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Memories that Lie a Little analyzes how Jewish life developed under Argentina's last military dictatorship (1976-1983), as well as the ways in which key players of the Jewish community remembered that experience in the years after the transition to democracy.

This volume explores some of the complex development challenges associated with the recent and rapid pace of urbanisation across Africa. The transition from a predominantly rural to urban population over the next decade may prompt new approaches and policy responses from the international development community.

Andrzejewski and Salwa analyse TV series from the point of view of philosophical aesthetics. As a result they focus on their serial character and claim that seriality has a normative character that is often overlooked by other disciplines.

In this book, the performance and the textual dimension of storytelling is investigated and expanded through a series of multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary studies that focus upon the materiality and the embodiment of the act of telling.

Comparatism is reflexive comparison. The regime of comparatism is the horizon of knowledge in which each individual comparison is received and judged. The aim of this book is to turn the comparative insight on itself and compare different comparative moments, exploring various frameworks of comparison in history, religion and anthropology.

In Decoding the Stars, Ileana Chinnici offers an account of the life of the Jesuit scientist Angelo Secchi (1818-1878) and his important contributions to the development of many sciences, paying special attention to his studies in early astrophysics.

A Haitian woman whose talent and intellect led to worldwide fame, Marie Vieux Chauvet, like many free-minded Caribbean women of the African diaspora, was banned from the public sphere. Theatre, Performance, and Global South Studies are the book's focus.

This review examines the literature on procedural justice and the fair trial over the past two decades in the People's Republic of China

In Carrying on the Tradition Davidson examines the evolution of the conception of hadith transmission following the emergence of the hadith canon, tracing the development of its institutions and practices from the tenth to the twentieth century.

In The Political Economy of Classical Athens - a Naval Perspective, Barry O'Halloran offers an account of the economic history of classical Athens in which its strategy of naval conquest provided the foundations for a period of unprecedented economic efflorescence.

In Scripture Re-envisioned Bogdan B. Bucur discusses the exegesis of biblical theophanies as an essential "ingredient" for the gradual crystallization of a distinct Christian exegesis, doctrine, liturgy, and spirituality during the first millennium CE.

Picturing America argues that photography is a prevalent practice of making places, determining how we situate ourselves in the world. As a prime site of knowledge and change, it enacts our perception as well as transformative conception of American environments.

In Srinagar Burushaski: A Descriptive and Comparative Account with Analyzed Texts Sadaf Munshi offers a comprehensive and comparative account of the structural features of a lesser-known variety of Burushaski spoken in Srinagar.

Astrolabes in Medieval Cultures brings together fifteen studies on the astrolabe in the Middle Ages. By considering sources and instruments from Muslim, Christian, and Jewish contexts, this volume provides state-of-the-art research on the history and use of the astrolabe.

This book collects the reflections developed during a seminar which took place at the Peace Palace (the Hague), about inter alia the acceptance of the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) as a prerequisite to dispute settlement - the so-called optional clause.

The Yearbook of Chinese Theology is an international, ecumenical and fully peer-reviewed series for Chinese theology in English. This special 2018 volume highlights the five-disciplines of Jingjiao theology.

'The Letters of Alciphron: A Unified Literary Work?' (Michèle Biraud and Arnaud Zucker editors) offer a dozen papers on an misknown author of the Second Sophistic, Alciphron, aiming to show the unity of his literary project.

This volume explores assumptions and frameworks concerning violence, nonviolence, war, conflict, and reconciliation, and considers what would be needed in order for people to see nonviolence as a viable approach to contemporary problems.

A reconsideration of the manifold interests of the central and controversial figure Pirro Ligorio, an ambiguous antagonist of the canon embodied by Michelangelo and one of the most fascinating and learned antiquarians in the entourage of Cardinal Alessandro Farnese.

In Political Theology and International Law, John D. Haskell offers an account of the intellectual debates surrounding political theology among international law scholars and argues that experts turn to a politics of truth.

Interesting, informative, exploratory, the book attempts to interrogate the emotion of revenge. Combining academic discourses with popular representations, it moves across cultures and countries like India, Germany, USA, Africa and Brazil.

In The Cult of Mithras in Late Antiquity David Walsh examines how and why the cult of Mithras vanished from the Roman Empire by the early 5th century C.E.

Current research claims loneliness is passively caused by external conditions: environmental, cultural, situational, and even chemical imbalances in the brain and hence avoidable. In this book, the author argues that loneliness is actively constituted by acts of reflexive self-consciousness (Kant) and transcendent intentionality (Husserl) and therefore unavoidable.

High Seas Governance: Gaps and Challenges discusses and presents solutions to identified gaps in the legal regime governing the high seas, including the protection of sensitive marine areas, marine pollution, conservation of marine living resources, and activities by non-state actors.

In "To Renew the Covenant" Religious Themes in Eighteenth-Century Quaker Abolitionism, Jon R. Kershner argues that antislavery Quakers believed they were part of a covenant with God, which motivated their desire to take a corporate position against slavery.

In This House is not a Home, Lisa Hellman offers the first study of European everyday life in Canton and Macao. Using the Swedish East India Company as a focus, she explores how domesticity was conditioned by the Chinese authorities.

The Pathogenesis of Fear gathers together diverse conversations about cultural constructions of the monstrous. Interdisciplinary essays map the margins of monstrosity as follows: the cannibalistic paradox in Kleist's late-Romantic Penthesilea; intersections of the monstrous-feminine and the new Victorian psycho-physiology of consciousness in George Eliot's early novels; the monster-formed citizens of Dickensian and later dystopias; the killing of African Americans targeted as monstrous entities in US cities; the post-human anguish of a television zombie-world; the monstrous mutilations of a Spanish horror film; psychosocial aberration in Martin Millar's werewolf fiction; the demonization of the Other on the war-torn streets of Ireland; Derridean devouring sovereignty. Discursively correlated with different categories of body and mind, monstrosity, these essays argue, persists in taking many forms. Contributors are Elizabeth Hollis Berry, Niculae Gheran, Sarah Harris, Fiona Harris-Ramsby and Mubarak Muhammad, Michaela Marková, Kimberley McMahon Coleman, Judith Rahn, Cindy Smith and Marita Vyrgioti.

Dans Clés pour La Disparition de Georges Perec: contrainte, fiction, texte, traduction, mémoire Hermes Salceda propose une lecture globale d'une des plus belles réussites du roman oulipien. In Clés pour La Disparition de Georges Perec: contrainte, fiction, texte, traduction, mémoire Hermes Salceda offers a global reading of one of the most beautiful successes of the oulipian novel.

A landmark in Lascasian scholarship: the work of seventeen scholars, contributions span the fields of history, Latin American studies, literary criticism, philosophy and theology.