Today marks the launch of the new Association of Business Schools Journal Ranking (2015) edition. Everywhere, business journal publishers have been awaiting this with bated breath- it’s like their Oscars, but without the nice dresses. Following my own Oscar-worthy performance at the DeFims Research Away Day (see what I did there?!), I felt it would be interesting to blog about this event, and perhaps compare some titles against the previous
How to write about contemporary art / Gilda Williams. International architecture in interwar Japan : constructing kokusai kenchiku / Ken Tadashi Ōshima. Beyond Bawa / David Robson with photographs by Richard Powers. The art of Indonesia / editor, Bachchan Kumar. Mīnākṣī-Sundareśvara : ‘Tiruviḷaiyāṭaṟ purāṇam’ in letters, design and art / R.K.K. Rajarajan, Jeyapriya Rajarajan. Horn please : the decorated trucks of India / Dan Eckstein. The cultural monuments of Tibet
The International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage (IJRTP) was founded by an international group of researchers – the Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Expert Group – in 2013 and is published by the Dublin Institute of Technology. The journal is a member of DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals) Content has a global cover, and includes thematic and cross-disciplinary articles as well as those focusing on a particular faith or
General & thematic Into new territory: American historians and the concept of US imperialism / James G. Morgan Travel narratives from the age of discovery: an anthology / edited by Peter C. Mancall Thinking history globally / Diego Olstein Hinterlands and commodities: place, space, time and the political economic development of Asia over the long eighteenth century / edited by Tsukasa Mizushima, George Bryan Souza and Dennis O’Flynn Chinese and
General and thematic Convulsing bodies: religion and resistance in Foucault / Mark D. Jordan The myth of religious violence: secular ideology and the roots of modern conflict / William T. Cavanaugh The devil: a new biography / Philip C. Almond Logical positivism [by] C.A. Qadir. Global religious movements across borders: sacred service / edited by Stephen M. Cherry [&] Helen Rose Ebaugh Medicine and religion: a historical introduction / Gary
10 March 2015, online at 3 pm This webinar is intended for anyone who wants to know more about finding data from the UK Data Service. Participants will be given a practical overview, focusing on the Service’s search-and-browse portal – Discover – which allows users to find datasets, variables, qualitative extracts, support guides, case studies, ESRC outputs, and more. Hints and tips on how to get the best out of
Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Poetic heroes: literary commemorations of warriors and warrior culture in the early Biblical world / Mark S. Smith. Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Hittitology : Warsaw, 5-9 September 2011 / edited by Piotr Taracha with the assistance of Magdalena Kepelus. Entre les fleuves – II : D’Assur à Mari et au-delà / [edited by] Nele Ziegler and Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum The sacrificial economy: assessors, contractors,
Two recent acquisitions by SOAS Library on ancient Near Eastern studies and comparative ancient Near Eastern literatures have been reviewed in the Society of Biblical Literature’s Review of Biblical Literature Poetic astronomy in the ancient Near East : the reflexes of celestial science in ancient Mesopotamian, Ugaritic, and Israelite narrative / Jeffrey L. Cooley. (Eisenbrauns, 2013) – reviewed by Stephen C. Russell of John Jay College (City University of New
491 days : prisoner number 1323/69 / Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Africa : geographies of change / Richard Grant Africa in Scotland, Scotland in Africa : historical legacies and contemporary hybridities / edited by Afe Adogame, Andrew Lawrence. Africa rising? : BRICS – diversifying dependency / Ian Taylor. Africa39 : new writing from Africa south of the Sahara / introduction by Wole Soyinka ; editor, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey. African football, identity politics,
