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  • BIOINFORMATICS AND BEYOND
    SHARMA, MOOLCHAND
    This book is a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic interplay between bioinformatics and artificial intelligence (AI) within the healthcare landscape. This book introduces readers to the foundational principles of bioinformatics and AI, elucidating their integration and collaborative potential. Bioinformatics and Beyond: AI Applications in Healthcare explores the transforma...

    $1,340.00

  • ON THE EDGE OF THE ABYSS
    CLÉMENCE BOULOUQUE
    A history of the unconscious in public discourse before Freud and its significance for Jewish emancipation.   When Sigmund Freud published his theory of the unconscious, in 1899, he popularized an idea that had fascinated generations of Jewish philosophers before him. In this book, Clémence Boulouque charts the development of the pre-Freudian unconscious from subcultural inquir...

    $616.65

  • INFINITE RISK THEOLOGY
    STEFANO SALEMI
    Could God’s Son incarnate sin? Could the tomb have remained closed? Could the story have gone differently? More precisely, could God’s Son be eternally separated from the Father’s communion and eventually die and go out of existence? Mainstream theology often argued for Christ’s impossibility to change (immutability), be separated from the triune God (indivisibility), and sin (...

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  • ISLAM AND PAPAL POWER IN LATE MEDIEVAL AND EARLY MODERN EUROPE
    KATE WAGGONER KARCHNER
    Islam and Papal Power in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe traces the influential history of another book: Riccoldo da Montecroce’s Contra legem Sarracenorum. Around 1301, a Dominican missionary named Riccoldo da Montecroce wrote a treatise on the Qur’an, arguing against the validity of the Muslim faith. Over the next two hundred years, Europeans read, copied, translated, a...

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  • MAPPING NEW TERRAIN IN QUEER RELIGIOUS SCHOLARSHIP
    BERNARD S. SCHLAGER
    Mapping New Terrain in Queer Religious Scholarship builds upon the work and legacy of Professor John Boswell, bringing together contributions that were delivered at the annual CLGS Boswell Lecture Series at Pacific School of Religion, USA. Boswell is lauded as a major scholar in gender and sexuality studies and is recognized as an early advocate for the full inclusion of LGBTQ ...

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  • THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE
    LUKE FERRETTER
    This book introduces the Bible as one of the greatest works of world literature. Luke Ferretter provides a comprehensive history of the field, alongside detailed readings of the texts of the Bible and the most influential theories in the area. The Bible as Literature: A New Introduction is divided into groups of texts in the Bible by genre – the Pentateuch; the histories; the p...

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  • RELIGION IN THE MEDIA AGE
    STEWART M. HOOVER
    Looking at the everyday interaction of religion and media in our cultural lives, Hoover’s book is a fascinating assessment of the state of modern religion. This revised second edition now looks at the digital age, "new media" and the significant role of social media on religion today. While the sheer volume and variety of information traveling through global media changes modes...

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  • POSITIVE SPORT ORGANIZATIONAL INSIGHTS
    MINJUNG KIM / BRENT D. OJA / CHRISTOS ANAGNOSTOPOULOS
    This book is a concise and accessible introduction to positive organizational behavior in sport, a new and dynamic approach to sport management. Clearly explaining core concepts, including the central concept of psychological capital, the book shows how ‘positive sport organizations’ (PSO) can deliver improved performance and enhance employee well-being. Standing at the interse...

    $540.00

  • ANTISEMITISM IN FOOTBALL
    This book investigates the nature and prevalence of expressions of antisemitism within the context of football in Europe and beyond, as well as attempts to challenge and combat this problematic phenomenon. Drawing on empirical research, the book presents a series of case studies of countries in which both football and antisemitism have been prominent, including England, Italy, ...

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  • TOWARDS A CRITICAL WHITE THEOLOGY
    BARRETT, AL
    Towards a Critical White Theology is a landmark text bringing together contributions from scholars and practitioners, Black/Postcolonial theologians and critical White theologians, from the UK, the USA and New Zealand, exposing the dynamics of whiteness in the history and the present of the Christian church, and setting an agenda for the future, especially for White-racialised ...

    $1,340.00

  • USING SPIRITUALITY IN EMDR THERAPY
    ALEXANDRA DENT
    Using Spirituality in EMDR Therapy offers a means for EMDR therapists to integrate a spiritual perspective into their own lives as well as their clinical practice. The book offers a valuable alternative to traditional forms of psychotherapy by placing an emphasis on purpose and meaning. Taking a spiritually informed model, Heart Led Psychotherapy (HLP), which is applicable to a...

    $939.00

  • INTRODUCTION TO PARTICLE PHYSICS AND COSMOLOGY
    GRANT MATHEWS / GUOBAO TANG
    This textbook provides an accessible introduction to the basic concepts of relativistic cosmology and the standard big bang model of cosmology, along with an introduction to quantum field theory and the standard model of particle physics. Readers are guided through the key concepts associated with the standard model of cosmology and the standard model of particle physics, provi...

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  • OPTIMISM AND THE BEST POSSIBLE WORLD
    This volume presents original essays on the ideas of philosophical optimism and the best possible world. It highlights the historical and philosophical nuances of an idea that remains under-treated within the literature despite its long and influential history. Optimism—broadly, the thesis that God does the best, or that this is the best possible world—is often associated with ...

    $1,100.00

  • SPORT AND CRIME
    ELLIS CASHMORE / KEVIN DIXON / JAMIE CLELAND
    This comprehensive review of the relationship between sport and crime explains how the experience of sport can lead to behaviour that’s harmful to others and is sometimes self-destructive. It challenges the conventional idea of sport as wholesome and beneficial, arguing that sport is often a trigger for crime, in both history and contemporary life. The book explores how murder,...

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  • THE INVENTION AND REINVENTIONS OF METHODISM
    ANDREW J. CHEATLE
    This book focuses on the transformative journey of Methodism and tackles a profound question: How did a radical revival movement evolve into an established mainstream Church? With a global family of around eighty million, Methodism and its Holiness offshoots have come a long way since their origins as a fervent revival within the Church of England in the late 1730s. Once percei...

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  • CHRISTIANITY AND DEMOCRACY TODAY
    DAVID P. GUSHEE
    This volume explores Christianity’s relationship with democracy in a global perspective. How are the various democratic ideals being addressed by influential Christian intellectuals, theologians, ethicists, churches and church leaders around the world today? The contributors reflect on the status of the democratic idea in the churches, theological academy and public religious l...

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  • YEARNING FOR IMMORTALITY
    RUNE NYORD
    How our understanding of the ancient Egyptian afterlife was shaped by Christianity.   Many of us are familiar with the ancient Egyptians’ obsession with immortality and the great efforts they made to secure the quality of their afterlife. But, as Rune Nyord shows, even today, our understanding of the Egyptian afterlife has been formulated to a striking extent in Christian terms...

    $657.77

  • FRENCH GASTRONOMY IN THE US
    THÉRÈSE MIGRAINE-GEORGE
    This book focuses on the (re)invention of French food in the US, probing the intricate transatlantic dynamics underlying notions of cooking and eating French. By looking at French gastronomy as both a symbolic formation and an exclusionary practice closely tied to power, class, and race, this book re-centers histories that have been marginalized in traditional narratives of Fre...

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  • AN INTELLECTUAL BIOGRAPHY OF MOHAMMAD MOJTAHED SHABESTARI
    KATAJUN AMIRPUR
    This monograph details the life and ideas of Mohammad Mojtahed Shabestari, the leading representative of secular Islam among the Iranian clergy and a pioneer of the Post-Islamist Movements in Iran. Shabestari stands as the leading representative of secular Islam among the Iranian clergy, advocating for a progressive interpretation of Islamic thought that aligns with modern secu...

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  • MODERN BUDDHIST AND CHRISTIAN MYSTICISM
    CHARLES M. MUELLER / PETER RICHARDSON
    Investigations of mysticism often focus on the past while largely ignoring current developments. This book contributes to a reversal of that trend with a rigorous examination of a wide selection of contemporary Buddhist and Christian authors. The focus is on the intriguing intersections and subtle divergences now emerging in areas such as ineffability, nonconceptuality, paradox...

    $1,100.00

  • NEW ZEALAND CHURCHES RESPOND TO THE COVID-19 PROTECTION FRAMEWORK
    MIRYAM CLOUGH
    This book examines the ways in which New Zealand’s churches interpreted Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s “Covid-19 Protection Framework,” which saw unvaccinated New Zealanders excluded from access to many aspects of civil life, including church attendance. The book considers the socio-political factors that contributed to a high degree of compliance with measures that Ardern her...

    $1,100.00

  • KNOWING LIFE
    DONALDSON, EDITED BY BRIANNE
    Knowing Life examines the limits of dominant knowledge forms that contribute to current practices negatively affecting more-than-human beings, while also exploring alternative approaches to knowing that are capable of reducing harm and maximizing planetary thriving. Specifically, this volume seeks multispecies answers to long-standing questions in Western philosophy: Who or wha...

    $1,100.00

  • THE JEWISH LEGAL TRADITION
    ARI MERMELSTEIN, SUZANNE LAST STONE, AND YAIR LORBERBAUM
    This book provides an in-depth exploration of the Jewish legal tradition, or halakhah, through the lens of modern legal philosophy. The interdisciplinary approach of the book makes complex ideas accessible, offering insights into how Jewish legal thought both parallels and diverges from modern legal theory. By examining primary sources through a contemporary legal-theoretical f...

    $1,100.00

  • THE PHENOMENOLOGY OF BLOOD IN PERFORMANCE ART
    T. J. BACON / CHELSEA COON
    The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art is a major new publication that expands the philosophical contextualisation of blood, its presence and absence, across the practice of performance art from a phenomenological perspective. Edited by T. J. Bacon (she/they) and Chelsea Coon (she/her), this book moves through an established cannon of artists and beyond to ensure an incl...

    $1,099.00

  • MEDIA, COMMUNICATION AND THE 2023 FIFA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP
    YANITY, MOLLY
    This book takes a close look at the themes of media and communication in the context of the 2023 FIFA Women’s World Cup, one of the most attended women’s sporting events in history. Featuring the work of leading researchers from around the world, the book examines how the tournament was represented through traditional, digital and social forms of media, and considers how an ana...

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  • REIMAGINING TALENT DEVELOPMENT IN SPORT
    ANDY BORRIE / EMILY RYALL
    Reimagining Talent Development in Sport takes a fresh look at the processes, systems and fundamental beliefs about talent. It brings together researchers, practitioners and former Olympic athletes to re-imagine the way talent development programmes work and the foundational values they are built on. This book imagines an environment that is able to achieve both sporting success...

    $1,099.00

  • THE LIVING IMAGE IN THE MIDDLE AGES AND BEYOND
    This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move, and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures. Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both culture and cultural studies for their ambivalence as well as their transgressive nature. But what is it that makes images the loci...

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  • THE INTERSECTIONAL ATHLETE BODY ON REALITY TV
    LAURA LANGLADE
    The Intersectional Athlete Body on Reality TV examines the treatment of women, non-White and queer participants on MTV’s The Challenge, a physical competition lauded as ‘America’s fifth sport’, interrogating the treatment of the intersectional body within the reality TV landscape and the influence of professional sports culture. Positing that participants’ success hinges more o...

    $540.00

  • SPORT IN CONTEMPORARY INDIA
    This book examines the development and significance of sport in contemporary India, one of the fastest growing sports markets worldwide. Featuring multi-disciplinary work from leading Indian scholars in sociology, economics, politics, law and business, the book demonstrates how sports help us to better understand the sociocultural and economic forces that have shaped modern Ind...

    $1,100.00

  • TIBET IN EXILE
    This book delves deep into the lived experiences of the Tibetan diaspora, offering an insightful exploration through the intersecting lenses of politics, psychology, and culture. Drawing from the expertise of scholars in fields such as political science, sociology, psychology, and cultural studies, the book provides a rich, multidisciplinary analysis that reveals the complexiti...

    $1,100.00