Regional Studies

Arabiyyat al Naas (Part Two): An Intermediate Course in Arabic, second edition, offers a vibrant course in Arabic as it is written and spoken today...

An authoritative introduction to ISIS—now expanded and revised to bring events up to the presentThe Islamic State stunned the world with its savage...

What is life? is a query that never dies… Most modern-day approaches to this enduring question attempt to define what life is, from the standpoint ...

The influence of austerity measures and neoliberal ideologies has sparked discussions about the relevance and value of academic institutions, parti...

This book makes available Ronald Knox’s hitherto unpublished lectures on Virgil’s Aeneid delivered at Trinity College, Oxford, as part of a lecture...

Following mounting political and social pressures to increase public accessibility to higher education in Israel, in 1994 Israel’s academic arena w...

In recent years, there has been no issue that has convulsed academia and its role in society more stridently than the personal politics of its inst...

This book seeks to overcome the tension between ‘western’ and ‘non-western’ categories and tools in the study of global history, showing how most w...

Bringing Walter Benjamin into dialogue with the urgent issues facing educational institutions today, this is the first comprehensive exploratio...

As social inequality grows, historical analysis on wealth and income distribution across the 20th century often does not take into account inequa...

Malinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific was a major contribution to anthropological theory and method, while simultaneously establishing th...

Jean Quataert redefined the boundaries of at least five historical fields including European socialism, women’s history and gender history, and i...

Focusing on some of the most important ethnographers in early anthropology, this volume explores twelve defining works in the foundational period...

How much do we really know about our parents’ lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle...

This handy, concise book covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. Her...

How much do we really know about our parents’ lives? What secrets lie in plain sight? This is the true story of hidden love within a small circle...

This handy, concise book covers the life of Mary Douglas, one of the most important anthropologists of the second half of the 20th century. Her...

In recent years, there has been no issue that has convulsed academia and its role in society more stridently than the personal politics of its inst...

'Deeply researched and profoundly absorbing . . . Matthew Stanley traces one of the greatest epics of scientific history . . . An amazing story' Mi...

In this book, Henk van Rinsum provides an in-depth description of the colonial past of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, from its foundation i...

The topic of this book is practical knowledge in early modern Europe, interpreted widely as recipes containing art procedures or medical panaceas b...

Daniel Orrells examines the ways in which the ancient world was visualized for Enlightenment readers, and reveals how antiquarian scholarship emerg...

This book offers a bright and learned contribution on the famous German Theologian Wolfhart Pannenberg. Centering on his work Wissenschaftstheorie ...

Information and Knowledge Organisation explores the role of knowledge organisation in the digital humanities. By focusing on how information is des...

Information and Knowledge Organisation explores the role of knowledge organisation in the digital humanities. By focusing on how information is des...

The Jewish Encyclopedia was the first comprehensive collection of all the available material pertaining to the Jews, their history, literature, phi...

The International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences: Addressing Global Challenges-Exploring Socio-Cultural Dynamics and Sustainable Solut...