This scholarly work combines detailed mineralogy with folklore, unveiling the mystical properties attributed to various stones and charms across civilizations.

Scattered across the globe, the Isma'ilis constitute the second largest Shi'i community in the Muslim World.

This book offers a new type of working tool for Cartesian studies.

Karen L. King offers an illuminating reading of this ancient text--a narrative of the creation of the universe and humanity and a guide to justice and salvation, said to be Christ's revelation to his disciple John.

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This book presents a cultural history of the Greek tragedy and its influence on subsequent Greek and Roman art and literature.

This book is about mapping the future of eighteenth-century women’s writing and feminist literary history, in an academic culture that is not shy of declaring their obsolescence.

James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who established its principles, offering a fresh look at how ideas about representative government, suffrage, and the principles of self-rule and ideals ...