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This innovative history demonstrates the remarkable diversity encompassed by the deceptively simple Jewish statement of faith, 'God is one'. Grossberg shows how this diversity is unified in a continuous striving for knowledge of God that has been at the heart of Judaism from its earliest beginnings.

This volume arises from the 2022 edition of the long-running 'Groups St Andrews' conference series and consists of expository papers from leading researchers in all areas of group theory. It provides a snapshot of the state of the art in the field, and will be a valuable resource for researchers and graduate students.

This edited work provides the first comprehensive account of how connectivity concepts and methods are applied in geomorphology. Exploring concepts, methods, and application, it is a key resource for practitioners, researchers and graduate students in geomorphology.

Introduces students of Classics and Ancient History and educated general readers to the life and works of Cicero. By detailed analysis of his works in relation to his life, it aims to draw a more comprehensive picture of the man and his personality than previous biographies provide.

Kate Loveman explores the creation of the most famous English diary, how it came to be published, and the many remarkable roles it has since played in British culture. In so doing, she shows how Pepys's own strange history has become part of the history of the nation.

Examining all aspects of hoarding and its treatment, this book utilises case studies to demonstrate terms and how people may seek help. Written primarily for people with hoarding disorder and their loved ones, this book will also appeal to GPs and mental health practitioners.

This timely intervention into the debate about the legacy of the Enlightenment highlights both the plurality and the continuing relevance of Enlightened cosmopolitanism to contemporary global concerns, linking cultural history with the history of ideas and politics, in a global perspective.

Explores the multiple ways in which different conceptions of time and history have been used to understand politics since late antiquity, showing that no conception of politics has dispensed altogether with time, and many have explicitly sought legitimacy in association with forms of history.

The first edited collection on Anne Lister (1791-1840), this interdisciplinary book explores how her diaries (as historical and literary text and in adaptation) reframe same-sex practices. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

Connecting popular attitudes and social practices with political ideas, Land and Liberalism shows how Irish land in the 1880s was a site of ideological conflict and demonstrates the centrality of Henry George and the Irish Land War to the transformation of liberal thought.

Analysing the work of Ethiopian-Somali smugglers and return-migrant investors, this study explores the relationship between cities and borders amid Africa's rapid urbanization. Daniel Thompson describes how African city-dwellers' lives are shaped by global border security regimes, and how they contest these borders in daily urban life.

Leon Battista Alberti emerged in 1435 with De pictura, the modern era's earliest discourse on Western art. Peter Weller challenges the popular notion that De pictura's compendium on lines, points, mathematics, composition, narrative, and portraiture is primarily the result of Alberti's return to Florence and his short exposure to its visual art.

Courts play an increasingly important role in democracies. Understanding their role is important to all who are concerned about the future of democracy. This book explains why the role of courts has expanded and explores their relationship with the executive arm of government and their role in protecting fundamental rights.

This Element explores the idea of publication in media used before, alongside, and after print. It contrasts multiple traditions of unprinted communication in their diversity and particularity.