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Wyatt to SpenserMasculinity and the Hunt traces the imagery of the hunt in English literature of the sixteenth century, exploring a set of practices and motifs that are central to the culture of the period....

An Austinian View of Knowledge and Knowledge ClaimsWhat is an assurance? What do we do when we claim to know? Krista Lawlor offers an original account based on the work of J. L. Austin. She addresses challenges to contextualist semantic theories; resolves closure-based skeptical paradoxes; and helps us tread the line between acknowledging our...

Dilemmas of Interpretation in Radak's Biblical CommentariesThis book analyzes the consistent ways Radak (R. David Kimhi, c. 1160-1232) juxtaposes plain, contextual exegesis (peshat) within his biblical commentaries alongside ancient modes of rabbinic interpretation (derash). In addition, the book explores his criteria for challenging rabbinic...

Women and Migration in a Global CityCosmopolitan Sex Workers examines the phenomenon of non-trafficked women who choose to migrate from one global city to another to perform paid sexual labor in Southeast Asia. Christine B.N. Chin offers an innovative theoretical framework termed "e;3C"e; (city, creativity, and cosmopolitanism) to analyze...

Music Piracy and the Remaking of American Copyright in the Twentieth CenturyDemocracy of Sound tells the story of the pirates, radicals, jazzbos, Deadheads, and DJs who challenged the record industry for control of recorded sound throughout the twentieth century. A political and cultural history, it shows how the primacy of "e;intellectual...

The Global Food Crisis and the Middle EastOil for Food draws on extensive sources and interviews to tell the story of how Arab Gulf countries reacted to the 2008 global food crisis. It argues against the hype created around so called land grabs and analyzes the geopolitical implications behind the investment drive of Arab Gulf countries in food...