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This book offers practical help for lay visitors. A list of helpful resources is included.... More

The School of Nisibis was the most influential and prominent of the Aramaic-speaking Christian schools of late antique and early Mesopotamia. This volume provides for the first time an annotated translation of the major sources for the School of Nisibis--offering a close historical, linguistic, and ... More

Text extracted from opening pages of book: CHRISTIANITY AND ISLA. M BY C. H. BECKER, PROFESSOR OF ORIENTAL HISTOKV THE COLONIAL INSTITUTE OF TRANSLATED BY REV. H. J. CHAYTOR, M. A. HEADMASTER OF PLYMOUTH COLLEGE LONDON AND NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS 45 ALBEMARLE STREET, W. 1909 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAG... More

Assisted by Becker's sage advice, students can make better sense of their research and simultaneously generate fresh ideas on where to look next for new data. The tricks cover four broad areas of social science: the creation of "imagery" to guide research; methods of "sampling" to generate maximum v... More

"I Remember," one of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, consists of 480 numbered paragraphs--each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a beginning nor an end. Nor does it contain any analysis. But it nonetheless reveals profound truths abo... More

This fourth book in the Plant Breeding Series introduces the techniques required to analyse the quantitative genetical variation confronting all plant breeders. It clearly describes the methods available to handle complex characters and their responses to the stresses and constraints imposed on them... More

Howard Becker's Outsiders broke new ground in the early 1960s, arguing that social deviance is a more common phenomenon that perceived and that conventional wisdom that social deviants are pathological is incorrect. Becker's seminal study remains the most piercing exploration about unconventional in... More