Social science / Sociology

A Corpus of Early Tibetan Inscriptions

by H. E. Richardson

Published in the year 2000, A Corpus of Early Tibetan Inscriptions is a valuable contribution to he field of Asian Studies.

The Many Faces of Homosexuality: Anthropological Approaches to Homosexual Behavior

by Evelyn Blackwood

This groundbreaking book examines the diverse manifestations of homosexuality in various historical periods and non-Western cultures. The distinguished authors examine Kimam male ritualized homosexual behavior,...

An Essay on India (Routledge Revivals)

by Robert Byron

First published in 1931, Robert Byron's Essay on India evaluates the state of colonial rule in India and analyses the contemporary problems facing the country.

Based upon Byron's travelling experiences within...

Whistling Women: A Study of the Lives of Older Lesbians

by J Dianne Garner & Cheryl Claassen

Gain first-hand knowledge of how today's lesbians aged 60 and over survived the 20th century!

“I didn’t know we were lesbians. We lived together 13 years!”

Whistling Women is a unique, candid collection...

College Fight Songs II: A Supplementary Anthology

by William E Studwell & Bruce R Schueneman

Come join the band! College Fight Songs II is a supplement to the original College Fight Songs, providing 97 additional song texts and interesting historical information. Together they are a unique anthology...

Culture and International Business

by Kip Becker

Management strategies to help you profit in the international realm!What is the most effective way to help an expatriate employee learn to function in the host country? How well do we understand the formation...

Preparing Participants for Intergenerational Interaction: Training for Success

by Melissa Hawkins, Kenneth Backman & Francis A Mcguire

Preparing Participants for Intergenerational Interaction: Training for Success examines established intergenerational programs and provides the training methods necessary for activity directors or practitioners...

Gunpowder and Firearms in the Mamluk Kingdom: A Challenge to Medieval Society (1956)

by David Ayalon

This study of firearms analyzes the employment of such weaponry, dated more than 40 years after use in Europe, towards the close of the 1360s.

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC): The First Decade

by Werner Draguhn, Eva Manske & Jürgen Rüland

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) was founded in 1989. Since then the forum has developed into a major player in tri-partite relations between North America, East Asia and Europe. The Seattle and...

China's Accession to the World Trade Organization: National and International Perspectives

by Robert Ash & Heike Holbig

With China's accession to the World Trade Organization imminent, this book brings together the expert views of scholars, policy-makers and business representatives on the consequences of this historic event....

Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qu'ran

by Issa J Boullata

This volume studies how the literary elements in the Qur'an function in conveying its religious message effectively. It is divided into three parts. Part one includes studies of the whole Qur'an or large segments...

Qur'an Translation: Discourse, Texture and Exegesis

by Hussein Abdul-Raof

The Qur'an is read by millions of Muslims on a daily basis, yet there is no book available to the reader, Arab or non-Arab, which provides a linguistic and rhetorical insight into Qur'anic discourse. This book...

Political Culture in Libya

by Amal S M Obeidi & Amal Obeidi

Few empirical studies of Arab countries have dealt with political culture and political socialisation or focused on people's beliefs, values, and attitudes towards the government or political leaders, mainly...

The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam: The Authenticity of Muslim Literature from the Formative Period

by Herbert Berg

The most important debate in Islamic origins is that of the reliability of the lists of transmitters (isnads) that are said to guarantee the authenticity of the materials to which they are attached. Many scholars...

Religion and Biography in China and Tibet

by Benjamin Penny

The Chinese and Tibetan traditions value biography as a primary historiographical and literary genre. This volume analyses biographies as texts, taking seriously the literary turn in historical and religious...

The Origins of Islamic Law: The Qur'an, the Muwatta' and Madinan Amal

by Yasin Dutton

If the Qur'an is the first written formulation of Islam in general, Malik's Muwatta' is arguably the first written formulation of the Islam-in-practice that becomes Islamic law. This book considers the methods...

Islamic Art Collections: An International Survey

by Karin Adahl

An annotated index and general orientation of Islamic art collections in museums, libraries, other institutions and on private hands. Includes a short description of each collection, its main characteristics,...

Southeast Asian Paper Tigers

by K. S. Jomo

This important collection is a timely contribution to the debate on the Asian financial crisis. With chapters written by well-established international experts in Asian economics, this book constitutes a finely...

China Threat: Perceptions Myths

by Herbert Yee & Ian Storey

Since the end of the Cold War, one of the most significant debates in international relations has been the question of whether the rise of China as a major economic, political and military power will be a force...

Testing Women, Testing the Fetus: The Social Impact of Amniocentesis in America

by Rayna Rapp

Rich with the voices and stories of participants, these touching, firsthand accounts examine how women of diverse racial, ethnic, class and religious backgrounds perceive prenatal testing, the most prevalent...