An Alphabet of Animals gathers together in words and photographs some of the many ways in which people have looked at animals and have thought about them. From different ages...more details Format:Paperback Pages:142
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John Bowker
ISBN:9780981160610
John Bowker's poems and translations have been published in many places. They are gathered here in a single volume for the first time. The translations are made from poems that come from different parts of the world...more details Format:Paperback Pages:148
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John Bowker
ISBN:9781847242303
How did Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism come to be the world's dominant religions? What are the real beliefs of Islam, and the different branches within it? Who were the key figures of Judaism? And how are religious beliefs shaping today's world conflicts? Beliefs that Changed the World will answer the key questions about the great religions...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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John Bowker
ISBN:9781847240163
Each chapter comprises an overview of the central tenets of each religion, key quotations from its core beliefs, and a historical depiction of each faith...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:208
This reference book provides a book-by-book breakdown of the Bible as well as background information that brings the Bible stories to life. Photographs show biblical sites as they are today and detailed maps pinpoint where biblical events took place...more details Format:Hardback Pages:544
Religions are involved in many long-running conflicts around the world from the Balkans and the Middle East to Kashmir and Sri Lanka. All that is well known. Not so well-known are the resources that religions can bring...more details Format:Paperback Pages:355
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John Bowker
ISBN:9780521097321
A study of the Pharisees, in particular as they appear in the New Testament and in relation to Jesus. The main part of the book brings together the most important Greek and Semitic source material in translation. This facilitates reference...more details Format:Paperback Pages:212
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John Bowker
ISBN:9781845333409
The Mitchell Beazley Aerial Atlas of the Holy Land takes you on a breathtaking flight over the great sites of antiquity, maps them, and explains their rich historical...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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John Bowker
ISBN:9781845113995
Why do we think that things happen in the way that they do? Why do we think that some things are true, and other things false? Why do we maintain that some things are good...more details Format:Paperback Pages:226
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John Bowker
ISBN:9781850434818
Why do we think that things happen in the way that they do? Why do we think that some things are beautiful, and others ugly? Why do we think that some things are good...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:150
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John Bowker
ISBN:9780521810371
The Cambridge Illustrated History of Religions provides a comprehensive survey of world religions from pre-history to the present day. Each religion is treated in depth...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:336
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John Bowker
ISBN:9780789481542
An accessible, inspirational guide that embraces the whole of the Judeo-Christian tradition. The most important book in Western history, the Bible has had a profound influence on the religious...more details Format:Paperback Pages:544
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John Bowker
ISBN:9780521447737
In The Meanings of Death, John Bowker offers a major contribution to debates about the value of death and its place in both Western and Eastern religions. Examining the themes of friendship and sacrifice in the world's major religions...more details Format:Paperback Pages:260
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John Bowker
ISBN:9781848878112
A magisterial single-volume survey of the great literature of the religions of the world, from the Bible and the Quran to the Vedas and The Analects of Confucius....more details Format:Hardback Pages:352
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John Bowker
ISBN:9780198266464
Oxford Scholarly Classics is a new series that makes available again great academic works from the archives of Oxford University Press. Reissued in uniform series design...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:358
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John Bowker
ISBN:9780521097710
The Targums are interpretative translations of the Hebrew text of the Bible which originated in Synagogue teaching, where an interpretation of the Hebrew text had to be given orally for the benefit of non-Hebrew speaking congregations. Over the centuries...more details Format:Paperback Pages:408
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John Bowker
ISBN:9781851681693
Drawn from interviews conducted for the BBC World Service, this text addresses such contemporary issues as the interpretation of the Qu'ran, penalties for theft and adultery...more details Format:Paperback Pages:208
Taking a refreshing new approach toward understanding different faiths, World Religions looks at the beliefs and practices of many different religions...more details Format:Paperback Pages:216
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JOHN BOWKER
ISBN:9780192139658
IThe Oxford Dictionary of World Religions is an exceptionally wide-ranging A-Z reference guide to the history, beliefs, dogmas, practices, individuals...more details Format:Hardback
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Jean Holm and John Bowker
ISBN:9781855671119
Addressing important issues of the day, this series examines how each of the eight major religions approaches a particular theme. Constructed to be comparative...more details Format:Paperback Pages:200
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John W Bowker
ISBN:9781845117573
Albert Einstein once remarked that behind all observable things lay something quite unknowable. And the motivation for his own work in physics stemmed from something as apparently innocuous as his father first showing him a compass when he was a boy. Yet the wonder and inspiration of that moment...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:268