Social groups: religious groups and communities

This innovative book applies findings from the field of cognitive linguistics to the study of emotions in the Hebrew Bible.

The first full-length treatment of Ibn Gabirol''s philosophy in English, providing a new approach to the philosophy of the Fons Vitae.

A Spitfire Named Connie is an exciting rollercoaster of a story.

Ursula Rosenfeld was born in 1925 in Quakenbruck, Germany to a Liberal Jewish family.

Many books and memoirs have been written on prisoner of war captivity in the Far East during the Second World War.

August Wilson (1945-2005) wrote one play for every decade of the twentieth century that explored black life in America for the descendants of slaves.

The Panzerkampfwagen V Panther is one of the best-known German tanks in existence and is considered one of the greatest tanks of World War II.

The factors leading to the defeat of the Axis Powers in World War II have been debated for decades.

Memorializing Pearl Harbor examines the challenge of representing history at the site of the attack that brought America into World War II.

The diary kept by Ronald Edward Tritton is a revealing and often frank record of the internal conflicts at the Public Relations Department of the War Office and the Ministry of Information during the Second World War.

During World War Two, death and violence permeated all aspects of the everyday lives of ordinary people in Eastern Europe.

Islam, as a philosophy, a way of life and of course as a faith, has served like a lighthouse for the whole world.

Part contemporary detective story, part World War II historical narrative, No Surrender is the inspiring true story of Roddie Edmonds, a Knoxville-born enlistee who risked his life during the final days of World War II to save others from murderous Nazis, and the lasting effects his actions had on thousands of lives—then and now.

The final volume in the Barbarossa trilogy, this title completes the account of the strategic intricacies of the German campaign against RussiaRobert Kirchubel examines the causes behind the German failure, including the inability to resupply troops or provide reserves, as well as the lack of decent German winter uniforms and transport with dramatic contemporary photographs detailing the unforgiving battlefield conditions.

Bo, Jenny and I is a memoir describing the life of a young woman growing up in unusual circumstances, as well as a discussion of political and sociological effects of troubled times upon "e;ordinary people.

By the early months of 1944 in the Pacific, the US Navy's burgeoning force of carrier-based F6F-3/5 Hellcats had pretty much wiped the skies clear of Japanese fighters during a series of one-sided aerial engagements.

Discover the key events in the war that shaped the modern world - moment by moment.

The conventional understanding of Israeli foreign policy has been that it is a relatively new phenomenon, with some claiming that the 'Jewish People' is an invention by mid-19th century Jewish historians, or simply an 'imagined community'.

The past two decades have witnessed a proliferation of scholarship on dress in the ancient world.

This book advances a comprehensive moral defense of freedom of expression-one with implications for law and policy, but also for the choices of individuals and non-governmental institutions.

This fascinating book explores the concept of slow living, offering a philosophical and psychological exploration of the need for a slower pace of life.

An illustrated account of the Mediterranean clash between the leading RAF and Italian aces flying the Supermarine Spitfire V and the Macchi C.

The official prayer book for Orthodox Jews in the UK, with supporting commentary by Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks.

Hamas has ruled Gaza and the lives of the two million Palestinians who live there since 2006.

The definitive history of MI9's emergency escape and evasion mapping programme and the contribution the maps made to victory in 1945.

Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism reveals how political and literary dialogues and conflicts between the Hebrew literature of the Hasidism, the Jewish Enlightenment, and Zionism interacted with each other in the nineteenth century.

This book discusses Asia's rapid pace of urbanization, with a particular focus on new spaces created by and for everyday religiosity.

This book is an ethnographically-informed interview study of the ways in which middle-class mothers from three Israeli social-cultural groups - immigrants from the former Soviet Union, Palestinian Israelis and Jewish native-born Israelis - share and differ in their understandings of a 'proper' education for their children and of their role in ensuring this.

There is a long tradition of discussion in the philosophy of religion about the problems and possibilities involved in talking about God.

This comparative, transatlantic two-volume work covers nearly 120 years of the history of the rights, integration, and security of the Jewish people in both the United States and France, the countries with the largest and third-largest Jewish populations.

This new cultural history of Jewish life and identity in the United States after World War II focuses on the process of upward mobility.

Offering multilayered explorations of Hindu understandings of the Feminine, both human and divine, this book emphasizes theological and activist methods and aims over historical, anthropological, and literary ones.

Jewish Identities mounts a formidable challenge to prevailing essentialist assumptions about "e;Jewish music,"e; which maintain that ethnic groups, nations, or religious communities possess an essence that must manifest itself in art created by members of that group.

This book explains why we should stop thinking of freedom as limited to a right to be left alone.

"e;Extraordinarily rich, lively and illuminating.

A sweeping history of emotional life that explores how ''Dear John'' letters became a rite of passage for American servicemen.

The communitarian critic of liberalism argues that the socio-political context is fundamental to any understanding of the individual as such.

Includes hundreds of period photos covering all the details of the trucks, vans and trailers vital to maintain the communications of the U.

For decades the history of the US Military Tribunals at Nuremberg (NMT) has been eclipsed by the first Nuremberg trial the International Military Tribunal or IMT.

Explores the rise of Al Qaeda-influenced movements and militant Salafism, the most significant form of terrorism facing Western countries.

In the face of Soviet invasion in 1939 40, and once again in 1941 44, the armies raised by Finland a tiny nation of only 4 million people - astonished the world by their effective resistance.

Features a special section on the Hungarian German Jewish writer and theater director George Tabori and a Forum section on the 2016 film A German Life.

By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland.

"e;This book will find a place with the world War II remembrances of Tom Brokaw and Stephen Ambrose and the film Saving Private Ryan .

Hilal Elver offers an in-depth study of the escalating controversy over the right of Muslim women to wear headscarves.

DianeTuckman and Cecile Spiegel fled religious persecution with WWII conflicts attheir heels.

If politics is about the state, can a stateless people be political?