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POWELL, B., The Unity of Worlds and of Nature. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 584p. Paperback. Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Science and Religion. Baden Powell (1796–1860) was a mathematician who held the Savilian Chair of Geometry at Oxford, and was also a priest in the Church of England. He was a defender of the claims of new scientific discoveries in the face of Christian orthodoxy well before Darwin published the theory of evolution, and drew a clear distinction in his thinking and writing between moral and physical phenomena, as being independent of each other and the fields of completely different study. Darwin himself wrote, in the 'Historical Sketch' at the beginning of the third edition of On the Origin of Species, 'The 'Philosophy of Creation' has been treated in a masterly manner by the Rev. Baden Powell, in his Essays on the Unity of Worlds, 1855. Nothing can be more striking than the manner in which he shows that the introduction of new species is 'a regular, not a casual phenomenon'.' (Publisher's information). € 50.97 (New) (MD)

POWELL, C. T., Kant's Theory of Self-Consciousness. Clarendon Press, 1990. 280p. Hardback. € 200.42 (New) (MD)

POWELL, J. P., Cicero the Advocate. Oxford University Press, 2004. 464p. Hardback. Oxford has done an admirable job in giving us an attractive, error-free volume, one that should certainly grace the bookshelves of all those interested in Ciceronian oratory. James M May, The Classical Review April 2006 (Publisher's information). € 373.66 (New) (MD)

POWELL, J. P., Cicero the Advocate. Oxford University Press, 2006. 464p. Paperback. € 120.93 (New) (MD)

POWELL, J., Cicero the Philosopher. Twelve Papers. Clarendon Press, 1999. 384p. Paperback. € 80.17 (New) (MD)

POWELL, J., The New Sappho. Oxford University Press, 2007. 80p. Hardback. € 135.88 (New) (MD)

POWELL, J., The Poetry of Sappho. Oxford University Press, 2007. 80p. Paperback. € 34.63 (New) (MD)

POWELL, J., The Poetry of Sappho. An Expanded Edition, Featuring Newly Discovered Poems. Oxford University Press, 2019. 88p. Paperback. The Sapphic impression of emotion poured out in unpremeditated speech is the product of sophisticated art. Such poetry confronts the translator with a formidable challenge.... Jim Powell is fully aware of the dangers, and speaks of the 'fluidity, ease, grace, and melodic variety' of Sappho's measures. Powell has tried to reproduce the effect. The resulting book is a brilliant success. Powell has shored her fragments against [Sappho's] ruins to give us a garland in which the flowers, though tattered, have not faded. Bernard Knox, The New Republic (Publisher's information). € 19.69 (New) (TO)

POWELL, J., The Poetry of Sappho. An Expanded Edition, Featuring Newly Discovered Poems. Oxford University Press, 2019. 90p. Hardback. The Sapphic impression of emotion poured out in unpremeditated speech is the product of sophisticated art. Such poetry confronts the translator with a formidable challenge.... Jim Powell is fully aware of the dangers, and speaks of the 'fluidity, ease, grace, and melodic variety' of Sappho's measures. Powell has tried to reproduce the effect. The resulting book is a brilliant success. Powell has shored her fragments against [Sappho's] ruins to give us a garland in which the flowers, though tattered, have not faded. Bernard Knox, The New Republic (Publisher's information). € 81.53 (New) (MD)

POWELL, M. A., Methods for Matthew: Volume 0, Part 0. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 278p. Paperback. Series: Methods in Biblical Interpretation. Today's biblical scholars study the Gospel of Matthew with a wide variety of methods that yield diverse and exciting insights. Methods for Matthew offers a primer on six exegetical approaches that have proved to be especially useful and popular. In each case, a prominent scholar describes the principles and procedures of a particular approach and then demonstrates how that approach works in practice, applying it to a well-known text from Matthew's Gospel. As an added bonus, each of the chosen texts is treated to three different interpretations so that the reader can easily compare the results obtained through one approach to those obtained through other approaches. The reader will learn a great deal about two stories from Matthew ('the healing of a centurion's servant' and 'the resurrection of Jesus') and the reader will also learn enough about each of these six approaches to understand their function in biblical studies today. (Publisher's information). € 33.98 (New) (MD)