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  • THE BIBLE, HOMER, AND THE SEARCH FOR MEANING IN ANCIENT MYTHS
    JOHN HEATH
    The Bible, Homer, and the Search for Meaning in Ancient Myths explores and compares the most influential sets of divine myths in Western culture: the Homeric pantheon and Yahweh, the God of the Old Testament. Heath argues that not only does the God of the Old Testament bear a striking resemblance to the Olympians, but also that the Homeric system rejected by the Judeo-Christian...

    $1,240.00

  • THE GREEN BOOKSHOP
    JOHN SALINSKY / IONA HEATH / MATTHEW WALTERS
    This collection that was first published in 2009, and is recommended reading for doctors and others includes: The Green Bookshop opens its doors; Books that won prizes; Great books that should have won prizes; Two books by one writer; A handful of classic novels; Short stories and essays; Books and the cinema; Biography and memoirs; Classic books about general practice; Best ne...

    $820.00

  • BONFIRE OF THE HUMANITIES
    BRUCE S. THORNTON / VICTOR DAVIS HANSON / JOHN HEATH
    With humor, lucidity, and unflinching rigor, the acclaimed authors of  Who Killed Homer? and  Plagues of the Mind unsparingly document the degeneration of a central, if beleaguered, discipline—classics—and reveal the root causes of its decline. Hanson, Heath, and Thornton point to academics themselves—their careerist ambitions, incessant self-promotion, and overspecialized scho...

    $159.00

  • MEDICAL HUMANITIES COMPANION, VOLUME 3
    PEKKA LOUHIALA / IONA HEATH / JOHN SAUNDERS
    This third volume in the Companion to Medical Humanities series considers the concept of treatment as an active process which produces an outcome, be it effective, inappropriate or inadequate. It invites the reader to examine the relevance of the patients' belief in any given treatment and their confidence in the practitioner. Against a person-cent ...

    $1,200.00

  • PUBLIC ENTERPRISE AT THE CROSSROADS
    JOHN HEATH
    In many parts of the world public enterprise is in crisis. Privatisation programmes are being widely touted as the solution to many of the problems of inefficiency and slow rates of growth associated with public enterprise. This book discusses the underlying causes of those problems, and critically examines some of the solutions that have been adopted. Its geographical coverage...

    $1,240.00