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This article explores the legal framework under international, European and national law for various measures aimed at improving the marine environment of the Baltic Sea by reducing the leakage of phosphorus from the seabed.

This volume explores the place of antiquity in Enlightenment Europe. It considers the contexts, questions, and agendas that shaped eighteenth-century engagements with the ancient world, shedding new light on familiar figures and recovering forgotten chapters in this European story.

In Judeans in Babylonia, Tero Alstola presents a comprehensive investigation of deportees in the sixth and fifth centuries BCE. By using cuneiform documents as his sources, he offers the first book-length social historical study of the Babylonian Exile.

This volume is a collection of studies in the cultural history of al-Andalus in honor of Ross Brann on his 70th birthday.

The Transformations of Tragedy explores different Christian influences, from the Early Modern to Modern periods, upon the development of post-classical Western tragedy.

Alan Sweeten's China's Old Churches presents a long-term historical view of Catholicism in north China as seen through Western-style sacred structures. Using historical materials as well as architectural and visual evidence, he reveals churches' former impact and their present-day legacy.

This volume provides a state-of-the-art summary of the emerging field of sonic seasoning research, whereby music/soundscapes are specifically chosen, or else designed/composed, in order to correspond crossmodally to, and hence potentially modify, the associated taste/flavour of food and beverages.

In Acts of Resistance in Late-Modernist Theatre, Richard Murphet closely analyses the working processes of three ground-breaking late-modernist artists: Richard Foreman, Jenny Kemp and Richard Murphet. He examines their methodologies as writer/directors to gain a deeper understanding of recent experiments in theatre practice.

In The Ancient Sefer Torah of Bologna, leading specialists study the history, structure and different halakhot or norms adopted in the pre-Maimonidean Torah scroll (ca. 1200 CE). The scroll features a unique use of tagin, text resembling Aleppo codex and unusual scribal techniques.

Warriors, Martyrs, and Dervishes: Moving Frontiers, Shifting Identities in the Land of Rome (13th-15th Centuries) focuses on the perceptions of geopolitical and cultural change on Byzantine territories between thirteenth and fifteenth centuries through intersecting stories on Turkish Muslim warriors, dervishes, and Byzantine martyrs.

In The Meaning of Color in Ancient Mesopotamia, Shiyanthi Thavapalan explores the development of color language in the Akkadian language (c. 2500-500 BCE) in light of local artistic and scientific traditions.

Kennedy's work investigates the hybrid identities of Irish Quakers within a context of sectarianism. Such diverse identities produce organisational tensions. Kennedy argues that Irish Quakers have developed a distinctive approach to complex identity management prioritising 'relational unity' and modelling inclusive identities.

Patristic Literature in Arabic Translations explores the Arabic translations of the Greek and Syriac Church Fathers, focusing on those produced in the Palestinian monasteries and at Sinai in the 8th-10th centuries and in Antioch during Byzantine rule (969-1084).

In Masters of Psalmody (bimo) Aurélie Névot presents a scriptural shamanism observed in China among the Yi-Sani by analysing their bimo shaman's metaphysics and text-based ritual system related to a secret writing now controlled by the Chinese State.

A presentation of the pivotal 1519 debate between Martin Luther and John Eck in its historical and theological context, showing its significance for the subsequent course of the Reformation.

The Mandate of Heaven examines the first European version of Sunzi's Art of War. His work is presented in English for the first time.

In this book, Bozhil Hristov investigates the verbal systems of two distantly related Indo-European languages, highlighting similarities as well as crucial differences between them and seeking a unified approach.

Volume 36 of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs publishes scholarly articles and essays on international and transnational law, as well as compiles official documents on the state practice of the Republic of China (ROC) in 2018.

Le Jeu de l'ambiguïté et du mot se propose d'analyser la fonctionnalité littéraire de l'ambiguïté et du jeu de mots chez Apollinaire, Prévert, Tournier et Beckett. Les doubles sens peuvent être à la base de la genèse et de la structuration de leurs oeuvres. Le Jeu de l'ambiguïté et du mot focuses on the literary function of the ambiguities and wordplay in the work of Apollinaire, Prévert, Tournier and Beckett. These language games can be the basis for the genesis and structuring of their works.

This volume consists of papers based on presentations given at a roundtable on "New Directions for Historical Linguistics: Impact and Synthesis, 50 Years Later," held at the 23rd International Conference on Historical Linguistics in 2017, as well as an introduction by the editors.

Valentinianism: New Studies offers fresh contributions by leading experts on the history of the Valentinian "Gnostic" church, on contested aspects of Valentinian doctrine, and on the use and interpretation of the New Testament by the Valentinians.

Cet ouvrage interroge la pratique fréquente du changement de style chez les écrivains français depuis la fin du XIXe siècle, en croisant les approches. À l'époque moderne, avoir du style ne se limite pas à en avoir un seul. This collection addresses the common practice of the change of style among French authors since the end of the nineteenth century, crossing various approaches. During the contemporary period evidencing Style does not simply imply a one-way evidence.

El éxodo español de 1939: Una topología cultural del exilio explores the various stages of the relocation of culture in exile; from French concentration camps, on board ship and finally to residence in Mexico. En El éxodo español de 1939: Una topología cultural del exilio Mónica Jato estudia varias etapas de la experiencia espacial del exilio: en los campos de internamiento franceses, en los barcos rumbo a América y durante el asentamiento en México.

This volume collects 33 papers from an international conference held at Charles University in 2015. Contributions span the full range of Hittite studies and related disciplines, from Anatolian and Indo-European linguistics and cuneiform philology to Ancient Near Eastern archaeology, history, and religion.

Blending micro and macro approaches, the volume covers topics from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries related to the Ottoman military and warfare, biography and intellectual history, and inter-imperial and cross-cultural relations.