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'Adds enormously to our understanding of the man' Evening Standard George Orwell was one of the greatest writers England produced in the last century....
How the way we hold knowledge about the past—in books, in file folders, in databases—affects the kind of stories we tell about the past. The way w...
The History and Ideas of the Great Religions
Religious beliefs have shaped the history of the world. Their effect can be seen in culture, philosophy and politics, and they have inspired people to...
A Practical Guide to Using Corpora
Working with Specialized Language: a practical guide to using corpora introduces the principles of using corpora when studying specialized language. T...
A major contribution to debates about the value of death and its place in Western and Eastern religions is presented by this work's belief that religi...
Classification and Its Consequences
A revealing and surprising look at how classification systems can shape both worldviews and social interactions. What do a seventeenth-century mortali...
Baffled by Buddhism? Confused by Catholicism? Mystified by Mysticism? World Religions can lift the cloud surrounding the main faiths of the world. Chr...
Mythology, Identity, and the Search for Peace
Encompassing history, politics, and political culture, Bowker grapples with fundamental issues of Palestinian identity in the context of the peace pro...
Who or what is God? How do different religions interpret God's existence? How can we know God? Many people believe in God; not just throughout history...
Superpower Detente is an outstanding assessment of the highs and lows in the relationship between the two superpowers in the 1970s, and the prospects ...
A Practical Introduction
Lynne Bowker introduces the world of technology to the world of translation in this unique book, the first of its kind. Bowker reveals the role of tec...
Information Management and Industrial Geophysics at Schlumberger, 1920-1940
In this engaging account, Geoffrey Bowker reveals how Schlumberger devised a method of testing potential oil fields, produced a rhetoric, and secured ...
Jim O'Connor, the Republican senator from Massachusetts, is a handsome, charismatic family man—and a future contender for the presidency. But when O...
This book consists of a collection of poems from David Bowker; the majority were written in the autumn of 2022, but others are from the mid-1990s and ...
Learn everything you need to know about the central practices, important figures, and key teachings of many different religions. Each of the major fai...
Sacred Texts of the World's Religions
Grand in its sweep, this survey of the sacred writings of the major religions of the world offers a thoughtful introduction to the ideas and beliefs u...
Traces the acclaimed writer's childhood, Eton education, experiences as a Burma policeman, deliberate entry into poverty, witness to the Spanish Civil...
A New Biography
A revealing new biography—the first in more than fifty years—of one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figures James Joyce is one of the...
What are religions? Why is it important to understand them? One answer is that religions and religious believers are extremely bad news: they are deep...
A Novel
Mark Madden's life changes forever when he encounters an old girlfriend, Caro, who draws him into a dangerous game of kill or be killed when she asks ...
The interviewees in this bestselling book provide thought-provoking commentary on a wide range of issues, from the interpretation of the Qur’an and ...
Towards Improved Machine Translation Literacy in the Scholarly Community
Lynne Bowker and Jairo Buitrago Ciro introduce the concept of machine translation literacy, a new kind of literacy for scholars and librarians in the ...
A Time Such as There Never Was Before / On the Front Line of Life
In this two-book bundle, Alan Bowker sheds new light on two subjects with a surprising connection: the great Canadian writer Stephen Leacock and the r...
Albert Camus, Postmodernity, and the Survival of Innocence
What does it mean to describe something or someone as absurd? Why did absurd philosophy and literature become so popular amidst the violent conflicts ...
The main part of this book brings together the most important Greek and Semitic source material in translation ... The author shows that the Pharisees...
Fully updated, now in full color, this latest edition of Levin and O'Neal's The Diabetic Foot continues the work's proud tradition of providing the be...
A comparative general study of the problems of suffering as treated by Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Marxism, Hinduism and Buddhism....
An Introduction to Solving Crimes in Cyberspace
Written by experts on the frontlines, Investigating Internet Crimes provides seasoned and new investigators with the background and tools they need to...
In Russia after the Cold War the editors provide an accessible and comprehensive survey of the state of Russia at the end of the twentieth century, as...
A Legal, Technical and Buying Guide for the Radio, Television and Domestic Electrical Industries
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