Creating God

Creating GodThis book uses history and archaeology to examine the origins of major monotheistic religions: describing the contexts of times, places and societies where Mormonism, Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Zoroastrianism began. It strips away myths and later traditions to provide a secular account of how these faiths first took root.

Yarrow draws on concepts from sociology

The book deals with fashion as a form of visual culture embodied through signs

Synthesizing the science of nutrition

A distinctive study

Doctor Who is the longest running science fiction television series in the world and is regularly watched by millions of people across the globe

Making the case for a pragmatist approach to social inquiry and knowledge production

Many examples focus on the United States

Charts the story of the people of the Scottish Highlands from medieval times to the great crofter's rebellion in the 1880s

‘Responsible Citizens’ reveals how rising emphasis on the individual has gone hand in hand with an increase in subtle authoritarianism – particularly within public services – such that a kind of ‘governance through responsibility’ is today being enforced upon the population

This book draws on a group of specialists to examine this question in relation to a new model of state-building intervention in the Pacific ‘arc of crisis’

Kerry Brown re-examines the UK–China relationship and considers how the recent seismic geopolitical events may have reframed and recast the UK’s future engagement with China and how the UK needs to actively engage with China and understand its ambitions and values

gaze and more  – have in the practice of video arts