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Sufism Today: Heritage and Tradition in the Global Community (Library of Modern Religion)

Sufism Today: Heritage and Tradition in the Global Community (Library of Modern Religion)


Catharina Raudvere, Leif Stenberg



About the Author Catharina Raudvere is Professor of the History of Religions at Copenhagen University, and the author of Th...
Feeding the world: a challenge for the twenty-first century

Feeding the world: a challenge for the twenty-first century


Vaclav Smil



Amazon.com Review Can we do it? Plowing his furrow between the doomsayers and the blind optimists, agriculture researche...
Men: Evolutionary and Life History

Men: Evolutionary and Life History


Richard G. Bribiescas



From Why are human males the way they are? Biological anthropologist Bribiescas explains the two leading methods of inqu...
Islamic Jihad: A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism, and Slavery

Islamic Jihad: A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism, and Slavery


M. A. Khan



Islamic Jihad: A Legacy of Forced Conversion, Imperialism, and Slavery...
Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere

Beyond Deep Blue: Chess in the Stratosphere


Monty Newborn



Review From the reviews: “Newborn’s new book Beyond Deep Blue … includes 118 games played by sevent...
The Imperial Cult in the Latin West: Studies in the Ruler Cult of the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire, Part 2.1 (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World)

The Imperial Cult in the Latin West: Studies in the Ruler Cult of the Western Provinces of the Roman Empire, Part 2.1 (Religions in the Graeco-Roman World)


Duncan Fishwick



Review '"Fishwick proposes a "modest supplement" to Lily Ross Taylor's work. He is too modest... Specialists should haste...
Joining the sisterhood: young Jewish women write their lives

Joining the sisterhood: young Jewish women write their lives


Julie Pelc, Tobin Belzer



From the Back Cover Young Jewish women engage in almost every aspect of religious and cultural Jewish life, yet their uni...
Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran

Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran


Nima Naghibi



Rethinking Global Sisterhood: Western Feminism and Iran...
Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition?

Incredible Shrinking Son of Man: How Reliable Is the Gospel Tradition?


Robert M. Price



Review "...for all scholars concerned with Christian origins...nothing of comparable importance has been written for at l...
Food and Drink in Medieval Poland: Rediscovering a Cuisine of the Past

Food and Drink in Medieval Poland: Rediscovering a Cuisine of the Past


Maria Dembinska



Amazon.com Review You could start with Chicken Baked with Prunes, prepared in the 14th century for the Bishop of Zeitz. ...
Platonic Theology, Volume 2: Books V-VIII (I Tatti Renaissance Library)

Platonic Theology, Volume 2: Books V-VIII (I Tatti Renaissance Library)


Marsilio Ficino



Review The Loeb Classical Library...has been of incalculable benefit to generations of scholars...It seems certain that t...
The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs

The Road of Excess: A History of Writers on Drugs


Marcus Boon



From Library Journal Instead of providing a chronological history of drugs in literature, Boon (English, York Univ.) off...
A Hegel Dictionary (Blackwell Philosopher Dictionaries)

A Hegel Dictionary (Blackwell Philosopher Dictionaries)


Michael Inwood



Review "One of the best reference books about a philosopher, highly recommended." Choice "Invaluable. This book achieves ...
Technological change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945

Technological change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945


William M. Mcbride



Review An intellectual history of American naval technology that examines the dominance of the battleship mentality... Thou...
Life on Earth: An Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution (2 vol. set)

Life on Earth: An Encyclopedia of Biodiversity, Ecology, and Evolution (2 vol. set)


Niles Eldredge



From Life on Earth is intended to introduce "younger generations" to biological diversity, "the variety of life on Earth...
Manichaeism

Manichaeism


Michel Tardieu



Review "Tardieu's book on Manichaeism is a marvelous short introduction to a very complex religious phenomenon of the anc...
The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine

The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine




The Encyclopedia of Civil War Medicine...
Black Pilgrimage to Islam

Black Pilgrimage to Islam


Robert Dannin



From The term black Muslim generally conjures up images of the Nation of Islam and Elijah Muhammad. But the appeal of Is...
Numbers at work: a cultural perspective

Numbers at work: a cultural perspective


Rudolf Josef Taschner



Review " ""[with] facile knowledge and sprightly delivery ... [Taschner] creates a flow that embraces various aspects of ...
Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis. Band II: Kleinasien

Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis. Band II: Kleinasien


Walter Ameling



Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis. Band II: Kleinasien...
The Zurich Connection and Tudor Political Theology (Studies in the History of Christian Thought)

The Zurich Connection and Tudor Political Theology (Studies in the History of Christian Thought)


Torrance Kirby



About the Author W.J. Torrance Kirby, DPhil in Modern History (Oxford University) was appointed Professor of Church Histo...
Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis. Band I: Eastern Europe

Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis. Band I: Eastern Europe


Alexander Panayotov, David Noy, Hanswulf Bloedhorn



Inscriptiones Judaicae Orientis. Band I: Eastern Europe...
The A to Z of the Lesbian Liberation Movement: Still the Rage

The A to Z of the Lesbian Liberation Movement: Still the Rage


Joanne Myers



About the Author JoAnne Myers is assistant professor of political science at Marist College. She is also co-director of t...
Pyramid (Eyewitness Guides)

Pyramid (Eyewitness Guides)




From School Library Journal Grade 4-6-There are quite a few books for children on this subject, such as David Macaulay's ...
Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry

Making and Selling Cars: Innovation and Change in the U.S. Automotive Industry


James M. Rubenstein



Review Surveys a wide terrain, ranging from the development of Henry Ford's production methods to the impact of globalizati...
Food Is Culture (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)

Food Is Culture (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)


Massimo Montanari



Food Is Culture (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)...
Renaissance and Reformation, Cumulative Index

Renaissance and Reformation, Cumulative Index


Peggy Saari, Aaron Saari, Julie L. Carnagie



Renaissance and Reformation, Cumulative Index...
Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Chaos, and Other Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics

Five More Golden Rules: Knots, Codes, Chaos, and Other Great Theories of 20th-Century Mathematics


John Casti



Amazon.com Review Bring more joy to your favorite math-head with Five More Golden Rules from science writer and national ...
Dictionary of Biblical interpretation, Volume 1 (A-J)

Dictionary of Biblical interpretation, Volume 1 (A-J)


John H. Hayes



Dictionary of Biblical interpretation, Volume 1 (A-J)...
The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann

The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann


Herman H. Goldstine



Review The book is first-rate: it is written in a style that all can understand. . . . -- Nature Herman Goldstine is hims...