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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...

Western scholars have argued that Indian civilisation must have been the joint product of an invading "e;Indo-European"e; people - the "e;Indo-Aryan"e; - and indigenous non-Indo-European peoples. Although Indian scholars have consistently and vehemently rejected this European reconstruction of their country's history, Western...

Barchester Towers, Trollope's most popular novel, is the second of the six Chronicles of Barsetshire. The Chronicles follow the intrigues of ambition and love in the cathedral town of Barchester. In this novel Trollope continues the story, begun in The Warden, of Mr Harding and his daughter Eleanor, introducing that oily symbol of progress Mr...