When thinking of intrepid travelers from past centuries, we don't usually put Muslim women at the top of the list. And yet, the stunning firsthand accounts in this collection completely upend preconceived notions of who was exploring the world.Editors Siobhan Lambert-Hurley, Daniel Majchrowicz, and Sunil Sharma recover, translate, annotate, and provide historical and cultural context for the 17th- to 20th-century writings of Muslim women travelers in ten different ...

For more than 80 years, clinicians worldwide have relied on The Washington Manual® of Medical Therapeutics to provide succinct, practical guidance for the challenges that residents, interns, medical students, and practitioners face every day in the hospital. Written by faculty, fellows, and internal medicine chief residents of the distinguished Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, The Washington Manual of Medical Therapeutics, 38th Edition presents brief, logical approach...

In a historical moment when cross-cultural communication proves both necessary and difficult, the work of comparative philosophy is timely. Philosophical resources for building a shared future marked by vitality and collaborative meaning-making are in high demand. Taking note of the present global philosophical situation, this collection of essays critically engages the scholarship of Roger T. Ames, who for decades has had a central role in the evolution of comparative and nonwestern philo...