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      Maps of Paradise

      Alessandro Scafi (The Warburg Institute, University of London, UK)

      Where is paradise? It always seems to be elsewhere, inaccessible, outside of time. Either it existed yesterday or it will return tomorrow; it may be just around the corner, on…

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      Legal Documents of the Hellenistic World: Papers from a Seminar Held at the Institute of Classical Studies and the Warburg Institute, University of London

      A collection of papers in which scholars with an interest in legal history of the Ancient World - Egypt, Babylonia, Palestine, the Greek East - were invited to examine the…

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      Art in Renaissance Italy 1350-1500

      Evelyn Welch (Lecturer, Lecturer, Warburg Institute, University of London)

      The Italian Renaissance is a pivotal episode in the history of Western culture. Evelyn Welch presents a picture of this period in the light of new scholarship and by recreating…

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      A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620

      Peter Mack (Director of the Warburg Institute, University of London; Professor of English, University of Warwick)

      This is the first comprehensive history of renaissance rhetoric, an advanced training in the use of language to argue, persuade, and convey information, which was an essential component of renaissance…

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      A History of Renaissance Rhetoric 1380-1620

      Peter Mack (Director of the Warburg Institute, University of London; Professor of English, University of Warwick)

      This is the first comprehensive history of renaissance rhetoric, an advanced training in the use of language to argue, persuade, and convey information, which was an essential component of renaissance…

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      Cherishing and the Good Life of Learning: Ethics, Education, Upbringing

      Dr Ruth Cigman (UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK)

      What is a good human life? A life of duty? Virtue? Happiness? This book weaves a path through traditional answers. We live well, suggests the author, not primarily by pursuing…

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      Cherishing and the Good Life of Learning: Ethics, Education, Upbringing

      Dr Ruth Cigman (UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK)

      What is a good human life? A life of duty? Virtue? Happiness? This book weaves a path through traditional answers. We live well, suggests the author, not primarily by pursuing…

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      Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates: Art Through a Modern American Mind

      C. Oliver O'Donnell (Research Associate, Warburg Institute, University of London)

      Explores the life, career, and intellectual debates of art historian Meyer Schapiro, who worked at the nexus of artistic and intellectual practice and from there confronted some of the twentieth…

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      Meyer Schapiro’s Critical Debates: Art Through a Modern American Mind

      C. Oliver O'Donnell (Research Associate, Warburg Institute, University of London)

      Explores the life, career, and intellectual debates of art historian Meyer Schapiro, who worked at the nexus of artistic and intellectual practice and from there confronted some of the twentieth…

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      Worldwide Variation in Human Growth

      Phyllis B. Eveleth (National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland),James M. Tanner (University of London)

      The health of a population is most accurately reflected in the rate of growth of its children. It is this theme which underlies the analysis and presentation of the compilation…

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      Worldwide Variation in Human Growth

      Phyllis B. Eveleth (National Institute on Aging, Bethesda, Maryland),James M. Tanner (University of London)

      The health of a population is most accurately reflected in the rate of growth of its children. It is this theme which underlies the analysis and presentation of the compilation…

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      Philosophical Sufism: An Introduction to the School of Ibn al-‘Arabi

      Mukhtar H. Ali (Warburg Institute, School of Advanced Studies, University of London)

      This volume is a rigorous analysis of the main doctrines of Ibn al-‘Arabi, which dominated spiritual and intellectual life in the pre-modern and early modern Islamic world for over six…

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      Creating the Conditions for Teaching and Learning: A Handbook of Staff Development Activities

      David Hopkins,Alma Harris (Institute of Education, University of London, UK),Colette Singleton,Ruth Watts

      This handbook focuses on a basic repertoire of teaching and learning strategies and a series of activities designed to help teachers extend and deepen their range of teaching skills.

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      Painting and Experience in Fifteenth-Century Italy: A Primer in the Social History of Pictorial Style

      Michael Baxandall (Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition, Professor of the History of the Classical Tradition, Warburg Institute, University of London)

      An introduction to fifteenth-century Italian painting, and a primer in how to read social history out of the style of pictures. It examines the commercial practice of the early Renaissance…

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      The Copts and the West, 1439-1822: The European Discovery of the Egyptian Church

      Alastair Hamilton (Arcadian Visiting Research Professor, Arcadian Visiting Research Professor, School of Advanced Study attached to the Warburg Institute, University of London)

      This first full study of the subject discusses how 17C Catholic missionaries tried to force the Copts (Egyptian members of the Church of Alexandria) into union with the Church of…

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      Creating the Curriculum

      Dominic Wyse (Institute of Education, University College London, UK),Vivienne Baumfield,David Egan,Louise Hayward,Moira Hulme

      Is there an ‘ideal’ primary school curriculum?

      Who should decide what the curriculum is?

      Should teachers have autonomy over how they teach?

      The curriculum is the heart of what teachers…

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      Creating the Curriculum

      Dominic Wyse (Institute of Education, University College London, UK),Vivienne Baumfield,David Egan,Louise Hayward,Moira Hulme

      Is there an ‘ideal’ primary school curriculum?

      Who should decide what the curriculum is?

      Should teachers have autonomy over how they teach?

      The curriculum is the heart of what teachers…

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