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In The Books behind the Masks Anthony Spalinger continues his work on the warrior kings of pharaonic Egypt. Here is covered their actual war records from the perspective of literature and the contemporary court-based society, especially with the eulogies.

Tying on case studies from late antiquity to the 21st century, this is the first volume that systematically explores the inter-relationship between fictional narratives about magic and the real-world ritual art of practicing magicians.

One of the most central figures in monotheistic traditions is King David. The volume takes a new, critical look at the process of biblical creation and exegetical transformation of this character in the intertwined words of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Migrant Organising offers an account of how trade union and migrant workers today respond to the transformation of work, the rise of global chains and the intensification of international migrations, by reinventing community-based unionism and building solidarity networks.

This volume is devoted to the memory of the Chinese carcinologist Prof. Ruiyu Liu (1922-2012) who dedicated his life to taxonomy, systematics, ecology, zoogeography and aquaculture. His scientific career started in 1949 with his first publications and continued.

This book is an investigation into the Pauline Epistles in Arabic: their worldwide manuscripts, the different translation strategies they represent, and the various Groups involved in their preservation, circulation, and usage over time.

The first in-depth analysis of how early modern people produced and consumed images of revolts and political violence, drawing on evidence from Russia, China, Hungary, Portugal, Germany, North America and other regions.

Provides a radically new interpretation of the political makeup of the Qing Empire, grounded on extensive examination of the Mongolian and Manchu sources.

This collection of critical theorizing reflects the lived experiences of racialized Asian-Canadian contributors. Grounded in theory and history, these essays illuminate pathways to better understand Asian-ness in contemporary Canada. These academics provide fresh perspectives on Asian Canadian exclusion, examine new spaces for critical resistance, and navigate the challenges of identity formation across racial, cultural, and national boundaries.

Based on colonial archives and indigenous maps, this book delivers a connected history of imperial margins in Southeast Asia by comparing the British and French geographical policies and practices at the end of the 19th century.

Christian-Muslim Relations, a Bibliographical History 18 (CMR 18) is about relations between Muslims and Christians in the Ottoman Empire from 1800 to 1914. It gives descriptions, assessments and bibliographical details of all known works between the faiths from this period.

This volume explores the production of loss in nationalist discourses during the long nineteenth century in the Baltic Sea region - how the notion of loss was charged with emotions in political writings, lectures, novels, paintings, letters and diaries.

In Grammar of Poumai Naga (Poula) Sahiinii Lemaina Veikho provides the first comprehensive grammar of Poula, a Trans-Himalyan language spoken in northeast India.

In Forms of Collective Engagement in Youth Transitions, renowned and emerging sociologists analyse new phenomena of collectivity among young people around the globe.

This volume in the Brill Research Perspectives in Comparative Discrimination Law offers an analysis and comparison of sex discrimination law in international human rights law and three country examples - the United States, Australia and India.

This book presents a multifaceted analysis of the social security system in the Balkan states and offers a comprehensive overview and recommendations on social problems in the region.

Culture matérielle et contacts diplomatiques rassemble quatorze études qui traitent de la culture matérielle en relation avec les échanges diplomatiques qui ont marqué un espace géographique couvrant la zone méditerranéenne entre le XIe et le XVIe siècles. The present volume brings together fourteen studies that deal with material culture in relation to diplomatic exchanges in the Mediterranean area between the eleventh and the sixteenth centuries.

This book is an introduction to the emerging discipline of "psychology of migration", which is an interdisciplinary field of reflection and research, joining together diverse subfields of psychology with anthropological, sociological, demographic and historical inquiry on migration processes.

Bernard Scott's book explains the relevance of cybernetics for the social sciences. He provides a non-technical account of the history of cybernetics and its core concepts, with examples of applications of cybernetics in psychology, sociology, and anthropology.

This is the first book to present a full, socio-technical-legal picture on the security practices of cyber criminals, based on confidential police sources related to some of the world's most serious and organized criminals.

This book presents an edition and English translation of a medieval commentary on the book of Hosea that was written by an anonymous Karaite author in the Middle Ages. It brings into the light of scholarship an important but hitherto lost text in the intellectual history of the Karaites.

In The Egyptian Elite as Roman Citizens: Looking at Ptolemaic Private Portraiture Giorgia Cafici offers the analysis of private, male portrait sculptures as attested in Egypt between the end of the Ptolemaic and the beginning of the Roman Period.

This book contributes to the discussion on Indigenous research methodologies and doing Indigenous research, drawing from perspectives on Sámi and global Indigenous studies.

This volume explores the work of Anselm of Canterbury, theologian and archbishop, in light of the communities in which he participated.

This collection of in-depth studies on the structure of relative clauses in various representative languages from Mexico and America Central sheds invaluable light on the formation of Mesoamerica as a linguistic area.