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The Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam is an entirely new work, with new articles reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship. It appears in substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.

Interdisciplinary perspective on the origin and significance of the numeral zero. Over 40 international scholars explore zero under four broad themes: history; religion, philosophy & linguistics; arts; and mathematics & science. With the existing research being very specialized, this is the first serious interdisciplinary study.

Reconstructing Feminism Through Cyberfeminism examines how women have historically been underrepresented in the digital world, and the possibility for social change at the convergence of gender and technology.

In Prophet, Intermediary, King: The Dynamics of Mediation in the Biblical World and Old Babylonian Mari, Julie B. Deluty investigates the central role of parties mediating prophetic communication with kings. Her book offers an innovative dimension to the social landscape of prophecy.

After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Swiss government oscillated between neutrality and solidarity in one of the Cold War's major hot wars. They delivered humanitarian aid, hosted Soviet prisoners and eventually mediated between the Afghan regime and the resistance.

Science education and prison education. This volume opens a conversation on STEM education in US prisons. It foregrounds the voices of incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated science students. The book covers biology education, sustainability programs, and science pedagogy design for carceral environments.

Science education and prison education. This volume opens a conversation on STEM education in US prisons. It foregrounds the voices of incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated science students. The book covers biology education, sustainability programs, and science pedagogy design for carceral environments.

This is an ethnography of a Tibetan Buddhist nunnery of full-time tantric practice. It explores the nuns' relationship to their texts on their pathway to embodied, nondual awareness, and demonstrates the need for fully contextualized understandings of Buddhist textual knowledge.

This volume provides a comparative investigation into concepts of the abyss in fourteen ancient and contemporary languages and cultures worldwide. It combines ethnolinguistics with philosophy, literature, folklore, religion and translation to demonstrate the culture shaping significance of this fundamental concept.

This volume analyzes the responses of several European communities in South America to the call for mobilization ordered by their country of origin and the myriad impacts of the world wars on the development of their ethnic and national identities.

Blacks of Tunis in al-Timbuktawi's Hatk al-Sitr critically engages Aḥmad b. al-Qādī b. Yūsuf b. Ibrāhīm al-Fulānī al-Timbuktāwī's perspectives on the Hausa-trance possession cult of Bori practice in Ottoman Tunisia.

"De Gewasbeschermingsgids 2012 geeft een compleet overzicht van alle per 1 januari 2012 toegelaten gewasbeschermingsmiddelen in de land- en tuinbouw en het openbaar en particulier groen. Het thema ""geïntegreerde gewasbescherming"" is prominent aanwezig. Dat betekent dat niet alleen chemische middelen en biociden, maar ook niet-chemische maatregelen zijn opgenomen om ziekten en plagen te voorkomen en te bestrijden. Met het oog op de voedselveiligheid zijn ook de veiligheidstermijnen in de gids opgenomen. De Gewasbeschermingsgids 2012 is een onmisbaar naslagwerk dat in uw bedrijfs-, advies- of onderzoekspraktijk en in het agrarisch onderwijs niet mag ontbreken. Welke informatie vindt u in de gids? -alle in Nederland toegelaten gewasbeschermingsmiddelen met hun werking, gehalte werkzame stof en de risico's voor het milieu en de toepasser; -alle toegelaten werkzame stoffen met hun chemische groepsindeling, werkingsmechanisme, middelnamen en toelatingen per teeltgroep en/of gewas; -alle ziekten, plagen en teeltproblemen in de land- en tuinbouw en het openbaar en particulier groen en de niet-chemische maatregelen (biologische, fysische en teeltmaatregelen) ertegen; -alle ziekten, plagen en teeltproblemen in de land- en tuinbouw en het openbaar en particulier groen en de toegelaten chemische maatregelen ertegen; -algemene niet-chemische maatregelen ter voorkoming en bestrijding van onkruiden; -alle chemische bestrijdingsmogelijkheden voor onkruiden; -alle wettelijk bepaalde veiligheidstermijnen en wachttijden; -de adressen van belangrijke instanties op het gebied van de gewasbescherming."

These essays present a comprehensive view of early modern Nürnberg's visual culture as it pertains to civic virtues. They explore Nürnberg as a significant location from which to study the intersection of art and power, culture and the Common Good.

This book offers a comprehensive and accessible characterisation of the first-person shooter videogame genre. It comments on the defining peculiarities of the genre such as its use of the first-person perspective, the shooting gaming mechanics, the heroic narrative, and multiplayer gaming.

The study approaches the Refutatio omnium haeresium by "Hippolytus of Rome" from a completely new perspective. It offers a detailed analysis of the genre of the writing, which is identified as a protreptikos, a promotional writing for Christianity. This is followed by an extensive study of the so-called Peratics, which combines structural analysis and thorough examination of content. Die Studie nährt sich der Refutatio omnium haeresium "Hippolyts von Rom" von gänzlich neuer Perspektive an. Sie bietet eine detaillierte Analyse der Gattung der Schrift, die als Werbeschrift für das Christentum identifiziert wird. Eine umfangreiche Untersuchung der sog. Peraten, die Strukturanalyse und gründliche inhaltliche Auseinandersetzung verbindet, schließt sich an.

How can center and periphery be recognized by ontological and axiological features? How did these features transform center-periphery relationships to the former metropolises of Romance literatures of the Americas and Africa? What are the consequences of deperipheralization processes for poetics?

This is a monograph on the philosophy of culture. Based on philosophical realism, the book's classical-philosophy approach to culture allows it to embark on a journey through the centuries to show human culture as an ongoing drama of nature and person, and evaluate its main actors.

The entertaining and informative Arabic anthology by al-Thaʿālibī (d. 1038), Beautifying the Ugly and Uglifying the Beautiful, offers poems and prose with contrary or paradoxical statements, thematically arranged. The book contains a new edition and a richly annotated English translation.

This book examines whether the current system of international law is still adequate. Analysing the compatibility of trade measures on child labour with world trade law, it makes the case for a new cognitive frame, a New Legal Humanism.

Exploring the conditions of news reporting, this book looks into the studies of social systems theory and inter-media agenda setting. The author invites us to expand our understanding of media's role in the societal process of problem-solving and meaning construction.

"Starting in Louisiana in the early nineteenth century, this book takes the reader on a journey through the USA and the development of their civil codes. From Georgia and New York, civil codes traveled to California and Dakota Territory; in the Great Plains, they made their way to Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota by the end of the century. Unveiling the history of nineteenth-century civil codes in the USA, this book examines their origin stories, circulation, and usage by focusing on the social-historical context of their drafting and legal concepts. "Rocheton's work, published four decades after Cook's book on 'The American Codification Movement,' contains an exhaustive and insightful analysis of nineteenth-century civil codes. It thoroughly discusses their context, how they were conceived, discussed, drafted and approved, their main foreign influences and content, and their practical operation." - Aniceto Masferrer, University of Valencia "While there is a vast corpus of literature on codification and, more specifically, civil codes in the civil law tradition, it is much less known that six US states codified their private laws during the 19th century. This book tells the fascinating story. Spoiler alert: it's a family affair." - Stefan Vogenauer, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory"

What happens after a judgment is delivered by a tribunal constituted under UNCLOS? This study is the first to examine compliance in relation to all judgments issued pursuant to the UNCLOS compulsory dispute settlement regime to date.

The leadership challenges discussed in this book will resonate with any denomination or church that has grown or wrestled with polity and culture, but will hold special appeal for those interested in the history of the Assemblies of God.

This book presents field-generated linguistic research on how to improve our understanding of the acquisition process and effectiveness of classroom activities, and how to tackle challenging features of the Chinese language such as characters, prosody, aspect, syntax, formulaic language, etc.

Hiob Ludolf and Johann Michael Wansleben, pioneering orientalists, stood at the centre of the burgeoning study of Ethiopia in seventeenth-century Europe. This volume studies their remarkable lives and versatile work in their broader intellectual, political, and confessional contexts.

A comprehensive coverage of a CLIL teacher's features, their attitudes to the approach, teaching methodology, assessment, materials development, cooperation with other CLIL and non-CLIL teachers, professional development, expectations, beliefs, positive and negative emotions experienced in relation to CLIL.

Jacob Campo Weyerman was the author and editor of a satirical weekly, of which two volumes are analysed here. They are a primary source on the customs and manners of urbanised Western Europe, especially Holland, in the early eighteenth century.

Mediterranean inhabitants depend on natural resources for their livelihoods. Livestock production and forestry are key sources of income yet are carried out under harsh conditions such as limited land resources, marginal agricultural conditions, isolation, and scant equipment and infrastructure. Livestock is of particular importance in mountain production systems as they convert plant biomass into useful products for humans such as milk, meat and draught power. These products are key to the regions' sustainability. The main topics discussed in this book are: Human geography of Mediterranean mountain territories. Livestock production and natural resources. Improving the efficiency of livestock systems in Mediterranean mountain areas. Applications of new technologies for environmentally sound management of livestock and natural resources. The role livestock plays in rural development and in safeguarding natural resources.