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David Honey offers a history of Sinology, spanning its beginnings in the first efforts of seventeenth-century Jesuit missionaries to the growing disciplinary fragmentation of the field in the second half of the twentieth century. No comprehensive history of the field has heretofore been published in a Western language.

A critical edition based on the three known manuscripts, and translation of a gnomologium entitled Mukhtar min kalam al-hukama' al-arba`a, which contains sayings ascribed to Pythgagoras, Socrates, Plato and Aristotle. A paperback reprint of the original 1975 book, with a new Foreword, and with errata and corrections.

This monograph examines a number of motifs central to the expression of the ideal of sovereignty as it is articulated in Vedic liturgical poetry.

This text represents a significant improvement over the two previously published texts of Vrttivarttika. This volume includes commentary, transliterated Sanskrit text and notes.

This study reconstructs Mesopotamian geography based primarily on the third-millennium lists of geographical place names found at Abu Salabikh in Mesopotamian and at Ebla in Syria.