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The Qur'an and Late Antiquity: A Shared Heritage (Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity)

Oxford University Press, 2019

In this book, Angelika Neuwirth provides a new approach to understanding the founding text of Islam. Typical exegesis of the Qur'an treats the text teleologically, as a fait accompli finished text, or as a replica or summary of the Bible in Arabic. Instead Neuwirth approaches the Qur'an as the product of a specific...

Plato's Republic: A Ladybird Expert Book (The Ladybird Expert Series)

Michael Joseph, 2019

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES

- Why do humans form societies and what is needed for them to thrive?
- How can women's potential be actualized?
- How can we protect ourselves from demagogues and tyrants?

IMMERSE yourself in the strikingly relevant questions of...

An Anthropology of Marxism

The University of North Carolina Press, 2019

An Anthropology of Marxism offers Cedric Robinson's analysis of the history of communalism that has been claimed by Marx and Marxists. Suggesting that the socialist ideal was embedded both in Western and non-Western civilizations and cultures long before the opening of the modern era and did not begin with or depend on the...

The United States and Western Europe since 1945: From "Empire" by Invitation to Transatlantic Drift

Oxford University Press, 2003

`Offers a powerful argument, presents a sophisticated narrative, and is a magisterial, and, indeed, the best synthesis available of transatlantic relations since 1945 - a massive achievement.' Andreas W. Daum, Political Science Quarterly

Based on new and existing research by a world-class scholar, this is the first book in 20...

Fifty Early Medieval Things: Materials of Culture in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

Cornell University Library, 2019

Fifty Early Medieval Things introduces readers to the material culture of late antique and early medieval Europe, north Africa, and western Asia. Ranging from Iran to Ireland and from Sweden to Tunisia, Deborah Deliyannis, Hendrik Dey, and Paolo Squatriti present fifty objects?artifacts, structures, and archaeological...

Energy Justice Across Borders

Springer, 2019

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.

We must find new and innovative ways of conceptualizing transboundary energy issues, of embedding concerns of ethics or justice into energy policy, and of operationalizing response to them. This book stems from the emergent gap;...

The Black Death (Great Historic Disasters)

Chelsea House Publications, 2008

In 1346, Europe was hit by the worst natural disaster in its recorded history: the Black Death. Generally believed to be a combination of bubonic plague and two other plague strains, the Black Death ravaged the length and breadth of Europe from Sicily to Norway, from Ireland to Russia, for five terrible years. Scholars can...

The Early Pioneers of Steam: The Inspiration Behind George Stephenson

The History Press, 2020

We think of the Stephensons and Brunel as the fathers of the railways, and their Liverpool and Manchester and Great Western Railways as the prototypes of the modern systems. But who were the railways' grandfathers and great grandfathers? For the rapid evolution of the railways after 1830 depended to a considerable degree upon the...

E: The Story of a Number

Princeton Press, 1994

Maor attempts to give the irrational number e its rightful standing alongside pi as a fundamental constant in science and nature; he succeeds very well.... Maor writes so that both mathematical newcomers and long-time professionals alike can thoroughly enjoy his book, learn something new, and witness the ubiquity of mathematical ideas in...

The Birth of Satan: Tracing the Devil's Biblical Roots

Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

"An informative study of the biblical origins of Satan…With resourceful though never excessive citation, Mobley and Wray make a good job of pinning down the roots of a notoriously protean character."--The Times Literary Supplement

"Let's admit it. Even in a secular age we are all still...

Forensic Science: Fundamentals and Investigations

South-Western College, 2008

Finally, a textbook that provides the science behind forensics, as well as labs and activities appropriate for high school students! Forensic Science: Fundamentals and Investigations is student and teacher friendly. Teachers can conduct a full-year’s study of forensics or select topics that can be incorporated into a...

The Polar Bear Expedition: The Heroes of America's Forgotten Invasion of Russia, 1918-1919

William Morrow, 2019

In the brutally cold winter of 1919, 5,000 Americans battled the Red Army 600 miles north of Moscow. We have forgotten. Russia has not.

"AN EXCELLENT BOOK." —Wall Street Journal • "INCREDIBLE." — John U. Bacon •...

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