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Offering a devastating rebuttal to the comfortable myth that prehistoric warfare was rare, harmless, and unimportant, Lawrence H. Keeley's groundbreaking "War Before Civilization" debunks the notion that warfare was introduced to primitive societies through contact with civilization. 16 illustrations.

In America's God, Mark Noll has given us the definitive history of Christian theology in America from the time of Jonathan Edwards to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. It is a story of a flexible and creative theological energy that over time forged a guiding national ideology, the legacies of which remain with us to this day.

Saving Cinema investigates the emergence of the film preservation movement, from Hollywood to the developing world, and examines the field's influence on what has been defined as global 'film heritage.'

How did US conservatism, little more than a collection of loosely related beliefs in the late 40s and early 50s, become a coherent political and social force in the 1960s? In the 1960s conservatives did nothing less than engineer their own revolution - which this text explores.

The authors look at how divorce lawyers actually work to address the question of legal professionalism in practice.

'In Byron's Shadow' analyses how authors employ ideas about romantic nationalism, gender politics, shifts in cultural constructions, and literary experimentation to create variations of Greece to suit changing eras.

This interdisciplinary work aims to cast light on the words of Jesus by taking the author's semantic theory of "universal human concepts" - concepts which are intuitively understandable and self-explanatory across languages - and bringing it to bear on Jesus' parables and the Sermon on the Mount.

An attempt to integrate the study of religion with that of conflict resolution. Gopin contends that, although religion is a salient phenomena that will cause violence in the 21st century, it can also help construct a global community that limits conflict to its nonviolent, constructive variety.

Since the early 1970s, Thomas Nagel has played a major role in the philosophico-biological debate on subjectivity and consciousness. This collection of published essays and reviews offers Nagel's opinionated views on the philosophy of mind, epistemology and political philosophy

Philosopher of science Marc Lange aims to develop a new account of the roles that laws of nature play in scientific reasoning (such as counterfactual conditionals, inductive projections, and scientific explanation) and what those roles imply about the very nature of natural laws.

Presents a combination of biology and computer science (including artificial intelligence, robotics, operations research, information display, and computer graphics), modelling the mechanisms underlying collective behaviour in social insects. This work talks about swarm intelligence, a subfield of artificial intelligence.

Reuven Firestone traces the origin and evolution of Islamic holy war through the changes affecting the new community of Muslims in their transition from ancient Arabian culture to the religious civilization of Islam. He demonstrates that, at base, Islamic holy war is a product of the mixture of old Arabian culture with innovations engendered by the introduction of monotheism.

Argues that Jesus, like many of his later followers, proclaimed that God was soon to intervene in human affairs and bring all of history to a screeching halt. Through a careful evaluation of the New Testament Gospels and other sources, the author shows why Jesus should be understood as an apocalyptic prophet.

Stinson explores Bach's 'Great Eighteen' Organ Chorales - among Bach's most celebrated works for organ - from a wide range of historical and analytical perspectives, including the models used by Bach in conceiving the individual pieces, his subsequent compilation of these works into a collection, and his compositional process.

This study spans fifteen years of research in several developing countries on the street food industry. The author discusses Public Policy issues of nutritional standards, sanitation, and regulation that effect this business.

No American denomination identified itself more closely with the nation's democratic ideals than did the Baptists. Yet paradoxically no denomination wielded religious authority more effectively than they did. Wills traces this dichotomy to two rival strains within the Baptist church - moderates who emphasized personal religious freedom and tolerance, and fundamentalists who preached discipline.

This work sets the growth of American musical composition against parallel developments in American culture, provides a guide for understanding the music, and explores how the notion of the concert tradition, as inherited from Western Europe, was challenged and revitalized through contact with American popular song, jazz, and non-Western musics.

The philosopher Louis Loeb examines the epistemological framework of Scottish philosopher David Hume in Hume's celebrated A Treatise of Human Nature. Loeb's project is to advance an integrated interpretation of Hume's accounts of belief and justification. This interpretation of Hume will provoke serious discussion among Hume scholars.

Explains how to understand "child logic", how to talk about anger and forgiveness, responding to escalating anger, rewarding good behaviours. This guide also enables us to recognize those children and teens who need professional help. It is aimed at parents, teachers, clinicians who work with children and teens, as well as adults.

Surface and Depth offers a fresh interpretation of the unity of American culture. This book focuses on a pervasive zeal for knowing or making things accessible. It traces this compulsion in religion, landscape, politics, and popular entertainment, and explores the complex engagement of American literature with the mandate of legibility.

Rebuilding Zion offers a pivotal new perspective on Reconstruction. Stowell carefully considers the religious interpretations of the Civil War by the main groups that defined Reconstruction-southern whites, northern whites, and freedmen - and shows how the southern churches became one of the principal bulwarks of the New South.

Is it possible to be spiritual and yet not believe in the supernatural? Can a person be spiritual without belonging to a religious group or organization? The author offers answers to these questions as he explores commonly held myths about what is means to be spiritual in a pluralistic world.

A structuralist approach to mathematical theory in which Shapiro argues that both realist and anti-realist accounts of mathematics are problematic . He claims that mathematical theory is not a fixed domain of numbers that exist independent of one another, but a natural structure with an initial object and successor relation.

This text shows how the development of religious pluralism has radically transformed the "spiritual economy" of Latin America. In order to thrive in this new religious economy, says Chesnut, Latin American spiritual "firms" must develop an attractive product and know how to market.

The author examines the prevalence of alcohol in Russian social, economic, religious and political life, looking at how the state, the church, the military, doctors, lay societies and the Czar all tried to battle the problem of overconsumption of alcohol in the late imperial period.

This volume seeks to establishe an over-all framework for the analysis of the element of prosody into the analysis of spoken language. Using naturally occuring data, the author demonstrates how such an examination can enhance traditional analysis.

This book explores the central concept of "syntactic relation" arguing that certain fundamental relations such as c-command, dominance and checking relations can be explained within a derivational approach to structure-building. The result is a level-free model of syntax in which derivations, rather than phrase-markers, undergo aemantic/phonological interpretation.

Organized to help the reader find needed information quickly and easily, this book emphasizes psychophysical experiments which measure the detection and identification of near-threshold patterns and the mathematical models used to draw inferences from experimental results.

Concentrating on a small number of representative cantatas, mostly from the Leipzig cycles of 1723-24 and 1724-25, and in particular on Cantata 77, Chafe illustrates how Bach strove to mirror both the dogma and the mystery of religious experience in musical allegory.