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Memories of Absence explores the contemporary perceptions of Moroccan Jews in the minds of Moroccan Muslims.

This book teaches readers how to build a winning career by applying business strategy concepts. Bill Barnett provides a complete, step-by-step process that reader can implement, along with vivid accounts from others' career paths.

A study of policing and security practices in the Gaza Strip during the period of Egyptian rule (1948-67), Police Encounters explores the complicated effects on Gazans of an extensive security apparatus guided by intersecting concerns about national interest, social propriety, and everyday illegality.

An ethnographic study of the everyday struggles of pious Muslim women in Europe to pursue their pious lifestyle while being active members of an increasingly hostile society.

A probing investigation of the trial of Jesus by noted Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben.

This book considers the Ottoman Revolution of 1908 and tells the stories of Arabs, Armenians, and Jews, of how the revolution initially raised these groups' expectations but ultimately led to pessimism and a dramatic rise in ethnic tensions across the Empire.

Race on the Move takes readers on a journey from Brazil to the U.S. and back to explore how migration between these countries transforms Brazilians' interpretation of race in each place.

This book explains how skill-driven economic constraints and unions' organizational power have produced long-term continuity in diverse national-level labor codes in Latin America, even in the face of significant efforts at reform by political leaders.

This book traces the history of phenomenological ethics and social thought in Central Europe from its founders Franz Brentano and Edmund Husserl through its reception in East Central Europe by dissident thinkers such as Jan Patocka, Karol Wojtyla (Pope John Paul II), and Vaclav Havel.

By using religion to get at the core concepts of Michel Foucault's thinking, this book proposes and models a major shift in the way that the philosopher's work is read across the humanities and social sciences.

"Originally published in French in 2012 under the title Les juifs et la Bible."

Attacking Judges provides rigorous evidence that televised advertising, including harsh attacks, do not have the harsh consequences initially predicted or widely feared on justices seeking reelection or state electorates in supreme court elections.

Promised Land questions the prevailing assumption that Eastern European Jews were motivated by Zionism to immigrate to Palestine in the early twentieth century.

The Schooled Society shows how mass education interjects itself and its ideologies into culture at large: from the dynamics of social mobility, to how we measure intelligence, to the values we promote.

A fictionalized hybrid of personal memoir, case studies, dream sequences, and theoretical reflection, this book on madness, trauma and psychiatry uses a fictional form to engage with psychotic experience and to make the case for a less mechanized, more humane treatment of "fools and madmen."