Golden Years?
This book discusses the complex ways socioeconomic status, race, and gender shape the lives of older adults.
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This War Ain’t Over
Examine the politically contentious ways in which all Americans remembered the Civil War era during the Great Depression.
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Jerusalem: A Brief History
Professor Michael Zank’s book presents the major epochs of Jerusalem’s history, urban transformation, and emergence as a holy city.
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New Book Examines Nora Roberts’ In Death…
Prof Kecia Ali’s newly published Human in Death seeks answers to vital questions about human flourishing.
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Islam and Democracy in Indonesia
Indonesia’s Islamic organizations sustain the country’s thriving civil society. Yet scholars poorly understand how these groups accomodate religious difference.
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Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars
Stephen Prothero places today’s heated culture wars within the context of a centuries-long struggle of right versus left and religious […]
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How States Pay for Wars
Armies fight battles, states fight wars. To focus solely on armies is to neglect the broader story of victory and […]
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Living with Difference
A growing number of academics have reached out to communities around the world to address the problems of living with […]
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Four Arab Hamlet Plays
Jumping off from Shakespeare’s tragedy, the Arab Hamlet tradition has produced bitter and hilarious political satire, musical comedy, and farce. […]
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Aristophanes and His Tragic Muse
Despite the many studies of Greek comedy and tragedy separately, scholarship has generally neglected the relation of the two. And […]
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Muslims Beyond the Arab World
The book deals with the vibrant tradition of writing African languages with the Arabic script called ʿAjamī and the rise […]
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The Particularistic President
As the holders of the only office elected by the entire nation, presidents have long claimed to be sole stewards […]