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Published 2021
Archaeology and history of Toraijin : human, technological, and cultural flow from the Korean Peninsula to the Japanese Archipelago c. 800 BC-AD 600 /

: In light of the recently uncovered archaeological data and ancient historical records, this book offers an overview of the 14 centuries-long Toraijin story, from c. 800-600 BC to AD 600, exploring the fundamental role these immigrants, mainly from the Korean Peninsula, played in the history of the Japanese archipelago during this formative period.
: Also issued in print: 2021. : 1 online resource (xii, 226 pages) : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781789699678 (PDF ebook) :

Published 1995
Time detectives : how archeologists use technology to recapture the past /

: 288 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-270) and index. : 0684818280

Experiments in Egyptian archaeology : stoneworking technology in ancient Egypt /

: xxx, 263 pages : illustrations, 1 map ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-255) and index. : 0415306647

Lithic technology : measures of production, use, and curation /

: xviii, 340 paes : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm : Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published 2007
Ibn Taymiyya's theodicy of perpetual optimism /

: The Muslim jurist Ibn Taymiyya (d. 1328) is famous for polemic against Islamic philosophy, theology and rationalizing mysticism, but his positive theological contribution has not been well understood. This comprehensive study of Ibn Taymiyya's theodicy helps to rectify this lack. Exposition and analysis of Ibn Taymiyya's writings on God's justice and wise purpose, divine determination and human agency, the problem of evil, and juristic method in theological doctrine show that he articulates a theodicy of optimism in which God in His essence perpetually wills the best possible world from eternity. This sets Ibn Taymiyya's theodicy apart from Ashʿarī divine voluntarism, the free-will theodicy of the Muʿtazilīs, and the essentially timeless God of other optimists like Ibn Sīnā and Ibn ʿArabī.
: Originally presented as the author's thesis (Ph. D.--University of Birmingham, 2002) under the title: An Islamic theodicy : Ibn Taymiyya on the wise purpose of God, human agency, and problems of evil and justice. : 1 online resource (xii, 270 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9789047420194 : 0169-8729 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2002
Traditions of theology : studies in Hellenistic theology, its background and aftermath /

: The nine articles in this volume were orginally presented at the VIII. Symposium Hellenisticum in Lille in August 1998. The authors discuss a set of theological questions that were central to the doctrines of the dominant schools in the Hellenistic age, such as the existence of the gods, their nature, and their concern for humankind. While the philosophers of the Classical age had kept their distance from conventional religion, the Stoics and Epicureans saw the need to come to terms with the religious tradition both in a critical and in a supportive sense. Especially the challenge by the Sceptics forced the followers of the dogmatic schools (Stoics, Epicureans) to clarify the basis of their theological tenets. Many of the texts that are accessible to us only in a fragmentary state were still highly influential in the early Christian era, so that the reconstruction of the theological views of the Hellenistic philosophers form an important part not only of the history of philosophy, but also of Christian theology and the history of religion in general. One distinctive feature of the volume is that it mirrors the changes of perspective that took place over the many centuries in this area, thus presenting the Hellenistic contribution within the larger framework of Greek philosophical theology.
: Papers presented at the 8th Symposium Hellenisticum, Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France, 1998. : 1 online resource (xiv, 343 pages) : Includes bibliographical references and indexes. : 9789047401063 : 0079-1687 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2021
Earthen construction technology : proceedings of the XVIII UISPP World Congress (4-9 June 2018, Paris, France), volume 11, session V /

: Presents papers from Session IV-5 of the 18th UISPP World Congress (Paris, June 2018). The archaeological study of earthen construction has until now focused on typology and conservation; papers here instead consider their construction and anthropological importance.
: Also issued in print: 2021.
Conference proceedings.
"Available in both print and Open Access"--Homepage. : 1 online resource (ii, 157 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps (black and white, and colour). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781789697247 (ebook) : : Open access.

Published 2020
The dialectic of practice and the logical structure of the tool : philosophy, archaeology and the anthropology of technology /

: The Dialectic of Practice and the Logical Structure of the Tool undertakes a critical review of recent trends in the archaeological and anthropological theory of technology from processual neo-positivism and postprocessual relativism to the contemporary French and American anthropology, and the symmetrical theory of material culture. On the basis of a critique of their logical premises and epistemological consequences, it draws on the tradition of Hegelian dialectics in order to propose an alternative understanding of technology as a material social practice within which the subject and the object -the socio-cultural and the natural- are produced concurrently as inter-constituted elements, and they are unified through their mutual negative relation to each other.
: Also issued in print: 2020. : 1 online resource (92 pages). : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781789694055 (ebook) :

Maritime technology in the ancient economy : ship-design and navigation /

: 264 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-258) and index. : 9781887829847
1887829849 : 1063-4304 ; : Sara.lib

Published 2009
Techniques and people : anthropological perspectives on technology in the archaeology of the proto-historic and early historic periods in the southern Levant /

: Papers presented at a conference held in Jerusalem in 2006. : 278 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9782701802695

Published 2017
Companion to public theology /

: Winner of the 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title Award Public theology has emerged in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries as theologians have increasingly entered the public square to engage complex issues. This Companion to Public Theology brings a much-needed resource to this relatively new field. The essays contained here bring a robust and relevant faith perspective to a wide range of issues as well as foundational biblical and theological perspectives which equip theologians to enter into public dialogue. Public theology has never been more needed in public discourse, whether local or global. In conversation across disciplines its contribution to the construction of just policies is apparent in this volume, as scholars examine the areas of political, social and economic spheres as well as issues of ethics and civil societies, and draw on contexts from six continents. Contributors are: Chris Baker, Andrew Bradstock, Luke Bretherton, Lisa Sowle Cahill, Letitia M. Campbell, Cláudio Carvalhaes, Katie Day, Frits de Lange, Jolyon Mitchell, Elaine Graham, Paul Hanson, Nico Koopman, Sebastian Kim, Esther McIntosh, Clive Pearson, Scott Paeth, Larry L. Rasmussen, Hilary Russell, Nicholas Sagovsky, Dirk J. Smit, William Storrar, David Tombs, Rudolf von Sinner, Jenny Anne Wright, and Yvonne Zimmerman.
: Includes index. : 1 online resource. : 9789004336063 : 2451-9839 ; : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2017
The ecological crisis and the logic of capital /

: The worsening environmental crisis has become a serious threat to mankind. The search for a solution to this crisis must begin by understanding its causes. Taking an eco-socialist perspective, The Ecological Crisis and the Logic of Capital explores the logic of capitalism as a fundamental cause of today's environmental crisis, in particular the thirst for profit and the capitalist mode of production. By demonstrating the inherent antagonism between capital and ecology, this book argues that proposals to resolve the crisis within the capitalist system are utopian, that proposed remedies relying on scientific progress, alternative energies, low-carbon technologies or the introduction of ecological ethics and new attitudes toward Nature into market mechanisms are doomed to failure without a radical overhaul of the principles that govern capitalism.
: 1 online resource. : 9789004356009 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2007
The archaeology of ritual /

: xii, 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references and index. : 9781931745475

Technology and Urbanism in Late Bronze Age Egypt /

: xxvii, 328 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-320)and indexes. : 9780198803591

Published 2008
Theologies in conflict in 4 Ezra : wisdom, debate, and apocalyptic solution /

: Recent scholarship on 4 Ezra has taken two divergent approaches, the first reading the dialogues between Ezra and Uriel as a reflection of theological debates in the author's time, and the second focusing on the psychological development of the protagonist. Combining the two approaches, this book offers a new interpretation of the dialogues as a literary representation of a debate between covenantal and eschatological wisdom, two branches of Jewish wisdom that emerged in the late Second Temple period. The inconclusive quality of the dialogues indicates the author's dissatisfaction with Uriel's attempt at a rational theodicy. Ezra's subsequent transformation points to the symbolic visions as the locus of the author's apocalyptic solution to the intractable theological problems raised in the dialogues.
: 1 online resource. : Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-252) and indexes. : 9789047441809 : Available to subscribing member institutions only.

Published 2014
Technology of sword blades from the La Tène period to the early modern age : the case of what is now Poland /

: This text assesses the results of recent metallographic examination of 45 sword blades (mid-2nd century BC to early-16th century) from the territory of what is now Poland.
: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) : Specialized. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781784910297 (PDF ebook) :

Published 2003
Possessors and possessed : museums, archaeology, and the visualization of history in the late Ottoman Empire /

: xi, 269 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. : Includes biographical references (pages 247-260) and index. : 0520233352

Published 2009
From mine to microscope : advances in the study of ancient technology /

: xvi, 230 p. : ill., maps, plans ; 29 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9781842172599 (cased)

Published 2009
Beyond the horizon : studies in Egyptian art, archaeology and history in honour of Barry J. Kemp /

: 2 volumes : illustrations, maps, graphs, tables ; 30 cm. : 9789774792489

Chimie et Alexandrie dans l'Antiquité /

: 280 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, facsimiles, maps, plans, portraits ; 24 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 9782759824090
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