For those who want to understand the reasons behind the Israel-Palestine conflict, this book offers a rational explanation. It takes a world tour of Jewish communities and their thoughts on the Palestinian question, from over a century ago to the present day.
Palestinian State Formation
This book examines education’s role in building a Palestinian state. The Palestinian Authority has two contradictory functions: state-building and resistance. Will its education system promote a resistance identity or a state-building identity?
Pāli and Buddhism
Pāli preserves the earliest record of the Buddha’s teaching. This book argues the Buddha was multilingual, teaching not only in the common Indo-Aryan tongue but also in indigenous languages, revealing their profound impact on the structure and vocabulary of Pāli itself.
Pāli, the Language
This book argues that the medium in which the Buddha spoke is as important as the message. Unlike formal Sanskrit, Pāli is an oral, musical language of the people. It reveals how its sonic content carries and enhances the Buddha’s practical philosophy for ending suffering.
Pames, Jonaces, and Franciscans in the Sierra Gorda
This book outlines long-lasting efforts to evangelize the Pames and Jonaces in the territory of Sierra Gorda. It records the last missionary impulse spurred by the project of José de Escandón and Franciscan missionaries to get the Pames and Jonaces to adopt a sedentary lifestyle.
Pandora’s Box
This book presents the stories of 10 elderly, never-married women, exploring their psychological conditions, self-concepts, and coping strategies. It sheds light on the changes of late adulthood and provides an intervention program for ageing single women.
Pangs of Love and Longing
This book explores historic attitudes towards sexuality, pleasure, and bodies as represented in European literature from Antiquity to the Early Modern period. Its aim is to demonstrate the plurality of premodern desire and offer fresh perspectives on our present.
Paper Cranes and Mushroom Clouds
Can history teach us how to live? Analyzing writing on the US-Japan WWII conflict, this book uncovers six modes of moral reasoning used by historians, challenging the divide between historical practice and ethical philosophy.
Papers from the First and Second Postgraduate Forums in Byzantine Studies
This provocative, wide-ranging collection of essays sheds new light on controversial facets of Byzantine history, religion, literature, and art. Sailing to Byzantium is a must for students and academics of one of history’s most fascinating civilizations.
This book presents cutting-edge research in translation studies, offering fresh perspectives on theory and practice. Written by researchers from around the world, it suggests ways of dealing with translation problems in areas like machine translation and training.
This volume presents two ballets by Ludwig Minkus, composed at the peak of his powers with choreographer Marius Petipa. It includes the beloved Grand Pas from Paquita, a jewel of the classical repertoire, and the allegorical work, Nuit et Jour.
Parables and Riddles in Ancient and Modern Teaching
This book explores the difference between parables and riddles. Biblical parables transmit useful life-messages, while Greek riddles are largely unintelligible, leaving one helpless. What do these forms reveal about ancient views of wisdom?
Paradigm War
This book explores 19th-century Europe’s piano pedagogy, a “paradigm war” between mechanism and holism. It shows how Robert Schumann’s revolutionary music and ideas resolved this conflict, creating a foundation for artistic piano pedagogy for our time.
This book offers a cross-cultural and interdisciplinary approach to timeless questions. It explores the nature of reality, how we can know it, and our moral obligations using insights from philosophy, religion, science, and psychology from East and West.
This book argues that Paradise Lost contains the traits of early modern novels, and that Milton’s Satan is a novelistic character par excellence. His modern individualism and complexity prove the novel owes an immense, unintentional debt to Milton’s epic.
Paradoxes in Selected Poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath
This book explores the poetry of Emily Dickinson and Sylvia Plath without sensationalizing the writers or their work. It adopts a multi-pronged approach to provide a holistic view of the issues, similarities, and differences in the poetry of the two women.
This book analyzes the challenges in establishing new institutions of art and culture and provides recommendations for young managers. It is a study guide for managers’ training and self-education in the creative fields.
This collection of essays explores the paradoxes of freedom and the human condition. We are always faced with the same paradox: a freedom which cannot be freed from its relation to necessity. Freedom is, therefore, not really free. This is the paradox of the human condition.
Parallaxes
Despite being major Modernists, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf are seldom studied together. This volume fills that void, using the concept of parallax to provide new perspectives on the connections between their respective work and their difficult encounter.
Why did the idealistic goals of revolutionary periods in Britain (1642-1688) and Egypt (2011-2013) lead to counter-revolutions? This book explains how sectarian strains magnified the blunders of new rulers, causing religion to destabilize their regimes instead of saving them.
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