
Biometrics: Bodies, Technologies, Biopolitics
Book
Biometric technologies, such as finger- or facial-scan, are being deployed across a variety of...

Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: A-Z
Edwin M. Yamauchi and Marvin R. Wilson
Book
The Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity is a unique reference work that...

Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity: O - Z: Volume 4: O-Z
Edwin M. Yamauchi and Marvin R. Wilson
Book
The Dictionary of Daily Life in Biblical & Post-Biblical Antiquity is a unique reference work that...

Film Text Analysis: New Perspectives on the Analysis of Filmic Meaning
Janina Wildfeuer and John A. Bateman
Book
This book examines film as a multimodal text and an audiovisual synthesis, bringing together current...
Islamic Myths and Memories: Mediators of Globalization
Itzchak Weismann and Mark Sedgwick
Book
Islamic myths and collective memory are very much alive in today's localized struggles for identity,...

Ritual Retellings: Luangan Healing Performances Through Practice
Book
Belianis an exceptionally lively tradition of shamanistic curing rituals performed by the Luangans,...

World Heritage on the Ground: Ethnographic Perspectives
Christoph Brumann and David Berliner
Book
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural...

The Enemy on Display: The Second World War in Eastern European Museums
Zuzanna Bogumil and Joanna Wawrzyniak
Book
Eastern European Museums represent traumatic events of World War II, such as the Siege of Leningrad,...

Visual Atlas of the World
Book
Reimagined and completely updated for the first time since 2008, National Geographic's visual atlas...

Asia and the Future of Football: The Role of the Asian Football Confederation
Book
Football is the most popular sport in the world. Globalisation and commercialisation of the game,...