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Japan's Early Parliaments, 1890-1905
Structure, Issues and Trends
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2005
Japan's Early Parliaments, 1890-1905 is the first detailed study of the early history of the Japanese Diet, providing a thorough discussion of the origins of the Japanese parliament, still the central institution of Japanese politics, and its development during this formative period. Drawn from primary...
History as Prelude
Muslims and Jews in the Medieval Mediterranean
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2011
This collection of essays by seven highly respected scholars is a straightforward narrative of real world—intellectual, commercial, spiritual, philosophical, scientific, esthetic—creative engagement among Jews, Muslims, and some Christians in daily life in Spain and around the Mediterranean. History...
by W R Owens, N H Keeble, G A Starr
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
Daniel Defoe is known as the father of the English novel. This is the modern critical edition of Defoe's novels. It brings together all three parts of "Robinson Crusoe" and examines their relationship. The editorial material includes an introduction to each novel, explanatory endnotes, textual notes, and a consolidated index in volume 10.
Scripture and Social Justice
Catholic and Ecumenical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2018
The essays gathered here provide a panoramic view of current thinking on biblical texts that play important roles in contemporary struggles for social justice – either as inspiration or impediment. Here, from the hands of an ecumenical array of leading biblical scholars, are fresh and compelling...
The Dundurn Arctic Culture and Sovereignty Library
Pike's Portage/Death Wins in the Arctic/Arctic Naturalist/Arctic Obsession/Arctic Twilight/Arctic Front/Canoeing North Into the Unknown/Arctic Revolution/In the Shadow of the Pole/Voices From the Odeyak
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2014
This special bundle is your essential guide to all things concerning Canada’s polar regions, which make up the majority of Canada’s territory but are places most of us will never visit. The Arctic has played a key role in Canada’s history and in the history of the indigenous peoples of this...
by Julius P. Kreier, John R. Baker
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2012
Updated and much expanded, the Second Edition of Parasitic Protozoa is designed to be useful to physicians, veterinarians, and research scientists concerned with diseases caused by protozoa in man, and in domestic and wild animals including fish, mollusks and insects, as well as the more commonly...
The American Military Tradition
From Colonial Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
In The American Military Tradition historians John M. Carroll and Colin F. Baxter gather an esteemed group of military historians to explore the pivotal issues and themes in American warfare from the Colonial era to the present conflict in Iraq. From the reliance on militia and the Minutemen of the...
Reinventing Rural
New Realities in an Urbanizing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Reinventing Rural is a collection of original research papers that examine the ways in which rural people and places are changing in the context of an urbanizing world. This includes exploring the role of the environment, the economy, and related issues such as tourism. While traditionally relying...
by R.P.T. Davenport-Hines, Geoffrey Jones
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2005
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by R. Emerson Dobash, Russell P. Dobash
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
Women, Violence and Social Change demonstrates how refuges and shelters stand as the core of the battered women's movement, providing a basis for pragmatic support, political action and radical renewal. From this base movements in Britain and the United States have challenged the police, courts and...
by Vincent Bacote, J. Budziszewski, J. Daryl Charles
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Natural law has long been a cornerstone of Christian political thought, providing moral norms that ground law in a shareable account of human goods and obligations. Despite this history, twentieth and twenty-first-century evangelicals have proved quite reticent to embrace natural law, casting it as...
The Entrepreneurial Engineer
How to Create Value from Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
Authors, educators and successful entrepreneurs wrote this textbook with the primary goal of maximising your chance of entrepreneurial success. It is designed to encourage those wanting to start a business and those who have already begun. It includes guidance, instruction and practical lessons for...
Heresy and the Making of European Culture
Medieval and Modern Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Scholars and analysts seeking to illuminate the extraordinary creativity and innovation evident in European medieval cultures and their afterlives have thus far neglected the important role of religious heresy. The papers collected here - reflecting the disciplines of history, literature, theology,...
by Ali R. Abootalebi, Carlson Anyangwe, Alireza Asgharzadeh
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
This book highlights the complexities of nationalism and the struggles of different groups left unaddressed within the nation-states of a postcolonial world. The central question is what happened to the worldly and radical visions of freedom, liberty, and equality that animated intellectual activists...