This highbrow artwork is an amassment of sensibilities. In this meeting of the postmodern minds, the writers necessary emotional range is fully developed and set in motion.

"A Pastoral Comedy" by Allan Ramsay is a delightful theatrical work that transports audiences to the idyllic countryside of rural Scotland. Set against the backdrop of lush green fields, rolling hills, and quaint country villages, Ramsay's comedy follows the lives of shepherds, farmers, and villagers as they navigate the joys and tribulations of rural life. With its charming characters, bucolic settings, and whimsical plotlines, "A Pastoral Comedy" offers audiences a refreshing escape from the complexities of urban living. Through its lively dialogue, rustic humor, and rustic charm, the play celebrates the simple pleasures of nature, community, and love. As the characters sing, dance, and frolic in the countryside, they remind us of the timeless beauty and tranquility of rural life. Ramsay's masterful storytelling and keen observations of human nature ensure that "A Pastoral Comedy" is a delightful and entertaining experience for audiences of all ages.

The fascinating story of C Company, Maori Battalion told through personal recollections, eyewitness accounts, numerous anecdotes and amazing photographs. At times heart-rending, at times heart-warming, this impressive book captures the special 'spirit' of the Maori Battalion - an amazing book that documents the stories of those who were actually there.

This study focuses on post-Visigothic Latin chronicles as testimonies of an intense search for models of stability and social cohesion on the Iberian Peninsula. As the principal source of Iberian political thought between the eighth and mid-thirteenth centuries, these texts have long been regarded from the perspective of modern-day national boundaries of a political entity called Spain. From the post-national perspective of Mediterranean studies, which considers Iberian centres of power in cultural contact with the broader world, post-Visigothic Iberian chronicle writing is seen as a cultural practice that seeks to reconcile the imperative of unity and stability with the reality of diversity and social change. The book examines, firstly, the Andalusi Christian narrative of Visigothic political demise, which originated in Iberian dhimm? communities between the mid-eighth and mid-ninth centuries. Second, it explores the narrative of sovereignty, developed in Asturias-Leon from the late ninth century onwards. Finally, it examines the historiographical manipulation of both of these traditions in Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada's Historia de rebus Hispanie (1243). The ongoing contact between Iberian Latin textual communities and the broader Mediterranean is interpreted as central to both the development of Iberian historical mythology and its historiographical renovation.

Secularizing Islamists? provides an in-depth analysis of two Islamist parties in Pakistan, the highly influential Jama‘at-e-Islami and the more militant Jama‘at-ud-Da‘wa, widely blamed for the November 2008 terrorist attack in Mumbai, India. Basing her findings on thirteen months of ethnographic work with the two parties in Lahore, Humeira Iqtidar proposes that these Islamists are involuntarily facilitating secularization within Muslim societies, even as they vehemently oppose secularism. This book offers a fine-grained account of the workings of both parties that challenges received ideas about the relationship between the ideology of secularism and the processes of secularization. Iqtidar particularly illuminates the impact of women on Pakistani Islamism, while arguing that these Islamist groups are inadvertently supporting secularization by forcing a critical engagement with the place of religion in public and private life. She highlights the role that competition among Islamists and the focus on the state as the center of their activity plays in assisting secularization. The result is a significant contribution to our understanding of emerging trends in Muslim politics.