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Winner of The Polish Institute of Arts and Sciences of America's 2018 Oskar Halecki Award and Winner of the Early Slavic Studies Association 2016 Book Prize In "A Pearl of Powerful Learning", Paul W. Knoll provides a fully developed treatment of the institutional, social, and intellectual life of the University of Cracow, an important late medieval school.

In Doubt, Scholarship and Society in 17th Century Central Sudanic Africa Dorrit van Dalen places the 17th century Bornu scholar al-Wālī in the contemporary intellectual environment of global Islam and in his direct social environment, where the spread of Islam caused identities to shift.

Fifty years of modern research have yielded findings on some major research issues in SLA, including relationships between the L1 and L2, the learner and learning processes in interlanguage development, and the role of the linguistic and broader social environment.

In this volume, leading researchers in their fields present their reflections on Arabic, and more broadly Semitic languages, as well as their insights on those language systems and representations.

In Picaresque Fiction Today Luigi Gussago delineates the legacy and further development of the picaresque in a selection of novels by contemporary Italian and Anglophone writers along several thematic and stylistic lines.

Darko Suvin's 'X-Ray' of Socialist Yugoslavia offers an indispensable overview of a unique and often overlooked twentieth-century socialism.

Labor Conflict and Capitalist Hegemony in Argentina delves into the dynamics of labor conflict during Neoliberalism. How did workers react to market reforms and massive layoffs? This book aims at contributing to a new way of conceptualizing labor relations within Marxism.

Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aristophanes provides a substantive account of the reception of Aristophanes (c. 446-386 BC) from Antiquity to the present.

In The Revolting Body of Poetry, Scott Shinabargar explores both the potential and problematics of phonetic articulations in modern French poetry, focusing on the work of Baudelaire, Lautréamont, Césaire, and Char.

Adopting a pedagogically oriented pragmatic perspective, the volume illustrates and accounts for communicative practices across languages and cultures and in specific contexts, such as healthcare services, TV interpreting, film clips, TED talks, archaeology academic communication, student-teacher communication, and multilingual classrooms.

This series of essays offers new perspectives on the longer-term context and development of the Scottish Reformation, emphasising changes and continuities in religious life in early modern Scotland, and synthesising the fruits of the latest research in the field.

The Persistence of the Human explores literary and cinematic works dealing with personal identity and consciousness. Escobar examines works in which traumatic loss challenges identity and the question of "the human" arises concluding that narrative is essential for the self.

Politics and Aesthetics in European Baroque and Classicist Tragedy is a volume of essays investigating European tragedy in the seventeenth century, comparing Shakespeare, Vondel, Gryphius, Racine and other vernacular tragedians, as well as neo-Latin dramas by Jesuits and others, and with respect to politics, religion and law.

The volume contains editions of the extant parts of two hitherto unknown theological works by the Būyid vizier al-Ṣāḥib b. ʿAbbād (d. 385/925). The manuscripts on which the edition is based come from Cairo Geniza store rooms.

In her new book Art and the Brain: Plasticity, Embodiment and the Unclosed Circle, Amy Ione offers a profound assessment of our ever-evolving view of the biological brain as it pertains to embodied human experience.

This review essay provides an analytical review of the most important works on the evolving nature of the state-society relationship in China post-1949. The goal is to question the most important analyses rather than to provide a new theoretical framework.

Modernity, Minority, and the Public Sphere: Jews and Christians in the Middle East explores the many facets associated with the questions of modernity and minority in the context religious communities in the Middle East. Focusing on the Jewish and Christian communities of the Middle East and paying special attention to the concept of space and it's influences on inter-communal dialogues and identity construction this volume presents various examples of how religious communities were perceived and how they perceived themselves.

This book follows the renovation of European economic history towards a more unified interpretation of sources of growth and stagnation. It looks at Portuguese agricultural development across the second Millennium, showing a sector that was often adaptive and dynamic. Portugal's economic backwardness was not overcome at the end of the period, but that is now only part of the story.

In Detention of Non-State Actors engaged in Hostilities: The Future Law Rose and Oswald explore the armed forces' international legal obligations for management of detainees who are insurgents, saboteurs or terrorists in asymmetrical armed conflicts.

In The Accademia Pontaniana: A Model of a Humanist Network Shulamit Furstenberg-Levi explores the intellectual networks which developed around the fifteenth century humanist Pontano. She applies recent sociological theory to investigate links between the various Italian humanist circles.

The role of non-native species in their new environments is one of the central issues in conservation biology and ecology today. This book presents a comprehensive evolutionary exploration of the complex and dynamic interactions between introduced species and native ones, and shows that non-native species can bring useful and important contributions to novel ecosystems. Based on a wide variety of examples and case studies, a strong case is made for a more positive and objective approach to non-native species and a greater appreciation of the valuable ecosystem services they provide.

This book engages with the experience of space and time in youth cultures across the world. Putting together contemporary case studies on young cosmopolitans, young glocals and young protesters in cities on five continents, it analyzes new agoras in global cities.

The Stolen Bible analyses Southern African receptions of the Bible from its arrival in imperial Dutch ships in the mid-1600s through to the post-apartheid period of South African democracy, reflecting on how a tool of imperialism becomes an African icon.

In Hollow Men, Robin Baker provides a reappraisal of the Book of Judges account of Israel's Settlement of Canaan. Written under Assyrian suzerainty in Manasseh's reign, Judges is a theological commentary on the Settlement and an esoteric work of prophecy.

In Marie Darrieussecq ou voir le monde à neuf, Colette Trout offers the first study in French of the novelist's works, highlighting the innovative and transgressive nature of her writing that fearlessly deconstructs the clichés which paralyze our thinking.Dans Marie Darrieussecq ou voir le monde à neuf, Colette Trout offre la première étude en français des textes de l'écrivaine, soulignant les qualités novatrices et transgressives de son écriture qui déconstruit les clichés paralysant notre pensée.

English Topographies in Literature and Culture takes a spatial approach to the study of English culture, focussing on writing landscapes, London psychogeography, heritage discourses, urban planning and idiosyncratic spatial practices such as suburban gardening. Space thus emerges as both political and shaped by affect.

In Reduced Laughter: Seriocomic Features and their Functions in the Book of Kings, Helen Paynter uses a hermeneutic of carnivalization and mirroring to offer a radical, satirical re-evaluation of the Elijah-Elisha and Aram narratives in the book of Kings.

This anniversary supplement to the Archive for the Psychology of Religion (founded 1914) critically discusses history and state of affairs in the psychology of religion and its international infrastructure.