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  • The Endurance of National Constitutions

    by Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg, James Melton ...
    Constitutions are supposed to provide an enduring structure for politics. Yet only half live more than nine years. Why is it that some constitutions endure while others do not? In The Endurance of National Constitutions Zachary Elkins, Tom Ginsburg and James Melton examine the causes of constitutional endurance from an institutional perspective. Supported by an original set of cross-national ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier

    by James Van Horn Melton ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies on the American South
    This book tells the story of Ebenezer, a frontier community in colonial Georgia founded by a mountain community fleeing religious persecution in its native Salzburg. This study traces the lives of the settlers from the alpine world they left behind to their struggle for survival on the southern frontier of British America. Exploring their encounters with African and indigenous peoples with whom ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

  • Pietism in Germany and North America 1680–1820

    by Hartmut Lehmann, James Van Horn Melton ...
    This collection explores different approaches to contextualizing and conceptualizing the history of Pietism, particularly Pietistic groups who migrated from central Europe to the British colonies in North America during the long eighteenth century. Emerging in German speaking lands during the seventeenth century, Pietism was closely related to Puritanism, sharing similar evangelical and ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Magna Carta and its Modern Legacy

    Edited by Robert Hazell, James Melton ...
    Series series Comparative Constitutional Law and Policy
    Magna Carta is celebrated around the world as a symbol of limited government and constitutionalism. But in 1215 Magna Carta was a failure, abrogated within months. Why then do we celebrate this piece of parchment? To mark the 800th anniversary this book brings together top scholars from the UK, US and Australia to answer this question and analyse Magna Carta's historic and contemporary influence. ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Essentials of Stem Cell Biology

    Edited by E. Donnall Thomas, Brigid Hogan, John Gearhart, Robert Lanza, Roger Pedersen, Douglas Melton, James A. Thomson, Ian Wilmut ...
    First developed as an accessible abridgement of the successful Handbook of Stem Cells, Essentials of Stem Cell Biology serves the needs of the evolving population of scientists, researchers, practitioners and students that are embracing the latest advances in stem cells. Representing the combined effort of seven editors and more than 200 scholars and scientists whose pioneering work has defined ... Read more

    $197.99 USD

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    The Dead Joke and The Funny Man (Unabridged)

    by James Whitcomb Riley ...
    Narrated by Dorthy Coleman, Melanie Melton, James Dudasik ...

    Unabridged

    10 min

    In the quaint town of Greenfield, where laughter and sorrow intertwine, a tale unfolds that will tickle your funny bone and tug at your heartstrings. "The Dead Joke and The Funny Man" by James Whitcomb Riley introduces us to Benj. F. Johnson, a renowned humorist whose life takes an unexpected turn when he encounters a mysterious stranger. As the lines between comedy and tragedy blur, Benj. must ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Cultures of Communication from Reformation to Enlightenment

    Constructing Publics in the Early Modern German Lands

    Edited by James Van Horn Melton ...
    Series series St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
    Focusing on the territories of the Holy Roman Empire from the early Reformation to the mid-eighteenth century, this volume of fifteen interdisciplinary essays examines some of the structures, practices and media of communication that helped shape the social, cultural, and political history of the period. Not surprisingly, print was an important focal point, but it was only one medium through which ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Thought of Pope Benedict XVI new edition

    An Introduction to the Theology of Joseph Ratzinger

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    Aidan Nichols' timely book is the first full-scale investigation of Joseph Ratzinger's theology, from the 1950s to the present day. It presents a chronological account of the development of Ratzinger's writing that reflects a wide range of historical and theoretical interests. A comprehensive introduction to a figure who is in his own right, quite apart from his significance in the politics of the ... Read more

    $36.49 USD

  • The Witch Hunts

    A History of the Witch Persecutions in Europe and North America

    by Robert Thurston ...
    Tens of thousands of people were persecuted and put to death as witches between 1400 and 1700 – the great age of witch hunts. Why did the witch hunts arise, flourish and decline during this period? What purpose did the persecutions serve? Who was accused, and what was the role of magic in the hunts? This important reassessment of witch panics and persecutions in Europeand colonial America both ... Read more

    $58.99 USD

  • Oedipus and the Devil

    Witchcraft, Religion and Sexuality in Early Modern Europe

    by Lyndal Roper ...
    This bold and imaginative book marks out a different route towards understanding the body, and its relationship to culture and subjectivity. Amongst other subjects, Lyndal Roper deals with the nature of masculinity and feminity. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Radical Reformation, 3rd ed.

    by George Huntston Williams ...
    Series series Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies
    George Williams' monumental The Radical Reformation has been an essential reference work for historians of early modern Europe, narrating in rich, interpretative detail the interconnected stories of radical groups operating at the margins of the mainline Reformation. In its scope—spanning all of Europe from Spain to Poland, from Denmark to Italy—and its erudition, The Radical Reformation is ... Read more

    $70.19 USD