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Preaching Pious Rulership in Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Jawzi's Political Thought

Preaching Pious Rulership in Medieval Islam: Ibn al-Jawzi's...
Author: Han Hsien Liew (Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies, Arizona State University) ISBN: 9781399511292 Format: Hardback	$219.00
Studies the role of preaching and emotions in medieval Islamic political thought. Read More >>

Cultural Brokerage in Premodern Islamic Societies

Cultural Brokerage in Premodern Islamic Societies
Author: Uriel Simonsohn (Associate Professor, University of Haifa) , Luke Yarbrough (Associate Professor in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA) ISBN: 9781399528689 Format: Hardback	$288.00
Presents the first comprehensive and systematic account of the crucial role cultural brokers played in shaping Islamic... Read More >>

Astrology and History in Early Islam: Aligning Heaven and Earth

Astrology and History in Early Islam: Aligning Heaven...
Author: Antoine Borrut (Associate Professor of History, University of Maryland) ISBN: 9781399558259 Format: Hardback	$265.00
The first study to highlight the links between astrology and history in early Islam. Read More >>

Meet the Presidents: USA 250th Birthday Special Edition: The Fun, Educational Guide to the United States Presidents' Lives

Meet the Presidents: USA 250th Birthday Special Edition:...
Author: Walter Eckman ISBN: 9780764371578 Format: Hardback	$65.97
An entertaining and fact-filled guide to getting to know the presidents of the United States Read More >>

Searching for Sisters: A Guide to Researching Catholic Nuns in the United States

Searching for Sisters: A Guide to Researching Catholic...
Author: Sunny Jane Morton ISBN: 9780806322117 Format: Paperback	$79.07
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Wild Women for Good: Stories of Conservation in Texas

Wild Women for Good: Stories of Conservation in Texas...
Author: Jennifer L. Bristol ISBN: 9781648432606 Format: Hardback	$92.99
Women have been shaping the conservation movement in Texas since the nineteenth century, though their stories are... Read More >>

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death

Medieval Holy Women and the Desire for Death
Author: Jessica Barr ISBN: 9780268210946 Format: Hardback	$150.00
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They Kill People: Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution, and America's Obsession with Guns and Outlaws

They Kill People: Bonnie and Clyde, a Hollywood Revolution,...
Author: Kirk Ellis ISBN: 9780826369376 Format: Hardback	$69.99
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War Torn: Mending of a Family

War Torn: Mending of a Family
Author: Daniel T Chapman ISBN: 9798893061833 Format: Paperback	$65.97
The Great Depression and WWII were difficult and challenging years for so many. Mix that drama with trauma of a... Read More >>

The Antic Root: Shakespeare, Autopoiesis, and the Creation of the World

The Antic Root: Shakespeare, Autopoiesis, and the Creation...
Author: Christopher Pye ISBN: 9781531513849 Format: Paperback	$73.99
Shows how Shakespeare reveals the world we inhabit neither as objectively nor subjectively given but as always bringing... Read More >>

Blood Vessels: Vigilante Violence in the American West

Blood Vessels: Vigilante Violence in the American West...
Author: Patrick T. Hoehne ISBN: 9780806196107 Format: Hardback	$104.00
Blood Vessels: Vigilante Violence in the American West reveals the web of human movement, exchange, and collision... Read More >>

Sir Edward Grey’s Liberal Critics: 1905–1914

Sir Edward Grey’s Liberal Critics: 1905–1914
Author: David Yates ISBN: 9781037104091 Format: Paperback	$33.61
Sir Edward Grey was the Liberal Foreign Secretary [1905-16], the longest continuous post holder in British history... Read More >>

The Language of the Conquerors: When Amerindians Spoke Latin in Sixteenth-Century Mexico

The Language of the Conquerors: When Amerindians Spoke...
Author: Serge Gruzinski (Centre for Research on Mexico, Central America and the Andes in Paris) , Nancy Erber ISBN: 9781509565238 Format: Paperback	$41.95
One of the most decisive and irreversible consequences of the Spanish conquest of the Americas was the alphabetic... Read More >>

Talking to the Rain: Jornada Mogollon and the Rio Grande Tradition

Talking to the Rain: Jornada Mogollon and the Rio Grande...
Author: Polly Schaafsma , François Gohier ISBN: 9781647692308 Format: Hardback	$208.00
""An investigation into the rock imagery of the Jornada Mogollon of the Lower Chihuahuan Desert, expertly described... Read More >>

Roman Maritime Villas: Rediscovering Architecture in Southern Latium and its Wider Context

Roman Maritime Villas: Rediscovering Architecture in...
Author: Roberta Ferritto ISBN: 9798888572153 Format: Hardback	$190.00
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Before the Qur’an: Material Sources at the Advent of Muslim Scripture

Before the Qur’an: Material Sources at the Advent of...
Author: Suleyman Dost (Assistant Professor of Late Antiquity and Early Islam, University of Toronto-Scarborough) ISBN: 9781399528641 Format: Hardback	$219.00
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A Cultural Biography of William Johnstone: The Making of British Modern Art

A Cultural Biography of William Johnstone: The Making...
Author: Beth Williamson ISBN: 9781399540513 Format: Hardback	$230.00
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Nuclear Family: A Memoir of the Atomic West

Nuclear Family: A Memoir of the Atomic West
Author: Ty Bannerman ISBN: 9780826369024 Format: Paperback	$46.99
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Immigration: How the Past Shapes the Present

Immigration: How the Past Shapes the Present
Author: Nancy Foner (Hunter College; Graduate Center of the City University of New York) ISBN: 9781509557929 Format: Paperback	$32.95
American history is, in part, a history of immigration – of waves of people from other lands making their way to... Read More >>

Drug Assemblages - Policies, Counternarratives, and Local Experiences

Drug Assemblages - Policies, Counternarratives, and...
Author: Philipp Wolfesberger ISBN: 9783837681277 Format: Paperback	$99.95
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Heritage, Connection, Writing: Conversations with North American Lithuanian Diaspora Writers

Heritage, Connection, Writing: Conversations with North...
Author: Laima Vince ISBN: 9781803746227 Format: Paperback	$142.31
My previous book in the Exile Studies series, Vanished Lands: Memory and Postmemory in North American Lithuanian... Read More >>

Pan Inspector: A Chess Biography of Yuri Sakharov

Pan Inspector: A Chess Biography of Yuri Sakharov
Author: Mykola Fuzik , Vladimir Sergeev ISBN: 9781916839038 Format: Paperback	$92.40
Yuri Sakharov (1922-1981) was a leading Ukrainian chess player and coach from the 1950s until his death, ranked... Read More >>

Dawn of an Empire: St. Augustine and the Spanish Founding of America

Dawn of an Empire: St. Augustine and the Spanish Founding...
Author: Irene Loftin ISBN: 9781971207223 Format: Hardback	$121.41
Before Plymouth. There was St. Augustine. Dawn of an Empire restores St. Augustine to its rightful place at... Read More >>

Is This Working?: The Jobs We Do, Told by the People Who Do Them

Is This Working?: The Jobs We Do, Told by the People...
Author: Charlie Colenutt ISBN: 9781035015115 Format: Paperback	$24.99
From the sex worker to the lorry driver, the hedge fund manager to the veteran-turned-teacher, this is the story... Read More >>

Time Travel Twins: The Victorian Revolution

Time Travel Twins: The Victorian Revolution
Author: Josh Lacey , Garry Parsons ISBN: 9781839137037 Format: Paperback	$18.99
Join twins Scarlett and Thomas as they use Grandad’s time machine to travel back to Victorian London! Scarlett meets... Read More >>

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