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This collection presents new narratives on the emergence of intellectual property rights in the law of nations during the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century. The collection reveals the extent to which various forms of intellectual property protection eventually shaped contemporary international law.

Buddhism in Central Asia II--Practice and Rituals, Visual and Materials Transfer deals with the dynamics of cultural encounter and religious transfer among both trans-regional (Chinese, Indian, Tibetan) and local (Khotanese, Uyghur, Tangut) Buddhist traditions.

This volume explores different ideas of what language does and what is done with language, considering different ways in which hospitality and humanity are expressed, knowledge is constructed, and asking about more integrative ways in keeping languages relevant.

Queen Berenice, a Jewish queen of the 1st century, witnessed the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, socialized most important people of her day - Philo the Philosopher, Paul the Apostle, Josephus the Historian and became Flavius Titus' lover.

This book provides insights into China's agricultural collectivization by an analysis of the Chinese work point system, which is a series of labor organization rules and regulations used for the calculation of the amount and quality of labor and for determining the form of labor organization.

In this volume Guo Yongqin provides an overview of land and labor taxes in Imperial Qing China (1644-1912). The previously unpublished fiscal sources and detailed introduction will be a valuable for resource on how the standardized tax system performed and affected the Qing regime.

The book provides a detailed praxeological analysis of a single NATO-airstrike in Afghanistan as a vivid example of how an event and its ex-post accountings shape and specify the legally required protection of civilians in armed conflict.

This book examines how the Asian Catholic bishops have received and put into practice the reforms initiated by the Second Vatican Council. With a good reason the Federation of Asian Bishops' Conference can be described as Asia's continuing Vatican II.

A "Community of Peoples" draws together a diverse community of scholars to honor the career of Daniel E. Fleming. Through a diversity of methods and disciplines, each contributor attempts to touch a sliver of ancient Middle Eastern history.

An authoritative account of the intellectual and educational history of the late Italian Renaissance. Twenty essays on major themes, institutions, and persons of the Italian Renaissance by one of its most distinguished living historians.

This book draws on historical demography to elucidate the regional diversity of the Japanese family and its convergence toward an integrated national family model that heralded the modern era, providing a new image of the family in pre-industrial Japan.

In Japanese Morphography, Gordian Schreiber takes an in-depth look at texts from pre-modern Japan written exclusively in Chinese characters as morphograms and demonstrates why the language behind the script is, in fact, to be identified as Japanese rather than Chinese.

Redefining Disability features all disabled authors and creators. By combining traditional academic works with personal reflections, graphic art, and poetry, the volume centers disability by drawing from the experiences and expertise of disabled individuals.

This first English-language biography of Mikhail Tomsky illuminates how the sole worker in the top echelon of the Bolshevik Party, and the leader of the huge trade-union bureaucracy, helped shape Soviet domestic and foreign policy along generally moderate lines throughout the 1920s.

Editing and examining source-critically for the first time the Late Babylonian ritual texts dealing with the New Year Festival, this book proposes an incisive re-interpretation of the most frequently discussed of all Mesopotamian rituals.

This volume offers reflections on anti-Semitism, philo-Semitism and anti-Judaism in biblical scholarship from the 19th century to the present. The authors invite us to prepare the way for scholarship that is mindful of its susceptibility to violence and hatred.

In Youth Policies and Unemployment in Europe Paola Giannoni analyses the situation of the European youth regarding the changes in the job market dynamics and the strategies implemented by the EU for the social inclusion of young people.

This volume puts together a first-of-a-kind handbook, and contains the most important termini technici, expressions, and techniques connected to the traditional art of Persian calligraphy, calligraphy as well as related arts, like illumination, historiated painting, book binding, etc. The content is based on thirty prominent classical Persian treatises, composed between twelfth and twentieth centuries.

This book sheds new light on the key role played by the Grimms' Deutsche Sagen in the collection of folklore an d the creation of national culture in Northern Europe.

The Maimonides Review of Philosophy and Religion is an annual collection of double-blind peer-reviewed articles, which seeks to provide a broad international arena for an intellectual exchange of ideas between the disciplines of philosophy, theology, religion, cultural history, and literature and to showcase their multifarious junctures within the framework of Jewish studies.

How is the international community facing the global problem of massive marine plastic pollution? This book provides an in-depth overview of existing state obligations in relation to land-based sources of marine pollution and highlights the central role of coherence and international cooperation in addressing global concerns.

Today's analysts of world affairs are often loosely referring to 'geopolitics', but do not always clearly define it. This book therefore offers a necessary introduction into the main components of geopolitical analysis, an overview of the main geopolitical schools of thought, as well as reflections on technology and geopolitics. In addition, empirical studies showcase innovative approaches.

The Law of Whistleblowing: Cross-disciplinary, Contextual and Comparative Perspectives provides a contextual and cross-disciplinary analysis of legal responses to whistleblowing from a comparative perspective. Examining developments in criminal, labour, corporate and administrative law, contributions in this volume provide one of the first comprehensive analyses of the emerging multi-level legal framework to protect whistleblowers.

Shusterman's Somaesthetics is a wide-ranging collection of penetrating essays by twelve scholars examining in rich detail the many dimensions of philosopher Richard Shusterman's pragmatism and somaesthetics, complemented by his own chapter of responses to these scholars

Suitable for for advanced undergraduates studying the special senses, and for clinicians in the specialty of Otorhinolaryngology, this title deals with the basic anatomy and physiology of all stages of the auditory system.

Abolitionist Cosmopolitanism redefines the potential of American antislavery literature as a cultural and political imaginary by situating antislavery literature in specific transnational contexts and highlighting the role of women as producers, subjects, and audiences of antislavery literature.

Thomas Vaughan's challenging books on alchemy, magic, and other esoterica make better sense in the context of the Rosicrucian ideas he introduced to English readers in the seventeenth century. This is the first scholarly book on his life, sources, writings, and subsequent influence.