Books published by Kegan Paul

First Published in 1999. The majority of the contributions to this volume have their origin in a symposium which was held in Stockholm on 27-29 September 1996 under the Swedish title of Nordisk Centralasienforskning: språk - kultur - samhälle, i.e. 'Nordic Central Asia Research: Language - Culture - Society'. The main purpose of this meeting was to obtain a general view of current research activities and study programmes in this field and to help establish contact between Central Asia researchers in the Nordic countries.

First Published in 1999. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First published in 1998. Despite the upsurge of interest in the history of tropical medicine, international public health and the provision of health care in colonial and post-colonial tropical countries, no major text discusses the history of the academic discipline in the twentieth century. In Britain, the two Schools of Tropical Medicine opened within six months of each other in the final year of the nineteenth century. They have played a pivotal role in developing tropical medicine, as an academic discipline in postgraduate medicine with an active research profile. The Schools also affected the development of health care in the tropical colonies. They trained the Medical Officers of the Colonial Medical Service and the indigenous doctors whose training failed to include infectious endemic diseases and lacked an emphasis on community health. The Schools also contributed to a body of knowledge applied by the colonial powers, international agencies and independent nation states as part of their health care programmes. Ultimately the Schools helped the developing world to establish its own priorities for health. This volume charts the history of the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine from1898 to1990.

First published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

After the 1979 revolution in Iran, the western media revealed pictures of full-veiled Iranian women demonstrating in the streets of Tehran to demand the death of the Shah and the downfall of his regime. Many asked what it was that made these women reject the nobility of the socio-economic modernity of the Shah's regime and instead embrace Islamic belief widely presumed to be "oppressive" and misogynistic--a religion in which women have no place and no identity. Zahra Kamalkhani's new book goes behind the veil to disprove this misconception and to look in detail at the complex lives of the majority contemporary Muslim women. She deals with Islamic beliefs and the religious tradition of women in the context of modern political turmoil and addresses the false assumption that a clear distinction can be made between the "official" Islam practiced by men and the "popular" Islam practiced by women. In this important study in Islamic anthropology, the author treats women as actors in the interconnected domains of family, religious, political and social contexts, all under the umbrella of Islam., in order to generate new models for understanding the Muslim women of today.

First published in 1998. The writing of this book started in earnest with the establishment of a joint research group that gathered at the Netherlands Institute of Advanced Study (Wassenaar, The Hague) between September 1995 and June 1996. The starting point was the question, to what extent and in what way the new dynamics in (South)east Asia would influence Europe's global position, and more specifically, how these changes should be conceptualized in order to assist in the formulation of new policies to deal with the new international environment. Most contributors to this book would agree that there is ample reason to view these changes as an opportunity for Europe, and not just as a threat.

-- M. I. Glassner, Southern Connecticutt State University

Emphasizes the religious and philosophical aspects of Arabic and Persian writing of the early period, primarily poetry, with nearly a third of the volume devoted to Sufism. The importance of the volume lies in its masterful evocations of the Islamic mystical experience as the key to Islam itself.

Scholars often assume that elite, or high-status tomb chapels of the Egyptian Old and Middle Kingdoms featured decorations in order to provide for the eternal needs of the deceased. This book offers a detailed study of the tomb chapel of Khnumhotep II, charting the various levels of meaning buried in the scenes, ornaments, and texts that adorn it.

Drawing on Chomsky's model of linguistic theory, this book provides an in-depth generative account of three major types of Arabic sentences: the coordinate, the negative, and the interrogative. It also focuses on significant transformations frequently found in modern Arabic, such as pronominalization, clitic movement, and dative movement.

First published in 2000. Due to the author's ongoing interest in Ibn al-Jazzar's medical compendium, called Ziid al-musiifir wa-qiit al-/:la4ir (Provisions for the Traveller and Nourishment for the Sedentary) he would like to present to the reader a critical edition with translation and introduction of the section from Bk. 7, chs. 1-6 which deals with the different kinds of fevers. Such an edition is an urgent desideratum in the history of Islamic medicine, since so far none of the medical works of the Islamic physicians dealing with fevers has been published in a critical edition and translation.

This is an account of history in the making in the areas of South Arabia which increasingly claim national and international attention. The author traces the events leading up to the Federation of Aden and the Western Protectorate of Arab States and the explosive problems that follow.

This is a Hani-English, English-Hani dictionary containing nearly 30,000 words. The introduction to the dictionary provides a basic description of the culture and the language of the Hani people. A bibliography of English, Chinese and Hani books and articles on Hani is included.

A vision for a restructuring of the United Nations, this volume offers an insider's look at how the UN can respond more effectively to the challenges of the future in an age of globalization. It also analyzes the roles of major UN functions such as the General Assembly and the Trusteeship Council.

Offers a survey of the childhood education system in Japan. This book opens up a range of questions about the future of traditional childcare in the climate of globalization. It examines the individuals and resources that allow such institutions to function: administrators, teachers, and the role of the state in standardizing preschool education.

This volume provides a guide to Arabic horse terminology.

Consists of eight short stories, all of which concern the human condition. The stories are based around two characteristics of the Korean people - powerful family bonds and nostalgia for the past. Sadness and triumph are the unifying themes in the work.

A general history of Korea beginning with the prehistoric era, and progressing through the era of the Three Kingdoms, Sill, Koguryo and Paekche, the Koryo period, which saw the war with Khitan, the coming of the Mongols and the invasion of Japan. A survey of modern Korea is included.

This is the story of Gifford S. Rossi's dream and determination to build the Arabian Dry Dock, and of how, despite countless setbacks and in the face of great sceptism, that dream was achieved.

A study of the interactions between ideological trends and economic reform in China in the era of Deng Xiaoping, this text explores the ideological transformation during this era. Using many primary sources, the author examines the major ideological trends since 1978, and assesses their effects.

This text contains descriptions of the Japanese enthronement ceremonies. It covers the rituals, costumes, offerings, equipment, music, seating plans and buildings in which the ceremonies are held, giving their present function and past history. It examines the underlying importance of the rites.

This work is a detailed study of the modern Shinto, the religion of Japan, in both its state and sect forms, and is of particular interest for its account of the evolution of Shintoism into a vital political force in the period leading up to World War II.

The work is a practical "how-to" manual for breeding houbara in captivity. It also presents and summarizes data obtained on houbara diet, behaviour, physiology, reproductive biology and veterinary care that have enabled the breeding programme to succeed.

Provides an account of the past of Nubia, both in Egypt and in the Sudan, from the earliest human activity known there in old Stone Age times to the coming of Islam in the 14th-15th centuries AD. This book shows the main results of archaeological and historical research since the 19th century.