Books published by Equinox Publishing Ltd

The essays collected in this volume focus on methodological and historical topics related to the study of the history of ancient Israel. Contributors offer readers new readings of disputed texts, new methodological tools for study of the ancient world inhabited by an entity called aIsraela, and a variety of reinterpretations of biblical texts.

This volume explores technology and communication of the early settlements of Northern Europe.

This volume explores economy and settlement of the early post-glacial pioneers of Northern Europe.

Fabricating Identities pairs early career scholars with members of Culture on the Edge, to explore how social actors identify themselves through their practices and associations.

Fabricating Identities pairs early career scholars with members of Culture on the Edge, to explore how social actors identify themselves through their practices and associations.

The first volume presents new archaeological and ecological data and analyses on the relation between human subsistence and survival, and the natural history of North-Western Europe throughout the period 10000 - 6000 BC.

This book tells the story of the British Council's seventy-five year involvement in the field of English language testing.

Religion in Five Minutes provides an accessible and lively introduction to the questions about religion and religious behaviour that interest most of us, whether or not we personally identify with — or practice — a religion. Suitable for beginning students and the general reader, the book offers more than 60 brief essays on a wide range of fascinating questions about religion and its study, such as: How did religion start? What religion is the oldest? Who are the Nones? Why do women seem to play lesser roles in many religions? What’s the difference between a religion and a cult? Is Europe less religious than North America? Is Buddhism a philosophy? How do we study religions of groups who no longer exist?Each essay is written by a leading authority and offers succinct, insightful answers along with suggestions for further reading, making the book an ideal starting point for classroom use or personal browsing.

This is the first Spanish textbook to use food as the vantage point from which to learn language and acquire cultural literacy.

This volume builds on scholarship by scholars of African American religion that emphasizes the centrality of the body in religion and religious experience.

This volume looks at politeness phenomena in a culture and country that is becoming the most influential in the world. It is the first book to survey politeness variations across different genres in Chinese and will fill a gap in both politeness research in general and in Chinese politeness research in particular.

In this book, Ian Inglis provides a succinct critical appreciation of the group that is balanced, informative and objective.

The Five-Minute Archaeologist in the Southern Levant is a user-friendly exploration of basic concepts within archaeology, with particular attention to the region of the southern Levant.

This study demonstrates that al-Sulami was an accomplished mystic. It outlines his life and times and surveys in full all his works as far as they can be identified.

This volume focuses on the discourses that construct Islam in the aftermath of traumatic events and thus illustrates how academic analysis of the fabrication of difference can contribute significantly to public discourse.

This volume focuses on the discourses that construct Islam in the aftermath of traumatic events and thus illustrates how academic analysis of the fabrication of difference can contribute significantly to public discourse.

The chapters in this book investigate several phonetic and phonological issues that are in contrast between 4 Germanic languages (English, German, Danish, and Swedish- with more than 500 million speakers) and 4 Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, French, and Italian - with more than 700 million speakers).

Contributing scholars from around the world reflect on three important areas of MacDonald's archaeological contributions.

This book offers an updated introduction to Relational Network Theory (RNT), a neurocognitive model of language compatible with systemic-functional tenets. It describes and illustrates the logical types of relations found in a linguistic network.

Textbook Violence offers critical perspectives on how textbooks deal or not deal with issues of conflict and violence in religions.

Textbook Violence offers critical perspectives on how textbooks deal or not deal with issues of conflict and violence in religions.

Beginning with Sufism as it is lived today, each chapter further unveils the complexities of Sufism, journeying through a variety of historical, political, and cultural contexts, moving deeper into the past, and closer to the origin and heart of Sufism.

This volume provides a composite of contemporary Sufi involvement in politics using a range of approaches and disciplines.

This volume provides a composite of contemporary Sufi involvement in politics using a range of approaches and disciplines.