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We Must Love One Another Or Die: Lectures on Love, Sex and Morality given in Great Saint Mary's Church, Cambridge

We must love one another or die: lectures on love, sex and morality given in Great Saint Mary's Church, Cambridge, by Frank Lake, Howard Root, V.A. Demant; edited by Hugh Montefiore.

Words and images : a study in theological discourse

Nonsense to debate whether God exists or even whether a sure answer to this is possible: for the questions themselves are literally non-sense, have no meaning whatever - so say a number of influential contemporary thinkers. And it is a new challenge, far more radical than those of plain atheism or agnosticism which for centuries have been met and answered by Christian apologists. This new line of attack has been welcomed by Christian philosophers for the stimulus it has given them to examine more closely than the before the status and nature of their utterances. Himself deeply engaged in the thick of this modern controversy, Dr. Mascall here pursues it further and in addition assesses some of the results stemming from it. He marshals the sometimes complex arguments of each size with such clarity that the non-specialist reader with a taste for philosophical discussion will rejoice in being able to grasp them, just as he will be delighted by the author's flashes of very pointed humour at the expense of his opponents. No one who wishes to keep abreast of these recent philosophical developments will want to miss this most readable contribution to them.

Imperial Fictions (PDF)

Teaching Science And Health From A Feminist Perspective: A Practical Guide (Athene Ser.)

Teaching Science and Health from a Feminist Perspective A Practical Guide - Athene Series

Teaching Technology From A Feminist Perspective (PDF): A Practical Guide

Teaching Technology from a Feminist Perspective A Practical Guide - The Athene Series

Radical Voices: A Decade Of Feminist Resistance From Women's Studies International Forum (Athene Ser.)

Radical Voices A Decade of Feminist Resistance from Women's Studies International Forum - The Athene Series

Freaks: Myths And Images Of The Secret Self

United We Stand: History Of Britains Trade Unions

Scenes Of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, And Self-making In Nineteenth-century America (PDF) (Race And American Culture Ser.)

In this provocative and original exploration of racial subjugation during slavery and its aftermath, Saidiya Hartman illumines the forms of terror and resistance that shaped black identity. Scenes of Subjection examines the forms of domination that usually go undetected; in particular, the encroachments of power that take place through notions of humanity, enjoyment, protection, rights, and consent. By looking at slave narratives, plantation diaries, popular theater, slave performance, freedmen's primers, and legal cases, Hartman investigates a wide variety of "scenes" ranging from the auction block and minstrel show to the staging of the self-possessed and rights-bearing individual of freedom. While attentive to the performance of power―the terrible spectacles of slaveholders' dominion and the innocent amusements designed to abase and pacify the enslaved―and the entanglements of pleasure and terror in these displays of mastery, Hartman also examines the possibilities for resistance, redress and transformation embodied in black performance and everyday practice. This important study contends that despite the legal abolition of slavery, emergent notions of individual will and responsibility revealed the tragic continuities between slavery and freedom. Bold and persuasively argued, Scenes of Subjection will engage readers in a broad range of historical, literary, and cultural studies.

Quantum Field Theory: A Modern Introduction

Quantum Field Theory: A Modern Introduction is undoubtedly the standard setting textbook in this field; as it is the only up-to-date introductory textbook to cover the `modern' approach to quantum field theory (QFT). In this textbook, Michio Kaku, goes far beyond existing texts, and presents material vital to the modern approach to QFT. Topics such as critical phenomena, lattice gauge theory, supersymmetry, quantum gravity, supergravity, and superstrings are all included in this textbook and are not included in other textbooks on QFT. There are also over 260 exercises included within the text.

Asia's Old Dwellings: Architectural Tradition And Change (Asian Cultural Heritage Ser.)

Mensuration And Proportion Signs: Origins And Evolution (Oxford Monographs On Music)

Counter In the fourteenth century composers and theorists invented mensuration and proportion signs that allowed them increased flexibility and precision in notating a wide range of rhythmic and metric relationships. The origin and interpretation of these signs is one of the least understood and most complex issues in music history. This study represents the first attempt to see the origin of musical mensuration and proportion signs in the context of other measuring systems of the fourteenth century. Berger analyzes the exact meaning of every mensuration and proportion sign in music and theory from the fourteenth to the sixteenth century, and offers revisions of many currently-held views concerning the significance and development of early time signatures.

Bolton Priory: The Economy Of A Northern Monastery, 1286-1325 (Oxford Historical Monographs)

The history of the priory, 1120-1330. The priory's exploitation of its estate. Pasture farming. Investment. Provisions and food consumption at the priory. The priory's finances. The last two centuries.

Bede's Ecclesiastical History Of The English People: A Historical Commentary (Oxford Medieval Texts)

Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People is recognized as a masterpiece among the historical literature of medieval England and Europe. Completed in 731, it comprises in a single flowing narrative a coherent history of the conversion of the English peoples to Christianity, and thestory of the island kingdoms and churches from the 590s to the early eighth century, prefaced by a sketch of the earlier history of Britain. In 1969 the Clarendon Press published the new edition in Oxford Medieval Texts, edited by Bertram Colgrave and Sir Roger Mynors. Mynors's masterly text and textual introduction replaced much of Charles Plummer's great edition of 1896; but the historical notes did not attempt to match in scale anddetail Plummer's second volume of commentary. To fill this gap the late Professor J. M. Wallace-Hadrill devoted the last years of his life to a new commentary, one of the finest and most mature fruits of his scholarship - more succinct than Plummer, tauter, more relevant, above all drawing togetherand adding to the findings of a galaxy of modern scholars. Prepared for the press by Thomas Charles-Edwards, helped by Patrick Wormald and others, this book completes the new Bede, and is prefaced by a paper characteristic of Professor Wallace-Hadrill on 'Bede and Plummer'.

Dynamics and Relativity (PDF)

emphasizing the connections between relativity and classical mechanics. The book begins by developing classical mechanics in a form that the author calls "Galilean Relativity," which emphasizes frames of reference. The author shows how a problem formulated in one frame of reference can then solved in another where the problem takes a simpler form. After applying this strategy to a number of classical problems, the author discusses the limitations of Galilean Relativity, particularly for handling Maxwell's equations, and then proceeds to develop Special Relativity while drawing extensively on the groundwork from the previous chapters. The book stresses conservation laws throughout and includes a final chapter that briefly outlines General Relativity.

Reaction Kinetics

The study of reaction kinetics - how fast chemical reactions happen - gives chemists insight into a range of chemical problems, from the ozone hole to enzyme reactions in living creatures. This text provides students with an accessible account of basic and applied aspects of chemical kinetics.

The History Of The University Of Oxford (PDF): Volume III: the Collegiate University

Common Prayer: The Language Of Public Devotion In Early Modern England

Common Prayer explores the relationship between prayer and poetry in the century following the Protestant Reformation. Ramie Targoff challenges the conventional and largely misleading distinctions between the ritualized world of Catholicism and the more individualistic focus of Protestantism. Early modern England, she demonstrates, was characterized less by the triumph of religious interiority than by efforts to shape public forms of devotion. This provocatively revisionist argument will have major implications for early modern studies. Through readings of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Richard Hooker's Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry and his translations of the Psalms, John Donne's sermons and poems, and George Herbert's The Temple, Targoff uncovers the period's pervasive and often surprising interest in cultivating public and formalized models of worship. At the heart of this study lies an original and daring approach to understanding the origins of devotional poetry; Targoff shows how the projects of composing eloquent verse and improving liturgical worship come to be deeply intertwined. New literary practices, then, became a powerful means of forging common prayer, or controlling private and otherwise unmanageable expressions of faith.

Doing Fieldwork (PDF): Warnings And Advice

J. K. Rowling (New Casebooks Ser.)

J. K. Rowling's popular series of books about the boy wizard Harry Potter has captivated readers of all ages around the world. Selling more than 400 million copies, and adapted into highly successful feature films, the stories have attracted both critical acclaim and controversy. In this collection of brand new essays, an international team of contributors examines the complete Harry Potter series from a variety of critical angles and approaches. There are discussions on topics ranging from fairytale, race and gender, through to food, medicine, queer theory and the occult. The volume also includes coverage of the films and the afterlife of the series with the opening of Rowling's 'Pottermore' website. Essential reading for anyone with an interest in the Harry Potter phenomenon, this exciting resource provides thoughtful new ways of exploring the issues and concepts found within Rowling's world.

Critical Models: Interventions And Catchwords (European Perspectives: A Series In Social Thought And Cultural Criticism)

Two volumes by Theodor W. Adorno are combined in this volume: "Interventions - Nine Critical Models" (1963) and "Catchwords: Critical Model II" (1969). Both books are examples of Adorno's postwar commitment to unmasking the culture that engendered Nazism.

Hideous Progeny: Disability, Eugenics, And Classic Horror Cinema (PDF) (Film And Culture Ser.)

Introduction: disability, eugenics, and classic horror cinema -- Eugenic reproduction: chimeras in Dracula and Frankenstein -- Enfreaking the classic horror genre: freaks -- Revelations and convulsions: spectacles of impairment in classic horror film -- Mad medicine: disability in the mad-doctor films -- Shock horror and death rays: disabling spectatorship -- Conclusion.

The Feminism Book (Big Ideas)

Questioning Q

Scholars have long been agreed that there is a single source for the gospels, which they refer to as 'Q'. This text challenges these assumptions and offers alternatives.

Preaching like a woman