This book--the sixth volume in "The Great Cultural Eras of the Western World" series--provides information on more than 400 individuals who created and played a role in the era's intellectual and cultural activity. The book's focus is on cultural figures--those whose inventions and discoveries contributed to the scientific revolution, those whose line of reasoning contributed to secularism, groundbreaking artists like Rembrandt, lesser known painters, and contributors to art and music.
As the momentum of the Renaissance peaked in 1600, the Western World was poised to move from the Early...
This book--the sixth volume in "The Great Cultural Eras of the Western World" series--provides information on more than 400 individuals who created...
The Hybrid Church in the City focuses on the importance of urban space as a way of reinterpreting the mission and identity of the church for the twenty-first century. Christopher Baker uses the idea of the Third Space (a concept widely used in post-colonial and cultural studies) to offer a way of understanding the new form of the city - namely the diversity of the hybrid, post-colonial and postmodern urban space. In The Hybrid Church in the City, Christopher Baker deploys thinkers like Homi Bhabha and Leonie Sandercock to argue that the church should closely follow the grain of hybrid cities,...
The Hybrid Church in the City focuses on the importance of urban space as a way of reinterpreting the mission and identity of the church for the twent...
Jane Austen's mastery of manners and morals is on full display in Christopher Baker's stage adaptation of her beloved masterpiece, Pride and Prejudice. In the Bennet sisters' world, marriage is the prize, but for second-eldest, Lizzy, companionship trumps blind courtship. Enter Mr. Darcy, and one of literature's most iconic and tempestuous romances takes flight. Journey through a world quite unlike--and yet perhaps not so different from--our own, as Lizzy and Darcy learn that first impressions aren't all they seem, and that second chances can lead to answers that have been there the entire...
Jane Austen's mastery of manners and morals is on full display in Christopher Baker's stage adaptation of her beloved masterpiece, Pride and Prejud...
