Both sides at full strength. The verdict is yours.The Strongest Case is a series for readers who are tired of being sold a conclusion. Most books about the big questions are written to win. They build one side up, knock down a clumsy version of the other, and hand you the answer the author wanted you to reach before you opened the cover. This series does the opposite. Each volume takes one of the great contested questions and lays out the strongest possible case for each side, side...

The strongest case for Christianity. The strongest case for Buddhism. No thumb on the scale.Christianity and Buddhism are usually pictured as two routes up a single mountain. This book takes them more seriously than that. It argues that they do not simply give different answers to the same question; they begin from different places, ask different questions, and reach for different ends. The honest thing to do is to let each one speak in full.So each tradition makes its own ...

The strongest case for Christianity. The strongest case for Buddhism. No thumb on the scale.Christianity and Buddhism are usually pictured as two routes up a single mountain. This book takes them more seriously than that. It argues that they do not simply give different answers to the same question; they begin from different places, ask different questions, and reach for different ends. The honest thing to do is to let each one speak in full.So each tradition makes its own ...

More than half the world is Christian or Muslim.The two faiths share the God of Abraham, honor many of the same prophets, and then divide on the questions that matter most. Was Jesus God in the flesh, or a prophet of God? Was he crucified, or rescued? Is God one person or three? Did the final word come through a man, or through a book?In the second volume of The Strongest Case, Bennett Kim sets the two faiths side by side and makes the best case fo...

Both sides at full strength. The verdict is yours.The Strongest Case is a series for readers who are tired of being sold a conclusion. Most books about the big questions are written to win. They build one side up, knock down a clumsy version of the other, and hand you the answer the author wanted you to reach before you opened the cover. This series does the opposite. Each volume takes one of the great contested questions and lays out the strongest possible case for each side, side...

Space: it's everywhere, all around, a given. It's abstract and yet not abstract at all, because it governs all human relations, shapes the way we understand our place on the planet, and orients us toward others (for better and for worse). How do theatre scholars understand space and place in performance? What tools do they use to theorize the political work space does on – and beyond – the stage? How can students use these tools to unpack the workings of space and place in the performances...

How do we define movement in performance? Who or what is being moved and how? And which movements are felt, observed, or studied, in theatre?Part of the Theory for Theatre Studies series which introduces core theoretical concepts that underpin the discipline, Movement provides the first overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Exploring areas such as vitality, plasticity, gesture, effort and rhythm, it opens up t...

Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion explores how emotion is communicated in drama, theatre, and contemporary performance and therefore in society. From Aristotle and Shakespeare to Stanislavski, Brecht and Caryl Churchill, theatre reveals and, informs but also warns about the emotions. The term 'emotion' encompasses the emotions, emotional feelings, affect and mood, and the book explores how these concepts are embodied and experienced within theatrical practice and explained in th...

Sound provides a lively and engaging overview of relevant critical theory for students and researchers in theatre and performance studies. Addressing sound across history and through progressive developments in relevant technologies, the volume opens up the study of theatrical production and live performance to understand conceptual and pragmatic concerns about the sonic. By way of developed case studies (including Aristophanes's The Frogs, Shakespeare's The Tempest

What properties of light can be manipulated for aesthetic effect? What role does the perception of the audience play in how stage information is received and processed? How do changes in technology affect methods or approaches to design and practice?This book is designed to introduce key ideas about light and to generate questions and perspectives that will encourage readers to explore light in the theatre more fully in their own critical and creative practices.

Two therapists analyze their own relationship to help untangle the common and frustrating barriers many individuals face on the road to a happy, loving, rewarding partnership.Many of the clients who end up in our respective therapist offices thought they were doing relationships right—avoiding the white picket fence, focusing on careers and experiences over babies and legally-binding documents, choosing someone after they “found themselves” first. However, like clo...

Fall in love all over again with this 6-book collection of second chance romances! Includes 18 stories of rekindled love and irresistible passion!Second Chance: His Unexpected HeirDemanding His Secret Son by Louise FullerReturning to Claim His Heir by Amanda CinelliThe CEO’s Impossible Heir by Heidi RiceSecond Chance: Their Renewed VowsWaking Up in His Royal Bed by Kim Lawr...