A series of studies on a wide variety of themes ranging from a consideration of God's theocracy to the evasive modes post-exilic Jews used in referring to God. Includes a study of Jewish eschatolog...
One of the most important works of cultural theory ever written, Walter Benjamin's groundbreaking essay explores how the age of mass media means audiences can listen to or see a work of art repeate...
The world comes to us in colour. But colour lives as much in our imaginations as it does in our surroundings, as this scintillating book reveals. Each chapter immerses the reader in a single colour...
Gripping' Economist | 'Jaw-dropping' Sunday Times | 'Riveting' Financial Times | 'Fascinating' ReutersShortlisted for the Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award<...
'You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour.' Stephen Fry'P. G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century' Sebastian Faulks
'A comic master' David Walliams'Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale . . . A world for us to live and delight in' Evelyn WaughA veritable feast of comedy awaits with th...
""To many students of the New Testament the environment into which the Christian gospel was born is an unknown world. They read it only in the light of their own time and interpret it by their own ...
Over the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their w...
Revised Edition with New Afterword from the Author Time #1 Nonfiction Book of the YearFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award Over 3 million copies s...
The portrait of an angry God, quick to condemn, that many people claim to find in the pages of the Bible is undoubtedly one of the greatest obstacles to faith. The modern tendency to efface all tra...
'This century's most compelling theorist of racism and colonialism' Angela DavisWritten at the height of the Algerian war for independence from French colonial rule and first published ...
The difference between life and literature; the good intentions of holiday reading; the avante-garde; the fate of the novel; the fantastical; the art of translation: these are just some of the idea...
A Financial Times Best Thriller of the Year 2023If, like Kane, you're a Denied Access Area spy for the CIA, then boundaries have no meaning. Your function is to go in, do whatever is re...
How could Nazi killers shoot Jewish women and children at close range? Why did Japanese soldiers rape and murder on such a horrendous scale? How was it possible to endure the torment of a Nazi conc...
Of the five books that make up the Major Prophets in the Old Testament, three are amongst the largest of the Bible: Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. As if to underscore their Major status, each one i...
Twelve girls. Three rounds. One ultimate prize . . . for the last one left alive.Edgewater Academy is a school for the very rich and very powerful.Adina Walker is neither of...
She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl.She had her whole life ahead of her.And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone.Ten years on, Laurel has never given up hope o...
Let the games begin.Every inhabitant in the Quadrant knows about The Pinnacle, a reality TV contest set on a remote planet with a huge cash prize. For three desperate entrants, winning ...
This is a book about youth ministry - a ministry with youth based in the local congregation. Seven theological themes utilizing a lectionary/ seasons-of-the-year framework, provide this book's core...