Hakutulokset: Kirjoja kirjailijalta John Wallis
yhteensä 91 hakutulosta
The Egyptian Book of the Dead
The Book of the Dead is a unique collection of funerary texts from a wide variety of sources, dating from the fifteenth to the fourth century BC. Consisting of spells, prayers and …
Violence and Social Orders
All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical …
Becoming a Sports Coach
A ‘coach’ is more than just somebody who leads in the organisation and delivery of structured sport. The role of a coach goes beyond leadership, requiring an understanding of …
Theorising Religion
Religion is controversial and challenging. Whilst religious forces are powerful in numerous societies, they have little or no significance for wide swaths of public or private life …
Alas Vegas
You wake in a shallow grave in the desert. It's night. You have no memory of how you got here, or who you are, or the location of your clothes. A scar of neon in the shape of a …
Violence and Social Orders
All societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical …
Relation Des Voyages Entrepris Par Ordre de Sa Majesté Britannique Actuellement Régnante. Tome 4
In the Shadow of Violence
This book applies the conceptual framework of Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis and Barry R. Weingast's Violence and Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2009) to nine …
The Arithmetic of Infinitesimals
The book is the first English translation of John Wallis's Arithmetica Infinitorum (1656), a key text on the seventeenth-century development of the calculus. Accompanied with …
Teaching Language to a Boy Born Deaf
This book presents an edition of a previously unpublished notebook used by the seventeenth-century polymath John Wallis to teach language to the 'deaf mute' Alexander Popham. Under …
To See the Saw Movies
The Saw films, often derided by critics as "e;torture porn"e; and an excuse to show blood and gore, are the highest-grossing horror series in cinema history. In view of …
Art, Faith and Place in East Anglia
An investigation into the manifestations of religious art in East Anglia and how they are connected to and inspired by their locations. The relationship between religious or …