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The mystery surrounding the Dead Sea Scrolls remains, over 60 years after their rediscovery. Who hid them and why? This groundbreaking book reinvigorates the contested hypothesis that the Essenes were responsible. Rather than being a marginal esoteric sect, Taylor shows that this group acted as one of the leading legal schools of Judaism.

How are curriculums and syllabuses developed and revised? What are the issues concerning course design and implementation? How can institutions revise and enhance course programmes? These are the main questions addressed by the authors in Language Course Planning.

This study is a reflection on the development and formulation of Christology in the first eight centuries of Christian theology.

Murray Smith presents an original approach to understanding film. He brings the arts, humanities, and sciences together to illuminate artistic creation and aesthetic experience. His 'third culture' approach roots itself in an appreciation of scientific innovation and how this has shaped the moving media.

This essential Q&A study and revision guide contains a variety of model answers and plans to give you the confidence to tackle any essay or problem question, and give you the skills you need to excel in law exams and coursework assignments.

This essential Q&A study and revision guide contains a variety of model answers and plans to give you the confidence to tackle any essay or problem question, and give you the skills you need to excel in law exams and coursework assignments.

Nelson Comprehension provides a simple and effective course for the teaching of key comprehension skills. Units cover all genres of texts - including fiction, poetry, playscripts, instructions and biography - with plenty of practice, repetition and assessment built in.

Nelson Comprehension provides a simple and effective course for the teaching of key comprehension skills. Units cover all genres of texts - including fiction, poetry, playscripts, instructions and biography - with plenty of practice, repetition and assessment built in.

Nelson Comprehension provides a simple and effective course for the teaching of key comprehension skills. Units cover all genres of texts - including fiction, poetry, playscripts, instructions and biography - with plenty of practice, repetition and assessment built in.

In this representative edition of Ernst-Wolfgang Boeckenfoerde's definitive work in constitutionalism, law, and politics, readers have access to the legal discourse of one of Germany's leading contemporary theorists and former judge of the federal constitutional court, available in the English language for the first time.

Hamlet's Moment reveals how plays written in the first decade of the seventeenth century were shaped by forms of professional political knowledge and by the social promises such knowledge held, and they familiarized their audiences with them.

Examining the intellectual origins of the constitutional doctrine of 'popular sovereignty', this book explores the importance of Roman law as a chief source of modern constitutional thought.

Bas van Bavel offers a panoramic view of over 1000 years of history to understand why market economies are fundamentally incompatible with long-run prosperity, equity, and broad participation in decision-making. He also connects with current debates on the future of capitalism and the causes and effects of inequality.

Focus on Vocabulary Learning explores teaching vocabulary to second and foreign language learners aged 5-18.

Paul De Grauwe examines why a healthy mix of market and state seems so difficult and analyses the internal and external limits of the market and the government, and the swing between these two points.

This book will act as a wide ranging but accessible guide to both the main defining features of the new retail landscape globally and, the skills and capabilities that enterprises and their leaders will need in order to be successful.

A modern presentation of granitic rocks, translated into English and updated from the original French edition. Mineralogical, petrological, structural, and economical aspects are developed in a succession of 14 chapters containing special 'info boxes' discussing topics for those wishing to deepen the subject.

A new edition of geog.3 Teacher's Handbook, providing vital and outstanding support for teachers using the new edition of geog.3 Student Book - which has been revised and updated to deliver the new Programme of Study for Geography at Key Stage 3.

A new edition of geog.2 Teacher's Handbook, providing vital and outstanding support for teachers using the new edition geog.2 Student Book - which has been revised and updated to deliver the new Programme of Study for Geography at Key Stage 3.

In the new edition of Climate Change: A Very Short Introduction (previously titled Global Warming), Mark Maslin explores all of the key debates. Examining the most recent scientific research, he looks what climate change is, its impact on our planet, and why it's such a complex problem to solve.

The Making of the Odyssey is a penetrating study of the background, composition, and artistry of the Homeric Odyssey, which places the poem in its late seventh-century context in relation to the Iliad and other poetry of the time.

A help-at-a-glance answer book providing support for the new-edition geog.2 workbook, which has been revised and updated to deliver the new Programme of Study for geography at Key Stage 3.

This workbook sits alongside STP Mathematics for Jamaica Grade 8 student book and covers all the topics found within it.

Using a variety of economic, financial, and political indicators, this book demonstrates that the global system has become an 'architecture of collapse'. The global financial crisis of 2008, the bilateral relationship between the U.S. and China, and the European sovereign debt crisis illustrate the causes and the consequences of global instability

A state-of-the-art review of social research on the question of why women are more religious than men for those interested in one of the largest differences between male and female behaviour.

This book provides a thorough analysis of termination as a remedy for breach of contract in English law. It provides definitions of breach and termination and answers key questions such as when the right to terminate for breach arises, and considers the consequences of the promisee's election whether to terminate or not.

This is the third edition of the leading authority on English sale of goods law known for its clarity of expression, rigorous scholarship and depth of treatment of problem areas.

Norms are a pervasive yet mysterious feature of social life. In Explaining Norms, four philosophers and social scientists team up to grapple with some of the many mysteries, offering a comprehensive account of norms: what they are; how and why they emerge, persist and change; and how they work.

Pareto is credited with helping the development of microeconomics. His Manuale of Political Economy in Italian in 1906 (French ed. 1909) introduced the analytical approach that has informed a significant part of 20th century economic thinking. This is a revised and extended translation of the Italian 100th anniversary critical edition.

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