Product Description: Edward Schillebeeckx has become especially well known for his writings on Jesus and on ministry. This book traces his thoughts on these matters. But it also highlights his way of explaining how, and in what sense, human beings know God the Creator.

This annual volume from the Worldwatch Institute gives prominence to key trends that too often escape the attention of the news media, world leaders and economic experts. By distilling 45 vital signs of our times from thousands of government, industrial and scientific sources, the volume allows readers to track key indicators that show social, economic and environmental progress, or the lack or it. Each trend is presented in both text and graphics.

Product Description: This book is a study of anagnorisis/recognition: an important aspect in the ways in which narratives in general are structured and thematic. Beginning with an analysis of The Maqamat and related picaresque narratives, Philip Kennedy also considers the Koran and Hadith as religious narratives; some mystical narratives, and edifying anecdotage, romance in The Arabian Nights and Sira, Aristotle's poetics in the Arabian sphere, some Ishmaili narratives of clandestine travel and emergence, as well as some thoughts on the modern novel...read more

Product Description: One needs to be a lunatic to become a Christian, the 19th century Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard once observed. Had he lived in the 20th century he might have discerned even more of an obstacle to faith. For during the last century the human condition changed more rapidly than during any previous era, taking that condition far away from the historical circumstances in which Christianity was born...read more

Product Description: Influenza is a Latin word which carries the meaning “to influence” and is basically an infectious or a contagious disease primarily caused by the RNA viruses belonging to the family Orthomyxoviridae that affects the birds and mammals exclusively...read more