ALMOST EIGHTY YEARS AFTER Samuel Jacobs died in Glasgow, only two of his original seventeen grandchildren remained, and his life story was at dire ...

Writing from London to William Q Judge in late 1889, Constance Wachtmeister announced, "We have now in the Press a Theosophical Birthday Book with ...

This book provides a way for Generation Xers, and the people who are about them, to search for religion they can believe in. Lockhart used a three-...

The aim of the present conference volume is to study the interrelationship of literary and material approaches to historical investigation of gende...

The Risale-i Nur Collection offers general principles relating to all aspects of Islamic life, jurisprudence, and fields of knowledge. With its sou...

Genesis Beyond Sources is a radical and groundbreaking book with a new approach to understanding the book of Genesis and the Pentateuch. It has two...

The concepts of genre and ritual are central for the overall occupation with the relationship between the History of the Arts and the History of Ch...

This book is the collection of scientific works by Georgian theologians, historians, art critics, musicologists represented on the Fourth Internati...

From advertising and merchandising, to Bratz and Voodoo Dolls, to the images of Bill Henson, Getting Real puts the spotlight on the sexualisation a...

This book starts out with a story about a guy named Steve Parker who crashes his Harley motorcycle and dies in the first paragraph. In a witty conv...

It was at the instigation of C G Jung that Dr Kluger undertook the interpretation of the Gilgamesh epic, the oldest known epic-myth. Rich in poetic...

Thirty treatises written by this influential Islamic scholar address key issues of humanity, as discussed in the Qur'an, that are equally applicabl...

Written in prose but with a verse-like flavour, this is a collection of maxims by Bediüzzaman Said Nursi. Very concisely articulated, these maxims ...

The authors of this book, among them Samir Amin, one of the founders of the world system approach, take up the issues of the preferential option an...

This book examines the role of Shia Islam in the world today. It covers several regions and nearly two dozen countries from both a contemporary and...