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Compassion and Remorse: Acknowledging the Suffering Other by S. Tudor 9789042909205
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.37"This book articulates in rich and complex ways the nature of two important moral emotions or 'ways of being' -- compassion and remorse. As an exemplar of the 'agent-centred' tradition in normative... -
Qasr Ibrim, Between Egypt and Africa: Studies in Cultural Exchange (Nino Symposium, Leiden, 11-12 December 2009) by J.van der Vliet 9789042930308
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.70The natural citadel of Qasr Ibrim in Northern Nubia occupied for thousands of years a strategic position between Egypt and the Middle Nile region, the present-day Sudan. The rich archaeological and... -
The Libyan Period in Egypt: Historical and Cultural Studies into the 21st - 24th Dynasties: Proceedings of a Conference at Leiden University, 25-27 October 2007 by G. P. F. Broekman 9789042922389
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £93.39This volume contains the Proceedings of a conference held in October 2007 at Leiden University on the Libyan Period in Egypt. The study of the Third Intermediate Period, and most notably its... -
Problems in Decipherment by J. Bennet 9789068311778
Booksplease Price: £23.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068311778Author Y. DuhouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher Peeters... -
Encyclopedic Trends in Byzantium?: Proceedings of the International Conference Held in Leuven, 6-8 May 2009 by P. Van Deun 9789042925571
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £96.22In May 2009 the Leuven Institute of Early Christian and Byzantine Studies organized an international congress, with the title: Encyclopedic Trends in Byzantium? Some 40 scholars discussed the concept... -
Ethics and the Life of Faith: A Christian Moral Perspective by G. Moller 9789042906990
RRP: £43.00Booksplease Price: £41.64How can someone, committed to a Christian view of life, reason concerning ethical issues ? That is the main question of this book, which seeks to contribute to an understanding of morality as a human... -
Matter of Breath: Foundations for Professional Ethics by G. De Stexhe 9789042909069
Booksplease Price: £32.61This book submits for discussion the first results of an undertaking that is still going on. It aims to stimulate a broad reflection on the general question of the meaning of ethics and ethics... -
The Foundation and Application of Moral Philosophy: Ricoeur's Ethical Order by Hendrik J. Opdebeeck 9789042908529
Booksplease Price: £19.11Paul Ricoeur (1913), prominent French philosopher, is one of the most versatile thinkers of our time. Moreover, he is known to be an extremely gifted lecturer, who is able to set forth ethical... -
Syntax in Antiquity by Pierre Swiggers 9789042913738
RRP: £88.00Booksplease Price: £82.57The volume, which constitutes a tribute to the scholarly work of Jean Lallot, contains contributions on the history of syntax in Antiquity (including the later Byzantine period). The various papers... -
God in France: Eight Contemporary French Thinkers on God by Peter Jonkers 9789042915701
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £42.99According to some, French philosophy has taken an obvious turn towards/into a theological context. In their work, contemporary philosophers such as Ricoeur, Levinas, Girard, Henry, and even Derrida... -
Word Classes and Related Topics in Ancient Greek: Proceedings of the Conference on Greek Syntax and Word Classes Held in Madrid on 18-21 June 2003 by E. Crespo 9789042917378
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £61.33The book presents an up-to-dated and thorough treatment of an important part of the syntax of Ancient Greek, the Word Classes. It collects most of the papers read at the international conference held... -
An English-French Dictionary of Clipped Words by Fabrice Antoine 9789042908406
Booksplease Price: £35.35This dictionary deals with the little words which everyone uses every day without even noticing them and which are so liable to escape the grasp of a speaker of another language - clipped words,... -
Chinese Reflexives by W. Xian-Fu Yu 9789042909380
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £77.30This book presents the Chinese reflexivisation system, investigating the different types of Chinese reflexive constructions and offering an analysis of these, in an attempt to integrate syntactic,... -
Roman Toilets: Their Archaeology and Cultural History by Gemma C. M. Jansen 9789042925410
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £85.66Multi-seater latrines, as we find them in Roman Ostia and in many other sites across the Mediterranean, are well known both to tourists and archaeologists, but very few people understand how they... -
Sabbath in the Making: A Study of the Inner-Biblical Interpretation of the Sabbath Commandment by O. Lukács 9789042940536
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £79.08The ancient institution of the Sabbath which has persisted throughout the centuries and to this very day defines the identity, religious and cultural practices of the Jewish... -
"Godhead Here in Hiding": Incarnation and the History of Human Suffering by T. Merrigan 9789042922914
RRP: £113.00Booksplease Price: £106.19The central tenet of Christian faith, namely, that God, through the incarnation, has immersed Godself in human history and undergone its terrors, does not dispel the mystery... -
Healthy Thoughts: European Perspectives on Health Care Ethics by R. K. Lie 9789042911420
RRP: £49.00Booksplease Price: £48.52This book, edited by a team of leading European bioethicists, is in all respects an innovative publication. As part of the core materials project of the European Ethics Network, this book collects... -
Laws on Religion and the State in Post-communist Europe by Professor W. Cole Durham, Jr. 9789042913622
Booksplease Price: £77.13This book contains the text in English of the most important laws that discipline the relationship between States and religious groups in the Post-Communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe... -
Initiation and Mystagogy in Thomas Aquinas: Scriptural, Systematic, Sacramental and Moral, and Pastoral Perspectives by Schoot H.J.M. 9789042941274
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £56.82On what grounds could Aquinas's interpretation of Isaiah be called mystagogical? How does he account for growth in faith? What is Aquinas's conception of teaching? What does... -
Essentials of Functional Phonology by Tsutomu Akamatsu 9789068314137
Booksplease Price: £23.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068314137Author T. AkamatsuFormat PaperbackPage Count 193Imprint Peeters PublishersPublisher... -
The Foreign Residents of Athens: An Annex to the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names: Attica by S. G. Byrne 9789068318838
RRP: £79.00Booksplease Price: £76.39Athens was a cosmopolitan city throughout antiquity but hitherto no serious attempt has been made to catalogue the foreign residents. In this important contribution the authors, who have recently... -
Writing to Survive. A Commentary on Sidonius Apollinaris, Letters Book 7. Volume 1: The Episcopal Letters 1-11 by J.A. van Waarden 9789042923201
Booksplease Price: £107.20A key figure in late antique Gaul, Sidonius Apollinaris - aristocrat, administrator, poet, letter-writer, and bishop - is still insufficiently understood. This study aims to contribute to an... -
Adelmann of Liege and the Eucharistic Controversy by Hans Geybels 9789042926820
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £46.47Ademm Adelmann of Liege was one of the first interlocutors of Berengar of Tours in the Eucharistic controversy of the eleventh century. For that reason, his contribution was of great importance for... -
Perspectives on English. Studies in Honour of Professor Emma Vorlat by Brygida Rudzka-Ostyn 9789068315936
Booksplease Price: £42.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789068315936Author Brygida Rudzka-OstynFormat PaperbackPage Count 580Imprint Peeters... -
The Quest for the Memory of Jesus: a Viable Path or a Dead End? by T. Havukainen 9789042941250
RRP: £84.00Booksplease Price: £79.08This study is focused on the active international field of study in which various theories of memory (e.g. social/collective memory and individual memory) and ancient media... -
Existential Elements of the Family: Finding Meaning through Life's Stages by L.L. Armstrong 9789042936188
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £77.30Existential Elements of the Family: Finding Meaning through Life's Stages is a developmental psychology textbook exploring optimal family functioning, even in the face of... -
Media Ethics: Opening Social Dialogue by B. Pattyn 9789042909021
Booksplease Price: £37.57All of us form some kind of idea about what we see, hear or read in the media, not only about the content of the reports but also about the way in which they are presented and their relevance. We... -
Canonical Testament: Monsignor W. Onclin Chair 2004 by Rik Torfs 9789042914636
Booksplease Price: £15.56This volume contains the lectures of The Monsignor W. Onclin Chair 2004. The first lecture was given by R. Torfs and was titled "Ten Years Monsignor W. Onclin Chair. An Interim Report or a... -
Philosophie, Theologie, Litterature: Hommage a Xavier Tilliette, SJ Pour Ses Quatre-vingt-dix Ans by Miklos Veto 9789042925113
RRP: £61.00Booksplease Price: £57.66Le Pere Xavier Tilliette est l'un des plus grands historiens contemporains de la philosophie. Il est l'auteur d'une monumentale etude en deux volumes sur Schelling a qui il avait d'ailleurs consacre... -
Euthanasia and Palliative Care in the Low Countries by Paul Schotsmans 9789042915565
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.18Belgium and the Netherlands - the Low Countries - are the first countries in the world to have legalized euthanasia. Physicians who terminate life at the patient's request no longer have to fear... -
The Footprints of Love: John of the Cross as Guide in the Wilderness by Hein Blommestijn 9789042909311
Booksplease Price: £30.12Like a graphic artist, the discriminating pen of John of the Cross (1540-1591) sketches 'a trail made up of the footprints of love'. He does not sketch a romantic image of a 'mystical' paradise where... -
Orthodoxy, Process and Product by M. Lamberigts 9789042922181
RRP: £93.00Booksplease Price: £88.34From 2002-2008, three research groups from the departments of systematic theology and church history at the Faculty of Theology, K.U.Leuven, joined forces in an interdisciplinary project, entitled... -
Paul Ricoeur: Poetics and Religion by J. Verheyden 9789042924505
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £95.25The present volume contains the proceedings of an international conference that was held at the Faculty of Theology of the Catholic University of Leuven, October 28 to 31, 2008. ?Poetics' and... -
Commonplace Culture in Western Europe in the Early Modern Period III: Legitimation of Authority by Joop W. Koopmans 9789042924765
RRP: £60.00Booksplease Price: £57.68This is the third of three volumes from the project 'Authority and Persuasion: the Role of Commonplaces in Western Europe (c.1450-c.1800)'. The project was launched by the universities of Copenhagen,... -
Reason, Truth and Theology in Pragmatist Perspective by Paul Murray 9789042914520
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.29In this work Paul Murray explores which style of rationality is most appropriate to Christian theology in the contemporary pluralist, postfoundationalist, postmodern context. At its heart is a fresh... -
Language Politics and Language Survival: Yiddish Among the Haredim in Post-war Britain by Bruce Mitchell 9789042917842
Booksplease Price: £76.42"Language Politics and Language Survival: Yiddish among the haredim in post-war Britain" outlines the history and development of the Yiddish language as it is used among Ultra-Orthodox Jews in... -
Monasticism Buddhist and Christian: The Korean Experience by Sunghae Kim 9789042920606
Booksplease Price: £28.07When the history of Christian monasticism is written for the twentieth century, it will include one surprising and revolutionary development that nothing in its previous history could have prepared... -
Performance, Drama and Spectacle in the Medieval City: Essays in Honour of Alan Hindley by Catherine Emerson 9789042922105
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £91.86The growth of urban life in the Middle Ages led to a flourishing of performance, drama and spectacle as we understand them today. Here is presented, for the first time, a collection of commissioned... -
The Shaping of Tradition: Context and Normativity by C. Dickinson 9789042929364
RRP: £82.00Booksplease Price: £78.11Concerning the normativity of the Christian tradition, there remains much to be said in a theological context today. In the modern period, from the debates that (still) rage over the reception of the... -
Leadership, Innovation, and Spirituality by P. Nullens 9789042931268
RRP: £50.00Booksplease Price: £48.70In a world of managerial discourse, measurement and control, leaders and workers alike cry out for inspiration and innovation in a way that respects their humanity. Spirituality as...