Television technology is now changing at the same pace as computer software. What this means—for TV, for computers, and for popular culture where video media reign supreme—is the subject of this timely book. Owen looks at the economic history of the television industry and at the effects of technology and government regulation on its organization.

This textbook for beginning students contains 35 lessons of increasing difficulty designed to introduce students to the basic patterns of Classical Chinese and to provide practice in reading a variety of texts. The lessons are structured to encourage students to do more work with dictionaries and other references as they progress through the book.

Introduction to Reality offers the first comprehensive study, critical edition, and annotated English translation of Srigupta’s Tattvavatarav?tti. As the earliest known synthesis of Nagarjuna’s Madhyamaka metaphysics with the Dignaga-Dharmakirti tradition of logic and epistemology, it marks a pivotal moment in the development of Madhyamaka thought.

Iran Amplified: One Hundred Years of Music and Society, the first edited volume on music in modern Iran, collects compelling scholarship, musician narratives, and primary sources. It offers historiography and critical examination of music’s significant role in social and political discourses in Iran throughout the twentieth century.

Islamic China traces the interlinked stories of twenty Chinese Muslims across the centuries, spanning ethnic groups, sects, and imperial borders. Collectively, their experiences point to the ordinariness of Islam within China, even as Muslims have been subject to centuries of minoritization under myriad Chinese regimes.

In 1831 enslaved Jamaicans revolted. What began as a peaceful movement soon became a bloodbath as British troops retaliated. Tom Zoellner tells the inspiring story of the uprising that galvanized antislavery forces in Britain and led directly to abolition two years later.

At Vatican II, the Catholic Church renounced the teaching that Jews had killed Christ and pivoted toward reconciliation. Jewish leaders responded in kind. Karma Ben-Johanan pierces the veil of interfaith dialogue, emphasizing rabbinical literature suspicious of the sudden Catholic turn and Catholic theologians struggling to maintain tradition.

Modern Japan is not only responding to threats from North Korea and China but is also reevaluating its dependence on the United States, Sheila Smith shows. No longer convinced they can rely on Americans to defend their country, Tokyo’s political leaders are now confronting the possibility that they may need to prepare the nation’s military for war.