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The Septuagint and the Making of the Christian BibleMost readers of religious literature have no knowledge of the Bible that was used almost universally by early Christians, or of how that Bible was birthed, how it grew to prominence, and how it differs from the one used as the basis for most modern translations. Timothy Michael Law offers the...

Essays by leading historians from around the world combine to create a timely and authoritative assessment of a number of the major themes in the history of modern South Asia....

Category mistakes are sentences such as 'Green ideas sleep furiously' or 'Saturday is in bed'. They strike us as highly infelicitous but it is hard to explain precisely why this is so. Ofra Magidor explores four approaches to category mistakes in philosophy of language and linguistics, and develops and defends an original,...

Finding Religion in Everyday LifeNancy Tatom Ammerman examines the stories Americans tell of their everyday lives, from dinner table to office and shopping mall to doctor's office, about the things that matter most to them and the routines they take for granted, and the times and places where the everyday and ordinary meet the spiritual....

What Everyone Needs to KnowWhat happens in Spain, among the euro zone&'s largest economies, matters. Its high unemployment (over 26%), burgeoning public debt, and banking crisis will be formative for the zone&'s future.   In Spain: What Everyone Needs to Know, a timely addition to Oxford&'s acclaimed What Everyone Needs to Know series, veteran...

Principles and practical implementationThis second edition of the well-illustrated practical handbook provides a concise summary of the basics of ultrasound technology, and includes the most recent knowledge in the topic of ultrasound in regional anaesthesia....