Publications
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Media and Education
(2025)
In this volume, we explore critical questions about Norway's hidden history of racism and its implications today. Why has Norway largely overlooked its role in the transatlantic slave trade? How do media representations ...
Like Dust on the Silk Road
(2025)
"How did the Tocharians reach China?" "Who did they meet on the way?” are some of the most intriguing questions in Indo-European studies. This book is zooming in on a specific part of the question: on their way to China, ...
Eating Words, Food in Modern Arabic Literature
(2025)
How is food portrayed in Arabic novels? In literature, food is more than mere sustenance—it carries layered meanings. This multilingual collection brings together experts in Arabic literature to examine the complex ...
Syriac Theology: Past and Present
(2023)
This volume takes us back to the roots of Christianity and exemplifies the significance of Syriac Theology for our time. Bringing together articles by scholars from diverse disciplines, this volume aims at a deeper ...
Omani Mehri
(2018)
This book contains a comprehensive grammatical description of Mehri, an unwritten Semitic language spoken in the Dhofar region of Oman, along with a corpus of more than one hundred texts. Topics in phonology, all aspects ...
Franz Waxman: Zwischen Filmmusik und Konzertsaal
(2024)
This book examines musical careers in the 20th century, focusing on the Hollywood composer Franz Waxman (1906–1967). The perspective "between film music and the concert hall" illuminates both the composer's diverse ...
L'Académie de Lausanne entre Humanisme et Réforme (ca. 1537-1560)
(2011)
Based on a vast body of archival sources, this book examines the development and the operations of the Lausanne Academy, the first Protestant Academy of Higher Education created in a French-speaking territory, and an ...
Japan's Territory under International Law
(2024)
This volume sheds light on Japan's territorial situation from a unique perspective by analyzing the historical evolution of the concept of “territory” and the various legal theories on resolving territorial disputes. Each ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 18 (2012)
(2016)
The Yearbook aims to promote research, studies and writings in the field of international law in Asia, as well as to provide an intellectual platform for the discussion and dissemination of Asian views and practices on ...
Jade-Carving Chisel and Luminous Ocean
(2024)
Jao Tsung-i’s scholarship illuminated the development of classical Chinese literature from antiquity through the end of the Qing dynasty. In this volume, eight interviews with and essays by Jao are translated faithfully ...
Faith in African Lived Christianity
(2019)
Faith in African Lived Christianity brings together anthropology and theology in the study of how faith shapes the understanding of social life in Africa. It offers discussions on positionality, method, and political, ...
Implementing International Watercourses Law through the WEF Nexus and SDGs
(2020)
Implementing International Watercourses Law through the WEF Nexus and SDGs: An Integrated Approach Illustrated in the Zambezi River Basin offers an innovative approach to the governance of shared watercourses and the ...
Jung, weiblich, jüdisch – deutsch?
(2020)
Eine Liebeserklärung an Deutschland der jüdischen Autorin Lena Gorelik in ihrem semi-autobiografischen Text »Lieber Mischa« wirft die Frage auf, ob der Holocaust noch immer Ausgangspunkt und zentrales Merkmal des ...
The Skandapurāṇa III
(2013)
Skandapurāṇa III presents a critical edition of the Vindhyavāsinī Cycle (Adhyāyas 34.1-61, 53-69) from the Skandapurāṇa , with an introduction and annotated English synopsis.The work is currently only available in print ...
News in Early Modern Europe
(2014)
News in Early Modern Europe presents new research on the nature, production, and dissemination of a variety of forms of news writing from across Europe during the early modern period. Readership: Postgraduate and undergraduate ...
The Politics of Multifaith
(2024)
In this book, Ryszard Bobrowicz discusses why seemingly neutral rooms, multi-faith spaces, were subject to contestations from, and clashes between, their users, their managers, and those shaping policies concerning them. ...
Wirkung im Coaching
(2018)
In der heutigen Zeit ist Coaching weit verbreitet und wird in unterschiedlichen Situationen nachgefragt. Von beruflichen Veränderungen über Lebenskrisen bis hin zu Wohnortwechseln reichen die Anlässe, die Menschen im ...
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture
(2019)
Ancient Manuscripts in Digital Culture presents an overview of the digital turn in Ancient Jewish and Christian manuscripts visualisation, data mining and communication, edited by David Hamidović, Claire Clivaz and Sarah ...
Im Auftrag der Wahrheit
(2021)
What kind of arguments do 20th Century philosophers use to justify and legitimize their own discipline? By reconstructing the positioning established by the three prominent philosophical “paradigms” Phenomenology, Vienna ...
Architecture and Asceticism: Cultural interaction between Syria and Georgia in Late Antiquity
(2018)
In Architecture and Asceticism Loosley Leeming explores the links between Syria and Georgia in late antiquity. The book takes an inter-disciplinary approach and examines the question from archaeological, art historical, ...