With biographical undertones, Pierre Verger: From Detached Look to Knowledge through Initiation is an anthropological essay that offers a singular and nuanced reflection on the originality and scope of Pierre Vergers experience as a photographer in...Loe edasi...
Jean Quataerts former students, colleagues, and collaborators come together in Gender in Germany and Beyond to not only celebrate Quataerts shaping of the field of modern German, Womens and transnational history, but also to expand on that scholarsh...Loe edasi...
Through reference to one of its most canonical figures: Bronislaw Malinowski, this volume de-centres anthropology seemingly in a paradox. Considering Malinowski as a disciplinary metonym, this de-centring addresses current debates on world anthropol...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783110775075)
Interdisciplinarity has gained increasing prominence as a general guiding principle for innovative research over the past decades. However, few works have attempted to provide a comprehensive survey of the phenomenon from the specific vantage poin...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009426312)
This book introduces readers to a diverse range of essays on the Hindu/Presidency College, an iconic institution of modern liberal education of Asia. Engaging global debates on empire, knowledge, politics, and the nation, these interdisciplinary set...Loe edasi...
An “engrossing and entertaining…major work of media history” (The New York Times Book Review) that reveals the unlikely story of one of America’s most celebrated but least understood media empires.Founded in 1970,...Loe edasi...
In a precarious world even our most basic assumptions are subject to challenge and change. Confronted by economic, environmental and existential crises, humanity is once again undergoing a profound reappraisal of its place and purpose. This book dra...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009648264)
An innovative exploration of the understudied phenomenon of local history-writing in the early Islamic World. Harry Munt situates local history-writing within its historical contexts, examining how Muslim scholars used this genre to think about thei...Loe edasi...
Peter Van Aelst, Luisa Gehle, Christian Schemer, Jesper Strömbäck, Alon Zoizner
Sari: Elements in Politics and Communication
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009632447)
The established idea that people learn about politics and relevant societal issues via the news media can be put into question. First, people choose to avoid most news. Second, people may form their beliefs based on false and misleading information....Loe edasi...
The established idea that people learn about politics and relevant societal issues via the news media can be put into question. First, people choose to avoid most news. Second, people may form their beliefs based on false and misleading information....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Peter Lang AG, ISBN-13: 9783631941713)
This books innovative approach in the study of the Palamite controversy abandons the traditional ontological front of an (Eastern) defense or (Western) rejection of a real divine essence-energies distinction, assessing the (dis)continuity between...Loe edasi...
A leading group of scholars debate the big picture approach in an engagement with renowned scholar Barry Buzan. An essential book for readers who are interested in the overall trajectory of the international relations discipline and its developme...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009580311)
A leading group of scholars debate the big picture approach in an engagement with renowned scholar Barry Buzan. An essential book for readers who are interested in the overall trajectory of the international relations discipline and its developme...Loe edasi...
Ibn Khaldun’s theory of history, economics, and group cohesion has influenced thinkers far beyond his North African homeland. His holistic approach foreshadowed modern social science, blending direct observation with cultural interpretation. A vit...Loe edasi...
Ibn Khaldun’s theory of dynastic history, economics, and group cohesion has drawn attention far beyond his North African home. He holds a unique place in the Western imagination, cited by figures as diverse as Mark Zuckerberg and President Ronald...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: The British Academy, ISBN-13: 9781836245759)
This book celebrates the 50th anniversary of Skinners seminal essay with chapters that offer constructive critiques and expansions of his ideas, drawing in part on developments in digital humanities, empirical social science, and other areas....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Feb-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Times Books, ISBN-13: 9780008789725)
The best-selling and definitive guide to choosing the right university for you. Discover all the information you need to make crucial decisions on what to study, where to study, and how much it might cost in one plac...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Sean Kingston Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781912385751)
This book offers a portrait of Irish anthropology as a pluralistic and intellectually venturesome scholarly scene. It showcases researchers whose work on themes from migration and memory to social class and religious conflict, connect with contempor...Loe edasi...
Concise and to-the-point, this is the ideal companion text for busy first-year college students guiding them to develop the skills and tools which will enable them to flourish. It equips the reader with crucial information about how the college syst...Loe edasi...
Compact and to-the-point, this book is an easy-to-use guide to everything first-year students really need to know about how college works and how to be successful. What exactly is a credit hour? Whats an elective course and why should...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031978999)
This book offers an overview of existing and developing relationships between humanities and science, considering those that have developed throughout centuries and still persist, as well as novel relationships whose design needs to respond to mod...Loe edasi...
Sari: NIAS Studies in Academic Freedom and Epistemic Diversity
(Ilmumisaeg: 03-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Leuven University Press, ISBN-13: 9789462705159)
Timely critique of the expanding institutional control over academic research and its impact on ethnographic practice. In recent decades, academic research has come under increasing institutional surveillance and control. Doing Ethnograph...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Dec-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Michigan State University Press, ISBN-13: 9781611865523)
Engaged public scholarship is transforming the humanities. Divided into four parts, this provocative volume examines historical and contemporary sites of education and pedagogy, challenges dominant narratives about certain symbolic sites in the Unit...Loe edasi...
The immortality of the soul is one of the oldest tropes in the history of philosophy and one that gained significant momentum in 16th-century Europe. But what came before Pietro Pomponazzi and his contemporaries? Through examination of four neglec...Loe edasi...
This book is a practical guide for faculty and academic leaders who wish to meet this need by intentionally teaching and assessing the skills that employers most value: critical thinking, teamwork, emotional intelligence, cultural competence, ethi...Loe edasi...
This book is a practical guide for faculty and academic leaders who wish to meet this need by intentionally teaching and assessing the skills that employers most value: critical thinking, teamwork, emotional intelligence, cultural competence, ethi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399550222)
Studies the rationales for the institution of Scotland’s supreme civil court in the Renaissance. In 1532, James V instituted the College of Justice, an incorporated group of expert lawyers and administrators who were to exercise supreme Sc...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009510837)
This book examines the city of Patna, in the north Indian region of Bihar, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Once a thriving urban center, Patna had become provincial. Nonetheless, its intellectual and cultural life remained vigo...Loe edasi...
Against the background of debates about a revival of humanist values, this volume seeks to recast the question of the viability of the humanities by analyzing their long-disputed premises in German literature and philosophy. It emphasizes the impo...Loe edasi...
Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book explores the concept of reflexivity in science and technology studies and how it can be applied to address practical and ethical issues in research....Loe edasi...
The first study to explore deeply and intimately the complex and multifaceted nature of creative writing practice, The Scholarship of Creative Writing and Practice offers a new route in scholarly inquiry for creative writing studies, pro...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009590433)
Leibniz, this study argues, is the genuine initiator of German Idealism. His analysis of freedom as spontaneity and the relations he establishes among freedom, justice, and progress underlie Kants ideas of rightful interaction and his critiques of E...Loe edasi...
Studies Victorian esotericism and academic Orientalism as the nineteenth centurys most significant comparative frameworks for understanding global religions, languages, and cultures. Combines broad historical narrative with literary close reading....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009630023)
Studies Victorian esotericism and academic Orientalism as the nineteenth centurys most significant comparative frameworks for understanding global religions, languages, and cultures. Combines broad historical narrative with literary close reading....Loe edasi...
Sari: Topics in Ancient Philosophy / Themen der antiken Philosophie
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Jun-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783112213865)
The volume focusses on ancient Greek dialectic and its impact on later philosophical thought, up to Byzantium. The contributions are written by distinguished scholars in their respective fields of study and shed light on the relation of ancient Gr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009619202)
This Element explores a methodological reflection on the contribution historical scholarship on Aristotle might make to contemporary metaphysics. It aims to make the relevant exegetical questions accessible to contemporary metaphysicians, and the co...Loe edasi...
This Element explores a methodological reflection on the contribution historical scholarship on Aristotle might make to contemporary metaphysics. It aims to make the relevant exegetical questions accessible to contemporary metaphysicians, and the co...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 06-May-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111648521)
The central issue explored in this book is the problem of difference in democratic theory, focusing on the debates between liberalism and realism. Realist theories critique liberal models for ignoring community-specific differences and reducing pl...Loe edasi...
This riveting account is an epic, decade-long reported history of National Public Radio that reveals the unlikely story of one of America’s most celebrated but least understood media empires. Illustrations. An epic, decade-long reported hist...Loe edasi...
This volume focuses on the experiences of refugee scholars in Western academia through first-hand narratives that move between dominant humanitarianism and the academic establishment. It provides an intellectual view of this humanitarian industry...Loe edasi...
Sari: Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter Mouton, ISBN-13: 9783111435909)
The book presents dialogues with fourteen highly influential semioticians: Juri Lotman, Vyacheslav Ivanov, Boris Uspenskij, Umberto Eco, Paolo Fabbri, Myrdene Anderson, Winfried Nöth, Gunther Kress, Roland Posner, Stuart Kauffman, Jesper Hoffmeyer,...Loe edasi...
