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Before the former Yugoslavia was divided by wars, its inhabitants lived side by side in peace. These essays seek to explain how former neighbours became enemies, with the hope that understanding what drove these peoples apart will help us discover ways for them to coexist in peace again.

Drawing on more than two hundred interviews, the author examines the political, structural, ideological and personal factors that allowed many Latin American women to escape from the constraints of their traditional roles and led some to participate in guerrilla activities.

Argues that the search for sincerity in the public arena actually constitutes a dangerous distraction from more important concerns, including factual truth and the ethical import of political statements. This title shows Plato to have an appreciation for rhetoric rather than a desire to purge it from public life.

This work offers a comprehensive history of the so-called Spiritual Franciscans, a protest movement within the Franciscan order. Burr shows that the movement existed as a loyal opposition in the late 13th century, but by 1318 Pope John XXII had forced it beyond the boundaries of legitimacy.

Brings together scholars from several disciplines in Reformation studies to examine the life, work, and enduring significance of John Jewel, bishop of Salisbury from 1560 to 1571.

Forgiving the Gift challenges the tendency to reflexively understand gifts as exchanges, negotiations, and circulations. Lawrence reads plays by Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare as informed by an early modern belief in the possibility and even necessity of radical generosity, of gifts that break the cycle of economy and self-interest.The prologue reads Marlowe''s Dr. Faustus to show how the play aligns gift and grace, depicting Faustus''s famous bond as the instrument simultaneously of reciprocal exchange and of damnation. In the introduction, the author frames his argument theoretically by placing Marcel Mauss''s classic essay, "The Gift," into dialogue with Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Paul Ricoeur to sketch two very different understandings of gift-giving. In the first, described by Mauss, the gift becomes a covert form of exchange. Though Mauss contrasts the gift economy with the market economy, his description of the gift economy nevertheless undermines his own project of discovering in it a basis for social solidarity. In the second understanding of gift exchange, derived from the philosophy of Levinas, the gift expresses the radical asymmetry of ethical concern.Literature and philosophy scholars alike will benefit from the original readings of The Merchant of Venice, Edward II, King Lear, Titus Andronicus, and The Tempest, which constitute the body of the text. These readings find in the plays a generosity that exceeds the social practice of gift-giving, because extraordinarily generous acts of friendship or filial affection survive the collapse of social norms. Antonio in Merchant and the title character in Edward II practice a friendship whose extravagance marks its excess. Lear, on the other hand, brings about his tragedy by attempting to reduce filial love to debt. Titus also discovers a love excessive to social convention when rape and mutilation annihilate his daughter''s cultural value. Finally, Prospero in The Tempest sacrifices power and even his own life for the love of his daughter, giving a gift rendered asymmetrical by both its excess and its secrecy.While proposing new readings of works of Renaissance drama, Forgiving the Gift also questions the model of human life from which many contemporary readings, especially those characterized as new historicist or cultural materialist, grow. In so doing, it addresses questions of how we are to understand literary texts-and how we are to live with others in the world.

"A collection of comics presenting diverse views of menopause. Contributors address a range of life experiences, ages, gender identities, ethnicities, and health conditions"--

Examines the administrative system and function of stamp impressions on storage jars in ancient Israel, illustrating the history of Judah during six centuries of subjugation to the empires that ruled the region.

A report of archaeological excavations at the City of David, the southeastern hill of second- and first-millennium BCE Jerusalem, conducted under the auspices of the Israel Antiquities Authority.

A narrative of the events that led the author to a career in archaeology and eventually to 34 years as director of the W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem.

Investigates the study of Sumerian by nonnative Akkadian speakers during the Old Babylonian period in areas outside major cities whose schools have been studied extensively. Provides transliterations and translations of 715 cuneiform school exercise texts.

Examines how the gospel of John draws on a number of Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions for the conception of the abyss and sea in Revelation, and how this background plays a key role in how the abyss functions in scripture.

A collection of essays on Akkadian linguistics honoring the career of scholar John Huehnergard and covering topics including lexicon, morphology, word order, syntax, verbal semantics, and subgrouping.

A collection of essays addressing the nexus of religion and geography in the ancient Near East, presenting several case studies that cover a range of time periods and areas to illuminate the diverse phenomena that occur when religion is viewed through the lenses of space and place.

An exploration of the complexities of the human brain in graphic novel format.

A narrative, in graphic novel format, following Cristina Duran and Miguel Angel Giner Bou as they rebuild and reinvent themselves after their daughter Laia is born with cerebral palsy. Their story continues through the arduous process of adopting their second daughter, Selam, from Ethiopia.

A series of vignettes, in graphic novel format, that explore the lives of ten young Iranian men and women from diverse backgrounds.

A multidisciplinary collection of essays exploring current scholarship on the history of human identification. Examines how techniques of identification are entangled within a wider sphere of cultural identity formation.

An art-historical analysis of the Shroud of Turin as a sacred image in the artistic culture of early modern Italy.

Examines the life and work of William Lamport (d. 1659), an Irish rebel, soldier, poet, and thinker who was burned at the stake by the Inquisition in Mexico. Includes a collection of Lamport's most representative writings, including poetry, psalms, and a plan for a Mexican uprising against Spain.