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This is the first book on the history of the Jews in ancient and medieval Armenia. Drawing on literary, epigraphical and archaeological sources, the book assembles and analyses the information available on this community from earliest times to the fourteenth century. It takes account of many types of evidence bearing on its history including documents from the Cairo Geniza, newly uncovered inscriptions, medieval itineraria, and diplomatica. Thisbook shows that the communis opinio that there were few if any Jews in ancient and medieval Armenia, must now be discarded.

What happens when democracy produces "bad" outcomes? Is democracy good because of its outcomes or despite them? This "democratic dilemma" is one of the most persistent, vexing problems for America abroad, particularly in the Middle East-we want democracy in theory but not necessarily in practice. To look then at the democratic dilemma is to consider a deeper set of questions around why we believe democracy is good as well as whether we think it is good for othernations and cultures. In The Problem of Democracy, Shadi Hamid offers an ambitious reimagining of this ongoing debate and argues for "democratic minimalism"-democracy without expecting that Western-style liberalism will accompany it-as a path to resolving democratic dilemmas in the Middle East andbeyond.

This is the first volume to provide a comprehensive review and thorough analysis of the connection between consciousness and quantum mechanics. Written by leading experts in physics, philosophy, and cognitive science, Consciousness and Quantum Mechanics will be of value to students and researchers working on the foundations of quantum mechanics and philosophy of mind.

Elizabeth Anscombe was one of the most important philosophers of the twentieth century, as well as a friend, pupil and the main translator of Ludwig Wittgenstein. She wrote on a wide range of philosophical topics, publishing a handful of books and a large corpus of articles in her lifetime. This collection of twenty-two essays on the philosophy of Elizabeth Anscombe by an international array of experts in the field covers intention, ethical theory, human life, thefirst person, and Anscombe on other philosophers.

This book is a reflection on the meaning of spiritual darkness-especially those difficult places in human experience where meaning seems to elude us, where we are emptied out and are compelled to dig deeper into who we truly are. Douglas E. Christie takes up this facet of experience, in ordinary human experience, but also in relation to the Christian contemplative and mystical traditions, where such experience is often understood to be both painful andtransformative, allowing the mind and heart to open in love.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of International Criminology offers an up-to-date collection of essays written by leading academics from regions around the world, addressing contemporary and significant issues and trends in criminology and criminal justice in global, comparative, transnational, and historical contexts. The essays spotlight further readings that will complement and guide readers interested in deepening their understandings of the issues.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Neuroendocrine and Autonomic Systems provides an up-to-date survey of the wide range of scholarship being conducted in these two systems within the field of neuroendocrinology. The Encyclopedia includes more than 50 articles-each ~8,000 words in length-that provide thorough overviews of a diverse set of topics in neuroendocrine regulation, neuroimmunology, behavioral neuroendocrinology, autonomic regulation, stress,thirst and water balance, regulation of food intake, and biological rhythms and sleep, among many others. All authors were commissioned specifically for the Encyclopedia, and all articles received blind peer reviews. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Neuroendocrine and Autonomic Systems represents a unique contribution toscholarship in neuroendocrinology and will be a standard reference for researchers, students, and professionals in this field.

With over 80,000 entries, 10,000 brand new, and thousands more revised and expanded, the second edition of the Dictionary of American Family Names explains the meanings of the family names for more than 90 percent of the US population. The product of seventeen years of exhaustive research, the dictionary provides comparative frequencies, linguistic and historical explanations, selected associated forenames, and occasional genealogical notes, revealing the meaningsof names, some intuitive, some amusing, and some quite surprising.

Between Hindu and Christian sheds light on a movement of low caste and Dalit devotees worshipping Jesus in Catholic spaces in Varanasi, the purported heart of Hindu civilization. San Chirico examines the worldview and ways of life of these devotees, along with the Catholic priests and nuns who mediate Jesus, Mary, and other members of the Catholic pantheon in a place never associated with Christianity. San Chirico places this movement within the context ofthe devotional history of Varanasi, the history of Indian Christianity, the rise of low caste and Dalit emancipatory struggles, and the ascendance of Hindu nationalism to demonstrate that religious categories are not nearly as distinct as they often seem.

A climate crisis and other pressures on planetary ecology are cause for profound anxiety. Climate change threatens to trap hundreds of millions of people in poverty and to separate further an already deeply divided world. Now, a new generation of activists is offering inspiration and hope. This book provides an accessible and empirically informed philosophical discussion of climate change, global poverty, and the importance of a political response that offershope.

Crystallization via Nonclassical Pathways, Volume 2 expands on topics covered in the first volume (1358) and offers a deeper look into particle based crystallization, biomineralization, modeling, and the development of advanced functional materials.

In The Puritan Cosmopolis, Nan Goodman demonstrates how the Puritans were far from an insular coterie that ignored the larger global community. Drawing on letters, diaries, political pamphlets, poetry, and other cultural materials, The Puritan Cosmopolis demonstrates how the Puritan population increasingly saw themselves as global citizens.

This is the story of a demonstration for food organized by the underground French Communist party that took place at a central Parisian marketplace on May 31, 1942. The so-called "women's demonstration on the rue de Buci" became a cause célèbre. In this microhistory of the event, Schwartz examines the many moving parts of an underground operation; the lives and deaths of the protesters, both women and men; and the ways in which the incident was remembered,commemorated, or forgotten. The study is based on interviews with surviving resisters and on a rich documentary record.

Through a detailed focus on two of the most influential Egyptian jihadi groups - al-Jama'a al-Islamiyya and Islamic Jihad - Institutionalizing Violence shows why some groups choose the path of ordinary politics and others choose violent extremism. Both groups began in the 1970s, but Jama'a al-Islamiyya eventually allied with the Muslim Brotherhood and engaged in mass-movement politics. Islamic Jihad remained sectarian and highly radical, eventually mergingwith al Qaeda. Addressing why ideologically similar organizations follow such different paths, Jerome Drevon shows that such splits are characteristic across the region, where once-allied jihadi groups in similar circumstances eventually followed substantially different trajectories.

When Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court, his comments that a judge should have "the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay, disabled, or old" caused a furor. Objective, reasoned, and impartial judgment were to be replaced by partiality, sentiment, and bias, critics feared. This concern about empathy has since been voiced notjust by conservative critics, but by academics and public figures. In The Space Between Heidi Maibom combines results from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to show how empathy really works and how, rather than making us biased, it makes us more impartial and more objective.

The potential conflicts between morality and self-interest lies at the heart of ethics. However, moral philosophers sometimes think of their task as trying to gain knowledge simply of what we are morally required to do, leaving aside the larger normative question of what we ought to do all things considered, while others have assumed that what we ought to do all things considered just is what we morally ought to do. Sagdahl grapples with the more fundamental questionof what we ought to do all things considered, but argues that there may be no simple answer to this question.

An Anxious Inheritance examines the role of the ever-expandable category of "non-Muslims" in early Islam. It demonstrates how the Qur'an functioned as both a script to understand them and as a map to classify them, and this category's role in shaping (Sunni) orthodoxy. This orthodoxy was considered natural, but in fact it was based on retroactive back-projections. Non-Muslims and the "wrong" kinds of Muslims became integral to understanding what truereligion was not and what it should be. These non-Muslims were rarely real individuals or groups; rather, they functioned as textual foils that could be conveniently orchestrated, and ultimately controlled, to facilitate self-definition.

In The Politics of Extraction, Maiah Jaskoski looks at how mobilized communities in Latin America's hydrocarbon and mining regions use participatory institutions to challenge extraction. In some cases, communities act within formal participatory spaces, while in others, they organize "around" or "in reaction to" these institutions, using participatory procedures as focal points in the escalation of conflict. Based on analysis of thirty major extractiveconflicts in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru in the 2000s and 2010s, Jaskoski provides the first systematic study of how participatory institutions either channel or exacerbate conflict over extraction.

This pioneering book offers a fresh treatment of many issues in philosophy of mind by applying a diverse range of feminist perspectives. As the first collection of its kind, Feminist Philosophy of Mind defines the content, scope, and methods of this emerging field. Each of its twenty chapters enlarges our understanding of the mind by considering the social contexts of minds. Topics pursued include personal identity, mental content, other minds, artificialintelligence, gender, race, sexual orientation, emotion, memory, perception, empathy, agency, trauma, embodiment, and others. Readers will discover new and expanded responses to timeless questions about the mind.

This pioneering book offers a fresh treatment of many issues in philosophy of mind by applying a diverse range of feminist perspectives. As the first collection of its kind, Feminist Philosophy of Mind defines the content, scope, and methods of this emerging field. Each of its twenty chapters enlarges our understanding of the mind by considering the social contexts of minds. Topics pursued include personal identity, mental content, other minds, artificialintelligence, gender, race, sexual orientation, emotion, memory, perception, empathy, agency, trauma, embodiment, and others. Readers will discover new and expanded responses to timeless questions about the mind.

In Analytic Essays on Music by Women Composers: Concert Music, 1900-1960, editors Laurel Parsons and Brenda Ravenscroft collect innovative reinterpretations of women composers' work over the first half of the twentieth century.

Despite its small stature, "if" occupies a central place both in everyday language and the philosophical lexicon. In allowing us to talk about hypothetical situations, "if" raises a host of thorny philosophical puzzles about language and logic. Addressing them requires tools from linguistics, logic, probability theory, and metaphysics. Justin Khoo uses these tools to navigate a maze of interconnected issues about conditionals, some of which include: the nature oflinguistic communication, the relationship between logical and natural languages, and the relationship between different kinds of modality.