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This book looks takes a broad glance at language policy implementation in the SADC region. Authors grapple with issues and challenges pertaining to language in education polices in multilingual southern Africa.

This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to the issue of the Christianization of Transylvania, starting from the recent archaeological discovery of a 10th-century, Byzantine-style church in Alba Iulia.

Through the careful examination of cases, statutes and terminology preserved in both excavated and transmitted materials, this book argues that a civil law with distinctive Chinese characteristics emerged during the Qin and Han dynasties (221 B.C.-A.D. 220).

The manuscript reflects on the extent to which COVID-19 influenced the education system in Africa, notably South Africa. The purpose was to document lessons learned to inform decision-making and practice while drawing conclusions for future usage.

The manuscript reflects on the extent to which COVID-19 influenced the education system in Africa, notably South Africa. The purpose was to document lessons learned to inform decision-making and practice while drawing conclusions for future usage.

This volume offers a new perspective on the Horn of Africa's Christian past and reclaims its place on the map of global Christianity.

This book discusses the features of the alleged disappearance and uses over time of the passé simple, while testing its vitality against contemporary corpora. Now evolving as a stylistic marker, that tense has not yet been superseded.

This volume focuses on new trends in art and education in Japan. It will inspire and provoke discussion among researchers and practitioners in various educational settings about the future direction of art education in Japan and around the world.

The Dutch scholar Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje (1857-1936) was one of the most famous orientalists of his time.

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.

Political assignments, innovative technologies and organisational structures, present military personnel with dilemma's that can have far-reaching consequences. A thorough education is a necessary condition for morally responsible behaviour. This book aims to contribute to 'reflective practitioning' in military practice.

This volume explores the relevance of decline within the republican tradition. The essays in this volume focus on the Dutch Republic during the revolutionary era, as well as early modern Spain and Venice, the German Enlightenment, and the Weimar Republic.

This collection examines aspects of the Vietnamese diaspora resettlement experience in various national settings. It investigates issues such as community politics, identity formation, generational conflicts and how different conditions of exit from Vietnam have created fractures within the contemporary Vietnamese diaspora.

Conceived through collaboration by activist academics from Israel and Northern Ireland, this book draws from experience to offer practical and theoretical insights and programs for promoting activist pedagogy for shared learning and shared life in divided societies.

Conceived through collaboration by activist academics from Israel and Northern Ireland, this book draws from experience to offer practical and theoretical insights and programs for promoting activist pedagogy for shared learning and shared life in divided societies.

This edited volume offers an updated picture and state-of-the-art regarding the challenges faced by universities all over the world derived from the COVID-19 pandemic and discusses the strategies designed and put in play by the universities to move forward in times of confinement and prospects of new modes of functioning in the aftermath of this exceptional global situation.

Big data analytics is transforming the water sector at the national and international levels. Its potential impact on transboundary water resource governance is being assessed, in the context of selected basins in this book.

Investigating the importance of casuistry in a variety of genres in early modern Spain, this volume fills a significant gap in the scholarship, and calls for a re-thinking of the development of early modern Spanish literature and thought.

How can the ancient relationship between Homer and the Epic Cycle be recovered? Using the most significant research in the field, Andrew Porter questions many ancient and modern assumptions and offers alternative perspectives better aligned with ancient epic performance realities and modern epic studies.

This volume honors Prof. James R. Royse for his scholarly achievement in the fields of New Testament textual criticism and Philonic studies. It contains seventeen articles, prefaced by an introductory biographical article and a list of his publications.

Bulgaria's entangled Muslim and Orthodox Christian pasts still shape contemporary notions of identity, religion, and politics--and secularism--in unexpected ways. This book freshly looks at how these vital traditions come up against one another and the challenges of the world today.

This volume breaks new ground by exploring how the political actors of different formal statuses, age, and gender were able to "take the lead" in ancient Rome through initiating communication, proposing new solutions, and prompting others to act.

Qarakhanid Roads to China takes readers on a large-scale adventure with envoys and merchants, monks and artists, men and women along the Silk Roads and beyond.