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Technology Education and Maker Education both value learning through making and agency of learners. In this book the two fields meet through a series of case-studies and thematic, theory-based reflections on these cases-studies to imagine possible futures for Maker Education.

Technology Education and Maker Education both value learning through making and agency of learners. In this book the two fields meet through a series of case-studies and thematic, theory-based reflections on these cases-studies to imagine possible futures for Maker Education.

"This volume celebrates Jodi Magness's long and illustrious career as a scholar of archaeology, early Judaism, and the ancient Mediterranean world. It brings together a series of studies on history, archaeology, and society in Roman, Byzantine, and Islamic Palestine, Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls, and ancient synagogues, written by her colleagues, students, and friends. The collected essays reflect the extraordinary range of historical and archaeological issues which Magness has elucidated through her outstanding work, as well as make significant contributions to their respective fields. Some articles publish archaeological data for the first time, others re-evaluate traditional assumptions within new methodological or theoretical frameworks, and others proffer innovative interpretations of old data"--

Dialogues for the Future provides a sneak peek at the long philosophic and intellectual journey of the renowned Arab scholar Taha Abderrahmane. This English translation allows English-speaking readers to engage with the open canvas of dialogue Taha has resiliently initiated.

This is the first of several sourcebooks charting the reception of Avicenna in the Islamic East in the 12th-13th centuries CE. It translates and analyzes hundreds of passages on topics like existence, universals, free will, and proofs of God.

Through analysis of epigraphic and other written sources, the volume explores linguistic practices and choices in the late antique Eastern Mediterranean; it investigates how linguistic diversity and change influenced the social dimension of human interaction, group dynamics, and communal identities.

This book narrates the lives of Dorothy Hewett's plays. By exploring their production in and across time, it shows distortions in the memory of her drama, and ways to re-imagine them. Their production also uncovers preoccupations in Australian Theatre.

This volume identifies social justice concerns in Amos, by carefully analysing the text and context. It then identifies contemporary social justice issues by analysing interviews and current news to ascertain how Amos' social justice concerns speak to contemporary social justice.

This volume explores early modern German book culture and investigates the processes by which books and collections were created, translated, and maintained over time; how texts and images circulated and evolved and knowledge was organized in early modern Germany.

Moving beyond the neurohype of recent decades, Worlding the Brain introduces the concept of "worlding" as a new perspective to understand the inherent entanglement of brains/minds with their worldly environments, cultural practices, and social contexts. Worlding the Brain makes a case for the distinctive role of the humanities and arts in the research on brains and cognition and explores new forms of interdisciplinarity.

Armenia and Byzantium shared a long history of political and cultural interaction. The articles in this volume offer a fresh look, often based on new material, on aspects of dialogue, exchange, and confrontation in the areas of literature, material culture, and religion.

Centring the Periphery: New Perspectives on Collecting East Asian Objects is one of the first books to focus entirely on collecting practises on the "periphery" of former major metropolises, offering new insights into the dynamics of collecting East Asian objects in Western countries

We are standing on the threshold of the robotic era, the fourth industrial revolution. The undeniable impact and consequences of robotics are already raising economic concerns, such as the loss of income tax revenue as robots gradually replace human workers, as well as legal doubts regarding the possible taxation of robots or their owners. Financial law must adapt to this new reality by answering several crucial questions. Should robots pay taxes? Can they? Do they have the ability to pay? Can they be considered entrepreneurs for VAT purposes? These are just some of the many issues that Dr. Álvaro Falcón Pulido lucidly and insightfully addresses in this fascinating new monographic work, which includes an exhaustive bibliography on the subject.

The book explores the possibilities and limitations of dystopian imagination, asking if visions of horrific futures help us decide upon the best course of action, or if they paralyse us and prevent us from engaging in social transformation.

A comprehensive and current treatment of Latin American legal history by prominent historians providing a readable and scholarly introduction to the region's law, legal systems, historical literature, key actors, central topics, and current debates.

The present volume is the first ever English translation of the Book of Union by Babai the Great, one of the foremost theologians of the Assyrian Church of the East. It is accompanied by introductions and an edited Syriac text.

This book explores the strategies adopted by the Jesuit missions under the Portuguese and Spanish patronage before Islamic powers such as the Mughal Empire in South Asia and the expansion of Islam in the Southeast Asian peripheries.

This inaugural volume of the Brill Exegetical Commentary Series provides a fresh reading of the text of the Pastoral Epistles within their proper linguistic and socio-cultural contexts, allowing their distinct theological voices to emerge.

In this volume, an international group of scholars examines how the ideal of perfection was conceived and pursued in Late Antiquity, both within philosophical circles and within Christianity.

"This volume collects fourteen essays prepared for a Workshop on 'Comparative Legal Metrics: Quantification of Performance as a Regulatory Technique', held in Asunciâon, Paraguay, on October 2022, within the framework of the 21st General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL). The overall aim of the volume is to comparatively investigate how performance based measurements may work as a regulatory tool. These processes of social quantification are herein called 'legal metrics'"--

This book reveals stories of revivals in Egypt that were never told before! As being the first integrated monograph on Egyptian Pentecostalism, this book invites researchers, renewalists, and students of revivals to discover how Pentecostalism reshaped the map of Christianity in Egypt when cyclones of Divine power invaded the ancient land.

This book brings together anthropological studies of human-animal relations among Indigenous Peoples in three regions of the Americas: the Andes, Amazonia and the American Arctic. Through ethnographic essays, the authors illustrate and compare entanglements of human and other-than-human lives.

Is globalization still an American-driven process (or has it ever been)? Through a comparative analysis of the attempted coca-colonization of France and Italy, the book provides a new glocal history of America's most popular corporations and the resistance against their globalizing force.

The book studies utopian fiction as a knowledge apparatus by connecting three aspects of late Qing culture: the rise of modern press, the emergence of new genre, and the epistemology of modernity, while reflecting on the ability of utopian imagination to develop the three-way relationship between new people, new China, and new genre via the Chinese public sphere.

This volume offers new perspectives on the Chinese arch-poet Qu Yuan and the Lyrics of Chu, including fresh analyses of Chuci poetics, richly annotated translations, and multi-faceted scholarship on the composition and early history of the ancient anthology's core poems.

The present volume promotes the notion of an 'ideological unconscious' as theorized by the Spanish Marxist, Juan Carlos Rodríguez. Secreted by the social relations dominant at a particular historical conjuncture, this unconscious always entraps and configures its libidinal counterpart.

In Exercising Authority and Representing Rule, András Barati offers the transcription, translation, and commentary of twenty-two hitherto unpublished Persian decrees issued by various rulers of eighteenth-century Iran and Afghanistan and addresses the diplomatic aspects and the content of the documents.

Recounting in thrilling detail the successes, struggles, and failures of one of Ming China's most famous officials, this timely volume offers the first complete political biography of Yang Tinghe (1459-1529) in a Western language.