Adam Smith ...Father of Modern Economics ...Died in 1790 ...but 200 years later, his spirit is tortured by the caricatures we remember in his name. In Saving Adam Smith, he is tortured enough to return to Earth ...and so begins a journey of discovery that cuts across two centuries, as doctoral stude[...]

Sir Alfred Munnings, retiring President of the Royal Academy, chooses the 1949 Annual Banquet to launch a savage attack on Modern Art. The effect of his diatribe is doubly shocking, leaving not only his distinguished audience gasping but also many people tuning in to the BBC's live radio broadcast. [...]

College-university relationships, the role of examinations, the politics of curriculum: papers amplify the picture of developments in Cambridge during the century.[...]

The digital revolution has ushered in a series of sexual revolutions, all contributing to a perfect storm for modern relationships. Online dating, social media, internet pornography, and the phenomenon of the smartphone generation have created an avalanche of change with far-reaching consequences fo[...]

Written by a team of leading scholars, this richly illustrated book, with over 200 colour and black and white pictures, presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today.[...]

With this influential book of essays, Jonathan Z. Smith has pointed the academic study of religion in a new theoretical direction, one neither theological nor willfully ideological. Making use of examples as apparently diverse and exotic as the Maori cults in nineteenth-century New Zealand and the e[...]

In this handy guide Jonathan Riley-Smith, one of the most familiar names in Crusader studies, aims to identify the most important themes of the crusades and explain them in a concise and accessible manner. Once a relatively controversial statement of his new pluralist view of crusading, it is now pr[...]

The Crusades were penitential war-pilgrimages fought in the Levant and the eastern Mediterranean, as well as in North Africa, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Baltic region, Hungary, the Balkans, and Western Europe. Beginning in the eleventh century and ending as late as the eighteenth, these holy wars [...]

Guest edited by Jonathan Dillman and Ethan Smith, this issue of MRI Clinics covers pediatric MRI imaging of lower body structures, such as the liver, kidneys, urinary tract, bowel, pancreas and pelvis. Certain pathologies such as anorectal malformations, Crohn disease, inflammatory bowel disease and[...]

Much has been written about the crusades, but very little about the crusaders. What moved them to go? What preparations did they need to make? How did they react to their experiences? This book comes up with detailed answers to these questions, and offers the first systematic reading of a large cach[...]

They're back! What happened to Spider-Man, Colonel America, Power Man, Giant-Man, and Wolverine at the end of "Marvel Zombies 2"? Where were they transported to...and, more importantly, when? A frightening five-part event shambles to life here, penned by resident (evil) "Marvel Zombies" 3 and 4 scri[...]

A fully revised and updated second edition of this exemplary and authoritative account of the history of the Crusades The Crusades: A History is a comprehensive, single-volume history of the Crusades, from their beginnings in the eleventh century through to their decline and eventual ending at the c[...]

Pseudoscience and Extraordinary Claims of the Paranormal: A Critical Thinker's Toolkit provides readers with a variety of "reality-checking" tools to analyze extraordinary claims and to determine their validity. Integrates simple yet powerful evaluative tools used by both paranormal believers and s[...]