Chronophage

While human existence in time is determined by the time of Jesus Christ, by the logic of the incarnation, passion, resurrection, and ascension, the predominant accounts of time in the modern West have proceeded from a very different basis. The implications of these approaches are not just a matter of epistemology, or of abstract doctrinal and philosophical claims. Instead, they have had, and continue to have, concrete ramifications for human life together. They have overwhelmingly been death-dealing rather than life-giving, marked by a series of temporal moral errors that this book hopes to address. As a counterexample, this book reads Søren Kierkegaard alongside Karl Barth to highlight the ways that both figures rejected a Hegelian approach to time that was, and is, not coincidentally intertwined with a racialized account of history and the co-opting of Christianity by the modern Western state.

The first collection of Malcolm Guite's widely acclaimed columns on the back page of the Church Times. His perceptive musings draw together everyday events and encounters, journeys, poetry, stories, memory and a sense of the sacred to open a door into a new and enchanted world.

A fun history of some of Britain’s weird and wonderful inventions

THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS MY... Holy, one of the Interstellar Union Army's most elite agents, approaches Shiki and his crew with a bold offer of cooperation. In order to defeat Ziggy, the Edens crew needs all the help they can get, but Holy's offer seems too good to be true. Shiki and Elsie are two of the Interstellar Union Army's most wanted. Can they really trust Holy, a woman whose sole mission should be to capture or kill them?!

A single mother becomes involved with a mysterious man who consumes moments of her life, leading her to question her choices, and whether they can—or should—be undone.

Short, witty essays on the relations between the sexes.

Was the Renaissance just a period of extraordinary art and architecture? The Renaissance: All That Matters examines the major developments of the Renaissance era from its beginnings in Italian city/states to later cultural, political, and scientific achievements in France, Spain, England, and Germany. By examining original sources and introducing readers to new research and important debates, this accessible book provides an exciting introduction to the Renaissance age. This book attempts to answer two questions. Firstly, what are the essential features of the Renaissance movement that gradually transformed Europe in the fourteenth, fifteenth, and sixteenth centuries? Secondly, how many of these cultural, artistic, and intellectual transformations continue to influence modern societies today? The Renaissance began as a renewal of classical Greek and Roman culture that originated in fourteenth-century Italy, gradually spread throughout Europe, and continues to influence Western societies up to the present. The Renaissance: All That Matters introduces the brilliant writers and cultural innovators of the Renaissance, who transformed the West through their scholarly, artistic, and scientific activities, including Francesco Petrarch, Leonardo da Vinci, Niccolo Machiavelli, Thomas More, and Galileo Galilee. Throughout the Renaissance, intriguing visionaries revived the study of literature, reformed medieval universities, invigorated the arts, enhanced the economy, explored new geographic worlds, and invented machines and devices such as the printing press, the telescope, firearms, and clocks.

Sally Harris was just an ordinary Edinburgh girl, except for one thing: she could do magic. She thought little of this fantastic ability until an encounter with a gorgeous hunk of elven blood took her on a thrilling series of sexy adventures in the sinister chambers of Café Insomnia and beyond. With Vampires, Demons, Harpies, Elves and a Witch with an eating disorder, this exciting urban fantasy provides an irresistibly readable combination of fantasy, spooks, romance and light-hearted comedy.