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Crossroads of Cuisine offers history of food and cultural exchanges in and around Central Asia. It discusses geographical base, and offers historical and cultural overview. A photo essay binds it all together. The book offers new views of the past.

Robert Lachmann's letters to Henry George Farmer provide insightful glimpses into his life and the successive research projects he undertook concerning Arab urban music from North Africa and later Arab and Jewish music traditions in Palestine.

In Learning Law and Travelling Europe, Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen offers an account of the study journeys of Swedish lawyers in the early modern period, and their connection to the state-building process and the development of the Swedish legal profession.

This book is a study of the formation and the practice of Buddhist canons and an attempt to present as fully as possible the panorama of Chinese Buddhist faith. The book uses textual and archaeological sources, including Dunhuang texts, and adopts multiple perspectives such as textual evidence, historical circumstances, social life, as well as the intellectual background at the time.

Provides an overview of the current research undertaken across the country, thereby providing a valuable resource for students, professors and research associates working in the arts disciplines, media studies, education, and cultural studies.

Constructed around seven extensively contextualized case studies, Trajectories of State Formation across Fifteenth-Century Islamic West-Asia offers a critical trans-dynastic understanding of the socio-political histories and historiographies of the Sultanates of Cairo and of the Timurid, Turkmen and early Ottoman

This volume brings together some thought provoking discussions on inclusive education within the current education climate. Is inclusive education worth pursuing or is the fervour for its implementation subsiding as the realities of its challenges are understood?

Interactions of Degree and Quantification examines connections and semantic parallels between individual and degree quantifiers in the expression of quantity and measurement in human language.

In An Chunggŭn: His Life and Thought in his own Words, Jieun Han and Franklin Rausch provide a complete English translation, with annotations, of all of An's writings, as well as excerpts from his trial and appeal.

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Tributaries and Peripheries of the Ottoman Empire offers thirteen studies on the relationship between Ottoman tributaries with each other in the imperial framework, as well as with neighboring border provinces of the empire's core territories from the fifteenth to eighteenth centuries.

Schmidt's is a story that takes account of the pathological mechanisms of colonialism. Duin's annotated translation of Lodewijk Schmidt's ethnographic accounts forces us to reflect upon the catastrophe that is ethnocide and deforestation of the Eastern Guiana Highlands in Amazonia.

For nearly two centuries, the racial significance of the human brain has absorbed a huge amount of scientific energy, despite the frequency of shortcomings and disappointing results. This book tries to show and explain the resilience of such a thorny issue.

Pilgrimage and Economy in the Ancient Mediterranean brings together diverse scholarship to explore the socioeconomic dynamics of ancient Mediterranean pilgrimage from archaic Greece to Late Antiquity, the Greek mainland to Egypt and the Near East.

In History of the Pauline Corpus in Texts, Transmissions, and Trajectories, Chris S. Stevens uses Systemic Functional Linguistics to offer an entirely new analysis of the early life of the Pauline corpus with regard to text types, Christological scribal alterations, and textual trajectories.

Kabbalah in America includes chapters from leading experts in a variety of fields and is the first-ever comprehensive treatment of the title subject from colonial times until the present. As the first of its kind, it will set the tone for all future scholarship on the subject.

In Dissimilar Coffee Frontiers Sven Van Melkebeke offers an account of the divergent development of coffee production in eastern Congo and western Rwanda during the colonial period.

Kitāb al-mustalḥaq by Ibn Ǧanāḥ is an addendum to the treatises on Hebrew morphology by Ḥayyūǧ. It was composed in Zaragoza after 1013. This new edition and translation includes a study on the context and contents of the treatise.

Many study the reception of Classical Antiquity today. But why, how and from what conceptual or disciplinary frame? A number of selected representative chapters on these questions illustrate the remarkable diversity and vitality of Classical Receptions Studies and set the agenda for future research.

In Pauline Economy in the Middle Ages, "''The Spiritual Cannot Be Maintained Without The Temporal..." Beatrix F. Romhányi examines the estate management of the Pauline order, and argues it was a transitory system between monastic and mendicant economy.

Dans Le retentissant destin de Georges Darien à la Belle Époque, Aurélien Lorig s'intéresse à la vie et à l'oeuvre d'un écrivain réfractaire peu connu. Son essai nous fait redécouvrir le destin mouvementé d'un homme de lettres combatif. In Le retentissant destin de Georges Darien à la Belle Époque, Aurélien Lorig studies the life and the work of a little known, refractory author. His essay allows us to rediscover the eventful fate of a combative man of letters.

National Security of India and International Law is a pioneering inter-disciplinary scholarly exercise in the context of India.

Christian Teachers in Second-Century Rome situates second-century Christian teachers such as Marcion, Justin, Valentinus and others in the social and intellectual context of the Roman urban environment, placing their teaching and textual activity in the midst of physicians, philosophers, and other religious experts.

Afrasian Transformations explores a dynamic nexus of transregional interactions that is reshaping political relations, economic flows and increasingly mobile lifeworlds on the one hand, and academic practices in African and Asian Studies as well as transregional research on the other.

Aims to create opportunities for scholars, practitioners, and silenced voices to share theories and stories of progressive and transformative music pedagogies that challenge the ways music educators and learners think about and practice their arts relative to displacement.

This volume contains the edition and translation of the chapter of al-Maqrīzī's (d. 845/1442) al-Ḫabar ʿan al-basar dealing with Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Franks, and Goths.

A novel and female empowering interpretive approach to these artistic archetypes in her analysis of Imaging Women of Consequence in the Dutch Golden Age.

In International Groundwater Law and the US-Mexico Border Region, Maria E. Milanes offers a new international legal and institutional framework to manage fossil aquifers and groundwater in conjunctive use with surface water.