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The Bialowieża Forest is probably the best known forest in Central and Eastern Europe, owing its fame to not only to its natural value, but also to the disputes which have arisen in recent years concerning approaches to its protection. In this book the authors present the Bialowieża Forest and the principles of its protection, as well as the legal remedies constructively derived from the disputes. The proposed remedies can also be applied appropriately to other priceless shared goods and cross-border properties.

In a searching challenge to the paradigm of medieval Christian dualism, this study reenvisions the Paulicians as largely conventional Christians engendered by complex socio-religious forces in the borderlands of Armenia and Asia Minor.

Un libro que supera los lugares comunes sobre Filipinas para relatar cómo se reflejó el proceso de construcción nacional en su literatura en español entre dos colonizaciones, la española y la estadounidense, décadas después de las emancipaciones latinoamericanas. A book that goes beyond the commonplaces about the Philippines to tell how nation-building struggles were reflected in its Spanish-language literature between two colonizations, Spanish and American, decades after the Latin American emancipations.

Writing in the late 19th century, Mózes Salamon hoped to convince his fellow rabbis to recognize women as equally privileged members of the People Israel. The result was his The Path of Moses: A Scholarly Essay on the Case of Women in Religious Faith.

The present case studies on early modern travelers, dispersed often by unintended consequences of war, curiosity, economic or political reasons in the Mediterranean, the Americas and Japan, ask for what ¿power(s)¿ and agency they still had, perhaps counterintuitively, abroad.

Rethinking Halal reflects an anthropological revolution, that of the scientising, standardising, and normalising of social life through certification which is part of a process of 'positivisation' that directly affected Islam and Islamic normativity.

From Earth to Art presents papers from the 'Early Medieval Plant Studies' symposium, a meeting designed to explore the various disciplines which could help to elucidate the plant-names of Anglo-Saxon England, many of which are not understood. The range of disciplines represented includes landscape history, place-name studies, botany, archaeology, art history, Old English literature, the history of food and of medicine, and linguistic approaches such as semantics and morphology. This collection represents a first experimental step in the work of the Anglo-Saxon Plant-Name Survey (ASPNS), a multidisciplinary research project based in the University of Glasgow. ASPNS is dedicated to collecting and reviewing, for the first time, the total multidisciplinary evidence for each plant-name, and establishing new or improved identifications. The results will have implications for various historical studies such as agriculture, pharmacology, nutrition, climate, dialect, and more. Included in the book is the first ASPNS word-study, concerned with the Old English word æspe (the ancestor of 'aspen'), and it is shown that this tree-name had a broader meaning than has hitherto been suspected. This book will be of interest to historians, botanists, archaeologists, linguists, geographers, gardeners, herbalists, conservationists and anyone interested in the crucial role of plants in history.

Igor Chabrowski analyses the history of the development of opera in Sichuan, arguing that opera serves as a microcosm of the profound transformation of modern Chinese culture between the 18th century and 1950s.

This book thoroughly examines how China under Xi Jinping has conceptualized and enforced its digital propaganda strategy on social media, which has enabled the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) regime to manipulate online information and shape public opinion.

Comparative Education for Global Citizenship, Peace and Shared Living through Ubuntu paves the way for a better understanding of the critical importance of the collective search and endeavor towards achieving a better appreciation of the positive implications of interdependence.

Comparative Education for Global Citizenship, Peace and Shared Living through Ubuntu paves the way for a better understanding of the critical importance of the collective search and endeavor towards achieving a better appreciation of the positive implications of interdependence.

The present work is a critical edition of a commentary by Ibn Wāṣil (d.1298) on his teacher Khūnajī's (d.1248) handbook on logic al-Jumal. The work was an influential contribution to a particularly dynamic chapter in the history of Arabic logic.

Remaking Communities and Adult Learning presents arguments for socially engaged community-based and participatory research, pedagogies of possibility and inclusion, democratic knowledge creation and activism for change in remaking and 'doing' society and community as a sustainable and creative andragogic practice.

In the second volume of her Essays in Ecumenical Theology, Ivana Noble engages in conversation with Orthodox theologians and spiritual writers on diverse questions, such as how to discover the human heart, what illumination by the divine light means, how spiritual life is connected to attitudes and acts of social solidarity, why sacrificial thinking may not be the best frame for expressing Christ's redemption, why theological anthropology needs to have a strong ecological dimension, why freedom needs to coexist with love for others, and why institutions find the ability to be helpful not only in their own traditions but also in the Spirit that blows where it wills.

Poul Martin Møller published his most important philosophical treatise in 1837, "Thoughts on the Possibility of Proofs of Human Immortality." This is the first English translation of this work.

Scientific collections, political power, and nation-building narratives in fascist Italy.

Based on unprecedented ethnographic fieldwork among 'Khoisan revivalists' in Cape Town, this book explores how and why the past is engaged with to revive an indigenous culture and identity that are widely believed to have vanished during colonialism and apartheid.

Detention camps in Asia have held hundreds of thousands of people - political dissidents, prisoners of war, and civilian populations. This volume examines why states detain, the conditions of detention, and the effects of detention systems on society as a whole.

This book examines the depictions of anthropomorphised animals found on ostraca and papyri from Deir el-Medina and considers their narrative and artistic purpose within the religious environment of New Kingdom Thebes.

The editors of this volume have crafted a coherent volume that addresses key issues of labor migration and provides in-depth critical discussions of the concept of "global labor markets". It, thus, enriches our understanding of both globalization and labor markets.

These scholarly essays explore representations and lived experiences of encounters between Jews and Muslims in contemporary urban Western Europe (France, Germany and UK). Building a new transdisciplinary field of Jewish-Muslim Studies, they contribute micro-level cases of conviviality, division and distance.

Los más importantes estudiosos de la obra de Javier Marías reunidos en un volumen para reevaluar su narrativa de modo novedoso y original a los cincuenta años. Un libro indispensable para cualquier interesado en la obra del autor español más destacado. The most important scholars of Javier Marías's literature undertake a novel and original re-assessment of his work marking half a century of prose narratives. An indispensable collection of essays for anyone interested in the work of this outstanding Spanish author.

The book deals with the linguistic situation of Kinnaur - so far little described - whose Sino-Tibetan and Indo-Aryan languages are described both as independent entities and as parts of a multifaceted linguistic ecology, also in relation to a wider Himalayan context.

The Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in the Nordic Countries Since 1975 brings the series of cultural histories of the avant-garde in the Nordic countries up to the present. It discusses revisions and continuations of historical practices since 1975.

Au coeur d'un contexte culturel et politique explosif en France et en Italie (1770-1840), les autrices mènent ensemble un combat pour construire une communauté et une cause commune, à travers leurs réseaux ou relations et ce, avant l'essor des mouvements féministes organisés. Within an explosive cultural and political context in France and Italy (1770-1840), this book chronicles the struggle women authors faced in establishing a community and a common cause, through networks and relationships amongst themselves, before the rise of organized feminist movements.

The Relational Horse explores the possibilities of including the horse's perspective into the study of human-horse relationships. Case studies from across a range of time periods, activities, and disciplines provide fresh ways to understand horses, themselves, in relationships with humans.

Écrite entre 386 et 390 dans l'effervescence de la découverte du néoplatonisme, la correspondance avec Nebridius témoigne, bien avant les Confessions, des questions philosophiques et spirituelles qui passionnaient Augustin au moment de sa conversion à la philosophie et au christianisme. Written between 386 and 390 during the excitement of his discovery of Neoplatonism, Augustine's correspondence with Nebridius bears witness, well before the Confessions, to the philosophical and spiritual questions that fascinated Augustine at the time of his conversion to philosophy and Christianity.

Sugar makes itself seen, tasted, felt, and studied. As a mediator, sugar challenges approaches to artistic practices and material cultures in Art History, Architecture, Cultural Anthropology, Literary Studies, Anthropocene Studies, and Critical Plant Studies.