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The Astrolabe

An ancient instrument for solving problems of location and distance, as well as time

Astrolábon órganon is the word used in Ptolemaeus Syntaxis 5.1 to describe a form of armillary sphere consisting of both fixed and rotating rings for determining the ecliptic co-ordinates of stars. Also called astrolabe were two-dimensional representations of the celestial sphere: over fixed disks with a representation of the horizon of the earth (in each case for a specific geographic latitude) and its parallels up to the zenith lies a rotating representation of the heavens (called ‘spider’ or ‘net’) with zodiac and indicators for some of the brightest stars. On the back is an indicator (‘alidade’) with visor plates for calculating the height of the stars. The astrolabe allows its user to determine the hours of day and night, the positions of stars, and the height and depth of objects on earth (mountains, buildings, wells). The oldest extant descriptions of the flat, planispheric astrolabe come from Iohannes Philoponus, 6th century AD, and (in Syrian) from Severus Sebokht, c. 660 AD. Indirect references may date back as early as Theon (4th cent.). Between the 8th and the 9th centuries the Arabs appropriated the knowledge of the astrolabe. At the end of the 10th century and again in the 12th century, they passed it on to Western Europe, where astrolabes were constructed up until the 17th cent. Today, one Byzantine astrolabe (from 1062) is extant, as are some 750 Arabic-Islamic astrolabes and approximately the same number of European astrolabes.

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A Companion to Henry of Ghent | Books
Edited by Gordon A. Wilson
ISBN: 978 90 04 18349 0
Henry was an important and influential thinker. Although his major two works, namely his fifteen Quodlibeta and his Quaestiones Ordinariae (Summa), along with his previously unedited works, are currently being edited, there has been no synthesis of his positions since...

The Right to Health | Books
Judith Asher
ISBN: 978 90 04 15438 4
The alarmingly low health status of millions of people in many developing countries is now recognised as a major obstacle to the process of development. In response, increasing numbers of non-governmental organizations are championing the right to health of the...

A Grammar and Dictionary of Zaiwa (2 vol. set) | Books
Anton Lustig
ISBN: 978 90 04 18489 3
This work is a thorough and unique documentation of the conceptual universe expressed through the typologically highly interesting Zaiwa language of the Jingpo minority in China.

The Earliest Syriac Translation of Aristotle's Categories | Books
Daniel King Cardiff University
ISBN: 978 90 04 18660 6
The present volume makes available for the first time the earliest translation of Aristotle into a Semitic language. It will open the way to a fuller understanding of the transformation of Greek logic in Syriac and Arabic.

The Emergence of the Hebrew Christian Movement in Nineteenth-Century Britain | Books
Michael R. Darby
ISBN: 978 90 04 18455 8
This monograph analyses almost forty Hebrew Christian institutions - and the ideology of their founders - in nineteenth-century Britain, components of a century-long movement which were to varying degrees characteristic, through identity negotiation, of ehtnic, institutional, theological and liturgical independence.

Yearbook International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea / Annuaire Tribunal international du droit de la mer, Volume 13 (2009) | Books
International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea / Tribunal international du droit de la mer
ISBN: 978 90 04 17912 7
Yearbook - Annuaire 2009The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is an independent judicial body established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to adjudicate disputes arising out of the interpretation and application of...

Double Standards Pertaining to Minority Protection | Books
Edited by Kristin Henrard
ISBN: 978 90 04 18579 1
Edited by Kristin Henrard
This edited volume offers a rich compilation of perspectives on (perceived) differential standards of international organisations concerning minority protection. It also addresses the ongoing controversial question of the status of ‘new’ minorities, without neglecting the protection of minorities within minorities.

The Law of Outer Space | Books
Edited by Tanja L. Masson-Zwaan and Stephan Hobe
ISBN: 978 90 04 18667 5
Edited by Tanja L. Masson-Zwaan and Stephan Hobe
It is a remarkable achievement to write a book that almost four decades after its publication has lost virtually none of its relevance. Manfred Lachs’ famous treatise on the Law of Outer Space was originally published in 1972, yet it...

Intentionality, Desire, Responsibility | Books
By Antoine Mooij
ISBN: 978 90 04 18785 6
This book is intended to contribute towards a justification of the human sciences. Its basic phenomenological assuption is that man is an interpreting being, in the domains of experience, desire and freedom of will. An elaboration is offered from the...

The Yearbook of Polar Law Volume 2, 2010 | Books
Editors-in-Chief: Gudmundur Alfredsson and Timo Koivurova. Special Editor: Natalia Loukacheva
ISBN: 978 90 04 18787 0
Edited by Gudmundur Alfredsson, Timo Koivurova and Natalia Loukacheva
The Yearbook of Polar Law, based at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Akureyri in Iceland, covers a wide variety of topics relating to the Arctic and the Antarctic. These include: - human rights issues,...

Napoleon's Atlantic | Books
Edited by Christophe Belaubre, Jordana Dym, and John Savage
ISBN: 978 90 04 18154 0
This volume introduces recent scholarship on an understudied dimension of Napoleonic and Atlantic history, tracing familiar Napoleonic themes, such as miliary, legal and artistic policies to their influence in the Americas, and offering a coherent Atlantic framework that highlights connections...

Protecting Humanity | Books
ISBN: 978 90 04 18378 0
Edited by Chile Eboe-Osuji
Inspired by Pillay, some of the modern legends and experts in international law and policy have, in this volume, shared their experiences and thoughts on how better to protect humanity in our time. In the book, we read the wise...

Disputation by Decree | Books
Marianne Roobol
ISBN: 978 90 04 18661 3
Providing a detailed account of the emergence and development of the public disputations between D.V. Coornhert (1522-1590) and Reformed ministers, this book explores the religious and political dimensions of a controversy that reflects issues and arguments at the core of...

Transitions and Borders between Animals, Humans and Machines 1600-1800 | Books
Edited by Tobias Cheung
ISBN: 978 90 04 19181 5
Drawing on natural history, theology and philosophy, this book retraces the shifting foundations of the order of things that characterizes the period between Descartes and Kant with respect to three questions: What is an animal? What is a human? What...

Ancient and Early Medieval Chinese Literature (vol.I) | Books
Edited by David R. Knechtges and Taiping Chang
ISBN: 978 90 04 19127 3
The long-awaited, first Western-language reference guide, this work offers a wealth of information on writers, genres, literary schools and terms of the Chinese literary tradition from earliest times to the seventh century C.E.

The Problem of Negligent Omissions | Books
Michael Barnwell
ISBN: 978 90 04 18135 9
Through insightful interpretations of the action theories propounded by Aristotle, Anselm, Aquinas, Scotus, and Suárez, this book demonstrates the philosophical and theological importance of negligent omissions and constructs a model by which the problem of their voluntariness can be solved.

Studies in the Archaeology of the Medieval Mediterranean | Books
Edited by James G. Schryver
ISBN: 978 90 04 18175 5
This volume draws examples of work from around the Mediterranean basin to demonstrate the variety of archaeological studies being carried out, and the benefits each of these studies has enjoyed through the use of an interdisciplinary approach.

Pictish Progress | Books
Edited by Stephen T. Driscoll, Jane Geddes and Mark A. Hall
ISBN: 978 90 04 18759 7
Survey chapters analyse advances in studies of Pictish culture during the last fifty years. Inter-disciplinary case studies cover archaeology, place-names, history, liturgy, and history within a wider European framework.

Madness in Medieval Law and Custom | Books
Edited by Wendy J. Turner
ISBN: 978 90 04 18749 8
This essay collection examines aspects of mental impairment from a variety of angles to unearth medieval perspectives on mental affliction. This volume on madness in the Middle Ages elucidates how medieval society conceptualized mental afflictions, especially in law and culture.

Brill's Encyclopedia of Hinduism. Volume Two | Reference Works
Edited by Knut A. Jacobsen (Editor-in-Chief), University of Bergen, and Helene Basu, University of Münster, Angelika Malinar, University of Zürich, Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida (Associate Editors)
ISBN: 978 90 04 17893 9
Volume II of Brill’s Encyclopedia of Hinduism builds upon the first volume by examining the sacred languages of Hinduism and its major religious texts, literary genres, and scholarly traditions as well as the vernaculars. It further explores the ritual traditions,...

The Emergence of the Bohemian State | Books
Petr Charvát
ISBN: 978 90 04 18009 3
Drawing especially on new data from archaeology, history, art history and cultural or social anthropology, this book offers a new vision of the origins of the Bohemian state. It is based both on interpretation of evidence not sufficiently taken into...

The Function of Kinship in Medieval Nordic Legislation | Books
Helle Vogt
ISBN: 978 90 04 18922 5
In the Nordic medieval laws a new definition of kinship – a canonical one – was introduced, based on the Church’s incest prohibitions and the requirement to love your kin. It influences the rules for property transfer, inheritance, wergeld and...

The Dead Sea Scrolls and Contemporary Culture | Books
edited by Adolfo D. Roitman, Lawrence H. Schiffman and Shani Tzoref
ISBN: 978 90 04 18593 7
Edited by Adolfo D. Roitman, Lawrence H. Schiffman and Shani Tzoref
This volume contains the proceedings of the international conference held at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem in July 2008 in honor of the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.

The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60 | Books
Edited by Lawrence H. Schiffman and Shani Tzoref
ISBN: 978 90 04 18505 0
Edited by Lawrence Schiffman and Shani Tzoref
This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 2008 Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies at New York University, dedicated to 'The Dead Sea Scrolls at 60: The Scholarly Contributions of NYU Faculty and Alumni.'

The Law and Practice of the United Nations | Books
Benedetto Conforti and Carlo Focarelli
ISBN: 978 90 04 18629 3
Revised and updated, The Law and Practice of the United Nations provides an analysis of the main legal issues surrounding the United Nations’ practice, including a thorough discussion of Chapter VII of the Charter and its interpretation.

Encounters of the Children of Abraham from Ancient to Modern Times | Books
ISBN: 978 90 04 18728 3
Edited by Antii Laato and Pekka Lindqvist
The 16 contributions to this volume, written by scholars from various fields of religious studies, lead the reader to comprehend the plurality of interreligious encounters, hostile yet also peaceful, between the Children of Abraham, i.e. Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

A History of the Jewish Community in Istanbul | Books
Minna Rozen
ISBN: 978 90 04 18589 0
This volume presents the transformation of the Greek-speaking Jewish community of Byzantine Constantinople into an Ottoman, ethnically diversified immigrant community. As the Ottomans influenced its cultural and social values, the community strived to preserve its boundaries with the surrounding society.

General Maps of Persia 1477 - 1925 | Reference Works
Cyrus Alai
ISBN: 978 90 04 18627 9
Iran, or Persia as it was known in the West for most of its long history, has been mapped extensively for centuries but the absence of a good cartobibliography has often deterred scholars of its history and geography from making...

God and the World of Signs | Books
By Andrew Robinson
ISBN: 978 90 04 18799 3
Drawing on the philosophy of C. S. Peirce, Robinson develops a ‘semiotic model’ of the Trinity and proposes a new theology of nature according to which the evolving cosmos may be understood as bearing ‘vestiges of the Trinity in creation’.

Extradition to and from the United States 2010 | Books
Michael Abbell
ISBN: 978 90 04 17955 4
This treatise offers a comprehensive analysis of United States extradition statues, treaties and judicial precedents for American and foreign prosecutors, defense attorneys, judges and academics as it endeavors to deal with the explosion of transnational criminal activity affecting it.

International Litigation - Fourth Revised Edition | Books
Edited by David Epstein and Charles S. Baldwin, IV
ISBN: 978 90 04 17885 4
Edited by David Epstein and Charles Baldwin
The new Fourth Revised Edition of International Litigation provides U.S. courts practitioners with a step-by-step guide through international litigation, from pre-litigation considerations (obtaining foreign counsel, choice of forum, etc.), to jurisdictional and procedural issues, to enforcement of judgments and arbitral...

Grace, Reconciliation, Concord | Books
Cilliers Breytenbach
ISBN: 978 90 04 18608 8
How did the first Christians interpret the death of Christ? This volume sets out to construct some of the Jewish and Greco-Roman patterns of thought which were initially utilised to express the meaning of the crucifixion.

Spirituality in the Writings of Etty Hillesum | Books
Edited by Klaas A.D. Smelik, Ria van den Brandt, and Meins G. S. Coetsier
ISBN: 978 90 04 18858 7
Edited by Klaas Smelik, Ria Brandt and Meins G. S. Coetsier
Drawing on Etty Hillesum’s writings, this book offers a comprehensive account of international scholarship on the life, works and vision of the Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hillesum, whose life was shaped by the totalitarian Nazi-regime, and who lived a courageous...

Treatise on Zoology - Anatomy, Taxonomy, Biology - The Crustacea, Decapoda, Volume 9 Part A | Books
Edited by F.R. Schram and J.C. von Vaupel Klein, Advisory Editors: J. Forest and M. Charmantier-Daures
ISBN: 978 90 04 16441 3
Edited by Frederick Schram and Carel Vaupel Klein
This volume, 9A, contains the material on the euphausiaceans, amphionidaceans, and many of the decapods (dendrobranchiates, carideans, stenopodideans, astacidans, and palinurans).

Les traditions anciennes sur la Dormition et l'assomption de Marie | Books
Simon Claude Mimouni
ISBN: 978 90 04 18746 7
Les traditions anciennes sur la dormition et l'assomption de Marie ont été transmises à la fois par des textes et sur des lieux. Ces deux approches méritent attention. Les textes pour leur part sont à la fois nombreux et foisonnants....

Intertextuality, Political Memory and Violence in Yizo Yizo | Books
Muff Andersson
ISBN: 978 186 888 538 1
This book offers an innovative analysis of a youth TV programme through the world of the producers, the text itself and the way audiences read texts, giving readers a unique tool for a more nuanced reading of African popular culture....

Special Maps of Persia 1477-1925 | Reference Works
Cyrus Alai
ISBN: 978 90 04 18401 5
This volume complements the best-seller and award-winning General Maps of Persia, praised by Dr. John Hébert, Chief of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress: “This carefully researched work is a must have item in any collection...

Anarchism and Syndicalism in the Colonial and Postcolonial World, 1870-1940 | Books
Edited by Steven Hirsch and Lucien van der Walt
ISBN: 978 90 04 18849 5
Before communism, anarchism and syndicalism were central to labour and the Left in the colonial and postcolonial world.Using studies from Africa,Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, this groundbreaking volume examines the revolutionary libertarian Left's class politics and anti-colonialism in the...

Atlas of Islam 1800-2000 | Books
Andreas Birken
ISBN: 978 90 04 18449 7
Full-color, oblong size, very accessible reference work complementing the Historical Atlas of Islam (Kennedy, 2000; part of EI2). More than 75 maps depicting language, history, religion and many other aspects of the Islamic world. Includes several maps of Afghanistan till...

Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle | Reference Works
General editor Graeme Dunphy
ISBN: 978 90 04 18464 0
The Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle brings together the latest research in chronicle studies from a variety of disciplines and scholarly traditions.

High-Ranking Widows in Medieval Iceland and Yorkshire | Books
Philadelphia Ricketts
ISBN: 978 90 04 18471 8
Through the juxtaposition of legal theory and practice and the utilization of detailed family reconstruction, a comparison of the property, remarriage and identity of widows in two fundamentally different societies provides a fresh approach which reconsiders generalizations about widows’ independence.

The Seventeenth Century Hebrew Book | Books
Marvin J. Heller
ISBN: 978 90 04 18638 5
The Seventeenth Century Hebrew covers the gamut of Hebrew literature in that century. Each entry has a descriptive text page and an accompaning reproduction. There is an extensive introduction with an overview of Hebrew printing in the seventeenth century.

Text Comparison and Digital Creativity | Books
Wido van Peursen, Ernst D. Thoutenhoofd, Adriaan van der Weel (eds)
ISBN: 978 90 04 18865 5
Edited by Wido Th. Peursen, Ernst Thoutenhoofd and Adriaan Weel
Combining both case studies and theoretical reflections, this book offers a varied range of assessments about digital conditions of philological inquiry. The book details instruments and processes of digital text criticism along with reflection on the increasingly unstable reconstructions of...

What is Good, and What God Demands | Books
Tzvi Novick
ISBN: 978 90 04 18758 0
Drawing on the tools of philology, linguistics, and ethics, this book exposes a rich array of intersections among competing rhetorics of normativity in the earliest stratum (tannaitic) of rabbinic literature.

Michel Henry et l'affect de l'art | Books
Edited by Adnen Jdey and Rolf Kühn
ISBN: 978 90 04 18633 0
Edited by Adnen Jdey and Rolf Kühn
The studies in this book set out to examine the labile resonances of phenomenology and art in Michel Henry, by examining the different figures of movement given to the concept of the aesthetic by the philosopher. They are preceded by...

Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion | Books
Edited by Giuseppe Giordan, University of Padua.
ISBN: 978 90 04 18790 0
Edited by Giuseppe Giordan
The purpose of the Annual Review of the Sociology of Religion (ARSR) is to investigate the “new” role of religion in the contemporary world, which is characterized by cultural pluralism and religious individualism.It is the aim of the ARSR to...

Spaces of Justice in the Roman World | Books
Edited by Francesco de Angelis
ISBN: 978 90 04 18925 6
Edited by Francesco de Angelis
In the aim to understand the place of law within the landscape of Roman life, this volume explores the interaction between judicial practices and the spaces in which they took place. Through an interdisciplinary approach, it offers a new, multifaceted...

Shahnama Studies I | Books
Edited by Charles Melville
ISBN: 978 0951 644 32 4
Edited by Charles Melville
The first volume in the series Studies in Persian Cultural History is the edited volume based on the papers from the Second Shahnama round-table, held in 2003 in Cambridge and published by Charles Melville in 2006 (The Centre of Middle...

The Language of the Sangleys | Books
Henning Klöter
ISBN: 978 90 04 18493 0
An incisive, multi-faceted study of a Spanish-Chinese manuscript grammar of the seventeenth century, The Language of the Sangleys presents a fascinating, new chapter in the history of Chinese and general linguistics.

Adversarial Case-Making | Books
Thomas Scheffer
ISBN: 978 90 04 18726 9
This book explores the working of law and lawyers down to their very details and minituae.

Regeneration and Hegemony | Books
Raymond Kubben
ISBN: 978 90 04 18558 6
Providing a case study of relations between France and the Netherlands throughout the Revolutionary Wars, this book offers a contribution to the debates on the relation between law and politics at the international level and on state-centrism in international relations.

Cold War Books in the ‘Other’ Europe and What Came After | Books
Jiřina Šmejkalová
ISBN: 978 90 04 18745 0
Drawing on analyses of the socio-cultural context of East and Central Europe, focusing on the Czech cultural dynamics of the Cold War and its aftermath, this book examines the making and breaking of centrally-controlled book production and reception.

Divining Science | Books
Warren Alexander Dym
ISBN: 978 90 04 18642 2
The patronage of dowsers by mining administrations through the eighteenth century challenges common assumptions about the Enlightenment. Rather than decline in importance like alchemy and astrology, dowsing transformed from a study of mineral vapors into an experimental branch of geophysics.

Medieval Manuscript Production in the Latin West | Books
Eltjo Buringh, Utrecht University
ISBN: 978 90 04 17519 8
Drawing on statistical techniques and samples this book offers an estimate of medieval production rates of manuscripts in the Latin West. Such information is a helpful production indicator for a period of which we have so little other quantitative data.

Bonaventura Vulcanius, Brugge 1588- Leiden 1614 | Books
Edited by Hélène Cazes
ISBN: 978 90 04 19209 6
Edited by Hélène Cazes
This volume gathers studies and documentation on Bonaventura Vulcanius, a versatile philologist and writer who in 1581 settled in Leiden as a Professor of Greek and Latin. It includes many unpublished texts pertaining to this mysterious figure Dutch Humanism.

Reading the Book of Nature in the Dutch Golden Age, 1575-1715 | Books
Eric Jorink (translated by Peter Mason)
ISBN: 978 90 04 18671 2
The conviction that Nature was God's second revelation played a crucial role in early modern Dutch culture. This book offers a fascinating account on how Dutch intellectuals contemplated, investigated, represented and collected natural objects, and how the notion of the...

Thomas Erastus and the Palatinate | Books
Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr.
ISBN: 978 90 04 18792 4
Utilizing Erastus’s correspondence, this book offers a synthetic treatment of Erastus’s career in the Palatinate including his role in the territory’s conversion, the Heidelberg Catechism, the church discipline controversy, as well as his refutation of Paracelsus and Johann Weyer.

Early Modern Medievalisms | Books
Edited by Alicia C. Montoya, Sophie van Romburgh and Wim van Anrooij. With the Collaboration of Coen Maas
ISBN: 978 90 04 18766 5
Although modernity historically defined itself by relation to the medieval, the ways in which early moderns invoked and conceptualized the medieval are still insufficiently understood. This volume's seventeen essays present some preliminary explorations into the field of early modern medievalisms.

Studies on the Ancient Armenian Version of Philo's Works | Books
By Sara Mancini Lombardi and Paola Pontani
ISBN: 978 90 04 18466 4
Edited by Sara Mancini Lombardi and Paola Pontani
This book aims to introduce the Armenian version of Philo's writings also to those scholars not acquainted with Armenian Studies. The subject is approached from different perspectives - historical, hermeneutical, philological, linguistic - with special attention given to the reception...

Aristotle’s “Nicomachean Ethics” | Books
Edited by Otfried Höffe. Translated by David Fernbach
ISBN: 978 90 04 17762 8
Edited by Otfried Höffe
Anyone interested in theories of moral or human practice will find in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics one of the few basic models relevant through to today. At the centre of his analysis, both sober and cautious, are such concepts as happiness,...

Abraham, the Nations, and the Hagarites | Books
edited by Martin Goodman, George van Kooten & Jacques van Ruiten
ISBN: 978 90 04 18843 3
Edited by Martin Goodman, George H. Kooten and J.T.A.G.M. Ruiten
Jews, Christians and Muslims describe elements of their origins with close reference to the narrative of Abraham, including the complex story of Abraham's relations with Hagar. This volume sketches the significance of this narrative in the three traditions.

The Missing Public Disputations of Jacobus Arminius | Books
Keith D. Stanglin
ISBN: 978 90 04 18867 9
This book presents for the first time 36 previously uncollected public disputations of Jacobus Arminius. In addition to summaries in English, the texts are preceded by an introduction to disputations in general and an examination of the question of authorship.

First Forts | Books
Edited by Eric Klingelhofer
ISBN: 978 90 04 18754 2
Edited by Eric Klingelhofer
The first comparative study of proto-colonial fortifications, First Forts comprises essays written by leading archaeologists that address the questions of how European first defended themselves overseas and to what degree they adapted to local conditions.

Maritime Interactions in the Arabian Neolithic | Books
Edited by Robert Carter and Harriet Crawford
ISBN: 978 90 04 16359 1
Edited by Robert Carter and Harriet Crawford
Excavations at H3, Kuwait, throw important new light on the economy of the Arabian Neolithic, the early history of seafaring and boat-building, and relations with Ubaid Mesopotamia. It is now clear that the inhabitants of the eastern seaboard of the...

Staging Socialist Femininity | Books
Ana Hofman
ISBN: 978 90 04 19179 2
Examining the stage performance of female vocal groups as cultural practices which produced a new pattern in the representation of gender in the light of the socialist identity politics, book offers a multifaced picture of the personal experiences of the...

Le droit international humanitaire: Théorie et pratique | Books
Daniel Thürer
ISBN: 978 90 04 17910 3

Recasting Transboundary Fisheries Management Arrangements in Light of Sustainability Principles | Books
Edited by Dawn A. Russell, Dalhousie University, and David L. VanderZwaag, Dalhousie University
ISBN: 978 90 04 17440 5
Edited by Dawn A. Russell and David L. VanderZwaag
This volume reviews and critiques efforts to recast governance of marine fisheries on the basis of sustainability principles (e.g., precautionary and ecosystem approaches), with a focus on Canada’s transboundary fisheries management arrangements, and surveys international laws and policy developments governing...

Looking to the Future | Books
Edited by Mahnoush H. Arsanjani, Jacob Katz Cogan, Robert D. Sloane and Siegfried Wiessner
ISBN: 978 90 04 17361 3
Edited by Mahnoush Arsanjani, Jacob Cogan, Robert Sloane and Siegfried Wiessner
Throughout his career, Michael Reisman emphasized law’s function in shaping the future. In this wide-ranging collection of essays, major thinkers in the international legal field address the goals of the twenty-first century and how international law can address the needs...

Living Water | Books
Robin M. Jensen
ISBN: 978 90 04 18898 3
An interdisciplinary study of the practice and purpose of early Christian baptism as it is depicted in pictorial art and as it was practiced in-built structures, this book integrates physical remains with literary evidence for the early Christian initiation rite.

El-Ahwat, A Fortified Site Of The Early Iron Age Near Nahal 'Iron, Israel | Books
edited by Adam Zertal
ISBN: 978 90 04 17645 4
Edited by Adam Zertal
This report presents the findings of a unique archaeological site in central Israel. The site is a fortified city, possibly from the Sea-Peoples Shardana, that contains intriguing architecture and many Egyptian finds. The Egyptian finds specifically indicate that it may...

A New World of Gold and Silver | Books
John J. TePaske; Kendall W. Brown (ed.)
ISBN: 978 90 04 18891 4
Edited by Kendall W. Brown
Using tax and mintage records, this book provides a district-by-district annual accounting of the gold and silver officially produced and minted in colonial Latin America, placing that output within the context of the emerging early-modern world economy.

The Panama Canal | Books
Robert Aguirre
ISBN: 978 90 04 17728 4
Considering the Panama Canal as an artificial strait, this book will let legal logic yield to historical and geographic experience by recasting the Panama Canal’s environment as the product of three elements, suggesting new perspectives about its past and future.

The Ecology of Arabic | Books
Muhammad al-Sharkawi
ISBN: 978 90 04 18606 4
This book offers a comprehensive theory of Arabicization in the Middle East and Egypt in the early period of the Arab conquests. It thereby draws on old Arab grammarians coupled with modern research in second language acquisition.

Yearbook of Muslims in Europe | Books
Edited by Jørgen S. Nielsen, Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibašić, Brigitte Maréchal and Christian Moe
ISBN: 978 90 04 18475 6
Edited by Jørgen Nielsen, Samim Akgönül, Ahmet Alibašić, Brigitte Maréchal and Christian Moe
The Yearbook of Muslims in Europe provides up-to-date factual information, statistics and analysis of the situation of Muslims in 46 European countries.

Human Rights in Action | Books
Miia Halme-Tuomisaari
ISBN: 978 90 04 18445 9
This study combines anthropological and critical legal approaches to explore the conceptions of knowledge, expertise and learning of a network of Nordic human rights experts. It explores how the ideals of emancipation are realized in human rights action.

David the Invincible, Commentary on Aristotle's Prior Analytics | Books
Aram Topchyan
ISBN: 978 90 04 18719 1
This edition of David the Invincible’s Commentary on the Prior Analytics, surviving only in an old Armenian translation from Greek, includes a revised critical text and the first English translation of the work, textual parallels with other commentaries, trilingual glossaries...

Reluctant Engagement: U.S. Policy and the International Criminal Court | Books
Mark D. Kielsgard
ISBN: 978 90 04 18280 6
Why has the United States taken such a firm stance against the International Criminal Court (ICC) and expended such diplomatic goodwill in an attempt to dismantle a tribunal that poses no serious risk to its citizens? This book critiques causal...

The International Response to Somali Piracy | Books
Edited by Bibi van Ginkel and Frans-Paul van der Putten
ISBN: 978 90 04 18305 6
Edited by Bibi van Ginkel and Frans-Paul van der Putten
The recent surge in piracy attacks off the coast of Somalia has triggered an international response which is unprecedented in terms of the number of actors involved. The International Response to Somali Piracy presents a comprehensive treatment of the international...

Muqarnas, Volume 27 | Books
Editor: Gülru Necipoğlu. Managing Editor: Karen A. Leal
ISBN: 978 90 04 18511 1
Edited by Gülru Necipoğlu and Karen Leal
The articles in Muqarnas 27 address topics such as spolia in medieval Islamic architecture, Islamic coinage in the seventh century, the architecture of the Alhambra from an environmental perspective, and Ottoman–Mamluk gift exchange in the fifteenth century. The volume also...

From Woodblocks to the Internet | Books
Edited by Cynthia Brokaw and Christopher A. Reed
ISBN: 978 90 04 18527 2
These essays examine the transformation of Chinese print culture over the past two centuries during which new technologies, intellectual change, and sociopolitical upheavals expanded reading audiences, spawned new genres of print, and reshaped the relationship between publishing and the state.

Arms and Armour of the Warrior Saints | Books
By Piotr Ł. Grotowski. Translated by Richard Brzezinski.
ISBN: 978 90 04 18548 7
This study investigates whether military equipment shown in images of warrior saints reflects items used by the mid-Byzantine Army or repeats Classical forms. This in turn answers questions on the originality of Byzantine art and its reliability as a historical...

Israel Yearbook on Human Rights, Volume 40 (2010) | Books
Edited by Yoram Dinstein and Fania Domb
ISBN: 978 90 04 18452 7
Edited by Yoram Dinstein and Fania Domb
The Israel Yearbook on Human Rights- an annual published under the auspices of the Faculty of Law of Tel Aviv University since 1971- is devoted to publishing studies by distinguished scholars in Israel and other countries on human rights in...

Technopaignia, Formspiele in der griechischen Dichtung | Books
Christine Luz
ISBN: 978 90 04 18978 2
This book offers the first comprehensive collection and scholarly analysis of the Greek technopaignia (acrostics, anagrams, palindromes, pattern poems etc.) and discusses both their significance for the history of literature and their interaction with non-literary fields of ancient scholarship.Das Buch...

A New Public International Law Regime for Foreign Direct Investment | Books
ISBN: 978 90 04 18682 8

The Powerful Presence of the Past | Books
Jacqueline Knörr and Wilson Trajano Filho (eds.)
ISBN: 978 90 04 19000 9
Edited by Jacqueline Knörr and Wilson Trajano Filho
This book conceptualizes integration and conflict as interrelated dimensions of social interaction impacted by specific historical experiences. Contributions aim at a better understanding of the social mechanisms affecting processes of integration and conflict at the local, national and regional levels.

Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum Volume LVI (2006) | Books
Edited by A. Chaniotis, T. Corsten, R.S. Stroud and R.A. Tybout
ISBN: 978 90 04 18677 4
SEG LVI covers the publications of the year 2006, with occasional additions from previous years that we missed in earlier volumes and from studies published after 2006 but pertaining to material from 2006.

Sustainable Development: Towards a Judicial Interpretation | Books
Rajendra Ramlogan, University of the West Indies, St. Augustine
ISBN: 978 90 04 18753 5
Sustainable Development presents a succinct examination of the emerging principles in international, regional and national legal regimes that are providing a basis for supporting environmental protection in the global community through adherence to the philosophy of sustainable development.

Handbook of the Syllable | Books
Charles E. Cairns and Eric Raimy (eds.)
ISBN: 978 90 04 18740 5
Edited by Charles Cairns and Eric Raimy
The Handbook of the Syllable presents a broad range of empirical studies, offering a comprehensive survey of the syllable in phonology, phonetics, and psycholinguistics. It is a seminal reference book for researchers exploring any empirical area where the notion of...

Human Rights and the Environment | Books
Linda Hajjar Leib
ISBN: 978 90 04 18864 8
The book examines the genesis and development of environmental rights (or the Right to Environment) in international law and discusses their philosophical, theoretical and legal underpinnings in the context of sustainable development and the notion of solidarity rights.

For the Comfort of Zion | Books
By Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer
ISBN: 978 90 04 18930 0
This monograph seeks to identity the target audience of Isaiah 40-55. In doing so, it challenges the widespread view that Isaiah 40-55, in whole or in part, aims at and also reflects the concerns of the exilic community in Babylon.

Philo of Alexandria: On Virtues | Books
ISBN: 978 90 04 18907 2
In the treatise On Virtues, Philo of Alexandria demonstrates how Moses, the constitution he established, and the community that follows its laws embody certain moral ideals (courage, humanity, repentance, and nobility) that were widely admired in the Greco-Roman world.

The Annotated Digest of the International Criminal Court | Reference Works
Cyril Laucci, Consultant in International Humanitarian Law and International Criminal Law
ISBN: 978 90 04 19168 6
Edited by Cyril Laucci
The Annotated Digest of the International Criminal Court (2008) is the third volume of an annual series. It compiles a selection of the most significant legal findings contained in the public decisions rendered by the International Criminal Court in 2008.2008...

In the Second Degree | Books
Edited by Philip Alexander, Armin Lange and Renate Pillinger
ISBN: 978 90 04 18773 3
Edited by Philip Alexander, Armin Lange and Renate Pillinger
To better understand the phenomenon of Literature in the Second Degree – in Jewish and Biblical studies often characterized as parabiblical or Rewritten Bible – the current volume applies the theories of Gerard Genette to ancient and medieval literature from...

Between Scylla and Charybdis | Books
Edited by Jeanine De Landtsheer & Henk Nellen
ISBN: 978 90 04 18573 9
Scylla and Charybdis offers a collection of studies on epistolary and scholarly responses to religious and political controversy in Early Modern Europe. Careful examination of key intellectual letter-writers yields new biographical information as well as a more balanced judgement on...

Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, c.1300- c.1550 | Books
Edited by Alexander Lee, Pit Péporté, Harry Schnitker
ISBN: 978 90 04 18334 6
Building on recent revisionist trends, this book offers a refreshing new perspective on the Renaissance and presents an invaluable examination of continuities and discontinuities from Petrarch to Machiavelli, from Giotto to Dürer, and from Italy to Burgundy, Bohemia and beyond.

Book Collections of Clerics in Norway, 1650–1750 | Books
Gina Dahl
ISBN: 978 90 04 18899 0
By examining clerical book collections in Norway 1650–1750, this book describes the flow of books in one of the northernmost areas of Europe, a flow dependant on three networking areas in particular, namely Germany, the Netherlands and England.

Making Sense of Peace and Capacity-Building Operations | Books
Edited by Bryn W. Hughes, University of Queensland, Charles T. Hunt, University of Queensland, and Boris Kondoch, Asia Center for Peace and Security Studies
ISBN: 978 90 04 18874 7
Edited by Bryn Hughes, Charles T. Hunt and Boris Kondoch
The realm of international peace and capacity development operations is a critical and contested space. Efforts to date have failed to meet expectations. This volume of work takes on the breadth of issues across the security-development spectrum, challenging conventional wisdom...

World Religions and Multiculturalism | Books
Edited by Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg
ISBN: 978 90 04 18892 1
This book is about new forms of religious activities emerging in the context of their dialectic relations with contemporary multicultural realities. World religions are effectively a major agent of the multiculturalization of contemporary societies. However, multiculturalism pushes them not only...

The Mongols and the Armenians (1220-1335) | Books
Bayarsaikhan Dashdondog
ISBN: 978 90 04 18635 4
Covering more than one century, this book describes the complex issues of Mongol-Armenian political relations that involved many different ethnic groups in a vast geographical area stretching from China to the Mediterranean coast in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

English Law Before Magna Carta | Books
Edited by Stefan Jurasinski, Lisi Oliver and Andrew Rabin
ISBN: 978 90 04 18756 6
This volume marks the centenary of Liebermann’s Die Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903-1916) by bringing together essays by scholars specializing in medieval legal culture. The essays address not only Liebermann’s legacy, but also major issues in the study of early law.

The Reception of Myth and Mythology | Books
Edited by Maria Moog-Grünewald
ISBN: 978 90 04 18330 8
Edited by Maria Moog-Grünewald
Following the structure of the Classical Tradition volumes of Brill’s New Pauly this Supplement volume – The Reception of Myth and Mythology' highlights the routes and works through which the myths of Greece and Rome have passed into the cultural...

'Deus ut tentus uel uisus' | Books
Thomas Jeschke
ISBN: 978 90 04 19187 7
This book sheds light on the 13th/14th-century debate about whether beatitude is a reflexive act. It reconstructs this discussion on the basis of the original sources. Furthermore it investigates into hermeneutical matters of medieval text interpretation.

The Beauty of Silence | Books
Robert Schaap & J. Thomas Rimer
ISBN: 978 90 04 19385 7
The first monograph in English on the print artist Tsukioka Kogyo (1869-1927), this publication covers the artist's life and work, in particular the designs related to the No theatre in general and No theatre in the Meiji period.

What Disease Was Plague? | Books
Ole J. Benedictow
ISBN: 978 90 04 18002 4
In this monograph, the alternative theories to the established bubonic-plague theory as to the microbiological identity of historical plague epidemics are intensively discussed in the light of the historical sources and the medical primary research and standard works.

School Music Education and Social Change in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan | Books
Wai-chung Ho
ISBN: 978 90 04 18917 1
This book compares, from a historical and sociopolitical perspective, the respective systems and contents of music education in mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in response to globalization, localization and Sinificiation, with particular reference to Shanghai, Hong Kong and Taipei.

Die liturgische Gegenwart des abwesenden Königs | Books
Wolfgang Eric Wagner
ISBN: 978 90 04 18923 2
The aim of this study is to give a more precise interpretation, using the commemorative form of activity of confraternity, of the function and purpose behind such depictions, in the case of a few selected early medieval images of rulers,...

Isis on the Nile. Egyptian Gods in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt | Books
Edited by Laurent Bricault and Miguel John Versluys
ISBN: 978 90 04 18882 2
Against the background of questions on cultural identity and memory, this book offers an overview of the development of the cults of Isis in Hellenistic and Roman Egypt, often presenting new or unpublished material.

The Environment, Risk and Liability in International Law | Books
Julio Barboza
ISBN: 978 90 04 18878 5
The Environment, Risk and Liability in International Law explains the important role liability plays in risk management and environmental protection in the realm of International Law.

Enlarge the Site of Your Tent | Books
Edited by Archibald L.H.M. van Wieringen and Annemarieke van der Woude
ISBN: 978 90 04 18729 0
Edited by Archibald L.H.M. Wieringen and Annemarieke Woude
In this volume, the Jesaja Werkplaats examines the question as to the unity of the book Isaiah from the perspective ‘city’. This volume offers an intriguing variety of contributions on the ‘city’ through the entire book Isaiah.

Chinese Indonesians and Regime Change | Books
Edited by Marleen Dieleman, Juliette Koning, and Peter Post
ISBN: 978 90 04 19121 1
Edited by Marleen Dieleman, Juliette Koning and Peter Post
By taking regime change as its main theme this book offers a new perspective on the multiple roles that Chinese Indonesians played in terms of shaping, moderating, and stimulating social change in Indonesia.

The deuteronomic history and the book of Chronicles | Books
By Raymond F. Person Jr.
ISBN: 978 90 04 18706 1
This volume reexamines and reconstructs the relationship between the Deuteronomic History and the book of Chronicles, building on recent developments such as the Persian-period dating of the Deuteronomic History, the contribution of oral traditional studies to understanding the production of...

Noah and his Book(s) | Books
Edited by Michael E. Stone, Aryeh Amihay and Vered Hillel
ISBN: 978 90 04 18698 9
Edited by Michael E. Stone, Aryeh Amihay and Vered Hillel
In a collection of original essays, this book offers new insights on the question of the lost “book of Noah,” as well as studies of Noah’s figure in postbiblical literature. It focuses on ancient Jewish literature, including the Septuagint, the...

Adhesion Aspects in MEMS-NEMS | Books
Edited by S.H. Kim, M.T. Dugger and K.L. Mittal
ISBN: 978 90 04 19094 8
Edited by Seong H. Kim, Michael T. Dugger and Kash L. Mittal
Phenomena associated with the adhesion interaction of surfaces have been a critical aspect of micro- and nanosystem development and performance since the first MicroElectroMechanicalSystems(MEMS) were fabricated. These phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and are present in all systems, however MEMS...

Surface and Interfacial Aspects of Cell Adhesion | Books
Edited by A. Carré and K.L. Mittal
ISBN: 978 90 04 19078 8
Edited by Alain Carré and Kash L. Mittal
Cell adhesion comes into play in almost all domains of life. The range of situations in which it occurs, involving organisms, living tissues, microorganisms or single cells, is endless. Cell adhesion is involved in the binding of a cell to...

Hesiod: The Other Poet | Books
Hugo H. Koning
ISBN: 978 90 04 18616 3
This book offers a comprehensive account of the role of Hesiod in the ancient imagination, investigating the poet as a literary-critical concept, a moral and philosophical symbol, and generally a cultural icon endlessly employed and re-created by later Greeks.

Sons and Descendants | Books
John P. Nielsen
ISBN: 978 90 04 18963 8
Drawing primarily on evidence from legal documents from the early Neo-Babylonian period (747-626 B.C.), the book examines the presence of large, named kin groups at the major Babylonia cities, considering their origins and the important roles their members played as...

Linguistic Bibliography for the Year 2009 / / Bibliographie Linguistique de l’année 2009 | Books
Edited by Hella Olbertz and Sijmen Tol
ISBN: 978 90 04 18387 2
Edited by Hella Olbertz and Sijmen Tol
With over 20,000 titles arranged according to a detailed state-of-the-art classification and an exhaustive keyword-system, the Linguistic Bibliography remains the standard reference work for every scholar of language and linguistics. This volume has been brought up-to-date and is accompanied by...

Africa Yearbook 6 | Books
Edited by Andreas Mehler, Henning Melber and Klaas van Walraven. Sub-editor: Rolf Hofmeier
ISBN: 978 90 04 18559 3
Edited by Andreas Mehler, Henning Melber and Klaas Walraven
The Africa Yearbook is a reliable source of reference covering major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends of all sub-Saharan states – all related to developments in one calendar year.The print version of the Africa Yearbook now...

Words and Their Stories | Books
Edited by Wang Ban
ISBN: 978 90 04 18860 0
Edited by Ban Wang
In spite of dislocations and ruptures in China’s revolutionary language, to rethink this discourse is to revisit a history in terms of sedimented layers of linguistic meanings and political aspirations. Earlier meanings of revolutionary words may persist or coexist with...

Between Evidence and Ideology | Books
Edited by Bob Becking and Lester Grabbe
ISBN: 978 90 04 18737 5
Edited by Bob E.J.H. Becking and Lester Grabbe
The essays in this volume deal with the (re)construction of the history of Ancient Israel and how that historywriting is influenced by ideology and informed by the evidence.

Wood Adhesives | Books
Edited by A. Pizzi and K.L. Mittal
ISBN: 978 90 04 19093 1
Edited by Antonio PIZZI and Kash L. Mittal
Wood adhesives are of tremendous industrial importance as more than two-thirds of wood products today in the world are totally, or at least partially, bonded together using a variety of adhesives. The reason being that adhesive bonding offers many advantages...

The Draft Civil Code of the People's Republic of China | Books
Edited by Liang Huixing
ISBN: 978 90 04 19042 9
Edited by Huixing Liang
This book is an English translation of the Draft Chinese Civil Code prepared by the Legislative Group of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences headed by Prof. Liang Huixing, which is officially mandated by the Legislative Committee of the National...

Food Culture and Health in Pre-Modern Muslim Societies | Books
David Waines
ISBN: 978 90 04 19441 0
This book brings together edited articles from the second edition of the Encyclopaedia of Islam that are relevant to food culture, health, diet, and medicine in pre-Islamic Muslim societies.

History of Biblical Interpretation | Books
ISBN: 978 90 04 17795 6

Colossians | Books
By John Paul Heil
ISBN: 978 90 04 17802 1
This book investigates Colossians as a “captivity” letter from the primary implied author, the imprisoned Paul, to an implied audience of mainly Gentile converts currently in danger of influence by local Jews or Jewish Christians. Utilizing a text-centered, literary-rhetorical, and...

Philippians | Books
By John Paul Heil
ISBN: 978 90 04 17801 4
This volume employs a text-centered, literary-rhetorical, and audience-oriented method to demonstrate how the implied audience of Philippians are persuaded and exhorted by the dynamic progression of the letter’s chiastic structures to rejoice along with Paul and other believers in being...

The Early Black-Figured Pottery of Attika in Context (ca. 630-570 BCE) | Books
Alexandra Alexandridou
ISBN: 978 90 04 18604 0
Based on the archaeological context of the vessels, this book offers an overview of the production and distribution of early Attic black-figured pottery until the end of the first quarter of the sixth century B.C., aiming at an afresh approach...

The Draft Civil Code of the People's Republic of China | Books
Edited by Liang Huixing
ISBN: 978 90 04 17915 8
Edited by Huixing Liang
This book is an English translation of the Draft Chinese Civil Code prepared by the Legislative Group of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences headed by Prof. Liang Huixing, which is officially mandated by the Legislative Committee of the National...

A Grammar of Kharia | Books
John Peterson
ISBN: 978 90 04 18720 7
The present study is an extensive description of Kharia, a member of the southern branch of the Munda family, spoken in central-eastern India. It covers virtually all areas of the grammar, including phonology, morphology, syntax as well as a detailed...

Judah Moscato Sermons | Books
Edited by Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto
In Conjunction with Giacomo Corazzol, Regina Grundmann, Don Harràn (Sermon I), Yonatan Meroz, Brian Ogren and Adam Shear
ISBN: 978 90 04 17900 4
Edited by Giuseppe Veltri and Gianfranco Miletto
Judah ben Joseph Moscato (c.1533–1590) was one of the most distinguished rabbis, authors, and preachers of the Italian-Jewish Renaissance. The book Sefer Nefus;.ot Yehudah belongs to the very centre of his homiletic and philosophical oeuvre.

Method matters | Books
Edited by Joel M. LeMon and Kent Harold Richards
ISBN: 978 90 04 16928 9
Edited by Joel M. LeMon and Kent Harold Richards
As the field of biblical studies expands to accommodate new modes of inquiry, scholars are increasingly aware of the need for methodological clarity. David L. Petersen’s teaching, research, and service to the guild are marked by a commitment to such...

Philodemus on death | Books
By W. Benjamin Henry
ISBN: 978 90 04 16929 6
On Death, by the Epicurean philosopher Philodemus of Gadara, is among the most significant philosophical treatments of the theme surviving from the Greco-Roman world. The author was an influential figure in first-century B.C.E. Roman society, associated with poets such as...

Aramaica Qumranica | Books
Edited by Katell Berthelot and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra
ISBN: 978 90 04 18786 3
Edited by Katell Berthelot and Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra
The articles in this book tackle important linguistic, exegetical and historical questions concerning the Aramaic scrolls from Qumran, addressing for instance the issue of their relevance to the development of apocalypticism and messianism in the Jewish tradition.

Prophetic Niche in the Virtuous City | Books
Hikmet Yaman, Ankara University
ISBN: 978 90 04 18662 0
Analyzing the concept of hikmah in early Islamic texts, this book brings earliest scholarly materials to the service of modern readers and thus offers a comprehensive contextualization of this subtle and elusive notion in the collective usage of early Muslim...

Descriptive Grammar of the Arabic Naskh Script | Books
Thomas Milo
ISBN: 978 90 04 17185 5
This study is based on the observation that the many instances of pre-typographic, manuscript naskh writing, share a single ideal. An analysis on the basis of the linguistic concepts of competence and performance leads to fascinating results.From manuscript evidence, and...

Netherlandish Books (NB) | Books
Edited by Andrew Pettegree and Malcolm Walsby
ISBN: 978 90 04 19197 6
Edited by Andrew Pettegree and Malcolm Walsby
Netherlandish Books offers a unique overview of what was printed during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in the Low Countries. This bibliography lists descriptions of over 32,000 editions together with an introduction and indexes.

Moses und der Mythos | Books
René Bloch
ISBN: 978 90 04 16501 4
Jewish-Hellenistic authors rejected Greek myth, but they were also aware of its importance as a symbol of power and identity. This book offers a comprehensive reading of how Jews dealt with Greek mythology in the Hellenistic period.Jüdisch-hellenistische Autoren verwarfen die...

Entre mémoire et pouvoir | Books
Antoine BorrutUniversity of Maryland
ISBN: 978 90 04 18561 6
Dans une perspective d'histoire de la mémoire et d'histoire des sens, cet ouvrage offre une nouvelle approche de l'espace syrien du 2e/8e siècle, mettant en lumière les projets historiographiques omeyyades et abbassides et leurs pratiques du pouvoir.In a perspective of...

Axioidea of the World and a Reconsideration of the Callianassoidea (Decapoda, Thalassinidea, Callianassida) | Books
Katsushi Sakai
ISBN: 978 90 04 17087 2
In the present new classification, the section Callianassida comprises two superfamilies, Axioidea and Callianassoidea, 19 families including one new family and two families with a new status, 8 subfamilies including one subfam. nov., 116 genera including 41 gen. nov. and...

Trials of Engagement | Books
Edited by Ali Fisher, The Downing Street Project, and Scott Lucas, University of Birmingham
ISBN: 978 90 04 17940 0
Edited by Ali Fisher and Scott Lucas
Public Diplomacy is now one of the most important concepts in the development and implementation of foreign policy. Trials on Engagement: The Future of US Diplomacy analyses the trials of contemporary practice and identifies factors which will shape a more...

Handbook of Religion and the Authority of Science | Books
Edited by James R. Lewis and Olav Hammer
ISBN: 978 90 04 18791 7
Edited by Jim R. Lewis and Olav Hammer
The present collection examines the many different ways in which religions appeal to the authority of science. The result is a wide-ranging and uniquely compelling study of how religions adapt their message to the challenges of the contemporary world.

From Linguistics to Hermeneutics | Books
Pierre Van Hecke
ISBN: 978 90 04 18835 8
Drawing on the insights of functional grammar and cognitive semantics, this book offers a detailed linguistic analysis of Job 12-14 and a fresh exegetical reading of Job's longest and central speech in the book.

History of Biblical Interpretation | Books
ISBN: 978 90 04 14673 0
From the very beginning, Holy Scripture has always been interpreted Scripture, and its interpretation determined the development and the history of both early Judaism and the first centuries of the Christian church. In this volume, the first of four on...

WTO - Trade in Goods | Reference Works
Edited by Rüdiger Wolfrum, Peter-Tobias Stoll and Holger P. Hestermeyer
ISBN: 978 90 04 14566 5
Edited by Rüdiger Wolfrum, Peter-Tobias Stoll and Holger Hestermeyer
This volume deals with the GATT 1994 and all related agreements, which include those on Agriculture, Textiles and Clothing, Trade-Related Investment Measures, Implementation of Article VII GATT 1994, Preshipment Inspection, Rules of Origin, Import Licensing Procedures, Trade in Civil Aircraft...

Surimono in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam | Books
ISBN: 978 90 74 82240 4
This catalogue includes more than 600 surimono drawn from the splendid Amsterdam Rijksmuseum collection of Japanese prints. surimono (lit. ‘printed object’) are privately published prints inscribed with a dedication or poem that reflects upon everyday themes. All surimono are reproduced...

The World in World Wars | Books
Edited by Heike Liebau, Katrin Bromber, Katharina Lange, Dyala Hamzah and Ravi Ahuja
ISBN: 978 90 04 18545 6
The volume contributes to the growing field of research on the global social history of the World Wars. Focusing on social and cultural aspects, it discusses the broader implications of the wars for African and Asian societies which resulted in...

The Navigator | Books
Edited by Victor Enthoven, Steve Murdoch and Eila Williamson. With the assistance of Ben Teensma.
ISBN: 978 90 04 18931 7
Edited by Victor Enthoven, Steve Murdoch and Eila Williamson
Captain John Anderson served in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as ‘Pilot-Major’ between 1640 and 1643. This was his fourth voyage to the Indies and the only one he chose to record. His log gives great insight into the...

Gaius meets Cicero | Books
Tessa G. Leesen
ISBN: 978 90 04 18774 0
The 'school controversies' between the Sabinians and the Proculians continue to be the focus of debate in Roman law. The present volume attempts to determine what gave rise to these controversies by associating them with legal practice and the use...

Medieval Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Egypt | Books
Joachim J.M.S. Yeshaya
ISBN: 978 90 04 19130 3
Offering an edition of secular poems taken from the earliest, fifteenth-century manuscript, this book seeks to evaluate Moses Darʿī’s poetry in the light of the Andalusian-Hebrew poetical tradition and within the context of Hebrew literary activity in the Muslim East.

Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals | Books
ISBN: 978 90 04 18913 3
Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft rituals and prescriptions prescribe ceremonies and treatments for dispelling witchcraft, destroying the witch, and protecting and curing the patient. The Corpus of Mesopotamian Anti-witchcraft Rituals aims to present a reconstruction and critical editions of this body of texts.

The Religious Philosophy of Liang Shuming | Books
Thierry Meynard
ISBN: 978 90 04 17151 0
Liang Shuming, considered to be the Last Confucian, was a Buddhist. He reshaped the Western concept of religion from the standpoint of Buddhism, and yet advocated Confucianism as the ethical religion that would lead ultimately to the Buddhist liberation.

The Debate Between a Man and His Soul | Books
James Allen
ISBN: 978 90 04 19303 1
This book is a new study of one of the masterpieces of ancient Egyptian literature, offering new readings and translations, along with an analysis of the text’s grammar and versification, and a complete philological apparatus.

Liberal Cosmopolitan | Books
Qian Suoqiao
ISBN: 978 90 04 19213 3
This book is a cross-cultural critique on the problem of the liberal cosmopolitan in modern Chinese intellectuality in light of Lin Yutang’s literary and cultural practices across China and America. It points to the desirability of a middling Chinese modernity.

ABIA: South and Southeast Asian Art and Archaeology Index | Books
Edited by Sita Pieris and Ellen M. Raven
ISBN: 978 90 04 19148 8
Volume Three offers 1643 annotated records on publications regarding the art and archaeology of South Asia, Central Asia and Tibet selected from the ABIA Index database at www.abia.net which were published between 2002 and 2007.

Brill's New Pauly, The Classical Tradition, Index | Books
Edited by Manfred Landfester in cooperation with Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider. Index of the English edition by Kerry Cathers
ISBN: 978 90 04 19415 1
Edited by Manfred Landfester
This Index volume relates to the 5 volumes of Brill's New Pauly that deal with the Classical Tradition, the reception of the ancient world in later centuries. Apart from thematic guides to the more than essay-like entries contained in these...

The Impact of Investment Treaties on Contracts between Host States and Foreign Investors | Books
ISBN: 978 90 04 19223 2
In the field of investment treaty arbitration, the co-existence of contracts and treaties has generated an increasingly divided jurisprudence on central aspects of treaty interpretation. This book comprehensively examines the legal problems surrounding the relationship of these two instruments.

Sunnitischer Tafsīr in der modernen islamischen Welt | Books
Johanna Pink, Freie Universität Berlin
ISBN: 978 90 04 18592 0
Analysing recent Sunnite Qurʾanic commentaries from the Arab World, Indonesia and Turkey, this book offers new insights into the academic, biographic, political and religious context of contemporary Qurʾanic exegesis and into the theological traditions and sources it relies on.Durch die...

The Rome Statute for the International Criminal Court | Books
Georghios M. Pikis
ISBN: 978 90 04 18613 2
The book traces the background to the establishment of the ICC, analyses the Statute and associated instruments and reviews its case law. It examines comprehensively the parameters, framework of operation of a unique judicial institution regarded by many as an...

Giles of Viterbo | Books
Edited by Daniel Nodes
ISBN: 978 90 04 18862 4
Edited by Daniel Nodes
The Sentences Commentary of Giles of Viterbo embodies the intellectual and spiritual vision of a major church reformer and Renaissance scholar. The present edition publishes the entire Commentary for the first time.

Brill's New Pauly, Antiquity, Index | Books
Edited by Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider. English edition edited by Christine F. Salazar
ISBN: 978 90 04 18472 5
Edited by Hubert Cancik and Helmuth Schneider
This Index volume relates to the 15 volumes of Brill's New Pauly that deal with Antiquity. Apart from thematic guides to the more than 15,000 entries contained in these volumes, it also presents new materials to help the reader with...

Heidenfrage und Slawenfrage im deutschen Mittelalter | Books
Hans-Dietrich Kahl
ISBN: 978 90 04 16751 3
26 Studies discuss the theory and practice of the medieval church in the christianization of the unconverted peoples as well as the terminology appropriate to it. Special focus is given to the Carolingian missions to the Saxons and to the...

Recarving of Roman portraits in Late Antiquity | Books
Marina Prusac
ISBN: 978 90 04 18271 4
This book provides analyses of different recarving methods in Late Antiquity, and argues on the basis of 500 recarved portraits that the late antique portrait style, which was formerly considered an expression of a new era, was rather a technical...

Hippocrates and Medical Education | Books
Edited by H.F.J. Horstmanshoff
ISBN: 978 90 04 17248 7
Edited by Manfred Horstmanshoff
The collection of writings known as the Corpus Hippocraticum played a decisive role in medical education for more than twenty four centuries. This is the first full-length volume on medical education in Graeco-Roman antiquity since Kudlien’s seminal article from 1970....

Religion Past and Present, Volume 9 | Reference Works
Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning, Bernd Janowski and Eberhard Jüngel
ISBN: 978 90 04 14693 8
Religion Past and Present (RPP) is a complete, updated English translation of the 4th edition of the definitive encyclopedia of religion worldwide. the peerless Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (RGG). Including the latest developments in research, Religion Past and Present...

Disputed Desert | Books
Baz Lecocq
ISBN: 978 90 04 13983 1
In presenting a history of the Tuareg rebellions against the Malian state in the late 20th century, this book discusses the historical legacies of slavery, racialisation, colonial rule, decolonisation, nationalism and the postcolonial state in the contemporary Sahel.

Barhebraeus, Butyrum Sapientiae, Physics: | Books
Jens Ole Schmitt, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
ISBN: 978 90 04 18651 4
This volume offers the first critical edition and English translation of the Book of Physics of Barhebraeus' (d. 1286) magnum opus, Butyrum Sapientiae. It also analyzes Barhebraeus' (use of his) sources, and the unique and personal way in which he...

Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic | Reference Works
Guus Kroonen
ISBN: 978 90 04 18340 7
With its nearly 7000 lexemes, the Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic Lexicon represents a comprehensive vocabulary of the Germanic proto-language. It offers numerous new interpretations and is an essential instrument for the study of Germanic historical linguistics and etymology.

Solon the Athenian, the Poetic Fragments | Books
Maria Noussia
ISBN: 978 90 04 17478 8
This book illuminates the authoritative voice of Solon of Athens by an integrated literary, historical, and philological approach and the use of a range of hermeneutic frameworks, from literary theory to oral poetics.

The Reshaped Mind | Books
By Lace Marie Williams-Tinajero
ISBN: 978 90 04 18840 2
Employing John R. Searle’s categories of language and mind, this book analyzes five NT texts from a speech act perspective, what certain NT writers and characters asserted and believed concerning the effects of Christ’s blood, at the literal and metaphorical...

Inter-American Yearbook on Human Rights / Anuario Interamericano de Derechos Humanos, 21 | Books
Edited by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights/La Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
ISBN: 978 90 04 18694 1
Edited by Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
This Yearbook aims to contribute to a greater awareness of the functions and activities of the organs of the Inter-American system for the protection of human rights.

Dichtung und Musik im frühneuzeitlichen Aschkenas | Books
Diana Matut
ISBN: 978 90 04 18194 6
The so called “Wallich-manuscript” is one of the most important sources for the study of Yiddish and German folksongs as well as Purim-plays in the Early Modern period. For the first time, this fascinating collection has now been edited completely...

Islamic Traditions and Muslim Youth in Norway | Books
Christine M. Jacobsen, University of Bergen
ISBN: 978 90 04 17890 8
Drawing on a broad range of theorizing in anthropology and the social sciences, this book provides an in-depth ethnographic account of how 'young Muslims' in Norway engage and rework Islamic traditions in a context of international migration, globalization, and secular...

The Jewish Neo-Aramaic Dialect of Amәdya | Books
Jared Greenblatt
ISBN: 978 90 04 18257 8
This work is a linguistic description of an obsolescent dialect of Neo-Aramaic. The dialect was originally spoken by Jews residing in the village of Amǝdya (a.k.a Amadiya) in modern-day northern Iraq. Included are edited transcriptions and translations of a selection...

Pamphlets and Politics in the Dutch Republic | Books
Edited by Femke Deen, David Onnekink and Michel Reinders
ISBN: 978 90 04 19178 5
Edited by Femke Deen, Michel Reinders and David Onnekink
This volume explores the relationship between politics and pamphleteering in the Dutch Republic. By analyzing the political role of pamphlets and their interplay with other media in public debates, the articles provide a new understanding of Dutch political culture.

Eternity's Ennui | Books
M.B. Pranger
ISBN: 978 90 04 18936 2
This book examines the nature of Augustinian time as the unfathomable yet permanent focus of the present. What are the implications for Augustine’s confessional discourse? How to reconcile the brevity of time’s focus with eternity’s longueur and the rhetoric of...

'From a Sacred Source' | Books
Edited by B.M. Outhwaite and S. Bhayro
ISBN: 978 90 04 19058 0
Edited by Ben Outhwaite and Siam Bhayro
These papers on the medieval manuscripts of the Cairo Genizah are in honour of Stefan Reif, Professor of Medieval Hebrew at Cambridge University, on the occasion of his retirement after thirty-three years as director of the Genizah Research Unit.

Portraits of Chōgen | Books
John Rosenfield
ISBN: 978 90 04 16864 0
This volume, the first in Brill’s Japanese Visual Culture series, vividly describes the efforts of the Japanese monk Shunjōbō Chōgen (1121–1206) to restore major buildings and works of art lost in a brutal civil conflict in 1180. Through meticulous study...

Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in East Asia | Books
Edited by Charles D. Orzech (General Editor), Henrik H. Sørensen, Richard K. Payne
ISBN: 978 90 04 18491 6
This volume, the result of an international collaboration of forty scholars, provides a comprehensive resource on Esoteric Buddhism and the Tantras in their Chinese, Korean, and Japanese contexts from the first few centuries of the common era to the present.

The Copper Scroll Revisited | Books
ISBN: 978 90 04 17100 8
This English translation of the new edition of the Copper Scroll of Qumran gives the results of an improved decipherment of the engraved text due to the restoration of the Scroll by the Mécénat of the French Electric Company.

The Ascetic Spirituality of Juan de Ávila (1499-1569) | Books
Rady Roldán-Figueroa
ISBN: 978 90 04 19204 1
Scholars have identify Juan de Ávila (1499-1569) as the author of a distinctively judeoconverso spirituality. However, there are no comprehensive studies that seriously take into account his background. The present work seeks to analyze his spirituality against its proper early-modern...

Criticism of Theology | Books
Roland Boer
ISBN: 978 90 04 18974 4
Through a lively and thorough critical commentary, Criticism of Theology engages with some of the most significant Marxists who are fascinated by religion: Max Horkheimer, E.P. Thompson, G.E.M. de Ste. Croix, Michael Löwy, Roland Barthes, Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and...

Etymological Dictionary of Persian | Books
Garnik S. Asatrian
ISBN: 978 90 04 18341 4
The Etymological Dictionary of Persian is the most comprehensive and up-to-date work in the field of New Persian historical lexicology and etymology. It synthesizes the achievements of Iranian, and Indo-European, comparative linguistics over the last century with regard to the...

(Un)masking the Realities of Power | Books
Edited by Erik De Bom, Marijke Janssens, Toon Van Houdt and Jan Papy
ISBN: 978 90 04 19128 0
Starting from Justus Lipsius'sMonita et exempla politica (1605), this book offers a collection of essays dealing with the disputed Macchiavellian, Tacitean or Neostoic character of Lipsius's political thought, and its impact on the dynamics of political discourse in Early Modern...

Crustacean Zooplankton Communities in Chilean Inland Waters | Books
Patricio R. De los Ríos E.
ISBN: 978 90 04 17460 3
This book provides a checklist with updated information of the species of crustacean zooplankton in Chilean inland waters, while the results of an ecological study offers data for understanding the distribution and abundance of those faunal elements in the area.

Bubble and Drop Interfaces | Books
Edited by R. Miller and L. Liggieri
ISBN: 978 90 04 17495 5
The book aims at describing the most important experimental methods for characterizing liquid interfaces, such as drop profile analysis, bubble pressure and drop volume tensiometry, capillary pressure technique, and oscillating drops and bubbles. Besides the details of experimental set ups,...

Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte | Books
ISBN: 978 90 04 18664 4
The Wortatlas der arabischen Dialekte / Word Atlas of Arabic Dialects (WAD) intends to provide an unprecedented survey of the lexical richness and diversity of the Arabic dialects as spoken from Uzbekistan to Mauretania and Nigeria, from Malta to Sudan,...

Behind the Crisis | Books
Guglielmo Carchedi
ISBN: 978 90 04 18994 2
Drawing on modern philosophy of science, epistemology, economics and sociology, this work retraces Marx’s original multi-disciplinary project and develops its foundations into a modern Marxist paradigm capable of understanding the present crisis and of challenging contemporary capitalism.

The Responsibility to Protect and International Law | Books
Alex J. Bellamy, Sara E. Davies and Luke Glanville
ISBN: 978 90 04 18869 3
Edited by Alex J. Bellamy, Sara E. Davies and Luke Glanville
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P) is a major new international principle, adopted unanimously in 2005 by Heads of State and Government. Whilst it is broadly acknowledged that that the principle has an important and intimate relationship with international law, especially...

Consular Affairs and Diplomacy | Books
ISBN: 978 90 04 18876 1
Edited by Jan Melissen and Ana Mar Fernández

To Break Our Chains | Books
Jerome Braun
ISBN: 978 90 04 19027 6
These essays are a distillation of Jerome Braun’s work in interdisciplinary social science, and especially sociology. Thus they exemplify pragmatic critical theory by dealing with culture and personality, cohesiveness and nihilism in modern societies, and the relation between community and...

A Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the John Rylands University Library at Manchester | Books
ISBN: 978 90 04 18669 9
Edited by Jan Schmidt

The Stranger at Hand | Books
András Kovács
ISBN: 978 90 04 19194 5
Analyzing the results of several sociological surveys in post-communist Hungary, this book offers insight into the nature and social background of one of the most disturbing phenomena in a newly established European democracy: antisemitism.

Politics and Resentment | Books
Edited by Lars Rensmann and Julius H. Schoeps
ISBN: 978 90 04 19046 7
Edited by Lars Rensmann and Julius H. Schoeps
Democratic polities continue to be faced with politics of resentment. The first comparative study of its kind, this book rigorously examines the contemporary relevance of antisemitism and counter-cosmopolitan resentments in the European Union and beyond.

Bibliographia Karaitica | Books
Barry Walfish and Mikhail Kizilov
ISBN: 978 90 04 18927 0
This is the first comprehensive bibliography on the Karaites and Karaism. Including over 8000 items in twenty languages, this bibliography, with its extensive annotations, thoroughly documents the present state of Karaite Studies and provides a solid foundation for future research.

Pentecostal Power | Books
Edited by Calvin L. Smith
ISBN: 978 90 04 19249 2
Edited by Calvin Smith

Studies on Malacostraca: Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis Memorial Volume | Books
Edited by Charles Fransen, Sammy de Grave and Peter Ng.
ISBN: 978 90 04 17429 0
This volume is devoted to the memory of Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis who dedicated his life to the study of Crustacea. Included are over 50 papers written by his friends and colleagues mainly dealing with crustacean taxonomy and systematics.

An Ethnography of Fragrance | Books
Dinah Jung
ISBN: 978 90 04 18725 2
Based on short ethnographic reports, this book offers a comprehensive and intertwined introduction to the history and culture of Islam on the western edge of the Indian Ocean Rim, and of the art of perfumery there and in general.

The Formation of the Sudanese Mahdist State | Books
Kim Searcy, Loyola University, Chicago
ISBN: 978 90 04 18599 9
This book is the first analysis of the Sudanese Mahdiyya from a socio-political perspective that treats how relationships of authority were enunciated through symbol and ceremony. The book focuses on how the Mahdi and his second-in-command and ultimate successor, the...

The New International Law | Books
Edited by Marius Emberland and Christoffer C. Eriksen
ISBN: 978 90 04 18198 4
Edited by Marius Emberland and Christoffer C. Eriksen
This volume contains revised versions of a select number of research papers presented at a conference in Oslo, Norway, entitled “Th e New International Law”.The conference was subtitled “Polycentric Decision-making Structures and Fragmented Spheres of Law: What Implications for the...

The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah | Books
Edited by Steven Fine
ISBN: 978 90 04 19253 9
Edited by Steven Fine
The Temple of Jerusalem: From Moses to the Messiah brings together an interdisciplinary and broad-ranging international community of scholars to discuss aspects of the history and continued life of the Jerusalem Temple in western culture, from biblical times to the...

Mothers and Daughters in Arab Women's Literature | Books
Dalya Abudi
ISBN: 978 90 04 18114 4
This study explores the mother-daughter relationship as the most fundamental and most intimate female relationship. It draws on both early and contemporary writings of Arab women to illuminate the traditional and evolving nature of mother-daughter relationships in Arab families and...

Histories of the Middle East | Books
edited by Roxani Eleni Margariti, Emory University, Adam Sabra, University of Georgia and Petra M. Sijpesteijn, Leiden University
ISBN: 978 90 04 18427 5
Edited by Margariti Roxani, Adam Sabra and Petra Sijpesteijn
Dedicated to their teacher, Abraham L. Udovitch, his students offer in this volume a chronologically, geographically and thematically wide range of papers united by an emphasis on a close reading of primary sources and the juxtaposition of different genres of...

Mongol Rule in Seljuk Anatolia | Books
Sara Nur Yıldız
ISBN: 978 90 04 17433 7
Informed by the question of how Mongol rule transformed thirteenth-century Seljuk political culture, the volume explores the constantly evolving structures of both the Mongol Ilkhanate based in Iran and its client state, the Seljuk sultanate of Anatolia. Writing outside the...

The Gordion Wooden Objects, Volume 1 The Furniture from Tumulus MM | Books
Elizabeth Simpson
ISBN: 978 90 04 16539 7
Volume I of The Gordion Wooden Objects is a study of fifteen pieces of furniture from the largest tomb at Gordion (Tumulus MM), Turkey. These spectacular works date to the eighth century BC and are among the most important wooden...

A Greek and Arabic Lexicon, Fascicle 9, bdn - brhn | Books
edited by Gerhard Endress and Dimitri Gutas
ISBN: 978 90 04 16527 4
Edited by Gerhard Endress and Dimitri Gutas
From the eighth to the tenth century A.D., Greek scientific and philosophical works were translated wholesale into Arabic. A Greek and Arabic Lexicon is the first systematic attempt to present in an analytical, rationalized way our knowledge of the vocabulary...

Sankara's Multivocality and Secret Teaching | Books
Yohanan Grinshpon
ISBN: 978 90 04 18926 3
This book offers a new perception and reading of one of the most well-known documents of Indian philosophy and theology, Sankara's Brahmasutrabhasya. the author's presentation of the self as a subject free of any trace of (disturbungly real) objectivity recieves...

Narratives of Tampering in the Earliest Commentaries on the Qur’ān | Books
Gordon Nickel
ISBN: 978 90 04 19238 6
Shedding light on a theme which affects Muslim-Christian conversation to the present day, this book describes the earliest extant interpretations of the Qur'ān's 'tampering' verses which have been used to support the Muslim accusation of the corruption of pre-Qur'ānic scriptures.

Is Israel One? (paperback) | Books
Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yochanan Peres
ISBN: 978 90 04 19400 7
This book delves into Israeli society—an emblematic example of multiculturalism—where internal divides emerge from value systems relating contrastingly to religion, in a context of globalization, immigrant–society behavior, and a deep majority–minority division.Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2006

From Binational Society to Jewish State (paperback) | Books
Yosef Gorny
ISBN: 978 90 04 19401 4
This book explores the federal ideas in the Zionist political thought in two different periods: the British mandate (1920-1948), and the years 1967-1992 in the State of Israel. The central issue in this research is to show the search for...

Identities in an Era of Globalization and Multiculturalism (paperback) | Books
Edited by Judit Bokser Liwerant, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yossi Gorny, and Raanan Rein
ISBN: 978 90 04 19402 1
Edited by Judit Bokser Liwerant, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Yosef Gorny and Raanan Rein
This volume offers a multidimensional and interdisciplinary exploration of contemporary Jewish identities amidst globalization processes, with special emphasis on Latin American socio-political, communal, and cultural milieu. Stretching from political science to sociology, from art to cultural studies, it provides systematic...

Asceticism, Eschatology, Opposition to Philosophy | Books
ISBN: 978 90 04 19134 1

The Arabic Translation and Commentary of Yefet ben ʿEli on the Abraham Narratives (Genesis 11:10–25:18) | Books
ISBN: 978 90 04 19131 0

Death Defied | Books
Luuc Kooijmans. Translated by Diane Webb
ISBN: 978 90 04 18784 9
Until well into the nineteenth century, Frederik Ruysch enjoyed international fame as an anatomist. He owed his renown to a preparation method that greatly aided early-modern scientists in their exploration of the human body and transformed dissection from a messy...

Critical Reflections on Religion and Media in Contemporary Bali | Books
by Richard Fox
ISBN: 978 90 04 17649 2
Drawing on ethnographic and archival research conducted on the Indonesian island of Bali, this book demonstrates that more nuanced attention to problems of media will have serious implications for how we think about the study of religions, past and present.

Humanitarian Intervention and Changing Labor Relations | Books
Edited by Marcel van der Linden, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
ISBN: 978 90 04 18853 2
The sixteen essays in this collection discuss the direct and indirect impact of the British Act for the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1807) on labor relations in the Americas, Africa and South East Asia.

Reading the Fifth Veda | Books
Edited by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee
ISBN: 978 90 04 18566 1
Bringing together Hiltebeitel's major essays on the the Mahābhārata, the Rāmāyaṇa, and the south Indian cults of Draupadī and Kūttāṇṭavar along with new articles written especially for this collection, this two volume work offers a comprehensive re-reading of the Indian...

When the Goddess was a Woman | Books
Edited by Vishwa Adluri and Joydeep Bagchee
ISBN: 978 90 04 19380 2
Bringing together Hiltebeitel's major essays on the the Mahābhārata, the Rāmāyaṇa, and the south Indian cults of Draupadī and Kūttāṇṭavar along with new articles written especially for this collection, this two volume work offers a comprehensive re-reading of the Indian...

Multi-verb Constructions | Books
Edited by Alexandra Y. Aikhenvald and Pieter C. Muysken
with the assistance of Joshua Birchall
ISBN: 978 90 04 19452 6
Edited by Alexandra Aikhenvald and Pieter Muysken
This book surveys multi-verb constructions in multiple languages from the Americas, showing a very rich tapestry of typologically unusual constructions, including serial verbs, auxiliaries, co-verbs, phasal verbs. Where possible, a diachronic perspectrive is offered.

The Buddhist Caves at Aurangabad: Transformations in Art and Religion | Books
Pia Brancaccio
ISBN: 978 90 04 18525 8
Drawing on a large corpus of cross-disciplinary evidence, this book sheds light on the life of the Aurangabad caves and offers new interpretations on the development of Buddhist art and practice in the region, from the diffusion of early rock-cut...

Etzioni’s Critical Functionalism | Books
David Sciulli, Texas A&M University
ISBN: 978 90 04 19043 6
Written for social theorists and general readers (including undergraduates), David Sciulli's book is the first to explain not only how but also why Amitai Etzioni’s publications evolved from his dissertation to Active Society and Socio-Economics to Communitarianism.

The Uniqueness of Western Civilization | Books
Ricardo Duchesne
ISBN: 978 90 04 19248 5
After challenging the multicultural effort to “provincialize” the history of Western civilization, this book argues that the roots of the West’s exceptional creativity should be traced back to the uniquely aristocratic warlike culture of Indo-European speakers.

Shan'ge, the 'Mountain Songs' | Books
Ōki Yasushi and Paolo Santangelo
ISBN: 978 90 04 18900 3

Neoliberalism’s Fractured Showcase | Books
Edited by Ximena de la Barra
ISBN: 978 90 04 18895 2
This collection focuses on the multiple consequences of neoliberal policies in Chile and places its 'showcase' status and its re-democratization process into serious question. The volume argues that breaking the status quo is possible, urgent and necessary.

Dokdo | Books
Edited by Seokwoo Lee and Hee Eun Lee
ISBN: 978 90 04 19338 3
Edited by Seokwoo Lee and Hee Eun Lee
Utilizing perspectives from international law, international relations, and history, this volume provides a balanced perspective on territorial disputes in Northeast Asia highlighting the issue of Dokdo which is disputed between Korea and Japan.

Meditatio – Refashioning the Self | Books
edited by Karl Enenkel & Walter Melion
ISBN: 978 90 04 19243 0
The late medieval and early modern period is a particularily interesting chapter in the development of meditation and self-reflection. The volume aims at examining its forms, functions and strategies, from a variety of disciplines, including literary criticism, art history, history...

Between Caravan and Sultan: The Bayrouk of Southern Morocco | Books
Mohamed Hassan Mohamed
ISBN: 978 90 04 18379 7
This work presents a study of the history and identity of the Moroccan Bayrouk family. The first part of the book gives an outline of the main referents in both the Bayrouk vision of ‘self’, and academic discourses on Maghribian...

Between Scylla and Charybdis | Books
Shlomo Simonsohn
ISBN: 978 90 04 19245 4
The history of the Jews in Sicily covers a period of over a thousand years, from Antiquity to the Expulsion, based on some 40,000 archival records, most of them hitherto unpublished. It illustrates the political, legal, economic, social and religious...

International Maritime Boundaries | Reference Works
Edited by David A. Colson and Robert W. Smith
ISBN: 978 90 04 19288 1
Edited by David A. Colson and Robert W. Smith
Prepared by regional experts, Volume VI provides critical commentary on international maritime boundary agreements concluded since the previous volume, and includes two scholarly essays on this subject. The International Maritime Boundaries series is the foremost authority on maritime boundaries reference...

Knowledge and Text Production in an Age of Print: China, 900-1400 | Books
Edited by Lucille Chia and Hilde De Weerdt
ISBN: 978 90 04 19228 7
The essays in this volume seek to flesh out the diversity of Chinese textual production during the period spanning the tenth and fourteenth centuries when printing became a widely used technology.

Himalayan Languages and Linguistics | Books
Edited by Mark Turin and Bettina Zeisler
ISBN: 978 90 04 19448 9
Himalayan Languages and Linguistics is an edited collection of new and unpublished primary research findings, some fresh from the field and others derived from comparative textual material, on the Tibeto-Burman, Indo-Aryan and Austroasiatic languages of this important and underdocumented mountainous...

New Frontiers in Crustacean Biology | Books
Edited by Akira Asakura
ISBN: 978 90 04 17425 2
This work contains the Proceedings of The Crustacean Society Summer Meeting in Tokyo, Japan, in 2009, organized by Carcinological Society of Japan and The Crustacean Society. The presentations by internationally leading carcinologists represent major reviews of all areas of crustacean...

International Labour Law Reports, Volume 29 | Books
Edited by Alan Gladstone
ISBN: 978 90 04 19319 2
Edited by Alan Gladstone
The International Labour Law Reports is a series of annual publications of labour law judgements by the highest courts in a number of jurisdictions. ILLR is intended primarily for the use of judges, labour law practitioners, industrial relations specialists and...

Fechner's legacy in Psychology: 150 years of Elementary Psychophysics | Books
Edited by J.A. Solomon
ISBN: 978 90 04 19220 1
Edited by Joshua A. Solomon
A compendium of modern psychophysics, in the spirit of the discipline's inventor, Gustav Fechner.

Brill's Companion to Callimachus | Reference Works
Edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Luigi Lehnus and Susan Stephens
ISBN: 978 90 04 15673 9
Edited by Benjamin Acosta-Hughes, Luigi Lehnus and Susan Stephens
This volume is the combined effort of over thirty scholars. They analyize Callimachus, the 3rd-century Alexandrian poet, from literary and technical perspectives, reception and influence. It is designed to facilitate the work of scholars and teachers in the classroom.

From Persia with Love | Books
Michael Wechsler
ISBN: 978 90 04 19133 4
The commentary on the book of Esther by Salmon b. Yeruḥam represents the oldest extant Karaite commentary on Esther and the second-oldest Jewish commentary on the book after that of Saadia Gaon, Salmon’s older contemporary. Salmon’s exegesis, while grounded in...

Medical Synonym Lists from Medieval Provence: Shem Tov ben Isaak of Tortosa: Sefer ha - Shimmush. Book 29 | Books
Gerrit Bos, Guido Mensching, Martina Hussein, and Frank Savelsberg
ISBN: 978 90 04 16764 3
This critical edition and lexicological analysis of the first of the two glossaries of Book 29 of Shem Tov ben Isaac's Sefer ha-Shimmush contains more than 700 entries and offfers an extensive overview of the formation of medieval medical terminology...

Political Autobiographies and Memoirs in Antiquity | Books
Edited by Gabriele Marasco
ISBN: 978 90 04 18299 8
Edited by Gabriele Marasco
Through the examination of political autobiographies and memoirs, some preserved in their entirety, others known only from fragments, this book offers a fascinating picture of the way characters who stand out in history saw and represented themselves and their own...

The Evolutionary History of Nematodes | Books
George O. Poinar Jr.
ISBN: 978 90 04 17521 1
Edited by David J. Hunt and Roland Perry
This book establishes a solid base in paleonematology with descriptions of 66 new fossil species and accounts of all previous fossil and subfossil nematodes from sedimentary deposits, coprolites, amber and mummies.

A Commentary on the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, Article 33: Protection from Narcotic and Psychotropic Substances | Books
Valentina Staelens
ISBN: 978 90 04 14732 4
This volume constitutes a commentary on Article 33 of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Religion Past and Present, Volume 10 | Reference Works
Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning, Bernd Janowski and Eberhard Jüngel
ISBN: 978 90 04 14694 5
Religion Past and Present (RPP) is a complete, updated English translation of the 4th edition of the definitive encyclopedia of religion worldwide. the peerless Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (RGG). Including the latest developments in research, Religion Past and Present...

Encyclopaedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles | Reference Works
Edited by Gale R. Owen-Crocker
ISBN: 978 90 04 12435 6
A richly illustrated volume presenting the latest research on pre-eleventh and post-eleventh-century dress, military dress and textiles. An interdisciplinary approach, combining art history and history of material culture.

The Fundamentals of International Human Rights Treaty Law | Books
Bertrand G. Ramcharan
ISBN: 978 90 04 17608 9
This book has a simple objective: to present the fundamentals of international human rights treaty law in a way that can be helpful to the national leader, official, or legal adviser whose duty it is to help put a human...

Philosophical and Cultural Theories of Music | Books
Edited by Eduardo de la Fuente and Peter Murphy
ISBN: 978 90 04 18434 3
Edited by Eduardo Fuente and Peter Murphy
This collection brings together philosophers, sociologists, musicologists and students of culture who theorize music through cultural practices as diverse as opera and classical music, jazz and pop, avant-garde and DIY musical cultures, music festivals and isolated listening through the iPod,...

Religion Past and Present, Volume 11 | Reference Works
Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning, Bernd Janowski and Eberhard Jüngel
ISBN: 978 90 04 16333 1
Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don Browning, Eberhard Jüngel and Bernd Janowski
Religion Past and Present (RPP) is a complete, updated English translation of the 4th edition of the definitive encyclopedia of religion worldwide. the peerless Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (RGG). Including the latest developments in research, Religion Past and Present...

Religion Past and Present, Volume 12 | Reference Works
Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning, Bernd Janowski and Eberhard Jüngel
ISBN: 978 90 04 16332 4
Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don Browning, Bernd Janowski and Eberhard Jüngel
Religion Past and Present (RPP) is a complete, updated English translation of the 4th edition of the definitive encyclopedia of religion worldwide. the peerless Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (RGG). Including the latest developments in research, Religion Past and Present...

Religion Past and Present, Volume 13 | Reference Works
Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning, Bernd Janowski and Eberhard Jüngel
ISBN: 978 90 04 17304 0
Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don Browning, Bernd Janowski and Eberhard Jüngel
Religion Past and Present (RPP) is a complete, updated English translation of the 4th edition of the definitive encyclopedia of religion worldwide. the peerless Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (RGG). Including the latest developments in research, Religion Past and Present...

Economic, Social and Cultural Rights | Reference Works
Edited by Asbjørn Eide, Catarina Krause and Allan Rosas
ISBN: 978 90 04 15310 3
The Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, adopted in the World Conference on Human Rights in June 1993, reaffirmed the indivisible and interdependent nature of all human rights. Yet the category of economic, social and cultural rights remains a subject...

Religion Past and Present, Volume 14 Index | Reference Works
Edited by Hans Dieter Betz, Don S. Browning, Bernd Janowski and Eberhard Jüngel
ISBN: 978 90 04 17305 7
Religion Past and Present (RPP) is a complete, updated English translation of the 4th edition of the definitive encyclopedia of religion worldwide. the peerless Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart (RGG). Including the latest developments in research, Religion Past and Present...

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