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A History of Ancient Sport from Homer to ByzantiumIn this volume, David Potter provides a history of ancient sport from Archaic-period Greece to the early Byzantine Empire, and further explores the role sport has played throughout history....

Studies in Contemporary Jewry, Volume XXIVVolume 24 of the annual Studies in Contemporary Jewry takes up the problem of relations between the various Protestant churches and Jews, Judaism, and the State of Israel....

What should you do when you cannot achieve a good without also causing a foreseen, but not intended, evil (such as killing non-combatants when bombing a military target)? This book articulates, and defends, an ancient approach to this common problem, double-effect reasoning....

In   Language Interrupted, linguist John McWhorter agrees that all languages are complex, but questions whether or not they are all equally complex. The topic of complexity has become a hot issue in recent years, particularly in creole studies, historical linguistics, and language contact....

In this book, Marie Sabin argues that Mark's gospel represents an early and evolving Christianity, which shaped its theological discourse out of the forms familiar to early Judaism. In that early Jewish context, she says, theology took the form of connecting scripture with current events: the biblical word was continually reopened - i.e....

This book addresses the fundamental issues of predator-prey interactions, with an        emphasis on predation among arthropods, which have been better studied, and for        which the database is more extensive than for the large and rare vertebrate        predators. The book should appeal to ecologists interested in the broad issue...