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Recognising the role science plays at a national level and identifying a state's national diplomatic style can help to construct a 'national style' in science diplomacy. Different national styles affect competition between major powers and their shared responsibil-ity for global problems.

What is the relationship between street art and the law? In this work, Andrea Baldini argues that street art has a constitutive relationship with the law. By subverting laws and norms regulating public spaces, street art is outlaw art.

Sufism East and West, edited by Jamal Malik and Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, investigates the redirection and dynamics of Sufism in the modern era, specifically from the perspective of cross-cultural exchange in the resonance spaces of "East" and "West."

This book will provide teachers, school administrators, policy makers, teacher trainers and educational researchers with an up-to-date information about and current trends in assessment theories, methods and application to facilitate informed-practices in educational settings.

Research As Transformative Learning For Sustainable Futures introduces next-generation multi-worldview research that empowers prospective educational leaders with a vision and voice for designing 21st century education that fosters the diverse cultural capital of their multicultural societies.

American efforts continue to help resolve intractable Israel-Palestine conflict. I. William Zartman, Amira Schiff, Galia Golan, Walid Salem, and Barry Steiner, seek here to enhance the American contribution to a two-state Israel-Palestine solution.

Timothy Doran examines both causes and consequences of the Spartiate population decline in the Classical and Hellenistic periods, surveying representative modern scholarship and offering new conclusions on this important phenomenon that crucially affected Greek interstate history.

Ori Z. Soltes considers the emerging and evolving discussion on and the expanding array of practitioners of 'Jewish art' in the past two hundred years--beginning with the issue of defining 'Judaism' and 'Jewish art.'

In Gardens of Love and the Limits of Morality in Early Netherlandish Art, Andrea Pearson demonstrates how garden imagery defined bodily desire as a fundamental problem of human salvation, in which artists, patrons, and viewers alike had an interpretive stake.

Byzantium in Dialogue with the Mediterranean. History and Heritage shows that throughout the centuries of its existence, Byzantium continuously communicated with other cultures and societies on the European continent, as well as North Africa and in the East.

Knowledge Mobilization in TESOL: Connecting Research and Practice showcases language teachers' experiences of utilizing academic research to improve classroom practice. Writing in the first person, the authors tell stories of research utilization that provide important implications for teachers' professional development.

Observing Writing shows how keystroke logging and handwriting logging provide windows onto the complex world of text production. This book contributes to the development of research questions, technical innovation, and user applications for writing observation tools.

The present volume offers the first critical edition, accompanied by an English translation, a commentary, and an introductory study, of Liber nativitatum (Book of Nativities) and Liber Abraham Iudei de nativitatibus (Book on Nativities by Abraham the Jew), two astrological treatises in Latin that were written by Abraham Ibn Ezra or attributed to him, and whose Hebrew source-text or archetype has not survived.

The 'Head' edited by Iwona Kraska-Szlenk offers cross-linguistic studies on the body part term 'head' investigated as a source domain in conceptualization. It focuses on the relationship between embodiment, cultural situatedness and universal tendencies of semantic change.

In A Stake in the Ground, Michael Schraer challenges the traditional view of medieval Jews as money-lenders and merchants, finding property trading and investment to be an essential part of their economic activities in the crown of Aragon.

This book offers an analysis of the theorization of sexual citizenship, case studies in law, the relationship between sexual citizenship and bio-politics, and the erotic dissidence of sexual outlaws.

In Paul and Scripture, numerous scholars explore the various ways in which Paul the Apostle weaves into his writings the authority, content, and even wording of Jewish Scriptures.

In Zhu Guangqian and Benedetto Croce on Aesthetic Thought, Mario Sabattini studies Croce's influence on the aesthetic thought of Zhu Guangqian and presents the translation of Zhu Guangqian's Wenyi xinlixue (Psychology of Art and Literature).

Alongside annals, chronicles were the main genre of historical writing in the Middle Ages. Their significance as sources for the study of medieval history and culture is today widely recognised not only by historians, but also by students of medieval literature and linguistics and by art historians. The series The Medieval Chronicle aims to provide a representative survey of the on-going research in the field of chronicle studies, illustrated by examples from specific chronicles from a wide variety of countries, periods and cultural backgrounds.

Winner of the 2020 Bainton Prize for Reference Works A Companion to Early Modern Rome, 1492-1692, edited by Pamela M. Jones, Barbara Wisch, and Simon Ditchfield, is a unique multidisciplinary study offering innovative analyses of a wide range of topics. The 30 chapters critique past and recent scholarship and identify new avenues for research.

Challenging Inclusive Education Policy and Practice in Africa explores notions of inclusion and inclusive education across a range of countries in Africa, from local and international perspectives.

The evidence-based Translational Design of Universities forensically researches hybrid - or blended - learning environments. Ten of the 14 Chapters are based on doctoral dissertations providing a rare insight into the effectiveness of HE learning spaces, both virtual and physical.

The evidence-based Translational Design of Universities forensically researches hybrid - or blended - learning environments. Ten of the 14 Chapters are based on doctoral dissertations providing a rare insight into the effectiveness of HE learning spaces, both virtual and physical.

In Petulant and Contrary: Approaches by the Permanent Five Members of the UN Security Council to the Concept of 'threat to the peace' under Article 39 of the UN Charter Tamsin Phillipa Paige conducts a critical discourse analysis of UN Security Council meetings in relations to 'threat to the peace'. She then synthesises these case studies to demonstrate how each member of the P5 defines the phrase.

In Climate Border Adjustments and WTO Law, Ulrike Will develops a convincing reform proposal for a climate border adjustment (BA) on imports within the EU Emission Trading System (ETS), which would be immune to disputes at the WTO and comply with international climate agreements while remaining economically feasible and straightforward to implement.

From Data to Evidence in English Language Research offers new insights into the ways in which developments in linguistic corpora and other digital data sources can be used to extend and re-evaluate research questions in English linguistics.

Science and Confucian Statecraft in East Asia explores science and technology in premodern East Asian government, questioning how the Confucian concern for legitimate and efficient state governance shaped the practices of science and technology in premodern East Asia.