Since its first appearance in 1991 The European Reformation has offered a clear integrated & coherent analysis & explanation of how Christianity in Western & Central Europe from Iceland to Hungary from the Baltic to the Pyrenees splintered into separate Protestant & Catholic identities & movements. Catholic Christianity at the end of the Middle Ages was not at all a uniformly decadent or corrupt institution: it showed clear signs of cultural vigour & inventiveness. However it was vulnerable to a particular kind of criticism if ever its claims to mediate the grace of God to believers were challenged. Martin Luther proposed a radically new insight into how God forgives human sin. In this new theological vision rituals did not purify people; priests did not need to be set apart from the ordinary community; the church needed no longer to be an international body. For a critical Reformation moment this idea caught fire in the spiritual political & community life of much of Europe. Lay people seized hold of the instruments of spiritual authority & transformed religion into something simpler more local more rooted in their own community. So were born the many cultures liturgies musical traditions & prayer lives of the countries of Protestant Europe. This new edition embraces & responds to developments in scholarship over the past twenty years. Substantially re-written & updated with both a thorough revision of the text & fully updated references & bibliography it nevertheless preserves the distinctive features of the original including its clearly thought-out integration of theological ideas & political cultures helping to bridge the gap between theological & social history & the use of helpful charts & tables that made the original so easy to use. ...

This second edition presents an economic & political account of the origins of the European Community. On one level the text is an analysis of the forces which brought the EC together on another it is an explanation based on historical analysis of the future relationship between nation-state & the European Union. Combining political with economic analysis & based on extensive primary research in several countries this book offers a challenging interpretation of the history of the western European state & European integration. ...

Noted for its clear & direct writing style the seventh edition of EU Law provides a systematic overview of the European institutions & offers thorough wide ranging coverage of the key substantive law topics including separate chapters on discrimination competition & environmental law. Incisive analysis of the governing themes & principles of EU law is consistently delivered in a concise & easy-to-read format while chapter summaries critical questions & further reading suggestions help to guide the reader through the subject & support further research. This text is also accompanied by a free Online Resource Centre (www.oxfordtextbooks.co.uk/orc/horspool humphreys 7e/) which features a range of resources including updates to the law an interactive map & timeline showing the development of the EU & archive video footage from the European Commission. EU Law is part of the Core Text Series a range of textbooks from OUP which provide focussed & reliable guides for students of law at all levels. Written with authority by leading academics & renowned for their clarity these invaluable texts provide a straightforward analysis of the subject & its challenges. ...

European Union Politics provides a comprehensive & authoritative overview of EU theories institutions policies & issues. The fourth edition has been revised & updated in light of recent changes & events in particular the aftermath of the implementation of the Lisbon Treaty & the economic crisis in the Eurozone. The accessible & wide-ranging nature of the text makes it the ideal starting point for all those wishing to understand the workings of this forever evolving subject. An expert line-up of contributors bring insight & discussion that cannot be found in other books. This fourth edition

Includes:: new chapters on the economic crisis in the EU & multi-level governance maintaining its contemporary appeal. Online Resource Centre The book is accompanied by an Online Resource Centre providing additional resources for both students & lecturers. Student resources: biographies of important figures exam revision guidance flashcard glossary links to OUP journal articles video updates from the editors Lecturer resources: Powerpoint slides; essay seminar & quiz questions; figures from the text

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Eugenia is the morganatic wife of a German prince who is repudiated by her husband in favour of a state marriage. With her artist brother Felix she goes to Boston to live with relatives whom she has never seen before with hopes of making a wealthy marriage. ...

For years Eva Fraser has been practicing her facial workout techniques on private clients with remarkable success. This book



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Rachel & Kirsty are thrilled to be spending the week at Golden Palace
- where real kings & queens once lived! Whilst they are settling
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Evacuation Stations is not only an acutely observed recollection of a child evacuee it is also about a boys growing into self-awareness during the 1940s beginning the journey that would take him from his Catholic working-class roots to a history scholarship at Christs College Cambridge. The centre of his world is his mother Dorrie. With evacuation in 1939 her values & the norms of life he has learned came to be set alongside the other adults who enter his life: the country stationmaster; Auntie Ethel who coolly controls him & his brothers as she does her husband; the piano-playing medical student Gilbert & his Spanish-born mother who gave him a love of music & a lifelong interest in Europe; Vincent Bywater the young Jesuit who teaches him to master a bicycle & map-reading sources of independence & adventure; & Father Delahunty the complete teacher who singlehandedly created a miniature Jesuit grammar school with a rump of evacuee boys. His mother Dorrie sometimes near & sometimes far away remains a constant influence but as he grows up Peter awakens gradually to her experience of the war as something quite different from his own. The end of the war leaves him something of a displaced person seeking a rebirth of pre-war life but aware he was attempting the impossible. ...

The Evacuee is for those who know ALL about the 1939-45 war
- & for those who should know about it September 1939: five year old
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Evan Walters (1893-1951) is perhaps the great hidden secret of Welsh painting in the twentieth century an outstanding artist who awaits discovery beyond Wales. This book presents for the first time a generous selection of colour reproductions of his paintings
- portraits landscapes still lives
- with a biographical essay on the artist. The bulk of the book however is taken up by a host of responses to the paintings by leading artists writers poets & academics including Shani Rhys James Iwan Bala Mary Lloyd Jones Jan Morris Twm Morys Nigel Jenkins Rowan Williams Dannie Abse Peter Stead Prys Morgan Gillian Clarke Tim Davies Mererid Hopwood John Barnie Jon Gower Peter Finch Joe Dunthorne & many others. The result is revealing of both Walters & the respondents & becomes a fascinating commentary on creativity & inspiration. The book is unique in one other respect in that all the royalities are being donated to the Noahs Ark Appeal for the Childrens Hospital of Wales.

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