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Conscription, Conscientious Objection, and Draft Resistance in American History is the definitive history of conscription in America. It is the first book ever to consider the entire temporal sweep of conscription from pre-Revolutionary War colonial militia drafts through the end of the Vietnam era

"This book is an essential contribution to understanding Russian law for English speakers. This book examines Russian and Norwegian rules governing liability, choice-of-law, recognition and enforcement, damage, third-party losses, environmental harm, and valuation of environmental harm"--

The first interdisciplinary approach to the multi-faceted role of the prominent biblical miracles of the Sun reversing its course in II Kings 20:8-11/Isaiah 38:8 (Horologium Ahas) and the Sun standing still in Joshua 10:12 in Early Modern exegesis, arts and sciences.

In Ibn Taymiyya and the Attributes of God, Farid Suleiman offers a comprehensive study of Ibn Taymiyya's views on God and His attributes, contextualizing his position within the century-old debates on this fraught theological issue.

Reading is one of the biggest challenges facing the South African educational system. This book investigates ways to understand improvement, illustrates educators' multilingual challenges, and examines the difficulties faced by those reading African languages.

"The accommodation of religious diversity in contemporary pluralist societies is undoubtedly amongst the most salient issues on today's political agenda, not least due to the challenges posed by migration. A subject of considerable debate is how to reconcile the demands of religious and cultural diversity alongside political unity, that is, how to create a political community that is cohesive and stable and satisfies the legitimate aspirations of minorities. This volume provides a critical analysis of the institutional accommodations and legal frameworks conceived by and/or for historical religious groups and assesses their potential and shortcomings in providing for an integrated society based on human- and minority rights protection"--

Daniel Bensaïd: From the Actuality of the Revolution to the Melancholic Wager captures the trajectories and complexities of Bensaïd's theoretical production and political thought, intended to renovate Marxism for a new generation of revolutionaries.

This volume offers a critical re-assessment of the thought of Ernst Bloch, author of the ground-breaking study The Principle of Hope and one of the most significant European thinkers and public intellectuals of the twentieth century.

This is the book of abstracts of the 16th International Conference on Production Diseases in Farm Animals, held in Wageningen, the Netherlands, June 20-23 2016.

This book, which was originally written as a dissertation, broadens the approach to gender equality in primary education by exploring the magnitude of complex interactions between schools and rural livelihood household processes in the context of HIV/AIDS. The arguments are based on recent ethnographic research using dimensions of rural pupils', parents', and teachers' responses to the socio-economic impact of HIV/AIDS on their livelihoods. It gives insight into some of the current debates that have been generated in the field of education, HIV/AIDS and rural livelihoods.

"Voedsel en voeding staan voortdurend in de belangstelling. Iedereen heeft er een mening over en er wordt veel zinnigs maar ook veel onzinnigs over gezegd en geschreven. De auteurs zetten in dit boek de feiten op een rij, beschrijven de complexiteit van de huidige voedselproductie, maar ontrafelen deze ook en scheiden aldus de zin van de onzin. De meest relevante zaken op het gebied van voedsel en voeding worden met elkaar in verband gebracht. Het boek is geschreven voor de leek geïnteresseerd in voedsel en voeding, studenten diëtetiek, voeding en levensmiddelentechnologie, beleidsmakers op het gebied van voedsel en voeding, journalisten, kortom iedereen die beroepsmatig dan wel vanuit een brede interesse meer over voedsel en voeding wil weten. Over de auteurs: Prof. Pieter Walstra is emeritus hoogleraar en Prof. Martinus (Tiny) van Boekel is hoogleraar aan Wageningen Universiteit, allebei in het vakgebied levensmiddelentechnologie. Beiden zijn altijd geïnteresseerd geweest in de bredere context van het vakgebied en hebben dit actief uitgedragen in onderwijs, onderzoek en in contacten met de maatschappij. Dit boek is een weerslag daarvan, toegankelijk gemaakt voor een breed publiek."

Leaders in English Language Arts Education Research contains autobiographical essays by leading English Language Arts scholars throughout the world.

Leaders in English Language Arts Education Research contains autobiographical essays by leading English Language Arts scholars throughout the world.

In his ground-breaking study, Patrick Eiden-Offe gives romantic anti-capitalism its long-repressed due and liberates the social and literary history of the 19th century from one-dimensional perspectives.

Nouvelle édition critique et traduction française annotée de la Lettre à Marcella de Porphyre. Le philosophe néoplatonicien Porphyre (234-305) y adresse à sa femme un témoignage unique sur la manière dont une vie philosophique peut être conduite et se préserver. This book presents a new annotated and translated edition of neoplatonist 3rd-century Greek philosopher Porphyrius' Letter to Marcella. This letter, adressed to his wife, gives a unique account on the ways and principles along which a philosophical life should be led so as to perpetuate itself.

Replete with colorful anecdotes and copious illustrations, Dress and Dress Code in Medieval Cairo offers a lively and comprehensive study of this fascinating topic.

In this book, Katie Reid argues that the late antique author Martianus Capella was a significant influence in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance: his Marriage of Philology and Mercury was a source of inspiration for allegory, classicising poetry, mythography and humanist writing.

The book investigates how Avicenna's doctrine of efficient causality relates to his general ontology, as well as how the two are interpreted, defended, and challenged in the early phase of Avicenna's Islamic reception (the eleventh and twelfth centuries).

A Mountain Oasis is a richly illustrated socio-economic study of village life in Pakistan's Yasin Valley. Undertaken during one year spent living with a local family, Susan York's research documents this agro-pastoral society before this area in Gilgit-Baltistan entered a crucial period of transformation.

The leading Western expert on Bolshevism, Lars T. Lih, gives us the first-ever study of the Bolshevik outlook from Lenin to perestroika. Vivid case-studies of individual leaders and Soviet intellectuals paint an indispensable self-portrait of Bolshevism and its grand narratives.

The volume explores clause-linkage strategies from a cross-linguistic perspective with an emphasis on asyndetic constructions. The data-driven approaches focus on areal differences and similarities in using non-finite verb forms in complex sentences in languages situated in Central and Western Siberia.

This volume interrogates the nature of warfare in the Aegean world during the Bronze Age, reviews the essential forms of evidence, considers the social and cultural place of war, and revisits some longstanding questions.

This volume tackles long-standing interpretative problems in the study of the Opening of Japan. Thinking outside of existing methods, concepts, and theories for writing about Japan and the world, the authors eschew national and global history for new organising frameworks.

The edited volume Future Law, Ethics, and Smart Technologies is a comprehensive interdisciplinary textbook for students, particularly law students, who want to become familiar with the complex issues at the intersection of law, ethics, and smart technologies.

This book provides a new account of the rise of Balto-Slavic acuteness from an Indo-European perspective. It is informed by recent advances in tonogenesis and stands out for its comprehensiveness. It treats all issues involved, often presenting new insights.

Teachers and Students: Reflections on Learning in Near and Middle Eastern Cultures. Collected Studies in Honour of Sebastian Günther offers new insights into key issues related to education in the Islamicate world and beyond, including their influence on and interdependence with non-Muslim cultures.

Cet ouvrage attire l'attention sur l'émergence des nouvelles dynamiques socio-politiques chez les Syriaques orthodoxes de Turquie - désignée traditionnellement comme une communauté antique chrétienne - dans leur rapport à la société turque contemporaine et aux pays diasporiques. This book draws attention on the emergence of new socio-political dynamics among the Syriac orthodox community of Turkey - that is labelled traditionally as an antique Christian community - in its relationship to contemporary Turkish society and diasporic countries.