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The Reality of God and the Problem of Evil
Brian DaviesBrian Davies. One. The. Problem. of. Evil. In part 10 of David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion, three characters (Demea, Philo, and Cleanthes) continue a discussion that has already been going on for some time.1 The ...
Empire and Military Revolution in Eastern Europe: Russia's ...
Brian DaviesBrian Davies examines how these conflicts characterized the course of Russian military development in response to Ottoman and Crimean Tatar threats and to determine under what circumstances and in what ways Russian military power ...
Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil
Brian DaviesBrian Davies offers the first in-depth study of Saint Thomas Aquinas's thoughts on God and evil, revealing that Aquinas's thinking about God and evil can be traced through his metaphysical philosophy, his thoughts on God and creation, and ...
Thomas Aquinas on God and Evil
Brian DaviesBrian Davies offers the first in-depth study of Saint Thomas Aquinas's thoughts on God and evil, revealing that Aquinas's thinking about God and evil can be traced through his metaphysical philosophy, his thoughts on God and creation, and ...
On Stone and Scroll: Essays in Honour of Graham Ivor Davies
James Keltie AitkenEssays in Honour of Graham Ivor Davies James Keltie Aitken, Graham I. Davies, Katharine Julia Dell, Brian A. Mastin. The Significance of Rhetoric in the Greek Pentateuch JAMEs K. AITKEN Any reader of the Septuagint is confronted from the ...
Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae: A Guide and Commentary
Brian DaviesFollowing a scholarly account of Thomas Aquinas's life, Davies explores his purposes in writing the Summa Theologiae and works systematically through each of its three Parts.
Thomas Aquinas's Summa Contra Gentiles: A Guide and Commentary
Brian DaviesA detailed expository account of and commentary on this famous work, Davies's book aims to help readers think about the value of the Summa Contra Gentiles (SCG) for themselves, relating the contents and teachings found in the SCG to those ...
The Cambridge Companion to Anselm
Brian DaviesExplores the major ideas of one of the most important philosophers and theologians of the Middle Ages.
Murder, Magic, Madness: The Victorian Trials of Dove and the ...
Davies Owen3 For a thorough account of cunning-folk in this period see Owen Davies, Cunning-Folk: Popular Magic in English History (London, 2003); Owen Davies, Witchcraft, magic and culture 1736–1951 (Manchester, 1999), pp. 214–29; Owen Davies, ...
A Celtic Temperament: Robertson Davies as Diarist
Robertson DaviesWe would like to thank our readers, Miranda Davies, Rosamond Bailey, James Neufeld, Judith Skelton Grant and John Grant, and to acknowledge the support and enthusiasm from our publisher, Doug Pepper, and our editor, Jenny Bradshaw, ...
Aquinas
More editionsBrian Davies shows that Aquinas's approach to the common questions of faith and existence is just as pressing and significant in our time.
Globalization in the Asian Region: Impacts and Consequences
PreviewImpacts and Consequences Gloria Davies, Chris Nyland. Contributors. John Rallingall: New Zealand Institute of Economic ... Gloria Davies: School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Monash University gloria. davies ...
Recollections of the Rev. Griffith Davies Owen, of ...
ReadCHAPTER I. MR. OWEN'S EARLY HISTORY. THE REv. GRIFFITH DAVIES Owen was the second surviving son of the late Thomas and Benedicta Davies Owen, and born on Sunday the 24th day of January, 1790, at Llanrwst, in Denbighshire.
Integral Transforms and Their Applications
Brian DaviesThis is a substantially updated, extended and reorganized third edition of an introductory text on the use of integral transforms.
Thinking About God
Brian DaviesThis book looks carefully at the philosophical implications for thinking and speaking about God, the problems that have arisen and still arise, and the various solutions that have been proposed.
A Bibliography of Robertson Davies
Carl SpadoniUsing Davies' archives and the archives of other authors, organizations, and publishers, Carl Spadoni and Judith Skelton Grant present A Bibliography of Robertson Davies to serve the research demands of Canadian literature and book history ...
Ray Davies: Not Like Everybody Else
Thomas M. KittsBased on interviews with his closest associates, as well as studies of the recordings themselves, this book creates the most thorough picture of Davies’ work to date.
The Cambridge History of Magic and Witchcraft in the West: ...
PreviewDavies, Owen. A People Bewitched: Witchcraft and Magic in NineteenthCentury Somerset. Bruton, 1999. Davies,Owen. Witchcraft, Magicand Culture, 1736–1951 . Manchester: ManchesterUniversity Press, 1999. Davies, Owen. CunningFolk: ...
Conversations with Robertson Davies
Robertson DaviesEd. Judith Skelton Grant. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1979. The Rebel Angels. Toronto: Macmillan, 1981. Brothers in the Black Art. Vancouver: Alcuin Society, 1981. Robertson Davies: The Well-Tempered Critic. Ed. Judith Skelton Grant.
Cuckoo: Cheating by Nature
Nick DaviesHow do they get away with it? In this enormously engaging book, naturalist and scientist Nick Davies reveals how cuckoos trick their hosts.
Americana: The Kinks, the Road and the Perfect Riff
Ray DaviesThe book is interspersed with lyrics and also includes photographs from Davies's own collection and the Kinks’ archive.
Books Ireland
Jeremy AddisSeptember. Scein Scathain. Helen Emanuel Davies (trsl. Brian O Baoill). C/d lar- Chonnachta. 114 pp £5 pb 1-90240-25-X. 8 adventure stories for teenagers. September Sporty Sally. Anne Marie . O'Brien Press. 64 pp £3. 99 pb 0-86278- 640-1 ...
The Words and Music of Brian Wilson
Christian Matijas-Mecca... Doin' Somethin': Uncovering Brian Wilson's Lost Bedroom Tapes,” Brian Chidester's addresses a purported collection of unreleased, incomplete, or unfinished songs Wilson recorded in the 1970s. Brian's reticence to produce a substantial ...
Morkan's Quarry: A Novel
Steve YatesKreft insisted this was enemy territory, very much the haunt of Sam Davies, the man they were after. A pack of fool targets around a fire was what made filth like Davies trouble for the Union. “These very houses right here belonged to families ...
Robertson Davies: man of myth
Judith Skelton GrantDrawing on interviews with the Canadian novelist himself and an unprecedented access to his notebooks and family papers, a detailed biography traces the evolution of Davies's work and the relationship between his life and his fiction.
Camden Market
Caitlin DaviesStruggling stallholders have built up fashion empires. Caitlin Davies tells all these stories and more in an illustrated history full of personal memories and previously unpublished archive images.
Robertson Davies: A Mingling of Contrarieties
PreviewFor example, Patricia Morley overstates the case when she argues that the narratives are “united by a religious myth of achieved freedom and spiritual growth.” Such a confident assertion that Davies' protagonists achieve liberty neglects a ...
Lu Xun's Revolution
Gloria DaviesGloria Davies’s vivid portrait gives readers a better sense of this influential author by situating the man Mao Zedong hailed as “the sage of modern China” in his turbulent time and place.
A Boy from Botwood: Pte. A.W. Manuel, Royal Newfoundland ...
Bryan DaviesPainstakingly researched after the long-hidden manuscript’s discovery by Bryan Davies and Andrew Traficante, this is an account without parallel in the Canadian experience of the Great War.
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