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The Law of the Seabed offers a timely analysis of the most pressing legal questions raised by the use and protection of natural resources on and underneath the world's seabeds.

Arabic and its Alternatives discusses the complicated relationships between language, religion and communal identities in the Middle East in the period following the First World War, taking its starting point in the non-Arabic and non-Muslim communities of the region.

This book offers perspectives on the interplay between short-term timekeeping technologies and their social contexts in ancient Egypt, Babylon, Greece, and Rome. It explores the origins of the "hour" as a temporal unit and illuminates timekeeping activities in antiquity.

The volume explores the central themes in Iván Szelényi's sociological oeuvre comprising of empirical explorations and their theoretical refinement. The contributors have been asked to take interpretive and critical stances, and to clarify the relevance of his insights.

This study examines how cities have become an area of significant historical debate about late antiquity, challenging accepted notions that it is a period of dynamic change and reasserting views of the era as one of decline and fall.

Over the past seven decades, industrial relations in China have been profoundly transformed multiple times. The articles in this volume, which originally appeared in Open Times (开放时代), examine these twists and turns, focusing on contention and power, that is, factory politics.

Weyerman's art critical jargon and ideas on art theory are analysed in this study of his artists' biographies (1729). Weyerman pays much attention to the artists' lifestyle. They should live and think as merchants: a bohemian life style, he found, was pernicious.

Herakles Inside and Outside the Church explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles (the Roman Hercules) in the predominantly Christian cultures which succeeded classical antiquity in Europe, grappling with the question of his significance in the post-classical world.

Chinese Medicine Periodicals from the Late Qing and Republican China: An Overview includes an introduction of 49 periodicals on Chinese medicine published in the late Qing and Republican periods in China. These 49 periodicals, both aged and rare, were compiled together in collaboration with over 50 libraries, and reprinted by Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Shanghai Lexicographical Publishing House in 2012. In 2017, Brill developed an online version of this collection. Considered one of the best sources for observing the changing nature of medical practice and education during the late Qing and Republican eras in China, this collection provides unique insight into not only the modern transformation of Chinese medicine, but also the larger role of medicine in Chinese society. The collection of 49 periodicals on Chinese medicine is available online, full-text searchable. For more information on the online database, please visit the Brill webpage.

This collection of lectures by world-renowned philosopher Agnes Heller, edited and introduced by John Grumley, covers a range of political and cultural issues, from the highly topical to modern classics.

In Use of Experts in International Freshwater Disputes Mbengue and Das offer a critical assessment of the involvement of experts in resolving international water disputes. Through case studies, they identify the lacunae as well as good practices in expert use in disputes of this nature.

In Global Healing: Literature, Advocacy, Care, Karen Laura Thornber analyzes how narratives from diverse communities globally engage with a broad variety of serious health conditions and advocate for empathic, compassionate, and respectful care that facilitates healing and enables wellbeing.

In Untouchable Bodies, Resistance, and Liberation Joshua Samuel engages in constructing an embodied comparative theology of liberation by comparing divine possessions among Hindu and Christian Dalits in South India.

From the thirteenth up to the nineteenth century European travellers encountered a foreign religion, Hinduism, and recorded their impressions in travel reports. In The European Encounter with Hinduism Jan Peter Schouten leads us through the fascinating history of this experience.

This third volume of the International Handbook of Mathematics Teacher Education focuses on teachers, teacher educators, researchers, and others who work to provide effective learning opportunities for teachers, with emphasis on describing and analysing their engagement in mathematics teacher education collaborations and contexts from various perspectives.

Tools and Processes in Mathematics Teacher Education describes and analyze various promising tools and processes, from different perspectives, aimed at facilitating mathematics teacher learning/development. It provides insights of how mathematics teacher educators think about and approach their work with teachers.

Quaker Epistemology analyzes a distinctive 'Inward Light' theory of knowledge. This expanded experiential empiricism integrates spiritual and religious knowledge with an ethically grounded vision of scientific knowledge.

This study is intent on depicting major aspects concerning the Chinese Communist Party's (CCP) organizational arrangement and explaining some key concepts in the ideological framework constructed by the CCP leadership over time.

This book, one of two volumes, is an anthology that analyses, through selected examples, the role played in the development of public law by the pursuit of goals serving modernisation or national ideologies in various countries, cultural spheres, and periods.

Kao Gong Ji: The World's Oldest Encyclopaedia of Technologies by Guan Zengjian and Konrad Herrmann offers an English translation of China's first technological encyclopaedia. Commentaries show the extent to which the descriptions of the technologies correspond to archaeological findings.

In Byblos in the Late Bronze Age, Marwan Kilani reconstructs the "biography" of the city of Byblos during the Late Bronze Age, exploring its interactions and development in relation with the contemporary local and macroregional cultural and geopolitical reality.

Adab is a concept situated at the heart of Arabic and Islamic civilization. What became of it, towards modernity? The question of the civilising process (Norbert Elias) helps us reflect on this story.

This anthology explores religious diversity in Asia seen through the lenses of history, identity, state, ritual and geography. The chapters furthermore address theoretical and methodological reflections using Asia as a laboratory for broader comparative research of 'religious diversity'.

In this book, Das deploys class theory to decipher India's economic and political situation. It deals with the specificities of India's capitalism and neoliberalism, and their economic consequences. It critically examines lower-class struggles led by the Left, and the fascistic politics of the Right.

The Bourgeois Charm of Karl Marx & the Ideological Irony of American Jurisprudence employs a well-known body of work, Marx's, to explain the inevitable limits of scholarship, in hopes to encourage academic boldness, and diversity, especially within American jurisprudence

Few Roman emperors enjoy such fame as Julian the Apostate (361-363), the man who tried in vain to reverse the transformation of the Roman Empire into a Christian monarchy. This companion synthesizes international research on Julian and develops new perspectives on his rule.