This edition contains new material, taking account of work published on the Gospel of St John since this book's first publication. It also takes into account the evidence of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Gnostic library of Nag-Hammadi. The commentary provides a detailed exegesis of John's text.[...]
It was to raise funds for the repair of a broken pony roller, so essential for the upkeep of the lawns at their ground in Nursery Lane, Wimbledon, that the All England Croquet Club first decided to hold a tennis tournament. From those humble beginnings in 1877 The Championships at Wimbledon have gr[...]
"Aurora Leigh" (1856), Elizabeth Barrett Browning's epic novel in blank verse, tells the story of the making of a woman poet, exploring 'the woman question', art and its relation to politics and social oppression. The texts in this selection are based in the main on the earliest printed versions of [...]
Improvising Blues Harmonica, from the SCHOOL OF THE BLUES series by authors David Barrett and John Garcia, is a groundbreaking method explaining the mysterious world of improvising.[...]
Blues Guitar Method Level 2, within the School of the Blues Lesson Series, is about learning the art of improvising. Areas covered are: Tools for Improvising (Scales and Arpeggios); Soloing Concepts (Question & Answer Phrasing and Chord Tone Approach Construction); Pickups, Intros, Turnarounds & End[...]
There are many things you should never, ever, ever do.
Like sit next to a porcupine on the subway (ouch ). Or hold hands with a lobster (double ouch ). Or take a shark to the dentist (triple ouch ).
Bestselling author JUDI BARRETT and imaginative illustrator JOHN NICKLE give us a raucous l[...]
In the summer of 1953, two eleven-year-old boys best friends are playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball and kills the other boy s mother. The boy who hits the ball doesn t believe in accidents; Owen Meany believes he is God s instrument[...]
Zander, or pike-perch as they are sometimes called, have been shrouded in controversy ever since they were first introduced into Britain's rivers and drains in 1963. They were soon blamed for the decline in fish stocks in the Fens, where they were initally introduced. Notwithstanding this, forty yea[...]
This accessible guide provides an introduction to evolutionary psychology - the fascinating and often controversial new discipline that studies human behavior, evolution and the mind. Starting with its origins in the work of Charles Darwin, the book covers all the key areas of evolutionary psycholo[...]