Transcendence for Beginners examines life writing and philosophy across certain European and Indian traditions, exploring questions of childhood and mortality, art and religion, beauty and loss. Informed by her experience as a biographer of Søren Kierkegaard and George Eliot as well as her own life, Clare Carlisle a...

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context. To bring the ancient messages of the Bible into today's world, each passage is treated in three sections: Original Meaning. Concise exegesis to help readers understand the original meaning of the biblical te...

The poison is fearーthis book is the cure. When the world wounds us with a metaphorical arrow, many of us spend our days chasing unanswerable questions: Why was I hurt? Who is to blame? Will it happen again? Beneath these restless inquiries lies a deeper truth: even though the event is now over, the fear it left beh...

上帝正在建造一個家。 以基督耶穌為房角石，安置你我與其他部分聯絡得合式。 這裡就是聖殿，都是神的百姓和家人。 作者認為福音派主要的盲點之一就是：忽略教會的核心地位；側重宣揚個人得救，卻不重視叫人進入得救的群體。承認自己是「基督徒」過於承認自己為「教會分子」。所傳的福音注重新生命，過於一個新社會。而以弗所書的信息，清楚說...

"A must-read for empaths ready to trust themselves and live fullyーpractical, insightful, and spot-on." The Empowered Empath: Trusting Your Intuition, Living Your Truth As an empath and highly-sensitive person myself, I know what it's like to feel everything deeply and put everyone else firstーoften leaving myself d...

Discover the wisdom at the heart of Confucian philosophy with Zisi's Doctrine of the Meanーa timeless guide to harmony, virtue, and the cultivation of moral character. Attributed to Zisi (Tzu Ssu), the grandson of Confucius, this classic text is one of the Four Books of Confucianism, serving as a cornerstone of Chin...

A bold challenge to conventional morality and a cornerstone of modern philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil shatters the illusions of traditional values and invites readers to rethink truth, power, and human existence. First published in 1886, this groundbreaking work takes readers on a journey into...

Post-cinema designates a new way of making films. It is time to ask whether this novelty is complete or relative and to evaluate to what extent it represents a unitary or diversified current. The book proposes to integrate the post-cinema question within the post-art question in order to study the new ways of making...

As European Muslims and Muslims in the Middle East diverge, imams in Europe have emerged as major agents of religious authority who shape Islam’s presence in Western societies. This volume examines the theoretical and practical questions concerning the evolving role of imams in Europe. To what extent do imams act as...

Creation imagery in manuscripts made in the Middle Ages became a locus for visual experimentation as well as the expression of ideas about creativity. By examining representations of divine creation and illustrations of the creation stories in Genesis, this book links medieval ideas about creation, the characteristi...

Is it possible to be religiously exclusive and socially inclusive? How do we deal with those outside of our own religious community who have completely different and sometimes conflicting views on what should be considered true and right behaviour? What if a religious tradition orders the expulsion or killing of tho...

In a crucial sense, all machines are time machines. The essays in Media Infrastructures and the Politics of Digital Time develop the central concept of hardwired temporalities to consider how technical networks hardwire and rewire patterns of time. Digital media introduce new temporal patterns in their features of i...

Whispering winds, speeding trains, wandering balloons, and swirling snowflakesーthese are the living entities that humans find themselves enmeshed with in their ecological co-flourishing in contemporary East Asian cinema. Pao-chen Tang theorizes and analyzes this animist imaginationーa new mode of filmmaking that de...

Helmuth Plessner (1892-1985) was one of the founders of philosophical anthropology, and his book The Stages of the Organic and Man, first published in 1928, has inspired generations of philosophers, biologists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. This volume offers the first substantial introduction to Pless...

Along with tens of thousands of others who don’t want to miss new scripture insights, enjoy a new approach to studying the Old Testament! Emily Belle Freeman and David Butler, hosts of the popular YouTube scripture-study channel Don’t Miss This, explore the significance of one verse from most chapters of the Old Tes...

This book reconstructs the factional-ideological conflicts surrounding socialist transformation and political reform in China that were played out through ‘factional model-making’, a norm-bound mechanism for elites of the Chinese Communist Party to contest the party line publicly. Dazhai, Anhui, Nanjie, Shekou, Shen...