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Empires of the Sea brings together studies of maritime empires from the Bronze Age to the Eighteenth Century. The volume develops the category of maritime empire as a specific type of empire in both European and 'non-western' history.

Islamic Ethics and the Genome Question is one of the first academic works, which examine the field of genomics from an Islamic perspective. The contributions in the volume also accommodate and interact with critical insights from outside the Islamic tradition.

Literature as Document considers the relationship between documents and literary texts in Western Literature of the 1930s and attempts to provide answers to the problematic nature of that relationship.

Round Trip to Hades in the Eastern Mediterranean Tradition explores the theme of visits to the underworld in the ancient Greek and Byzantine traditions from a broad perspective including written sources, iconography and archaeology.

John Lachs (1934-) has been one of the most interesting American philosophers for nearly sixty years. His philosophical, educational, and public activity has been an attempt to show the relevance of philosophy to life. This is the first book dedicated to his thought.

These lectures provide one of the first comprehensive introductions to semantic typology, the study of crosslinguistic variation in how languages represent reality. In addition, they survey research methods for field semantics, the study of linguistic meaning under fieldwork conditions.

In The Origins of International Counterterrorism, Aviva Guttmann analyses how Switzerland and other governments reacted to specific attacks, their efforts to institutionalize international collaboration in the area of internal security, and the establishment of a Western counterterrorism intelligence-sharing framework (1969-1977).

A special volume in the Chinese Research Perspectives on the Environment series, this English-language volume is an edited collection of articles selected from the Chinese-language Annual Report on Actions to Address Climate Change (2013): Focus on Low-carbon Urbanization.

The papers in The Economic Integration of Roman Italy use various archaeological data, particularly recent field survey and excavation data, to explore the changes Rome's territorial and economic expansion brought about in the Italian countryside.

These lectures provide an overview of the author's work on quantitative applications in cognitive linguistics by discussing a wide range of studies involving corpus-linguistic as well as experimental work.

Grazer Philosophische Studien is a peer reviewed journal that publishes articles on philosophical problems in every area, especially articles related to the analytic tradition.

Themes from Ontology, Mind and Logic is a tribute to Peter Simons's formidable contribution to contemporary philosophy. With themes ranging from metaphysics to phenomenology, it offers insights into some of today's most significant philosophical questions.

This collection deals with the dynamics of current developments in literature, language, and culture in Kenya and Tanzania. Topics include, a. o., literary language choice and translation, popular fiction and codeswitching, Swahili hip-hop texts, and HIV/AIDS discourse.

Grazer Philosophische Studien is a peer reviewed journal that publishes articles on philosophical problems in every area, especially articles related to the analytic tradition.

In Pentecostal Hermeneutics: A Reader Lee Roy Martin presents fourteen significant publications on Pentecostal biblical interpretation, a new introduction to Pentecostal hermeneutics, and an extensive bibliography. These essays trace the development of Pentecostal hermeneutics as an academic discipline.

Although customs and tariffs operate from a national perspective, it is the overarching international structure of classification, valuation, etc. that is imposed upon the national schemes that provide international customs and tariffs with a comprehensible global consistency whose understanding is of great importance for those dealing in international commerce. It is this global scheme of customs and tariffs laws and practices that the author describes so thoroughly and well. Having mapped out for the reader that global scheme, he then describes the many types of variances and exemptions from the global scheme that must be understood as well. Basic Guide to International Customs and Tariffs provides a highly readable description of its subject and a unique global perspective not encountered in other books dealing with the same topic. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint.

This book brings to light how the genealogies in the Bible are a developing genre, flexible in both patterns and deviations, allowing the inclusion of otherwise absent family members like mothers and daughters.

How was the ancient Middle East--including Egypt, Babylonia, and Persia-- imagined and employed for artistic, scholarly, and political purposes in Europe, the Caribbean, and Latin America, circa 1600-1800 ?

Roland Benedikter and Karim Fathi describe the pluri-dimensional characteristics of the Coronavirus crisis and draw the pillars for a more "multi-resilient" Post-Corona world, including political recommendations on how to generate it.

In The Cross in the Visual Culture of Late Antique Egypt Gillian Spalding-Stracey offers an exploration of the variety of ways in which the Holy Cross was expressed in imagery, in the monastic and ecclesiastical settings of late antique Egypt.

Faith in African Lived Christianity brings together anthropology and theology in the study of how faith shapes the understanding of social life in Africa. It offers discussions on positionality, method, and political, social and ecological aspects of African Christian spirituality.

In The Existential Philosophy of Etty Hillesum Meins G.S. Coetsier offers an account of Etty Hillesum's spiritual and cultural life in light of the writings of Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas and Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

The book provides an up-to-date overview of the structure, organization and evolution of the pharaonic administration from its origins to the middle of the first millennium BCE. General descriptions are supplemented by specific analysis of key archives, practices and institutions.

The essays in this volume in honour of Paul Brand, Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, match his career and interests in the world of legal history as well as medieval social and economic history and textual studies. The topics explored include the Angevin reforms, legal literature, the legal profession and judiciary, land law, the relation between the crown and the Jews, the interaction of the Common Law with Canon and Civil Law, as well as procedural and testamentary procedures, the management of both ecclesiastical and lay estates and the afterlife of medieval learning. Like Brand s own work, all the essays are grounded on detailed studies of primary sources. The result is a high quality scholarly book that will be of interest and use to medieval scholars, students and non-specialists with wide-ranging and varied interests. Contributors include Sir John H. Baker, David Carpenter, David Crook, Charles Donahue, Jr, Barbara Harvey, Richard H. Helmholz, John Hudson, Paul Hyams, David J. Ibbetson, Susanne Jenks, Janet S. Loengard, Alexandra Nicol, Bruce R. O'Brien, Robert C. Palmer, Sandra Raban, Jonathan Rose, Henry Summerson and Sarah Tullis. Susanne Jenks read History, English and Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. She is an indendent scholar of late medieval English Law and is vice-adminstrator of the Anglo-American Legal Tradition Project. Jonathan Rose Emeritus Professor of Law and Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar, Sandra Day O Connor College of Law, Arizona State University. He received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania (1960) and his law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School (1963). Christopher Whittick read law at Worcester College, Oxford, qualified as an archivist in 1975 and joined the staff of the East Sussex Record Office, where he is Senior Archivist. He teaches palaeography on the University College London archives course.

A study on the Islamic ADR institutions in England through the lens of Comparative Law and Geopolitics.