Product Description: In the current climate, and in an age of increasing hostility towards religion and the study of religion, religious education is a much-debated area. Bringing together an interdisciplinary team of contributors from the USA, Britain and Ireland, and Australia, representing a variety of religious perspectives, Does Religious Education Matter? provocatively demonstrates that it is vital that religious education is presented as it ’really’ is: a valuable and rich resource that, when taught and engaged with appropriately, stimulates essential qualities for global and responsible citizenship: critical thinking, tolerance, respect, and mutual understanding...read more

Product Description: While a great many books on ethics are published each year, the sheer breadth of issues covered in this collection, in addition to the calibre of its contributors, carves out a unique place for it in the area. An eclectic mix of chapters provokes a critical response from the reader and, in particular, challenges her/him to reconsider and/or reconstruct their overaching "definition" of the nature and function of ethics...read more

Product Description: 'The Taylor Effect' presents an original and diverse collection of essays addressing Charles Taylor's magisterial 'A Secular Age'. Ranging from close and critical readings of Taylor's formulations and suppositions; to comparative studies of Taylor and various 'interlocutors'; to applied approaches utilizing Taylor's concepts; to explorations launched from a Taylorian foundation; the 13 chapters comprise a multifaceted exploration of Taylor's multifaceted achievement...read more

Product Description: Detailed and extensive instructions, along with 100 glorious color photographs and 85 classic how-to illus-trations show you the way to make a variety of stylish stained glass projects— gleaming Tiffany-style lampshades, terrariums, display boxes, bowls, screens, and Art Nouveau mirrors...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Surveys each stage of Avedon's career, including portraits and fashion photographs (view table of contents)

Surveys each stage of Avedon's career, including portraits and fashion photographs (view table of contents)