The Sasanian Empire was one of the most significant empires of late antiquity. As the dominant force in the Middle East, spanning Egypt, India and Mesopotamia, the Sasanian kings from Ardashir I (224CE) ruled an imperial, centrally administrated, mul...More info...
An incisive study of Islamic feminist scholarship and of the role of ordinary Muslim women in shaping Islamic attitudes, which upends many of our preconceptions about the religion....More info...
Recognizing that all medieval and modern attempts to explain the Masnavi have been based on an examination of its teachings, the author shows that those who have tried to find the key to its message in its separate themes have had little success....More info...
An examination of how ancient environments were socio-culturally constructed as responsive living entities that could undermine or even challenge humankinds sense of control....More info...
Exploring a synergy between Foucaults work on freedom and Rancieres work on equality, providing a new and explicitly real-world form of emancipatory political practice....More info...
An original, innovative, and timely study on the cultural history of Cyprus under British rule, offering a new interpretative framework for studying the islands colonial past. The book focuses on the often-overlooked cultural dimensions of the islan...More info...
This book is a study of the experiences and writings of Lillias Hamilton, a nineteenth century English woman physician at the Court and in the harem of Amir Abd al-Rahman, King of Afghanistan....More info...
A vivid and authoritative account of the Middle Easts recent history to the present day, from the BBCs long-serving correspondent in the region....More info...
The modern corporation began its life as a religious institution - first as the nation of Israel and subsequently as the Christian Church. Long before its official recognition in law, the corporation had been an identifiable and unique form...More info...
Describes the methods developed by Othmar Keel for bringing images and their interpretations into a dialogue with texts from the ancient Orient and their interpretation....More info...
Investigates the ways in which rabbinic knowledge was transmitted and compiled in the Talmud Yerushalmi, contributing to late antique scholasticism...More info...
Texts and images from the Book of the Dead were widely used to decorate the walls of tombs during Egypts New Kingdom (c. 1550-1077 BCE). Prior research has tended to focus on either individual tombs, or on the contents of papyrus copies of the Book...More info...
An exploration of the Hellenistic Peloponnese from a range of new perspectives, challenging and supplementing previous views and shedding new light on interstate relations, contemporary politics and modes of representation. This...More info...
An archaeometric study of iron ore and slag from Przeworsk Culture, employing the most up-to-date archaeological and statistical approaches....More info...
This book traces the events and trends that defined modern humanitarianism, from the eighteenth century up to the present day. It describes the origins of international humanitarian action, the development of major humanitarian organizations and mov...More info...
This book examines the intellectual trajectories of international mid-career scholars working on the Second World War and the Holocaust in France across a wide range of disciplines, including history, literature, and cultural studies. It scrutinises...More info...
This volume combines Biblical and systematic perspectives on the love of God: the Biblical imagery of Gods passionate love leads to fresh understandings in systematic theology, and the debate on the nature of Gods love is continued by new insights....More info...
From Virginia Woolf to bell hooks, women have written, thought about and worked with film, images, and the visual in philosophical ways since the inception of cinema, and yet their names are generally missing from the discipline of film philosophy...More info...
This anthology brings together, for the first time, writings by women philosophers, writers and thinkers on philosophical aspects of film and visual culture. The collection of texts in this book demonstrates a century of women writing about the visu...More info...
Brilliant, powerful, fascinating ROBERT MACFARLANE, author of Is a River Alive? Deeply thoughtful ROBIN WALL KIMMERER, author of Braiding Sweetgrass Captivating and exhilarating TRISTAN GOOLEY, author of How to Read a Tree A tree is...More info...
This book asks how democratic values and civic culture can take shape without equal rights, and even without a state. Focusing on the Kurdish experience across Iraq, Iran, Syria, and Turkey, it draws on fieldwork, survey research, and historical ana...More info...
This is the first book to provide a dictionary of terms for design and design activism drawn from outside the Western tradition. It brings together designers, thinkers and activists to provide short and accessible introductions to concepts from indi...More info...
Drawing on philosophy, decolonial thought, and design theory, this book approaches design as a practice deeply implicated in modernitys extractive, colonial, and anthropocentric foundations...More info...
Insecurity and Contemporary Mexican Religiosity investigates the intersection between insecurity and non-mainstream faiths in contemporary Mexico. It asks why people turn to contentious faiths during extremities. This detailed study brings to ligh...More info...
This book provides students with a brief, accessible introduction to new scholarship in US family history, from the colonial era to the present. Designed for classroom use, chapters address issues of religion, politics, and the shift...More info...
This book addresses issues of religion, politics, and the shifting relationship between the family and the state. It offers a nuanced look at how scholars are engaging with family history in the first quarter of the twenty-first century: the sources...More info...
This book demonstrates how Afrocentric approaches can contribute to engendering peace, security, development and effective natural resource governance in the DRC.It will be an important read for researchers of African peace, conflict, and security;...More info...
Institutions shape the lives of individuals and coordinate existence, influencing the structures of everyday life. Institutions are morally relevant because they influence peoples life worlds and moral aspects of human existence and coexistence in s...More info...
Bernd Kappes, known for his work in Theological Zoology, challenges traditional religious views of human superiority and dominion. Urging a shift towards more ethical and sustainable practices in animal treatment, he provides a theological and e...More info...
Beyond mere recitation, the one prayer that Jesus taught -- the Lords Prayer is a comprehensive spirituality for healing humanitys deepest wounds and transforming every dimension of existence: personal, relational, social, and structural. ...More info...
Brad H. Koldehoff, Adrian Burke, Henry T. Wright, Christopher J. Ellis, Melissa I. Pardi, Christopher C. Widga, Ryan M. Parish, Scott Eckford, D. Bryan Deller, William Fox...
Series: Peopling of the Americas Publications
(Pub. Date: 24-Jun-2026, Hardback, Publisher: Texas A & M University Press, ISBN-13: 9781648432170)
Based on decades of research centered on the earliest known fluted-point producing groups in the North American midcontinent, Early Paleoindians in the Upper Midcontinent of North America: Lithic Procurement, Settlement Mobility, and Social Interact...More info...
Feminist Antisemitism: An Intellectual History establishes the antipathy towards Jews that existed as the movement began and tracks how changes in feminist in-groups and theories manifested in new, feminist-inflected forms of antisemitic th...More info...
Feminist Antisemitism: An Intellectual History establishes the antipathy towards Jews that existed as the movement began and tracks how changes in feminist in-groups and theories manifested in new, feminist-inflected forms of antisemitic thinking....More info...
Exploring the ongoing histories of human-centered ecosystem management in North America, this book tracks the diverse ways in which human-environmental relations have been presented across different forms of media and highlights the potential in I...More info...
This book unpacks the distinctive dynamics of public diplomacy between Saudi Arabia and the United States in the post9/11 period by examining the King Abdullah Scholarship Programme (KASP), launched in 2005, which has largely escaped academic scru...More info...
The Gallipoli campaign of the First World War seems to have been exhaustively studied by shelves of books and thousands of articles. This edited volume challenges this perception of completion, revealing extensive uncovered ground, misunderstandings...More info...
This edited collection presents an interdisciplinary assessment of the impact of migration on knowledge transmission and entrepreneurial innovation. Focusing on Italian...More info...
This book offers the first comprehensive and systematic study of Charles Peirces theory of abduction, tracing its evolution across five distinct periods from 1864 to 191...More info...
This book explains, in clear, non-technical terms, using three Star Trek TOS episodes (in which malevolent, destructive machines are thwarted) as a springboard, the existential threat posed to humanity from future malevolent machines. Then book prese...More info...
This book offers a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the tontine, an innovative financial instrument conceived and implemented in various settings throughout Georgian and early Victorian Britain. The book draws on metic...More info...
Platonism and Kabbalah share a prominent characteristic: the formulation of epistemological and ontological concepts in erotic terms. Plato envisions eros as creating and sustaining the permeability of the boundaries between the earthly and the divi...More info...
Present to the Mind presents acquaintance as an indispensable mode of access to the world-not only in knowing, but in feeling, valuing, and judging. Duncans account challenges other views of knowledge and offers a compelling framework for understan...More info...
This book considers how teaching in the Gospels and the practice of prayer and fasting can be interpreted in an African context. It highlights African understandings of key aspects of Christology, analysing Jesuss identity and embodiment of praye...More info...
