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This is the first study of the royal women who ruled in the Mediterranean in the latter first century BC, in a symbiotic relationship with the Roman government. Several are discussed, with the most prominent being Cleopatra Selene (the daughter of the famous Cleopatra VII of Egypt) and Salome, the sister of Herod the Great.

This book is a concise version of Bart D. Ehrman's best-selling The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings, Fifth Edition. Condensing and simplifying much of the longer textbook's material, this volume looks at the New Testament from a consistently historical and comparative perspective.

The Thread of Energy breaks down the most influential driver of human actions and decision making: energy. In this book, geographer Martin J. Pasqualetti exposes the technical and fundamental influences of energy, preparing scholars for the coming energy transitions that lie ahead.

This book explores historical and philosophical connections between music, leisure, and education. Specifically, it considers how music learning, teaching, and participation can be reconceptualized in terms of leisure.

When Joseph Murray performed the first successful living kidney donor transplant in 1954, he thought this would be a temporary stopgap. Today, we are no closer to the goal of adequate organ supply without living donors-if anything, the supply-demand ratio is worse. While most research on the ethics of organ transplantation focuses on how to allocate organs as a scarce medical resource, the ethical treatment of organ donors themselves has been relatively neglected.In The Living Organ Donor as Patient: Theory and Practice, Lainie Friedman Ross and J. Richard Thistlethwaite, Jr. argue for treating living solid organ donors as patients in their own right and show that living donor organ transplantation can be ethical.

Regulating Big Tech explores cutting-edge policy innovations that tackle the dominance of Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft and the interlocking challenges of contemporary tech regulation.

Christian Giudice's Occult Imperium explores Italian national forms of occultism, chiefly analyzing Arturo Reghini (1878-1946), his copious writings, and Roman Traditionalism. Using Reghini's articles, books, and letters, as a guide, Giudice explores the interaction between Occultism, Traditionalism, and different facets of modernity in early-twentieth-century Italy. The book takes into consideration many factors particular to the Italian peninsula: the tieswith avant-garde movements such as the Florentine Scapigliatura and Futurism, the occult vogues typical to Italy, the rise to power of Benito Mussolini and Fascism, and, lastly, the power of the Holy See over different expressions of spirituality.

John Leland, the colorful Baptist itinerant, was one of the most important and fascinating religious figures in early America. He is best remembered for delivering a 1,200-pound "Mammoth Cheese" to Thomas Jefferson's White House, and for negotiating the inclusion of a Bill of Rights in the Constitution with James Madison. But Leland was also a tireless revivalist and a dogged advocate of religious freedom for all, an anti-slavery spokesman and unofficial DemocraticParty whip, a defender of popular Calvinism and promoter of extreme religious individualism among Baptists. Eric C. Smith explores these and other major themes in this first-ever biography of John Leland, whose story provides a unique window into the remarkable transformations that swept Americansociety from 1760 to 1840.

In Small Power, David Doherty, Conor M. Dowling, and Michael G. Miller examine an important, but understudied, aspect of American political parties: the local organizations that are responsible for increasing the party's community visibility, recruiting first-time candidates, and providing the crucial labor that campaigns use to mobilize voters. They argue that despite overseeing small geographies, the leaders of these local parties wield significant powerin American politics to shape statewide and federal campaigns. The book also merges a number of data sourcesâ??including national surveys and interviews with party leadersâ??to describe how local party units impact American politics.

Sondheim in Our Time and His offers a wide-ranging historical investigation of the landmark musical works and extraordinary career of Stephen Sondheim, a career which has spanned much of the history of American musical theater.

Sondheim in Our Time and His offers a wide-ranging historical investigation of the landmark musical works and extraordinary career of Stephen Sondheim, a career which has spanned much of the history of American musical theater.

In The Origins and Dynamics of Inequality, Jon Wisman provides a re-interpretation of economic history and society. He argues that the struggle over income, wealth, and privilege-inequality-has been the principal, defining issue in human history and provides a novel framework for understanding inequality today.

With the appointment of Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court, jurists in the mold of Justice Scalia, textualism and originalism are more prominent then ever before. These justices insist that in interpreting the Constitution, they focus on text while other justices neglect the Constitution. In The (Un)Written Constitution, George Thomas reveals that textualists and originalists rely on unwritten understandings that shape their reading of theConstiution's text. Our most pressing debates over how to interpret the Constitution are debates about unwritten ideas, not the text. And these debates have been with us from the creation of the Constitution to the present.

The Art of Post-Tonal Analysis consists of analyses of thirty-three musical passages or entire short works in a variety of post-tonal styles from throughout the long twentieth century, representing a diversity of musical style, chronology, geography, gender, and race/ethnicity.

!Canta Conmigo! is a practical guide for music educators looking to teach music from Central America. It invites students and teachers alike to sing, play, move, create, and experience joy with living musical traditions from Guatemala and Nicaragua with a collection of 90 songs, singing games, and chants.

Americans in China tells the dramatic stories of individual women and men who encountered the People's Republic of China as adversaries and emissaries, mediators and advocates, interpreters and reporters, soldiers, scientists, and scholars. More often than not, their initial fascination was followed by disillusion and disenchantment, a syndrome reflecting a deep-set ambivalence about whether to accept Communist China on its own terms or to pursue a long-standingquest to remake the Middle Kingdom in America's own image. At a time of great debate over the future of US-China relations, the characters in this book speak to us about the challenges of finding common ground between our two countries.

The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music brings together philosophical, psychological, and socio-cultural understandings of time in music, highlighting the act of 'making' as both cultural construction while also referring to the perceptual, cognitive underpinnings that allow us to 'make' sense of time in music.

This book examines how U.S. millennial friends quote both old and new media in their everyday talk. Sylvia Sierra analyzes recorded everyday conversations-including over 140 references to books, songs, lines from films, TV shows, YouTube videos, videogames, and internet memes-to show how millennials signal media references in speech, how they mutually engage with them, and why they use them to handle awkward moments in talk. Millennials in Media demonstrateshow these millennials use media references to bring everyone together and ultimately construct a shared millennial identity.

The Oxford Handbook on Atrocity Crimes surveys and further develops the evolving field of atrocity crime studies through interdisciplinary research on war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in one comprehensive volume encompassing contributions of leading scholars.

The Oxford Handbook of Berkeley is a compendious examination of a large number of topics in the philosophy of George Berkeley (1685-1753), Anglican Bishop of Cloyne, the famous idealist and most illustrious Irish philosopher. This volume includes contributions from thirty-four expert commentators on Berkeley's philosophy, some of whom provide a state-of-the-art account of his philosophical achievements, and some of whom place his philosophy in historicalcontext by comparing it with the views of other philosophers (including predecessors, contemporaries, and successors).

The Oxford History of Ancient Near East, Volume 3 covers broadly the period from 1600 to 1100 BC or in archaeological terms, the Late Bronze Age. Twelve chapters present the history of the Near East from the Hyksos state of Lower Egypt to the to the Elamites in southwestern Iran, examining the Hittites in Central Anatolia, the kingdom of Mittani in Northern Mesopotamia, the Kassites in southern Iraq, and the Mycenaeans in the Aegean.

The Oxford History of Ancient Near East, Volume 2 covers broadly the first half of the second millennium BC or in archaeological terms, the Middle Bronze Age. Eleven chapters present the history of the Near East, from the First Intermediate Period and Middle Kingdom of Egypt to Hammurabi's Babylon.

Constructing Economic Science shows how the new "science" of economics was primarily an institutional creation of the modern university. Keith Tribe charts the path through commercial education to the discipline of economics and the creation of an economics curriculum that could be replicated around the world.

The Shape of Motion: Cinema and the Aesthetics of Movement develops a method for analyzing movement on screen by identifying patterns or shapes of motion-called "motion forms"-across a wide range of examples from the history of cinema. By examining a single motion form, each chapter rethinks persistent assumptions in film studies about cinema as a medium.

Choral Artistry provides a practical and organic approach to teaching middle school to college level choral singing and sight-reading according to the Kodaly Concept of Music Education, grounded in current research from the fields of choral pedagogy, music theory, music perception and cognition.

Sensation & Perception, Sixth Edition, introduces students to their own senses, emphasizing human sensory and perceptual experience and the basic neuroscientific underpinnings of that experience. The authors, specialists in their respective domains, strive to spread their enthusiasm for fundamental questions about the human senses and the impact that answers to those questions can have on medical and societal issues.

Based on an innovative understanding of an important Buddhist scripture, this book provides a jargon-free introduction to a Buddhist philosophy of life suited for twenty-first-century global citizens, showing how the practice of insight meditation can deepen our perspective on life.