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Toward myriadmindedness
Toward Myriadmindedness is the first monograph to explore the posthuman imagination of Beat literature. It studies the poetry of Michael McClure, Diane di Prima, and Philip Whalen through the lens of critical posthumanism to show how their poems challenge the human exceptionalism and anthropocent...
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Jeering dreamers
The re-emergence in recent years of Villiers de l'Isle-Adam as a key figure in fin de siècle literature can be attributed in large part to the intense interest his prescient l'Eve future (1886) has generated among scholars. In effect, the novel confronts with breathtaking focus central taboos and...
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The rebel monastery: monarchy and monastic power in the kingdom of valencia (1665-1670)
Like a historical thriller, this book recounts how the powerful Valencian monastery of Santa María de Valldigna remained in open rebellion against both the king and Rome for five years (1665–1670). We encounter armed monks, attempts to kill the Castilian visitor sent to inspect the house, and a s...
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Handbook to the literary history of the early anthropocene
What did literature reveal about climate change, extraction, species loss and environmental transformation before the term “Anthropocene” was coined? With a global and comparative perspective, this handbook illuminates how writers before 1945 envisioned the interconnectedness of humans, animals, ...
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The medieval opus: imitation, rewriting and transmission in the french tradition
The Medieval Opus is a broad but detailed study of the art of imitation as rewriting that was practiced in medieval French texts and in texts in other languages influenced by French models. It contains the proceedings of a symposium on this topic. The volume will be of interest to scholars and st...
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Understanding power in ancient egypt and the near east, volume 2
As a follow up to the theoretical approaches examined in Volume 1, this volume includes representations of the different manners in which power can manifest and be responded to. Case studies from the wide temporal and geographic scope of the ancient Near East are used to highlight the various way...
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Socialist politics in and after imperial austria (1874–1921)
This is the first systematic history in English of social democracy in all the regions of imperial Austria. The movement dealt with issues of national and women’s oppression, effective organisation of workers’ struggles, and the relationship between reform and revolution. The account focuses on h...
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Forms and functions of similes in the rigveda
This book offers a comprehensive analysis of Rigvedic similes. Framed within a constructionist approach, the analysis covers the syntax and semantics of these constructions, alongside their interaction with other comparative strategies, formulaic features, and discourse functions. While primarily...
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The animal invitation: science, ethics, religion and law in a more-than-human world
This book gathers perspectives on how nonhuman neighbors not only invite our curiosity, but also enrich our deepest awarenesses, commanding attention even as they challenge our scientific, ethical, religious and law-based abilities and reflections. Nonhuman animals thereby lure us into more-than-...
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فهرس أولي لمخطوطات دار الكتب الوطنية (بنغازي – ليبيا)
يعد هذا العمل نتيجة تعاون مدة خمس سنوات بين فرنسا وليبيا. ويصف الفهرس الذي جهزه عفاف الكاديكي (بنغازي) وسيباستيان غارنييه (باريس) 221 مخطوطة إسلامية محفوظة داخل المكتبة الوطنية الليبية في بنغازي. وقد استفاد الفهرس من مساعدة باحثين آخرين، هما ثيودور بيرز (للمخطوطات الفارسية) وفينسان تيروين (للمخطو...
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Children’s rights in biomedicine
This book provides a comprehensive, cross-disciplinary analysis of children’s rights across various biomedical contexts. The book's twenty-two chapters–authored by experts across Europe and the United States–examine diverse biomedical practices that affect children's human rights. The chapters sc...
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A companion to medieval marian devotion
Devotion to the Virgin Mary shaped and colored all aspects of medieval Christianity. This Companion offers a comprehensive overview of the foundations of this devotion as it appears in biblical commentary, poetry, art, miracle stories, liturgy, magical practices and popular songs, including detai...
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The transcendental hypothesis
Leading intellectuals from around the world dissect important avenues of thought, opened up by Dwayne Huebner – in a set of unpublished documents - offering important insights, such as the Transcendental Hypothesis, to craft a non-derivative, itinerant theory, thus dismantling the eugenic and epi...
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A european version of victorian fiction
In this first systematic assessment of Ruffini's literary achievement, the seven novels that are apparently so different from each other emerge as an aesthetically coherent and individualized contribution to the mid-Victorian fictional canon. Composed in English by an Italian exile resident in Pa...
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Wisdom, knowledge, and faith
Leading contemporary Episcopal theologians, both established figures and emerging voices, reflect on the vocation of theology from their unique perspectives.The Episcopal Church has a deep, rich, diverse, and sophisticated theological heritage going back for centuries. However, for various reason...
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Marie cardinal
Née en 1929 en Algérie, repatriée en France pendant la guerre d'indépendance, Marie Cardinal fait partie de la génération de femmes écrivains qui prennent le devant de la scène littéraire française dans les années soixante-dix.L'oeuvre de Cardinal est une oeuvre personnelle mais aussi profondémen...
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La interpretación abierta
Este libro tiene tres objetivos complementarios; primero, reiterar brevemente las premisas filosóficas de la hermenéutica contemporánea y la aportación de nuestra época a la tradición crítica que empieza con Juan Luís Vives (s. XVI), recibe un impulso de Giambattista Vico (s. XVII), de Wilhelm vo...
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Sea-changes
These ten studies provide a view of the extent to which intellectual and literary life in Holland has been influenced by English ideas. The book concludes with an overview of Anglo-Dutch cultural transfer from the early seventeenth century to the late nineteenth century, concentrating on what, be...
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Fathers and mothers in literature
Who of us, as a child, has not dreamed of having other parents: a gentler mother, a kinder or stronger father, a more illustrious family? According to our secret dreams, were not most of us born sons or daughters of a king, a president, a champion? Freud termed this the Family Romance. We all car...
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A foretaste of heaven
Using the critical approach of the New Historicism and the sociological insights of Ernst Troeltsch, this study addresses the complicated issue of how the German Romantic poet, Friedrich Hölderlin, shifts religious vocabulary to the aesthetic realm, by examining his relationship to pietist groups...
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Nightreadings: essays on finnegans wake ii.2
Finnegans Wake II.2., which is commonly known as “Nightlessons,” is allegedly one of the most obscure chapters of the Wake, but it is also one of the richest, meriting a focused investigation of the text. This volume brings together an eclectic group of Joyce scholars to examine various important...
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Trigonal cemí
The trigonal cemí, or “three-pointer”, is the most iconic yet enigmatic of pre-Columbian Caribbean artefacts. Archaeological and ethnographic evidence indicates that these conical sculptures were of uniquely Antillean origin and part of a dynamic, adaptable denomination within the greater cemí be...
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Writing knowledge
Writing Knowledge explores how ancient students and scholars learned to write and become expert in the Egyptian language during the last millennium of native script use (c. 700 BCE – 300 CE). This study analyzes late “technical” texts from two different writing contexts: grammatical paradigms and...
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The enchantment of erudition: intellectual labor and literary culture in han-wei china
This book invites readers on a critical journey across the evolving aesthetics and ideology of Chinese literary culture from the first century BCE to the third century CE. Central to our inquiry is a model of becoming—from a self-oriented intellectual labor toward an individually embodied state o...
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Health technology assessments and the right to health
When the cost of medicines place them beyond reach for the patients who need them, rationing or priority-setting is often treated as the only way forward. But is this assumption always justified? This book looks closely at Health Technology Assessment (HTA), a quiet multidisciplinary decision-mak...
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When variants speak
How can textual criticism illuminate the history of Biblical Hebrew? This book addresses that question by examining the linguistic profile of secondary readings in the Classical Biblical Hebrew, or pre-exilic, corpus. By analysing variants preserved in the textual tradition of the Hebrew Bible, i...
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Asian catholicism and migration
Confront the defining paradox of our time: the clash between the cosmopolitan dream of a ‘global family’ and the harsh realities of nationalism, landlessness, and the ‘sons of the soil’ narrative. This volume explores how faith and organised religion anchor migrants through these crises, specific...
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Wiedergutmachung für sinti und roma
Im Zweiten Weltkrieg sollten Sinti und Roma nach dem Willen der nationalsozialistischen Machthaber in Europa ausgelöscht werden. Die auch in der Forschung präsente Vorstellung, dass den Überlebenden dieses Völkermords nach 1945 eine Wiedergutmachung verweigert worden sei, unterzieht Joey Rauschen...
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After critical realism
Borrowed from the critic Georg Lukács, the term critical realism first came to prominence in the artworld during the early 2000s with the emergence of the documentary and social turns. Although many of the political and aesthetic commitments that characterised this moment continue to shape contem...
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From lacquer tree to milk tea
Kurtöp is an endangered Trans-Himalayan (Tibeto-Burman) language, spoken by approximately 5,000 people in eastern Bhutan. This book is the first published dictionary of the language, enriched with English definitions that contain examples, etymology, cultural details, and information about social...
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Event building, selection, and non-canonical case in tunisian arabic
The open access publication of this book was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. When Tunisians travel east, Levantine speakers are often struck by expressions like “eating in their food” or “whistling in a little tune.” What accounts for this distinctive usage? This book explains w...
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‘his majesty’s loyal subjects’: the scottish royalist armies of the british civil wars, 1639-1655
Between 1639 and 1655, Scotland was engulfed in civil war. For the first time, 'His Majesty's Loyal Subjects' The Scottish Royalist Armies of the British Civil Wars, 1639-1655 records in meticulous detail the various Royalist regiments and units from across the conflict. Utilising a plethora of p...
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Yearbook of the ila italian branch
The Yearbook of the ILA Italian Branch aims to disseminate the work of the ILA Italian Branch and its associates, in particular the latter’s contribution within ILA Committees and Study Groups, and to discuss topical issues in contemporary international law. To this end, the Yearbook features ori...
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Cypriot migration to australia until 1952
75 years ago, the Corsica left Cyprus with 762 Cypriot migrants for Australia. This book explores the broader movement of Cypriots to Australia until 1952 and what motivated them to emigrate, specifically to that country. It explores the attitudes of the Australian government to Cypriot migrants ...
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Early tibetan religious networks
Are the Kadampas and the Kagyüpas really that different? When and how did Buddhist school identities emerge? Why did some esoteric lineages flourish while others disappeared? How did objects and ideas circulate at the fringes of the Tibetan plateau? These are some of the questions explored in thi...
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The inquisition in portugal and its empire, 1536-1821
The Portuguese Inquisition began operating in Evora in 1536. This ecclesiastical court arrested, tried and, in extreme cases, sentenced to death thousands of individuals for their beliefs and behaviour in Portugal and across its global empire, stretching from Africa to Brazil and South and East A...
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Leftward ho! revolutionary intellectuals, 1928–48
In two volumes, ‘Leftward Ho!’ features selected writings, originally published 1928–1948, by US-based independent and dissenting Marxists on a wide range of topics: political economy, anti-imperialism, mass culture, critiques of women’s and racial oppression, and more. We feature work of distin...
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Archive nightmare
In August 1865, Javier Angulo Guridi arrived in Santo Domingo carrying four loads of documents from the Restoration War—crossing swollen rivers by broken canoe, over fifty leagues of trail with no inn in sight. Within a year, those archives had vanished—one of many such losses this book sets out ...
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What we talk about when we talk about marxism
What is the spectre that is haunting Europe today? Not, of course, Communism – not the 'spectre' of which Marx and Engels spoke in 1948 – but neo-liberal Capitalism and the ruin and desolation that, as was to be expected, it has brought about and that it continues to inflict upon Europe and the w...
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Neuromyths
Many educators across the world believe that students are left-brained or right-brained or that teaching should match learning style. These claims, and many others about the brain and education, sound scientific. They are not. This book examines neuromyths, false beliefs about brain science app...
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Live encounters and aesthetic experience
This book develops a new theory of liveness and presence, drawing on Zeami’s 15th-century treatises on nō theatre. It addresses what it means for something to be the real thing, in real time, and why it matters. Rather than making technical distinctions between media, critiquing liveness as ontol...
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A guide to preaching and the homiletic genre in late antique syriac literature
Sermons and other texts that might be regarded as homiletic comprise a significant proportion of the surviving corpus of Syriac literature from late antiquity. Nevertheless, the Syriac homiletic tradition has hardly been incorporated into the general study of early Christian preaching. The presen...
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Popular education and pedagogies of possibility
To help understand the relationship between Popular Education in the Carnation Revolution in Portugal in 1974 and contemporary popular movements embracing creative forms of protest for human flourishing and ecological justice, twenty-nine leading adult education researchers consider the significa...
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Handbook of transnational periodical research
Periodicals are inherently transnational. They move across borders as material objects, as vehicles of texts and images, as producers of knowledge and ideas, as commercial goods, and as the products of human networks. This open-access handbook explores how we can study these movements. In 36 co...
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Intersubjectivity or transindividuality
Intersubjectivity or Transindividuality examines several key moments of modern and contemporary philosophical thought, reading them in light of the alternative between the categories of intersubjectivity and transindividuality – between a philosophy that poses the space of interiority of the ego ...
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The tropical spa
The Tropical Spa catalogs Asia's most luxurious spas and suggests a wide range of stress-busting therapies.Perfect for those who want to look and feel good, The Tropical Spa focuses on spiritual well-being and natural cures rather than chemicals or synthetics. Many of the traditional spa techniqu...
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People among nations: migrations and allegiances between sicily and tunisia (ca. 1900–1970)
People among Nations reconstructs the history of mobility in the central Mediterranean, focusing on the identities of Sicilian migrants in Tunisia. Drawing on unpublished archives, newspapers, and oral testimonies, the book follows Italian migrants and wider Mediterranean mobilities through war, ...
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Moving the wealth of the nation: the rise of korea’s modern shipping industry
How did Korea build one of the world’s major shipping industries within a few decades after liberation? What roles did colonial legacies, state policy, and maritime entrepreneurship play in this transformation? This book traces the development of the Korean shipping industry from 1910 to 2010. It...
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The kusāli yogi
This book offers a new interpretation of early Kagyupa Buddhism by demonstrating that Vinaya, tantric yoga, and mahāmudrā are not separate domains but integrated aspects of a single path. Focusing on Jikten Sumgön and his lineage, it shows how disciplined conduct functions as a method for transfo...
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Fascist italy at war: essays on methodology, historiography and history
These essays discuss how historians write history and the difficulties they face when they do so. They use political, diplomatic, and military events during twenty years of Fascist rule in Italy to show that selection and interpretation of sources leads to radically different accounts of the same...
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Poison in the well
We are living through a moment in which universities no longer provide a safeguard for democracy but are politically captured by illiberal and fascist forces. This book compares the United States and Hungary, showing how universities are being reshaped by neoliberal governance, political pressure...
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Slavic national epics
How should we understand the rediscovered national epics such as the Lay of the Nibelungs, the Tale of Igor’s Campaign and the Kalevala? Were they simply monuments of the national past, or did new ideas about their meanings and possible roles emerge in the nineteenth century as an interconnected ...
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The aftermath of the imjin war in early modern east asia
The Imjin War – Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s invasions of Korea – was one of the largest conflicts of the sixteenth century world, entangling Korea, Japan, and China between 1592 and 1598. This is the first volume-length study to address the long-term significance of the war by focusing on the social, te...
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A broken society meets the swords of iron war
What happens when a society already torn apart by constitutional crisis meets war? In Israel, the struggle over the Judicial Reform shatters trust, fills the streets with mass protest, and pushes basic questions about democracy, solidarity, and the rules of the game to the breaking point. Then co...
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Equality of parties in international adjudication
This book provides an in-depth analysis of equality of parties in international adjudication beyond the conventional interstate framework. It challenges the idea that party equality in international proceedings simply follows from sovereign equality and demonstrates that this assumption is ill-su...
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Pop-texts in global contexts
How do Japanese pop-texts take on new meanings as they travel across cultures? This volume explores how manga, anime, literature, and related media circulate globally and are transformed in regional contexts. Drawing on interdisciplinary case studies from Europe, Asia, and beyond, it shows how th...
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A history of the romanisation interdialectique transcription system for chinese (1931–1952)
A study of how the science of diachronic linguistics merged with the will to reform language in the Catholic missionary milieu of Republican China. In focus is a romanization of the Chinese language that was proposed in 1931 by two missionaries in Manchuria. The inventors of the new system claime...
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International law and the challenge of disinformation
From Russia's fabricated genocide claims justifying its invasion of Ukraine to coordinated campaigns disrupting elections on every continent, disinformation has become a strategic instrument threatening international peace, stability and fundamental rights. But does public international law posse...
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Early modern musical innovation
Explore the extraordinary life and turbulent times of Olbrycht Górecki (c. 1621—c. 1684)—Polish-Lithuanian nobleman, soldier, Calvinist, polyglot and inventor of “Lute strings covered with Sylver wyer.” A key catalyst in a line of musical instrument innovations over the last 500 years, Górecki’s ...
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The many voices of indigenous latin america
The purpose of this volume is to take stock of what has been achieved in and look forward to new directions for the study of indigenous America. The book is organised around the theme of cultural and linguistic diversity and the three pillars of research promoted by the Leiden-based Centre for In...
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Court culture exchanges between the iberian peninsula and the habsburg netherlands (15th–16th centuries)
Step into a world where art, power, and diplomacy forged a shared European culture. This volume explores the exchanges between the Iberian Peninsula and the Habsburg Netherlands, and explains how courts functioned as centres of interaction, innovation, and identity. Through case studies, it uncov...
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The religious life of lay women
This volume invites you to rethink women’s religious lives in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Did laywomen truly belong to the private sphere? Drawing on texts, archaeology, and material culture, it shows how women shaped religious practice across homes, churches, and in-between spaces....
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Persuasion, prologue, and rhetorical strategies in the gospel of john
This book seeks to answer the question of what specific rhetorical strategies the Gospel of John employs to carry out its persuasive agenda. To answer this, the study utilizes classical rhetoric and Plutarchan studies to examine two key rhetorical strategies, namely, rhetorical genre and narrativ...
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Women and the law in early modern liège
This book offers the first detailed study of women’s legal status in early modern Liège, an otherwise largely overlooked case in European legal history. It follows women across the course of their lives, from birth to widowhood, to show how their legal position and control over property shifted o...
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Reading first peter as ancient pedagogy
In this book, Shane Patrick Gormley contends that we may fruitfully read First Peter as an exhortation on the nature of early Christian discipleship in accord with the standards and practices of ancient education. This, Gormley argues, is the key to making sense of the letter’s emphatic and strat...
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The final frontier
The Final Frontier examines the language employed in Zoroastrian and Manichaean textual, ritual, and iconographic traditions to articulate eschatological notions. Bringing together twelve original contributions by leading scholars, the volume investigates how Iranian religious sources conceptuali...
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Freedom and the economy
The book analyses the theories of bourgeois society by Hegel, Marx and Honneth. Two things become apparent. On the one hand, Hegel's project of integrating the atomistic market economy into his theory of ethical life proves to be unconvincing. This also applies to Axel Honneth's attempt to actual...
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Playfulness and politics in cicero´s de senectute
De senectute, one of Cicero’s last works, has often been overlooked as an earnest but misguided tract on old age. This book re-examines it in the context of its composition in 44 BC, revealing a self-conscious, playful, and politically charged dialogue. It traces Cicero’s witty re-imagining of hi...
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The evolution of intellectual disability policy and administration in victoria
How did people with intellectual disability move from asylum wards to citizenship rights, and why do older forms of control continue to shape contemporary policy? This book provides the first comprehensive history of intellectual disability policy and administration in Victoria, Australia, from c...
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Empire of books
In this book, small texts tell the big history of Arabic literatures. A pioneering analysis of manuscript notes follows the people who made and consumed the physical manifestations of this literary tradition into a detailed panorama of millennial transmission over three continents. At the centre...
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Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies
The human hand lies at the center of action, perception, creativity, and social interaction, leaving deep traces in language and culture. This volume examines how the hand is conceptualized across a wide range of languages through metaphor, metonymy, grammar, and cultural models. Bringing togethe...
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Cosmic eschatology in hebrews
Does Hebrews anticipate the annihilation of the material world or its renewal? This monograph offers a fresh approach to the scholarly impasse on this question by reading Hebrews against presuppositions shared across Jewish, Christian, Platonic, Stoic, Epicurean, Valentinian, and Gnostic backgrou...
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Divination in chinese religions
By means of divination, cultures past and present have sought to obtain knowledge from the realm of gods, spirits, and cosmic forces, either by personal (“inspired”) communication with spirits (e.g., in possession trance or prophetic utterance) or by technical mantic methods such as the casting o...
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Orthography of the avestan manuscripts
Avestan manuscripts show enormous orthographic variation, which has caused headaches for experts in Avestan philology and editors of Avestan texts. This book provides an in-depth structured analysis of it, with the aim of bringing order to the chaos present in the manuscripts. In addition, it see...
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The mishnah
This volume presents an academic edition of the entire Mishnah, the foundational text of Rabbinic Judaism. The edition is based on Codex Kaufmann, generally regarded as the most authoritative complete manuscript of the Mishnah. Despite its exceptional importance, however, the manuscript contains ...
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Somaesthetics of atmosphere
This collection of essays explores the fascinatingly rich and increasingly influential topic of atmosphere through the lens of somaesthetics and its concern with embodiment and the soma’s multimodal sensory experience. Authored by an international group of distinguished authors from diverse disci...
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Virgil, aeneid 1
Aeneid 1 is a polyphonic masterpiece, dazzling in conception and splendid in execution. Echoes of Homer, Callimachus, Ennius, and Lucretius resound to celebrate the nascent Augustan regime in the wake of the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra. This is the first full-scale edition of the book, and the...
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The imperial image between rome and the provinces
Images of the Emperor and his family members were ubiquitous symbols of Roman power which surrounded the inhabitants of the Empire informing every aspect of daily life. This cultural phenomenon of unparalleled scale and impact in the ancient world is the focus of the essays gathered in this volum...
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Levitical priesthood in the aramaic levi document and related literature
The Aramaic Levi Document is a Jewish Aramaic work from the Hellenistic period, presenting Levi’s life as a pseudepigraphic autobiography. It depicts his elevation to an apocalyptic priesthood, his training in sacrificial rituals under Isaac, and his teachings on the future of the Levitical pries...
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The umayyad advance on constantinople
In 718, a massive Umayyad army led by Maslama b. ʿAbd al-Malik decamped from outside the walls of Constantinople. A terrible set of disasters struck the besieging army, leading to the collapse of the last Arab effort against the Byzantine capital. For the Byzantines, it was a sure sign of the Vir...
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Philip melanchthon: summary of moral philosophy
This book presents, for the first time in English, the major moral and political writings of the Lutheran Reformer Philip Melanchthon (1497-1560). Melanchthon was one of the Reformation’s keenest moral and political thinkers, and he exercised his immense learning to present a compelling vision of...
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The theory and practice of cosmic ascent
The theme of cosmic ascent – of leaving behind the mundane realm and soaring to a better place beyond the travails of the everyday – has been a central preoccupation of religious, philosophical, and scientific thought in western cultures since antiquity. This book is the first collection of mult...
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Mathilde fibiger’s clara raphael: twelve letters
A scandalous success when first published in 1851, 19-year-old Mathilde Fibiger’s Clara Raphael. Tolv Breve was widely criticized by major (male) critics, all except N.F.S. Grundtvig, who wrote: “Clara lit the beacon-fire/in the fight for women’s rights”. Acknowledged as the first Danish feminis...
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Artificial intelligence in teacher education:
How is Generative AI truly reshaping the classroom? In this groundbreaking collection, you explore firsthand accounts and rigorous research from diverse international contexts that are redefining teacher training. Instead of abstract theories, you engage with practical case studies—from inclusive...
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Evidentiality in udmurt
Evidentiality in Udmurt presents the first in depth exploration of how this endangered Uralic language encodes information source, mirativity, and epistemic modality through its past tense morphology. Grounded in field data and typological comparison, the book offers a detailed portrait of the Ud...
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Perspektiven der philosophie
Perspektiven der Philosophie. Neues Jahrbuch eröffnet Forschern, denen die philosophische Begründung des Denkens wichtig ist, eine Publikationsmöglichkeit. Wir verstehen uns nicht als Schulorgan einer philosophischen Lehrmeinung, sondern sehen unsere Aufgabe darin, an der Intensivierung des wisse...
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Gender and the aesthetics of peace: women and veterans in french pacifist propaganda, 1915–1939
How did Europeans attempt to make peace visible after the First World War, and why did those efforts ultimately fail? This book traces how French pacifists used posters, photomontages, and illustrations to reshape public understandings of war through powerful gendered imagery. Mothers, children, ...
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Theology and society in the second and third centuries of the hijra. volume 6.1: texts i-xxi
Theology and Society is the most comprehensive study of Islamic intellectual and religious history, focusing on Muslim theology. With its emphasis on the eighth and ninth centuries CE, it remains the most detailed prosopographical study of the early phase of the formation of Islam. Originally pub...
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A sociology of smell
Why does perfume matter socially? What does fragrance reveal about memory, identity, desire, gender, status, and belonging? In A Sociology of Smell, Samuele Briatore shows that perfume is never merely an ornament. It is an invisible language through which bodies communicate, cultures classify, an...
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Hb of contemporary death rituals in europe
The handbook explores contemporary death rituals in Europe through a vernacular lens. Drawing on research from scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including the study of religion, media studies, and anthropology, it illustrates how death rituals are shaped, experienced and reimagined by so...
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Linnaean medicine, collections, and empire
Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) was one of the world’s most influential practitioners of science. This book presents essays on Linnaeus and the Linnaeans written by leading scholars of science and book history. Linnaean Medicine, Collections, and Empire also includes a catalogue of the Linnaean manuscr...
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Handbook of art, architecture and visual culture in pre-modern jewish societies
This Handbook is intended as a methodological gateway to the scholarship of Jewish art and architecture and an attempt to describe its developments in the historiography of Jewish art, architecture, and visual culture. It addresses art historians who seek to familiarize themselves with the specif...
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The cold war structure of international intellectual property law, 1946–1980
This volume explores the various intellectual property dynamics that emerged during the Cold War, circa 1946–1980. This period brought about some of the most poignant moments in the development of twentieth-century international intellectual property rights, when competing economic systems recogn...
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The sacred in mamluk society
This volume explores how ideas of the sacred shaped everyday life, belief, and power in the medieval Middle East, and demostrates how sacrality was experienced and contested in texts, cities, rituals, and the experiences of ordinary people of all faiths. Drawing on a number of case studies, it re...
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Translating averroes into hebrew
This volume explores how language shapes and influences theological and philosophical doctrines through a specific historical case: the role of terminological choices in the Hebrew translation and transmission of the works of the twelfth-century Muslim philosopher Abū al-Walīd Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ...
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Survey practices and cartographic knowledge: assam and the northeast indian frontier, 1800–1900
Drawing upon surviving maps, and practices and processes of surveying and mapmaking, this book presents a comprehensive history of scientific surveying in order to shape scholarly understandings of scientific cultures in its many complexities. It focuses on the region of Assam, and examines how n...
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Ink on the soul
Ink on the Soul: Stories of Teacher Impact from Baker School of Education Students is a moving collection of personal narratives that honors the educators who leave lasting imprints on the lives of students. Written by undergraduate and graduate students from the Baker School of Education, this v...
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The european social charter: a commentary
This authoritative Commentary, drafted and edited by scholars from the Academic Network on the European Social Charter and Social Rights (ANESC) is intended for academic researchers studying socio-economic rights in Europe and legal practitioners, civil society organisations, trade unions and sta...
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