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The Gulen Movement and Islam&'s Third WayDavid Tittensor offers a groundbreaking new perspective on the Gulen movement, a Turkish Muslim educational activist network that emerged in the 1960s and has grown into a global empire with an estimated worth of $25 billion. Named after its leader Fethullah Gulen, the movement has established more than...

Peacemaking and the Production of Enmity in a Secular AgeSupporters of Hamas and radical religious Israeli settlers seem to serve one purpose in the international peace process: to provide an excuse for its failure. High-level diplomatic negotiators and grassroots peace activists alike blame religious extremists for acting as spoilers of rational...

How the British and Germans Survived Bombing in World War IIThe story of the mass bombing of British and German cities in World War II - and how these two very different societies tried to cope with the material devastation and psychological trauma that was visited upon them....

Robert Stalnaker explores the notion of the context in which speech takes place, its role in the interpretation of what is said, and in the explanation of the dynamics of discourse. He distinguishes different notions of context, but the main focus is on the notion of context as common ground, where the common ground is an evolving body of...

The Oxford Handbook of Derivational Morphology is intended as a companion volume to the Oxford Handbook of Compounding (OUP 2009), aiming to provide a comprehensive and thorough overview of the study of derivational morphology. Written by distinguished scholars, its 41 chapters are devoted to theoretical and definitional matters, formal and...

Modernism and Historical NarrativeGuided by Ezra Pound&'s dictum --"e;Make it new"e;--a generation of writers set out to create fiction and poetry that was unlike anything that came before it. However, as Seamus O&'Malley shows, historical narrative was a key site for modernist experimentation. Taking three of literary modernism&'s major...