The Assyrian Dictionary, Volume 17, S, Part 1

The Assyrian Dictionary, Volume 17, S, Part 1The Chicago Assyrian Dictionary was conceived to provide more than lexical information alone, more than a one to one equivalent between Akkadian and English words. By presenting each word in a meaningful context, often with a full and idiomatic translation, it recreates the cultural milieu and in many ways assumes the function of an encyclopedia.

“The Domains of Identity” defines sixteen coherent yet comprehensive categories of interactions which cause personally identifiable information to be stored in databases

Brenez reconsiders what a body on film can be and what constitutes a figure in cinema

Some of the entries confront Benjamin with a different reading of his own historical sources (Blanqui

and thus of the social history of parish and puritan religion in London

in eastern India

'Virtual Voyages' is a fascinating account of the European discovery of the elusive 'great south land' told through the literature of 'imaginary voyages'

Drawing on fieldwork in rural South India over more than a decade

This book offers an insightful reappraisal of international broadcasting as discursive rather than ‘soft’ power in service of democratic statecraft

Fedor Bondarchuk’s 2013 blockbuster film Stalingrad shattered box-office records and dazzled viewers with its use of special effects

and they also open up a number of fruitful new lines of thought around emerging technological

Fabrizio Tassinari seeks to rediscover the methods

An invaluable resource for scholars