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Activity Theory in Practice
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 42.95This ground-breaking book brings together cutting-edge researchers who study the transformation of practice through the enhancement and transformation of expertise. This is an important moment for such a contribution because expertise is in transition - moving toward collaboration in inter-organizational fields and continuous shaping of transformations.... more...
Religion and Society in Roman Palestine
Routledge 2004; US$ 44.95A collection of papers focussing on the contributions made by archaeology to the understanding of society in Palestine in the Roman period. The papers enable the two ways of evidence to interact in an unprecedented way. more...
Chaucer and Boccaccio
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 155.00In the late Middle Ages, Chaucer invents two imaginative domains crucial to his culture and to our understanding of the emergence of selfhood, subjectivity and social arrangements; antiquity and late-medieval modernity. Edwards demonstrates in this study how this was the result of Chaucer's reading and re-writing of the works of Boccaccio, which provide... more...
Religion and Power
Oxford University Press, USA 1996; US$ 109.99This book contributes to the small but growing literature on the interaction between religion and power in antiquity. Edwards focusses on the eastern "Greek" provinces in the first and second centuries A.D.--the period during which Christianity, Judaism, and numerous other religions and cults exploded across the Roman Empire. His purpose... more...
Romans (Understanding the Bible Commentary Series)
Baker Publishing Group 2011; US$ 19.99Martin Luther called Romans the clearest gospel of all. But centuries of interpretive tradition and dogma have muddied the waters. Edwards's careful exposition pays attention to literary detail and historical context to clarify the Epistle's significance for its original readers and for the church today. The NIBC format (section-by-section exposition... more...
Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership
University of Minnesota Press 2012; US$ 75.00Social and political change is impossible in the absence of gifted male charismatic leadership—this is the fiction that shaped African American culture throughout the twentieth century. If we understand this, Erica R. Edwards tells us, we will better appreciate the dramatic variations within both the modern black freedom struggle and the black... more...
Words Made Flesh
NYU Press 2012; US$ 55.00During the early nineteenth century, schools for the deaf appeared in the United States for the first time. These schools were committed to the use of the sign language to educate deaf students. Manual education made the growth of the deaf community possible, for it gathered deaf people together in sizable numbers for the first time in American history.... more...
Integration and Harmonic Analysis on Compact Groups
Cambridge University Press 1972; US$ 62.00These notes provide a reasonably self-contained introductory survey of certain aspects of harmonic analysis on compact groups. more...
Thriving Beyond Sustainability
New Society Publishers 2010; US$ 17.95Turning challenge into opportunity--a survey of successful sustainable ideas and practices from around the world. more...
Management of Off-highway Plant and Equipment
Spon Press 2003; US$ 99.95Management of Off-Highway Plant and Equipment provides a working knowledge of plant management for engineers, managers and students. It explains the factors to be considered during investment in, and management of, construction equipment. more...









