Búsqueda de LIBROS DEL AUTOR: james robinson

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  • HISTORY AS FANTASY IN MUSIC, SOUND, IMAGE, AND MEDIA
    JAMES COOK, ALEXANDER KOLASSA, ALEXANDER ROBINSON, AND ADAM WHITTAKER
    Exploring how music is used to portray the past in a variety of media, this book probes the relationship between history and fantasy in the imagination of the musical past. The volume brings together essays from multidisciplinary perspectives, addressing the use of music to convey a sense of the past in a wide range of multimedia contexts, including television, documentaries, o...

    $1,300.00

  • UNDERGRADUATE INSTRUMENTAL ANALYSIS
    THOMAS J. BRUNO / JAMES W. ROBINSON / GEORGE M. FRAME II / EILEEN M. SKELLY FRAME
    Analytical instrumentation is crucial to research in molecular biology, medicine, geology, food science, materials science, forensics, and many other fields. Undergraduate Instrumental Analysis, 8th Edition, provides the reader with an understanding of all major instrumental analyses, and is unique in that it starts with the fundamental principles, and then develops the level o...

    $3,200.00

  • INSTRUMENTAL ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY
    JAMES W. ROBINSON / EILEEN M. SKELLY FRAME / GEORGE M. FRAME II
    Analytical chemistry today is almost entirely instrumental analytical chemistry and it is performed by many scientists and engineers who are not chemists. Analytical instrumentation is crucial to research in molecular biology, medicine, geology, food science, materials science, and many other fields. With the growing sophistication of laboratory equipment, there is a danger tha...

    $2,700.00

  • PRACTICAL HANDBOOK OF SPECTROSCOPY
    JAMES W. ROBINSON
    A convenient single volume handbook featuring the most important topics in spectroscopyThis valuable handbook is based on topics presented in the CRC Handbook of Spectroscopy, Volumes I and II, published in 1974, and Volume III, published in 1981. The information has been condensed (by the original contributor, when possible) so that only the most important information from the...

    $9,000.00

  • BUDGETING FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENTS AND COMMUNITIES
    DOUGLAS MORGAN / KENT S. ROBINSON / DENNIS STRACHOTA / JAMES A. HOUGH
    Budgeting for Local Governments and Communities is designed as the primary textbook for a quarter or semester-long course in public budgeting and finance in an MPA programme. Many currently available texts for this course suffer from a combination of defects that include a focus on federal and state budgeting, a lack of a theoretical governance framework, an omission of importa...

    $1,560.00

  • UNDERSTANDING TRUST IN GOVERNMENT
    SCOTT E. ROBINSON / JAMES W. STOUTENBOROUGH / ARNOLD VEDLITZ
    Growing disenfranchisement with political institutions and policy processes has generated interest in trust in government. For the most part, research has focused on trust in government as a general attitude covering all political institutions. In this book, Scott E. Robinson, James W. Stoutenborough, and Arnold Vedlitz argue that individual agencies develop specific reputation...

    $1,240.00

  • COMMUNICATION AND AGING
    JON F. NUSSBAUM / LORETTA L. PECCHIONI / JAMES D. ROBINSON / TERESA L. THOMPSON
    This text employs a communication perspective to examine the aging process and the ability of individuals to adapt successfully to aging. It continues the groundbreaking work of the first edition, emphasizing a life-span approach toward understanding the social interaction that occurs during later life. The edition provides a comprehensive update on the existing and emerging re...

    $1,800.00

  • MEDIEVAL JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AND ITS LITERARY FORMS
    EDITED BY AARON W. HUGHES AND JAMES T. ROBINSON
    "This well-written, accessible [essay] collection demonstrates a maturation in Jewish studies and medieval philosophy" ( Choice). Too often the study of philosophical texts is carried out in ways that do not pay significant attention to how the ideas contained within them are presented, articulated, and developed. This was not always the case. The contributors to this collected...

    $229.00

  • DIVINE HEALING: THE YEARS OF EXPANSION, 1906–1930
    JAMES ROBINSON
    In the present volume James Robinson completes his trilogy, which deals with the history of divine healing in the period 1906-1930. The first volume is a study of the years 1830-1890, and was hailed as "a standard reference for years to come." The second book covers the years 1890-1906, and was acclaimed as "a monumental achievement" that combines "careful historical scholarshi...

    $515.00

  • DIVINE HEALING: THE HOLINESS-PENTECOSTAL TRANSITION YEARS, 1890–1906
    JAMES ROBINSON
    In the present volume, James Robinson shows how the Holiness movement contributed to the rise of Pentecostalism, with emphasis on those sectors that practiced divine healing. Although other scholars have undertaken to explore this story, Robinson's treatment is by far the most thorough examination to date. He draws productively on the burgeoning secondary literatures on Penteco...

    $426.00

  • DIVINE HEALING: THE FORMATIVE YEARS: 1830–1890
    JAMES ROBINSON
    Divine healing is commonly practiced today throughout Christendom and plays a significant part in the advance of Christianity in Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Such wide acceptance of the doctrine within Protestantism did not come without hesitation or controversy. The prevailing view saw suffering as a divine chastening designed for growth in personal holiness, and something...

    $674.00

  • THE MANICHAEAN CODICES OF MEDINET MADI
    JAMES M. ROBINSON
    The seven Manichaean papyrus codices of the fourth or fifth century were discovered in illicit excavation in 1929 in the Egyptian desert. They were acquired in about equal halves by A. Chester Beatty for his library and by Carl Schmidt for the papyrus collection of the Staatliche Museen of Berlin. Having had access to the inventories, correspondence, and files in Berlin, Robins...

    $710.00

  • THE STORY OF THE BODMER PAPYRI
    JAMES M. ROBINSON
    The United Nations Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) entrusted author James Robinson with tracking down the place where the Nag Hammadi Codices had been discovered. Priests whom the author interviewed in the region told Robinson that the codices had once been in the possession of a priest in the town of Dishna, a bit further upstream than Nag Hammadi itself. Robins...

    $479.00

  • TRAJECTORIES THROUGH EARLY CHRISTIANITY
    JAMES M. ROBINSON / HELMUT KOESTER
    Contents 1 Introduction: The Dismantling and Reassembling of the Categories of New Testament Scholarship 2 Kerygma and History in the New Testament 3 LOGOI SOPHON: On the Gattung of Q 4 GNOMAI DIAPHOROI: The Origin and Nature of Diversification in the History of Early Christianity 5 One Jesus and Four Primitive Gospels 6 The Structure and Criteria of Early Christian Beliefs 7 ...

    $568.00

  • LANGUAGE, HERMENEUTIC, AND HISTORY
    JAMES M. ROBINSON
    James M. Robinson, together with John B. Cobb, published a series of three volumes entitled New Frontiers in Theology: The Later Heidegger and Theology (1963), The New Hermeneutic (1964), and Theology as History (1967). Here they introduced the new directions that Continental theology was taking after the break caused by the Nazi period and World War II. In each volume it was R...

    $550.00

  • POR QUÉ FRACASAN LOS PAÍSES
    ACEMOGLU DARON, ROBINSON JAMES A.
    ¿Qué determina que un país sea rico o pobre? ¿Cómo se explica que, en condiciones similares, en algunos países haya hambrunas y en otros no? ¿Qué papel juega la política en estas cuestiones? Que algunas naciones sean más prósperas que otras, ¿se debe a cuestiones culturales?, ¿a los efectos de la climatología?, ¿a su ubicación geográfica? No, en absoluto. Ninguna cuestión relat...
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    $399.00

  • SELLING LOCAL
    JENNIFER META ROBINSON / JAMES ROBERT FARMER
    In an era bustling with international trade and people on the move, why has local food become increasingly important? How does a community benefit from growing and buying its own produce, rather than eating food sown and harvested by outsiders? Selling Local is an indispensable guide to community-based food movements, showcasing the broad appeal and impact of farmers' markets, ...

    $251.00

  • THE GOSPEL OF JESUS
    JAMES M. ROBINSON
    We know Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, but what was the gospel of Jesus? "The message is intense and simple . . . a valuable addition to the Jesus canon." — Booklist Is it possible to know what Jesus's original audience heard as "the good news?" Jesus's gospel has been lost from sight, hidden behind the version preferred by the church. In The Gospel of Jesus, James M. Robinson, ...

    $251.00

  • THE SECRETS OF JUDAS
    JAMES M. ROBINSON
    The story of the most enigmatic of disciples—now fully revised and updated—from "America's leading expert on ancient religious texts from Egypt" (The Associated Press). The discovery of a previously lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot has electrified the Christian community. What Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John tell us about Judas, the disciple who betrayed Jesus, is inconsistent and b...

    $251.00

  • EL PASILLO ESTRECHO
    ROBINSON, JAMES A.
    La libertad no es el orden natural de la humanidad. En la mayoría de lugares y de épocas, los fuertes han dominado a los débiles y la libertad ha sido aplastada por la fuerza o por las costumbres y las normas. A menudo los Estados no han tenido la suficiente capacidad para proteger a los individuos o, por el contrario, han sido tan fuertes que la gente no ha podido defenderse d...
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    $449.00

  • POR QUÉ FRACASAN LOS PAÍSES
    ROBINSON JAMES A.
    ¿Qué determina que un país sea rico o pobre? ¿Cómo se explica que, en condiciones similares, en algunos países haya hambrunas y en otros no? ¿Qué papel juega la política en estas cuestiones? Que algunas naciones sean más prósperas que otras, ¿se debe a cuestiones culturales?, ¿a los efectos de la climatología?, ¿a su ubicación geográfica? No, en absoluto. Ninguna cuestión relat...
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    $399.00