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Michael Jung

Reduce Diving To A Science

The early modern period was a particularly exciting and pioneering era for the development of diving technology. The beginnings of commercial diving, scientific diving and recreational diving can be found…

Giovanni Aloi, Victoria Aresheva, Emmanuel Bacquet, Simon Baker

Science / Fiction.

From scientific discoveries to animist beliefs, from dread linked to genetic mutations to political narratives, from repulsion to fascination-plants are an inexhaustible source of stories that reveal our …

Science Fiction Classics Box: II

Jules Skotnes-Brown

Segregated Species

A timely history of the connections between science, segregation, and species in twentieth-century South Africa.

Kyama Mugambi, Mark Shaw,

Christians in the City of Nairobi

"This study examines the diverse expressions of Christianity found in Nairobi - a city with a population of ten million, and one of the most religiously pluralistic cities in the world. Chapters cover all…

Sishuwa Sishuwa

Party Politics and Populism in Zambia

Analysis of the political history of Zambia through a study of Michael Sata shows the importance of individual political leadership to the success of opposition parties in Africa.

Jacob Dlamini

Dying for Freedom

What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one's commitment to one's freedom? What happens when the opposite of freedom is not unfreedom but death, not slavery but mortality? How are we to thi…

Jacob Dlamini

Dying for Freedom

What happens when death becomes the ultimate marker of one's commitment to one's freedom? What happens when the opposite of freedom is not unfreedom but death, not slavery but mortality? How are we to thi…

Pedro Feitoza

Propagandists of the Book

Pedro Feitoza traces the history of Protestantism in Brazil through an analysis of the production and circulation of evangelical texts. Examining a wide range of periodicals, tracts, correspondence, and o…

Henryk Szlajfer

Jews and New Christians in the Making of the Atlantic World in the 16th-17th Centuries

Amsterdam Jews appeared up to the mid-17th century as Braudelian "great Jewish merchants." However, the New Christians, heretic judaizantes in the eyes of the Inquisition, dispersed around the world, were…

Philosophy, History and Biology: Essays in Honour of Jean Gayon

This book builds on recent scholarship highlighted in the edited collections, Philosophie, histoire, biologie: mélanges offerts à Jean Gayon (Merlin & Huneman, 2018) and Knowledge of Life Today (Gayon & P…

New Voices on Women in the History of Philosophy

This book promotes entirely new insights into women s contributions to the history of philosophy and boasts papers spanning the centuries from Antigone until twentieth century phenomenology, covering fiel…

Jan Herkel,

Elementa universalis linguae Slavicae

In 1826, as nationalism first began percolating through the Habsburg lands, Jรกn Herkel published a Latin-language Slavic grammar. Herkel, a lawyer and amateur linguist, came from the northern counties th…

Bohang Chen

On the Riddle of Life

This book presents a historico-logical study of vitalism. It begins by uncovering previously unknown doctrines of vitalism from the history of science encompassing biological, physical, and social science…

Kati Curts

Assembling Religion

Explores the ways in which Henry Ford and his motor company influenced American religion in the twentieth century Henry Ford did not just mass produce cars. As a member of the Episcopal Church, reader of…

James Urry

On Stony Ground

On Stony Ground traces a generation of Mennonite immigrants from the Soviet Union to Manitoba, detailing their adaptation to a new land.

Shane Lynn

Ireland's Opportunity: Global Irish Nationalism and the South African War

How the South African War transformed nationalist politics across Ireland's global diaspora In 1899, the British Empire embarked on a deeply controversial war against two small Boer Republics in South Af…

James Urry

On Stony Ground

On Stony Ground traces a generation of Mennonite immigrants from the Soviet Union to Manitoba, detailing their adaptation to a new land.

Lee Little

Changing Mission, Unchanging Faith

A story of the church's transformation, told through the lens of a mid-American city. Indianapolis is demographically close to the median American city and has experienced many of the same dynamics as ot…