Cohn: 193 books

Book cover of The Medieval Islamic World: Conflict and Conquest
by Jessica Cohn
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018

This captivating book introduces readers to Islamic history through vivid images and intriguing facts. The text works in conjunction with the eye-catching photos and illustrations to give readers a look into the history of Islamic culture, life, and politics, including Muhammad, the Arabian Peninsula,...
Book cover of Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers
by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2007

Fifty Key Jewish Thinkers is a panoramic survey of over 2,000 years of Jewish thought, religious and secular, ancient and modern. Now in its second edition, this essential reference guide contains new introductions to the lives and works of such thinkers as: Hannah Arendt, Immanuel Levinas, Judith...
Book cover of Debating Palestine and Israel
by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014

While the Jews strove for statehood and national identity as a result of their claim to their ancient homeland, the Palestinians were denied both, leading to their marginalisation and the ongoing conflict in the Middle East. This book seeks to uncover and explore the central issues of this crisis...
Book cover of A Dictionary of Kabbalah and Kabbalists
by Dan Cohn-Sherbok
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2011

This dictionary makes centuries of kabbalistic work accessible. Its topics range from the mysteries of the Godhead to the order of the universe, its different worlds and inhabitants. It covers early Merkavah mysticism, the golden era of medieval Spain, the flowering in Safed, the Hasidic movement...
Book cover of Muhammad: Prophet of Islam
by Jessica Cohn
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018

This enlightening biography introduces readers to Muhammad, the Prophet of Islam. Readers will learn how he grew to become the founder of Islam and an important figure in the history of the world. The engaging facts, alluring images, and supportive text combine together to create an engaging reading...
Book cover of Cultures of Plague

Cultures of Plague

Medical thinking at the end of the Renaissance

by Samuel K. Cohn, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2011

Cultures of Plague opens a new chapter in the history of medicine. Neither the plague nor the ideas it stimulated were static, fixed in a timeless Galenic vacuum over five centuries, as historians and scientists commonly assume. As plague evolved in its pathology, modes of transmission, and the social...
Book cover of Measure Theory

Measure Theory

Second Edition

by Donald L. Cohn
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2013

Intended as a self-contained introduction to measure theory, this textbook also includes a comprehensive treatment of integration on locally compact Hausdorff spaces, the analytic and Borel subsets of Polish spaces, and Haar measures on locally compact groups. This second edition includes a chapter...
Book cover of Plague and Its Consequences: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide
by Samuel Kline Cohn
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010

This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of Islamic studies find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data...
Book cover of Global Political Economy

Global Political Economy

Theory and Practice

by Theodore H. Cohn
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016

Praised for its authoritative coverage, Global Political Economy places the study of international political economy (IPE) in its broadest theoretical contextnow updated to cover the continuing global economic crisis and regional relationships and impacts. This text not only helps students understand...
Book cover of Health Humanities Reader
by Allen Peterkin, Arthur W. Frank, David H. Flood
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2014

Over the past forty years, the health humanities, previously called the medical humanities, has emerged as one of the most exciting fields for interdisciplinary scholarship, advancing humanistic inquiry into bioethics, human rights, health care, and the uses of technology. It has also helped inspire...
Book cover of The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies
by John Law, Kalpana Shankar, David Hakken
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2016

The fourth edition of an authoritative overview, with all new chapters that capture the state of the art in a rapidly growing field. Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a flourishing interdisciplinary field that examines the transformative power of science and technology to arrange and...
Book cover of The Black Hood: Red Circle #2
by Alex Toth, Gary Cohn, Rich Margopoulos
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009

Traveling through the southwest, Hood stumbles upon a small town with a monster problem! The locals refuse to discuss the mysterious force that keeps them inside at night, and advise him to leave before the sun sets. Hood soon discovers a killer big rig with a serious case of road rage! Who is behind...
Book cover of Need
by Nik Cohn
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2012

New York City is in the grip of a bad-moon heat wave, with the street-corner preachers running amok. Into the fray, four damaged lives come together at a pet store on the Upper West Side, each one consumed by a private hunger and driven toward an inevitable fate. 304 pp. 15,000 print.
Book cover of Keywords for Southern Studies
by Erich Nunn, Keith Cartwright, Thomas Haddox
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016

In Keywords for Southern Studies, editors Scott Romine and Jennifer Rae Greeson have compiled an eclectic collection of new essays that address the fluidity of southern studies by adopting a transnational, interdisciplinary focus. The essays are structured around critical terms pertinent both to the...
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