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By looking at China from the periphery, this study shows how European sources offer a unique way of expanding the knowledge about the gazette of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Its interconnected history illustrates how the Chinese gazette, as translated by European missionaries, became a major source for reflections on state and society by Enlightenment thinkers.

This issue of Transnational Crime focuses on the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime and its Supplementing Protocols. It is part of a broader project, marking the UNTOC's 2oth anniversary, which started with The Palermo Convention at Twenty: Institutional and Substantive Challenges (Brill 2020) and aims at appraising the Convention's legal framework and its suitability as a tool for effectively combating present-day transnational organized crime.

This volume focuses on queer studies in education and educational research. It works to examine concepts, theories, and methods related to queer studies across a range of educational contexts.

This book brings together in one volume a selection of the best articles that have appeared in the Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, whose first issue appeared in 1996. Each chapter highlights challenges faced by education systems across the region.

This book demonstrates that policy, professionalism, and pedagogy are integral to the development of the best teachers that our students deserve. The empirical quantitative and qualitative studies and narratives presented in this volume demonstrate that strong analyses are needed to drive decisions on policy and practice.

This book brings together in one volume a selection of the best articles that have appeared in the Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies, whose first issue appeared in 1996. Each chapter highlights challenges faced by education systems across the region.

This book offers rich narratives, case studies, and literature reviews highlighting the unique implications faced by mature students, allowing institutions to acknowledge, value, and facilitate change for an evolved, equitable, and elevated educational experience.

This book offers rich narratives, case studies, and literature reviews highlighting the unique implications faced by mature students, allowing institutions to acknowledge, value, and facilitate change for an evolved, equitable, and elevated educational experience.

The Spratly Islands and International Law examines legal solutions to problems arising from the absence of maritime boundaries in the Spratly Islands. The book draws on extensive sources of international law and formulates novel, concrete proposals for the way forward.

The volume of literature in pentecostal theology has quickly become daunting. This brief monograph brings readers up to speed on the characteristics of pentecostal theology in the past and present, as well as its potential in the future.

This volume analyses how and to what effect gender shapes, and is shaped by, peacebuilding initiatives in relation to other social dynamics in the context of local peacebuilding initiatives in Indonesia and Nigeria.

This book conducts a study of contradictions and coherence in Targum Pseudo-Jonathan and suggests that the alleged contradictions are ultimately given to resolution, once the greater context of biblical and Jewish tradition is taken into consideration.

The Tibetan Gesar epic has known countless retellings, translations, and academic studies. The Many Faces of Ling Gesar, presents its historical, cultural, and literary aspects for the first time in a single volume for both general readers and specialists.

This commentary, written from a distinctively Pentecostal perspective, is primarily for pastors, lay persons and Bible students. It is based upon the best scholarship, written in popular language, and communicates the meaning of the text with minimal technical distractions. The authors offer a running exposition on the text and extended comments on matters of special signicance for Pentecostals. They acknowledge and interact with alternative interpretations of individual passages. This commentary also provides periodic opportunities for reflection upon and personal response to the biblical text.

How did humans respond to the eighteenth-century discovery of countless new species of animals? This book explores the gamut of human-animal interactions: from love to cultural identifications, moral reflections, philosophical debates, classification systems, mechanical copies, insults and literary creativity.

In this book Siu Lang Carrillo Yap compares the land and forest rights of Amazonian indigenous peoples from Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru, and analyses these rights in the context of international law, property law theory, and natural sciences.

This Encyclopaedia of Marxism and Education showcases the explanatory power of Marxist educational theory and practice.

This book examines the multiple ways that wisdom grounded in life experience, science and theoretical knowledge can contribute to positive local and global futures.

This book is an in-depth study of evolving state-society-environment relationships of the Jianghan Plain in late imperial China, as well as the transformation of landscape and waterscape in central China through lenses that have been overlooked in previous scholarship.

When claiming territories, States use all kinds of legal, geographical, and historical arguments, as well aseffectivités. In recent maritime cases, States have begun using underwater archaeology and submerged heritage as a basis for their claims. This book takes a critical look at that policy.

Combining an overview of the interdisciplinary literature with original case studies, this volume examines Australian education through the lens of secularisation, from 1910 to the present, questioning the nature of "secular settlements" and the role of Christianity in Australian schools.

This work applies discourse analysis to investment awards and WTO reports to unveil the narratives behind the use of unwritten law. Adopting a CLS and Neo-Gramscian approach, this linguistic inquiry studies the neoliberal and hegemonic structures of international economic adjudication. Cette étude développe une analyse du discours du juge de l'OMC et de l'arbitre de l'investissement portant sur le droit non écrit. En employant une approche critique et néo-gramscienne, elle s'intéresse aux structures néolibérales et hégémoniques du contentieux international économique.