Against Interpretation

Reducere. The narrative of the book of Ruth is a drama of ordinary human life, but the drama unfolds against a background of the providence and purposes of G...

Reducere. By demonstrating the uniformity and universality of the principles of valid interpretation of verbal texts of any sort, this closely reasoned exami...

This book critiques the dominant physical and biological interpretation of the Genocide Convention and argues that the idea of "culture" is central...

Reducere. A reevaluation of psychoanalytic theory, based on a Freudian interpretation of the history of Western civilization

Reducere. This third essay collection by America's leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explo...

Reducere. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) is known as the "father of psychoanalysis" and his ideas, however controversial, were fundamental in shaping how the huma...

Reducere. Cardinal Kasper points out that Amoris Laetitia, based on the Gospel and the documents of the Second Vatican Council, is a creative renewal of the ...

Reducere. "In the journal I do not just express myself more openly than I could to any person; I create myself."The first of three volumes of Susan Sontag's ...

In this major new interpretation of the music of J.S. Bach, we gain a striking picture of the composer as a unique critic of his age. By reading Ba...

Reducere. In this luminous first collection, Kristin Rose Jutras presents a heart-breaking and at times funny interpretation of human existence in poems with...

Reducere. Milk Black Carbon works against the narratives of dispossession and survival that mark the contemporary experience of many indigenous people, and I...

Andrea Catanzaro's new theoretical interpretation offers an incentive to study Hobbes' lesser known works against the wider development of Western ...

Reducere. DescriptionA collection of short fiction from Susan Sontag, the National Book Award-winning author of In America and Against Interpretation, and th...

Reducere. This book is a contribution to the interpretation of Kenyan history, from the proletarian point of view. The book provides information on the peopl...

Reducere. DescriptionThe conventional interpretation of the 1960s emphasizes how liberal, even radical, the decade was. It was, after all, the age of mass pr...

Against the backdrop of the Industrial Revolution, an extraordinary circle of fossilists struggled to make sense of a mysterious, prehistoric world...

Reducere. This book employs a methodology that I have found helpful in dealing with other topics. This procedure is to assemble the New Testament texts on th...

Since the early days of Christianity a tension has existed between the authority of the Bible and the authority of the Church. This has been furthe...

Reducere. Dreaming Against the Current is Haviva Ner-David's spiritual, psychological, and emotional journey from Orthodox Jewish feminist activist to post-d...

We the people of the world are creating the conditions for our own self-extermination, whether through the bang of a nuclear holocaust or the whimp...

The philosophy of Gilbert Simondon has reinvigorated contemporary thinking about biological and technological beings. In this book, Jean-Hugues Bar...

Reducere. In this remarkable book, Collin Cleary defends Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen against the claim that it "distorts" Germanic mythology. Wa...

Reducere. In this remarkable book, Collin Cleary defends Richard Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen against the claim that it "distorts" Germanic mythology. Wa...

Reducere. DescriptionMarvin Heemeyer was a blue-collar man whose greatest joy in life was to see his muffler-repair shop prosper. When he felt the government...

Reducere. GILGAMESH is the oldest known legend. In this beautiful, full-color version, the distinguished author and artist, Bernarda Bryson, has created a ri...

Reducere. PROLOGUE Coming forth in a day when theology has long been discredited - even in its own ecclesiastical household - and religion itself is threaten...

Reducere. In this comprehensive exploration of Ephesians, Daniel K. Darko establishes the context of early Christians in Asia Minor, specifically in relation...

Reducere. Using the present failure of secular hope as the context for a renewal of the Christian vision for the future, Bauckham and Hart seek to re-source ...

Reducere. Shakespeare's classic story of dark ambition, madness, and murder springs to life in a masterful new graphic novel by Gareth Hinds. Set against the...

DescriptionThanks to the ready availability of political news today, informed citizens can protect and promote their own interests and the public i...

Reducere. Plato's Critique of Impure Reason offers a dramatic interpretation of the Republic, at the center of which lies a novel reading of the historical p...

Reducere. HISTORIAN DR. LESLIE R. TUCKER has thought long and hard about the injustice of the current jihad in America against the historic and still existin...

Roland Barthes's 1967 essay, "The Death of the Author, " argues against the traditional practice of incorporating the intentions and biographical c...

DescriptionThe world has entered an unprecedented period of uncertainty and political instability. Faced with the challenge of knowing and acting w...

Reducere. Tackling TULIP will help Christians understand the errors of Calvinism and why this theological system should be rejected and refuted. This book in...

Reducere. "Freeman's treatment of Washington as a Commander in Chief is virtually definitive" (The New York Times Book Review). Washington is the most comple...

Foucault's previously unpublished doctoral dissertation on Kant offers the definitive statement of his relationship to Kant and to the critical tra...

Reducere. Walter Jackson Bate's canonical 1939 study of Keats's concept of negative capability is a genealogical treatise that unearths the socio-political, ...

Reducere. What does the New Testament teach about the spiritual gift of prophecy? What is it? How does it function? Can evangelical Christians use it in thei...

Reducere. It's 878 AD, and King Alfred of West Saxony is the last Saxon hold-out against the Vikings. There is an uneasy peace, but Guthrum the Dane breaks t...

DescriptionConspiracy theory and American foreign policy examines the relationship between secrecy, power and interpretation around international p...

The Fifth Amendment packs a lot of rights into one paragraph; Grand Juries, double jeopardy, self-incrimination, right to due process and forfeitur...

Reducere. Plato's Epistemology: Being and Seeming presents an original interpretation of one of the central topics in Plato's work: epistemology. Jessica Mos...

Reducere. The Weather in Proust gathers pieces written by the eminent critic and theorist Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick in the last decade of her life, as she worked...

Reducere. Malcolm Gladwell's provocative new #1 bestseller -- now in paperback. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd bo...

DescriptionSurvivor Transitional Narratives of Nazi-Era Destruction: The Second Liberation examines the historical circumstances that gave rise in ...

After the execution of Socrates in 399 BC, a number of his followers wrote dialogues featuring him as the protagonist and, in so doing, transformed...

DescriptionDiscover a more natural way of being in the world, inspired by the ways of nature. This beautiful interpretation of the Tao te Ching pre...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: David N. FieldIn theological discussions about diversity within Methodist Churches, people usually reference a few standard...

The idea of Kantian ethics is both simple and revolutionary: it proposes a moral law independent of any notion of a pre-established Good or any 'hu...

Reducere. Few politicians in our history have had the emotional impact of Joe McCarthy and acclaimed historian David Oshinsky's chronicling of his life has b...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Little Need of Divine Intervention presents a fundamental revision of the thirteenth-century Mongol Invasions of Japan by revealing t...

Reducere. The Story of the Jamaican People is the first general history of Jamaica to be written in almost 40 years. It differs significantly from earlier "i...

Is the Bible fundamentally at odds with science? Science and the Bible are often pitted against each other, causing many to either defend science a...

St. Jerome (347-420) has been considered the pre-eminent scriptural commentator among the Latin Church Fathers. His Commentary on Matthew, written ...

Reducere. Continuously in demand since its first, prize-winning edition was published in 1975, this is the classic history of the development of the American...

Reducere. The invitation of this book is for my readers who are Christian to consider the dimension of harm in the ongoing debates on affirming or not affirm...

A vivid recreation of how the governors and governed of early seventeenth-century Florence confronted, suffered, and survived a major epidemic of p...

A well-written and thought-provoking account of the current crisis of globalization. Not everyone will agree with Eyal's interpretation, but few wi...

Reducere. OtherWise Christian: A Guidebook for Transgender Liberation by Mx. Chris Paige is a love letter to transgender communities, a self defense manual a...

Reducere. What does salvation in the New Testament look like? "The New Testament does not develop a systematic doctrine of salvation, " writes Brenda Colijn....

Reducere. When the first edition of this book was published in 1957, the art of making a tipi was almost lost, even among American Indians. Since that time a...

Reducere. Gordon Rhea's gripping fourth volume on the spring 1864 campaign-which pitted Ulysses S. Grant against Robert E. Lee for the first time in the Civi...

Reducere. We are not all the same. The time has come for us to honestly name the ways we are different and similar so that we can serve together in unity, gr...

Reducere. Holy warfare is the festering wound on the conscience of Bible-believing Christians. Of all the problems the Old Testament poses for our modern age...

Reducere. In the highly acclaimed bestselling A Call to Action, President Jimmy Carter addresses the world's most serious, pervasive, and ignored violation o...

Malcolm Gladwell, the #1 bestselling author of The Tipping Point, Blink, Outliers, and What the Dog Saw, offers his most provocative---and dazzling...

Reducere. In the tradition of Fingerprints of the Gods (Crown, 1995; 65, 000 sold) and Stonehenge Decoded, this revolutionary new interpretation of the mytho...

Reducere. Witness what the gods do after dark in the second volume of a stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of the best-known stories in Greek mythol...

Reducere. Did Jesus sin? Or was Jesus the only one to ever follow God's Law perfectly and not sin?If you believe Jesus was a perfect keeper of God's Law, the...