Publications
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Irritating Experiments
(2005)
One of the great medical controversies of the Enlightenment was the European debate on motion, sensation, and animal experimentation provoked by Albrecht von Haller’s treatise on irritability and sensibility (1752). ...
Asian Yearbook of International Law, Volume 8 (1998-1999)
(2003)
The Asian Yearbook of International Law is a major refereed publication dedicated to international law issues as seen primarily from an Asian perspective. Readership: Academics and practitioners who deal with international ...
Property in Social Continuity
(1979)
This book deals with the property and inheritance system of the matrilineal Minangkabau of West Sumatra in the context of legal pluralism.
ARJUNAWIWĀHA
(2008)
The Arjunawiwāha is one of the best known of the Old Javanese classics. This volume presents a new text, based on Balinese manuscripts, with a complete translation, building on the work done by earlier writers. An introduction ...
Modes of Philology in Medieval South India
(2016)
In Modes of Philology in Medieval South India, Whitney Cox rethinks the textual practices of a diverse collection of scholars and poets writing in Sanskrit, Tamil, and Prakrit in far southern India between the 11th and the ...
Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age
(2012)
The Dutch seventeenth century, a ‘Golden Age’ ridden by intense ideological conflict, pioneered global trade, participatory politics and religious toleration. Its history is epitomized by the life and works of the brothers ...
Ceramics and the Spanish Conquest
(2011)
Focusing on the native ceramic technology of central Mexico during the early colonial period and the present-day, this book offers a refreshing view into the process of cultural continuity and change in the indigenous ...
The Sa'dan Toradja Chant for the Deceased
(1966)
Indonesia
'The House of the Priest'
(2022)
'The House of the Priest’ presents and discusses the hitherto unpublished and untranslated memoirs of Niqula Khoury, a senior member of the Orthodox Church and Arab nationalist in late Ottoman and British Mandate Palestine. ...
De systematiek der Javaanse pronomina
(1960)
Indonesia
Narratives at Play in Aeschylus
(2025)
The strong presence of embedded narratives in Aeschylus is often explained as a sign of the immaturity of the tragic genre in his time. Narratives at Play in Aeschylus analyses narrative features which were ostensibly ...
Time Distortions in Mind
(2015)
Time Distortions in Mind brings together current research on temporal processing in clinical populations to elucidate the interdependence between perturbations in timing and disturbances in the mind and brain. For the ...
Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation
(2019)
In Ibn Taymiyya on Reason and Revelation, Carl Sharif El-Tobgui offers a comprehensive analysis of Ibn Taymiyya’s ten-volume magnum opus, Darʾ taʿāruḍ al-ʿaql wa-l-naql, elucidating its author’s foundational reconstitution ...
Redefining the Standards in Attic, Koine, and Atticism
(2024)
Scholarship surrounding the standard varieties of Ancient Greek (Attic, the Koine, and Atticistic Greek) focused from its beginnings until relatively recently on determining fixed uniformities or differences between them. ...
The Impact of the Roman Empire on Landscapes
(2022)
This volume presents the results of the fourteenth workshop of the international network 'Impact of Empire'. It focuses on the ways in which Rome's dominance influenced, changed, and created landscapes, and in which ways ...
Sino-Iranian and Sino-Arabian Relations in Late Antiquity
(2024)
What type of exchanges occurred between West and East Asia in the first millennium CE? What sort of connections existed between Persia and China? What did the Chinese know of early Islam? This study offers an overview of ...
Academia in Crisis
(2019)
This book dissects current commercial, capitalist and fast cultures in universities. It argues that there is no turning back, nor marching on. Under the present regimes ruling universities, all that is left is reflection ...
Handbook of Megachurches
(2020)
This innovating edited volume provides a broad but detailed overview of a relatively recent significant development in church organisation, the megachurch. Its aim is to capture empirically and theoretically the megachurch ...
Dialectics of Spontaneity
(2015)
In Dialectics of Spontaneity, Zhiyi Yang examines the aesthetic and ethical theories of Su Shi, the primary poet, artist, and statesman of Northern Song. Readership: All interested in Chinese literature, aesthetics and ...