Publications
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Bonobo Cognition and Behaviour
(2015-12-04)
This volume includes twelve novel empirical papers focusing on the behaviour and cognition of both captive and wild bonobos (''Pan paniscus'').
Overall it demonstrates how anyone interested in understanding humans or ...
Crime, Gender and Social Control in Early Modern Frankfurt am Main
(2019)
This book charts the gender differences in crime in early modern Frankfurt. It shows that women’s prosecuted crime patterns in Frankfurt were both similar and different to that of other European cities. ; Readership: All ...
A literary mirror; Balinese reflections on modernity and identity in the twentieth century
(2011)
A literary mirror; Balinese reflections on modernity and identity in the twentieth century
I Nyoman Darma Putra
A literary mirror is the first English-language work to comprehensively analyse Indonesian-language ...
Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor
(2021)
In Urban Rituals in Sacred Landscapes in Hellenistic Asia Minor, Christina G. Williamson examines the phenomenon of monumental sanctuaries in the countryside of Asia Minor that accompanied the second rise of the Greek ...
Early Makuria Research Project. El-Zuma Cemetery (3-vol. set)
(2021)
The three-volume publication of the results of archaeological excavations at the UNESCO heritage site of El-Zuma in Sudan, investigated by PCMA University of Warsaw and the National Corporation for Antiquities and Museums ...
A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of Central and Southern Sinai
(2011)
After publishing <i>A Grammar of the Bedouin Dialects of the Northern Sinai Littoral: Bridging the Linguistic Gap between the Eastern and Western Arab World </i> (Brill:2000), Rudolf de Jong completes his description of ...
Faith in Law, Law in Faith
(2024)
Across four decades, John Witte, Jr. has advanced the study of law and religion by retrieving religious sources of law, renewing timeless teachings of religion for today, and reengaging with the difficult issues confronting ...
The Matter of Mimesis
(2023)
Mimesis or imitation comes in many forms, from animal and plant mimicry to artistic copies ‘from life’. This book offers eighteen essays addressing mimesis from diverse perspectives. From the recreation of galaxies to Iron ...
Indigenous Research Methodologies in Sámi and Global Contexts
(2021)
This book addresses the conceptualization and practice of Indigenous research methodologies especially in Sámi and North European academic contexts. It examines the meaning of Sámi research and research methodologies, ...
Plato’s Timaeus
(2020)
Plato's 'Timaeus' brings together a number of studies from both leading Plato specialists and up-and-coming researchers from across Europe. The contributions cover a wide variety of topics, ranging from the literary form ...
Broadsheets
(2017)
A landmark study of single-sheet publishing during the first two centuries after the invention of printing. Long disregarded as ephemera or cheap print, broadsheets emerge as both a crucial communication medium and an ...
Shaping Medieval Markets
(2011)
The late Middle Ages witnessed the transformation of the county of Holland from a peripheral agrarian region to a highly commercialised and urbanised one. This book examines how the organisation of commodity markets ...
Crisis Narratives in International Law
(2021)
This volume offers a series of short and highly self-reflective essays by leading international lawyers on how global crises inform the functioning and theorizing of international law as well as how international law ...
History of the Opium Problem
(2012-01-04)
This is the first scholarly study in which the production, trade and political effects of opium and its derivatives are shown over many centuries, and in many countries (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, all Southeast Asian ...
Printing Spinoza
(2022)
In this descriptive bibliography Jeroen van de Ven examines all editions of Spinoza’s writings published between 1663 and 1694: his exposition of Descartes’s ‘Principles’ with the ‘Metaphysical Thoughts’, the ‘Theologica ...
Greek Medicine from Hippocrates to Galen
(2012)
This volume makes available in English translation a selection of Jacques Jouanna's papers on Greek and Roman medicine, ranging from the early beginnings of Greek medicine to late antiquity. Readership: Classicists, Ancient ...
Theatre and Its Other
(2022)
In Theatre and Its Other, Elisa Ganser revisits a telling debate on the intertwined natures of dance and dramatic acting; preserved in Abhinavagupta’s eleventh-century commentary on the Nāṭyaśāstra, it reflects complex ...
De garoeda en de ooievaar; Indonesië van kolonie tot nationale staat
(2010)
The second and updated edition of this new study of the genesis of the Indonesian national state is based on the notion that the birth of that nation grew out of not only the liberation movement but also from the Dutch ...
In Search of Middle Indonesia
(2014)
The middle classes of Indonesia
Marine Biodiversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction
(2021)
Marine Biodiversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ) identifies the major issues at stake in the BBNJ negotiations and examines the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity of areas beyond ...