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Breaching the Bronze Wall deals with the sharīʿa biases that privilege the word of Muslims over the proofs of unbelievers. It describes legal relations across confessions in the Mamlūk sultanate and how the Ottoman conquest imposed new, orthodox views on the problem.

A self-conscious liberal Quakerism emerged in North America between 1790 and 1920. It shared three characteristics: commitment to liberty of conscience; questioning of Christian orthodoxy; and an insistence that liberalism was a continuation of historic Quakerism.

The copyright/design interface for a wider, non-specialist audience, taking as a starting point the notion of industrial design derived from design studies, on the border between art and science.

The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn: Light from the East by Antony Goedhals reveals the discourses of vastness, emptiness, and oneness - founded in Buddhism - hidden, for generations of critics and biographers, at the heart of this misunderstood Victorian writer's work.

In Latina/o/x Studies and Biblical Studies Jacqueline M. Hidalgo introduces Latina/o/x studies for a biblical studies audience. She examines themes such as identity and difference; ethnicity and race; migration with attention to homing, diaspora, transnationalism, and citizenship; and epistemological commitments to complexity, relationality, particularity, and collaboration.

In Physiognomy in Ming China: Fortune and the Body, Xing Wang provides an extensive reading of the Ming (1368-1644 C. E.) texts of a well-known body divination technique 'xiangshu' (physiognomy), and investigates its unique 'somatic cosmology' in Ming religious and intellectual context.

Organized into two sections, Studying Gaming Literacies explores the rich methodological approaches to gaming literacies scholarship as well as the possibilities of engaging in research in both classrooms and informal learning settings.

The contributors in Expanding and Restricting the Erotic offer a multidisciplinary perspective on the ways in which what is considered acceptable within the realm of the erotic has altered over time to the current situation where the erotic is being both expanded and restricted.

In Terror Management Theory: A Practical Review of Research and Application, Arrowood and Cox outline the need for self-esteem in combating humanity's ever-present fear of death.

The essays in this volume scrutinize the expanse of sources for The Arabian Nights or The Thousand and One Nights in all of their static and dynamic complexity. They follow the trajectory of the Nights' texts, the creative, scholarly commentaries, artistic encounters and relations to science.

Intersections between Jews and Media explores both the real Jews who embraced mass media and the fantasies they inspired.

In Escritura somática: La materialidad de la escritura en las literaturas ibéricas de la Edad Media a la temprana modernidad twelve studies explore the relation between body and writing in the Iberian literatures.

This volume, which pays tribute to the work of G.H.A. Juynboll, is a collection of original articles on the state of Islamic sciences and Arabic culture in the early phases of their crystallization.

Hua Yan (1682-1756) and the Making of the Artist in Early Modern China explores the relationships between the artist, local society, and artistic practice during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911).

This book investigates perceptions, modes, and techniques of Venetian rule in the early modern Eastern Mediterranean (1400-1700) between colonial empire, negotiated and pragmatic rule; between soft touch and exploitation; in contexts of former and continuous imperial belongings; and with a focus on representations and modes of rule as well as on colonial daily realities and connectivities.

The collection Imperial Middlebrow, edited by Christoph Ehland and Jana Gohrisch, surveys colonial middlebrow texts concentrating on Britain, India, South Africa, the West Indies, and so on, and uses the concept as a tool to read contemporary writing from Britain and Nigeria.

In Visual Culture and Politics in the Baltic Sea Region, Kersti Markus examines how visual rhetoric was used by the Danish rulers as an instrument in establishing supremacy in the region during the Baltic crusades.

Fully updated and covering the new challenges and dangers which have emerged since publication of the previous edition, the new 3rd Edition of International Law for Humankind builds on the revised and adapted text of a General Course on Public International Law delivered by the Author at The Hague Academy of International Law. Professor Cançado Trindade develops his Leitmotiv of identification of a corpus juris increasingly oriented to the fulfillment of the needs and aspirations of human beings, of peoples and of humankind as a whole. With the overcoming of the purely inter-State dimension of the discipline of the past, international legal personality has expanded, so as to encompass nowadays, besides States and international organizations, also peoples, individuals and humankind as subjects of International Law. The growing consciousness of the need to pursue universally-shared values has brought about a fundamental change in the outlook of International Law in the last decades, drawing closer attention to its foundations and, parallel to its formal sources, to its material source (the universal juridical conscience). He examines the conceptual constructions of this new International Law and identifies basic considerations of humanity permeating its whole corpus juris, disclosing the current processes of its humanization and universalization. Finally, he addresses the construction of the international rule of law, acknowledging the need and quest for international compulsory jurisdiction, in the move towards a new jus gentium, the International Law for humankind.

In Combating Crime in the Digital Age the authors offer a systematic and critical account of EU information systems in the area of freedom, security and justice. They examine personal data protection law, criminal procedure law and police law to propose safeguards and limitations addressing the emerging challenges for fundamental rights.

Democracy and Electoral Politics in Zambia aims to comprehend the current dynamics of Zambia's democracy and to understand what was specific about the 2015/2016 election experience from an interdisciplinary perspective.

The First World War and Health: Rethinking Resilience aims to broaden the scope of resilience by looking at it from military, medical, personal and societal perspectives. The authors ask how war influenced the health - both physically and psychologically - of those fighting and attending the wounded, as well as the general health of the community of which they were part.

This study analyses the modern EU counter-terrorism trends, focusing on the new terrorist crimes of Directive (EU) 2017/541 and on preventive counter-terrorism measures aiming to deter terrorist financing. It concludes by noting a 'paradigm shift' between repression and prevention in the field of countering terrorism, while suggesting relevant proposals.

Large city fires were a huge threat in premodern Central European every-day life; only quite late, institutional forms of fire insurances emerged as a post-disaster instrument of damage recovery. During the nineteenth century, insurance agencies spread through the World forming a plurality of modernities, safe or unsafe.