culture, at war almost annually throughout the period of the republic. The expert contributors to this volume delve into this culture, offering an extensive account of the Roman army, from its beginnings to its transformation in the later Roman Empire.

Providing a guide for marine conservation practice, Marine Conservation takes a whole-systems approach, covering major advances in marine ecosystem understanding. Its premise is that conservation must be informed by the natural histories of organisms together with the hierarchy of scale-related linkages and ecosystem processes.

This concise companion introduces students to the most important poetic figures, movements, contexts, and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry, providing a much-needed reference point in a sprawling and often contentious field.

A Companion to Museum Studies captures the multidisciplinary approaches to the study of the development, roles, and significance of museums in contemporary society. It is an indispensable reference for art historians, museum curators, and art and culture lovers.

Cutting across the fields of psychology, management, education, counseling, social work, and sociology, The Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring reveals an innovative, multi-disciplinary approach to the practice and theory of mentoring.

The articles in this new edition of A Companion to Philosophy ofLaw and Legal Theory have been updated throughout, and theaddition of ten new articles ensures that the volume continues tooffer the most up-to-date coverage of current thinking inlegal philosophy.

This comprehensive textbook offers a conceptual and practical introduction to research methodology, data collection, and techniques used in both human and physical geography.

Presents a key collection of both classic and new agenda-setting articles in this central area of anthropology Provides analytic and historical contextual introductions by leading figures in medical anthropology, medical sociology, science studies, social theory and general anthropology .

The Goffman Reader aims to bring the most complete collection of Erving Goffman's (1922-1982) writing and thinking as a sociologist. Among the most inventive, unique and individualistic of thinkers in American sociology, his works first appeared in the early 1950's at a time when a more formal, traditional sociology dominated the scene.

Presents a narrative of Iranian history since the time of Cyrus the Great in 560 BC. This book traces events from the rise of the Persian empire, through competition with Rome and conquest by the Arabs, through to the re-establishment of a Persian state in the sixteenth century, and finally the Islamic Revolution in 1979.

A survey of prominent philosophical thinkers in both the western and non-western traditions over the past 2000 years. The text provides authoritative coverage of the major Asian (Indian, Chinese, Japanese), African and Islamic philosophers, as well as European and American thinkers.

Presupposing no prior knowledge of philosophy or of the history of art, this is an introduction to the core themes in aesthetics and philosophy of art. It also introduces methods of analysis in interdisciplinary philosophy, and offers a perspective on culture.

This volume provides a useful student resource to areas including: Kant and German idealism; existentialism; phenomenology; hermeneutics; Marxism and the Frankfurt School; structuralism; psychoanalysis; feminism; deconstruction; and postmodernism.

Applied or practical ethics is a major growth area in philosophy today, and a good many issues in moral, social, and political life have come under philosophical scrutiny in recent years. This volume attempts to give an account of a great many of these issues.

This is a history and ethnography of the Cheyenne people, from their prehistoric origins north of the Great Lakes to their present life in the reservations in Oklahoma. It is based on archaeological, material, historical and linguistic evidence, and draws on the oral traditions of the Cheyenne.

* A triple perspective - the city and economy; the city and society; the city and power. * Includes chapters on race, ethnicity and the city; and on gender, space and power. * Unites political, economic and cultural perspectives. * Examples range from all over the world.

Presents a collection of short, readable descriptions of various American dialects. This work includes Southern English, New England speech, Chicano English, Appalachian English, Canadian English, and California English, among others. It offers a look at the range of American social, ethnic, and regional dialects.

This widely respected study of social conflicts between the patrician elite and the plebeians in the first centuries of the Roman republic has now been enhanced by a new chapter on material culture, updates to individual chapters, an updated bibliography, and a new introduction.