Oxford University Press

This book presents an innovative challenge to the traditional reading of Paul. Troels Engberg-Pedersen argues that the usual, mainly cognitive and metaphorical ways of understanding central Pauline concepts must be supplemented by a literal understanding that directly reflects Paul's materialist cosmology....

The Georgia Years, 1924-1974Covering their lives from childhood to the end of the Georgia governorship, Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter is one of the few major biographies of an American president that pays significant attention to the First Lady. So deeply were their lives and aspirations intertwined, a close friend once remarked: "e;You can&'t...

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This book addresses a dilemma at the heart of counter-terrorism: Is it ever justifiable to torture terrorists when innocent lives are at stake? The book analyses the moral arguments and presents a passionate defence of prohibition. It also examines current State practice and the models of legalising torture suggested in Israel and the US....

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I remember Will's promise: 'It's not over. I'll find you . . .' Then it dawns on me. He won't know what happened. He'll just think I left. Vanished. Jacinda did the unthinkable for love: she betrayed the most closely-guarded secret of her kind. Exposed for what she really is - a descendant of dragons with the...