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Performing national identity
National identity is not some naturally given or metaphysically sanctioned racial or territorial essence that only needs to be conceptualised or spelt out in discursive texts; it emerges from, takes shape in, and is constantly defined and redefined in individual and collective performances. It is...
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Dissent as restlessness
This book examines dissent as multifaceted resistance across religious, political, and social contexts in contemporary Africa and beyond. Using Collins and Skover's framework, it defines dissent through intentionality, criticality, and publicness. Structured in eight chapters the author explores ...
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The classical arabic maqāma in yorubaland, nigeria
This book offers a fresh perspective on the re-emergence of a classical literary genre, showcasing a fusion of tradition and innovation. It examines the cultural dynamics that shape the development of Arabic maqāma in Nigeria. The maqāma, a genre traditionally associated with the MENA region, exp...
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Regulating migrant integration in europe
Migrants coming to and moving within Europe typically experience inadequate recognition of their professional qualifications and wrongful discrimination. This book describes and critically assesses international, European and EU laws and policies governing migrant integration in Europe, with a pa...
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Pleadings, minutes of public sittings and documents / mémoires, procès-verbaux des audiences publiques et documents, volume 34 (2023)
This volume contains the texts of written pleadings, minutes of public sittings and other documents from the proceedings concerning the Request for an Advisory Opinion submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law (Request for Advisory Opinion submitte...
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مكتبة أحمد باشا الجزَّار: ثقافة الكتاب في فلسطين نهاية العصر العثماني
هذه أوَّل دراسة عربيَّة أكاديميَّة تتناول تأريخ مكتبة أحمد باشا الجزَّار (ت 1840)، الحاكم الشهير لشمالي فلسطين أواخر القرن الثامن عشر، ومآلات مجموعتها والفاعلين الرئيسيين في حركة انتقالها، استنادًا إلى فهرس مقتنياتها وخوارج نصوص مخطوطاتها. واضعةً المكتبة، التي كانت من أكبر المكتبات في تاريخ فلس...
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Borrowed plumage
This eclectic collection of essays focuses on a number of intriguing issues in translation: some of these “polemic” essays challenge certain widespread beliefs and practices: for example, the belief that humor is untranslatable; the assumption that translations are always inferior to the original...
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Federalism and the law of diversity
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. The volume offers new and unexplored perspectives on federalism and its relationships with diversity accommodation. It represents the first structured attempt to use federal the...
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Research in the social scientific study of religion, volume 34
Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 34 takes an intersectional approach to the study of religious and non-religious belief, in different geographical contexts, using a variety of methods and always privileging the layered identities of those who 'live' religion and non-rel...
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The persian miniatures collection of the rijksmuseum, a hidden treasure trove
The present book offers an elaborate art historical study of the collection of Persian miniatures at the Rijkmuseum in Amsterdam. The collection includes detached folios, which are the most significant in any Dutch collection. The artworks, catalogued thorougly in this book for the first time, ra...
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Psychological themes in classical islamic literature
Are you curious about the contributions of the Islamic intellectual heritage to the field of psychology? Psychological Themes in the Classical Islamic Literature provides a captivating window into the rich Islamic scholarly tradition as it pertains specifically to human psychology. This book brin...
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Le futurisme polonais, 1918-1924/ polski futuryzm, 1918-1924 (vol.2)
This is Volume 2 of 2. In the history of the twentieth century, Futurism marked the birth of the avant-garde and major artistic and literary changes. Although it first appeared in Italy and Russia, it developed in Poland between 1918 and 1924. The vast documentation and texts, most of them previo...
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Herbert thorndike and the restoration of the church of england
The Caroline theologian Herbert Thorndike (1598-1672) was significant before and after the seventeenth-century Restoration of the Church of England. Thorndike’s theological methodology engaged with ecclesiology, the government and ministry of the Church of England, the Eucharist and the Book of C...
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Semantic structures of grammatical systems and their realizations
The theory proposed in this book enables linguists to explain how utterances are formed in individual languages and why languages differ in how they denote events and states that may appear physically identical. The formation of utterances is guided by the principle of functional transparency, wh...
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Indo-slavic lexical isoglosses and the prehistoric dispersal of indo-iranian
During the past decade, the ancient DNA revolution has had a massive impact on the scholarly debates on the origins and dispersals of language families. Now, linguists are asking the question: does linguistic and genetic evidence paint the same picture of the human past? This book sheds new light...
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Radical visions 1968-2008
Radical Visions 1968-2008: The Impact of the Sixties on Australian Drama is about a generation of Australian playwrights who came of age in the sixties. This important book shows how international trends in youth radicalism and cultural change at the time contributed to the rise of interest in al...
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The global community yearbook of international law and jurisprudence 2024
Founded in 2001, the GCYILJ provides an authoritative and unique annual survey of developments in global law and governance. The 2024 volume explores how law, politics, justice, and ethics interact in shaping the evolving global order, with analyses ranging from judicial practices and hermeneutic...
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Solidarność
This high-profile and award-winning work shows the organic working-class character of the Polish Solidarność revolution of 1980–81 and thus debunks the canonical idea that the movement was orchestrated primarily by intellectuals from the democratic opposition, who brought consciousness to the wor...
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A history of displaced knowledge: austrian refugees from national socialism in australia
This book follows ideas and knowledge that migrated in the cultural baggage of Austrian refugees, who fled to Australia in 1938 and 1939 because of National Socialism. By telling and comparing the stories of twenty-six different lives, it highlights the processes of acquisition, transportation, t...
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Criminalization
Criminalization: Politics and Policies provides a thorough analysis of the relationship between politics, policies, and criminalization. Through diverse perspectives and scholarly essays, it explores the multifaceted issues in criminal justice, law, and governance. The book scrutinizes the impact...
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Dreambooks in the middle ages
This volume explores the intricate art of interpreting dream symbols by tracing the evolution of oneirocritical traditions across Asia, the Middle East, and the Latin West. Spanning the classical, medieval, and modern periods, it reveals how diverse cultures have used dreambooks to translate imag...
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The philosophical colony: writing the history of philosophy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, ethnologists, linguists, historians, and especially historians of philosophy identified other “cultures,” which they distinguished from the West in order to subject them to empirical study. Consequently, Europe was conceived as the unique territory of p...
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Spirit of the mind
In Spirit of the Mind, Sanaullah Khan delves into Islamic perspectives on the soul and its implications for spirituality and self-cultivation. Despite varying views on the soul's composition, a shared belief has persisted among theologians, scholars, preachers and reformists that it bears traces ...
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Hague yearbook of international law / annuaire de la haye de droit international, vol. 37 (2024)
The aim of the Hague Yearbook of International Law is to offer a platform for review of new developments in the field of international law. In addition, it devotes attention to developments in the international law institutions based in the international City of Peace and Justice, The Hague. Thi...
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John the baptist and composite intertextuality in the fourth gospel
Recent scholarship has focused on John’s relationship to Judaism, his intertextual method, and his portrayal of John the Baptist, yet few connect these topics. We know the Evangelist is a masterful storyteller, particularly with his characters, which raises the question: Could we view the relatio...
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Soqotra, mahra, and dhofar
For the first time in the history of Semitic studies, this volume is devoted entirely to Modern South Arabian (MSA) as a unified linguistic and cultural entity. The three principal regions inhabited by MSA speakers—Mahra and Dhofar on the Arabian mainland, and the island of Soqotra—are comprehens...
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Jacob boehme and the spiritual roots of psychotherapy
Jacob Boehme (1574-1624) was a wildly creative mystical writer whose extraordinary revelations have often been consigned to obscurity. In this original book, professor and therapist Glenn McCullough shows that Boehme is the source of one of modernity’s most influential movements: psychotherapy. B...
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The hypocrisy of signs
This book explores the tensions between text and speech, intention and action, individual conscience and the public sphere in the early modern period. It reclaims the hermeneutical foundation of hypocrisy as a key tool for assessing the gap between interiority and exteriority, which underpins the...
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Book of abstracts of the 66th annual meeting of the european association for animal production
This Book of Abstracts is the main publication of the 66th Annual Meeting of the European Federation for Animal Science 2015 in Warsaw, Poland. It contains abstracts of the invited papers and contributed presentations. The meeting addressed subjects relating to science and innovation. Important ...
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A socialism for the twenty-first century
Marx called for a society where the ruling principle is ‘the full and free development of every individual.’ Capitalism neither is nor can be such a society. Domination, worsening ecological crises, and many other pathologies are its intrinsic features—not bugs that can be corrected. But is there...
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The philosophy of ptolemy in greek, arabic and hebrew contexts
Ptolemy (d. ca 170) was perhaps the most famous theoretician of celestial science of his time, up to the Renaissance. Yet al-Kindī (d. ca 870), who was the first philosopher to write in Arabic, seems to have considered him to be a philosopher as well. According to him, the preface to the Almagest...
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The renaissance papacy 1400–1600
After having been weakened by the Great Western Schism, the papacy recovered its leadership position during the Renaissance. It expanded and reformed its bureaucracy, gained control over councils and cardinals, and established its authority over the Papal States and the city of Rome, which it dev...
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Everyday rituals in contemporary settings
A boutique, a cruise ship, a museum and a hotel all have something in common. But what? They are all places of consumption—not just in the narrow economic sense, but also as part of a broader cultural, emotional, and symbolic phenomenon. Drawing on a semiotic approach, this book explores how desi...
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Without a trace…
This biography gives an inside story of US and Soviet Communism, their similarities and parallels, and the Soviet bureaucracy in the Stalin era. Unprecedented research in Yiddish-language Jewish archives and underresearched Soviet archives enable genuine revelations. This book tells you how revol...
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The search for a theory of cognition
The book brings into relief the variety of approaches and disciplines that have informed the quest for a theory of cognition. The center of interest are the historical, geographical, and theoretical peripheries of classic AI's mainstream research program. The twelve chapters bring back into focus...
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Civil procedure: access to commercial justice
The financial burden of litigation continues to be the single most important consideration for parties in determining whether to fight their case in court. The financial burden of embarking on civil litigation can influence litigation strategy and determine who has, and who is denied, access to j...
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At the sources of the twentieth-century analytical movement
The volume contains works showing the comprehensive contribution of Kazimierz Twardowski, the founder of the Lvov-Warsaw School, to the European analytical movement. The readers of the volume will learn, among other things, how the theoretically fertile distinction between act and product introdu...
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The pillars of islam
This research attempts to understand the allegory of the Pillars of Islam: when did it appear and why did it become widespread? Even if it does not occupy the forefront, neither among the ʿulamāʾ nor among Orientalists, it is far from an empty phrase or slogan far removed from reality. The “pilla...
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Contesting heritage
In the heart of Nigeria’s religious landscape, where Pentecostal fervor and charismatic worship reshape everyday expressions of faith, the Seventh-day Adventist Church stands at a crossroads. Contesting Heritage is a compelling exploration of how a mission-initiated denomination grapples with cul...
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Teaching religious education
Historically, religious education has often been seen as a tool for reinforcing cultural and religious identity. However, as the world becomes more interconnected and religious diversity grows within national borders, RE has increasingly been called upon to play a different role—one that fosters ...
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The great king’s word under ahuramazdā’s protection
This volume presents part of the author’s research on the Achaemenid Royal Inscriptions recovered in the ruins of the Achaemenid palaces in Susa, conducted within the framework of the DARIOSH-Louvre Project. It offers a new study of several fragmentary inscriptions in Old Persian, Achaemenid Elam...
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Understanding the chinese communist revolution
The Chinese Communist Revolution is one of the most important events in modern global history and has attracted significant scholarly attention both in and outside of China. This volume includes nine articles translated from Open Times (Kaifang shidai), one of China’s leading academic journals. T...
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Radical transcendentalisms
Radical Transcendentalisms seeks to recover the intense relation that the nineteenth-century Transcendentalist movement had with radical social reform, and to recover it from the long history of liberal, individualist accusations that have been hurled at it. The authors in this collection argue t...
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Bosnian king nicholas of ilok and his pilgrimage to rome (1475)
“You do not see a city when you see Rome, but a piece of heaven,” wrote the author of a medieval guidebook. But how did pilgrims find their way to Rome without getting lost? Where did they sleep and what did they eat? Why did both the rich and the poor set out on such long and dangerous journeys?...
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Negotiating identities
The papers within this volume articulate the challenges perceived by an individual or a country when its sense of self is confronted by the foreign, the threatening. Migration, exile, and invasion all challenge the individual or the nation to redefine itself and thereby write and rewrite the conc...
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Présences du sacré dans le symbolisme français et belge
Lorsque le dogme se tait, le sacré peut-il encore faire entendre sa voix ? Ce volume invite à découvrir les modalités par lesquelles la littérature symboliste réinvente le sacré au-delà des cadres de la religion institutionnelle. De Mallarmé à Saint-Pol-Roux, de Maeterlinck à Rodenbach, les contr...
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The phenomenology of testimony
Testimony is a central topic in contemporary philosophy, with a vast array of disciplines, from epistemology to testimonial literature, demonstrating considerable interest in it. Among these approaches, phenomenology and hermeneutics offer exemplary ways of capturing essential dimensions of testi...
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Societies of anxiety and fear
We live in an age of polycrisis—pandemics, wars, climate emergencies, and digital upheavals shape our everyday lives. Societies of Anxiety and Fear: Post-Pandemic and Wartime Reflections reveals how fear and uncertainty are not only personal feelings but powerful social and political forces redef...
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Joseph brodsky and modern russian culture
This volume is a major contribution to the study of the life, work and standing of Joseph Brodsky, 1987 Nobel Prize Laureate and the best-known Russian poet of the second half of the twentieth century. This is the most significant book devoted to him in the last 25 years, and features work by man...
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Tušpa
Tušpa (Tushpa), the capital of the Urartians who established their state on the Eastern Anatolian High Plateau in the 9th century BC, provides invaluable material remains—monuments and inscriptions—that help us understand this ancient civilization. This book presents the results of new research c...
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When pentecostals cry
In When Pentecostals Cry, Martin Warnelid presents a unique perspective on the affective dimension of pentecostal spirituality by exploring fourteen narratives of encountering God by ordinary pentecostal believers. From a practical-theological perspective, the author creatively interprets the re...
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Toppling things as memorial contestation
Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, monuments became a focal point: protestors toppled or spray-painted them, even danced on them. These politically, visually, and emotionally potent events may have looked instantaneous, yet frequently sprang from years of activism, as well as protracte...
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Brill's companion to the reception of aristotle's poetics
It is hardly possible to read Aristotle’s Poetics today without acknowledging the influence of its reception history: our understanding of Aristotle’s poetical theory has been reshaped in past decades thanks to a reappraisal of long-held prejudices, whose history may be no less fascinating to exp...
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Écologies littéraires africaines
This book examines the relationship between literature, the environment and ecology in contemporary French-language literature from the Maghreb, sub-Saharan Africa and the Indian Ocean islands. It builds on the observation that, in the age of the Anthropocene, ecological awareness is also express...
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Pre-modern mathematical thought
This book takes readers through an exploration of fundamental discussions that redefined mathematics and its philosophical significance in the centuries foregoing modernity. From William of Auvergne’s paradoxes of infinity to Christoph Clavius’ interpretation of Euclidean principles, it examines ...
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Muslim women and pious learning in denmark
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, this book investigates how and why Danish Muslim women engage as teachers and students in Islamic educational activities. It does so by focusing on the learning trajectories, knowledge disseminating activities, and class interactions of the women, showing that the...
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Brill's companion to nicholas of cusa (1401–1464)
Nicholas of Cusa (Nicolaus Cusanus), the 15th-century church lawyer, bishop, and cardinal, fascinates up to this day as an independent mind. His original scholarly work emerges from a critical distance to the scholastic universities of his age. At the same time his writing is inspired by thorough...
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Making copies in early modern times
This book explores new approaches to the study of the complex relation between models and copies. Excellent studies dedicated to copies continue to be published, focusing mainly on works of art and techniques, but the research should be extended in directions that have remained virtually unexplor...
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Chinese christian witness
This groundbreaking book brings Chinese missiology to the forefront, offering a rare insider’s perspective on the rise of Chinese Christianity. It explores the diverse expressions of the missionary impulse that have driven Chinese Christians for centuries—across continents and theological traditi...
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A jewish archaeology
This study examines how various catacomb networks in Rome were eliminated and subsequently restored to the historical record as specifically Jewish sites. By exploring the evolution, interpretation and presentation of these catacombs from ancient times to the present, it offers fresh insights int...
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Die phänomenologie des geistes als die geburtsstätte der „kleinen logik“
Dieser akribische Kommentar zu den ersten fünf Kapiteln der Phänomenologie des Geistes wird Absatz für Absatz durchgeführt und analysiert den logischen Aufbau dieses Werkes. Es wird herausgearbeitet, wie diese logische Struktur in der (kleinen) Logik der Enzyklopädie der philosophischen Wissensch...
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The contemporary elegy in world literature
This volume navigates the entangled expressions of mourning across languages, cultures, and traditions, shedding light on the evolving shapes and discourses of contemporary elegy in world literature. By adopting a transnational approach, this collection offers a much needed conceptualization of w...
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The cradle of christianity: judaism, jesus, and the new testament
This major collection of essays by senior colleagues and friends of Craig A. Evans recognizes his contribution to the field of biblical studies by concentrating upon his areas of research and writing interest. These include: the emergence and characteristics of early Judaism, Jesus and the aposto...
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The observationes tumultuariae of johan van bleiswijk (1684–1748)
In the Dutch Republic, courts made decisions by voting and judgments were not given reasoned motivations. Although some judges kept a record of the preceding deliberations, the only extensive collections we have had until recently from the eighteenth century are those of van Bijnkershoek and Pauw...
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Living in a carolingian world
Living in a Carolingian World invites you to look beyond kings, bishops, and court politics to explore the diverse historical experiences and conceptions of the Carolingian non-elite. Through case studies and new research, this volume presents a range of Carolingian worlds that demonstrate the di...
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Motivations for refusal
In Motivations for Refusal: Work, Value, and the Limits of Postworkerism, Mark Gawne develops a critical account of how the affective politics of capital and class are formed and contested in contemporary arrangements of work, and offers a comprehensive critique of the postworkerist school of aut...
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The correspondence of dr. martin lister (1639—1712). volume two: 1678—1694
Martin Lister (1639–1712), who served as physician to Queen Anne, was a prominent Fellow of the Royal Society (F.R.S.), and he was made an honorary M.D. by Oxford in 1684.The first scientific arachnologist and conchologist, and a major benefactor of the Ashmolean Museum, he corresponded regularly...
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Legal facets of the practice of international organizations
The aim of this special course is to discuss a number of legal facets of the practice of international organizations. A first legal facet is “practice as a rule”. Here, the notion of “established practice” will be analyzed. The second legal facet covered by this course is “practice as a power”, d...
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Intelligent medicine
How safe is medicine when decisions are made by artificial intelligence? What happens when a misdiagnosis comes from an algorithm rather than a doctor? Intelligent Medicine explores these urgent questions. The book shows how AI transforms patient safety, redefines the medical standard of care and...
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Smorgasbords of andalusi and maghribi dishes and their salutary benefits
The medieval cookbook Anwāʿ al-ṣaydala fī alwān al-aṭʿima, with its remarkable collection of over 460 recipes, is a tangible testimony to the richness and sophistication of the cuisine of Muslim Spain. Its diverse recipes reflect a pluralistic society of ethnic and religious communities that foun...
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The icj and multi-forum litigation strategy
"In a world where inter-State multi-forum litigation multiplies, so does the risk of courts becoming diplomatic platforms to air State grievances." Nowadays, the ICJ is called to confront this risk when dealing with the main political issues of the day. The book draws inferences from legal and po...
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Marxism and the status of philosophy
What is the relation of Marxism to philosophy? Is Historical Materialism the supersession of philosophy as idealist speculation? Is there still some space left for it? Is philosophy a particular form of what we call ideology? Is philosophy destined to disappear? By returning to Marx and Engels’s ...
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Regulative verses of the qurʾan
Why does the Qurʾan contain legal verses, and how have scholars interpreted them across the centuries? Regulative Verses of the Qurʾan offers a comprehensive study of how Islamic law emerged from scriptural interpretation, by exploring the nature of law in the Qurʾan itself and in Islamic thought...
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Plato on soul and agency
Giving souls strong individuality is one of Plato’s most influential but also most controversial innovations. This book addresses such souls’ agency, which is a prerequisite of their many functions not only in human life but in the universe at large. Its conclusion is that the agency proper to th...
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Black widow underestimated and hypersexualized
Superhero Black Widow/ Natasha Romanov has endured more than 60 years in the Marvel Universe before becoming a prominent character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe with the Avengers; however, this volume examines how this woman character has mostly been underestimated and hypersexualized. The ove...
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A late mamluk medical regimen for travellers
The fifteenth-century travel regimen entitled al-Isfār ʿan ḥikam al-asfār (‘The unveiling of the wisdoms of the books’) written by the Cairene jurist-physician Ibn al-Amshāṭī (d. 1496) is an interesting example of the postclassical medical literature. It includes, besides a travel regimen (writte...
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The monks of the nag hammadi codices
This work tells the story of a community of fourth-century monks living in Egypt. The letters they wrote and received were found within the covers of works that changed our understanding of early religious thought - the Nag Hammadi Codices. This book seeks to contextualise the letters and answer...
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A hundred years of han (vol.2)
This is Volume 2 of a 2-volume set: Compiled by the scholar statesman Sima Guang of the Song dynasty, Zizhi tongjian is well recognised as one of the major histories of China. In length and extent, Later or Eastern Han was one of the great empires of east Asia, and its eventual failure led to the...
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Nikephoros ii phokas and warfare in the 10th-century byzantine world
This volume throws light not just on the military and on warfare during a period of increasing Byzantine military success and expansion, but it also draws on the latest in academic debate and examines afresh the varied aspects of different thematics regarding the reign of the emperor Nikephoros I...
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Vices of the learned
Why are professors still warning their students against dogmatism, prejudice, pedantry, and other centuries-old vices? What explains the persistence of these scholarly vices across the ages? With case studies from medieval Europe to twenty-first century America, Vices of the Learned offers a pa...
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Between italian and european courts
Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, the figure of the ambassador underwent profound changes. This volume investigates its various aspects, analysing the criteria for choosing the diplomat, the arrival and the long years spent at the host court, as well as the conditions of the return...
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The manasseh hill country survey volume 9
The book presents the results of a complete detailed survey of the eastern region of Samaria and the Jordan Valley, mainly the South-Eastern Samaria Shoulder, from Wadi 'Aujah to Wadi Makuk and the Jordan Valley north of Jericho. It is Volume 9 of the Manasseh Hill Country Survey publications. Th...
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Pedagogy of the heart
This monograph presents a detailed and accessible analysis of the recently discovered Greek Homilies on the Psalms preached by Origen in the late 240’s CE. The author brings a discerning eye to the interplay of Hellenistic paideia and Origen’s exegetical and pedagogical aims of creating a Christi...
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Dynamising things: essays on objects, relations, and people
Using diverse historical and ethnographic materials, this collection explores the various relationships between people and things that were actively fostered during the seven decades of Soviet socialism. It demonstrates how things, not always fully socialist, energized social relations, shaped co...
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Performance, space, and time in the dead sea scrolls
The collection focuses on performative and ritual aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls, originating from the IOQS 2022 meeting. The concept of ritualization is examined at both individual and collective levels, using ritualization of covenant as a case study. Other essays examine performative aspects ...
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Medicine, health and social welfare in post-1949 china
This volume features sixteen articles translated from the Chinese journal Historical Studies of Contemporary China (Dangdai zhongguo shi yanjiu). It covers a wide range of studies on policies and programs crucial to the health and welfare of the people during the PRC’s social transformation. Topi...
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Joseph conrad’s nautical terms
Unlock the secrets of Conrad’s salt-laced realm! Discover the meanings of “wearing ship,” “kedge anchors,” or the perils of “scudding under bare poles.” Joseph Conrad's Nautical Terms demystifies 2,000 maritime words and phrases, revealing how Conrad used them to create his legendary narratives. ...
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On western influences and the transformation of chinese academic thought
This book analyses the growth of disciplinary knowledge in modern China through Sino-foreign cultural exchange. It examines Western influences and the transformation of Chinese academic thought through "modern scientific disciplines" rather than mere westernization based on the "nationality" of k...
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The 1905 russian revolution
These translations by Barbara C. Allen of Alexander Shlyapnikov’s memoirs of his childhood and youth and of his history of the 1905 Revolution in Russia illuminate how a working-class provincial youth from a religious dissenter family became a Marxist revolutionary. The book comprises a brief pub...
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Sufficiency
We inhabit a world of severe human-induced ecological overshoot. The ongoing ecological crisis, however, has not been caused equally by all humans. The economic growth-driven world economy is one with great disparities and socio-economic inequality, where the affluence and technologization of the...
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Law, language, and warfare
This volume presents a novel insight into the complex intersections between the law of armed conflict and the language of armed conflict. The work demonstrates the strengths and fissures in the law, showing how the choice to employ certain terms can have lasting ramifications for those most vulne...
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The power of leading together
The Power of Leading Together is about the three powerful steps administrators and teacher leaders can take to make their schools and districts great – more unified, more high achieving, more inclusive, more responsive and more successful in every way and by any measure. While based on research,...
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“red” banks
Have you ever wondered how China’s banking sector powered the world’s most dramatic economic transformation? This book opens the vault, revealing how policy banks, state-owned giants, and daring joint-stock institutions fueled China’s rise from 1980 to 2020. You’ll explore unpublished financial r...
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Contacts of languages and peoples in the hittite and post-hittite world
During the 1st millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia acted as a melting pot and crossroads of languages, cultures and peoples. The political map of the world changed after the collapse of the Bronze Age, the horizon of sea routes was expanded to new interregional networks, new writing systems e...
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Violence and the book of psalms
The many and varied manifestations of violence that permeate the Book of Psalms can be off-putting for modern audiences. Although the violence in the poems might leave readers cold, it remains a hot topic that requires careful consideration. The contributions of this volume deal with the theme of...
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The process of maturing
The authors explore theological anthropology through the different phases of human life. Beginning with birth and continuing through childhood to adulthood, to growing old and facing the closeness of death, the book looks into the roles of family, education, friendships, the religious community a...
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Transformative futures of cities
In a world defined by the dual challenges of climate change and sustainable development, cities play a pivotal role in reimagining the future trajectories of our societies and planet. This volume authored by an international cohort of scholars is dedicated to understanding the dynamic transformat...
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Reports of judgments, advisory opinions and orders/ receuil des arrets, avis consultatifs et ordonnances, volume 21 (2024)
This volume contains the decisions rendered by the Tribunal in the year 2024 in English and French: An Advisory Opinion issued in Request for Advisory Opinion submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law, a procedural Order issued in M/T “Heroic Idun”...
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Il demonico in platone
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. This book reconstructs the genesis and development of daimonology in the Platonic tradition, analyzing the δαίμων as an intermediate figure between the human and the divine. The...
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Tradition in social science
Tradition in Social Science is the social philosophy written early in life by the jurisprudent who became the preeminent public law jurist in France in the first quarter of the twentieth century, Maurice Hauriou. His work remains prominent in theorizing European Community as well as in Latin Amer...
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