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Mediation as a Mandatory Pre-condition to Arbitration debunks common arguments against the compatibility of mandatory investor-state mediation with the ISDS regime. Ana Ubilava pioneers an empirical analysis of over 600 investor-state arbitration cases and a doctrinal study of ISDS clauses in dozens of treaties.

This book deals with the Iecur Placentinum, the bronze model of a sheep's liver, bearing 42 Etruscan inscriptions. The Piacenza Liver is a highly interesting document of the utmost importance for the understanding of Etruscan religion. It will appear that the network with the inscribed names of divinities on both sides of the Liver depicts a microcosmos reflecting the macrocosmos, the Etruscan division of heaven.

This volume offers a fresh look at the Silvae of Statius, a collection eschewing any generic 'label' and depending upon one sole manuscript. It discusses approaches by editors and commentators, both at the time of the poems' rediscovery and today.

Christian history in rural central Germany principally followed not a Catholic and Protestant course but rather an indigenous one, which agricultural and communal forces animated and which bifurcated in the wake of the 1648 Peace of Westphalia.

This volume combines studies on Greek, Sogdian and Arabic documents (letters, legal agreements, and amulets) with studies on Arabic and Judeo-Arabic manuscripts (poetry, science and divination).

For the first time in any Western language, the author introduces China's most complete work on Eastern Han history (25-220 AD) in biographical form by Fan Ye (398-445) on its early military history and its unification.

The book shows how the tribute-paying population in Peru and New Spain negotiated their categorization throughout the colonial period. It explains the fiscal legislation and its application from above as well as how it was shaped from below.

Jerzy Kosinski's viscerally haunting and politically disturbing The Painted Bird finally receives the long overdue fresh scientific perspective: a truly revealing study of linguistic and cultural controversy in translation into thirteen languages against the benchmark of the iron-clad methodology.

This volume assesses evidence for the decoration used in non-monumental secular public and private buildings, taken from sites around the East Mediterranean.

Could God have saved fallen humanity in some other way than by Christ's satisfaction? This study explores this hotly contested question among the seventeenth-century Reformed orthodox discussions by an analysis of the representative Reformed theologians, William Twisse and John Owen.

Imagining Latinidad shows how Latin American migrants use information technologies to build diasporic communities that allow them to stay in contact with their home country, while at the same time advocating against social and political tribulations in their country of residence.

The Africa Yearbook is a reliable source of reference covering major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends of all sub-Saharan states - all related to developments in one calendar year.

The volume focuses on the issue of intimacy (such as love, eros, affection, confidentiality and friendship or anti-intimacy) in connection to spatiality in women's writing at the fringes of Europe in the long nineteenth century.

Compensating a four-decades shortfall, this collective volume is the first reader in Byzantine spatial studies. It offers a diversity of topics and scientific approaches, articulated by up-to-date interdisciplinary dialogue, and reflects on the future challenges of Byzantine spatial studies.

This volume sheds light on how Jews and Christians in Antiquity understood the nature and characteristics of demons. The contributions cover a wide range of corpora and explore aspects of continuity and change as ideas flowed between groups and cultures.

Freeska Landriucht or Frisian Land Law is the oldest preserved compilation of Old Frisian customary law and Latin glosses with Roman and Canon law. This book is the first critical edition with an English translation.

The volume consists of ten studies that involve the use of corpus data relevant to research within a Cognitive Linguistics framework.

In Crisis, inequalities and Poverty, Schettino and Clementi provide an empirical and theoretical analysis of the capitalist crisis of the last two decades with a particular focus on the impact on poverty and inequality.

An exciting and up-to date book on endangered languages of Northeast Asia both from the emic and etic perspective.

The book adopts a new approach to self-determination's international legal history, tracing the ways in which various actors have sought to reinvent self-determination in different juridical, political, and economic iterations to create the conditions for global transformation.

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 20 (CMR 20) is about relations between Muslims and Christians in Iran, Afghanistan, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia in the period from 1800 to 1914. It gives descriptions, assessments and bibliographical details of all known works between the faiths from this period.

A study into how native Amazonians experienced and shaped life in missions in its different facets. The book focuses on the missions of Maynas during the Jesuit administration, from 1638 to 1768.

Visual Pedagogies offers research-based reflections and comprehensive guidelines on how to carry out visual activities with students of a variety of fields, discussing case studies from eight countries. Examples include drawing, collage making, video production, object-based learning, and photography projects.

Visual Pedagogies offers research-based reflections and comprehensive guidelines on how to carry out visual activities with students of a variety of fields, discussing case studies from eight countries. Examples include drawing, collage making, video production, object-based learning, and photography projects.

Troisième homme de la négritude, Léon Damas s'alignait sur la Harlem Renaissance et les surréalistes comme Apollinaire et G. Luca pour transmettre son message d'urgence: ' a ti pas ', la France opère sa mue décoloniale, et c'est l'antillectuel qui, transfuge, traverse les Lignes de couleur, de classe, de genre. The third man of negritude, Léon Damas, aligned himself with the Harlem Renaissance and surrealists to transmit his urgent message: à ti pas, little by little, France was undergoing its decolonial transformation. He claims to be the "Antillectual" who crosses the Lines of language, territory, color, class and gender.

In Cultural Heritage in International Economic Law, Valentina Vadi offers an account of how international economic law contributes to global cultural governance, analysing the promises and pitfalls of such contributions.

This volume explores various perceptions, adaptations, and appropriations of Horace in the Early Modern age across textual, visual and musical media. It thus intends to advocate an interdisciplinary and multi-medial approach to the exceptionally rich and variegated afterlife of Horace.