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The Western Karaim Torah
(2021)
This volume offers the critical edition and an English translation of the oldest translation of the Pentateuch into Western Karaim copied in 1720 by Simcha ben Chananel (died 1723). The manuscript was compared against ...
Material and Digital Reconstruction of Fragmentary Dead Sea Scrolls
(2022)
Scholars working with ancient scrolls seek ways to extract maximum information from the multitude of fragments. Various methods were applied to that end on the Dead Sea Scrolls as well as on other ancient texts. The present ...
Free Will, Causality, and Neuroscience
(2019)
This book aims to show that recent developments in neuroscience permit a defense of free will. Through language, human beings can escape strict biological determinism. Readership: All interested in the philosophy of sciences, ...
Abenteuer in der Moderne
(2020)
Wer in der Moderne von Abenteuern erzählt, setzt sich dem Verdacht der Trivialität aus. Doch ein stillschweigender Verzicht aufs Abenteuer fällt auch kanonischen Autoren der Moderne schwer. Der Sammelband nimmt diese ...
Enough Already! A Socialist Feminist Response to the Re-emergence of Right Wing Populism and Fascism in Media
(2020)
This text analyses the rapid rise of global authoritarian populism and fascism and how these movements incorporate misogyny into their ideologies within and beyond social media. Readership: Readership includes those ...
Religions and Trade
(2013)
Religions and Trade carves new pathways into the world of religious dynamics. In this array of essays a number of international scholars investigate the ways in which eastern and western religions were formed and transformed ...
Schüler:innen mit Lernschwierigkeiten konstruieren Geschichte
(2025)
Jan-Christian Wilkening erforscht, wie Schüler:innen mit Lernschwierigkeiten gemeinschaftlich Geschichte konstruieren, indem einerseits das historische Denken jener Gruppe und andererseits angenommene konstituierende Aspekte ...
New Ancient Greek in a Neo-Latin World
(2023)
Did you know that many reputed Neo-Latin authors like Erasmus of Rotterdam also wrote in forms of Ancient Greek? Erasmus used this New Ancient Greek language to celebrate a royal return from Spain to Brussels, to honor ...
Vom politischen Anreiz zur liberalen Überzeugung
(2020)
Während Religionsgemeinschaften häufig zugeschrieben wird, inhärent demokratieaffin oder demokratiefeindlich zu sein, stehen sie tatsächlich in einer komplexen wechselseitigen Beziehung zu ihrer Gesellschaft. Ob eine ...
Women Judges in the Muslim World
(2017)
Women Judges in the Muslim World: A Comparative Study of Discourse and Practice offers a socio-legal account of public debates and judicial practices surrounding the performance of women as judges in eight Muslim-majority ...
Der Mann im Untergrund
(2022)
Die Arbeit konstituiert einen Männlichkeitstypus in der russischen Literatur der zweiten Hälfte des 19. Jahrhunderts und verfolgt dessen Entwicklung von mitleidserregenden, insektenartigen Figuren (Gogol´s »Der Mantel«, ...
Cultural and Political Imaginaries in Putin’s Russia
(2018)
The developments in Russian official symbolical, cultural and social policies as well as the contradictory trajectories of important cultural, social and intellectual trends in Russian society after the year 2000. Readership: ...
Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue
(2020)
In Enthymemes and Topoi in Dialogue, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. The account draws on the concepts of enthymemes and topoi, originating in Aristotelian ...
Buddhism in Central Asia I
(2020)
Buddhism in Central Asia (Part I): Patronage, Legitimation, Sacred Space, and Pilgrimage, 6-14th Centuries deals with the various strategies of legitimation and the establishment of sacred space and pilgrimage among both ...
From Capture to Sale
(2007)
Based on exceptionally rich private papers of Portuguese slave traders, this study provides unique insight into the diet, health and medical care of slaves during their journey from Africa to Peru in the early seventeenth ...
Confucian Role Ethics
(2016)
The essays collected in this volume establish Confucian role ethics as a term of art in the contemporary ethical discourse. The holistic philosophy presented here is grounded in the primacy of relationality and a narrative ...
Empires of the Sea
(2019)
Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume develops the category of maritime empire as a specific type of empire in both European and ‘non-western’ ...
An Invisible Thread
(2024)
In Toledo in 1529, a converso named Pedro de Cazalla declared that the connection between man and God was but a thread and that it should not be mediated by the Church. Hardly an isolated phenomenon, Cazalla’s inner ...
Practicing Biomedicine at the Albert Schweitzer Hospital 1913-1965
(2020)
Tizian Zumthurm uses the extraordinary hospital of an extraordinary man to produce novel insights into the ordinary practice of biomedicine in colonial Central Africa. His investigation of therapeutic routines in surgery, ...
How India Clothed the World
(2009)
Cloth has always been the most global of all traded commodities. It is an illuminating example of the circulation of goods, skills, knowledge and capital across wide geographic spaces. South Asia has been central to the ...
Translating Early Modern Science (Volume 51)
(2017)
Translating Early Modern Science explores the roles of translation and the practices of translators in early modern Europe. In a period when multiple European vernaculars challenged the hegemony long held by Latin as the ...
Sikh News in India, 1864-1924
(2024)
This handbook, divided into four volumes, presents the first English translations of newspaper articles about the Sikhs published in the weekly press reports for Punjab between 1864 and 1924. Covering press material from ...
Nagaoka
(2008)
This comprehensive account of the Nagaoka capital discusses the capital's construction and layout, and investigates the motivations behind the establishment and abrupt abandonment of Nagaoka within the context of Kanmu's ...
Coaching-Prozessforschung
(2018)
Das Buch bildet den State of the Art der aktuellen Coaching-Prozessforschung ab. Forscherinnen und Forscher unterschiedlicher Disziplinen – mehrheitlich auch erfolgreich praktizierende Coaches – präsentieren dazu ihre ...
Women and Crime in Post-Transitional South African Crime Fiction
(2020)
In this ground-breaking study, Sabine Binder analyses the complex ways in which female crime fictional victims, detectives and perpetrators in South African crime fiction resonate with widespread and persistent real crimes ...
Sozialgeschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
(2024)
This socio-historical study examines the changing conditions of scientific work and the transformation of professional collaborations in basic research, using the Max Planck Society as an example in the second half of the ...
Material Perspectives on Religion, Conflict, and Violence
(2022)
How do objects become contested in settings characterized by (violent) conflict? Why are some things contested by religious actors? How do religious actors mobilize things in conflict situations and how are conflict and ...
Regulation of Risk
(2022)
Regulation of Risk provides comprehensive insight into regulation of risk in transport, trade and environment. Contributions provide national, regional and international perspectives on pressing questions: How is risk ...
Economics and Mathematical Modeling in Health-Related Research
(2022)
The definition of a healthcare system evolves continuously, becoming broader and more complex with each rendering. Healthcare systems can consist of many different elements, including but not limited to: access to comprehensive ...
Enhancing the Value of Teacher Education Research
(2024)
This book invites us to critically reflect on the value of research in, on and for teacher education. It explores the nature and role of teacher education research and identifies ways to enhance its value for policy and ...
Das Werk im Werk
(2022)
Werke, die sowohl einzeln als auch simultan aufgeführt werden können, schaffen Möglichkeiten das „Werk“ neu zu denken. Denn die monologisch geschlossene Anlage des einzelnen Werks wird durch ein weiteres Werk geöffnet und ...
WTO Law and Trade Policy Reform for Low-Carbon Technology Diffusion
(2021)
In WTO Law and Trade Policy Reform for Low-Carbon Technology Diffusion, Zaker Ahmad puts a spotlight on the crucial importance of dismantling market barriers and offering incentives to improve clean technology access and ...
Design of a Worker Cooperatives Society
(2023)
What would an alternative to contemporary capitalism look like? In this book, Geert Reuten sets out a detailed design of a democratic society organised in worker cooperatives, followed by an equally detailed democratic ...
Lire l’Histoire générale des Antilles de J.-B. Du Tertre
(2021)
This book examines the historical ramiÿ cations of the concept of exoticism through a literary analysis of Histoire générale des Antilles written by the Dominican missionary Jean-Baptiste Du Tertre. The study gives a ...
Topographie des Reiches Gottes
(2020)
In der „Sammlung auserlesener Materien zum Bau des Reiches Gottes“ und ihren Fortsetzungsserien, eine der erfolgreichsten pietistischen Zeitschriften des 18. Jahrhunderts, wurden Nachrichten aus aller Welt publiziert, die ...
Humanity
(2016)
This volume investigates the development of the concepts and practices of “humanity” from the sixteenth century up to the present. By taking a comparative and interdisciplinary approach, the contributers focus on Europe ...
Controversial Poetry 1400–1625
(2020)
How to deal with conflicts? Poetry played a crucial role in dealing with religious and political conflicts from 1400 until 1625. All over Europe there was a lively debate. Controversial poetry presents historical controversies ...
Severus Pius Augustus
(2011)
The Roman Emperor Septimius Severus (193-211 A.D.) originated from the North-African town of Lepcis Magna. His reign is seen as a time in which profound changes within Roman society became evident resulting in many provincials ...
International Disinformation
(2024)
Dive into the world of disinformation with this groundbreaking book. Uncover how Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference (FIMI) shapes modern politics and society, and how it impacts your own life. Explore answers ...
Creating and Sharing Legal Knowledge in the Twelfth Century
(2022)
The Decretum Gratiani is the cornerstone of medieval canon law, and the manuscript St Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, 673 an essential witness to its evolution. The studies in this volume focus on that manuscript, providing ...
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, ...
Exile, Diplomacy and Texts
(2020)
Exile, Diplomacy and Texts offers an interdisciplinary narrative of religious, political, and diplomatic exchanges between early modern Iberia and the British Isles during a period uniquely marked by inconstant alliances ...
Social Psychology and the Ancient World
(2025)
Social Psychology and the Ancient World: Methods and Applications fosters an interdisciplinary dialogue between classics and social psychology. Classicists use modern social-psychological insights to interpret ancient ...
Von Cádiz nach London
(2010)
Die Internationalen Brigaden, die im Spanischen Bürgerkrieg gegen das von Hitler und Mussolini unterstützte Franco-Spanien kämpften, gelten bis heute als Vorkämpfer für Freiheit und Demokratie in Spanien und über die ...
Papusza / Bronisława Wajs. Tears of Blood
(2024)
Ratfale Jasfa (Romani: ‘Tears of Blood’) is a poem by the Romani poet Papusza (Bronisława Wajs) who survived the German occupation and the Second World War in Volhynia, currently Ukraine. It is also one of the earliest ...
Printing and Publishing Chinese Religion and Philosophy in the Dutch Republic, 1595–1700
(2022)
This book sheds new light on the cultural encounter between China and Europe, by discussing how Chinese religion and philosophy were represented in Dutch printed works between 1595-1700.; Readership: All interested in early ...
Regesten Kaiser Friedrichs III. (1440–1493)
(2025)
Der Band bietet Urkunden Kaiser Friedrichs III., die im Wiener Stadt- und Landesarchiv aus der Königszeit (1440–1451) überliefert sind. Die überwiegend an den Wiener Stadtrat gerichteten königlichen Schreiben fokussieren ...
Walking on the Pages of the Word of God
(2019)
In Walking on the Pages of the Word of God Aron Engberg explores the religious language and identities of Zionist evangelical volunteer workers in contemporary Jerusalem, and their stories about the religious self, the ...
Constructs of Meaning and Religious Transformation
(2013)
One of the major trends in the psychology of religion is the growing interest in religious and spiritual meaning making in relation to religious and spiritual transformation processes, notably as the aftermath of traumatic ...
'Incidental' Ethnographers
(2007)
This book introduces, from an anthropological standpoint, French Catholic missionary colonial ethnographic writing from the highlands of north Vietnam and Yunnan at the turn of the 20th century, and searches for the ...
Intra-European Litigation in Eighteenth-Century Izmir
(2021)
This book offers an account of how merchants litigated on the basis of mercantile custom as well as specific legal procedures, using an ensemble of cases brought before the Dutch consul in Izmir in the second half of the ...
Christianity and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Europe
(2016)
This collection explores how Christian individuals and institutions combined the topics of faith and national identity in twentieth-century Europe. “National identity” is understood in a broad sense that includes discourses ...
The Nursing Process as a Strategy for a (De-)Professionalization in Nursing
(2024)
The nursing process generally is understood as key element of professional nursing care in Germany. This study follows this argument back to the introduction of the nursing process in the 1970s and 1980s. At that time, the ...
Dionysos in Archaic Greece
(2006-01-01)
An interpretation of the god Dionysos as seen by Greek vase painters before the golden age of classical culture, which will help understand his wide popularity beyond wine consumption, which lasted until the end of antiquity.
The Interpretation and Application of the Most-Favored-Nation Clause in Investment Arbitration
(2022)
The open access publication of this book has been published with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. In The Interpretation and Application of the Most-Favored-Nation Clause in Investment Arbitration, Dr. ...
Beauvoir in Time
(2020)
Beauvoir in Time situates Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex in the historical context of its writing and in later contexts of its international reception, from then till now. The book takes up three aspects of Beauvoir's ...
Saved from Desert Sands
(2024)
Saved from Desert Sands, edited by Kelsey Granger and Imre Galambos, unites historians, codicologists, art historians, archaeologists, and curators in the study of material culture on the Silk Roads. The re-discovery of ...
The Rights of the Child
(2023)
How can human rights for children born outside their national jurisdiction with parents deemed as terrorists be safeguarded? In what ways do children risk being discriminated in their welfare rights in Sweden when treated ...
Visions of Justice
(2016)
In Visions of Justice Paolo Sartori surveys the role of Russian colonialism in affecting the way in which Muslims in Central Asia formulated their convictions about right and wrong and became exposed to different notions ...
The Islamic Council of Norway and the Challenge of Representing Islam in Europe
(2025)
Governments all across Europe have attempted to govern the Muslim population by working with representative Muslim councils. These councils, however, have often been plagued by conflicts and splits. Why? This book is the ...
The Origin and Early Development of the Zhou Changes
(2022)
The Zhou Changes, better known in the West as I Ching, is one of the masterpieces of world literature. This book, the climax of more than forty years of research in Chinese archaeology, explores the text’s origins in the ...
Protestant Bible Scholarship: Antisemitism, Philosemitism and Anti-Judaism
(2022)
Historical criticism of the Bible emerged in the context of protestant theology and is confronted in every aspect of its study with otherness: the Jewish people and their writings. However, despite some important exceptions, ...
Western Subanon Grammar
(2024)
Western Subanon Grammar is the first ever comprehensive description of Western Subanon, a highly endangered indigenous Austronesian minority language in the southern Philippines. Written by a native speaker and the result ...
The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Naga ed-Deir, Cemeteries N 2000 and N 2500
(2020)
The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Naga ed-Deir, Cemeteries N 2000 and N 2500 presents the results of excavations directed by George A. Reisner and led by Arthur C. Mace. The site of Naga ed-Deir, Egypt, is unusual for its ...
Haribhaktivilāsa of Sanātana Gosvāmin, Volume One
(2023)
Sanātana Gosvāmin’s Haribhaktivilāsa (ca. 1540) describes the normative ritual life of a Vaiṣṇava devotee. As it is one of the first Sanskrit texts of Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition begun by Śrī Kṛṣṇa Caitanya (1486–1533) it ...
Moralische Pluralität und ethische Bildung
(2024)
Moral education today faces the challenge of understanding different conceptions of morality. While religious education recently has dealt with various aspects of plurality, there has been little engagement with issues of ...
Kriegsverbrechen, Restitution, Prävention
(2019)
Der juristische Umgang mit Krieg und staatlicher Gewalt steht im Zentrum des Wirkens von Benjamin B. Ferencz. 1920 als Kind jüdischer Eltern in Siebenbürgen geboren, wanderte er mit ihnen wenig später in die Vereinigten ...
Authority and Control in the Countryside
(2018)
Authority and Control in the Countryside looks at the economic, religious, political and cultural instruments that local and regional powers in the late antique to early medieval Mediterranean and Near East used to manage ...
Key Classical Works on Islamic Ethics
(2024)
This book transcends the narrow philosophical concept of ethics confined to the Greek model, demonstrating that “Islamic ethics” is an interdisciplinary field. It encompasses both theoretical and practical ethics, incorporating ...
Die Erfindung der Bevölkerungspolitik
(2012)
Die Bevölkerungsgröße wurde erst im Laufe der Frühen Neuzeit zu einem Thema der Politik. Politische Theoretiker in Deutschland übernahmen um 1600 die in Italien entwickelte Vorstellung, der Staat müsse sich um die ...
The Making of Middle Indonesia
(2014)
What holds Indonesia together? In The Making of Middle Indonesia, Gerry van Klinken develops an innovative historical explanation that looks beyond national elites to middle classes in provincial towns. Readership: The ...
Working and Learning in Times of Uncertainty: Challenges to Adult, Professional and Vocational Education
(2015)
This book analyses the challenges of globalisation and uncertainty impacting on working and learning at individual, organisational and societal levels. Readership: Educational Researchers and their students
The Principle of Equality in Diverse States
(2021)
This book examines different approaches by which states characterised by federal or decentralized arrangements reconcile equality and autonomy. In case studies from four continents, leading experts analyse the challenges ...
“Hard Power” and the European Convention on Human Rights
(2020)
The European Convention on Human Rights is now crucial to decisions to be taken by the military and their political leaders in ‘hard power’ situations – that is, classical international and non-international armed conflict, ...
Involving Readers
(2024)
This volume explores how and by whom early modern Dutch Bibles were used. Through a detailed analysis of paratextual features and readers’ traces in over 180 surviving Bible copies, Renske Hoff shows how individuals ...
New Approaches to the Study of Esotericism
(2020)
This volume offers new approaches to some of the biggest persistent challenges in the study of esotericism and beyond. Commonly understood as a particularly “Western” undertaking consisting of religious, philosophical, and ...
Ancient Worlds in Digital Culture
(2016)
The volume presents a selection of research projects in Digital Humanities applied to the “Biblical Studies” in the widest sense and context. Taken as a whole, the volume restitutes the merging Digital Culture at the ...
Nicole Oresme, Questiones in Meteorologica de ultima lectura, recensio parisiensis
(2021)
Nicole Oresme was one of the most original and influential thinkers of the fourteenth century. He is best known for his mathematical discoveries, his economic theories, as well as his vernacular translations of cosmological ...
The Hajj and Europe in the Age of Empire
(2016)
The present volume focuses on the political perceptions of the Hajj, its global religious appeal to Muslims, and the European struggle for influence and supremacy in the Muslim world in the age of pre-colonial and colonial ...
Philo of Alexandria and Philosophical Discourse
(2024)
Greek authors likened “philosophical discourse” in the Hellenistic and Roman eras to an orchard. Logic, physics, and ethics served as the orchard walls, the trees, and the fruit of this enterprise. In a similar manner, ...
Die Zerstörung Dresdens 13. bis 15. Februar 1945
(2010)
Dieser Band enthält die zentralen Ergebnisse der »Dresdner Historikerkommission zur Ermittlung der Opferzahlen der Luftangriffe auf die Stadt Dresden am 13./14. Februar 1945«, die erstmalig sämtliche verfügbaren Quellen ...