Product Description: Roman thought he'd found the perfect opportunity to rebel. He may have been wrong.He awakens strapped to a set of parallel bars in a richly appointed sitting room, and begins a conversation with a masked man which will change his life...read more

Product Description: After a lot of saving up, combined with a year of Japanese language evening classes, Anthony finally feels prepared to visit a country that had always seemed too far away and too daunting to ever experience for real. Join him on an amusing amble through the streets of Tokyo, where you can take a swim in Shinjuku, go on a hunt for breakfast swords, discover English literate ducks, throw cat food at fish, pretend to be a rock-star, experience a bottom full of pins, participate in a spot of kiosking!, travel on trains with crustaceans, marvel at a golden tadpole, commute like a local, travel up the moving stairs of job oblivion, sympathise with a bullied skyscraper, nearly get attacked by zombies and learn how to make a stairwell interesting...read more

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Product Description: The Passion of God provides a timely reminder in Lent that it is only by dying that we can live ― only through death that resurrection lies. As the author says in the Preface 'Never has St Paul's commitment to the preaching of Christ Crucified been more urgent'...read more

Product Description: The story of David his surprising selection by the prophet Samuel, his tortured relations with Saul and his family, his passionate and reckless love for Bathsheba, and the appalling tragedies within his own family has made this flawed but courageous king one of the most exciting characters in the Bible...read more

Product Description: Standing up to God expounds those Bible passages that show us the darker side of God - including Gods command to Abraham to sacrifice his own son, Jacob wrestling with God, Job deprived of all he holds most dear and Jesus tortured words on the cross Why have you forsaken me?...read more

These studies by an academic who is also a former practising lawyer seek to establish the principles of biblical law as represented in the Sinai traditions. Specific topics covered include adultery, family law, slavery, animals and wealth; respect for life and the general biblical moral tradition are also discussed. The collection also deals with wider issues of prophecy and law, the relationship of torah and mishpat (especially in relation to Second Isaiah), and laws in the book of Ruth, and includes a discussion of the place of biblical law in contemporary society.

Product Description: This volume contains meditations on the last seven words of Jesus. It explores the paradox of strength through brokenness that lies at the heart of the passion story. The call to reflect on the message of the crucifixion is enhanced by prayers and the beauty of the illustrations...read more

Dmitry Shostakovich wrote regularly to his close friend Isaak Glikman during their 40-year relationship from the early 1930s to the composer's death in 1975. This work is a collection of 288 of these letters starting in 1941, when both correspondents were evacuated from Leningrad.

Product Description: Lower than the Angels offers valuable help to schools and training courses to appreciate some of the deepest insights of the Old Testament. Men and women have been entrusted with a responsible job - that of being human. But we prefer to upgrade ourselves, to act as if we were by nature divine...read more

Product Description: Each book in "The Complete Potter" series investigates a particular pottery technique. The books are designed to teach and inspire both the amateur and professional potter. This volume is a practical and historical guide to slip decoration in ceramics - where a solution of clay and water is painted on the outside of a pot, usually in a different colour...read more

Product Description: This highly successful series The People Who Came (Book 3) consists of three books specifically written for the junior years of secondary schools in the Caribbean. Unique in its scope, the series provides a history of the people of the New World from a West Indian point of view...read more

Product Description: A practical and historical guide to slip decoration in ceramics. Slip is a solution of clay and water which is painted on the outside of a pot, usually in a different colour.

Product Description: This successful volume of essays by distinguished scholars not only makes a contribution to the study of Old Testament prophets but also summarizes scholarship in a way particularly appropriate to students, giving access to material available otherwise only in other languages or in journals difficult to obtain...read more