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In the Name of Friendship: Deguy, Derrida and "Salut" explores the friendship between poetry and philosophy in the works of Michel Deguy and Jacques Derrida, and the cultural, political and religious implications of the name understood as a secular form of sacredness.

The 1624 Tumult of Mexico in Perspective proves that, despite the various conflicts underlying the disturbances in New Spain between circa 1620 and 1650, there was no intention to do away with the authority of the king.

"Arise Ye Wretched of the Earth" provides a fresh account of the International Working Men's Association. Founded in London in 1864, the First International gathered trade unions, associations, co-operatives, and individual workers across Europe and the Americas.

The English province of the Franciscans (1224-c.1350) provides a series of stimulating studies by an international team of scholars, who consider the rich diversity of the friars' ministry in England, especially their impact upon the local Church, society and the universities.

In Secular Grace Dana Freibach-Heifetz addresses the crisis of modernity, proposing an ethic of love based on a new philosophical concept of "secular grace" as intersubjective relations.

Ai Kihara-Hunt's Holding UNPOL to Account: Individual Criminal Accountability of United Nations Police Personnel analyzes whether mechanisms that address criminal accountability of United Nations police personnel serving in Peace Operations are effective, and if there is a problem, how it can be mitigated.

This volume provides the first collection of studies devoted to the binomial dār al-islām / dār al-ḥarb, offering new perspectives on this underexplored issue through the analysis of a wide range of contexts and sources, from medieval to modern times.

En présentant une perspective sud-orientale et matrifocale sur le Kaabu (16e - 19e siècle), Les mémoires de Maalaŋ Galisa, éditées et commentées par Cornelia Giesing et Denis Creissels, complètent d'autres versions 'patriarcales' orientées sur le modèle de l'épopée de Sunjata.The Mémoires of Maalaŋ Galisa, edited and commented by Cornelia Giesing et Denis Creissels, offer a south-eastern and often matrifocal viewpoint on the state of Kaabu (16th - 19th centuries A.D.) as a counterpart to other versions moulded after the Sunjata Epic.

In Le clair-obscur ' extrême contemporain ' Pierre Bergounioux, Pierre Michon, Patrick Modiano et Pascal Quignard, Julia Holter proposes that a chiaroscuro aesthetic and mode of thought underlie and unite the work of four well-known contemporary French writers, studied together for the first time.Dans Le clair-obscur ' extrême contemporain ' Pierre Bergounioux, Pierre Michon, Patrick Modiano et Pascal Quignard, Julia Holter montre comment la notion de clair-obscur sous-tend la pensée et l'esthétique de quatre écrivains français extrême-contemporains rassemblés pour la première fois.

Written by leading experts in EAC and EU law, including the President of the EACJ, East African Community Law is the first comprehensive and open-access text book on EAC law which also provides a systemic comparison with the EU.

This book is devoted to the Old Rus' dress of the Upper Volga region, as gleaned from the archaeological evidence of the burial sites from the late 10th century to the 13th century.

In Mulieres suadentes - Persuasive Women, Martin Homza offers a new perspective on the origin of East Central and Eastern European dynastic ideology from the 10th century focusing on female ruler hagiography.

Promoting Equity, Cooperation and Innovation in the Fields of Transboundary Waters and Natural Resources Management offers publications and essays by colleagues around the world on the prolific work and scientific contribution of Dr David J.H. Phillips, giving insight into a remarkable and ingenious scientist who lived life to the utmost.

The Ideal Ruler in Medieval Bohemia discusses the development of medieval concepts and ideas about just and unjust rulership in medieval Bohemia. This theme is examined in the context of the European political thinking between 6th and 14th centuries.

This festschrift in Richard Kaeuper's honor brings together scholars from across disciplines to engage with three salient concerns of medieval society - knightly prowess and violence, lay and religious piety, and public order and government - from a variety of perspectives.

Time and the Ancestors: Aztec and Mixtec Ritual Art combines iconographical analysis with archaeological, historical and ethnographic studies and offers new interpretations of enigmatic masterpieces from ancient Mexico, focusing specifically on the symbols and values of the religious heritage of indigenous peoples.

Diplomacy is no longer restricted to a single vocation nor implemented exclusively through interaction amongst official representatives. The pluralization of diplomatic actors, the expanded diplomatic space and the internsified pace of global interconnections have transformed diplomacy into a transprofessional exercise.

In this volume, Peter Malik offers an integrative analysis of the palaeography, codicology, scribal habits, and text of the earliest extensive manuscript of the Book of Revelation.

Trading and securitizing debts should be permitted in Islamic law, with one condition, that the debt should be considered low risk. This new rule, the permissibility of trading debts, is supported by three Islamic legal bases, istishab, qiyas, and maslaha, which are recognized by all four Islamic schools of legal thought.

Phenomenology, Architecture and the Built World is an introduction to phenomenological philosophy through an analysis of the phenomenon of the built world as an embodiment of human understanding. It aims to establish the value of phenomenological description in establishing the philosophical importance of architecture.

Comparing the 1999-2000 Australia/New Zealand case against Japan's experimental tuna fishing dismissed for lack of jurisdiction with the ICJ's 2014 judgment against Japan's scientific whaling, Andrew Serdy suggests the scientific flaws in experimental design were similar in both disputes and could have justified a similar outcome in the tuna case.

In War and Geopolitics in Interwar Manchuria Kwong Chi Man revisits the National Revolution of 1925-1928 by revealing the central importance of geopolitics in the civil wars in China during the interwar period.

While in exile in Gabon (1895-1902), Sheikh Ahmadu Bamba marked a historic moment with his poetry of resilience, pivotal to the cultural and religious transformation of the Murīds of Senegal. The qaṣāʾid (poems) included in this annotated edition reveal a unifying poetic purpose and exemplify Ṣūfī literary traditions in subject matter, form, and versification.

In Walter Chatton on Future Contingents, Jon Bornholdt presents the first full-length translation, commentary, and analysis of the various attempts by Chatton (14th century C.E.) to solve the ancient problem of the status and significance of statements about the future.

Playing with Leviathan explores the theological meaning of Leviathan and other monsters from the biblical world by studying their ancient Near Eastern background and their attestation in biblical texts, early and rabbinic Judaism, Christian theology, Early Modern art and film.

A Grammar of Nungon is the comprehensive reference grammar of Nungon, a previously-undescribed Papuan language of northeast Papua New Guinea. Hannah Sarvasy provides a rich description of the language in its cultural context, based on original immersion fieldwork.

The Problem of Disenchantment offers a comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to the intellectual history of science, religion, and "the occult" in the early 20th century.