Publications
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Among Digitized Manuscripts. Philology, Codicology, Paleography in a Digital World
(2019)
If you work with digital photos of manuscripts or archival materials, Among Digitized Manuscripts provides the conceptual and practical toolbox for you to create a state-of-the-art methodology and workflow. No previous ...
The Skandapurāṇa Volume IIb
(2014)
Skandapurāṇa IIb presents a critical edition of Adhyāyas 31-52 from the Skandapurāṇa, with an introduction and English synopsis. ; Readership: All interested in Sanskrit literature, Purana literature, early Saivism, Hindu ...
Travelling Chronicles: News and Newspapers from the Early Modern Period to the Eighteenth Century
(2018)
Travelling Chronicles presents fourteen episodes in the history of news and newspapers, from the early modern period to the eighteenth century, written by some of the leading scholars in the rapidly developing fields of ...
Buddhist Encounters and Identities Across East Asia
(2018)
Buddhist Encounters and Identities across East Asia offers a fascinating picture of the intricacies of regional and cross-regional networks and the complexity of Buddhist identities emerging across Asia.; Readership: All ...
The Role of International Administrative Law at International Organizations
(2020)
The Role of International Administrative Law at International Organizations, edited by Peter Quayle, is centred on the law of employment relations at international organizations, and divided into four parts. It examines ...
In praise of Prambanan; Dutch essays on the Loro Jonggrang temple complex
(1996)
In praise of Prambanan is devoted to the Hindu-Javanese temple complex of Candi Prambanan, also known by its locally more popular name of Candi Loro Jonggrang. The book has two parts. Part One is a general introduction to ...
Cracking Facebook
(2015)
This book presents a Facebook study on members of the Cusp Generation, or those born before the “great digital divide” of 1995. This delineation allows for a discussion on the possible socio-cultural implications of Facebook ...
Vagaries of Desire: A Collection of Philosophical Essays
(2019)
In Vagaries of Desire, Timo Airaksinen develops a new philosophical account of desire understood as mental state that focuses on a desirable possible world. Literary and philosophical themes, including sexuality, are ...
National Stereotyping, Identity Politics, European Crises (Volume 27)
(2021)
The articulation of collective identity by means of a stereotyped repertoire of exclusionary characterizations of Self and Other is one of the longest-standing literary traditions in Europe and as such has become part of ...
Philo of Alexandria
(2012)
This volume is a further continuation of the annotated bibliographies on the writings and thought of the Jewish exegete and philosopher Philo of Alexandria prepared by Roberto Radice and David Runia for the years 1937–1986 ...
Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance - Stories of Later Life from Petrarch to Montaigne
(2013)
Cynthia Skenazi explores in this book a shift in attitudes towards aging and provides a historical perspective on a crucial problem of our time. In Aging Gracefully in the Renaissance: Stories of Later Life from Petrarch ...
Etnografie van de Kaowerawédj (Centraal Nieuw-Guinea)
(1962)
Regional and national history
BITE: Recipes for Remarkable Research
(2014)
BITE: Recipes for remarkable research is an edited field book capturing the research, learning and experiences of an international network of scholars studying effective and creative research environments. The book ...
A Poetic History of the Oceans
(2022)
What is the ocean’s role in human and planetary history? How have writers, sailors, painters, scientists, historians, and philosophers from across time and space poetically envisioned the oceans and depicted human entanglements ...
Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia
(2015)
This title is available online in its entirety in Open Access. In Environment, Trade and Society in Southeast Asia: A Longue Dur
Worship, Ritual, and Pentecostal Spirituality-as-Theology
(2024)
Vibrant worship music is part of the Charismatic liturgy all around the world, and has become in many ways the hallmark of Pentecostal-Charismatic Christianity. Despite its centrality, scholarly interest in the theological ...
A King and a Fool?
(2019)
In A King and a Fool? The Succession Narrative as a Satire Virginia Miller argues that the genre of the Succession Narrative is a satire. Accordingly, this narrative is pejoratively critical of King David. ; Readership: ...
Women Judges in the Muslim World
(2020)
Women Judges in the Muslim World: A Comparative Study of Discourse and Practice fills a gap in academic scholarship by examining public debates and judicial practices surrounding the performance of women as judges in eight ...
Stateless Citizenship
(2013-01-06)
Far from integration into the Israeli incorporation regime, Palestinians inside the state are today placed in a paradoxical situation where, as Arab citizens of a Jewish state, they are both inside and outside, host and ...
Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination
(2018)
In Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Discrimination Holning Lau offers an incisive review of the conceptual questions that arise as legal systems around the world grapple with whether and how to protect people against ...