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Writers and Rebels
The Literature of Insurgency in the Caucasus
Spanning the period between the end of the Russo-Caucasian War and the death of the first female Chechen suicide bomber, this groundbreaking book is the first to compare Georgian, Chechen, and Daghestani depictions of...
Private Doubt, Public Dilemma
Religion and Science since Jefferson and Darwin
A distinguished scholar urges scientists and religious thinkers to become colleagues rather than adversaries in areas where their fields overlap Each age has its own crisis—our modern experience of science...
The Art of Peacemaking
Political Essays by István Bibó
István Bibó (1911–1979) was a Hungarian lawyer, political thinker, prolific essayist, and minister of state for the Hungarian national government during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. This magisterial compendium of Bibó’s...
An Uncanny Era
Conversations between Václav Havel and Adam Michnik
The first publication in book form of the historic postrevolution conversations between activist playwright and Czech president Vaclav Havel and Polish journalist Adam Michnik Czech playwright and dissident...
A Path in the Mighty Waters
Shipboard Life and Atlantic Crossings to the New World
A vivid and revealing portrait of shipboard life as experienced by eighteenth-century migrants from Europe to the New World In October 1735, James Oglethorpe’s Georgia Expedition set sail from London, bound...
Language and Literacy in Roman Judaea
A Study of the Bar Kokhba Documents
This comprehensive exploration of language and literacy in the multi-lingual environment of Roman Palestine (c. 63 B.C.E. to 136 C.E.) is based on Michael Wise’s extensive study of 145 Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek, and Nabataean...
Patriotic Betrayal
The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade Against Communism
The previously untold true story of the CIA’s clandestine use of American students as undercover operatives during the Cold War In 1967, CIA director Richard Helms had, as he would later recall, “one of my...
Remoteness and Modernity
Transformation and Continuity in Northern Pakistan
A penetrating anthropological inquiry into remote areas as understood by their inhabitants and by the outsiders who encounter them This groundbreaking book is the first sustained anthropological inquiry...
Longing for Home
Forced Displacement and Postures of Hospitality
What is it about the concept of “home” that makes its loss so profound and devastating, and how should the trauma of exile and alienation be approached theologically? M. Jan Holton examines the psychological, social, and...
Oscar Wilde's Chatterton
Literary History, Romanticism, and the Art of Forgery
In Oscar Wilde’s Chatterton, Joseph Bristow and Rebecca N. Mitchell explore Wilde’s fascination with the eighteenth-century forger Thomas Chatterton, who tragically took his life at the age of seventeen. This...