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What is video game culture? This volume avoids easy answers and deceitful single definitions. Instead, the collected essays included here navigate the messy and exciting waters of video games, of culture, and of the meeting of video games and culture.

La littérature du XXIe siècle débute avec le triomphe du document, des écritures d'enquête et d'information qui refusent la fiction. Ce volume vise est à inventorier et à comprendre les territoires de la non-fiction, désormais devenu un genre littéraire essentiel. The literature of the 21st century begins with the triumph of the document, the investigative and informative writings that reject fiction. The aim of this volume is to inventory and understand the territories of non-fiction, which has now become an essential literary genre.

This companion volume seeks to trace the development of ideas relating to death, burial, and the remembrance of the dead in Europe from ca.1300-1700.

Growth and Change in Neoliberal Capitalism brings together essays written by Alfredo Saad-Filho. They take stock of long-term economic development and the progressive alternatives to neoliberalism. They also examine the political economy of Brazil, to explain the catastrophes unfolding there.

Bodmer Papyri, Scribal Culture, and Textual Transmission presents a collection of Gordon Fee's seminal works on New Testament textual criticism, in particular on Bodmer P66, its textual character and relationship to P75, and insights into scribal activity and textual transmission.

Karl Radek on China sheds light on the views of one of the major Soviet China specialists, activists of the Russian revolutionary movement, and leaders of the Trotskyist Opposition Karl Bernhardovich Radek (1885-1939).

Rosenne's The World Court offers an interactive and multidisciplinary take on the ICJ. Building on international law and IR scholarship, it presents the Court via its relationship with a growing body of states, UN organs, international and national courts, and non-state actors.

Eastern and Western Synergies and Imaginations traces and investigates multi-cultural interpretations of fictional and non-fictional narratives that feature people and events in East-West hubs. The Three Ladies of Macao, premièred in December 2016, is now published as appendix in this volume.

Mighty Baal offers a fresh portrait of the ancient Near Eastern god Baal. Its eleven essays are written in honor of Mark S. Smith, who has been the leading historian of Baal over the last four decades.

Essays written in honour of Brian Stanley on the entangled nature of ecumenism and independency in the modern global history of Christianity. They demonstrate transnational connectivity as well as local and contextual expressions of Christianity.

This research guide introduces scholars to the field of Reformed theology, focusing on works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the English language. Martha Moore-Keish explores twenty-one major theological themes, with attention to classical as well as current works.

This handbook aims at a history of Arabic shadow theatre from the earliest sightings in the tenth century to the turn of the twentieth century. At the core is an analytical documentation of all the known textual remnants and the preserved artifacts of this rich and still living tradition.

This volume offers a wide-ranging overview of the 16th-18th century disputation culture in various European regions. Its focus is on printed disputations as a polyvalent media form which brings together many of the elements that contributed to the cultural and scientific changes during the early modern period.

An overview of Susan Karant-Nunn's impact on the social and cultural history of the Reformation in central Europe.

This is the first critical edition of the Summa Alexandrinorum, that is the medieval Arabo-Latin version of an Arabic abridgment of the Nicomachean Ethics. The text is accompanied by a French translation, and is preceded by an analysis of the manuscript tradition and a study on the origins of the Summa. Cette première édition critique de la Summa Alexandrinorum, version arabo-latine médiévale d'un abrégé arabe de l'Éthique à Nicomaque, accompagnée d'une traduction française, est précédée de l'examen de la tradition manuscrite du texte et d'une étude sur les origines de la Summa.

In Johann Jakob Wettstein's Principles for New Testament Textual Criticism Silvia Castelli investigates the genesis, development, and legacy of Wettstein's criteria for evaluating New Testament variant readings, and offers a critical text and annotated English translation of Wettstein's text-critical guidelines.

Night, in ancient Greece and Rome, was a mythological figure, a context for specialized knowledge, a semantic space in literature, and a setting for unique experiences. Fifteen case-studies here explore how nighttime was employed in the ascription of specific values in all these areas of ancient culture.

This transdisciplinary project represents the most comprehensive study of imagination to date. The eclectic group of international scholars who comprise Imagination and Art propose bold and innovative theoretical frameworks for (re-) conceptualizing imagination in all of its divergent forms.

A Companion to Music at the Habsburgs Courts in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, edited by Andrew H. Weaver, is the first in-depth survey of the Habsburg family's musical patronage over a broad span of time.

Seventy Years of the International Law Commission: Drawing a Balance for the Future brings together voices from academia and practice to celebrate and critically evaluate the work of the United Nations International Law Commission (ILC) over the past seventy years.

This book narrates the establishment of a cultural project in post-war Cambodia. It depicts a country at the crossroads of conflicting imaginaries, and shows, through the Centre for Khmer Studies' story, how the neoliberal agenda of 'northern' academic institutions effectively constrain alternative 'southern' visions of development.

Highlighting neo-Victorian biofiction's crucial role in reimagining and augmenting the historical archive, this volume explores the complex ethical consequences of a creative movement of historiographic revisionism, combining biography and fiction in a dialectic tension of empathy and voyeuristic spectacle.

Eastern Wines on Western Tables: Consumption, Trade and Economy in Ancient Italy offers an interdisciplinary and multifaceted research concerning wine trade and the Roman economy during Classical antiquity.

In Kanbunmyaku: The Literary Sinitic Context and the Birth of Modern Japanese Language and Literature, Saito Mareshi demonstrates the centrality of kanbun and kanshi in the creation of modern literary Japanese and problematizes the modern antagonism between kanbun and Japanese.

Through an unprecedented collection of theoretical analysis and empirical evidence, the book provides unique insights on the role of religion in the trajectories of asylum seekers and migrants: a root cause of contemporary migrations and a factor of resilience and adaptation.

Peasants, Lords, and State: Comparing Peasant Conditions in Scandinavia and the Eastern Alpine Region, 1000-1750 compares peasant self-determination in relation to manorial and territorial power structures in Scandinavia and the eastern Alpine region between 1000 and 1750.