I imprint: 1291 books
Hadhramaut and its Diaspora
Yemeni Politics, Identity and Migration
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
The Hadhramis of Yemen have migrated for centuries in large numbers, establishing a diaspora that extends around the Indian Ocean, Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf States. This migration has deeply affected the host countries as well as Hadhramaut itself. Yet the region has not been able to use its...
Contesting the Arctic
Politics and Imaginaries in the Circumpolar North
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2015
As climate change makes the Arctic a region of key political interest, so questions of sovereignty are once more drawing international attention. The promise of new sources of mineral wealth and energy, and of new transportation routes, has seen countries expand their sovereignty claims. Increasingly,...
On the Religious Frontier
Tsarist Russia and Islam in the Caucasus
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
Modern Russia's turbulent relations with its Muslim frontiers date back centuries. Indeed the nineteenth century, when the Muslim Caucasus first came under Russian rule, witnessed many of the historical antecedents to today's violent confrontations.
With this in mind, On The Religious Frontier...
Exploring the Qur'an
Context and Impact
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2017
The teachings, style and impact of the Qur'an have always been matters of controversy, among both Muslims and non-Muslims. But in a modern context of intercultural sensitivity, what the Qur'an says and means are perhaps more urgent questions than ever before. This major new book by one of the world's...
Beirut, Imagining the City
Space and Place in Lebanese Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Beirut is the cultural, commercial and economic hub of Lebanon. But to what extent has the city affected and shaped the formation and perceptions of Lebanese national identity? Ghenwa Hayek here explores how anxieties over the past, present and future of Beirut have been articulated through a sense...
by Robert London
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
An story of true origin. Breeding imagination. An ' share / follow up ' to The journey of Constantine.
This story is an segment of the tales - as stated The journey of Constantine
by Robert London
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2014
An tale of origin. An ' share / follow up ' ! to those in the ( T of A ) volumes. e.g. To Come, The day of the Surreptitious
The tale - as stated ' follows / shares ' in the ( T of A ) volumes.
Mafia and Antimafia
A Brief History
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
The mafia is the impenetrable and seemingly infallible embodiment of notoriety and criminality. It is often seen as a polymorphic organization which encompasses crime, the accumulation of corruptly acquired wealth and power, the cultural code of omertà and consensus. Umberto Santino, one of Italy's...
The Zoroastrian Flame
Exploring Religion, History and Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Zoroastrianism has always commanded interest way beyond the circles of its actual adherents. Its unbroken history, remarkable texts and distinctive beliefs span three millennia, making it one of the world's most venerable faiths. For many centuries, from the birth of the religion late in the second...
A History of the Tajiks
Iranians of the East
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2019
In this comprehensive and up to date history, from prehistoric proto-Indo-Iranian times to the post-Soviet period, Richard Foltz traces the complex linguistic, cultural and political history of the Tajiks, a Persian-speaking Iranian ethnic group from the modern-day Central Asian states of Tajikistan,...
Decline and Fall of the Sasanian Empire
The Sasanian-Parthian Confederacy and the Arab Conquest of Iran
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2017
Decline and Fall of the Sasanians has already been praised as one of the most intellectually exciting books about ancient Persia to have been published for years. It proposes a convincing contemporary answer to an ages-old mystery and conundrum: why, in the seventh century CE, did the seemingly powerful...
China's Borderlands
The Faultline of Central Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
This region - which marks the meeting of China and post-Soviet Central Asia - is increasingly important militarily, economically and geographically. Yet we know little of the people that live there, beyond a romanticised 'Silk Road' sense of fraternity. In fact, relations between the people of this...
Sex and the Church in the Long Eighteenth Century
Religion, Enlightenment and the Sexual Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
The Long Eighteenth Century was the Age of Revolutions, including the first sexual revolution. In this era, more tolerant sexual attitudes prevailed and there was a marked increase in the discussion of morality, extra-marital sex, pornography and same-sex relationships in both print and visual culture...
Encounters Beyond the Gallery
Relational Aesthetics and Cultural Difference
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
Despite the recent “global turn” in contemporary art, ethnic arts remain on the fringes of mainstream gallery, museum and biennial exhibitions. Encounters Beyond the Gallery challenges the terms of their exclusion, looking to relational art, Deleuze-Guattarean aesthetics and notions of perception,...