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This brief, accessible biography sheds new light on one of India's most controversial and misunderstood figures, arguing that the Mughal emperor Aurangzeb was not a Hindu-hating fanatic but rather a premodern Indian king driven by a thirst for power, piety, and justice.

The book is the English edition of a collection of essays by Jacob Taubes, one of the most creative and idiosyncratic philosophers of religion in Germany of the second half of the twentieth century.

This biography follows the tumultuous story of a Frenchwomen who founded the first school for Muslim girls in colonial Algeria.

Challenging conventional accounts, Markets in the Name of Socialism chronicles a transnational dialogue among economists on both sides of the Iron Curtain about democracy, socialism, and markets. These exchanges led to the transformations of 1989 and, unintentionally, the rise of neoliberalism.

The story of the turbulent final sixty years of an important, and in many ways representative, Eastern European Jewish community.

This book shows how a "technology paradigm" can explain the timing of new industry formation. It describes the circumstances that enable low-end innovations to emerge and become "disruptive innovations." The approach set forth provides reader with a new toolkit for analyzing industry creation and technological change.

"Originally published in Hebrew in 1973 under the title Hamashal vehanimshal, having appeared as one of several stories in the volume Ir u-meloah."

This book shows that China's rise may jeopardize the future of Latin American industrialization.

For this new edition, the authors have thoroughly rewritten the theoretical argument for greater clarity, updated the case studies to incorporate new research, and added a new chapter that extends their perspective to the problem of industrialization and globalization.

Gridlock explores how migrant workers' actual experiences in Dubai contrast with the typical discussions-and global moral panic-about human trafficking.

"First published in 1938 in French under the title Ninette de la rue du Paechae: une nouvelle populiste by aEditions de la Kahaena, Tunis, Tunisia."

Taking Benedict XVI's abdication as his point of departure, Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben offers some reflections on the unresolved dialectics of political theology and the continued relevance of eschatological thinking.

Traces the links between the development of modern Egyptian identity and the burgeoning Islamic modernist movement from the mid-1870s until the 1910s.

One of the most important elements in the computer revolution has been agreement on technological standards. This book tells the complete story of the battle between several competing technologies in the late 1970s and early 1980s to become the compatibility standard in one high-tech arena, the LAN (local area network) industry.

This book offers a simple but compelling answer to the apparently difficult question: Why is the PRC so determined to assert its sovereignty over Taiwan?

This book is the first comprehensive study of antebellum depictions of the non-European world. Harvey proposes that U.S. cultural history cannot be fully understood without considering how Americans regarded tropical America, the Holy Land, Polynesia, and Africa.

This innovative volume studies women traders as economic, political, and cultural mediators of space, gender, value, and language in ten diverse locales-Bolivia, Ghana, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Morocco, Nicaragua, Peru, and the Philippines. Its focus is on how these women move between and knit together household and marketplace activities.

Talks about culture and comparison. This book inquires into the idea of comparison in a postcolonial world. It argues that inclusiveness is not a sufficient response to postcolonial and multiculturalist challenges because it leaves the basis of equivalence unquestioned.

Tracing the emergence and evolution of the modern discourse on boredom in French and German literary, philosophical, and sociological texts, this book fills a gap in the intellectual and cultural history of European modernity.

Market Menagerie addresses the tensions between economic and social policies. This book explores how states, markets, and other institutions interact within the health industry-using India as a primary case study.

This book brings to light the first Jewish fiction in French and reveals how the first generation of Jews born as French citizens used fiction as a laboratory for experimenting with modern forms of Jewish identity.