Social Sciences

The Japan Self-Defense Forces Law

Translation, History, and Analysis

Edited By: Robert D. Eldridge, Musashi Katsuhiro

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The first book to examine the Japan Self-Defense Forces Law, this provides a historical overview of its function since 1954. It includes the first full English translation of the Law, incorporating all 160+ changes. Essential for students, scholars, and practitioners.

The Jesuits in Spanish America in 1767

By: Robert H. Jackson, Juan Antonio Siller Camacho

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In 1767, the Jesuits were expelled from Spanish America. This book provides an overview of their urban colegios and frontier missions at the time of the expulsion, focusing on the Guaraní missions. This volume contains a visual catalog of historic maps and images.

The Jewish Diaspora after 1945

A Study of Jewish Communities in the Middle East and North Africa

Edited By: S. Behnaz Hosseini

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For millennia, Jews played an integral role in the Arab world, Turkey, Iran, and North Africa. The 1948 establishment of Israel was a transformational event leading to their mass expulsion and emigration, ending the existence of these vital communities.

The Jewish Experience in Classical Music

Shostakovich and Asia

Edited By: Alexander Tentser

£39.99

Shostakovich, a 20th-century Russian composer under Soviet rule, and Daniel Asia, a contemporary Jewish-American, are two highly dissimilar composers connected by the common thread of Jewish music. This book explores their use of it to express Jewish suffering and faith.

The Jewish Leaderships in Slovakia and Hungary During the Holocaust Era

The Price of Silence

By: Ruth Landau

From £37.99

This study of the Holocaust in Slovakia and Hungary reveals that in 1944, Jewish leaders were fully informed about Auschwitz but did not warn their people. While the vast majority of Jews perished, almost all the leaders survived. Why did they choose to remain silent?

The Jews and the Nation-States of Southeastern Europe from the 19th Century to the Great Depression

Combining Viewpoints on a Controversial Story

Edited By: Tullia Catalan, Marco Dogo

£47.99

This volume approaches the position of Jews in Southeastern Europe during the second half of the 19th century from the point of view of contemporary western Judaism, perhaps more sensitive to the sufferings of “our poor brothers in the East”.

The Joker

By: Harry Eiss

£62.99

Why does a psychopath like the Joker seem to have a sense of higher truths? This is the role of the Fool. This book explores how, as culture fragments, artists reveal darkness and show how expressions of meaninglessness are rites-of-passage, not a final destination.

The Journeys of Besieged Languages

Edited By: Poia Rewi, Rawinia Higgins, Delyn Day

£68.99

In this volume, 13 under-threat languages tell their own stories through their consummate battles with languages dominating their ways of thinking. The value of these languages is told through linkages with the past and present and where values with wider audiences may be shared.

The Jurisprudence of Lord Denning

A Study in Legal History, in Three Volumes

By: Charles Stephens

£99.99

This definitive trilogy explores the jurisprudence of Lord Denning, the 20th century's most pivotal judge. It reveals his shaping of the common law, his view of English identity, and his response to an era of immense social change.

This definitive trilogy explores the jurisprudence of Lord Denning, the 20th century’s most pivotal judge. It reveals his shaping of the common law, his view of English identity, and his response to an era of immense social change.

The Kaleidoscope of Gendered Memory in Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s Novels

By: Nuha Baaqeel

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This study explores how Ahlam Mosteghanemi’s novels on the Algerian War’s trauma challenge the myth of a single national story, revealing nationhood as a polyphonic dialogue of competing memories and imagined futures.

The Kaleidoscope of Women’s Sounds in Music of the Late 20th and Early 21st Centuries

By: Kheng K. Koay

£47.99

This book traces the development of music in the late 20th and 21st centuries through the work of six women composers. It integrates cultural contexts with their biographies and provides in-depth analyses of how they developed their own distinctly personal musical styles.

The Kantian Legacy of Late Modernity

An Essay in Aesthetics and Epistemology

By: Maria-Ana Tupan

£45.99

Tupan traces the influence exerted by Immanuel Kant, through Bergson’s intuitionism, Husserl’s phenomenology, Dessoir’s aesthetics, Vaihinger’s als ob fictionalism, and Popper’s logical positivism. She draws parallels between the history of ideas and late modernity discourses.

The Kiev Leaflets as Folia Glagolitica Zempliniensia

By: Martin Pukanec

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This book argues the Kiev Leaflets, the oldest Slavic manuscript, do not originate from the Bulgarian-Macedonian area. Instead, linguistic and historical evidence, including a prayer against the Hungarians, points to the Eastern Obodrites in modern Ukraine between 894 and 900.

The Knowledge Argument and Phenomenal Concepts

By: Luca Malatesti

£39.99

This book confronts Frank Jackson’s influential knowledge argument against physicalism. It defends physicalism using the phenomenal concept strategy, arguing that we don't know non-physical facts, but have unique ways of thinking about conscious experience.

This book confronts Frank Jackson’s influential knowledge argument against physicalism. It defends physicalism using the phenomenal concept strategy, arguing that we don’t know non-physical facts, but have unique ways of thinking about conscious experience.

The Koreas between China and Japan

Edited By: Lee Guen, Victor Teo

£47.99

This collection of essays examines the Korean Peninsula's nuclear and reunification challenges through the crucial lens of Sino-Japanese relations. While China and Japan share the goal of a stable, nuclear-free Korea, both North and South Korea adeptly resist their influence.

This collection of essays examines the Korean Peninsula’s nuclear and reunification challenges through the crucial lens of Sino-Japanese relations. While China and Japan share the goal of a stable, nuclear-free Korea, both North and South Korea adeptly resist their influence.

The Labyrinth of Ayahuasca

By: Manuel Almendro

From £40.99

A first-hand perspective on Traditional Indigenous Medicine and ayahuasca, based on teachings from the Asháninka, Mazatec, Cocama, & Navajo. This book explores spirituality and healing past traumas, while analyzing the psychedelic world's potential, contradictions, and dangers.

The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer (1763)

Edited By: Alain Kerhervé

£49.99

In 1763, The Ladies Complete Letter-Writer was the first manual exclusively for women in eighteenth-century Britain. It questioned pre-conceived ideas on women and their writing. Unedited since 1765, it is now presented with a new introduction and notes.

The Lake Poets in Prose

Connecting Threads

By: Stuart Andrews

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Focusing on their prose, this collection challenges assumptions about the Lake Poets. Far from idealistic dreamers or "Jacobins," they consistently challenged the government, defended democratic impulses, and argued from a complex and surprising religious standpoint.

Focusing on their prose, this collection challenges assumptions about the Lake Poets. Far from idealistic dreamers or “Jacobins,” they consistently challenged the government, defended democratic impulses, and argued from a complex and surprising religious standpoint.

The Land of Fertility I

South-east Mediterranean since the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest

Edited By: Maciej Wacławik, Maciej Wacławik

£41.99

The papers collected in this anthology are based on presentations given at the conference “The Land of Fertility: The South-East Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest”, focused on the processes prevalent in this region after the end of the Stone Age.

The Land of Fertility II

The Southeast Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest

Edited By: Maciej Wacławik

£63.99

This volume presents a detailed analysis of cities in the Fertile Crescent, the region where human civilisation began. It covers their formation, development, the urbanisation process, and urban ideology from the beginning of the Bronze Age to the Muslim Conquest.

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