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Religious Responses to Modernity
Religious Responses to Modernity

The dawn of the modern age posed challenges to all of the world's religions and since then, religions have countered with challenges to modernity. In Religious Responses to Modernity, seven leading scholars from Germany and Israel explore specific instances of the face-off between religious thought and modernity, in Christianity,...

Women in Social Change: Visions, Struggles and Persisting Concerns (Social Change in Contemporary India)
Women in Social Change: Visions, Struggles and Persisting Concerns (Social Change in Contemporary India)
Women in Social Change: Visions, Struggles and Persisting Concerns captures the evolution of key debates on women’s rights in independent India. Authored by eminent scholars and emerging experts of their time, the articles encapsulate developments which have given the women’s rights movement and women’s studies imaginative...
Publicity and the Early Modern Stage: People Made Public (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700)
Publicity and the Early Modern Stage: People Made Public (Early Modern Cultural Studies 1500–1700)

What did publicity look like before the eighteenth century? What were its uses and effects, and around whom was it organized? The essays in this collection ask these questions of early modern London. Together, they argue that commercial theater was a vital engine in celebrity’s production. The men and women associated...

Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics (Synthese Library, 437)
Empirically Engaged Evolutionary Ethics (Synthese Library, 437)

A growing body of evidence from the sciences suggests that our moral beliefs have an evolutionary basis. To explain how human morality evolved, some philosophers have called for the study of morality to be naturalized, i.e., to explain it in terms of natural causes by looking at its historical and biological origins. The present...

Borges, Buddhism and World Literature: A Morphology of Renunciation Tales (Literatures of the Americas)
Borges, Buddhism and World Literature: A Morphology of Renunciation Tales (Literatures of the Americas)
This book follows the renunciation story in Borges and beyond, arguing for its centrality as a Borgesian compositional trope and as a Borgesian prism for reading a global constellation of texts. The renunciation story at the heart of Buddhism, that of a king who leaves his palace to become an ascetic, fascinated Borges because of its...
Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy
Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy
Knowledge and Ignorance of Self in Platonic Philosophy is the first volume of essays dedicated to the whole question of self-knowledge and its role in Platonic philosophy. It brings together established and rising scholars from every interpretative school of Plato studies, and a variety of texts from across Plato's corpus - including the...
The Social Archaeology of the Levant: From Prehistory to the Present
The Social Archaeology of the Levant: From Prehistory to the Present
The volume offers a comprehensive introduction to the archaeology of the southern Levant (modern day Israel, Palestine and Jordan) from the Paleolithic period to the Islamic era, presenting the past with chronological changes from hunter-gatherers to empires. Written by an international team of scholars in the fields of archaeology, epigraphy,...
Mapping Woody Guthrie (Volume 4) (American Popular Music Series)
Mapping Woody Guthrie (Volume 4) (American Popular Music Series)
“I ain’t got no home, I’m just a-roamin’ round,” Woody Guthrie lamented in one of his most popular songs. A native of Oklahoma, he was still in his teens when he moved to Pampa, Texas, where he experienced the dust storms that would play such a crucial role in forming his identity and shaping his work....
Three Laws of Nature: A Little Book on Thermodynamics
Three Laws of Nature: A Little Book on Thermodynamics
A short and entertaining introduction to thermodynamics that uses real-world examples to explain accessibly an important but subtle scientific theory
 
A romantic description of the second law of thermodynamics is that the universe becomes increasingly disordered. But what does that actually mean? Starting with
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The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction (Routledge Literature Companions)
The Routledge Companion to Twenty-First Century Literary Fiction (Routledge Literature Companions)

The study of contemporary fiction is a fascinating yet challenging one. Contemporary fiction has immediate relevance to popular culture, the news, scholarly organizations, and education – where it is found on the syllabus in schools and universities – but it also offers challenges. What is ‘contemporary’? How...

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches (Routledge Music Companions)
The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches (Routledge Music Companions)

The Routledge Companion to Popular Music Analysis: Expanding Approaches widens the scope of analytical approaches for popular music by incorporating methods developed for analyzing contemporary art music. This study endeavors to create a new analytical paradigm for examining popular music from the perspective of developments...

The Wiley Handbook of Problem-Based Learning (Wiley Handbooks in Education)
The Wiley Handbook of Problem-Based Learning (Wiley Handbooks in Education)

The first book to offer an in-depth exploration of the topic of problem-based learning with contributions from international experts

The Wiley Handbook of Problem-Based Learning is the first book of its kind to present a collection of original essays that integrate the research and practice of...

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