An ethnographic study exploring the formation practices of a British evangelical youth group through the lens of ritual and rites of passage theories....Loe edasi...
Implementation of the Sharia, as the divine, religious law of Islam, has consistently featured as an integral part of the Muslim constitutionalism. The Muslim world has remained preoccupied with interpreting and enforcement of the Sharia principles,...Loe edasi...
Gives a comprehensive view of the credibility of Christianity by studying biblical texts, the person of Jesus Christ and the church community....Loe edasi...
Not a typical overview of Latin American Architecture, the book uncovers a series of lineages, often hidden or overlooked by international critics. This book offers a dynamic, intergenerational view of architectural evolution that contrasts with t...Loe edasi...
Not a typical overview of Latin American Architecture, the book uncovers a series of lineages, often hidden or overlooked by international critics. This book offers a dynamic, intergenerational view of architectural evolution that contrasts with t...Loe edasi...
This book offers a distinctive and compelling examination of artworks as vital historical documents, utilizing a multifaceted lens to delve into the cultural and artistic landscape of a particular era. By analyzing Papal commissions in Rome from the...Loe edasi...
As our country prepares to celebrate a great milestone—250 years since the signing of the Declaration of Independence—many of us will be thinking about the founding of this nation, the astonishing beauty of the land we get to call home, and the unden...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780197905180)
OSNE is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers advance our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing normative theories to questions of how we should act a...Loe edasi...
The phenomenal Danish bestseller: a transporting, inspirational story of home, of endings, rebirth and new beginnings In the darkness of winter on the first day of the year, a woman in Denmark is making a list. She plans to set out and se...Loe edasi...
Since 2020, the Free Speech Union (FSU) has been protecting ordinary people from being cancelled for their lawful beliefs. As a Director of the FSU, Dr Ben Jones has been involved in helping thousands of members, including students, feminists, liber...Loe edasi...
Fashioning London charts the history of clothing in Englands capital through its manufacture, promotion, cultural significance, and the unique styles of dress that, ultimately, challenged the fashion dominance of Paris, Milan and New York....Loe edasi...
Fashioning London charts the history of clothing in Englands capital through its manufacture, promotion, cultural significance, and the unique styles of dress that, ultimately, challenged the fashion dominance of Paris, Milan and New York....Loe edasi...
Interdisciplinary case studies from across the globe spanning from Late Antiquity to the early modern period analyse and interpret the archaeological record to detect and reconstruct human identities and diversity persistence....Loe edasi...
An illuminating overview of the past, present, and future of political activism and engagement of American youth. Explore the past, present, and future of political activism and engagement of American youth in this illuminating encyclop...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198867050)
We all know that inns and taverns occupy a special place in British history and our culture today. A Night at the Inn shows that inns were not just important as social spaces - somewhere to meet friends for a drink - but essential parts of the toolk...Loe edasi...
Bridging cutting-edge neuroscience and ancient meditation, Fit Mind is a practical guide to unlocking mental fitness in everyday life. Our minds rarely savour the present. Instead, they replay painful memories, spiral into needless worrie...Loe edasi...
Critically addressing the experience of being a problem, of dwellingas in the paradigmatic cases of the Black and the Palestinianin a racialized world where your social existence appears as a problem of/for being...Loe edasi...
Critically addressing the experience of being a problem, of dwellingas in the paradigmatic cases of the Black and the Palestinianin a racialized world where your social existence appears as a problem of/for being...Loe edasi...
Offers a study of archaeological heritage in Turkey, and shows the alternative ways that the public relates to the past and its remains....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 11-Jun-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198892755)
Mani was a major religious figure in third-century Mesopotamia. The community he founded, known as Manichaeism, lasted for over a thousand years. Mani wrote many letters and this volume provides a detailed study of the letters as well as a new Engli...Loe edasi...
This book explores how the Cold Wars ideological conflict was played out through competition over human rights values. As the West feared that the Soviet Union might win the Cold war, it shows how they sought to aggressively outf...Loe edasi...
Discover timeless wisdom for modern times with these seven lessons from Homers classic The Odyssey as told by Dr Sam Akbar, Oxford Classicist and Clinical Psychologist....Loe edasi...
An exploration of the 1525 German Peasants War which emphasises the crucial role of media and the printing press in the conflict and its legacy.Why did German agrarian protests, normally very local or regional, all meld together in...Loe edasi...
This book examines how the sense of touch complements the senses of sight and hearing, expanding notions of art and aesthetics to include worldly arts such as medicine, nation building, and translation while re-thinking more traditional arts of lit...Loe edasi...
Jenkins sets about his task with infectious enthusiasm and draws out all the most important themes in Americas 250-year history The Times In the two hundred and fifty years since its foundation, the United States of America has grown to...Loe edasi...
The mapping of the Netherlands East Indies was, first and foremost, meant to serve as an instrument for the government to keep its inhabitants under control and tap its resources. Only after 1900, in studies to alleviate poverty, did the colonial su...Loe edasi...
Max Webers classical notion of enchantment serves in this book to highlight the clash and rewiring of ethical and cosmological codes in European and Indian early modern cultural encounters from the 16th century onward....Loe edasi...
Controversial Monuments: Personifying the Continents from the 18th to the 21st century explores how enduring representations of the continents continue to resonate in today’s visual and cultural imagination....Loe edasi...
This book offers the first systematic examination of the ways in which the notion of love has been introduced, adapted, and engineered as a political discourse for the building and rebuilding of a secular modern nation, appropriating Confucianism, C...Loe edasi...
The seven articles in this edited volume address the complex meanings that visual representations of plants and animals gained in early modern China and Japan. They aim to understand animals and plants in the new contexts of empirical and epistemolo...Loe edasi...
This book argues that the fundamental foundation of Hobbess political philosophy in Leviathan is wise, generous, loving, sincere, just, and valiantin sum, magnanimousstatecraft, whereby sovereigns aim to realize natural justice, manifest as eminent...Loe edasi...
Aesops Heritage explores the evolution of the Aesopian fable in France and the Low Countries (1500-1800), examining the intricate relationship between text, illustration, and education. New light is shed on some well-known and lesser-known f...Loe edasi...
This book introduces and collects for the first time Charles S. Peirce’s writings for Baldwin’s Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology. As one of America’s most significant thinkers, this volume showcases Peirce’s vital role in shaping the le...Loe edasi...
Monuments of Diverse Heritage in Early America: Placemaking and Preservation by Black, Indigenous, and Jewish Peoples explores a more inclusive history of preserving public historic sites....Loe edasi...
The handwritten and printed missionary books of the Spanish viceroyalties of New Spain and Peru were key instruments designed to help study Indigenous languages. This volume considers these missionary books....Loe edasi...
This volume uses ceramic studies across multiple spatial and diachronic scales to provide new insights into the connectivity of ancient Mediterranean communities....Loe edasi...
This volume aims to uncover the diverse approach to plants in the Renaissance and seventeenth century that paved the way for a definition of botany as a fully-fledged discipline....Loe edasi...
Examining the functions of Sixteenth-century Flemish painter Joachim Beuckelaer strange and new subject matter, Goldstein situates his paintings and those of his closest Italian follower, Vincenzo Campi, in the physical space of the dining room....Loe edasi...
Processes of making in early modern Europe were both tacit and embodied.This volume focuses on the body of the maker to ask how processes of making, experimenting, experiencing, and reconstructing illuminate early modern assumptions and understandin...Loe edasi...
This book applies the term cultural security not exclusively to state- or institution-implemented processes, but also considers the indigenous, bottom-up, and inside-out mechanisms of establishing and maintaining communal cultural security of an eth...Loe edasi...
This book explores the adversarial world of feminist activism by Muslim women within highly mediated environments (social media, screenwriting, documentary filmmaking, YouTube), focusing on agency, bodily integrity, and familial obligations....Loe edasi...
The study adds a new focus on female letter writing, the formation of social networks, and the gender dynamics at play in the households and communities of early modern Florence and Tuscany....Loe edasi...
