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Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern EraThe Ottoman-Jewish story has long been told as a romance between Jews and the empire. The prevailing view is that Ottoman Jews were protected and privileged by imperial policies and in return offered their unflagging devotion to the imperial government over many centuries. In this book, Julia...

A Jewish, Christian, and Islamic TrialogueThis book is an examination of natural law doctrine, rooted in the classical writings of our respective three traditions: Jewish, Christian, and Islamic. Each of the authors provides an extensive essay reflecting on natural law doctrine in his tradition. Each of the authors also provides a thoughtful...

&'between the life we live and the life we feel...there is the invisible border, like a narrow gate&'Set in a boarding school in a remote area of the Habsburg Empire at the turn of the last century, The Confusions of Young Trless is an intense study of an adolescent&'s psychological development as he struggles to come to terms with his conflicting...

The essays serve as an introduction to key issues in philosophy of education, and advance the discussion of those issues in original and fruitful ways. Distinguished philosophers address a broad range of philosophical questions concerning education--the first cohort of outstanding general philosophers to do so (in English) in a generation....

An Anthology of Women TravellersReal ladies do not travel - or so it was once said. This collection of women&'s travel writing dispels the notion by showing how there are few corners of the world that have not been visited by women travellers. There are also few difficulties, physical or emotional, real or imagined, that have not been met and...

This book deals with an important class of many-body systems: those where the interaction potential decays slowly for large inter-particle distances; in particular, systems where the decay is slower than the inverse inter-particle distance raised to the dimension of the embedding space. Gravitational and Coulomb interactions are the most prominent...