Miri: 30 books
Islamism and Post-Islamism
Reflections upon Allama Jafari's Political Thought
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2014
Islamism and Post-Islamism analyzes political thought in Iran since 1979. Seyed Javad Miri engages with one of the seminal thinkers in contemporary Iranian politics, Allama Jafari, on key relevant concepts.
In this book, Miri discusses several important topics:
Redrawing the map of political...
Bubbe and Me in the Kitchen
A Kosher Cookbook of Beloved Recipes and Modern Twists
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Gold Medal Winner, 2017 Living Now Book AwardsJerry Seinfeld's fictional dentist Tim Whatley famously converted to Judaism "for the jokes," but if there's one thing that defines Jewish culture as much as humor it's food. Miri Rotkovitz spent her childhood in the kitchen of her grandmother,...
Emotion and Devotion
The Meaning of Mary in Medieval Religious Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
In Emotion and Devotion Miri Rubin explores the craft of the historian through a series of studies of medieval religious cultures. In three original chapters she approaches the medieval figure of the Virgin Mary with the aim of unravelling meaning and experience. Hymns and miracle tales, altarpieces...
by Miri Rubin
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2014
The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides an exploration of the variety, change, dynamism, and sheer complexity that the period covers. From the provinces of the Roman Empire, which became Barbarian...
Science among the Ottomans
The Cultural Creation and Exchange of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Scholars have long thought that, following the Muslim Golden Age of the medieval era, the Ottoman Empire grew culturally and technologically isolated, losing interest in innovation and placing the empire on a path toward stagnation and decline. Science among the Ottomans challenges this widely accepted...
Multiracial Parents
Mixed Families, Generational Change, and the Future of Race
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The views and experiences of multiracial people as parents
The world’s multiracial population is considered to be one of the fastest growing of all ethnic groups. In the United States alone, it is estimated that over 20% of the population will be considered “mixed race” by 2050. Public...
The Hollow Crown
A History of Britain in the Late Middle Ages (TPB) (GRP)
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2005
There is no more haunting, compelling period in Britain's history than the later middle ages. The extraordinary kings - Edward III and Henry V the great warriors, Richard II and Henry VI, tragic inadequates killed by their failure to use their power, and Richard III, the demon king. The extraordinary...
Clean Energy
Hydrogen/Fuel Cells Laboratory Manual(with DVD-ROM)
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
This manual is designed for the use of hydrogen as a fuel in the fuel cells. The turn of the century has seen a realization of moving towards clean energy due to a variety of considerations ranging from global warming, anxiety to living in a healthy atmosphere, depletion of fossil fuels, oil slick...
Religious Conversion
History, Experience and Meaning
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
Religious conversion - a shift in membership from one community of faith to another - can take diverse forms in radically different circumstances. As the essays in this volume demonstrate, conversion can be protracted or sudden, voluntary or coerced, small-scale or large. It may be the result of active...
Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity
Cross-National Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education. Government funding is being reduced, affirmative action and other programs...
The Delivery Princess and the Black Knight Vol.2 (TL Manga)
A Slave Contract Sealed with Secret Juices
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Hina abandons trying to get a proper job and becomes a delivery prostitute in order to pay off the debt her father left her. After getting requested by her first customer, she nervously goes to the hotel... and finds out it's a super-extravagant first-class hotel suite! And then, a super hot guy appears....
The Delivery Princess and the Black Knight Vol.1 (TL Manga)
A Slave Contract Sealed with Secret Juices
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Hina abandons trying to get a proper job and becomes a delivery prostitute in order to pay off the debt her father left her. After getting requested by her first customer, she nervously goes to the hotel... and finds out it's a super-extravagant first-class hotel suite! And then, a super hot guy appears....
The Delivery Princess and the Black Knight - Vol.4 (TL Manga)
A Slave Contract Sealed with Secret Juices
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Hina abandons trying to get a proper job and becomes a delivery prostitute in order to pay off the debt her father left her. After getting requested by her first customer, she nervously goes to the hotel... and finds out it's a super-extravagant first-class hotel suite! And then, a super hot guy appears....
(TL)The Delivery Princess and the Black Knight - Vol.5
A Slave Contract Sealed with Secret Juices
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Hina abandons trying to get a proper job and becomes a delivery prostitute in order to pay off the debt her father left her. After getting requested by her first customer, she nervously goes to the hotel... and finds out it's a super-extravagant first-class hotel suite! And then, a super hot guy appears....