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  • Audiobook

    Die, Snow White! Die, Damn You!

    A Very Grimm Tale

    Unabridged

    2 hours 5 min

    With the premiere of two new film versions of the Snow White tale, Blackstone enters the fray with its own adult, edgy, and not altogether serious full-cast exposé of fairy-taledom. At last it can be told! Was Snow White really as pure as the driven snow? Did her allegedly wicked stepmother get a bum rap from the Grimm brothers? What went on behind the closed Dutch doors of the dwarves’ cottage? ... Read more

    $9.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Studies in Medieval Shi'ism

    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    This volume complements the selections of Wilferd Madelung's articles previously published by Variorum (Religious Schools and Sects in Medieval Islam, and Religious and Ethnic Movements in Medieval Islam). The first articles here examine legal and political aspects of early Shi`ism. The following studies relate to doctrinal views of the Zaydi imams al-Qasim b. Ibrahim al-Rassi and al-Natiq bi-l ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Politics of Global Tax Governance

    Series series Global Governance
    Why has global tax governance been politicized and how can we explain the varying intensity and content of public debates? This book offers an integrated theory of the politicization of international institutions and a detailed account of how the institutional design and policy output of tax governance by the EU and OECD have developed over time.Offering the first in-depth empirical analysis to ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology

    Edited by Sabine Schmidtke ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Within the field of Islamic Studies, scientific research of Muslim theology is a comparatively young discipline. Much progress has been achieved over the past decades with respect both to discoveries of new materials and to scholarly approaches to the field. The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Theology provides a comprehensive and authoritative survey of the current state of the field. It provides a ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Islamic Philosophy

    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The study of Islamic philosophy has entered a new and exciting phase in the last few years. Both the received canon of Islamic philosophers and the narrative of the course of Islamic philosophy are in the process of being radically questioned and revised. Most twentieth-century Western scholarship on Arabic or Islamic philosophy has focused on the period from the ninth century to the twelfth. It ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Work in Transition

    Cultural Capital and Highly Skilled Migrants' Passages into the Labour Market

    Despite the fact that many countries target highly skilled migrants for recruitment in the global labour market, few of those migrants are able to take full advantage of their educational and professional qualifications in their new homes. Work in Transition examines this paradox, using extended narrative interviews that focus on the role that cultural capital plays in the labour market.Comparing ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Beginnings of Shi’i Studies in Germany

    Rudolf Strothmann and His Correspondence with Carl Heinrich Becker, Ignaz Goldziher, Eugeneo Griffini, and Cornelis van Arendonk, 1910 through 1926, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 112, Part 1)

    Series Book 64 - Transactions of the American Philosophical Society
    Rudolf Strothmann (1877–1960) played a pioneering role in the scholarly exploration of Shīʿī Islam in Western, especially German, scholarship. Between 1910 and 1923, he published many pathbreaking studies on the Zaydiyya, a sub-sect of Shia Islam that emerged in the eighth century, consulting primarily the recently purchased collections of Yemeni Zaydī manuscripts in Berlin. At the same time ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

    Horror Stories

    Unabridged

    10 hours 18 min

    One of the finest and most influential horror writers of the twentieth century, Richard Matheson has left his stamp on the collective imagination. Here are more than twenty of Matheson's most memorable tales of fear and paranoia, personally selected by the author himself. Many of these stories have already entered into popular culture, including the title story, which became a landmark episode of ... Read more

    $19.95 USD

  • My I's

    Isms, Ignorance, Interrelationships, and Insights

    The phrase "An unexamined life is not worth living" is a truism that became a guide for Charlie Schmidtke's journey of self-reflection. His book is a unique mashup of memoir combined with philosophical reflections on life, cast within the topics of race, religion, gender, generations, and grief.In an exploration that spans decades, he tells of encounters with Jim Crow, journeys through religious ... Read more

    $5.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Audiobook

    Saint Joan

    A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue

    Unabridged

    3 hours 16 min

    “Joan of Arc, a village girl from the Vosges, was born about 1412—burnt for heresy, witchcraft, and sorcery in 1431—rehabilitated after a fashion in 1456—designated Venerable in 1904—declared Blessed in 1908—and finally canonized in 1920. She is the most notable Warrior-Saint in the Christian calendar, and the queerest fish among the eccentric worthies of the Middle Ages.”—George Bernard ShawWith ... Read more

    $16.95 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • American Indian Workforce Education

    Trends and Issues

    Edited by Carsten Schmidtke ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    In this collection of original essays, contributors critically examine the pedagogical, administrative, financial, economic, and cultural contexts of American Indian vocational education and workforce development, identifying trends and issues for future research in the fields of vocational education, workforce development, and American Indian studies. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD