Pieter Codde (1599-1678)
This is the first complete study of the 17th century Dutch painter Pieter Codde. A contemporary of Rembrandt in Golden Age Amsterdam, this book offers a biography, a stylistic study of his work, and a critical oeuvre catalogue, making a significant contribution to art history.
This collection explores Pietism and revivalism as attempts to resist secularizing tendencies in the modern world. Paradoxically, they were themselves modern, building a counteroffensive of rechristianization using all contemporary means of communication.
Piety in a Niqab
Women’s lives in black may seem primitive and subordinated. However, as this book shows, the women themselves tell a different story. They build their identities on the Qur’an and sunnah, achieving peace, happiness in this world, and salvation in the afterlife.
Pilgrimage in the Age of Globalisation
This collection of studies explores sacred and secular pilgrimage in the age of globalisation. It shows how pilgrimage unifies physical and metaphysical mobility into a holistic project of self-realisation and inner transformation through motion.
Pilgrimage in the Twenty-First Century
This inquiry showcases the rich diversity of religious and secular pilgrimage. Scholars explore travel for transformation, revealing why it is one of tourism’s fastest growing segments and how this age-old phenomenon is central to what it means to be human.
Pink Ink
Calder traces the evolution of Australia’s gay and lesbian publications from smudgy porn sold in brown paper bags to glossy coffee-table magazines proudly on display, and discusses the impact of the Internet on the industry.
PINTER ET CETERA collects essays arguing that Harold Pinter was not merely a unique writer, but an artist influencing and influenced by painters, filmmakers, and poets. This bold volume expands our understanding of Pinter’s importance beyond the absurdist stage.
This volume examines England’s pioneering computer efforts from the 1950s to the 1970s. Discover innovative concepts like time-sharing and multiprogramming, and learn how LEO I, the first business computer, arose not from a tech company or academia, but from a Tea Shoppe!
Pioneering Research in Management Science in Engineering
This book identifies major research categories in Management Science and Engineering (MSE) and provides a comprehensive evaluation and classification of MSE journals. Compiled by leading academics, it is an essential guide for scientists, researchers, engineers, and students.
Place
This book explores tensions between global new media and local practices, focusing on artists in indigenous cultural settings. Through analysis of art and film, it asks how long-held attachments to place are transforming in the new media context.
Place and Tourism Promotion
This book examines Arusha, Tanzania’s place promotion strategies. It reveals how the city uses national parks and flag institutions to attract international tourists, boosting its popularity and growing the number of visits to its attractions.
Place as Material Culture
This book explores the relationships between place, materiality, time, and ritual. It challenges traditional norms that have trivialized landscape archaeology by exploring the symbolic meanings and human emotion bound-up in place.
Place, Culture and Community
Hear the voices of the Ottawa Valley. This book reveals a vibrant heritage of fiddling, step dancing, and storytelling forged in hardship, as told by the lumbermen, priests, and families who lived its triumphant history.
Placing the Origins of the Buddha
For two centuries, the Buddha’s origin story has been accepted as fact. But is it built on a flawed foundation? This book exposes the stunning inconsistencies in the evidence, demanding a radical rethinking of early Buddhism’s true beginnings.
Planning Behavior
This book extends decision theory to explain planning phenomena. It answers why urban containment policies fail, how land development decisions are analyzed, and why cities need plans, providing a fresh look at how planners should behave in the face of urban complexity.
Plato and Democracy Today
This monograph deploys an innovative narrative device to mount an exercise in (popular) political philosophy. It presents Plato as “the Reith Lecturer”, bringing up to date his critique of democracy which he began more than two thousand years ago in The Republic.
This volume explores Platonic philosophy as a living force throughout history, from the Hellenistic age to the modern world. These studies approach Plato’s dialogues from new perspectives, shedding new light on ancient problems and the original, ever-surprising author himself.
This critique presents Plato’s leading doctrines in close connection with the man himself. It explores the relationship between author and text, with chapters on Socrates, Plato’s aesthetics, The Republic, and the Sophists.
This volume assembles John Glucker’s essays on Plato and Cicero for the first time. The articles deal with interpretations of their philosophical works and their influence on Western thought, and will be of interest to both scholars and laymen with a background in the classics.
Platonism for the Iron Age
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