Studies in Early Islamic History (with an Introduction by G. R. Hawting)

Studies in Early Islamic History (with an Introduction by G. R. Hawting)This is a collection of all of Martin Hinds' (1941 1988) full length articles which appeared in journals as well as one of his articles for the Encyclopaedia of Islam. Most of the articles concern the early period of Islamic history, while two others deal with the early Abbasid caliphate.

Explores some of the ways in which conscientious objectors to compulsory military service were viewed and treated in England during the First World War

Ron Athey is an iconic figure in the development of contemporary art and performance

It employs a history-based perspective and compares this relationship to that in both the Middle East and Western Europe

especially Italian

Exploring the contemporary meanings of masks

Contains an excellent appraisal of the auteurist concept's meaning and value to Francophone cinema

This collection offers a groundbreaking study of Thomas Heywood’s fascinatingly individual engagement with the classics across his writing career

scenes of mourning

and assessing their implications

Personal Style Blogs examines the history and rise of style blogging and looks closely at the relationship between bloggers and their (frequently anonymous) readers as well as the response of the fashion industry to style bloggers' amateur and often unauthorized fashion reportage

Reframing difference is the first major study of two overlapping strands of contemporary French cinema

with topics ranging from the introduction of design in the primary education sector to designing information for artificial intelligence systems