Heather Bailey

Gunung Halimun Ethnobotanical Expedition

Final Report

Gunung Halimun Ethnobotanical Expedition, West Java, March-July 1995

Rudyard Kipling

Original and unabridged text of Rudyard Kipling's timeless classic. With refreshingly new illustrations. If you have ever asked, "How did the camel get his hump?" If you have ever wondered, "How did the leopard get his spots?" Then you are a very special kind of curious person who will love the answers in these books. In this Just So Story we find out how the rhino got his skin. Hint he stole some cakes!

How the Rhinoceros Got His Skin

Percy Fitzpatrick

E. Caldwell

Dwayne Bailey

Jock of the Bushveld is a story set in the rough Bushveld of South Africa's gold mining era. Jock is the faithful dog and companion of a transport rider. Through their adventures we catch a glimpse of those heady gold rush days. Jock, the runt of the litter turns out to be a faithful companion to the end. This is the original and unabridged version of this South African favourite lovingly restored from the 1907 edition.

Jock of the Bushveld

Ernest Renan was one of the most renowned European intellectuals of the second half of the nineteenth century. Yet, the impact of his most popular work, Life of Jesus, has been underestimated when not altogether ignored. While commonplace now, the idea that Jesus was merely human was at one time a novelty, with significant socio-political, cultural, and religious implications. A case study in the Russian encounter with modernity, Orthodoxy, Modernity, and Authenticity: The Reception of Ernest Renan’s “Life of Jesus” in Russia demonstrates that Renan’s book has had long-lasting and broad appeal in Russia because it presents an alternative to a strictly materialist worldview on the one hand, and an Orthodox worldview on the other. Renan offered his readers the possibility to accept the tenets of modernity while still retaining both an admiration for the importance of religion in history and a sense of religious feeling or even belief in a higher religious ideal. Assessments of Renan’s alternative belief system, whether positive, negative, or mixed, were often simultaneously evaluations of the moral, socio-political, and spiritual condition of European society in general and Russian society in particular. The interpretive history of Renan’s Life of Jesus in Russia reveals a persistent disillusionment with a strictly materialist interpretation of history and of life.

The Reception of Ernest Renan's "Life of Jesus" in Russia

Orthodoxy, Modernity, and Authenticity

Heather Bailey

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