Berkeley Books Blog

Professor Samera Esmeir's new book provides a historical and theoretical account of the modern positive law that was implemented to replace shari’a law during the British occupation of Egypt.

In his book, Professor Ronald Hendel traces the shifts in thought over millennia of reading the Bible. Genesis contains a collective history of how reality was perceived and handled and more specifically, argues Hendel, of how reading practices shaped perceptions of reality.

In Continuity and Change in Irish Poetry, 1966-2010, Associate Professor of English Eric Falci engages in marvelously close readings to understand the importance of Ireland's oral and literary tradition in the work of its contemporary poets.

Tracing eighteenth-century theories of sentiment through the more recent scholarly interest in "emotional intelligence," Goldsmith asks whether our enthusiasm for emotion ought to be trusted.