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This volume represents the first trilateral exploration of medieval scriptural interpretation. During the medieval period the three exegetical traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam produced a vast literature, one of great diversity but also one of numerous cross-cultural similarities....

Positive psychology is the scientific study of what goes right in life, from birth        to death and at all stops in between. It is a newly-christened approach within        psychology that takes seriously the examination of that which makes life most worth        living. Everyone's life has peaks and valleys, and positive psychology does not...

George F. Babbitt is a real estate agent in the fictional Midwestern city of        Zenith. Complacent, acquisitive, and conformist, his awareness of something lacking        in his life finally leads him to rebel. Lewis's hilarious, poignant satire on        small-city businessmen exposes the hypocrisies of middle America and still has...

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A Very Short IntroductionThis Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines the impact of the revolution on society as a whole--on different classes, ethnic groups, the army, men and women, youth. Its central concern is to understand how one structure...