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The Geography of Disease: How Location and Culture Influence Health in Today's World

The Geography of Disease: How Location and Culture Influence...

Author: Jing Luo (Bloomsburg University, USA)
ISBN: 9781440875595
Format: Hardback
$120.00

Discover the field of health geography, which seeks to better understand the causes, spread, and mitigation of disease...  Read More >>

Children and Freedom in the Cape Colony: Age, Labour and Apprenticeship in the Post-Emancipation British Empire

Children and Freedom in the Cape Colony: Age, Labour...

Author: Rebecca Swartz (University of the Free State, South Africa) ,  Victoria Haskins (University of Newcastle Australia)
ISBN: 9781350341371
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A study of children in the Cape colony during the period of slave emancipation to explore changing ideas of childhood...  Read More >>

Harmony and Reconciliation in Christianity and Daoism: Alleviating Identity-Based Suffering

Harmony and Reconciliation in Christianity and Daoism:...

Author: Dr. Michael M. Tophoff (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
ISBN: 9781978716926
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This study presents an analytical investigation of the Christian concept of reconciliation and the Daoist concept...  Read More >>

The Problem of China in the British Foreign Office Mind: Understanding a Rising Superpower, 1922-1985

The Problem of China in the British Foreign Office Mind:...

Author: Oliver Yule-Smith (Kings College London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350556027
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book analyses how British China officials grappled with China’s changing position in international affairs...  Read More >>

Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in Britain

Magic Rays of Light: The Early Years of Television in...

Author: John Wyver (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781839028199
Format: Hardback
$190.00

On the evening of 26 January 1926, inventor John Logie Baird held a public demonstration in his workspace on London’s...  Read More >>

Poland and the Making of Transnational Social Science: Eastern Europe, the United States, and the Wilsonian Moment

Poland and the Making of Transnational Social Science:...

Author: Olga Linkiewicz ,  David Brydan (King's College London UK)
ISBN: 9781350463998
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book explores the intertwined histories of internationalism and nationalism in the interwar period to examine...  Read More >>

The Fundamental Tendency of Our Time: On the Technological Destiny of the West

The Fundamental Tendency of Our Time: On the Technological...

Author: Emanuele Severino ,  Antimo Lucarelli (School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350468368
Format: Hardback
$130.00

The first English translation of Emanuele Severino’s crucial reflection on modern technology and science, fundamental...  Read More >>

The Theatre of the Oppressed in Practice Today: An Introduction to the Work and Principles of Augusto Boal

The Theatre of the Oppressed in Practice Today: An Introduction...

Author: Ali Campbell (Queen Mary, University of London, UK) ,  Dr. Caoimhe McAvinchey (Queen Mary University of London, London)
ISBN: 9781350445024
Format: Hardback
$130.00

This new edition illumines the context and key principles of Boal's work through a set of contemporary international...  Read More >>

Indigenous Judaism in Colonial Algeria: French-colonial Policy, Rabbis and Halachic Writing

Indigenous Judaism in Colonial Algeria: French-colonial...

Author: Vered Sakal (Christopher Newport University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350534223
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A survey of indigenous Judaism in colonial Algeria from a Halachic perspective, looking at the transition from Muslim-Ottoman...  Read More >>

Voices of War: The Russian Experience, The Napoleonic Wars to the Twenty-First Century

Voices of War: The Russian Experience, The Napoleonic...

Author: Donna Tussing Orwin
ISBN: 9798881800765
Format: Hardback
$190.00

The two volumes of The Russian Experience of War demonstrate the critical significance of the war myth to Russia...  Read More >>

Design and Archaeology: The Social Imaginary in Iron Age and Early Roman Europe

Design and Archaeology: The Social Imaginary in Iron...

Author: Christina Unwin (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350443846
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Explores how past and present-day creative practitioners have expressed the concept of sociality through the practices...  Read More >>

Reaching the Religiously Disaffiliated: Comparative Strategies to Engage the Nones

Reaching the Religiously Disaffiliated: Comparative...

Author: Brian H. Smith
ISBN: 9781666953572
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The book analyzes effective ways to spiritually engage the religiously unaffiliated (Nones) who are not interested...  Read More >>

Migration and Displacement in Africa: Social Exclusion, Intergenerational Healing, and Communal Restoration

Migration and Displacement in Africa: Social Exclusion,...

Author: Abdul Karim Bangura (American University) ,  Cecy Edijala Balogun
ISBN: 9781666970944
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This collection examines various types of displacement, reasons for migration, and rebuilding after forced migration...  Read More >>

Backtime Religion in the Danish West Indies: Africana Heritage Religion Beyond Obeah

Backtime Religion in the Danish West Indies: Africana...

Author: Gregory Carter (Illinois State University)
ISBN: 9781666963229
Format: Hardback
$180.00

This book examines African heritage, religion, and culture created in the Danish West Indies between the seventeenth...  Read More >>

Missional Theology in Context: Globality, Empire, and a Wounded World

Missional Theology in Context: Globality, Empire, and...

Author: Buhle Mpofu ,  Nicole Ashwood
ISBN: 9781666975352
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book discusses Missional Theology from trans-disciplinary and diverse angles as scholars unpack ‘missional...  Read More >>

Practical Heritage Management: A Reasonable and Good Faith Effort

Practical Heritage Management: A Reasonable and Good...

Author: Scott F. Anfinson (Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office (retired))
ISBN: 9781538179314
Format: Hardback
$220.00

This comprehensive updated edition of Practical Heritage Management addresses updates in laws and new practices...  Read More >>

The 1837 Debate on Roman Catholicism Between Bishop John Purcell and Alexander Campbell: The World Is Large Enough for Us All

The 1837 Debate on Roman Catholicism Between Bishop...

Author: Dr. Herbie Miller
ISBN: 9781978715967
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This book explores the 1837 debate between the Catholic Bishop John Purcell and the Protestant minister Alexander...  Read More >>

Constructing Nietzsche's Politics: Ethical Libertarianism

Constructing Nietzsche's Politics: Ethical Libertarianism...

Author: Andrew Duclos ,  Ashley Woodward (Dundee University, UK)
ISBN: 9781666938067
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A timely new interpretation of Nietzsche’s politics which resolves the tensions in existing views by defining his...  Read More >>

Hindu, Muslim, & the Dynamics of Identity in South Asia: Belonging and Conflict from the Past to the Present

Hindu, Muslim, & the Dynamics of Identity in South Asia:...

Author: Peter Gottschalk (Wesleyan University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350569157
Format: Hardback
$170.00

This volume highlights the historical complexities bound up in Hindu-Muslim relations in South Asia and challenges...  Read More >>

International Cooperation in the Post-Soviet Space: Former Soviet Republics and Theories of International Politics

International Cooperation in the Post-Soviet Space:...

Author: Dr. or Prof. Farhad Huseynov (Baku State University)
ISBN: 9781666935516
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Examines relations between the post-Soviet countries in order to detect opportunities and limitations of cooperation...  Read More >>

The Trinitarian Philosophy Of Jules Monchanin: The French Years (1922-1939)

The Trinitarian Philosophy Of Jules Monchanin: The French...

Author: Yann Vagneux (Paris Foreign Missions, India) ,  Roderick Campbell Guion (Carmelite Institute of Britain and Ireland, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350518834
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The definitive work on the mystical theology of Jules Monchanin, a luminary of early 20th century religious thought...  Read More >>

The Trinitarian Mysticism of Jules Monchanin: The Indian Years (1939-1957)

The Trinitarian Mysticism of Jules Monchanin: The Indian...

Author: Yann Vagneux (Paris Foreign Missions, India) ,  Roderick Campbell Guion (Carmelite Institute of Britain and Ireland, Ireland)
ISBN: 9781350519442
Format: Hardback
$170.00

The definitive work on the pioneering philosophical encounter between Christian and Hindu mysticism in the work...  Read More >>

The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René Girard, Texts and the World

The Revelatory Power of Mimetic Theory: Reading René...

Author: Dr Benoît Chantre (Mimetic Research Association, France) ,  Professor Paul Dumouchel (University of Québec-Montréal, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350532878
Format: Hardback
$170.00

A one-of-a-kind overview of the lasting impact of mimetic theory and the extent of its interdisciplinary applications,...  Read More >>

Missionaries to China: A Historical Dictionary

Missionaries to China: A Historical Dictionary

Author: Leopold Leeb
ISBN: 9781611463163
Format: Hardback
$260.00

Contains short biographies of over 1000 Christian missionaries, mainly from Europe and the USA, who served in China...  Read More >>

Playing God with Emerging Technologies: How to Avoid the Traps of Techno-Optimism and Techno-Pessimism

Playing God with Emerging Technologies: How to Avoid...

Author: Moti Mizrahi
ISBN: 9781666964523
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Provides a conceptual framework for engaging in debates over the morality of new or emerging technologies in a critical...  Read More >>

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