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The Politics of Identity and Oriental Studies in the Late Imperial and Early        Soviet PeriodsRussia's own Orient examines how intellectuals in early twentieth-century Russia        offered a new and radical critique of the ways in which Oriental cultures were        understood at the time...

The only book to provide a systematic and comparative overview of the most        important European and international regimes regarding the liability of asset        managers....

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The Handbook of Biomedical Nonlinear Optical Microscopies provides comprehensive treatment of the theories, techniques, and biomedical applications of nonlinear optics and microscopy for cell biologists, life scientists, biomedical engineers, and clinicians, with basic and advanced sections, and textual and graphical illustrations of key concepts....

What does the story of the Flood mean to us and why does it so stir the collective imagination? When the Great Abyss Opened examines the history of our attempts to understand the Flood, from medieval Jewish and Christian speculation about the physical details of the ark to contemporary efforts to link it to scientific findings. Unraveling the...

In the ancient Mayan drama   Rabinal Achi, a rebel warrior is captured by the ruler of an enemy city-state and faces his certain death at court. The first direct translation into English....