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This book analyses the law of the European Convention on Human Rights as relevant to the exercise of 'hard power', which expression includes armed conflict, belligerent occupation, peacekeeping and peace-enforcing, anti-terrorism and anti-piracy operations, hybrid warfare, cyber-attack and targeted assassination.

Brent Bradford assembled a collective narrative related to the doctoral journey of recent graduates in the field of education.

This is the first book, after J. E. Sandys, to cover the multiform fied of "ancient scholarship" from the beginnings to the fall of Byzantium. It is worth underlining the benefits of a work with multiple expert voices in a field so complex. The book is based on the four historiographical chapters of Brill's Companion to Ancient Greek Scholarship (2015), which have been updated and rethought.

Famagusta Maritima: Mariners, Merchants, Pilgrims and Mercenaries presents a collection of scholarly studies spanning the thousand year history of the port of Famagusta in Cyprus.

Through critical, qualitative, creative, and arts-integrated approaches, this collection seeks to advance teacher self-study and, through it, transformative praxis.

In Global Hakka: Hakka Identity in the Remaking Jessieca Leo offers a needed update on Hakka history and a reassessment on Hakka identity in the global and transnational contexts, and views the concept of 'being Hakka' in the 21st century as Hakkaness - a quality determined by lifestyle and personal choice.

The sculpted Entombment of Christ in Burgundy and Champagne is examined from various viewpoints in Stone, Flesh, Spirit. Whether invoking the Holy Sepulcher or pathos by proxy, the Entombments are a testament to the power of late medieval devotion.

In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. Starting from the materiality of preparations, it introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis.

This study examines the display of scientific instruments in venues beyond the laboratory or the classroom, in museums, fairs, universal exhibitions, theatres, movies, book frontispieces, and patent offices.

In 'Tibetanness' Under Threat?, Adrian Zenz pioneers an analysis of remarkable recent developments in Qinghai's Tibetan education system. While marketisation processes threaten these positive developments, educational strategies of Tibetans in the Chinese system explore new ways of being 'Tibetan' in China.

In The Making of Modern Japan, Myles Carroll offers a thought-provoking analysis of contemporary Japanese political economy, exploring how the causes of Japan's current crisis can be found in the same institutions that brought prosperity in the post-war era.

In NATO Rules of Engagement, Camilla Guldahl Cooper provides a thorough analysis of NATO rules of engagement, and offers clarity on a concept which despite its considerable political, strategic and operational importance, is often misunderstood.

Ein Wörterbuch zur lateinischen Musterprosa und Sprachpflege der Neuzeit (17. - Anfang des 19. Jhs.).

A guide to key aspects of the development of the ideology of the papacy and papal institutions c.1050-1500.

Domestic and caregiving work has been at the core of human existence throughout history. A team of international scholars addresses the issues of state, agency, and domestic service in colonizer frames globally in historical perspectives.

This is an annotated translation of what is perhaps the most important Ottoman literary source for the architectural monuments and urban form of the Ottoman capital, Istanbul: Hafız Hüseyin bin Ismail Ayvansarayî's Hadikat al-Cevami (The Garden of Mosques). There are also separate descriptions of each of Istanbul's more than 800 mosques, plus accounts of its medreses, tombs, tekkes and other pious foundations.

For the first time, the dramatic changes the Qur'anic code underwent during the Umayyad period (660-750 C.E.) are analysed and presented on the basis of a selection of material in good part unpublished. Winner of 23rd I.R. Iran World Award for the Book of the Year 2016!

A much-needed survey of the entire field of early modern Spanish scholastic thought. Each chapter is grounded in primary sources and the relevant historiography, includes a useful bibliography, and serves as a point of departure for future research.

This study introduces the nature, history, and interventions of two theoretical-political cultural productions that formally emerged in U.S. educational institutions in the late 1960s as a part of the Black Freedom movement: Black/Africana studies and Black/Africana biblical studies..

An informative typological guide of the Japonic family for linguists of any theoretical persuasions who are not expected to be familiar with Japanese linguistics.

The book is an in-depth analysis of Hakka women in tulou villages in modern and contemporary Southeast China, a study that sheds light on the multifaceted Hakka society in which rural women negotiate their position between traditional constructs and modern dynamics.

Cet ouvrage réunit plusieurs chercheurs et praticiens du cinéma autour de l'étude des représentations de la peau à l'écran, dans leur double dimension formelle et signifiante, à travers seize contributions portant sur diverses traditions cinématographiques, époques et aires géographiques/culturelles. This book is a collection of sixteen articles by researchers and cinema professionals about various cinematographic traditions, periods, and geographical/cultural areas to study the representations of skin on screen, in both their formal and signifying dimensions.

A comprehensive exploration of the several subaltern types and social groups that were placed at the margins of national narratives in Spain during the nineteenth century.Una mirada profunda a los diversos tipos y grupos sociales que fueron relegados a los márgenes del relato nacional en la España decimonónica.

This book surveys influential readings and rewritings of the Chinese literary tradition by Western writers over the past century, from Ezra Pound and Haroldo de Campos to Pearl Buck, Robert van Gullick, Pascal Quignard, and Maxine Hong Kingston.

Gender Equality in the Mirror explores the potential of the gender-power nexus in accelerating the path towards gender equality and in influencing gendered structures that dictate the distributions of socio-economic resources.

Up in Arms focuses on Texas as the epicenter of gun debates in the United States. Arguing that imaginaries possess significant performative power, the volume reveals the intricate ways in which guns are used to explain history, identity, and culture.