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Russian-Turkmen Encounters
The Caspian Frontier before the Great Game
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
In the mid-eighteenth century the Russian tsar sent two expeditions across the Caspian Sea in response to an extraordinary plea for assistance from the recently subjugated Kalmyk Khan. The official journals of these expeditions, here translated into English for the first time, record the encounters...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
The Mongol invasions in the first half of the thirteenth century led to profound and shattering changes to the historical trajectory of Islamic West Asia. As this new volume in The Idea of Iran series suggests, sudden conquest from the east was preceded by events closer to home which laid the groundwork...
Space and Time in Artistic Practice and Aesthetics
The Legacy of Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
When the Enlightenment thinker Gotthold Ephraim Lessing wrote his treatise Laocoön: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry in 1766, he outlined the strengths and weaknesses of each art. Painting was assigned to the realm of space; poetry to the realm of time. Space and Time in Artistic Practice...
Frontline Turkey
The Conflict at the Heart of the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Turkey is on the front line of the war which is consuming Syria and the Middle East. Its role is complicated by the long-running conflict with the Kurds on their Syrian border – a war that has killed as many as 80,000 people over the last three decades. In 2011 Erdogan promised to make a deal with...
Moral Lessons of the Twentieth Century
Gorbachev and Ikeda on Buddhism and Communism
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2005
Mikhail Gorbachev and Daisaku Ikeda are contemporaries raised in different cultures: Gorbachev is a statesman whose origins are the Marx-inspired world of Communism while Ikeda is Buddhist inspired by the thirteenth-century Japanese sage, Nichiren. Moral Lessons of the Twentieth Century emerges from...
Hitchcock and the Cinema of Sensations
Embodied Film Theory and Cinematic Reception
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
What happens to us when we 'see' a film? For the experience of what we see on screen draws as much upon the non-visual senses as it does on sight. In the first full-length analysis of the concept of embodied film theory, Paul Elliott charts the development of a 'cinema of sensations' - examining how...
Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed
Order and Beauty in Botanical Gardens
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2011
Botanical gardens brought together in a single space the great diversity of the earth's flora. They displaced nature from forest and foothill and re-arranged it to reveal something of the scientific principles underpinning the apparent chaos of the wild. Nature Displaced, Nature Displayed shows how...
The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Media
Producing Shared Memory and National Identity in the Global Television Era
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2010
The television industry has metamorphosised from a national and largely-monopolized sector to a commercial and global enterprise. This has profoundly altered the way 'historical truth' and shared memory are constructed and conveyed. Despite the tremendous impact of this development, it has yet to...
Gender and Equality in Muslim Family Law
Justice and Ethics in the Islamic Legal Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2013
Dante is one of the towering figures of medieval European literature. Yet many riddles and questions about him persist. By re-reading Dante with an open mind, Barbara Reynolds made remarkable discoveries and unlocked previously hidden secrets about this greatest of Florentine poets. A fundamental...
Compassionate Light in Asia
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
"Life is a drama of encounters", writes Daisaku Ikeda at the beginning of this dialogue: "Beautiful encounters. Momentary encounters. Each person's drama is unique." This particular encounter, between a celebrated Chinese novelist and prominent Japanese religious leader, illustrates...
Reflections on the Global Civilization
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Globalization has brought different civilizations and peoples into new and closer contact. But this novel intimacy has not always led to greater understanding. There is an urgent need to work towards a global civilization based on principles of peace, mutual respect and tolerance. It is precisely...
Creating the Culture of Peace
A Clarion Call for Individual and Collective Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2019
A culture of peace and non-violence is essential to human existence and development. In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly proclaimed the first ten years of the 21st century the 'International Decade for a Culture of Peace and Non-Violence for the Children of the World'. Governments, NGOs and...
The Wisdom of Tolerance
A Philosophy of Generosity and Peace
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
What do Buddhism and Islam have in common? And what positive characteristics might Buddhist Japan and Muslim Indonesia be able to offer one another? In this thoughtful and wide-ranging discussion which draws on creative artists and thinkers as diverse as Beethoven, Goethe, Tolstoy, Thomas Jefferson...
Human Rights in the Twenty-first Century
A Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2009
Austregésilo de Athayde, President of the Brazilian Academy of Letters for 34 years until his death in September 1993, is perhaps best remembered as one of the most prominent and effective champions of human rights in South America. As Brazilian representative to the third General Assembly of the...