Title: 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists
Author: Udo Schuklenk
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell / John Wiley & Sons
Pub Date: October 2009
Hardback: 9781405190459 $89.95
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Description: This book presents a unique and thought-provoking collection of original essays that address personal disbelief in a higher power. Drawn from an international cast of professionals in the fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics, contributors offer carefully considered statements of why they reject the idea of a deity governing the universe and human affairs. Whether you’re a believer or not, this book offers an intellectually stimulating journey into the possibilities for rational and reasonable people everywhere to live without the crutch of religion.

Title: Against Atheism: Why Dawkins, Hitchens, and Harris are Fundamentally Wrong
Author: Ian S. Markham
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell / John Wiley & Sons
Pub Date: January 2010
Hardback: 9781405189644 $84.95
Paperback: 9781405189637 $24.95
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Description: In this new book, Ian Markham analyzes the atheistic world view, opposing the arguments given by renowned authors of books on atheism, such as Richard Dawkins. Unlike other responses to the new atheism, Markham challenges these authors on their own ground by questioning their understanding of belief and of atheism itself. The result is a transforming introduction to Christianity that will appeal to anyone interested in this debate.

Title: Al-Khwarizmi: The Beginnings of Algebra
Author: Edited by Roshdi Rashed
Publisher: Saqi Books
Pub Date: December 2009
Hardback: 9780863564307 £70.00
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Description: Roshdi Rashed has produced the first Arabic critical edition of Al-Khwarizmi’s work, containing an annotated translation into English, an introductory essay and extensive commentaries on the text.

Title: Avicenna and his Legacy: A Golden Age of Science and Philosophy
Author: Edited by Y. Tzvi Langermann
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Pub Date: December 2009
Hardback: 9782503527536 Euro 60.00
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Series: Cultual Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, v.8
Description: This volume presents seventeen essays on Avicenna, his followers and his critics, many of whom are just now being introduced to western scholarship. The contributors to "Avicenna and his Legacy" include both established scholars as well as some of the best of the new generation.

Title: The Biblical Qumran Scrolls: Transcriptions and Textual Variants
Author: Edited by Eugene Ulrich
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Pub Date: October 2009
Hardback: 9789004180383 Euro 135.00
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Series: Vetus Testamentum, Supplements, v.134
Description: "The Biblical Qumran Scrolls" presents all the Hebrew biblical manuscripts recovered from the eleven caves at Qumran.

Title: The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy, v.1-2
Author: Edited by Robert Pasnau
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub Date: January 2010
Hardback: 9780521866729 £150.00
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Description: "The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy" comprises over fifty specially commissioned essays. Starting in the late eighth century, it takes the reader through developments in many and varied fields. The volume will be the authoritative source on medieval philosophy for the next generation of scholars and students alike.

Title: Christian Mysticism: An Introduction to Contemporary Theoretical Approaches
Author: Louise Nelstrop, Kevin Magill, and Bradley B. Onishi
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing Group
Pub Date: November 2009
Hardback: 9780754657323 £55.00
Paperback: 9780754669906 £16.99
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Description: Christianity has a rich tradition of mystical theology. Today Christian mysticism is increasingly recognised as an important Christian heritage relevant to today’s spiritual seekers.

Title: Christian-Muslim Relations: A Bibliographical History. Volume 1 (600-900)
Author: Edited by David Thomas and Barbara Roggema
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Pub Date: October 2009
Hardback: 9789004169753 Euro 219.00
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Series: The History of Christian-Muslim Relations, v.11
Description: This title is the first part of a general history of relations between the faiths from the seventh century to the present.

Title: Comic Relief: A Comprehensive Philosophy of Humor
Author: John Morreall
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell / John Wiley & Sons
Pub Date: September 2009
Hardback: 9781405196123 $39.95
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Series: New Directions in Aesthetics, 9
Description: Western philosophy’s traditional assessment of the nature and value of humor has not been kind, as the standard theories made humor look antisocial, irrational, and foolish. It wasn’t until well into the 20th century that humor gained even a semblance of respect. Comic Relief goes a great way in ameliorating this injustice. In it, noted philosophical humor writer John Morreall develops a comprehensive theory that integrates psychological, aesthetic, and ethical issues relating to humor.

Title: The Dead Sea Genesis Apocryphon: A New Text and Translation with Introduction and Special Treatment
Author: Daniel A. Machiela
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Pub Date: October 2009
Hardback: 9789004168145 Euro 114.00
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Series: Studies on the Texts of the Desert of Judah. Vol. 79
Description: This publication offers a reliable text edition and a fuller understanding of the message conveyed by this fragmentary but fascinating retelling of Genesis.

Title: The Dead Sea Scrolls Concordance: The Biblical Texts from the Judaean Desert, v.3
Author: Martin G. Abegg Jr., James E. Bowley, and Edward M. Cook
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Pub Date: November 2009
Hardback: 9789004182356 Euro 275.00
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Series: The Dead Sea Scrolls Concordance
Description: Volume 3 indexes all of the biblical materials which have been found in a wide range of Judaean Desert sites.

Title: The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Full History
Author: Weston W. Fields
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Pub Date: November 2009
Hardback: 9789004175815 Euro 75.00
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Description: Volume 1 of "The Dead Sea Scrolls, A Full History," details the history of the Dead Sea Scrolls from their discovery in 1947 until 1960.

Title: Debating the Political Philosophy of Hegel
Author: Edited by Walter Kaufman
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Pub Date: December 2009
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Description: This volume, first published in 1970, focuses on Hegel’s political philosophy. It brings together ten essays by six authors who present sharply conflicting interpretations. Here are point-by-point discussions, from differing perspectives, on Hegel’s philosophy of the state and his ideas about history and war, nationalism and liberty. Never before have these issues been joined in comparable fashion in a single volume.

Title: Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception, 30 Volume Set
Author: Edited by Hans-Josef Klauck et. al
Publisher: De Gruyter
Pub Date: v.1 & v.2 Now Available; v.3 & v.4 Planned for 2010; Print to be Completed by 2018
Hardback: v.1 978311018 $238.00
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Description: The new indispensable biblical research tool from De Gruyter, edited by an international team of scholars, all experts in their fields. 30 volume set, the first two volumes have been published in 2009, volumes 3 and 4 are planned for 2010. The EBR is available print and online. Contact your customer support representative to set up a standing order!

Title: Gadamer: Ein Philosophisches Porträt
Author: Donatella Di Cesare
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Pub Date: 2009
Hardback: 9783161495397 Euro 69.00
Paperback: 9783161499463 Euro 29.00
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Description: Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) gehört zu den bedeutendsten Vertretern der Philosophie des 20. Jahrhunderts. Worin besteht eigentlich seine philosophische Hermeneutik? Wie entwickelt und verändert sie sich im Lauf der Jahre? Auf einfache und bündige Weise schildert Donatella Di Cesare Gadamers Leben und geht allen Etappen seines Denkens nach. (What is Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics really about? And how did it develop and change over the years? Donatella Di Cesare recounts the life of the Marburg philosopher and retraces all the stages of his thought).

Title: The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea
Author: Arthur O. Lovejoy; with a new introduction by Peter J. Stanlis
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Pub Date: July 2009
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Description: This is arguably the seminal work in historical and philosophical analysis of the twentieth century. Originally delivered for the William James lecture series at Harvard University in 1932-33, it remains the cornerstone of the history of ideas. Lovejoy sees philosophy’s history as one of confusion of ideas, a prime example of which is the idea of a “great chain of being”—a universe linked in theology, science and values by pre-determined stages in all phases of life.

Title: Handbook for the Study of the Historical Jesus
Author: Edited by Tom Holmén and Stanley E. Porter
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Pub Date: March 2010
Hardback: 9789004163720 Euro 899.00
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Description: Drawing from first-class scholarship, the four large volumes of the Handbook offer a unique assembly of leading experts presenting their approaches to the historical Jesus.

Title: Handbuch der Textfunde vom Toten Meer: Bd1. Die Handschriften biblischer Bücher von Qumran und den a
Author: Armin Lange
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Pub Date: 2009
Hardback: 9783161497346 Euro 89.00
Paperback: 9783161497339 Euro 49.00
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Description: Das auf mehrere Bände angelegte Handbuch der Textfunde vom Toten Meer bietet die erste literaturgeschichtliche Einleitung in die Handschriften von Qumran und den anderen Fundorten vom Toten Meer. Band 1 ist den Textzeugen alttestamentlicher Bücher und ihrer Textgeschichte gewidmet. (The first volume studies the manuscripts of the books of the Hebrew Bible and looks at their textual history. The text of each biblical book developed individually, and many are characterized by textual plurality).

Title: Heidegger: The Man and the Thinker
Author: Edited by Thomas Sheehan
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Pub Date: September 2009
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Paperback: 9781412810845 $34.95
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Description: This anthology addresses Heidegger’s complex but simple thought and his simple but complex life. In a real sense, Sheehan claims, there is no content to Heidegger’s topic and legacy, only a method. But method must not be taken to mean a technique or procedure for philosophical thinking. Rather, the topic of Heidegger’s thought and his pursuit of that topic, the "what" and the "how," are one and the same thing.

Title: The Idea of Evil
Author: Peter Dews
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell / John Wiley & Sons
Pub Date: December 2007
Hardback: 9781405117043 $39.95
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Description: This timely book by philosopher Peter Dews explores the idea of evil, one of the most problematic terms in the contemporary moral vocabulary. Despite the widespread abuse and political manipulation of the term, Dews argues that we cannot do without it. Yet our intuitions about evil pull us in different directions.

Title: Is God a Delusion? A Reply to Religion’s Cultured Despisers
Author: Eric Reitan
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell / John Wiley & Sons
Pub Date: December 2008
Hardback: 9781405183628 $89.95
Paperback: 9781405183611 $24.95
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Description: Is God a Delusion? argues that today’s vocal religious critics have fixated on religion in its narrowest form. And in doing so they have failed to consider a religion whose essence is found not in inflexible doctrines, “infallible” holy books, or calcified institutions, but in a distinctive type of consciousness that points the way to a transcendent good beyond the world. 

Title: Jean-François Lyotard: Karel Appel, Un geste de couleur, A Gesture of Colour
Author: Edited and introduced by Herman Parret
Publisher: Leuven University Press.
Pub Date: October 2009
Hardback: 9789058677563 Euro 39.50
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Series: Jean-François Lyotard, Writings on Contemporary Art and Artists
Description: First volume in a new bilingual series that collects Lyotard’s thinking about contemporary art & artists. Previously unpublished French original published face to face with English translation.

Title: Jewish Intermarriage Around the World
Author: Edited by Sergio DellaPergola and Shulamit Reinharz
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Pub Date: October 2009
Hardback: 9781412810166 $44.95
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Description: Most research on intermarriage between Jews and non- Jews focuses on the United States. This volume takes a path-breaking approach, examining countries with smaller Jewish populations so as to better understand countries with larger Jewish populations. It focuses on intermarriage in Great Britain, France, Scandinavia, the Soviet Union, Mexico, Venezuela, Canada, South Africa, Australia, Argentina and Curacao, then applies the findings to the United States.

Title: Jewish Power in America: Myth and Reality
Author: Henry L. Feingold
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Pub Date: October 2008
Hardback: 9781412808354 $39.95
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Description: The work presents the reader with a broadly comprehensive and highly informative picture of American Jewish participation in the American polity.

Title: Karl Popper Vermutungen und Widerlegungen: Das Wachstum der wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnis
Author: Edited by Herbert Keuth
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Pub Date: 2009
Hardback: 9783161493959 Euro 109
Paperback: 9783161501975 Euro 49.00
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Series: Gesammelte Werke
Description: Poppers Vorträge und Aufsätze, in denen er vor allem seine Theorie des Wachstums unserer Erkenntnis als Folge kühner Vermutungen und strenger Versuche ihrer Widerlegung verständlich darstellt, liegen nun in der zweiten deutschen Auflage vor. Diese ist revidiert und enthält zusätzlich ein Nachwort und eine Konkordanz. (This is the 2nd authorized, revised and expanded German edition of Karl Popper’s famous collection of essays).

Title: Key Events in the Life of the Historical Jesus: A Collaborative Exploration of Context and Coherence
Author: Edited by Darrell L. Bock and Robert L. Webb
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Pub Date: 2009
Hardback: 9783161501449 Euro 189.00
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Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 247
Description: This collection of essays examines twelve key events in the life of Jesus that were part of a decade-long collaborative research project. Each essay carefully examines the case for the events authenticity and then explores the social and cultural background to the event to provide an understanding of the events historical significance.

Title: Logic: Inquiry, Argument and Order
Author: Scott L. Pratt
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell / John Wiley & Sons
Pub Date: November 2009
Hardback: 9780470373767 $99.95
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Description: This is the first book of its kind to frame the study of introductory logic in terms of problems connected to wider issues of knowledge and judgment that arise in the context of racial, cultural, and religious diversity. With its accessible style and integration of philosophical inquiry and real-life concerns, this book offers a novel approach to the theory of logic and its relevance to questions of meaning and value that arise in the world around us.

Title: The Meaning of Friendship
Author: Mark Vernon
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Pub Date: April 2010
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Description: A brilliantly lucid and insightful guide to all forms of friendship, drawing on philosophy and popular culture to cover what friendship is all about.

Title: The Mind Behind the Gospels: A Commentary to Matthew 1-14
Author: Herbert Basser
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Pub Date: July 2009
Hardback: 9781934843338 $69.00
Paperback: 9781934843345 $35.00
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Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
Description: Basser gives us a verse-by-verse commentary to the first half of the Gospel in his study of Matthew through the lens of Jewish texts.

Title: The Origins of Jewish Mysticism
Author: Peter Schäfer
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Pub Date: 2009
Hardback: 9783161499319 Euro 99.00
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Description: Peter Schäfer provides the reader for the first time with a history of pre-kabbalistic Jewish mysticism. He offers a close reading of the key texts and asks what they wish to convey about the age-old human desire to get close to and communicate with God. The book is directed at specialists as well as at a broader audience.

Title: The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to its History, Doctrine, and Spiritual Culture
Author: Father John Anthony McGuckin
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell / John Wiley & Sons
Pub Date: June 2008
Hardback: 9781405150668 $154.95
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Electronic: Ebrary & EBL eBook 9781444301236 $154.95
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Description: At once a comprehensive study of Eastern Orthodoxy - its historical development and theology - The Orthodox Church is also an engaging assessment of Orthodoxy’s political role in today’s secularized Western world. Scholarly, timely, and always thought provoking, The Orthodox Church provides Orthodoxy with the long-awaited voice to engage in a meaningful dialog with contemporary Western culture.

Title: Philosophical Investigations, 4th Edition
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell / John Wiley & Sons
Pub Date: October 2009
Hardback: 9781405159289 $34.95
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Description: Incorporating significant editorial changes from earlier editions, the fourth edition of Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations is the definitive en face German-English version of the most important work of 20th-century philosophy.

Title: Philosophy, Science and Divine Action
Author: Edited by F. LeRon Shults, Nancey Murphy, and Robert John Russell
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Pub Date: November 2009
Hardback: 9789004177871 Euro 146.00
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Description: This volume brings together contributions from leading scholars on the issue of ’divine action’ in the world.

Title: Religion Past and Present: Encyclopedia of Theology and Religion
Author: Edited by Hans Dieter Betz et al.
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Pub Date: v.1 2006; completion in 2013
Hardback: v.1 978900414 Euro 249.00 per
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Description: "Religion Past and Present" is a complete, updated English translation of the definitive encyclopedia of religion worldwide, the peerless Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart. Each volume priced at Euro 249.00.

Title: Revised Lists of the Texts from the Judaean Desert
Author: Emanuel Tov
Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
Pub Date: October 2009
Hardback: 9789004179493 Euro 99.00
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Description: This volume contains an inventory list of the texts found in the Judaean Desert.

Title: The Right Chorale: Studies in Biblical Law and Interpretation
Author: Bernard M. Levinson
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Pub Date: 2008
Hardback: 9783161493829 Euro 99.00
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Series: Forschungen zum Alten Testament, 54
Description: This book contains twelve essays by Bernard Levinson on biblical law, treating it from the perspective of the ancient Near East and the reinterpretation of the Bible in Second Temple literature. His studies are essential for an understanding of the Pentateuch and the Bible’s contribution to later western intellectual history.

Title: Routledge Companion to Early Christian Thought
Author: Edited by D. Jeffrey Bingham
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Pub Date: December 2009
Hardback: 9780415442251 £95.00
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Series: Routledge Companions
Description: This companion brings together a remarkable team of distinguished scholars, making it the ideal companion for those seeking to read early christian literature and understand its cultural context and theological contributions.

Title: Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Religion
Author: Edited by C. Meister and Paul Copan
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Pub Date: February 2010
Hardback: 9780415380386 £125.00
Paperback: 9780415435536 £29.99
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Series: Routledge Philosophy Companions
Description: This companion is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, religion and related disciplines.

Title: Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Science
Author: Edited by Stathis Psillos and Martin Curd
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Pub Date: February 2010
Hardback: 9780415354035 £125.00
Paperback: 9780415546133 £29.99
Electronic: Ebrary & EBL eBook 9780203000502 $160.00
Series: Routledge Companions
Description: This indispensable reference guide to the major topics, debates and problems in the philosophy of science contains fifty five specially commissioned entries by a leading team of international contributors.

Title: Routledge Companion to the Christian Church
Author: Edited by G. Mannion and Lewis S. Mudge
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Pub Date: February 2010
Hardback: 9780415374200 £125.00
Paperback: 9780415567688 £25.00
Electronic: Ebrary & EBL eBooks 9780203936078 $199.00
Series: Routledge Companions
Description: Authoritative accessible and easily navigable this book is indispensable for everyone interested in the nature and history of the christian church.

Title: Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy
Author: Edited by D. Moran
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Pub Date: February 2010
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Paperback: 9780415429580 £29.99
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Series: Routledge Philosophy Companions
Description: This outstanding collection presents a comprehensive picture of philosophy in the twentieth century.

Title: Science and Religion in Dialogue, v.1-2
Author: Edited by Melville Y. Stewart
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell / John Wiley & Sons
Pub Date: January 2010
Hardback: 9781405189217 $350.00
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Description: This two-volume collection of cutting edge thinking about science and religion shows how scientific and religious practices of inquiry can be viewed as logically compatible, complementary, and mutually supportive.

Title: Science and Religion: New Historical Perspectives
Author: Edited by Thomas Dixon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pub Date: March 2010
Hardback: 9780521760270 £55.00
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Description: Bringing together leading scholars, this volume explores the complex histories of religious engagements with science, and challenges the idea of an inevitable conflict between the two disciplines. A major contribution to the historiography of science and religion, it makes the most recent scholarship on this much misunderstood debate widely accessible.

Title: Sign Crossroads in Global Perspective: Semiotics and Responsibilities
Author: Susan Petrilli; Edited by John Deely
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Pub Date: December 2009
Hardback: 9781412810678 $59.95
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Description: The author looks at semiotics, the study of signs, symbols, and communication as developing sequentially rather than successively, more synchronically than diachronically. She discusses the contemporary phenomenon that people in today’s society have witnessed and participated in, as part of the development of semiotics.

Title: The University of Disaster
Author: Paul Virilio
Publisher: Polity / John Wiley & Sons
Pub Date: December 2009
Hardback: 9780745645049 $54.95
Paperback: 9780745645056 $19.95
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Description: This fascinating and timely book examines global warming and the destruction of biodiversity and their implications.