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The Routledge Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Paperback)

Written by leading scholars in the field this comprehensive and readable resource gives anthropology students a unique guide to the ideas arguments and history of the discipline. Combining anthropological theory and ethnography it includes 275... more

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy Cont Debates in Bioethics P Book 13 (Paperback)

Contemporary Debates in Bioethics features a timely collection of highly readable debate-style arguments contributed by many of today s top bioethics scholars focusing on core bioethical concerns of the twenty-first century. Written in an engaging... more

They Called Themselves Slave : A Brief Study of the English Translation of the Koinē Greek Word doūlos (slave) in the New Testament in the Context of Love and Obedience (Hardcover)

The book is an easily readable book which shows that the English translation of dolos (slave) as servant (diakonos) is incorrect. The argument put forth is well documented researched and clearly presented to those of any religious or non-religious... more

Religion in Public Life: A Dilemma for Democracy (Paperback)

Prayer in public schools abortion gay and lesbian rights-these bitterly divisive issues dominate American politics today revealing deep disagreements over basic moral values. In a highly readable account that draws on legal arguments political theory... more

Criminal Justice Latino Homicide: Immigration Violence and Community (Hardcover)

Latino Homicide is the first empirically based but readable book for courses to counter the conventional wisdom that immigrant populations only contribute crime to their communities. For this second edition Martinez further emphasizes his argument with... more

Textual Explorations The Poetics of Science Fiction (Paperback)

The Poetics of Science Fiction uniquely uses the science of linguistics to explore the literary universe of science fiction. Developing arguments about specific texts and movements throughout the twentieth-century the book is a readable discussion of... more

Dark Trophies: Hunting and the Enemy Body in Modern War (Hardcover)

This is an extremely interesting book with a strong argument overall...It is extremely readable makes anthropological analysis accessible and does not over-exoticize the topic. Most admirably the author keeps a tight focus on cross-cultural... more

Sociological Theory: An Introduction to the Classical Tradition (Paperback)

Sociological Theory presents a readable and easily understandable version of the central concepts and arguments of the great classical sociological theorists Karl Marx Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. The book begins by introducing the initial turn to... more

Iris Murdoch: Philosophical Novelist (Paperback)

This book provides a concise and highly readable reassessment of Iris Murdoch s engagement with philosophy throughout her life and proposes that she was most importantly a philosophical novelist. By investigating her use of philosophical argument in... more

Contemporary Debates in Philosophy: Contemporary Debates in Bioethics (Hardcover)

Contemporary Debates in Bioethics features a timely collection of highly readable debate-style arguments contributed by many of today s top bioethics scholars focusing on core bioethical concerns of the twenty-first century. Written in an engaging... more

Palgrave Pivot: Alexander Pope s Catholic Vision: Slave to No Sect (Hardcover)

A fresh look at the greatest poet of early eighteenth-century England this highly readable book focuses on Pope s religious thinking and major poems. G. Douglas Atkins extends the argument that the Roman Catholic poet was no Deist closet or otherwise. more