Taylor & Francis

Both a dictionary and a glossary of terms that attempts to cover the entire field of Islam. Also included are brief biographies of eminent Muslims and Islamic scholars throughout the ages, providing a ready reference to authorities normally cited...

Contains around 1400 entries, describing clearly and concisely all the key aspects of religion, cutlure and history in Judaism...

This dictionary is a glossary of terms and a reference work whose entries cover the complex phenomenon of contemporary Paganism. A valuable addition to the available academic literature...

This dictionary is a glossary of terms and a reference work whose entries cover the complex phenomenon of contemporary Paganism. A valuable addition to the available academic literature...

A comprehensive glossary and reference work with more than a thousand entries on Shinto ranging from brief definitions and Japanese terms to short essays dealing with aspects of Shinto practice, belief and institutions from early times up to the present day...

The first to appear in Curzon's well respected 'Popular Dictionary' series...

This is a comprehensive guide to the practices of witchcraft from their inception to the present day. Summers argues that all witchcraft is essentially the same, regardless of geographical location. He examines the practices of the cult in great detail, and its historical progression, within the con..

This book breaks new ground in enabling us to visualise the changes in town and countryside brought by Roman military and civilian needs...

This book breaks new ground in enabling us to visualise the changes in town and countryside brought by Roman military and civilian needs...

This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements...

This book examines how the liberal peace experiment of the post-Cold War environment has failed to connect with its target populations, which have instead set about transforming it according to their own local requirements...

A Practical Approach to WBEM/CIM Management describes WBEM/CIM architecture and explores the models developed by the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF). It examines the interfaces with which WBEM/CIM code will have to work, and offers examples of applicable models and related code. It introduc..