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Selfhood and Appearing explores how, as embodied subjects, we are in the very world that we consciously internalize. Employing the insights of Merleau-Ponty and Patočka, this volume examines how the intertwining of both senses of "being-in" (physical and conscious) constitutes our reality.

Beyond Grammaticalization and Discourse Markers offers a comprehensive account of the most promising new directions in the field of grammaticalization. From major theoretical issues to hardly addressed experimental questions, this volume explores new ways to expand - or challenge - current ideas on grammaticalization.

Garrod, Smith and the contributors of the volume envisage the longue durée poetics of an early modern genre. They interpret its poetics alongside its various epistemic agenda and make a case for the literary status of natural history.

The Varieties of Confucian Experience offers a number of ethnographic accounts of the popular Confucian revival taking place in China since the beginning of the 21st Century.

Marx and Critical Theory examines Marx's main philosophical, political and social theoretical ideas. Its purpose is twofold: making sense of the concepts and theses of Marx, and showing that they remain relevant for contemporary critical theory.

In Architecture and Asceticism Loosley Leeming explores the links between Syria and Georgia in late antiquity. The book takes an inter-disciplinary approach and examines the question from archaeological, art historical, historical, literary and theological viewpoints.

In Rome and the Indian Ocean Trade from Augustus to the Early Third Century CE Matthew Adam Cobb explores the development of commercial exchanges between the Mediterranean world and civilisations in East Africa, Southern Arabia and the India from the Augustan period to the early third century CE.

Jewish Languages in Historical Perspective examines key sociolinguistic themes relating to the spoken and written language varieties employed by Jews in the Diaspora from antiquity until the twenty-first century. It includes chapters on Aramaic, Judeo-Arabic, Jewish Berber, Judeo-Italian, Karaim, Ladino, and Yiddish.

This book comprises contributions from a distinguished group of international researchers who examine the historical development of "new women" and "good wife, wise mother," women's roles in socialist and transitional modernity and the transnational migration of both domestic and sex workers as well as wives.

An examination of the diverse roles exotic animals, both living species and depicted as motifs in art, played in the fashioning of the Medici's courtly identity.

In the 12th Dynasty the Egyptian state sent seafaring expeditions to the land of Punt from a harbor on the Red Sea. Excavations at Mersa/Wadi Gawasis have uncovered well preserved evidence of this harbor and the probable location of Punt.

In What Is Market manipulation? Dr. Andri Fannar BergÞórsson offers unique insight to and interpretation of the concept of market manipulation as described in the 2014 Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) from the European Union.

This collection of studies on Dreams, Memory and Imagination in Byzantium reveals the distinctive and important roles of memory, imagination and dreams in the Byzantine court, the proto-Orthodox church and broader society from Constantinople to Syria and beyond

Gal Ventura explores the ideological sources promoting maternal breast-feeding in modern Western society, through a survey of hundreds of artworks produced in France from the French Revolution to the beginning of the twentieth century.

Time and Transformation in Architecture, edited by Tuuli Lähdesmäki, explores architecture and the built environment by emphasizing in its theoretical discussions and empirical analysis the dimensions of time, temporality, and transformation--and their relation to human experiences, behavior, and practices.

In How High the Sky?, Thomas Gangale explores the oldest and most intractable controversy in space law: how far up does national airspace go, and where does the international environment of outer space begin?

In From Nicopolis to Mohács, Tamás Pálosfalvi offers an account of Ottoman-Hungarian warfare from its start in the late fourteenth century to the battle of Mohács in 1526.

Teaching Modernist Anglophone Literature features "make-it-new" classroom approaches to modernist authors with an emphasis on inspiring pedagogy grounded in educational theory and contemporary digital media. It includes innovative project ideas, assignments, and examples of student work.

This book presents Sufi poems from Brava (on Somalia's Benadir coast) in the town's vernacular (Chimiini). They allow insight into their authors' intellectual world and show how the common people of this East African port city lived and learned Islam.

The book, two text editions with translations, offers a lively picture of the Ottoman world in the early 1900s as witnessed by the German orientalist Karl Süssheim and the Young Turk officer İsma'il Hakkı Bey.

Jennifer Nevile provides new, fascinating and detailed information on the life of an early-seventeenth-century dance master. The handwritten notebook contains unique material which is reproduced in facsimile, together with transcriptions and translations.

Continental Philosophy and Theology illustrates the perceived tension between these fields: one is seemingly concerned with destroying normative, metaphysical order and the other with preserving religious identity in the face of secularism. He calls for a nondualistic theology concerned with complexity and comparative inquiry in order to realign their relationship.

The Rites Controversies in the Early Modern World is a collection of articles focusing on debates concerning the nature of "rites" raging in intellectual circles of Europe, Asia and America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

A team of 16 experts underline the binds and exchanges between different contexts and artistic techniques that copies established in the Renaissance, and how the history of taste is sophisticated and complex.

Ce livre offre une nouvelle lecture de la question de la maturation de la calligraphie et des arts du livre arabo-persan vers des formes et des statuts qui deviendront classiques à partir de la période ilkhanide et djalayiride.This book proposes a new reading of the question of the maturation of calligraphy and the arts of the book in Arabic and Persian towards forms and statuses that will become classical from the Ilkhanid and Djalayirid period.

Landscapes, Sources and Intellectual Projects of the West African Past outlines new directions in the historiography of West Africa. Its chapters explore new trends across regional and disciplinary fields with a focus on how political conjunctures influence source production and circulation.