Religions – April 2015

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 15, 2015|Religions|0 comments

Comparative and thematic Religious identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammed : continuity and change / edited by Michael Blömer, Achim Lichtenberger, Rubina Raja. From your gods to our gods: a history of religion in Indian, South African, and British courts / Marco Ventura The end of conceit: western rationality after postcolonialism / Patrick Chabal. [also available as a e-book] After secularism: rethinking religion in global politics / Erin

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – July 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 5, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Imagining the past: historical fiction in New Kingdom Egypt / Colleen Manassa. Als die Götter auch noch Mensch waren : eine Anthologie altorientalischer Literatur / Sabina Franke (Hrsg.) New results and new questions on the reign of Suppiluliuma I / edited by Stefano de Martino, Jared L. Miller. Byzantium Arab-Byzantine coins and history: papers presented at the 13th Seventh Century Syrian Numismatic Round Table held at

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – June 2014

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 7, 2014|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations La tour de Babylone : Etudes et recherches sur les monuments de Babylone / Béatrice André-Salvini (dir.) Apprendre le hourrite / Arnaud Fournet Interpretations of Sinuhe : inspired by two passages (proceedings of a workshop held at Leiden University, 27-29 November 2009) / ed. by Harold M. Hays, Frank Federer and Ludwig D. Morenz. Personal names in ancient Anatolia / edited by Robert Parker. Comment devient-on

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China and Inner Asia – June to November 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 7, 2014|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

The People’s Republic of China at 60 : an international assessment / edited by William C. Kirby. The gender of memory : rural women and China’s collective past / Gail Hershatter. China maritime customs and China’s trade statistics, 1859-1948 / Thomas P. Lyons. Dancing for the dead [videorecording] : funeral strippers in Taiwan / a Marc L. Moskowitz film. A Jesuit garden in Beijing and early modern Chinese culture /

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History – October 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 14, 2013|History|0 comments

Cultural encounters during the Crusades / edited by Kurt Villads Jensen, Kirsi Salonen, Helle Vogt. Monarchy and modernity in Egypt: politics, Islam and neo-colonialism between the wars / James Whidden.  The military collapse of China’s Ming Dynasty, 1618-44 / by Kenneth M. Swope.   Not even my name: from a death march in Turkey to a new home in America, a young girl’s true story of genocide and survival /

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Religions – August 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 2, 2013|Religions|0 comments

Yogasūtrabhāṣyavivaraṇa of Śaṅkara : Vivaraṇa text with English translation, and critical notes along with text and English translation of Patañjali’s Yogasūtras and Vyāsabhāṣya / T.S. Rukmani. In the age of Averroes: Arabic philosophy in the sixth/twelfth century / edited by Peter Adamson  The Oxford handbook of religion and emotion / edited by John Corrigan.  The Ottoman Süryânî from 1908 to 1914 / Benjamin Trigona-Harany The Orient in Spain: converted Muslims,

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – June 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|July 2, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Iron Age hieroglyphic Luwian inscriptions / by Annick Payne. Administrative Ur III texts in the British Museum / Marcel Sigrist, Tohru Ozaki  The photographs of the American Palestine Exploration Society / [compiled] by Rachel Hallote, Felicity Cobbing, and Jeffrey B. Spurr. Beyond Hatti : a tribute to Gary Beckman / edited by Billie Jean Collins and Piotr Michalowski. A glossary of Hurrian and Kassite / Arnaud

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China and Inner Asia – February 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|March 11, 2013|China and Inner Asia|0 comments

e-books from Chinamaxx 穆斯林的葬礼 / 霍达著. 红尘 / 霍达著 囯殇 / 霍達著 搏浪天涯 / [霍达著]. 秦皇父子 / 霍达著 补天裂 / 霍达著. 未穿的红嫁衣 ; 沉浮 / 霍达著. Books 古兰经与伊斯兰文化 / 王新生著  Walmart in China / edited by Anita Chan. Poverty and exclusion of minorities in China and India /A.S. Bhalla and Dan Luo. Women and gender in twentieth-century China /Paul J. Bailey. Ruling, resources and religion in China : managing the multiethnic

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 5, 2012|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

 Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Pilgrimage and household in the ancient near East / Joy McCorriston “With my many chariots I have gone up the heights of the mountains”: historical and literary studies on ancient Mesopotamia and Israel / Hayim Tadmor ; edited by Mordechai Cogan Stories from ancient Canaan / edited and translated by Michael D. Coogan and Mark S. Smith The monuments of Syria: a guide / Ross Burns

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Films and Sound Recordings – July 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|August 2, 2012|Films and Sound Recordings|0 comments

Films Divine intervention [videorecording] : a chronicle of love and pain / a film by Elia Suleiman starring Elia Suleiman, Manal Khader, Nayef Fahoum Daher, Amer Daher, Jamel Daher, George Ibrahim … Cry, the beloved country Disgrace / Film Finance Corporation Australia presents in association with Newbridge Film Capital … [et al.] a Wild Strawberries/Sherman Pictures production a Steve Jacobs film director, Steve Jacobs writer, Anna-Maria Monticelli producer, Anna-Maria Monticelli,

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