History

Islam & Slavery

Author: 

Morrow, John Andrew

Credentials: 

John Andrew Morrow is a graduate of the University of Toronto. He has taught at numerous universities and reached the rank of Professor of Foreign Languages. He was recognized as a Master Teacher and Distinguished Faculty Member, received an Interfaith Service Award, and a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition. A prolific author and passionate activist, he is considered one of the most important American Muslim scholars.

Some scholars of Islam have argued that slavery and concubinage are permissible according to the Qur’an and the teachings and practice of the Prophet Muhammad. When faced with dissenting views on the disputed subject of the legitimacy of slavery in Islam, they often respond with a loaded question and a theological trap: “Did the Prophet Muhammad commit a grave moral wrong?” Others advance moral relativism.

Market: 
History, Religion, Social Science, Middle East Studies, Islam, Slavery, Mediterranean World, Africa, African Studies
Release Date: 
October 1, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680536379 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
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Pages: 
298
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Sleepless Nights: The Faults and Failings of Love

Author: 

Walton, Stuart

Credentials: 

Stuart Walton is a cultural historian, novelist, and critic based in southwest England. He is the author of An Excursion through Chaos (2021), Introducing Theodor Adorno (2018), In The Realm of the Senses: A Materialist Theory of Seeing and Feeling (2016), A Natural History of Human Emotions (2004), and Out Of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication (2001; 2016), as well as a number of books on food and drink.

Sleepless Nights: The Faults and Failings of Love is an inquiry into the cultural and psychological forces at work in our most intimate relationships. Romanticized and theorized throughout all ages, love remains the paradigm of human experience, the one aspect of life that could redeem all the suffering and disappointment to which we are otherwise heir. And yet it too often forms part of that very suffering itself. In this daring and reflective book, Stuart Walton invites the reader to check into a love hotel with a difference.

Market: 
Social Science, Philosophy, History, Religion, Psychology, Sociology, Emotions, Emotional Intelligence
Release Date: 
November 28, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680533217 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
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298
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Russian Orthodox Liturgical Music: Supplemental Source Material

Author: 

Synodal School of Liturgical Music

Credentials: 

The Synodal School of Liturgical Music was founded in 1992 to train choir conductors, singers, and church readers in the liturgical music tradition of the Russian Orthodox Church, focusing primarily on the parishes of the Russian diaspora. The school offers courses in music theory, sight-singing, Church Slavonic, church music history, liturgics, liturgical performance practice, voice, and choral methods. It is based at the Holy Dormition Convent in Nanuet, New York.

This volume comprises supplemental source material to accompany courses in the history of Russian Orthodox music course. It is meant as a study aid for students and contains valuable reference sources for students and practitioners alike.

Market: 
Religion, History, Fine Arts, Russia, Russian Studies, Christianity, Christian Studies, Orthodoxy, Music, Orthodox Music, Musicology, Religious Music, Christian Music
Release Date: 
July 7, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680538366 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
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200
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Konspekt uchebnykh materialov po Klirosnoi praktike

Author: 

Papkov, Father Andrei

Credentials: 

Father Andrei Papkov is a Russian Orthodox Archpriest and Founder and President of the Synodal School of Liturgical Music of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR). He holds a master’s degree in vocal performance from New England Conservatory and is the chairman of the Synodal Liturgical Music Commission (ROCOR).

Now available in this Russian edition, Father Andrei Papkov’s unique textbook is the only book addressing the liturgical performance practices of religious singing in the Russian Orthodox Church. The topics it covers include various aspects of choral work in this tradition, including but not limited to the choice of repertoire, the eight-tone system, Kievan square notation, rehearsal techniques, vocal pedagogy, and the element of time within Orthodox church services.

Market: 
Religion, History, Fine Arts, Russia, Russian Studies, Christianity, Christian Studies, Orthodoxy, Music, Orthodox Music, Musicology, Religious Music, Christian Music
Release Date: 
July 1, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680536423 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
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Pages: 
210
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Russian Orthodox Liturgical Performance Practice

Author: 

Papkov, Father Andrei

Credentials: 

Father Andrei Papkov is a Russian Orthodox Archpriest and Founder and President of the Synodal School of Liturgical Music of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia (ROCOR). He holds a master’s degree in vocal performance from New England Conservatory and is the chairman of the Synodal Liturgical Music Commission (ROCOR).

Father Andrei Papkov’s unique textbook is the only book addressing the liturgical performance practices of religious singing in the Russian Orthodox Church. The topics it covers include various aspects of choral work in this tradition, including but not limited to the choice of repertoire, the eight-tone system, Kievan square notation, rehearsal techniques, vocal pedagogy, and the element of time within Orthodox church services. This definitive textbook will be of interest to anyone working, worshipping, or interested in the rich musical tradition of Orthodox Christianity.

Market: 
Religion, History, Fine Arts, Russia, Russian Studies, Christianity, Christian Studies, Orthodoxy, Music, Orthodox Music, Musicology, Religious Music, Christian Music
Release Date: 
June 30, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680536393 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
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6x9
Pages: 
210
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None
Yes
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Pottery Craft of the Yakut

Author: 

Savvin, A. A., Natalia K. Danilova, Irina S. Zhushchikhovskaya

Credentials: 

Irina S. Zhushchikhovskaya is Senior Researcher at the Institute of History, Archaeology, and Ethnology of Peoples of the Far East, Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok. She is a specialist in ancient pottery and has published over 150 works on prehistoric ceramics.

Natalia K. Danilova is Senior Researcher in the Department of Archaeology and Ethnography, Institute of Humanitarian Research and Problems of Indigenous Peoples of the North, Siberian Branch of Russian Academy of Science, Yakutsk. Her fields of scientific interest include mythology, ritual culture, and sacred geography of the native peoples of Siberia. She is the author of more than 100 publications.

Translator: Richard L. Bland, a retired Arctic archaeologist and translator, has translated over 250 articles and books, primarily from Russian and German, into English, including The Peoples of Ancient Siberia: An Archeological History by A. P. Okladnikov and Warfare in the Russian Arctic by A. K. Nefedkin, and the three-volume Russian Colonization of Alaska by A. V. Grinev.

This book offered to the reader’s attention is an ethnographic study devoted to the traditional pottery of Yakutia. The author, A. A. Savvin, collected materials for the book during field research in 1939–1941, when ceramic tableware had largely already lost its former role in the household way of the Yakuts. But the skills for its manufacture were still preserved in certain localities. Savvin managed to document the last “living” evidence of a craft that had a centuries-old history and established traditions.

Market: 
Fine Arts, History, Social Science, Ceramics, Anthropology, Archeology, Russia, Russian History, Yakut People, A. A. Savvin
Release Date: 
June 20, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680536331 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
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Pages: 
200
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Homo Eurasicus: New Scholarly Views of Siberia and Inner Asia

Author: 

Okladnikova, Elena A., Ed.

Credentials: 

Editor: Elena A. Okladnikova is an archaeologist with specialties in cultural history, sociology of spiritual life, rock art, social technologies, social anthropology, and ethnosociology. She has led archaeological expeditions in Siberia and Altai and is the author of over 400 scientific, educational, and methodological works. She is presently Professor in the Departmentof Sociology at the Institute of History and Social Sciences of the Herzen State Pedagogical University, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Translator: Richard L. Bland, a retired Arctic archaeologist and translator, has translated over 250 articles and books, primarily from Russian and German, into English, including The Peoples of Ancient Siberia: An Archeological History by A. P. Okladnikov and Warfare in the Russian Arctic by A. K. Nefedkin, and the three-volume Russian Colonization of Alaska by A. V. Grinev.

This volume contains five chapters that present highly original research on Siberia’s unique history by five Russian scholars. The volume is edited by Prof. Elena A. Okladnikova, a faculty member of the Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg, Russia. The articles include discussions of seafaring along the Siberian coast, ethnolinguistic considerations, the worldview of inner Asian nomads, and ethnocultural understandings of civilization crossroads.

Market: 
History, Social Science, Asian Studies, Anthropology, Archeology, Russia, Russian History, Siberia, Indigenous Studies, Inner Asia, Linguistics
Release Date: 
June 27, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680536355 Hardcover
Price: 
$139.95
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6x9
Pages: 
200
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Balanchine and Me

Author: 

Martins, Peter

Credentials: 

Peter Martins was the Ballet Master in Chief of New York City Ballet for 35 years, the only person to preside over the company as long as its founder, George Balanchine. Born in Denmark, Martins began his association with NYCB in 1967, when he was invited to dance the title role in George Balanchine’s Apollo during the company’s appearance at the Edinburgh Festival. He then performed as a guest artist for three years before joining the company as a principal dancer in 1970. Prior to his retirement from dancing in 1983, Martins performed a wide variety of roles and was lauded for his outstanding partnering skills and noble stage presence. In 1981, Martins was named Ballet Master, a title he shared with Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and John Taras. From 1983 to 1989, he served as Co-Ballet Master in Chief with Robbins, running day-to-day operations. He assumed sole directorship of the company in 1990 and was also Chairman of the Faculty of the School of American Ballet, NYCB’s official school. In 2000, founded the New York Choreographic Institute.
Martins began his career as a choreographer in 1977. He has created nearly 90 ballets set to music by composers as diverse as Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky, Wynton Marsalis, and John Adams. His full-length productions for New York City Ballet include The Sleeping Beauty (1991), Swan Lake (1999), Romeo + Juliet (2007), and La Sylphide (2015). Martins’ autobiography, Far From Denmark, was published in 1982. Among other awards, Queen Margrethe II of Denmark made him a Knight of Dannebrog, a Knight of the First Order, and, in 2013, a Commander of the Knights of Dannebrog, Denmark’s highest civilian honor. In 2008, the French government made him a Commander in the Order of Arts and Letter. That same year, Martins was inducted into the National Museum of Dance’s Hall of Fame, in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1904, George Balanchine was the 20th century’s towering figure of classical ballet. Coming to America in 1933, Balanchine founded the School of American Ballet and the New York City Ballet, where he hired the Danish-born Peter Martins as a dancer and, later, as a choreographer. Balanchine and Me is dedicated to Martins’ profound artistic relationship with George Balanchine, who taught him a new, freer style of dance, and ultimately entrusted Martins with the future of the New York City Ballet, which Martins went on to lead for 35 years.

Market: 
Fine Arts, History, Social Science, Dance, Ballet, George Balanchine, Peter Martins, New York, American Culture, Russian Culture
Release Date: 
March 12, 2024
ISBN: 
9781680536263 Hardcover
Price: 
$35
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Pages: 
200
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Ghazipur, The Opium Mint: From 1820 to the Present

Author: 

Kour, Kawal Deep

Credentials: 

Kawal Deep Kour holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. A drug abuse prevention specialist, she is currently Director of the South Asian Drugs and Addictions Research Council and a former board member of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP). She is the author of History of Intoxication: Opium in Assam, 1800-1959 and many other publications.

The Opium Factory of Ghazipur has a history all its own. Like most other colonial enterprises, it was developed to further colonial mercantile and imperial interests. Ghazipore, as it was known in British India, was the headquarters of the Benaras opium agency, which included almost the whole of the then-United Provinces. Directed and driven by metropolitan capital, the opium factory’s success signaled the rise of colonial India as a major exporter of raw opium.

Market: 
History, Social Science, Political Science, India, Public Health, Capitalism, Narcotics, Drug Abuse, South Asia, South Asian Studies, Business
Release Date: 
September 15, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680536188 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
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Pages: 
200
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Opium Consumption and Experience in India: From the Earliest to Contemporary Times

Author: 

Kour, Kawal Deep

Credentials: 

Kawal Deep Kour holds a Ph.D. from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati. A drug abuse prevention specialist, she is currently Director of the South Asian Drugs and Addictions Research Council and a former board member of the International Society for the Study of Drug Policy (ISSDP). She is the author of History of Intoxication: Opium in Assam, 1800-1959 and many other publications.

Opium Consumption and Experience in India offers a “cultural biography” of opium in the subcontinent. It spans the Raj and India after independence. The book examines the “social lives” of opium in India, beginning as a commodity in the sixteenth century to its social transformation and singularization in the eighteenth century, and its decline from the mid-nineteenth century to obsolescence in the twentieth century to new “paths and diversions” in our own times.

Market: 
History, Social Science, Political Science, India, Public Health, Capitalism, Narcotics, Drug Abuse, South Asia, South Asian Studies, Business
Release Date: 
September 15, 2023
ISBN: 
9781680536164 Hardcover
Price: 
$99.95
Trim Size: 
6x9
Pages: 
200
Illustrations: 
None
Yes
Publisher: 

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