Continuum imprint: 595 books
Corpus-Based Translation Studies
Research and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2011
This is a collection of leading research within corpus-based translation studies (CTS). CTS is now recognized as a major paradigm that has transformed analysis within the discipline of translation studies. It can be defined as the use of corpus linguistic technologies to inform and elucidate the translation...
A Way in the Wilderness
A Commentary on the Rule of Benedict For The Physically And Spiritually Imprisoned
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
James Bishop was convicted and sent to prison for serious offences. With plenty of time on his hands, he rediscovered profound and effective techniques for meditation, through the help of the World Community for Christian Meditation, which does much prison work around the world. He then turned to...
The Road to Writing
A Step-by-Step Guide to Mark Making: 3-7
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2012
The Road to Writing takes early years practitioners on a journey; the journey young
children make when they learn their first words and make their first marks.
Sue Cowley offers activities and practical advice to inspire practitioners to
try a wide range of creative approaches to improve mark...
I Am With You
The Archbishop of Canterbury's Lent Book 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
In I Am With You, Episcopal priest and theologian Kathryn Greene-McCreight examines the biblical portrayal of God's presence among us as light in darkness. Close readings of Scripture are woven into a framework patterned on the seven monastic hours of prayer and the seven days of creation.
God's...
Schooling for Social Change
The Rise and Impact of Human Rights Education in India
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2011
Schooling for Social Change offers fresh perspectives on the emerging field of human rights education in India. 60 years after independence, the Indian schooling system remains unequal. Building on over a year of fieldwork, including interviews and focus groups with policymakers, educators, parents...
by Antonio Spadaro, His Holiness Pope Francis
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018
Pope Francis's impact on the modern world has already proved extraordinary. It is no surprise that he was voted Time magazine's Person of the Year (in 2013), joining the likes of Martin Luther King (1964) and President John F. Kennedy (1961). Francis has turned the Catholic Church upside-down, flung...
The Pen and the Cross
Catholicism and English Literature 1850 - 2000
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
This incisive and perceptive new book concerns 'Catholic Literature' in Britain since 1850. To many people, Roman Catholicism is culturally foreign and 'other'. And yet some of the most outstanding writers of recent times have been Catholics - often converts, such as Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Muriel...
Disputed Truth
Memoirs Volume 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Hans Küng has been a major influence on post-war Christianity by any reckoning. a peritus for the second Vatican council, he then went on to publish a number of controversial books, including Infallible?, which enraged the Vatican and caused him to lose the ecclesiastical approval of his teaching...
John Theophilus Desaguliers
A Natural Philosopher, Engineer and Freemason in Newtonian England
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
John Theophilus Desaguliers made his mark on the eighteenth century in several diverse ways. He was an assistant to Sir Isaac Newton and later elucidated the difficult concepts of Newtonian physics in private lectures. He was a member of the Royal Society, and was presented with the Society's highest...
Women in Waiting
Prejudice at the Heart of the Church
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2014
The role of women in the Christian Church has been the subject of heated debate in recent years. This July the Church of England's General Synod vote approving the ordination of women bishops announced a new era for women in the church, ushered in after almost 100 years of campaigning. In this powerful...
Do The Gods Wear Capes?
Spirituality, Fantasy, and Superheroes
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Brash, bold, and sometimes brutal, superheroes might seem to epitomize modern pop-culture at its most melodramatic and mindless. But according to Ben Saunders, the appeal of the superhero is fundamentally metaphysical - even spiritual - in nature. In chapter-length analyses of the early comic book...
Sir Walter Raleigh
In Life and Legend
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2011
A new biography of one of the key figures in British history focusing on both his writing and legacy.
by Dr Bernadette Flanagan
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
The Bloomsbury Guide to Pastoral Care provides a framework for reflection on pastoral care practice and identifies frontier learning from the new and challenging practical contexts which are important in pastoral care research today.
In this collection of essays from leading practitioner-scholars,...
The Wandering Vine
Wine, the Romans and Me
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
WINNER OF THE FORTNUM & MASON FOOD AND DRINK AWARDS DEBUT DRINK BOOKOF THE YEAR 2019
WINNER OF THE LOUIS ROEDERER INTERNATIONAL WINE BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2018
'Wine is alive, ageing and changing, but it's also a triumph over death. These grapes should rot. Instead they ferment. What better...