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Witness to Aids
When Edwin Cameron announced to a stunned local and international media that he - one of South Africa's most prominent citizens - was himself living with the HIV/AIDS virus cutting …
Creating Images of a Turkish Past
What role do the narratives of the ancient past play in the modern Turkish Republic? How is the knowledge of this past constructed and displayed to the public? Melania Savino …
Mirrored Worlds
In recent years Japanese culture has become increasingly prevalent in the West, with Japanese products, designs and motifs becoming commonplace in everyday life. For every …
Hooligans, Rowdies and Ruffians
The Decline of Empires
Contracts in Islamic Law
This book introduces students to the theoretical and philosophical foundations of Islamic contractual law. Islamic law is applied in differing degrees by many countries across the …
Ernst Thalmann
Ernst Thalmann was the leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much of the Weimar Republic era. In this, the first biography of Thalmann in English, Norman LaPorte …
Full Throttle on Hell's Highway
With Brando as its brooding star, 'The Wild One' (1954), loaded with defiant nihilism, exemplifies the renegade alienation and freewheeling machismo that became trademarks of the …
A Short History of New Kingdom Egypt
New Kingdom Egypt represented the zenith of Egyptian power and imperial prestige. Between the sixteenth and eleventh centuries BCE the civilization straddling the Nile articulated …
Modernization Of Tradition
How to balance hereditary leadership, conformity to Islam, and the demands of a traditional society based on the family and tribal configurations with the vital need to promote …
A Short History of Nineteenth-century Philosophy
Was nineteenth-century philosophy merely a substitute for religion? The American philosopher Richard Rorty once argued precisely that. Rorty saw intellectuals of the long …