Folklore: Unlocking the Secrets of Our Post-Enlightenment World
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In Folklore, Bill Ivey, former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, argues that the...
Ireland: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
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The island of Ireland is famous for its timeless beauty, the variety of its landscape, its quiet...
Jewish Drama & Theatre: From Rabbinical Intolerance to Secular Liberalism
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Jewish drama and theatre has followed a tortuous path from extreme rabbinical intolerance to...
The Golden Lands: Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand & Vietnam
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A groundbreaking survey of the Buddhist architecture of Southeast Asia, abundantly illustrated with...
The Immortals: Faces of the Incredible in Buddhist Burma
Guillaume Rozenberg and Ward Keeler
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In 1952 a twenty-six-year-old man living in a village in Central Burma was possessed by weikza -...
The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology
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Within the field of Islamic Studies, scientific research of Muslim theology is a comparatively young...
The Qur'an and Adab: The Shaping of Literary Traditions in Classical Islam
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Though there have been many studies on the Qur'an's importance in tafs=Ir (Qur'anic commentary),...
An Einstein Encyclopedia
Alice Calaprice, Daniel Kennefick and Robert Schulmann
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This is the single most complete guide to Albert Einstein's life and work for students, researchers,...
The Temple of Perfection: A History of the Gym
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Many of us have exercised in a gym; many more of us intend, at some point, to join one. Some work...
Killers of the King: The Men Who Dared to Execute Charles I
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January, 1649. After seven years of fighting in the bloodiest war in Britain's history, Parliament...