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Abigail Adams A Writing Life

Abigail Adams A Writing Life

In this book Edith B. Gelles asserts that Abigail Adams' vivid insightful letters are the best account that exists from the pre to the post-Revolutionary period in America of a woman's life and world. Adams' spontaneous witty letters serve dual purposes for the modern reader: it provides an intriguing first hand account of pivotal historical events and it shows how these events from the Boston Tea Party to the War of 1812 entered the private sphere. Included in the book is a chronology notes and reference section and a selected bibliography. This book will be a must for all scholars of American literature history and politics seeking to understand this literary figure. | Abigail Adams A Writing Life

GBP 180.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Content and Language Integrated Learning

The Routledge Handbook of Content and Language Integrated Learning

Content and language integrated learning (CLIL) is an increasingly popular educational approach given its dual focus on enabling learners to acquire subject-matter through an additional language while learning this second language in tandem with content. This Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of recent CLIL developments illustrating how CLIL has been uniquely conceptualised and practised across educational and geographical contexts. Divided into six sections covering language and language teaching core topics and issues contexts and learners CLIL in practice CLIL around the world and a final section looking forward to future research directions every chapter provides a balanced discussion of the benefits challenges and implications of this approach. Representing the same diversity and intercultural understanding that CLIL features the chapters are authored by established as well as early-career academics based around the world. The Routledge Handbook of Content and Language Integrated Learning is the essential guide to CLIL for advanced students and researchers of applied linguistics education and TESOL.

GBP 190.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Buddhist-Christian Studies

The Routledge Handbook of Buddhist-Christian Studies

Buddhist-Christian dialogue has a long and complex history that stretches back to the first centuries of the common era. Comprising 42 international and disciplinarily diverse chapters this volume begins by setting up a framework for examining the nature of Buddhist-Christian interreligious dialogue discussing how research in this area has been conducted in the past and considering future theoretical directions. Subsequent chapters delve into: important episodes in the history of Buddhist-Christian dialogue; contemporary conversations such as monastic interreligious dialogue multiple religious identity and dual religious practice; and Buddhist-Christian cooperation in social justice social engagement pastoral care and interreligious education settings. The volume closes with a section devoted to comparative and constructive explorations of different speculative themes that range from the theological to the philosophical or experiential. This handbook explores how the study of Buddhist-Christian relations has been and ought to be done. The Routledge Handbook of Buddhist-Christian Studies is essential reading for researchers and students interested in Buddhist-Christian studies Asian religions and interreligious relationships. It will be of interest to those in fields such as anthropology political science theology and history.

GBP 205.00
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The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion

The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion

The past two decades have seen a growing interest in evolutionary and scientific approaches to religion. The Routledge Handbook of Evolutionary Approaches to Religion is an outstanding reference source to the key topics problems and debates in this exciting and emerging field. Comprising over thirty chapters by a team of international contributors the handbook pulls together scholarship in the following areas: evolutionary psychology and the cognitive science of religion (CSR) cultural evolution the complementarity of evolutionary psychology cognitive science and cultural evolution Within these sections central issues debates and problems are examined including: Cliodynamics cultural group selection costly signaling dual inheritance theory literacy transmitting narratives prosociality supernatural punishment cognition and ritual meme theory fusion theory sexual selection agency detection evoked culture social brain hypothesis theory of mind developmental psychology emergence theory social learning cultural cybernetics cultural epidemiology evolutionary and cultural psychology memetics by-product and adaptationist theories of religion systems and information theory and computer modeling. This Handbook is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies and anthropology. It will also be very useful to those in related fields such as psychology sociology of religion cognitive biology and evolutionary biology.

GBP 190.00
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