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Religion' and the Religions in the English Enlightenment
Cambridge University Press 1990; US$ 48.00This book shows how the concept of 'religion' and 'the religions' arose out of controversies in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century England. more...
The Bible, Protestantism, and the Rise of Natural Science
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 32.00An examination of the role played by the Bible in the emergence of natural science. more...
The Fall of Man and the Foundations of Science
Cambridge University Press 2007; US$ 38.00Peter Harrison provides an account of the religious foundations of scientific knowledge. more...
The Cambridge Companion to Science and Religion
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 21.00Explores the historical relations between science and religion and discusses contemporary issues with perspectives from cosmology, evolutionary biology and bioethics. more...
Garden Houses and Privies
Wiley 2002; US$ 85.00An essential component of homes and commercial buildings before the advent of indoor plumbing, privies--also known as "garden houses"--have found new uses as storage sheds, pool houses, etc. In this pattern book of 18th- and 19th-century designs, Harrison has painstakingly documented existing historic structures and translated them into beautiful line... more...
Fortress Monasteries of the Himalayas
Osprey Publishing 2012; US$ 13.95Buddhism has been influential in the mountain kingdoms of the Himalayas since the 7th century AD, most notably in the kingdom of Tibet where it permeated all aspects and levels of society until the 20th century. From the 9th-century AD onwards, the secular rulers of Tibet sought to extend their influence, and that of Buddhism, throughout the region.... more...
Mastering Tomcat Development
Wiley 2002; US$ 45.00Learn how to use Tomcat to quickly build more sophisticated Web applications This comprehensive introduction to developing complex Web applications using Tomcat and related Apache Jakarta technologies examines everything you need to know about Tomcat 4—the popular, award-winning server for implementing and deploying servlets and JavaServer... more...
Working in Jamie's Kitchen
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 110.00In the UK in 2002 the celebrity chef Jamie Oliver set out to transform a group of unemployed young Londoners into enterprising, passionate workers. Their struggles, and those that train and manage them, to develop a passionate orientation to work highlights many of the challenges we all face in the globalized labour markets of the 21st century. more...
The Ambiguous Allure of the West
Hong Kong University Press 2010; US$ 50.00The Ambiguous Allure of the West examines the impact of Western imperialism on Thai cultural development from the 1850s to the present and highlights the value of postcolonial analysis for studying the ambiguities, inventions, and accommodations with the West that continue to enrich Thai culture. Since the mid-nineteenth century, Thais have adopted... more...
My People's Dreaming: An Aboriginal Elder Speaks on Life, Land, Spirit and Forgiveness
HarperCollins Publishers 2013; US$ 28.98A rare, personal insight into the traditional teachings of an elder of the Yuin people (South Coast, NSW). 'Uncle' Max, as he is widely known, has been sharing his cultural knowledge for over 30 years - in that time taking more than 6000 people from all walks of life onto country and explaining Aboriginal ways. This book's content is drawn from extensive... more...









