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Erich S. Gruen investigates a remarkable phenomenon in religious and literary history: the freedom with which Jewish writers in antiquity retold and recast, sometimes distorted or bypassed, biblical narratives that ostensibly had the status of sacred...

Investigates the reception and performance history of the polyphonic mass in Lutheran Central Europe from ca. 1540-1600. The five-movement polyphonic Mass Ordinary emerged from the cultural and liturgical practices of medieval Roman Catholicism and...

A monster has broken into Jack's garden and stolen his favourite yellow underpants. The cheek! Jack sees his chance to flex his new fairy skills and embark on his first ever solo mission. Unfortunately, in chasing the creature across town and leaving a...

First brought to the United States in the nineteenth century by Chinese and Japanese immigrants, Buddhism has become a major feature of the North American religious, cultural, and social landscape. Nearly every form of Asian Buddhism has some presence in...

From Clare Sestanovich, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize nominee whose short stories received instant acclaim, a debut novel about a young woman's coming of age, in parallel with a renegade male friend who challenges her beliefs and the course of her life...

In the imaginations of young and old alike, the word “pirate” resonates with spine-tingling fear and swashbuckling adventure. Over centuries, our cultural landscape has been populated by a host of famous real and fictional figures immortalized in...

Be more Pippi Longstocking with this empowering book celebrating 80 years of Astrid Lindgren's best-loved character. Enter a world of adventures that reveal Pippi Longstocking's unique personality, introduced by Pippi super-fan, Sandi Toksvig. Discover...

Meet Mirabelle Starspell. Her mum is a witch, her dad is a fairy and she is a bit of both. She likes casting spells with her fairy wand and flying around on her witchy broomstick, but most of all the thing she really, really likes to do is cause mischief...

Having been formed in 1978, following two solo albums from David Coverdale, Whitesnake steadily built up its audience. By 1979, along with fellow original band members Micky Moody, Bernie Marsden and Neil Murray; Whitesnake also featured Coverdale’s...

Award-winning poet and essayist Cheryl Clarke’s illustrious career has spanned more than four decades and culminates in Archive of Style: New and Selected Poems, a long-awaited retrospective of the indelible work of a Black feminist, community and LGBTQ...

Young readers will giggle with delight as one hundred unusual animals try to squeeze into the oversized pages of this raucous rhyming tale. “But can we fit a whole blue whale?” is repeated throughout, as more animals join the melange. The humorously...

Who says you can’t rewrite the stars? It’s 1962 when Tennessee-native Jack Bennett meets out-of-towner Ellie Spencer. He quickly falls head-over-heels for the young woman whose greatest love has always been the stars...until Jack. As their summer romance...

Examines the role of architecture in the history of global development and decolonization. In Modernism’s Magic Hat, Ijlal Muzaffar examines how modern architects and planners help resolve one of the central dilemmas of the mid-twentieth-century world...

Lonely Planet's Maui is our most comprehensive guide that extensively covers all the region has to offer, with recommendations for both popular and lesser-known experiences. Discover majestic Haleakala National Park, snorkel at Turtle Beach, and explore...

A new anthology of Folk Horror stories, covering a wide range of mythologies and dark corners from around the world, revealing tales from the shadows of isolation, creepy forests and horrors rising from the land itself. Award-winning anthologists Paul...

Step into the beguiling world of 1926 New York and discover the power of resilience, friendship, and love from award-winning author Jocelyn Green. Elsa Reisner's lifelong dream of working as an ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural History is...

Icelandic folktales are the close cousins of Viking fairy stories, although perhaps a little darker in their tone, but they share many of the same themes of innocence and trickery, triumph of good sense over pride, and all with a strong moral message...

The fables, folklore and fairy tales of Rome are definitely not the more familiar myths and legends with their pantheon of gods. Within these pages you'll find stories and fears of the everyday, observations on the world around us, often poking fun at...

Explore how icons and pictograms, born out of a necessity for efficient communication, have become indispensable tools shaping the evolution of visual communication. Icons and pictograms, born out of a necessity for efficient communication, have become...

Available to pre-order now - the gorgeous and poignant debut novel from Lauren Aliza Green, for fans of Anne Tyler and Claire Lombardo.One of Forbes’s 2024 '30 Under 30' in MediaOne of Lit Hub’s 'Most Anticipated Books' of 2024A 'Literary Summer Romance'...

What if urban planning and design were to prioritize rather than merely accommodate the unbuilt environment? Territorial Urbanism Now! calls for a paradigm shift in the conception of urban transformation. It urges us to favor sustainable systems in order...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506487137Author Enrico BeltraminiFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

Norms and obligations are central components of many religious traditions. Yet they have often been neglected as objects of reflection in the study of religion relative to belief, experience, and even the related category of ritual. More surprisingly,...

Films like The Eternal Daughter and the diptych The Souvenir and The Souvenir Part II have cemented Joanna Hogg’s reputation as an original voice in contemporary cinema. Her rigorous and quiet style draws on the histories of film and art to tell stories...

The official music quiz book from the iconic Greatest Hits Radio and Channel 4 TV show, with 1,500 new questions - get ready to take on the ultimate PopMaster challenge!DO YOU STOP FOR POPMASTER?Test your pop music knowledge with the official PopMaster...

In this comprehensive, 4-volume commentary, Christopher Ash provides a thorough treatment of all 150 Psalms, examining each chapter’s significance to David and the other psalmists, to Jesus during his earthly ministry, and to the church of Christ in...

Pregnancy loss is profoundly complex, ambiguous, and alienating, but telling women who have procured abortions that they are murderers and sinners is not the best way forward. Magisterial teachings on abortion are too often presented as moral absolutes,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647101176Author Lezli RobynFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint CAEZIK SF & FantasyPublisher CAEZIK SF & Fantasy

A Christian imagination of colonial discovery permeated the early modern world, but legal histories developed in very different ways depending on imperial jurisdictions. Indigenous Rights and the Legacies of the Bible: From Moses to Mabo explores the...

The Birds Were the Only Ones Singing is a diverse anthology of poems that reflects the world around us. Split into six chapters, the poems are drawn from the poet’s personal experiences and explores nature, community, folk, love, loss, and metamorphosis...

In 1990, Verner Soler, born in the Swiss village of Vrin, in the Canton of Grisons, and educated as a primary school teacher, travelled to Los Angeles. His intended six-month stay turned into 30 years and counting. He studied photography and creative...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914914805Author Shash TrevettFormat PaperbackImprint Smith|Doorstop BooksPublisher Smith|Doorstop BooksWeight(grams) 65g

Venice, 1958. Peggy Guggenheim, heiress and now legendary art collector, sits in the sun at her white marble palazzo on the Grand Canal. She's in a reflective mood, thinking back on her thrilling, tragic, nearly impossible journey from her sheltered,...

Set in nineteen sixties’ Glasgow, The Dear Green Place is an absorbing portrait of the struggles and conflicts of a young working-class hero and would-be novelist Mat Craig whose desire to define himself as an artist creates social and family tensions...

A brand new collection from award-winning poet Marianne Chan. A coming-of-age narrative, Leaving Biddle City details one Filipina American speaker’s experience of growing up amid a white, Midwestern suburbia mythologized as “Biddle City.” Through prose...

Trouble is brewing in The Bartons. The beautifully presented villages of East and West Barton are fierce rivals in The Best Kept Village Competition. When wanton acts of vandalism to both villages mysteriously start to occur, suspicions begin to arise. ...

Around 20 percent of Americans fall into the category of “spiritual but not religious.” Yoga has become a ubiquitous pastime for middle-class Westerners. Mindfulness is increasingly incorporated into school curricula, sports programs, and even corporate...

Experience the classic fairy tale of Hansel and Gretel like never before in a board book for young readers shaped like scenes from the story.In the heart of a mysterious forest, where secrets lurk behind every tree, a timeless fairy tale comes to life...

The sword has the power of Britain in its steel, men will follow and fight for whoever wields it...Dark Age Britain. A legendary hero rises to unite a divided and threatened land...A country left in ruins after the fall of the Roman Empire is plundered...

Books take readers on unforgettable adventures! In this simple board book story, books of different colors take readers on imaginative journeys to lands far away: a blue book takes them on an ocean voyage, a green book takes them to a rain forest, a red...