Authors:Timothy Brook, Jérôme Bourgon, Gregory Blue,
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: cuts, thousand, death
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2008-03-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0674027736
ISBN-13: 9780674027732
In a public square in Beijing in 1904, multiple murderer Wang Weiqin was executed before a crowd of onlookers. He was among the last to suffer the extreme punishment known as lingchi. Called by Western observers “death by a thousand cuts” or “death by slicing,” this penalty was reserved for the very worst crimes in imperial China. A unique interdisciplinary history, Death by a Thousand Cuts is the first book to explore the history, iconography, and legal contexts of Chinese tortures and executions from the tenth century until lingchi’s abolition in 1905. The authors then turn th
Authors:Navjot S. Sodhi, Barry W. Brook, Corey J. A. Bradsha
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: biology, conservation, tropical
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2007-12-04
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 1405150734
ISBN-13: 9781405150736
This introductory textbook examines diminishing terrestrial and aquatic habitats in the tropics, covering a broad range of topics including the fate of the coral reefs; the impact of agriculture, urbanization, and logging on habitat depletion; and the effects of fire on plants and animal survival. Includes case studies and interviews with prominent conservation scientists to help situate key concepts in a real world context Covers a broad range of topics including: the fate of the coral reefs; the impact of agriculture, urbanization, and logging on habitat depletion; and the e
Authors:Emma Holly, Lora Leigh, Shiloh Walker, Meljean Brook,
Publisher: Berkley Sensation
Keywords: spell
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2006-11-07
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0425212882
ISBN-13: 9780425212882
Venture into a world beyond the ordinary, where the dark passions and voracious appetites of vampires, werewolves, demons, and a few undaunted mortals combine to unleash a potent spell.
Author: Brook Itzhak
Publisher: Informa Healthcare
Keywords: disease, therapy, infectious, management, infections, diagnosis, anaerobic
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2007-09-26
List price: $150.00
ISBN-10: 0849382572
ISBN-13: 9780849382574
With new infectious agents, antibiotics, and instances of antimicrobial resistance constantly on the horizon, this field is an ever growing discipline that requires constant vigilance. This book responds to burgeoning growth in the field and provides a comprehensive and expert armamentarium of guidelines for the treatment and diagnosis of the entire breadth of adult and pediatric anaerobic infections.
Authors:Paul Dowswell, Ruth Brocklehurst, Henry Brook, Jane C
Publisher: Usborne Books
Keywords: wars, world
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-12
List price: $25.99
ISBN-10: 0794519717
ISBN-13: 9780794519711
Author: William Langland
Publisher: Manchester Univ. Press
Keywords: stella, brook, edited, text, plowman, selections, piers
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1975-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0719006228
ISBN-13: 9780719006227
Author: Brook W. R. Pearson
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Keywords: biblical, interpretation, series, gadamer, dialectic, sense, paul, corresponding
Number of Pages: 370
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $219.00
ISBN-10: 9004122540
ISBN-13: 9789004122543
Following the example of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s "philosophical hermeneutics", this title treats several different problems in New Testament interpretation centred around the figure of Paul. In so doing, it demonstrates how a dialogical approach to the interpretation of ancient texts functions pragmatically to allow for a deeper understanding not only of individual texts, but also of their siting with the larger dialectical web of the texts and contexts of the ancient world. This approach, developed here in connection with the New Testament, also has relevance to other literature. In "Corre
