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Brandeis Modern Hebrew: Intermediate to Advanced Pilot Edition

Ringvald Vardit, Porath Bonit, Peleg Yaron, Shorr Esther

ISBN: PB: 9781611684476, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, August 2013
396 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Written by the core faculty of the Hebrew program at Brandeis University, the pilot edition of Brandeis Modern Hebrew, Intermediate to Advanced serves as a sequel to the well-known volume for beginners. It contains the functional and contextual eleme...

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America

Body of Faith A Biological History of Religion in America

Fuller Robert C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226025087, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
248 pp., 23x15 cm

The postmodern view that human experience is constructed by language and culture has informed historical narratives for decades. Yet newly emerging information about the biological body now makes it possible to supplement traditional scholarly models...

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Christianity

Book of Numbers, a Critique of Genesis

Carmichael Calum

ISBN: HB: 9780300179187, Yale University Press, July 2012
224 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In this work Calum Carmichael – a legal scholar who applies a literary approach to the study of the Bible – shows how each law and each narrative in "Numbers", the least researched book in the Pentateuch, responds to problems arising in narrative inc...

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Jewish Studies

Bountiful Harvest Essays in Honor of S. Kent Brown

Skinner Andrew C., Davis D. Morgan, Griffin Carl

ISBN: HB: 9780842528047, University of Chicago Press, Brigham Young University, February 2012
482 pp., 23x15 cm, 5 figures, 1 colour illus.

Over the course of his forty-year career, S. Kent Brown, professor of religious studies, has taught and inspired thousands of students at Brigham Young University and has produced over one hundred publications and several films in the fields of early...

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Buddhism

Bonds of the Dead Temples, Burial, and the Transformation of Contemporary Japanese Buddhism

Rowe Mark Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226730158, ISBN: HB: 9780226730134, University of Chicago Press, November 2011
256 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 10 halftones, 2 line illus.

Despite popular images of priests seeking enlightenment in snow-covered mountain temples, the central concern of Japanese Buddhism is death. For that reason, Japanese Buddhism's social and economic base has long been in mortuary services – a base now...

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Europe

Blood and Mistletoe The History of the Druids in Britain

Hutton Ronald

ISBN: PB: 9780300170856, Yale University Press, March 2011
492 pp., 23.4x15.4 cm, 32 black&white illus., 16 colour illus.

Crushed by the Romans in the first century A. D. , the ancient Druids of Britain left almost no reliable evidence behind. Because of this, historian Ronald Hutton shows, succeeding British generations have been free to reimagine, reinterpret, and rei...

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Islam

Beyond the "Wild Tribes" Understanding Modern Afghanistan and its Diaspora

Oeppen Ceri, Schlenkhoff Angela

ISBN: PB: 9781849040556, Hurst Publishers, October 2010
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Afghanistan and its people, whether in Afghanistan or in its global diaspora, have generated substantial interest in recent years and the desire to understand more about the country is widely felt. International organisations,...

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Buddhism and Science A Guide for the Perplexed

Lopez Donald S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226493190, ISBN: HB: 9780226493121, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
278 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Beginning in the nineteenth century and continuing to the present day, both practitioners and admirers of Buddhism have proclaimed its compatibility with science. In "Buddhism and Science", Donald S. Lopez Jr. explores how and why these two seemingly...

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Borders of Islam Exploring Samuel Huntington's Faultlines, From Al-Andalus to the Virtual Ummah

Hansen Stig Jarle, Mesoy Atle, Karadas Tuncay

ISBN: PB: 9781850659730, ISBN: HB: 9781850659723, Hurst Publishers, November 2009
352 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In his seminal work "The Clash of Civilisations", Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington claimed that conflict between cultural blocs, or civilisations, will dominate the future. More controversially, he predicted that future c...

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Anchor Yale Bible Commentaries

Book of Daniel

Hartman Louis F., Di Lella Alexander A.

ISBN: PB: 9780300139686, Yale University Press, December 2007
360 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

"The Anchor Bible" series offers new, book-by-book translations of the "Old and New Testament" and the "Apocrypha", with commentary. This volume on the "Book of Daniel" has been prepared by two distinguished biblical scholars from the faculty of the...

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