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Anti-Portraits: Poetics of the Face in Modern English, Polish and Russian Literature (1835-1965) examines prose portraits which challenge the belief that the face reflects character. Their authors consider physiognomy as a form of aesthetic dictatorship conducive to stereotyping and racism.

The Dead Sea Scrolls at Qumran and the Concept of a Library explores the important question of whether or not the manuscripts found in the eleven caves near Qumran can be characterized as a "library."

This book analyses the various cultural, social, economic and historical aspects that are formative in African societies' experiences of being in transit on the road to prosperity. It gives insight into transformations that took place in African societies in the past century.

Jussi Jalonen's On Behalf of the Emperor, On Behalf of the Fatherland is a transnational portrayal of Finnish officers of the Russian Imperial Guard and their experience in the war against Polish insurgents in 1831.

This book offers the paradigmatic transition from social and labour relations based on job security, comprehensive collective agreements and guaranteed social rights, towards new social relations that find their technical, political and organizational roots in job insecurity and monumental social insecurity.

The Festschrift Darkhei Noam offers a coherent focus on recent scholarship by international experts in the field on the history of the Jews living in the Islamic World from ancient to modern times.

Transforming the Void: Embryological Discourse and Reproductive Imagery in East Asian Religions provides new insight into how the body's generative processes are harnessed as powerful metaphors for spiritual attainment in the religious traditions of China and Japan.

This volume sheds light on the important role of copper in early modern Sino-Japanese trade. It brings latest research findings on the subject, which were mostly published in Japanese, to an English-speaking audience.

Shaping Heroic Virtues is the first scholarly account of how and why heroic virtue proved useful in the self-assertion of rulers and elites in pre-modern Europe.

The Reception of Ancient Greece and Rome in Children's Literature: Heroes and Eagles investigates the varying receptions of Ancient Greece and Rome in children's literature, covering the genres of historical fiction, fantasy, mystery stories and classical mythology, and considering the ideological manipulations in these works.

Albert Camus sustained a lifelong awareness of and appreciation for what he termed le visage de ce monde--the face of this earth. This original collection of essays examines how topography influenced Camus's understanding and expression of the human condition.

Greece Reinvented is the first book-length discussion of the transformation of Byzantine Hellenism in Renaissance Italy, exploring why and how the Byzantine intelligentsia, displaced to Italy, adopted distinctively Greek personas to replace traditional Byzantine claims to a Roman identity.

In A Seventeenth-Century Odyssey Gábor Kármán reconstructs the life story of a lesser-known Hungarian diplomat, interpreter, orientalist, Jakab Harsányi Nagy.

O'Neill's hitherto unpublished book makes available for the first time information on northern Mozambique in the late nineteenth century, on the slave trade and on the expansion of Portuguese rule and the resistance to it by powerful local communities.

This title, in its entirety, is available online in Open Access.This volume explores the ways childhood was experienced, lived and remembered in the late Ottoman Empire and its successor states in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when rapid change placed unprecedented demands on the young.

In An Arena for Higher Powers Olof Sundqvist offers an account of the role played by religion in political undertakings among the pre-Christian ruling elites at ceremonial buildings in in Late Iron Age Scandinavia (i.e. AD 550-1050/1100).

This volume brings together essays that consider wounding and/or wound repair from a wide range of sources and disciplines including arms and armaments, military history, medical history, literature, art history, hagiography, and archaeology across medieval and early modern Europe.

Coleoptera: Elmidae and Protelmidae includes 151 extant genera and 1501 extant species as well as four fossil species described before 2015. Protelmidae are here elevated from tribal rank to family rank.

The Africa Yearbook is a reliable source of reference covering major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends of all sub-Saharan states - all related to developments in one calendar year.

This book is a key resource on the foundations of Marxist Internet and Digital Media Studies. It presents 16 contributions that show how Marx's analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, work, exploitation, surplus-value, dialectics, crises, ideology, class struggles, and communism help us to understand the Internet and social media in 21st century digital capitalism.

This book is a key resource on the foundations of Marxist Media, Cultural and Communication Studies. It presents 18 contributions that show how Marx's analyses of capitalism, the commodity, class, labour, work, exploitation, surplus-value, dialectics, crises, ideology, class struggles, and communism help us to understand media, cultural and communications in 21st century informational capitalism.

By studying the portrayal of the Turkic peoples and the Ottoman Turks in a wide range of Malay literary texts of the 14th-19th centuries, this book reveals how this theme informed the religious and political ideals and political mythology of Malay society.

Youth Identities and Social Transformations in Modern Indonesia addresses current struggles and opportunities facing Indonesia's youth across the archipelago. Contributions to this volume delve into youth aspirations and their everyday lives - education; friendship; work; leisure; sexuality; religion - described through the lens of the young people themselves.

The Radical Machiavelli: Politics, Philosophy and Language offers a partial and even partisan reading of Machiavelli, whose thought continues to divide interpreters, forcing them to confront their responsibility as contemporary thinkers in a global society.

The Understanding, Prevention and Control of Human Cancer explains how certain chemicals in our environment are changed by enzymes of the body to combine with DNA which ultimately results in cancer. This form of cancer has previously been "grossly underestimated".

Illuminating Leonardo offers new contributions from major scholars of Leonardo da Vinci covering all aspects of his genius, including his manuscripts and their aftermath, and the various fields of art and science.

Ethics in human experimentation has a long history and The Uses of Humans in Experiment draws on examples from the early modern period to illustrate how humans have been both subjects and instruments over the past four centuries.

Brill's Companion to Ancient Geography is the first collection of studies on historical geography of the ancient world that focuses on topics considered crucial for understanding the development of geographical thought.

In Oil and security: Saudi Arabia 1950-2012 Islam Y. Qasem explains how the world's largest oil producer and exporter, Saudi Arabia, used oil resources to maximize internal and external security since the mid-twentieth century.