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In this volume, Ellen Breitholtz presents a novel and precise account of reasoning from an interactional perspective. Emphasising the individual perspectives of interlocutors and the function and acceptability of their reasoning in context.

This collection presents current work on discourse structuring from a theoretical as well as a processing perspective. The main objectives are the investigation of appropriate levels of analysis for discourse segmentation and criteria for the identification of basic discourse units.

In Pi (π) in Nature, Art, and Culture Marcel Danesi investigates the manifestations of π in science, nature, symbolism, and culture, arguing that these are intrinsically intertwined.

Educators from across the United States offer their experiences engaging in rural, place-based social justice education.

In Music of the Baduy People of Western Java Wim van Zanten describes the music and dance of the ethnic minority group of the Baduy, who try to live an ascetic life in western Java according to the ancestral rules.

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.

In Healers in the Making, Kira Robison investigates medical instruction at the University of Bologna using the lens of practical medicine, examining both the formation of medical authority and innovations in practical medical pedagogy during the late medieval period.

In Modern Middle-Class Housing in Tehran - Reproduction of an Archetype, Rana Habibi offers an engaging exposé of the modern urban history of Tehran during the Cold War period: 1945-1979.

The Yearbook of Chinese Theology is an international, ecumenical and fully peer-reviewed annual that covers Chinese Christianity in the areas of Biblical Studies, Church History, Systematic Theology, Practical Theology, and Comparative Religions. It offers genuine Chinese theological research previously unavailable in English, by top scholars in the study of Christianity in China.

Saintly Spheres and Islamic Landscapes explores the creation, expansion, and perpetuation of the material and imaginary spheres of spiritual domination and sanctity that surrounded Sufi saints and became central to religious authority, Islamic piety, and the belief in the miraculous.

Across 22 studies the author analyses the Gospel according to Mark as a performed episodic narrative, including its early reception, text type, dependence on Jesus tradition, Galilean setting, style, use of metaphor, intertextuality, strategies of persuasion, and theology.

In Christianity and Conversion among Migrants, Darren Carlson explores the faith, beliefs, and practices of migrants and refugees as well as the Christian organizations serving them between 2014-2018 in Athens, Greece.

This volume aims at exploring the ancient roots of 'holistic' approaches in the specific field of medicine and the life sciences, with attention to the larger theoretical implications of these discussions, and their reception in modern debates.

Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making proposes a lung run exploration of the influence of colonisation and overseas trade on commercial law and the adaptation of transplanted law to colonial constraints in a comparative perspective.

Four Kingdoms Motifs before and beyond the Book of Daniel maps the inception, transmission, and redeployments of the four kingdoms motif in historiographies from ancient through mediaeval writings of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

In Gender Inequality in Latin America: The Case of Ecuador Pablo Quiñonez and Claudia Maldonado-Erazo bring together a collection of articles that critically examine the origins and social and economic implications of gender inequality in Latin America, focusing on Ecuador.

The literary qualities of humanists' writings convey how play and illusion helped form their ideas about knowledge, ethics, and metaphysics. Timothy Kircher argues for new ways of appreciating Renaissance humanist philosophy.

AI as an "autonomous author" urges the law to rethink authorship. Policy makers should consider a reformative conception of AI in copyright law looking at innovative theories in robot law, where new frames for a legal personhood of artificial agents are proposed.

Classical Rhetoric in English, 1650 - 1800 traces the development of British rhetorical culture through English translations of selected works by Plato, Isocrates, Demosthenes, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Cicero, Seneca, Quintilian, Tacitus, and Longinus, along with a glossary of English rhetorical vocabulary.

In this volume, Silvia Luraghi offers a comprehensive account of construction variation with two-place verbs belonging to different sub-domains of experience (including bodily sensation, perception, cognition, emotion and volitionality) in the Homeric language.

In Weltgeschichtsschreibung zwischen Schia und Sunna Philip Bockholt examines the manuscript tradition of Khvāndamīr's Ḥabīb al-siyar, and gives an in-depth analysis of how the author adapted his chronicle to the Shiʿi and Sunni religio-political convictions of his Safavid and Mughal overlords. In Weltgeschichtsschreibung zwischen Schia und Sunna untersucht Philip Bockholt die Handschriftentradition von Ḫvāndamīrs Ḥabīb as-siyar und analysiert die Arbeitsweise des Historikers, seine Weltchronik vor dem Hintergrund der politischen Umwälzungen in Iran und Indien um 1500 an schiitische und sunnitische Kontexte anzupassen.

Winner of the Marthe Engelborghs-Bertels Prize for Sinology 2023. In John Fryer and The Translator's Vade-mecum, Tola offers for the first time a comprehensive study of the collection of scientific and technical glossaries, with English-Chinese parallel translation, compiled by the English scholar John Fryer (1839-1928).

Europe Thirty Years After 1989 explores what happened in the former socialist countries during the last thirty years and the reasons behind these events. The authors examine how values, memory, and identity have been transforming these countries since the year 1989.

Bread and Beauty is a study of the works and life of José Carlos Mariátegui (1894-1930), the autodidact Peruvian scholar and revolutionary activist frequently considered the most important Latin American Marxist.

The study presents a critical examination of the political relations between Rome and Near Eastern kingdoms and principalities during the age of civil war from Caesar's death in 44 until the Battle of Actium in 31 BC.

In this volume of Critical Storytelling, female incarcerates and undergraduate writers share insights from their liminality of living with/from behind/within invisible bars, posing important questions about how to incite change for the future.

Libertas and Res Publica examines two key concepts of Western political thinking: freedom and republic. Contributors address important new questions on the principles of, and essential connection between res publica and libertas in Roman thought and Republican history.

In Architecture of the World's Major Religions: An Essay on Themes, Differences, and Similarities, Thomas Barrie presents religious architecture as an amalgam of aesthetic, social, political, cultural, economic, and doctrinal elements, which are often materialized in different ways in the world's principal religions.

Mountains appear in the oldest known maps yet their representation has proven a notoriously difficult challenge. Ernesto Capello surveys both the technical history of relief representation and the broad history of the allegorical, commercial and political uses of mapping mountains.

Teyler's Foundation in Haarlem and its 'Book and Art Room' of 1779, edited by Ellinoor Bergvelt and Debora Meijers, examines for the first time this remarkable institution in the context of scientific, museological, political, artistic, religious and philosophical developments.