Steven Collins 
Nirvana [PDF ebook] 
Concept, Imagery, Narrative

This volume focuses on special military and diplomatic missions in various provinces of the Empire that Augustus and Tiberius entrusted to selected members of the domus Augusta, granting them special …

This volume explores several notable themes related to foreign affairs in Latin America and the reconfiguration of the power of the different states in the region. It offers insightful historical per …

As the UK enters a period of intense public introspection in the wake of Brexit, this book takes on one of the key questions emerging from the divisive process: what is Britain”s place in the world? …

When God Lost Her Tongue explores historical consciousness as captured through the Black feminist imagination that re-centers the perspectives of Black women in the African Diaspora, and revisits how …

In 1904, New York nuns brought 40 Irish orphans to a remote Arizona mining camp, to be placed with Mexican-Catholic families. The town s Anglo-Americans, furious at this transgression, formed a vigil …

Between his inauguration and September 11, 2001, George W. Bush”s presidency appeared to lack focus. The rhetoric of the campaign trail did not readily translate into concrete policies and a closely …

Provides a new and authoritative account of the complex patterns of development, teaching and practice in the religions of Asia. With individual chapters written by specialists, this volume provides …

Aristoxenus made an enormous contribution to the development of music theory in antiquity. Despite his Pythagorean upbringing, he rejected Pythagorean methods of harmonics which focused on the mathem …

Votes for Women provides an innovative re-examination of the suffrage movement, presenting new perspectives which challenge the existing literature on this subject. This fascinating book charts the h …

In the years preceding publication of this book in 1986 much progress was made in identifying the social sources of support for Hitler’s NSDAP and in determining the tactics employed by the party to …