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In ancient Israel the production of food was a basic concern of almost every        Israelite. Consequently, there are few pages in the Old Testament that do not        mention food, and food provides some of the most important social, political and        religious symbols in the biblical text. Not Bread Alone is the first detailed...

The Gulen MovementM. Hakan Yavuz offers an insightful and wide-ranging study of the Gulen Movement, one of the most controversial developments in contemporary Islam. Founded in Turkey by the Muslim thinker Fethullah Gulen, the Gulen Movement aims to disseminate a ''moderate'' interpretation of Islam through faith-based education....

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Chronicling the shift from Romantic to modern configurations of sound and voice,    Victorian Soundscapes attends to the gothic intersections of nineteenth-century literature, technology, psychology, and acoustics. This book recaptures the sense of aural discovery that Victorian philosophers, psychologists, and inventors shared with the period's...