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Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular Transmedia Memory

Steampunk London: Neo-Victorian Urban Space and Popular...

Author: Dr Helena Esser (Independent Scholar, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350433946
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Tracing the genre through fiction, visual art, film and videogames from the 1980s to the present, this book offers...  Read More >>

Human Trafficking: Examining the Facts

Human Trafficking: Examining the Facts

Author: Laura J. Lederer (Global Centurion, USA)
ISBN: 9798765115305
Format: Paperback
$44.99

An authoritative, fact-based survey examining the true extent and severity of human trafficking around the world,...  Read More >>

Dam Internationalism: Rethinking Power, Expertise and Technology in the Twentieth Century

Dam Internationalism: Rethinking Power, Expertise and...

Author: Vincent Lagendijk (Maastricht University, Netherlands) ,  Frederik Schulze (University of Münster, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350367913
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A global history of dam-building, offering a revisionist narrative of international cooperation, circulation of...  Read More >>

Sugar and the Indian Ocean World: Trade and Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Persian Gulf

Sugar and the Indian Ocean World: Trade and Consumption...

Author: Norifumi Daito (University of Tokyo, Japan)
ISBN: 9781350399242
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Tracing the history of the sugar trade and its consumption in the Persian Gulf during the 18th century, this book...  Read More >>

Scriptural Tales Retold: The Inventiveness of Second Temple Jews

Scriptural Tales Retold: The Inventiveness of Second...

Author: Dr Erich S. Gruen ,  James H Charlesworth (Princeton Theological Seminary USA)
ISBN: 9780567715210
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Erich S. Gruen investigates a remarkable phenomenon in religious and literary history: the freedom with which Jewish...  Read More >>

Lecturing the Victorians: Knowledge-Based Culture and Participatory Citizenship

Lecturing the Victorians: Knowledge-Based Culture and...

Author: Professor Anne B. Rodrick (Wofford College, USA)
ISBN: 9781350288638
Format: Paperback
$59.99

This book explores how knowledge-based culture, delivered primarily through the popular lecture, helped shape Victorian...  Read More >>

Clients, Rivals, and Rogues: Why Great Powers Intervene in Revolutionary Civil Wars

Clients, Rivals, and Rogues: Why Great Powers Intervene...

Author: Erin K. Jenne (Central European University, Vienna) ,  Milos Popovic (Independent scholar)
ISBN: 9781009560542
Format: Paperback
$82.80

A ground-breaking approach to understanding how great powers respond to revolutionary civil wars around the world....  Read More >>

Mura Dehn: Champion of Black Social Dance and the Traditional Jazz Dance Company

Mura Dehn: Champion of Black Social Dance and the Traditional...

Author: Kim Chandler Vaccaro
ISBN: 9781350428072
Format: Paperback
$49.99

This book brings to life the efforts of Mura Dehn to record, analyse and champion the development of jazz dance...  Read More >>

Material Spirituality: A Transcendental Phenomenology of Religion

Material Spirituality: A Transcendental Phenomenology...

Author: Neal DeRoo (The Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350418073
Format: Paperback
$44.99

A new account of religion based in a transcendental phenomenological understanding of spirituality.  Read More >>

Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism: The Irrationality of Oppression

Moral Philosophy and De-Colonialism: The Irrationality...

Author: Dr Shyam Ranganathan (York University, Canada)
ISBN: 9781350464148
Format: Paperback
$36.99

A timely look at the ways in which colonialism has undermined the study of moral philosophy, showing how a rigorous...  Read More >>

The Cambridge Companion to Folk Music

The Cambridge Companion to Folk Music

Author: Ross Cole (University of Leeds)
ISBN: 9781009407588
Format: Paperback
$72.45

An invaluable resource for readers seeking to understand the history and practice of folk music and song across...  Read More >>

Reading Biblical Greek: A Graded Reader for Beginners

Reading Biblical Greek: A Graded Reader for Beginners...

Author: Steffen G. Jenkins (Union School of Theology) ,  Jeremy Duff
ISBN: 9781108948159
Format: Paperback
$59.51

Reading Biblical Greek is aimed at students who are studying New Testament Greek for the first time, or refreshing...  Read More >>

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality in Arabic Literature

Poetic Desire and Literary Thievery: Economies of Intertextuality...

Author: Muhsin J. al-Musawi (Columbia University, New York)
ISBN: 9781009584562
Format: Paperback
$72.45

How do we define plagiarism in literature? In this wide-ranging study, Muhsin J. al-Musawi examines debates surrounding...  Read More >>

Nephthys

Nephthys

Author: Rachel Louise Driscoll
ISBN: 9781529924237
Format: Paperback
$24.99

A FORGOTTEN EGYPTIAN GODDESS. A FAMILY IN DANGER. Victorian Egyptologist Clemmie's dark talents have torn her family...  Read More >>

Judaism and the Philosophy of Religion

Judaism and the Philosophy of Religion

Author: David Shatz (Yeshiva University, New York)
ISBN: 9781009444828
Format: Paperback
$59.51

David Shatz offers a new and fresh approach to the field in a wide-ranging and engaging introduction to the analytic...  Read More >>

Eyes and Ears: Secret Agent Work in Cold War China

Eyes and Ears: Secret Agent Work in Cold War China

Author: Michael Schoenhals (Lunds Universitet, Sweden)
ISBN: 9781009604383
Format: Paperback
$72.45

This expertly translated and contextualized primary-source reader brings together documents collected over decades...  Read More >>

John Dewey's Human Nature and Conduct: A Centennial Handbook

John Dewey's Human Nature and Conduct: A Centennial...

Author: Leonard J. Waks (Qufu Normal University) ,  Andrea R. English (University of Edinburgh)
ISBN: 9781009446396
Format: Paperback
$82.80

This handbook re-introduces one of John Dewey's most important works for a new generation seeking unified perspectives...  Read More >>

Cold War Liberalism: Power in a Time of Emergency

Cold War Liberalism: Power in a Time of Emergency

Author: Daniel Bessner (University of Washington) ,  Michael Brenes (Yale University, Connecticut)
ISBN: 9781009448734
Format: Paperback
$72.45

In the mid-twentieth century, Cold War liberalism exerted a profound influence on the US state, US foreign policy,...  Read More >>

Doing African Philosophy: Beyond Textuality and Individual Authorship

Doing African Philosophy: Beyond Textuality and Individual...

Author: Elvis Imafidon (SOAS University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350464230
Format: Paperback
$36.99

Articulates the importance of oral traditions and symbolism as repositories of philosophical knowledge and reaffirms...  Read More >>

Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession in Eighteenth-Century Britain

Keeping Hold: A Cultural and Social History of Possession...

Author: Kate Smith (University of Birmingham)
ISBN: 9781009617604
Format: Paperback
$72.45

What did it mean to possess something – or someone – in eighteenth-century Britain? This study examines the meaning...  Read More >>

Hvar in the Modern Age: Identity and Change in Southeast Europe

Hvar in the Modern Age: Identity and Change in Southeast...

Author: Florian Bieber (University of Graz, Austria)
ISBN: 9781350202696
Format: Paperback
$49.99

A history of southeast Europe and the Adriatic Sea since 1800 through the lens of the Croatian island Hvar, focusing...  Read More >>

Scottish History in 15 Violent Crimes: Gender, Society and the Law

Scottish History in 15 Violent Crimes: Gender, Society...

Author: Louise Heren (Oxford Brookes University, UK)
ISBN: 9781350437210
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A history of crime, law and gender in Scotland between 1700 and 2000 through 15 cases of murder, rape and incest...  Read More >>

Metatheology: The Foundations of Divinity

Metatheology: The Foundations of Divinity

Author: Professor Oliver Crisp (University of St Andrews, UK)
ISBN: 9780567721778
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Tackles some of the most pressing contemporary systematic-theological problems with a view to providing a coherent...  Read More >>

Theatre, Globalization and the Heteroglobal Method

Theatre, Globalization and the Heteroglobal Method

Author: Glenn Odom
ISBN: 9781835952351
Format: Hardback
$190.95

This volume explores the notion of a heteroglobal approach to understand global circulation of performance. This...  Read More >>

Dazai Shundai: Writings on Political Economy

Dazai Shundai: Writings on Political Economy

Author: Peter Flueckiger (Pomona College, California) ,  Dazai Shundai
ISBN: 9781316649725
Format: Paperback
$72.45

This volume introduces the pathbreaking writings on political economy by the Japanese Confucian scholar Dazai Shundai...  Read More >>

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