Religions – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 30, 2013|Religions|0 comments

E-books Encyclopedia of Hinduism / edited by Denise Cush, Catherine Robinson, Michael York. Books The logic of law-making in Islam: women and prayer in the legal tradition / Behnam Sadeghi. Receptacle of the sacred: illustrated manuscripts and the Buddhist book cult in South Asia / Jinah Kim. Not quite shamans: spirit worlds and political lives in northern Mongolia / Morten Axel Pedersen. Inquisition in early Islam: the competition for political

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – May 2013

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 29, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations Perché il male? : il problema della Mesopotamia antica / Claudio Saporetti ; con un contributo bibliografico di Giovanna Matini. Wissenskultur im Alten Orient Weltanschauung, Wissenschaften, Techniken, Technologien : 4. Internationales Colloquium der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft 20.-22. Februar 2002, Münster Im Auftrag des Vorstands der Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft / unter Mitarbeit von Susanne Paulus [and] Hans Neumann. A manual of Hurrian / by Arnaud Fournet. La collezione orientale

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History – December 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 3, 2013|History|0 comments

e-book Opium regimes: China, Britain, and Japan, 1839-1952 / edited by Timothy Brook and Bob Tadashi Wakabayashi. [Available from ebrary] Books The Alexander romance in Persia and the East / edited by Richard Stoneman, Kyle Erickson, Ian Netton. Violence and colonial order: police, workers and protest in the European colonial empires, 1918-1940 / Martin Thomas. The Cambridge companion to Deleuze / edited by Daniel Smith and Henry Somers-Hall  The political

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – October 2012

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

Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations The arrows of the sun: armed forces in Sippar in the first millennium BC / by John MacGinnnis ; with copies of the cuneiform texts by Cornelia Wunsch New inscriptions and seals relating to the Biblical world / by Meir Lubetski Ancient Aramaic documents from Bactria / edited by Joseph Naveh and Shaul Shaked  Jewish Studies Shoshannat Yaaqov : Jewish and Iranian studies in honor of

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History – October 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|November 2, 2012|History|0 comments

E-books Egypt in the reign of Muhammad Ali / Afaf Lutfi al-Sayyid Marsot [Available from Cambridge Books Online]. Wars of imperial conquest in Africa, 1830-1914 / Bruce Vandervort [Available from ebrary] South Africa: a modern history / T.R.H. Davenport and Christopher Saunders; foreword by Desmond Tutu (5th edition) [Available from Dawsonera] Books Representing Israel in modern Egypt: ideas, intellectuals and foreign policy from Nasser to Mubarak / Ewan Stein In

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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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Religions – August 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|September 5, 2012|Religions|0 comments

e-books e-books are available to SOAS staff and students only, on or off-campus. Sinister yogis / David Gordon White – ebrary The origins of yoga and tantra : Indic religions to the thirteenth century / Geoffrey Samuel – Dawsonera Yoga body: the origins of modern posture practice / Mark Singleton – Dawsonera Introducing world Christianity / edited by Charles E. Farhadian – Dawsonera Endings: a sociology of death and dying / Michael C. Kearl. – Dawsonera

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Middle East and Central Asia – Jan to May 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|May 29, 2012|Middle East, Central Asia and Islamica|0 comments

Palestinian village histories : geographies of the displaced / Rochelle A. Davis. Imperial citizen : marriage and citizenship in the Ottoman frontier provinces of Iraq / Karen M. Kern Streets of memory : landscape, tolerance, and national identity in Istanbul / Amy Mills. Romanschauplatz Saudi-Arabien : Transformationen, Konfrontationen, Lebensläufe / Elga Martinez-Weinberger. The spaces between the teeth : a gazetteer of towns on the Islamic-Byzantine frontier / Asa Eger. The

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