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An Enchanted Modern
Gender and Public Piety in Shi'i Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
Based on two years of ethnographic research in the southern suburbs of Beirut, An Enchanted Modern demonstrates that Islam and modernity are not merely compatible, but actually go hand-in-hand. This eloquent ethnographic portrayal of an Islamic community articulates how an alternative modernity, and...
Reaching for Power
The Shi'a in the Modern Arab World
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2011
As the world focuses on the conflict in Iraq, the most important political players in that country today are not the Sunni insurgents. Instead, they are Iraq's Shi'I majority--part of the Middle East's ninety million Shi'I Muslims who hold the key to the future of the region and the relations between...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2011
Yoga is a body of practice that spans two millennia and transcends the boundaries of any single religion, geographic region, or teaching lineage. In fact, over the centuries there have been many "yogas"--yogas of battlefield warriors, of itinerant minstrels and beggars, of religious reformers,...
The Crisis of the Twelfth Century
Power, Lordship, and the Origins of European Government
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
Medieval civilization came of age in thunderous events like the Norman Conquest and the First Crusade. Power fell into the hands of men who imposed coercive new lordships in quest of nobility. Rethinking a familiar history, Thomas Bisson explores the circumstances that impelled knights, emperors,...
The Church in the Shadow of the Mosque
Christians and Muslims in the World of Islam
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2012
Amid so much twenty-first-century talk of a "Christian-Muslim divide"--and the attendant controversy in some Western countries over policies toward minority Muslim communities--a historical fact has gone unnoticed: for more than four hundred years beginning in the mid-seventh century, some...
Women at the Beginning
Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century.
Not confining himself to one religious tradition or region,...
The Bhagavad Gita
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2014
The Bhagavad Gita, perhaps the most famous of all Indian scriptures, is universally regarded as one of the world's spiritual and literary masterpieces. Richard Davis tells the story of this venerable and enduring book, from its origins in ancient India to its reception today as a spiritual classic...
Birds of Australia
A Photographic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2014
Australia is home to a spectacular diversity of birdlife, from parrots and penguins to emus and vibrant passerines. Birds of Australia covers all 714 species of resident birds and regularly occurring migrants and features more than 1,100 stunning color photographs, including many photos of subspecies...
Between Monopoly and Free Trade
The English East India Company, 1600–1757
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2014
The English East India Company was one of the most powerful and enduring organizations in history. Between Monopoly and Free Trade locates the source of that success in the innovative policy by which the Company's Court of Directors granted employees the right to pursue their own commercial interests...
Baseball in Blue and Gray
The National Pastime during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2013
During the Civil War, Americans from homefront to battlefront played baseball as never before. While soldiers slaughtered each other over the country's fate, players and fans struggled over the form of the national pastime. George Kirsch gives us a color commentary of the growth and transformation...
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2015
With searing wit and incisive commentary, John Kenneth Galbraith redefined America's perception of itself in The New Industrial State, one of his landmark works. The United States is no longer a free-enterprise society, Galbraith argues, but a structured state controlled by the largest companies....
Money
Whence It Came, Where It Went
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Money is nothing more than what is commonly exchanged for goods or services, so why has understanding it become so complicated? In Money, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith cuts through the confusions surrounding the subject to present a compelling and accessible account of a topic that affects...
Economics in Perspective
A Critical History
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
In Economics in Perspective, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith presents a compelling and accessible history of economic ideas, from Aristotle through the twentieth century. Examining theories of the past that have a continuing modern resonance, he shows that economics is not a timeless, objective...
by John Kenneth Galbraith
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
The world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of Contentment, renowned economist John Kenneth Galbraith shows how a contented class—not the privileged few but the socially and economically advantaged majority—defend their comfortable status at a cost....