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The Handbook of Global Contemporary Christianity: Movements, Institutions & Allegiance traces how the largest religion in the world is increasingly expressed in energetic global forms - leading to fresh modes of organisation, belonging, believing, and traditional and syncretic movements.

Urbino, Rome, Florence, Milan, Ferrara... but also Mantua and Imola, Carpi and Saluzzo, Naples and Sicily: a collection of case studies on the Renaissance renewal of Italian court palaces from a comparative perspective.

Mazal Tov, Amigos! Jews and Popular Music in the Americas explores the sphere of Jews and Jewishness in the popular music arena in the Americas, by creating a framework for the discussion of new and old trends from an interdisciplinary standpoint.

Battles and Generals offers an analysis of Procopius' descriptions of combat that emphasizes Procopius' didactic aims, the specificity of Procopius' accounts, and the role of Procopius' audience in shaping his approach to warfare.

This is the first book-length introduction in Spanish to the current debate on transnationality in Spanish and Latin American cinema, with theoretical and analytical contributions by several of the leading scholars in the field.Éste es el primer libro en español que se dedica enteramente a plantear el debate contemporáneo acerca de la transnacionalidad del cine español y latinoamericano, con aportaciones teóricas y críticas que ofrecen algunos de los mejores especialistas.

In E. T. A. Hoffmann, Cosmopolitanism, and the Struggle for German Opera, Francien Markx investigates Hoffmann's writings on opera, discovering in them a number of challenges to traditional narratives of aesthetic autonomy, the search for a national opera, and Hoffmann's biography.

The Spring and Autumn Annals of Master Yan is one of the most important works concerning statecraft to survive from ancient China, here made accessible to English-language readers for the first time.

In this Commentary on the Principles on Housing and Property Restitution for Refugees and Displaced Persons - known as the Pinheiro Principles - Khaled Hassine and Scott Leckie outline the legal contents of this international instrument generated by the UN in 2005.

This fresh collection of essays examine in a striking re-evaluation Chance's innovative narrative strategies, its up-to-the-minute commentary on female politics, contemporary ethics, as well as its antecedents in classical debate and the significance of Conrad's last use of a his seaman narrator Marlow.

In The Subject of Aesthetics Tone Roald develops a psychology of art based on people's descriptions of their own engagement with visual art

Richard 'Dutch' Thomson, best known today as a Bible translator and one of the earliest English Arminians, was admired by his contemporaries for his learning. This book provides the first biography of Thomson, and edits his surviving correspondence, seventy-eight letters.

Between Past Orthodoxies and the Future of Globalization provides essays in English by leading thinkers in Russia in philosophy, political theory, and related fields. Their essays articulate Russian perspectives on the key global issues being faced internationally and in Russia.

Middle-Class Pentecostalism in Argentina: Inappropriate Spirits offers an intriguing account of how the middle class relates to Latin America's most vibrant religious movement. The study posits that middle class Pentecostalism forges a milder, more socially acceptable form of the movement.

EU Environmental Law, International Environmental Law, and Human Rights Law: The Case of Environmental Responsibility offers a critical appraisal of EU environmental responsibility law and the input of a rights-based approach and international environmental law.

This edited volume examines World War I comparatively in both small nations and colonial peripheries. Chapters address subject nations within Europe such as Ireland and Poland; neutral states, such as Sweden and Spain; and colonies like German East Africa.

Les intellectuels juifs de Bagdad. Discours et allégeances (1908-1951) suit la trajectoire d'un groupe d'intellectuels juifs de langue arabe à Bagdad pendant la première moitié du XXe siècle.Les intellectuels juifs de Bagdad. Discours et allégeances (1908-1951) follows the trajectory of a group of Arabic-speaking Jewish intellectuals in Baghdad during the first half of the 20th century.

The volume traces the literary, cultural and biographical influence of both French arts and philosophy, and émigré life in France, on Mansfield's evolution as a key modernist writer, setting her within the geographies and cultural dynamics of Anglo-French modernism.

In Napoleon and the Operational Art of War, the leading scholars of Napoleonic military history provide the most authoritative analysis of Napoleon's battlefield success and ultimate failure in a work that features the very best of campaign military history.

Balzac et consorts. Scénographies familiales des conflits historiques dans le roman du XIXe siècle analyse la façon dont le microcosme familial tel que le roman du XIXe siècle le met en scène reflète les principaux conflits historiques de l'époque. Balzac et consorts. Scénographies familiales des conflits historiques dans le roman du XIXe siècle offers an account of the way in which novels show the impact of historical events on the private sphere of intimacy through specific ' scenographies '.

In Potential Questions at the Semantics-Pragmatics Interface Edgar Onea proposes a novel theory of the role of the question under discussion in the interpretation of indefinites, appositives and further grammatical constructions.

With a wealth of information about an array of performance genres related to the fighting art of pencak silat, this volume articulates for the very first time fascinating dimensions of the beauty, philosophy and diversity of Southeast Asian cultural life.

Taking an interdisciplinary approach, this volume brings together contributions by distinguished experts from different disciplinary fields for a multidimensional view on immersion in the visual arts and media.

FR: Rares mais marquantes ont été les dénonciations et les condamnations des crimes ou des vices des gouvernants. Le volume interroge les formes et les raisons de ces mises en cause, alors même que les traditions antiques, médiévales ou modernes étaient plutôt accommodantes envers les abus de pouvoir.EN: Denunciations and convictions of rulers' crimes or vices are uncommon but striking. This volume investigates the forms and reasons for these accusations, even though antique, medieval or modern tradition has tended to be quite accommodating towards the abuse of power.

In The Mughal Padshah Jorge Flores offers both a lucid English translation and the Portuguese original of a previously unknown account - probably penned by the Jesuit priest Jerónimo Xavier in 1610-11 - of the court and household of the Mughal Emperor Jahangir (r. 1605-27).

In Hospitals and Urbanism in Rome 1200 - 1500, Carla Keyvanian reconstructs three centuries of urban history by focusing on public hospitals, state institutions that were urban expressions of sovereignty, characterized by a distinguishing architecture and built in prime urban locations.