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Challenges of the Changing Arctic: Continental Shelf, Navigation, and Fisheries is part of a series of publications on oceans law and policy associated with the Center for Oceans Law and Policy, University of Virginia.

This is the first English-language conference volume on the Bible tradition in medieval Slavdom. It covers the translation of the canonical, apocryphal and pseudepigraphical books of the Old and New Testaments, and issues relating to the activity of Cyril and Methodius.

Le processus de création dans l'oeuvre de J.M.G. Le Clézio propose une étude des étapes du travail créateur dans les romans, essais et nouvelles de Le Clézio, prix Nobel de littérature 2008. Le processus de création dans l'oeuvre de J.M.G. Le Clézio is a study of the phases of the process of literary creation in the novels, essays and short stories of Le Clézio - 2008 Nobel laureate for literature.

This publication gives an in-depth analysis of a very important but complex case before the International Court of Justice. It deals with substantive and procedural aspects of the case, analysed extensively by eminent international lawyers and practitioners. The Whaling in Antarctic case is a landmark case in international law.Contributors: Malgosia Fitzmaurice and Dai Tamada (eds.); Caroline E. Foster; Shotaro Hamamoto; Theodore Christakis; Christian Tams; Mika Hayashi; Joji Morishita; Donald R. Rothwell; Hironobu Sakai; Anthony Press; Akiho Shibata; Yuri Takaya.

Landlines offers essays on literature (fiction, drama, and poetry) from Nigeria, South Africa, Botswana, Malawi, France, and Equatorial Guinea, along with creative writing and book reviews.

Augustine's Cyprian retraces the demise of Donatist Christianity in ancient North Africa. Set during the Roman Empire's collapse, this work accounts how Augustine of Hippo initiated one of the most prolific re-appropriations of authority in ancient Christianity: Cyprian of Carthage.

The Mongols' Middle East: Continuity and Transformation in Ilkhanid Iran offers a collection of academic articles that investigate different aspects of Mongol rule in 13th- and 14th-century Iran, with a particular focus in the Ilkhanate's interactions with its immediate neighbours in the Middle East.

Questions of survival and loss bedevil the study of early printed books. Many early publications are not particularly rare, but many have disappeared altogether. Here leading specialists in the field explore different strategies for recovering this lost world of print.

In Introduction to the Tsinghua Bamboo-Strip Manuscripts, Liu Guozhong explores the complexities of researching the Tsinghua strips, from the challenges that arise in their preservation, to the contribution they make for our understanding of Chinese history.

In The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast, Laurie Margot Ross situates masks and masked dance in the Cirebon region of Java (Indonesia) as an authentic expression of Islam by analyzing the objects themselves.

In Imperial-Time-Order, Qian offers an engagingly written critical study on a persistent historical way of thinking, centered on notions of time, morality, and empire, in modern China.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau écrivain polémique analyse le rôle, la force et le retentissement des conflits autour des oeuvres et de la personne de Jean-Jacques Rousseau. L'examen de ces querelles révèle un autre Rousseau: un écrivain polémique, auteur de différends.Jean-Jacques Rousseau écrivain polémique analyzes the ways in which Rousseau's career was constructed in a constant engagement with the practice of polemics and refutation in the fields of politics, religion, and philosophy.

In Tense and Text in Classical Arabic, Michal Marmorstein presents a discourse-oriented analysis of the indicative tense system in Classical Arabic. The study demonstrates the effect of the extended syntactic and textual context on the function of the verbal forms.

How is the relationship between literature, science and the arts informed by the process of narrating life, and how do literature, science and the arts affect and are affected by the emergence of a critical culture of biopolitics and its rhetorical figurations?

Dans L'Elaboration du mythe de soi, Solveig Hudhomme démontre comment les oeuvres de Samuel Beckett construisent leur propre intériorité, lieu d'images et de mythes créateurs. In L'Elaboration du mythe de soi Solveig Hudhomme highlights how Samuel Beckett's works build their own inner space, their own image and mythology.

In Debating Cognitive Existentialism the authors offer philosophical, cultural-theoretical, and sociological perspectives on the value of extending hermeneutic philosophy to the natural sciences. At stake is the universality of post-metaphysical hermeneutics.

Christians Shaping Identity explores different ways in which Christians constructed their own identity and that of the society around them to the 12th century C.E. It also illustrates how modern readings of that past continue to shape Christian identity.

Towards a Universal Justice? Putting International Courts and Jurisdictions into Perspective offers a comprehensive overview of legal issues concerning the role and interrelations of international courts and jurisdictions.

In Cultural Dynamics of Climate Change and the Environment in Northern America academics from various fields such as anthropology, art history, cultural studies, environmental science, history, political science, and sociology explore society-nature interactions in - culturally as well as ecologically - one of the most diverse regions of the world.

Lightning from the East uncovers the teachings and activities of Chinese Protestant-related new religious movements such as the Church of Almighty God, how Chinese authorities and Christians have responded to them, and how they fit with Chinese religion and global Christianity.

In Legal Practice in Eighteenth-Century Scotland John Finlay offers a comprehensive account of lawyers and their world in Enlightenment Scotland set within the wider European context.

Based on the discovery of an unknown Latin manuscript, Maria Petyt - A Carmelite Mystic in Wartime provides surprising new information about the seventeenth century Flemish mystic Maria Petyt (1623-1677) who wrote many letters to her spiritual director, Michael of St. Augustine.

A collection of essays in honour of Prof. Michael Holmes. The volume is arranged in two parts focusing on textual criticism and the Apostolic Fathers respectively.

In "The Making of Europe" Essays in Honour of Robert Bartlett, a group of distinguished contributors analyse processes of conquest, colonization and cultural change in Europe in the tenth to fourteenth centuries.

Winner of The 2018 Saidi-Sirjani Book Award The Western Christian Presence in the Russias and Qājār Persia, c.1760-c.1870 recalls two long neglected European and North American missionary ventures in the Caucasus and Imperial Persia. It investigates the activities of Protestant and Catholic missionaries and provides valuable insights on the social and political backdrop of their experiences.

This book traces the ways Berlin has been narrated across three centuries by some 100 authors. It presents a composite landscape not only of the German capital, but of shifting subtexts in American society.

The third volume of the Manasseh Hill Country Survey presents the results of a detailed archaeological survey of north-western Samaria. It is a valuable tool for scholars of the Bible, Archaeology, Near Eastern history and the Holy Land.

How did Christianity, Islam and Buddhism frame the emergence and significance of particular communities in medieval Eurasia? This volume of well-linked comparative studies addresses the terminology of community, genealogies, urban communities and monasteries in medieval Europe, South Arabia and Tibet.