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This book explores the emergence of the first bible, focussing on second-century Scripture, the earliest New Testament, and the canon formation process. Textual-interpretative, ritual, and paratextual aspects of the Christian Scriptures are discussed as well as their impact on the wider Roman and Medieval literary cultures, and beyond. 

Manfred Thierry Mugler encapsulates the notion of a fashion auteur. Championing the subversion of cultural codes, the late designer built a fashion house that transcends and transgresses boundaries of formal and social convention that in turn influenced the generation of designers to emerge in his wake.

This book uses photography to explore Mexico City’s many and varied landscapes as they emerge from the rich urban culture and vernacular artistry of the people who live there.

Geopolitics shapes daily life and key human geography processes, and this book introduces its historical and theoretical development to support critical thinking. Using contemporary case studies, it challenges assumptions about global power while providing accessible yet academically rigorous frameworks for deeper understanding.

The book interprets Dallapiccola’s one-act opera The Prisoner (Il Prigioniero) as an allegory about how people remain hopeful in the face of authoritarianism.

Resisting from Morocco’s Margins explores the socio-political context in which Ahmed Amrani’s oil-on-paper painting Protesta (1969) was made, specifically, the Rif Revolts of the late 1950s.

This book maps a new path to understanding subjectivity and history in response to the challenges faced by modern political thinking, including the shortcomings of liberal individualism in accounting for our lives together. It describes a critical theory derived from political theology and focused on temporal existence without recourse to atemporal principles.

This book provides a critical introduction to the complex relationship between law and peace.

A history of immigration law as a legal discipline: how it has been constrained and unconstrained by developments in migration policy, international law, constitutional law and legal theory.

The first English translation and analysis of a 1793 text by Karl von Dalberg (1744–1817) in defence of enlightened absolutism against Kantian criticisms.