This collection of essays has its origin in a conference held at Oxford in 2006 to mark the publication of the first English edition of the Acts of Chalcedon. Its aim is to place Chalcedon in a broader context, and bring out the importance of the acts of the early general councils from the fifth to the seventh century, documents that because of their bulk and relative inaccessibility have received only limited attention till recently. This volume is evidence that this situation is now rapidly changing, as historians of late antiquity as well as specialists in the history of the Christian...
This collection of essays has its origin in a conference held at Oxford in 2006 to mark the publication of the first English edition of the Acts of Ch...
"Rainforest Warriors" is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt to harness international human rights law in their fight to protect their way of life part of a larger story of tribal and indigenous peoples that is unfolding all over the globe.
The Republic of Suriname, in northeastern South America, contains the highest proportion of rainforest within its national territory, and the most forest per person, of any country in the world. During the 1990s, its government began awarding extensive logging and...
"Rainforest Warriors" is a historical, ethnographic, and documentary account of a people, their threatened rainforest, and their successful attempt...
This is the dramatic story of the colonial encounter and the construction of empire in Southern Africa in the nineteenth century. What did the British make of the Xhosa and how did they make sense of their politics and culture? How did the British establish and then explain their dominion, especially when it ran counter to the cultural values they believed themselves to represent? In this book, Richard Price answers these questions by looking at the ways in which individual missionaries, officials and politicians interacted with the Xhosa. He describes how those encounters changed and shaped...
This is the dramatic story of the colonial encounter and the construction of empire in Southern Africa in the nineteenth century. What did the British...
Rocco Klein, veteran homicide detective, has had enough of life on the edge. When a summer night brings another drug-related murder he has no sense that the case is anything special. Then a man steps forward to confess but a little digging reveals he's never been in trouble, whereas his half-brother has.
Rocco Klein, veteran homicide detective, has had enough of life on the edge. When a summer night brings another drug-related murder he has no sense th...
At times angry and despairing, these poems evoke hospital conditions and social attitudes toward the ill, but focus on the intricate reality of living day to day and trying to bring memory to bear on the future. In this collection, The Patient suffers a brain hemorrhage, causing the poet to carefully examine the days before and after this heartbreaking event. A multilayered compilation, it builds a rich portrait of love under almost intolerable pressure."
At times angry and despairing, these poems evoke hospital conditions and social attitudes toward the ill, but focus on the intricate reality of living...
A quiet but fast-changing corner of Scotland is tenderly documented in this collection that sets family, lovers, and geographical and dynastic time against the speed of modernity. The theme of a modern territory superimposed onto a much older one is developed as the poetry elegizes the ancient landscape of Renfrewshire. The collection is also sensitive to the nuances of family relationships and has an uncanny evocation of a child s developing perspective of friends, siblings, and parents. Ultimately, this compilation reclaims suburbia as a place of unexpected poetry and even beauty."
A quiet but fast-changing corner of Scotland is tenderly documented in this collection that sets family, lovers, and geographical and dynastic time ag...
This is a book which regards poetry as a meeting point and creator of overlapping communities of writers, readers, and audiences. While essays here look closely at individual poets in the lyric tradition, including Edward Thomas, Denise Riley, and Edwin Morgan, the author also elucidates the networks of energy and inspiration which poetry and the artist's book catalyse.
This is a book which regards poetry as a meeting point and creator of overlapping communities of writers, readers, and audiences. Whil...