The Origin of Modern Shinto in Japan: The Vanquished Gods of Izumo
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Yijiang Zhong analyses the formation of Shinto as a complex and diverse religious tradition in early...
The Precariat: The New Dangerous Class
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Described by Noam Chomsky as 'a very important book', Guy Standing's The Precariat has achieved cult...
The Transformation of Tamil Religion: Ramalinga Swamigal and Modern Dravidian Sainthood
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This book analyses the articulations of Tamil identity in the period of colonial modernity and...
Library Services from Birth to Five: Delivering the Best Start
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Following on from their ground-breaking first book, Delivering the Best Start, Rankin and Brock...
Slow Cinema
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In the context of a frantic world that celebrates instantaneity and speed, a number of cinemas...
Interkosmos: The Eastern Bloc's Early Space Program: 2016
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This book focuses on the Interkosmos program, which was formed in 1967, marking a fundamentally new...
Ben Le Vay's Eccentric Oxford
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Dreaming spires, honeyed stone, cycling dons ...forget all that tourist twaddle, says Benedict le...
Travels in a Dervish Cloak
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Since 9/11 the reader has been inundated with academic volumes about radical Islam, the...
Queen of Someday (Stolen Empire, #1)
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Before she can become the greatest empress in history, fifteen-year-old Sophie will have to survive...
Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur: A Biographical Study
Robert Bagg and Mary Bagg
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) is part of a notable literary cohort, American...
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