History – March 2014.

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|April 15, 2014|History|0 comments

General & comparative The look of the past: visual and material evidence in historical practice / Ludmilla Jordanova. Visualizing beauty: gender and ideology in modern East Asia / edited by Aida Yuen Wong. A brief history of Chinese and Japanese civilizations [4th edition] / Conrad Schirokauer … [et al.]. Decolonisation: the British experience since 1945 [2nd edition] / Nicholas J. White. History on film/film on history [2nd edition] / Robert

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Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica – December 2012

By Emma Wilson-Shaw|January 3, 2013|Ancient Near East, Semitics and Judaica|0 comments

Ancient Near Eastern civilizations A Sumerian chrestomathy / Konrad Volk, with the collaboration of Silvano Votto and Jessica Baldwin Hebrew studies Seride teshuvot : a descriptive catalogue of responsa fragments from the Jacques Mosseri collection, Cambridge University Library / by Shmuel Glick ; with Dotan Arad … [et al.] Jewish studies The lawgiver / by Herman Wouk Jewish identity and politics between the Maccabees and Bar Kokhba : groups, normativity,

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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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