Author: Leslie Brubaker and Kallirroe LinardouLeslie Brub
Publisher: Ashgate
Keywords: society, promotion, byzantine, studies, byzantium, wine, merry, luke, food, drink
Number of Pages: 308
Published: 2007-12-19
List price: $114.95
ISBN-10: 0754661199
ISBN-13: 9780754661191

This volume brings together a group of scholars to consider the rituals of eating together in the Byzantine world, the material culture of Byzantine food and wine consumption, and the transport and exchange of agricultural products.The contributors present food in nearly every conceivable guise, ranging from its rhetorical uses - food as a metaphor for redemption; food as politics; eating as a vice, abstinence as a virtue - to more practical applications such as the preparation of food, processing it, preserving it, and selling it abroad. We learn how the Byzantines viewed their diet, and how

Authors:Leslie Bulion,  Leslie Eva,
Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
Keywords: stink, hey
Number of Pages: 48
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 158089304X
ISBN-13: 9781580893046

Witty poems describe how insects capture prey, trick predators, attract mates, and have survived for 400 million years. Includes information about bug behavior. Discussion guide available at charlesbridge.com.

Authors:Leslie J. Reagan, Leslie J. Reagan, Nancy Tomes, Paul
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Keywords: medicine, rochester, studies, medical, history, television, american, moving, pictures, health, bodies, film
Number of Pages: 343
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1580463061
ISBN-13: 9781580463065

This groundbreaking book argues that health and medical media, with their unique goals and production values, constitute a rich cultural and historical archive and deserve greater scholarly attention. Original essays by leading media scholars and historians of medicine demonstrate that Americans throughout the twentieth century have learned about health, disease, medicine, and the human body from movies. Heroic doctors and patients fighting dread diseases have thrilled and moved audiences everywhere; amid changing media formats, medicine’s moving pictures continue to educate, entertain,

Authors:Peter Byrne, Leslie Houlden, Rev Prof Leslie Houlden
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: companion, encyclopedias, routledge, theology, encyclopedia
Number of Pages: 1120
Published: 1995-12-04
List price: $485.00
ISBN-10: 0415064473
ISBN-13: 9780415064477

This unique new reference is a comprehensive guide to modern theological thought. In 48 self-contained articles, an international team of theologians and practitioners of the Christian and Jewish faiths investigate and consider aspects of theology. The strive to be practical, but not partisan as they explore the applications of modern theology in the light of Christianity’s place in the modern world. The Companion Encyclopedia of Theology is divided into six parts. The first three deal with major foundational aspects of Western theological reflection: the Hebrew and Christian Bible,

Authors:Henry Byerly, Leslie Stevenson, Leslie Stevenson,
Publisher: Westview Press
Keywords: values, society, scientists, introduction, science, faces
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000-08-21
List price: $37.00
ISBN-10: 0813365511
ISBN-13: 9780813365510

The development of modern science, and its increasing impact on our lives and cultures, is one of the great stories of our time. So, understanding--and coming to terms with--the institution of modern science should be an integral part of education. In The Many Faces of Science, Leslie Stevenson and Henry Byerly masterfully, and painlessly, provide the basic information and the philosophical reflection students need to gain such understanding. The authors make good use of case study methods, and they introduce us to dozens of figures from the history of science. Stevenson and Byerly provide an

Authors:Bram Stoker, Leslie S. Klinger, Leslie S. Klinger, Ja
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: dracula, annotated, new
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2008-10-17
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0393064506
ISBN-13: 9780393064506

Cause for international celebration—the most important and complete edition of Dracula in decades. In his first work since his best-selling The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes, Leslie S. Klinger returns with this spectacular, lavishly illustrated homage to Bram Stoker’s Dracula. With a daring conceit, Klinger accepts Stoker’s contention that the Dracula tale is based on historical fact. Traveling through two hundred years of popular culture and myth as well as graveyards and th

Authors:Leslie Lehmann, Joe Wisniewski, Leslie Lehmann, Joe W
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: implications, management, wildlife, fragmentation, forest
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 1999-06
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 9004113886
ISBN-13: 9789004113886

Covers questions concerning the biological implications of current systems of management in western forests and what evidence exists either supporting or refuting the concern that there may be long-term negative effects on vertebrate species presence and productivity as a result of forest fragmentation. The book describes the current level of scientific understanding regarding the influence on vertebrate wildlife of landscape patterns created in space and over time as a result of past and current approaches to forest management. The book focuses on providing practical information that can be u