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This volume includes a lengthy introduction by the editors and copious illustrations, most of which are published...  Read More >>

The mechanisms by which the Manchu rulers of Qing dynasty China maintained their hegemony over a vast empire have...  Read More >>

Developing a linked series of case studies and examining territories now subsumed within the nation-states of Sri...  Read More >>

This comprehensive and readable history draws on more than sixty years of research and writing about the world's...  Read More >>

Aims to make Shenhui’s surviving writings accessible through carefully annotated English translations, allowing...  Read More >>

A vivid portrait of how divine and human intimacies sustain colonization in the Amazon. On Brazil's Amazonian...  Read More >>

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This deluxe, giftable edition of the New York Times bestseller explores fascinating accounts of near-death experiences...  Read More >>

A leading New Testament scholar offers a substantive evangelical commentary on 1 Corinthians in the award-winning...  Read More >>

Women in the Ukrainian Underground examines women’s mobilization in the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists and...  Read More >>

This book explores the challenges of promise-making in societies characterized by legal and religious pluralism...  Read More >>

This book presents the longest-running Canadian generational study of its kind, tracking nearly 50 years in the...  Read More >>

In the 1930s and 1940s, Caribbean and West African newspapers nurtured anticolonial movements through experimental...  Read More >>

The unity of the organism—an assembly of organs, tissues, cells, and genes working toward a common goal—has long...  Read More >>

Linguist Rishi Rajpopat solves an ancient puzzle, showing that Pāṇini’s Sanskrit grammar is self-sufficient. Centuries...  Read More >>

The Oil Industry in India (1971) examines the issues relating to the oil industry of an oil-importing country. It...  Read More >>

Oil and Development in the Arab Gulf States (1985) brings together in one volume the manifold sources of information...  Read More >>

Oil Companies in the International System (1978) provides an original and wide-ranging examination of the impact...  Read More >>

The Libyan Oil Industry (1980) gives a narrative and analysis of the economic consequences of the discovery and...  Read More >>

The British Economy After Oil (1988) examines the future paths for the British economy as North Sea oil runs out....  Read More >>

Venezuela’s Oil (1978) explains the years of social injustice faced by oil-producing countries that led to the founding...  Read More >>

The Quest for Oil (1970) examines all aspects of the oil industry – what oil is, where it is found, how fuels are...  Read More >>

Soldiers and Oil (1978) examines Nigeria under military rule from 1966 to 1978, a period of political change as...  Read More >>

Chronology of Venezuelan Oil (1969) covers all aspects of the Venezuelan petroleum industry’s historical evolution:...  Read More >>