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Theories and Practices of Integral Education and Integral Drama Based Pedagogy explores and encourages deep connections between theories of integral education and practices of new integrations in education. It introduces Integral Drama Based Pedagogy as an exemplar of new integrations.

In this book, Sui-Wai Cheung unmasks the murky story of copper coins in Ming China, revealing how emperors and statesmen perceived and used the copper coins at their disposal, and exposing the impecunious reality of the Sons of Heaven.

Theories and Practices of Integral Education and Integral Drama Based Pedagogy explores and encourages deep connections between theories of integral education and practices of new integrations in education. It introduces Integral Drama Based Pedagogy as an exemplar of new integrations.

Dans l'oeuvre de Maylis de Kerangal l'esthétique et l'éthique ne s'excluent pas. Cette première étude monographique examine la façon dont l'intérêt pour les paysages, pour la géographie révèle une attention au monde et une réflexion politique soucieuse des fondamentaux démocratiques. Maylis de Kerangal combines aesthetics with ethics in her work. This first monographic study focuses on how her interest for landscapes and geography reveals both her attention to the world and a political stance mindful of the democratic fundamentals.

"In this series, Eric Cullhed (University of Uppsala) and S. Douglas Olson (University of Minnesota) combine to provide the reader with a new critical edition of the Greek text of Byzantine scholar and rhetorician Eustathius of Thessalonica's Commentary on the Odyssey, composed during the latter half of the twelfth century CE. A much desired, facing English translation of the Commentary is included as well. Eustathius' Commentary collects material from a wide range of sources which explain or expand on words, phrases and ideas in the Homeric epic. His original comments are blended with extracts from earlier commentators, especially the Homeric scholia. The text is also an important source for fragments of lost works of ancient literature, for the history of exegesis and lexicography, and for Byzantine cultural history. Full critical, citation and source apparatuses are included. This second volume in the series includes a full critical text and translation of Eustathius' Commentary on Rhapsodies 5-8 of the Odyssey, in which we first meet Odysseus himself and witness his escape from Calypso and arrival on the island of Scheria"--

The famous debate between Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger of 1929 in Davos was set on a global stage and, yet, inherently Eurocentric. This volume explores how the hypothetical presence of the Kyoto school founder Nishida Kitarō would have overcome this limitation.

These essays in honour of Erik Kooper comprise an anthology of different approaches in Medieval Chronicle Studies, presenting a rich overview of the geographical, linguistic, chronological and methodological diversity of chronicle research as it has developed in no small part thanks to Erik's rallying.

A discussion of the reception of Herman Hugo's emblematic book Pia desideria (1624) in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It presents ten different translations and adaptations, showing how the engravings, elegies and exegetical extracts of the original volume were used by Polish-speaking authors.

"This book analyses the origin and evolution of the water supply service in Andalusia (southern Spain) between 1800 and 2020 from several perspectives. It does so from a historical perspective, to understand the evolution of the service over the years; from an economic perspective, as it is very useful to obtain an overview of the level of efficiency of the service; from a legislative perspective, as the regulatory framework of each era determines the models of management and provision of the service; and, finally, from an ecological and environmental perspective, of great importance in the New Water Culture and the protection of this resource. The volume main objective is to contribute to the extension of knowledge and analysis of the processes of municipalisation and/or privatisation of this service in Andalusia, with the aim of providing those responsible for local governments and administrations, both political and technical, with useful reflection and illustrative information on the use of municipalisation and/or privatisation as instruments for the reform of the local public sector"--

In FX Law and Regulations in Korea: Problems and Prospects, Min-woo Kang offers a comprehensive and thorough discussion of the FX regulatory system in Korea, with a special focus on its chronic problems and possible remedies under the overhauled legal system.

This collection of writings traces the evolution and revolution of Chinese modern education in the early twentieth century initiated by Cai Yuanpei (1868-1940), the first Minister of Education of the Republic of China, President of Peking University (1916-1927) and the founder of Academia Sinica.

This volume illuminates the strategies adopted to legitimise the practice of magic and analyses how these justifications are phrased and formulated in cuneiform texts, thereby revealing the underlying principles and unexplained axioms of using magic in the Ancient Near East.

Professor Dr Fuat Sezgin meticulously documented the scientific writings and advances achieved by Muslim scholars. His celebrated Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), the largest bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition in general, and the history of science and technology in the Islamic world in particular, is still of utmost importance for the field.

A captivating journey of Greece's pursuit of belonging in Europe and the West. This groundbreaking book delves into the intricate web of geopolitical stories, interests, and perceptions that have shaped Greece's geopolitical behavior for centuries. The book offers fresh insights into the study of geography's role in international affairs.

Why do states compete for an elected term in the UN Security Council? This book provides novel knowledge about state candidatures for access to world politics at the highest level, through a nonpermanent seat in the UNSC.

Artists, authors, and philosophers have long been fascinated by Heinrich von Kleist's literary and personal struggle with modernity. This volume contains twelve chapters that explore the enduring artistic and aesthetic resonance of Kleist's life and work in Europe and abroad.

The Southern Low Countries were among Europe's core regions for the repression of sodomy during the fifteenth century: nowhere across the Alps were more sodomites convicted at the time. This is the first comprehensive study of sodomy in this region.

This volume examines the meanings and functions of designations of peoples ("ethnonyms") in Late Antiquity. By focusing on both textual and iconographic sources, it highlights the interplay between ethnic discourses, political messages, education, and spatial thinking.

In Nation and Empire as Two Trends of Political Organization in the Iron Age Levant MEI Hualong offers a terminological and textual analysis of national and imperial ideologies in the Iron Age Levant and the interaction between them.

The book brings forth original revisions of the theories of the avant-garde, the works of the avant-garde, the idea of the avant-garde as being the vanguard, the leading force of change. It addresses the returning of the avant-garde during the twentieth century and today.

This book rethinks what has been conventionally understood as early modern natural law, focusing on the intellectual and academic experiences on the Italian peninsula in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

This volume explores the establishment of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya tradition in Tang China (618-907). By conceptualizing vinaya patriarchates as interrelated mobile monastic-secular social networks, this study outlines the patterns of the tradition's regional dissemination

This book reveals how violent pasts were constructed by ancient Mediterranean societies, the ideologies they served, and the socio-political processes and institutions they facilitated.

A multi-disciplinary inquiry into the origins and influences of Matteo Ricci's World Map in Chinese from the foundation of the Jesuit Order in 1540 up to the present.

This is the third edition of the Yearbook on the African Union (YBAU). The YBAU is first and foremost an academic project that provides in-depth evaluation and analysis of the institution, its processes, and its engagements.

Credit is the oxygen of every economy. This volume analyzes ancient rabbinic rulings on credit and usury exposing their underlying economic conceptualization. This was compared to the Roman and Sasanid Worlds and was divided to transactions involving money or products.

This book examines the history of women's labour struggles in Central and Eastern Europe and beyond from a long-term and transregional perspective. The contributions collected here address various social movements, an array of agendas and repertoires of activism, as well as political alliances and conflicts.

John Witte offers sage reflections on how to thrive in law school; short commentaries on hard questions of faith, freedom, and family; pithy sermons on difficult biblical texts on law; and touching tributes to a few of his fallen heroes.

Ichthyology in Context (1500-1880) addresses the rapidly growing early modern knowledge about fish and other aquatic animals in its interaction with visual and literary culture. It also explores the transnational exchange of ichthyological knowledge in and outside Europe.

A comprehensive descriptive grammar of a moribund insular variety of Miyako-Ryukyuan, rich in noteworthy typological features. Comparative contextualization of the linguistic data provides valuable insights into the history of Japonic languages.