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How News Images Move the PublicDue to its ability to freeze a moment in time, the photo is a uniquely powerful device for ordering and understanding the world. But when an image depicts complex, ambiguous, or controversial events--terrorist attacks, wars, political assassinations--its ability to influence perception can prove deeply unsettling. Are...

A History of Modern Pagan WitchcraftThe first scholarly study of the only religion which England has ever given the        world; modern pagan witchcraft. It tells the story of its development and nature,        and uses that story as a microhistory for a general consideration of attitudes to        paganism, witchcraft, and magic in British...

History, Prophecy, Literature--Why Modern Readers Need to Know the Difference and What      It Means for Faith TodayMore people read the Bible than any other book and, as Steven McKenzie shows in        this provocative volume, most of us misread it. McKenzie argues that to comprehend        the Bible we must grasp the intentions of the biblical...

Disjunctivism is the focus of a lively debate spanning the philosophy of perception, epistemology, and the philosophy of action. Adrian Haddock and Fiona Macpherson present seventeen specially written essays, which examine the different forms of disjunctivism and explore the connections between them....

Alessandra Giorgi develops an important and original perspective on the relation between a sentence and its extra-sententialcontext, namely that the speaker's temporal location is specified in the syntactic structure. Carefully argued and clearly written her book will appeal widely to semanticists in linguistics and philosophy....

The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties AmericaWhy did the youthful optimism and openness of the sixties give way to Ronald Reagan and the spirit of conservative reaction--a spirit that remains ascendant today?    Drawing on a wide array of sources--including tabloid journalism, popular fiction, movies, and television shows--Philip...