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Essays in Honour of Anthony HopwoodAccounting has an ever-increasing significance in contemporary society; its        practices are seen as fundamental to the development and functioning of modern        capitalist societies. This book showcases some of the pioneering work that has        persuasively explained to what extent economic life is...

This landmark handbook maps the best current scholarship in the rapidly developing        field of Methodist Studies. The forty-two included essays are representative of the        voices of a new generation of international scholars, summarising and expanding on        topical research, and considering where their work may lead...

The New Testament contains a story about Jesus of Nazareth. The Christian Church has always understood this narrative as the story of the Son of God, who redeemed the fallen human race by his life, death, and resurrection. Can such a story be historically true? This book argues that it can. Careful considerations of the philosophical and literary...

Those who believe in God often puzzle over how God could permit evil and suffering in the world.    Nature Red in Tooth and Claw focuses specifically on non-human animal suffering, and whether or not it raises problems for belief in the existence of a perfectly good creator....

Digital Games, YouTube, and Virtual PerformancePlaying Along shows how video games and social media are bridging virtual and        visceral experience, transforming our understanding of musicality, creativity, play,        and participation....

Performance and Analysis of LiederFocusing on the music of the great song composers--Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wolf, and Strauss--Poetry Into Song offers a systematic introduction to the performance and analysis of Lieder . Part I, "e;The Language of Poetry,"e; provides chapters on the themes and imagery of German Romanticism and the...