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The articles collected in Scholar and Kabbalist: The Life and Work of Gershom Scholem offer new and fresh insights into the life and work of Gershom Scholem, one of the most prominent German-Jewish intellectuals of the 20th century.

This volume is dedicated to the circulation of the book as a commodity in the Mamluk sultanate. It discusses the impact of princely patronage on the production of books, the formation and management of libraries in religious institutions, their size and their physical setting.

In A History of Water Engineering and Management in Yemen, Ingrid Hehmeyer describes the three-way relationship between water, land, and humans from ancient to medieval and premodern times. Eight case studies address technical and managerial struggles, failures, and successes.

Within the framework of globalization from below, this multi-disciplinary collection addresses important phenomena of social change across the African continent and in China that have resulted from intensifying interactions between Chinese and African social and economic actors since the early 2000s.

The book provides insights into spiritual healing practices and medical and theoretical research conducted by participants attending The Patient: Examining Realities: 5th Global Conference. The complex patient-doctor relationship is also discussed and literary and screened narratives are analysed.

This volume presents the description and critical examination of the Italian Lot of antiquities kept in the Egyptian Museum of Florence and originally found in the Tomb of the Priests of Amun at Deir el-Bahari (Thebes).

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 their rural hinterlands.

La pensée sérielle: du Moyen Age aux Lumières, ensemble d'études réunies par Anne-Marie De Gendt et Alicia C. Montoya, se propose d'étudier le phénomène discursif de la série, du Moyen Age à la première modernité. La pensée sérielle: du Moyen Age aux Lumières, a collection of essays edited by Anne-Marie De Gendt and Alicia C. Montoya, proposes to study the discursive phenomenon of the series, from the Middle Ages to early modernity.

In Franco-Maghrebi Artists of the 2000s: Transnational Narratives and Identities Ramona Mielusel offers an account of the Franco-Maghrebi artists' vision on national identity issues in France such as integration, secularism, segregation, and extremism in the 2000s.

In this book, William Brant inquires how violence is reduced. Social causes of violence are exposed. War, sexual domination, leadership, propagandizing and comedy are investigated. Legal systems are explored as reducers and implementers of violence and threats.

The chapters explore the possible development of a new scholarly synthesis for the study of religion, founded on the triadic space constituted by evolution, cognition, cultural and ecological environment. Chapters focus on either evolution, cognition, and/or the history of religion.

This book offers an account of exile in terms of the perspectives of morality, politics, literature, anthropology, and history. It also explores the moral implications of exile and how it connects to the meaning of life.

The monograph discusses the various challenges facing shared water resources in South Asia, and the response of most these countries, presented in their calls for water security. Consequently, negotiating new transboundary water treaties amongst South Asia's riparian countries has become a daunting task, and enforcing existing ones remains a real challenge.

Celebrating Suprematism focusses on Kazimir Malevich's abstraction. It examines the movement's relationship to the philosophical, scientific, aesthetic, and ideological ideas of the period, establishing a profound and nuanced appreciation of its place in twentieth-century visual and intellectual culture.

Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank examines the complex meanings encoded in images of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in eighteenth-century New Spain.

In this book the author examines the compliance of the European anti-cartel enforcement procedure with the presumption of innocence under Article 6(2) of the European Convention on Human Rights.

Religions and Education in Antiquity gathers ten essays on the nature of education in the contexts of ancient Western religions, including Judaism, early Christianity and Gnostic Christian traditions.

In Warrior Saints of the Silk Road, Jeff Eden introduces the rich literary heritage of Islamic Central Asia by presenting the first complete English translation of a beloved cycle of mystical legends from the region along with an accessible commentary.

Care Relations in Southeast Asia: The Family and Beyond, offers a better understanding of changes and continutity in intergenerational care relations and transactions within and beyond the family network across Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam with policy recommendations for the current and future challenges.

Tafsir as Mystical Experience by Todd Lawson, on a distinctive type of Quran commentary, is important for both the history of tafsir and Islamic mysticism.

Support for a radical politics and its form of political mobilization exists, but in the absence of a revolutionary leftist project, this support has in the past, and is currently, been transferred to the counter-revolutionary politics on offer from the other end of the ideological spectrum.

The fourteen essays in this work examine late antique lot divination in the Mediterranean world, employing the overlapping perspectives of religious studies, classics, anthropology, economics, and history.

Eris vs. Aemulatio examines the functioning and effect of competition in ancient society, in both its productive and destructive aspects.

This volume includes a special on the functions of money in the Recherche: its sociological, aesthetic, imaginary and affective functions; otherwise there are articles on Proust's Paris, on decorative arts in the Recherche and on the friendship Proust-De Flers. Ce volume comporte un dossier sur les dimensions de l'argent dans la Recherche: sociologique, esthétique, imaginaire et affective. Ensuite, des études sur le Paris proustien, sur les arts décoratifs dans la Recherche et sur l'amitié Proust-De Flers.

This volume is divided into: World and China Economy, Chinese Diplomacy, International Strategies. In an era when world order is undergoing reformations, it provides scholars in the English-speaking world with a window to understand the perspectives of the Chinese academia.