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  • MOTHERSCHOLARING DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
    OLSON BEAL, HEATHER K.
    This book presents interdisciplinary empirical studies about the COVID-19 pandemic’s complex influence on the professional, personal, and family lives of mothers in academia or “MotherScholars”. It calls attention to how the COVID-19 pandemic and higher education's responses to it highlight the historical, societal, and cultural inequities between diverse groups of MotherSchola...

    $1,339.00

  • THE ROUTLEDGE HANDBOOK OF LINGUISTIC PRESCRIPTIVISM
    BEAL, JOAN C.
    This Handbook provides a comprehensive and cutting-edge overview of the field of linguistic prescriptivism. Mapping the current status quo of the field and marking its two-decade transformation into a serious field of study within linguistics, this volume addresses both the value and the methods of studying prescriptivism. It covers: • Theoretical and methodological approaches ...

    $1,179.00

  • RELIGION AND ITS MONSTERS
    TIMOTHY BEAL
    Religious encounters with mystery can be fascinating, but also terrifying. So too when it comes to encounters with the monsters that haunt Jewish and Christian traditions. Religion has a lot to do with horror, and horror has a lot to do with religion. Religion has its monsters, and monsters have their religion. In this unusual and provocative book, Timothy Beal explores how rel...

    $979.00

  • THE SIGNIFYING POWER OF PEARL
    JANE BEAL
    This book enhances our understanding of the exquisitely beautiful, fourteenth-century, Middle English dream vision poem Pearl. Situating the study in the contexts of medieval literary criticism and contemporary genre theory, Beal argues that the poet intended Pearl to be read at four levels of meaning and in four corresponding genres: literally, an elegy; spiritually, an allego...

    $699.00

  • ENGLISH IN MODERN TIMES
    JOAN C BEAL
    English in Modern Times describes the development of the English language from 1700 until 1945, and argues that it is in the course of this later modern English period that the characteristics of 'modern' English evolved. This is the first undergraduate text to cover the whole of this important period, which has been called the 'Cinderella' of English historical linguistics bec...

    $999.00

  • THE LIFE OF HIUEN-TSIANG
    SAMUEL BEAL
    This is Volume I of sixteen on Buddhism. Originally published in 1911, it looks at the Life of Hiuen-Tsiang, by the Shaman Hwui Li. Centuries before biography became a business, before the peccadilloes of Royal mistresses and forgotten courtesans obtained a market value, the writing of the Master's life by some cherished disciple was both an act of love and piety in the Far Eas...

    $1,139.00

  • TEXTS FROM THE BUDDHIST CANON
    SAMUEL BEAL
    This is Volume IV of sixteen in the Oriental series on Buddhism. First published in 1878, this book includes texts from the Buddhist Canon or 'Dhammapada' with narratives. Dhammapada may be rendered Scriptural texts or verses includes, authentic Texts gathered from ancient canonical books-that are generally connected with some incident or other in the History of Buddha, helpi...

    $739.00

  • BIBLICAL LITERACY
    TIMOTHY BEAL
    “The Bible . . . is a locked treasure for those unfamiliar with the Scriptures. . . . Beal offers a key with his accessible guide.” —Cleveland Plain Dealer Timothy Beal’s Biblical Literacy is a one-stop course in the Bible passages and background information that everyone needs to know to navigate our nuanced cultural landscape—from devout believers to decided atheists, average...

    $229.00

  • THEORY FOR RELIGIOUS STUDIES
    WILLIAM E. DEAL / TIMOTHY K. BEAL
    In this handy volume, two professors of religious studies provide the student of religious studies - whether the motivated undergraduate, graduate student, or professor - with a brief review of theorists' work from the perspective of religious studies. For example, in 5-10 pages, the reader will get a review of Emmanuel Levinas's work as it offers insights for scholars in relig...

    $979.00

  • THE BOOK OF HIDING
    TIMOTHY K. BEAL
    The Book of Hiding offers a fluent and erudite analysis of the parallels between the Bible and contemporary discussions of gender, ethnicity and social ambiguity. Beal focuses particularly on the traditionally marginalised book of Esther, in order to examine closely the categories of self and other in relation to religion, sexism, nationalism, and the ever-looming legacies and ...

    $1,239.00

  • SI-YU-KI BUDDHIST RECORDS OF THE WESTERN WORLD
    SAMUEL BEAL
    Progress which has been made in our knowledge of Northern Buddhism during the last few years is due very considerably to the discovery of the Buddhist literature of China. This literature contains, amongst other valuable works, the records of the travels of various Chinese Buddhist pilgrims who visited India during the early centuries of our era. This is Volume II in a series o...

    $1,139.00

  • SI-YU-KI: BUDDHIST RECORDS OF THE WESTERN WORLD
    SAMUEL BEAL
    Progress which has been made in our knowledge of Northern Buddhism during the last few years is due very considerably to the discovery of the Buddhist literature of China. This literature contains, amongst other valuable works, the records of the travels of various Chinese Buddhist pilgrims who visited India during the early centuries of our era. This is Volume II in a series o...

    $1,139.00

  • RISING
    JANE BEAL
    In Rising, poet Jane Beal goes in search of America. She sings the Cherokee Creation story, imagining dialogue between Sky-Woman and First Man. She remembers being a child and exchanging her blood with a Cherokee friend, and then, years later, the birth of that friend's son, Usquaniqdi, whose name means "miracle." In her poems, she gives voice to women from American history su...

    $284.00

  • TIME TO FALL
    AUSTIN C. BEAL
    Charlie, a young and rather unassuming hospital valet, is about his work when he meets an old and enigmatic professor caught up in the affairs of other worlds. Charlie befriends the old man, Bruce, curious about an odd object he totes about on his key ring. Bruce obliges to tell his story, a story of how he spent the better part of his life trying to remember where he wandered ...

    $178.00

  • CONDUCCION Y ACCION DINAMICA DEL GRUPO
    BEAL
    Agotado

    $150.00