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The Art of Language
This book contributes to opening up disciplinary knowledge and offering connections between different approaches to language in contemporary linguistics. Rather than focusing on a …
The Moderate Bolshevik: Mikhail Tomsky from the Factory to the Kremlin, 1880-1936
This first English-language biography of Mikhail Tomsky reveals his central role in all the key developments in early Soviet history, including the stormy debates over the role of …
On Simples, Attributed to Dioscorides: Introduction, Translation, Concordances
On Simples, a medicinal text of the first century A.D., is attributed in the manuscripts to the famous Dioscorides. In a remarkable piece of detective work, Professor Fitch …
The Market and the Oikos, Vol. II: The Peasant and the Nomad in History
Both Karl Marx and Max Weber inspired the writing of the two volumes of The Market and the Oikos. Weber coined a market versus oikos contradiction, in which oikos not only means …
La Mesure de l'Être: Le Problème de la Quantification Des Formes Au Moyen Âge (Ca. 1250-1370)
How many times does a body under constant acceleration travel in the second half of its motion the distance covered in the first half of it? Is it possible to compare the whiteness …
Popular Biopolitics and Populism at Europe's Eastern Margins
In this groundbreaking book, Andrey Makarychev approaches populism through a critical biopolitical lens and shows that populist narratives are grounded intrinsically in …
All Citizens of Christ: A Cosmopolitan Reading of Unity and Diversity in Paul's Letters
In this work, Jeehei Park proposes Greek and Roman cosmopolitanism as a constructive category through which to navigate a reading of human diversity and communal unity in Paul's …
Russian Cognitive Neuroscience: Historical and Cultural Context
This volume brings together an unprecedented compilation of papers from esteemed Russian psychophysiologists, cognitive scientists, and neuroscientists. The contributors explain …
Unravelling the Social Formation: Free Trade, the State and Business Associations in Turkey
In Unravelling the Social Formation: Free Trade, the State and Business Associations in Turkey, Akif Avci examines the role of business associations and the state in Turkey in …
Land and Spirituality in Rabbinic Literature: A Memorial Volume for Yaakov Elman ז''ל
This volume is devoted to the texts, traditions, and practices of the Land of Israel from the end of the Second Temple period through late antiquity. Based upon a conference …
American Houses: Literary Spaces of Resistance and Desire
Already in 1854, Henry David Thoreau had declared in Walden that "Most men appear never to have considered what a house is" (225). Like Thoreau, many other renowned American …
Būluṣ Ibn Rajāʾ: The Fatimid Egyptian Convert Who Shaped Christian Views of Islam
Būluṣ ibn Rajāʾ (ca. 955-ca. 1020) was a celebrated writer of Coptic Christianity from Fatimid Egypt. Born to an influential Muslim family in Cairo, Ibn Rajāʾ later converted to …