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Drawing on new research on textile trade and production in the regions that depended on the Indian Ocean, the book contributes to a new understanding of the role that Indian cloth played in the making of the modern world economy.

The Companion to Medieval Palermo offers a panorama of the History of Medieval Palermo from the sixth to the fifteenth century.

Land is the nexus of Malagasy livelihood and socio-cultural relations. Simultaneously, the Malagasy government and international stakeholders value land for its biodiversity, minerals and agricultural potential. This book provides vital background to the contest for land in Madagascar.

This is volume 2 of a two volume set, which replaces the six volumes of the first edition. This volume contains Calendrical Texts and Sapiential Texts, Poetic and Liturgical Texts, Additional Genres and Unclassified Texts. This second and revised edition of the Dead Sea Scollr Reader forms an updated and expanded publication, as follows: - DSSR II Replaces Preliminary Editions of DSSR I with fine-tuned, published editions. - DSSR II Presents Improved or Revised Texts. - DSSR II Features Texts Not Published in DSSR I. - DSSR II Reassembles Segmented Texts. - DSSR II Deletes Extremely Fragmentary Texts. - DSSR II Updates Names of Compositions. - Quotations in Pesharim and Commentaries. - Indecipherable Words/Single Letters.

This is volume 1 of a two volume set, which replaces the six volumes of the first edition. This volume contains Texts concerned with Religious Law, Exegetical Texts and Parabiblical Texts.This second and revised edition of the Dead Sea Scollr Reader forms an updated and expanded publication, as follows: - DSSR II Replaces Preliminary Editions of DSSR I with fine-tuned, published editions.- DSSR II Presents Improved or Revised Texts- DSSR II Features Texts Not Published in DSSR I. - DSSR II Reassembles Segmented Texts. - DSSR II Deletes Extremely Fragmentary Texts. - DSSR II Updates Names of Compositions. - Quotations in Pesharim and Commentaries. - Indecipherable Words/Single Letters.

Through well-illustrated essays, Observing the World through Images explores the making and uses of printed diagrams and pictures in the practice and communication of early-modern sciences and medicine.

This collection of essays deals broadly with the visual and cultural manifestation of utopian aspirations in Russia of the 1920s and 1930s, while examining the before- and after-life of such ideas both geographically and chronologically.

This volume focuses on Maurice Merleau-Ponty's important contribution to the phenomenology of corporeity and affectivity, and it explores the various influences his work had and still has on other disciplines.

Early modern commentaries on the classics shaped not only school and university education, but cultural life in the broadest sense, including politics, religion, health care, geographical discoveries, and even segments of life seemingly far removed from scholarship, such as warfare and engineering.

Crosslinguistic Studies on Noun Phrase Structure and Reference presents 11 studies on the grammar of noun phrases. Part One explores structure and interpretation with respect to general linguistic categories (x-bar, number, countability, information structure). Parts Two and Three explore the workings of 'definiteness' marking.

Submarine Cables: The Handbook of Law and Policy provides a one-stop-shop of essential information regarding the law and policy issues that affect the protection, laying, maintenance and operation of submarine cables in the world's oceans.

In Medieval Supposition Theory Revisited papers are presented which, on the basis of L.M. de Rijk's monumental Logica modernorum (1962-1967, 3 vols.), sketch the development of medieval theories on meaning and reference from the beginnings well into the 17th century. The book also presents studies of these theories from a modern point of view.

This is a reprint of Kitāb Futūḥ al-buldān by Aḥmad b. Yaḥyā al-Balādhurī (d. c. 892 CE), edited by M.J. de Goeje and originally titled Liber expugnationis regionum (Leiden,1866). The work offers an account of the early conquests of the Islamic polity. It has the form of a geographical survey of the Caliphate's territories, describing how each location came under Muslim rule.

In In the Name of God biblical scholars and historians begin the exciting work of deconstructing British and Spanish imperial usage of the Bible as well as the use of the Bible to counteract imperialism.

In reading Job 1-11, Bakhtin's dialogism and chronotope define each different voice as a unique and equally weighted voice and reveal its dialogical interaction with other voices to produce better questions about Job rather than answers.

In this volume twelve contributions discuss the relevance, accuracy, potential, and possible alternatives to a literary reading of ancient Jewish writings, especially the Hebrew Bible.

The volume explores the hitherto uncharted late medieval religious landscape of Northern Germany. Through discussion of a rich, varied selection of mystical and devotional texts, also translated into English, a fascinating regional "mystical culture" with a far-reaching impact is revealed.

Au Maroc, les mythes fondateurs des cultes et rituels de guérison illustrent de manière probante les processus d'élaboration des significations et des dynamiques du pouvoir dans le passé proche et leurs articulations actuelles, tant à l'échelle locale que nationale.In Morocco, the founding myths of healing cults and rituals illustrate the symbolism and dynamics of power in both local and national contexts.

Comparative approaches to political rituals and ceremonies in Byzantium and other court cultures of the Mediterranean basin form the subject of this collective volume, which examines related topics from the viewpoint of transformation, succession, appropriation, and representation in art and literature.

Over time Dutch and Indonesian musicians have inspired each other and they continue to do so. Recollecting Resonances offers a way of studying these musical encounters and a mutual heritage one today still can listen to.

In Politics, Patronage and the Transmission of Knowledge in 13th - 15th Century Tabriz, an international group of specialists investigate the role of Tabriz as one of the foremost centres of learning, cultural productivity, and politics in post-Mongol Iran and the Middle East.

The Eupithecia of China offers a complete revision of the 300 species of this genus of the family Geometridae in the Lepidoptera occurring in China, and illustrates both the moths and male and female genitalia.

In Just a Scholar, Zhou Yiliang tells the story of his extraordinary life and work caught up in all the events of twentieth-century China and beyond.

Before communism, anarchism and syndicalism were central to labour and the Left in the colonial and postcolonial world.Using studies from Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin America, this groundbreaking volume examines the revolutionary libertarian Left's class politics and anti-colonialism in the first globalization and imperialism(1870/1930).

The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea is an independent judicial body established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea to adjudicate disputes arising out of the interpretation and application of the Convention. This volume contains the texts of the judicial decisions rendered by the Tribunal in the year 2012 in English and French.

In this annotated critical edition of Aristotle's Metaphysics Lambda Stefan Alexandru draws upon many hitherto unexplored sources of the direct and indirect tradition, inter alia upon an independent Greek manuscript he has discovered in the Vatican Library.