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Sociological research on maritime professions offers new insights in work at sea.

Sufism in Western Contexts explores the little-known histories of the West's engagement with Islamic mysticism from early colonial encounters with Sufi poetry, to embodied adaptations of immigrant Sufi movements, to recent cultural and political implications of globalization, Islamic revival, and cyberspace.

Memory and Commemoration across Central Asia: Texts, Traditions and Practices, 10th-21st Centuries presents new research in the field of Central Asian Studies, focusing on the practice and usage of historical and religious commemoration in Central Asia and Afghanistan.

Transforming Teaching and Learning Experiences for the Helping Professions in Higher Education: Global Perspectives explores praxis, theory, methods and tools for educators, students and researchers in the helping professions in a changing world.

Transforming Teaching and Learning Experiences for the Helping Professions in Higher Education: Global Perspectives explores praxis, theory, methods and tools for educators, students and researchers in the helping professions in a changing world.

This study aims at reconstructing the historical viewership of Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights, using the painting itself as a major source of information

The book provides an insight into the revitalization of the Upper Sorbian language through education. It discusses the trials and tribulations of being new speakers of a minority language in a society linguistically divided.

This book recovers Dionysus and Apollo as the twin conceptual personae of life's dual rhythm in an attempt to redesign contemporary theory through the reciprocal but differential affirmation of event and form, body and thought, dance and philosophy.

The only history of Gresham College based upon original archival research that illustrates both the substantial impact of the College on many aspects of seventeenth-century history and the fatal flaws that limited its development.

In this book, Juneyoung Lee analyses the nexus between trade and culture, from domestic, regional and global perspectives, combining the multidisciplinary perspectives of international law, sociology and international studies.

The sociology of Chinese youth is introduced through different topics: internal migration, youth and education in China, the Chinese family, urban life, labor and the search for respect, and digital life in China.

This book presents an empirically based examination of language patterns found among the Israeli Druze community, which is profiled against that of the Arabs in Israel. The results document the emergence of a mixed language previously undescribed and provides a socio-political analysis.

Irreducible to conventional labels usually applied to him, the Tang poet Du Fu (712-770) both defined and was defined by the literary, intellectual, and socio-political cultures of the Song dynasty (960-1279).

A first of its kind, A Merchant of Ivory invites readers to enter an object-filled world of the past through a transcription and annotated translation of a Parisian inventory belonging to a remarkable artisan of the 16th century.

Chaïm Perelman, alone, and in collaboration with Lucie Olbrechts-Tyteca, developed the New Rhetoric Project, which is in use throughout the world. This book offers the first deep contextualization of the project's origins and original translations of their work from French into English.

How does a modern society that venerates soldiers write about ancient wars? This book explores how the intellectual environment of the German Empire left lasting militaristic traces on the way we write the history of warfare in ancient Greece.

In The Heirs of Theodore, Seth M. Stadel presents the first detailed study of the surviving biographical data and extant Old Testament exegetical works of Aḥob of Qatar, a late 6th-century East Syriac biblical commentator.

In the Political Economy of Housing (the case of Turkey), Sila Demirors explores the analytical and historical process of how housing becomes an instrument of speculative finance to feed itself in the current phase of capitalism in general and in Turkey in particular.

What is the relationship between the road movie, American experimental filmmaking and the body?

This book is a collection of cutting-edge essays on the Dead Sea Scrolls as part of ancient Mediterranean media culture, featuring interdisciplinary feedback from scholars in New Testament studies and Classics.

Figures de l'excès chez Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes et Marina de Van by Dominique Carlini Versini compares and contrasts the images of the excessive body that run through the narratives of contemporary French women writers and filmmakers. Figures de l'excès chez Marie Darrieussecq, Virginie Despentes et Marina de Van de Dominique Carlini Versini interroge et compare les images du corps excessif qui traversent les récits d'autrices et de réalisatrices contemporaines françaises.

The studies in this volume go beyond the question of the authenticity of Prophetic narrations. By approaching hadith narrations and literature from various perspectives, the authors seek to push the field of Hadith Studies in a new and promising direction.

The first comprehensive and up-to-date overview of what we know about the use of copper by the ancient Egyptians and Nubians, from the Predynastic through the Early Dynastic until the end of the Second Intermediate Period (c. 4000-1600 BC).

This manuscript offers a complete new perspective of global economic-political (des)integration dynamics through the peripheral gaze of Timor-Leste: a socio-cultural perspective on world-at-large issues, with strong strategic and political impact to regional and international matters.

This work focuses the social context of writing in ancient Western Arabia at the oasis of ancient Dadan, modern-day al-ʿUlā (6th - 1st centuries BC), offering a description and analysis of the language of the inscriptions and the variation attested within them.

The authors strive to illuminate every aspect of Erasmus' life, work, and legacy while providing an expert synthesis of the most inspiring research in the field. There is no volume to compare or to compete with this compendium of all Erasmian knowledge.

After examining the current status of the international watercourses on the Korean Peninsula, Utilization of International Watercourses on the Korean Peninsula proposes specific strategies and concrete projects for the rational and efficient use of shared rivers between South Korea and North Korea.