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Product Description: This is the story of one of British motorsport’s best-kept secrets – the Seven Fifty Motor Club. Founded in 1939 to cater for motorsport enthusiasts with 750cc motor cars, mainly Austin Sevens, the club blossomed post-war by providing ideal entry-level motorsport, giving birth to famous designer/builders like Colin Chapman of Lotus and Eric Broadley of Lola...read more

Product Description: Religious belief is rooted in and sustained by material practice, and this book provides an extraordinary insight into how it works on the ground. David Morgan has brought together a lively group of writers from religious studies, anthropology, history of art, and other disciplines, to investigate belief in everyday practices; in the objects, images, and spaces of religious devotion and in the sensations and feelings that are the medium of experience...read more

Product Description: Religious belief is rooted in and sustained by material practice, and this book provides an extraordinary insight into how it works on the ground. David Morgan has brought together a lively group of writers from religious studies, anthropology, history of art, and other disciplines, to investigate belief in everyday practices; in the objects, images, and spaces of religious devotion and in the sensations and feelings that are the medium of experience...read more

Product Description: This volume discusses the creation of sacred space in the 21st century, starting with Tobi Kahn's recent commission for Congregation Emau-El B'ne Jeshrun in Milwaukee

Product Description: In 1885, having achieved success painting fashionable society in London and Paris, French painter James Tissot (18361902) experienced a religious vision that led to both a renewal of his beliefs and a dramatic shift in his artistic focus...read more

Product Description: 'William of Rubruck was a Franciscan friar who wrote the first great travel book about Asia. In 1253-55 he made the journey from the Holy Land to the court of the Great Khan Mongke at Qaraqorum in Mongolia and back again ...William was interested in all that he saw ...read more

Product Description: The distinction between friends and acquaintances is often made in everyday conversation but the significance of this distinction is under-explored. Acquaintanceship can be understood as a form of knowledge of other people that lies somewhere between intimates and strangers...read more

Product Description: From its origins in the mid-seventeenth century visions of the French nun Margaret Mary Alacoque (1647–90) to its continuing employment in worship today, the Devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus has been controversial. Vigorously promoted by Jesuit spiritual directors, embroiled in the controversies of Jansenist writers, closely associated with Royalist political causes in France, and taken around the world by Sister Sophie Barat in the nineteenth century, the Devotion’s practices took on the shape of its evolving visual culture and iconography...read more

Product Description: A small metal square is the key to the universe of the gods. But how to use it? Jerome Jones, the head of the Omasor Agency has found the way but is he ever coming back? His two assistants must follow to save him. An extraordinary journey through the varied worlds of the gods...read more

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Product Description: 'From The Passion of the Christ to the presumed 'clash of civilizations', religion's role in culture is increasingly contested and mediated. Key Words in Religion, Media, and Culture is a welcome and interdisciplinary contribution that maps the territory for those who aim to make sense of it all...read more

Product Description: This is the history of the relationship between mass produced visual media and religion in the United States. It is a journey from the 1780s to the present - from early evangelical tracts to teenage witches and televangelists, and from illustrated books to contemporary cinema...read more

Written by a five-time Commonwealth weightlifting champion, this title presents a plan to help you improve your body and fitness for life. It shows the reader how to achieve long-term results with a total fitness plan, and also explains how one can learn smart eating and fitness habits.

Product Description: This handbook is concerned with most aspects of electromagnetic compatibility and addresses many of the technical and managerial issues which are of concern to designers and manufacturers of commercial and military electronic equipment...read more