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Jeffrey L. Rubenstein offers a translation from the Hebrew of The Formation of the Babylonian Talmud by David Weiss Halivni. Halivni's work is widely regarded as the most comprehensive scholarly examination of the processes of composition and editing of the Babylonian Talmud....

We normally take it for granted that other people will live on after we ourselves have died. Even if we do not believe in a personal afterlife in which we survive our own deaths, we assume that there will be a "e;collective afterlife"e; in which humanity survives long after we are gone. Samuel Scheffler maintains that this assumption plays...

Comparative Textual StudiesThis volume is a broad-ranging comparative study with translations of texts, sections of texts and textual fragments that are concerned with women in early Indian Buddhism, including study of texts in Gandhari, Sanskrit, Pali, Chinese, Tibetan and Sinhala....

The Untold Story of Churchill's World War II SpeechesThe essential book on Winston Churchill's classic World War II speeches - one that will change the way we think about Churchill's oratory forever....

Robotics is a key technology in the modern world. Yet, despite these successes, robots have failed to live up to the predictions of the 1950s and 60s. In this Very Short Introduction, Alan Winfield considers how robotics can be both a success story and a disappointment, and how robots can be both ordinary and quite remarkable....

The Literary AgendaPoetry offers a unique perspective on the current and future value of poetry in terms of the public good....