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Egyptology in British Culture and Religion, 1822-1922Egyptology in British Culture and Religion shows, for the first time, how Egyptology's development over the century that followed the decipherment of the hieroglyphic script in 1822 can only be understood through its intimate entanglement with the historical, scientific, and religious...

A Case Study of Ecological Change in the American WestFew plant species have received as much scientific, public, and political discussion and debate as Tamarix. Written by 44 of the field's most prominent scholars and scientists, this volume compiles 25 essays on this fascinating species--its biology, ecology, politics, management, and the...

Conceptions of German Constitutional Law since 1871Examining the modern development of German constitutional thought, this book traces the key public law concepts of state, constitution, sovereignty, and democracy from their emergence in the 19th century through to the present day. It analyses the fraught constitutional relationship between Germany...

A Literary Study of Aelius Aristides' Hieroi LogoiAt the Limits of Art investigates the literary aspirations of Aelius Aristides' puzzling dream-memoir of illness and divine healing, the Hieroi Logoi....

Guilt and Denial in the Post-War Lives of Nazi PerpetratorsIn The Mark of Cain, Katharina von Kellenbach draws on letters exchanged between clergy and Nazi perpetrators, written notes of prison chaplains, memoirs, sermons, and prison publications to illuminate the moral and spiritual struggles of perpetrators after the war....

Vernon Lee, Virginia Woolf, D.H. LawrenceThis book is about ideas of sympathy in the early twentieth-century novel. It offers a new reading of literary modernism, challenging notions of modernism as hostile to emotion and empathy. It also offers a new intervention into the growing field of literature and emotion studies....