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2017 CESS Book Award Winner In Qazaqliq, or Ambitious Brigandage, and the Formation of the Qazaqs Joo-Yup Lee examines the formation of new group identities, with a focus on the Qazaqs, in post-Mongol Central Eurasia within the context of qazaqliq, or the qazaq way of life, a custom of political vagabondage widespread among the Turko-Mongolian peoples of Central Asia and the Qipchaq Steppe during the post-Mongol period.

Is violent conflict in Africa urbanizing?

Social Transformations in Chinese Societies is the official annual of The Hong Kong Sociological Association.

The Egyptian Gothic consists of novels and short stories about ancient Egyptian mummies returning to life to seek retribution or romance as well as cursed object tales.

Thirty major scholars in the field wrote this new, authoritative guide to the main features and development of Daoism.

The first part of this study covers the technical, economic and site constraints of the famous ancient Khmer monuments, as well as the architectural concepts and decoration of the structures.

This handbook brings together the two rapidly growing subfields of psychology, Positive Psychology and Health Psychology.