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Translation of: Regina di fiori e di perle.

Focuses on contemporary filmmaking since the 1980s, but also considers the longer history of Arab cinema. This book offers both a coherent, historical overview and an in-depth critical analysis of Arab filmmaking.

Tells the story of the land and people of Banaba, a small Pacific island, which, from 1900 to 1980, was heavily mined for phosphate, an essential ingredient in fertilizer. This book offers an insight into the plight of other island peoples facing forced migration as a result of human impact on the environment.

Franz Rosenzweig's near-conversion to Christianity in the summer of 1913 and his subsequent decision three months later to recommit himself to Judaism is one of the foundational narratives of modern Jewish thought. This book presents an examination of this important time in Rosenzweig's life.

Historically grounded essays by leading scholars engage the issues that continue to shape Palestinian society.

How does Christian philosophy address phenomena in the world? Felix O Murchadha believes that seeing, hearing, or otherwise sensing the world through faith requires transcendence or thinking through glory and night (being and meaning). By challenging much of Western metaphysics, O Murchadha shows how phenomenology opens new ideas about being, and how philosophers of "e;the theological turn"e; have addressed questions of creation, incarnation, resurrection, time, love, and faith. He explores the possibility of a phenomenology of Christian life and argues against any simple separation of philosophy and theology or reason and faith.

Explores the response of society in general and religion in particular to major cultural shocks such as the Famine and to long term processes such as urbanization.

';[Tully] paints Admiral Nishimuras high-speed run into history with an entirely fresh palette of detail.' James D. Hornfischer, New York Timesbestselling author of Neptune's Inferno Surigao Strait in the Philippine Islands was the scene of a major battleship duel during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. Because the battle was fought at night and had few survivors on the Japanese side, the events of that naval engagement have been passed down in garbled accounts. Anthony P. Tully pulls together all of the existing documentary material, including newly discovered accounts and a careful analysis of US Navy action reports, to create a new and more detailed description of the action. In several respects, Tullys narrative differs radically from the received versions and represents an important historical corrective. Also included in the book are a number of previously unpublished photographs and charts that bring a fresh perspective to the battle. ';By giving a fuller view of the Japanese side, Tullys work forces a substantial revision of the traditional picture of the battle. Battle of Surigao Strait is not only military history based on scrupulous use of a plethora of new source materials, but is a spanking good read. Highly recommended.' War in History ';Tully has managed to trace the complicated flow of and reason for events on the nights of 24-25 October with a skill and aplomb that forces one to reconsider previously held views.' Naval History

By integrating the analysis of conversation with ethnography, Marjorie Harness Goodwin systematically and empirically reveals how a group of urban black children constitute their social world through talk.

Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous-the worst of postwar modernist architecture and design. Politics in Color and Concrete revisits this history by exploring domestic space in Hungary from the 1950s through the 1990s and reconstructs the multi-textured and politicized aesthetics of daily life through the objects, spaces, and colors that made up this lived environment. Krisztina Fehervary shows that contemporary standards of living and ideas about normalcy have roots in late socialist consumer culture and are not merely products of postsocialist transitions or neoliberalism. This engaging study decenters conventional perspectives on consumer capitalism, home ownership, and citizenship in the new Europe.

Proposes a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism and the political.

A historical, spiritual, and literary portrait of a remarkable nineteenth-century African Muslim woman. This book provides a glimpse into the West African Muslim community at a pivotal point in its history.

In this new edition Musa views Dante's intention as one of cruel and comic commentary on the shallowness and self-pity of his protagonist, who only occasionally glimpses the true nature of love. ... the explication de texte which accompanies [Musa's] translation is instructively novel, always admirable.... This present work offers English readers a lengthy appraisal which should figure in future scholarly discussions."e; -Choice

The work of French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty touches on some of the most essential and vital concerns of the world today, yet his ideas are notoriously difficult and not widely understood. This work redresses this problem by offering a carefully argued, critical appreciation of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy.

Takes up the various guises and settings in which stone appears. This work is attentive not only to what certain philosophers such as Hegel and Heidegger have said of beauty and of stone, but also to what they have written on their travels to the Alps, to the great cathedrals of Europe, or to the temples of Greece.

A novel and provocative contribution to the current debate about the nature and meaning of Marx's thought

Traces the origins of Israeli militarism and examines the sociological phenomenon of the civilian adoption of military solutions to political problems. This title sheds light on the charged relations, especially between Israel's founding fathers and the omilitarized' native-born generation that came of age in the 1930s and 40s.

The piano teaching methods of Franz Liszt

Suitable for armchair detectives with a penchant for logical reflection and Peirce scholars.

A commentary on the political culture of the BaKongo of Lower Congo by a well-known anthropologist.

A polemical anthology of criticism that seeks to redraw the boundaries of the study of romanticism and question romanticism's suppression of the feminine, the material, and the collective, and its opposition to readings centring on these concerns

The PEIRCE EDITION contains large sections of previously unpublishedmaterial in addition to selected published works. Each volume includes a briefhistorical and biographical introduction, extensive editorial and textual notes, anda full chronological list of all of Peirce's writings, published and unpublished, during the period covered.

A collection of plays that focus on women's view of lynching. It reveals a social history of interracial cooperation between black and white women and an artistic tradition that continues to evolve through the work of African American women artists. It includes examples of both one-act and full-length dramas.

Investigates Muslim politics and society in 19th-century West Africa. This book presents a study that revises late-19th-century colonialist assumptions about a West African Muslim social movement. Using indigenous Arabic manuscripts, travel narratives, and oral materials, it assesses the meaning of a series of revolts against Islamic authority.

Features examples from the writings of Kierkegaard, Freud, Heidegger, Dostoyevsky, Nietzsche, and Tolstoi that illuminates the author's thesis that guilt and death are the central problems of human existence.

Reflects on the writings and testimonies that shed light on the veiled aspects of totalitarianism, dehumanisation, and atrocity. Identifying key themes that recur in the narratives - arrest, the stages of trial, imprisonment, escape, and more - the author discusses the historical, political, and social contexts of accounts of the Gulag experience.

Deciphers the symbolic world of Lithuanian mythology. This book discusses the concepts of life and death, fate and fortune. It describes the codes used by farmers to organize systems of mutual obligations and implicit contracts. It examines pranks and games that are associated with agrarian seasonal changes.

A translation with introduction of the first ethnographic and semiotic study of gesture in daily life.

Examines the creation and the conflict behind the creation of sacred space in America. This book contains essays on places in America where economic, political, and social forces clash over the sacred and the profane, from wilderness areas in the American West to the Mall in Washington, DC. It investigates visions of America as a sacred space.