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A historical, theological and juridical explanation of the nature of the Roman Curia The Roman Curia is the central body for the administration of the Roman Catholic Church. Its structure and organization is governed by Praedicate Evangelium, a new law...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781514006559Author Barry G. WebbFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint IVP AcademicPublisher IVP AcademicWeight(grams) 1200g

The sixth mass extinction or Anthropocene extinction is one of the most pervasive issues of our time. Animals, Plants and Afterimages brings together leading scholars in the humanities and life sciences to explore how extinct species are represented in...

Sonya Kelliher-Combs offers a chronicle of the ongoing struggle for self-definition and identity in the Alaskan context. Her combination of shared iconography with intensely personal imagery demonstrates the generative power that each vocabulary has over...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506487465Author Rachel WheelerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Fortress Press,U.S.Publisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

What if God has more in store for your life than you’ve given him credit for? The pressure of unmet milestones and unfulfilled dreams can make you feel like you’ve already missed out on the life you were “supposed” to have. But you don't have to exhaust...

The nimble, creative spirit of Quebecois screenwriter and filmmaker, Denis Villeneuve, is reflected in his varied body of work. Villeneuve explores questions of alterity and interculturality, of language and identity, of memory and forgetting, of...

Richard Linklater is a popular American filmmaker who is widely celebrated for the breadth of his oeuvre. Over the past three decades, Linklater has directed more than twenty features, ranging from non-linear independent films to Hollywood genre...

Dystopian and post-apocalyptic movies from 1968 to 2021 usually conclude with optimism, with a window into what is possible in the face of social dysfunction - and worse. The infrastructure that peeks through at the edges of the frame surfaces some of...

Hotels continue to appeal to the imagination. The sector re-invents itself time and time again and sets the limits for the ultimate overnight stay. But which hotels offer you a once in a lifetime experience? This book lists the ultimate top 150 hotels,...

The long-established dialogue between architecture and film offers an interdisciplinary platform for a critical examination of spaces of in-between. Apart from architecture informing scenography and cities serving as backdrops to the moving image,...

Volker Hermes: Hidden Portraits gathers the essential works by one of the most beguiling artists of the present era, in a very modern reinterpretation of historical privilege. Using only elements of the original paintings, Volker Hermes masterfully...

A unique blend of perennial wisdom and modern psychological practice The Journey of Psychosynthesis is unique in several ways: it is the first book on psychosynthesis based on a defined path of learning that has been refined and proven over more than 20...

"That's so meta! The emergence of the prefix-turned-adjective meta to describe media productions is, no doubt, symptomatic of an increasingly media-savvy audience; it has also drawn attention to the lack of scholarship on meta-phenomena in film and...

High Park, at Blenheim in Oxfordshire UK, is a SSSI of great significance for its numerous ancient oaks and the organisms associated with these trees. This book gives a detailed, lavishly illustrated and thoroughly researched description of the...

In her sculptures, installations, films, and interventions in public spaces, Croatian artist Luiza Margan explores the disparity between officially recorded history and history which is invisible. She questions the ways in which power structures and...

Challenging the Western view of idols as objects of worship, this book explores the role that male idols play in fashion and cosmetics brand marketing in mainland China, Hong Kong, and Macau; including the role of the female gaze. It examines idols in...

This is the first critical and theoretically grounded book-length study of Hajj literature (written texts about the experience of the Hajj) and Hajj practices of Bosnian Muslims. It redefines the ways pilgrimage can be understood and offers new methods...

Despite the brief span of her directorial career, lasting from 1963 to 1979, the Soviet Ukrainian director Larisa Shepitko produced a remarkable body of work, one that received an expansive national and international attention and led her to winning the...

This book offers an account of how the global popularity of the Nordic Noir wave of television crime drama such as?The Killing/Forbrydelsen and The Bridge/Broen/Bron?had a profound impact on the production of television crime drama in Australia. Through...

Sufism, the spiritual, mystical, and esoteric dimension of Islam, is experiencing a renewal in the 21st century. Charismatic Sufi masters have been able to revitalise their language, attracting new disciples and going beyond their cultural-geographic...

This book concerns the ways in which the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, the Hajj, is embedded in Moroccan society. Approaching pilgrimage from the perspective of lived religion, the book seeks to answer the question: How does Hajj feature in the everyday...

* Specifications: Includes 10 illustrated ugly Christmas sweater magnets* Book Included: Mini book explains what your favourite ugly Christmas sweater says about you* Perfect Gift: Bring humour and holiday joy to your home, office, or dorm room* A Fun...

In a role 67 million Americans face as caretakers to their elderly parents, Susan Hartzler cared for her dad for three years, gaining profound insight into Parkinson's disease and the multifaceted challenges of caregiving. Throughout this challenging...

'Will has finally written his masterpiece. I'm glad I could be of assistance' LAWRENCE'Essential reading' JARVIS COCKER'Wonderful' BOBBY GILLESPIE'A fascinating tale beautifully told' BRETT ANDERSONLawrence is the greatest pop star you have never heard...

Faith-Based Wisdom for Joy-Filled Parenting While most moms share the desire to love their kids and parent them well, you might be surprised to discover just how many of them feel as though they are messing it up! An experienced mom of grown children,...

Images from the archives of renowned fashion photojournalists Bill Cunningham and Jean-luce Hure largely unseen until now capture the behind-the-scenes drama, fabulous clothing, iconic models, and glamorous guests at this historic show. The show pitted...

“For Harlem is where he worked and where he struggled and fought—his home of homes, where his heart was, and where his people are.” Nearly sixty years since the martyrdom of Malcolm X, these words from Ossie Davis’s eulogy remind us that Malcolm’s...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667504247Author Donna HowellsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Harrison HousePublisher Harrison House

Choral Voices: Ethnographic Imaginations of Sound and Sacrality is about sacred and secular choirs in Goa and Shillong across churches, seminaries, schools, auditoriums, classrooms, reality TV shows, and festivals. Voice and genre emerge as social...

The Australian Film Revival: 70s, 80s, and Beyond explores the matrix of forces – artistic, cultural, economic, political, governmental, and ideological – that gave rise to, shaped, and sustained this remarkable film movement. This engaging new study...

Using cine-ethnomusicology as a focus, Cineworlding introduces readers to ways of thinking eco-cinematically. Screens are omnipresent, we carry digital cinema production equipment in our pockets, but this screen-based technological revolution has barely...

Challenging Bruce McCormack’s paradigm of post-Kantian Barth scholarship, this book builds on the interpretative model that Sigurd Baark developed in 2018. This model interprets Barth’s innovative adoption of an Anselmian mode of theological speculation,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798765103203Author Professor Gianluca SergiFormat PaperbackPage Count 218Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Providing an alternative to current Trinitarian and Christocentric approaches to dogmatics, this open access book instead centres the Augustinian and classical Reformation Law-Gospel distinction. Maarten Wisse demonstrates the viability of dogmatics...

Shortlisted for the Alice Davis Hitchcock Medallion 2023 A place of incarceration and liberation, political debate and historical denial, the H Block cell units of Long Kesh/Maze prison in Northern Ireland housed members of both Republican and Loyalist...

This book widens the understanding of salvation from a narrow focus on the crucifixion of Jesus Christ to one which is inseparable from creation theology. In this analysis of the Thomist and Irenaean sources of Edward Schillebeeckx’s creation faith,...

Delves into Theodor W. Adorno’s lesser-known musical career and successful music criticism. Theodor W. Adorno is recognized as one of the twentieth century’s most prominent social theorists. Though best known for his association with the Frankfurt School...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798988532910Author G. BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Colorado Music ExperiencePublisher Colorado Music Experience

Dallas Willard had this great response once when asked if he could describe Jesus in one word. He sat back, took a breath, and responded: "Relaxed."As we know through Scripture, for Jesus to come across as relaxed doesn't mean He didn't grieve or get...