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This is the first monograph devoted to biological roles of selenium in nutrition and health of ruminants including dairy and beef cows and small ruminants. It is written by the world's expert in the area.

This book describes Morocco's Africa policy under the reign of Mohammed VI, and demonstrates how the construction of a role identity around the notion of "golden mean" affects the Kingdom's representations of its international environment.

Paul of Aleppo journeyed with his father, Patriarch Makarios III ibn al-Za'im, in Constantinople, Moldavia, Wallachia, and the Cossack's lands in 1652-1654. This book contains his travel notes preceded by his record of the patriarchs of the Church of Antioch.

Is it really expedient to take the edge off the language of violence? This volume proposes that in fact it may be better for governments if they address the realities of violence more directly.

Kritische Edition der 'Centuria epistolarium formularum' / 'Hundertschaft Briefmuster' (1525) des Jacobus Montanus. Die deutschen Briefe, von den jungen Schülern des westfälischen Humanisten ins Lateinische zu übersetzen, geben unterhaltsamen und alltagsnahen Einblick in die frühneuzeitliche Lebens- und Bildungswelt.

This edition honors Professor Toshiki Mogami, known for his unique approach 'Jus Contra Anarchism et Oligarchism.' It distills the essence of his works, specifically 'International Law as Constructive Resistance for Peace and Justice, ' which addresses interstate and institutional violence.

This volume depicts methods and concepts of calculated ethics and mathematized moral life at main universities in Europe of the late Middle Ages which originated at the University of Oxford in the works of Richard Kilvington.

Proving academic plagiarism is difficult. This volume borrows principles from textual criticism to illustrate new techniques for demonstrating plagiarism. These techniques can be used to persuade others--colleagues, editors, publishers, and research integrity committees--when academic plagiarism has been committed.

This volume is dedicated to honouring David Fasenfest, who has not only conducted political economy research spanning contexts from Detroit to Shanghai, but is also an editor of a social science journal and its related book series.

Based on 30 years of fieldwork in the Niger Delta, this book debunks the determinism of the resource curse theory in Nigeria, Africa's leading oil producer and the most populous country on the continent.

These fifteenth-century churchwardens' accounts provide a window into the late medieval operations of a busy parish on the margins of London. The editors provide paratextual material to explain local history, archaic words and concepts, and the heavily abbreviated Latin.

The goals and tactics of a state's ruling elite influence its artistic and architectural output, shaping the overall characteristics, orientation, and themes of its creations. Architecture reflects political ideology and historical events, showcasing the power and cultural values of the state, with implications for politics and authority. This book presents a comprehensive and nuanced exploration of the intricate interplay between art, politics, and religion within the architectural legacy of Mamluk Damascus. It sheds light on how these dynamics enrich our comprehension of the past and contribute to contemporary dialogues concerning the preservation of cultural heritage.

This exegetical, linguistic commentary on the New Testament epistles of Colossians and Philemon brings discourse analysis into connection with exegesis of the Greek text. It aims to connect theoretical approaches to the ancient Greek with current interests such as biblical interpretation, appreciation of the original circumstances behind its composition, and relevance of these early epistles to modern readers

From Rome to Beijing: Sacred Spaces in Dialogue, edited by Daniel M. Greenberg and Mari Yoko Hara, explores the relationship between Jesuit enterprise and Ming-Qing China in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The Jesuit order's global corporation grew increasingly influential within the Chinese court after 1582, in no small part due to the two institution's shared interests in artistic and scientific matters. The paintings, astronomical instruments, spiritual texts and sacred buildings engendered through this encounter tell fascinating stories of cross-cultural communication and miscommunication. This volume approaches early modern East-West exchange as a site of cultural (rather than commercial) negotiations, where two sets of traditions and values intersected and diverged.

Nowadays alienation is naturally discussed as an existential condition of human beings, but in the 20th century, a strong Marxist current claimed alienation to be implied by capitalism, in particular by private property and the social division of labor. Alienation should therefore be criticized as part of the critique of capitalism and political economy, and might therefore also possibly be overcome. Today, under the hegemony of neo-liberal capitalism, the basic logic of Marx's idea of alienation is more relevant than ever, having, as is argued in this book, critical social as well as constructive pedagogical and political potential.

In the early modern period, the calendrical diary became one of the most prominent media and generated a completely new cultural practice of calendar writing. This also impacted contemporary literature: even beyond calendars, numerous texts were organised and written following the style of calendars. This study is the first to analyse these calendrical traces in early modern literature. For this purpose, a material culture studies approach is chosen: The literary analyses is based on the calendrical diary, its particular materiality and the practices associated with it. In this way, new categories of analysis are gained, with which the heuristic potential of the calendar is demonstrated in early modern texts of various genres. In der Frühen Neuzeit avanciert der Schreibkalender zu einem der prominentesten Medien und generiert mit dem Kalenderschreiben eine völlig neue Kulturpraktik. Das geht nicht spurlos an der zeitgenössischen Literatur vorbei: Auch außerhalb des Kalenders wird in verschiedenen Texten kalendarisch geordnet und geschrieben. Diese Studie untersucht erstmals diese kalendarischen Spuren in der frühneuzeitlichen Literatur. Hierfür wird ein materialwissenschaftlich inspirierter Zugang gewählt: Der Schreibkalender, seine besondere materiale Faktur und die damit verbundenen Praktiken dienen als Ausgangspunkt für die literaturwissenschaftlichen Analysen. Auf diese Weise werden neue Analysekategorien gewonnen, mit denen an frühneuzeitlichen Texten verschiedener Gattungen das heuristische Potenzial des Kalenders aufgezeigt wird.

The informal sector is a vital sustainer of the African economy, employing more than 60% of sub-Saharan Africans. The book examines diverse segments of the informal sector, putting into consideration their structure, dynamics, resilience and gender issues. Chapters are based on empirical research on women in the transport sector, vehicle maintenance artisanship, graduates in the informal sector, COVID 19, and the informal economy. Other chapters focus on the indigenous usury finance system, coconut oil production, herbal medicine, and the gig economy across countries including Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Togo, and Burkina Faso.

This book offers a new edition of one of the most important art historical sources on Italian art. Written not long before Vasari's famous Lives (1550), this source provides an overview of art from Cimabue to Michelangelo. Moreover, the author's ambition was to provide a sketch of the art of classical antiquity. First published in the late nineteenth century, the Codex has led to numerous questions, the main one being: who was its author? We believe we have found the answer to this question, which led us to come up with a new edition of the Codex.

This volume explores the ways in which representatives of different monotheistic traditions perceived and described or experienced themselves as "the other." This central category - which includes not only those of different religions, but also converts, foreigners, sectarians, and women - is studied from various perspectives in a range of texts composed by Jewish, Christian, and Muslim authors during late antique and mediaeval times. Conceptualizations of such "others" are often intrinsically related to the idea of exile, another important category that is analysed in this work.

This volume transcends boundaries, captivating multimodality scholars worldwide while offering invaluable non-"Anglo" perspectives through its main focus on Lithuanian public discourse. Discover the interaction between multimodal communication and (sub)cultural influences in political, advertising, and film discourse. This volume is a vade mecum for scholars and students of visual and multimodal stylistics, rhetoric, and creativity across diverse media, professionals specialising in advertisements, commercials, films etc. Discover original insights that encourage intercultural comparative research, emphasising the role of cultural context in multimodality.

T. S. Eliot's Ascetic Idealcharts an intellectual history of T. S. Eliot's interaction with asceticism. Eliot's early encounters with the ascetic ideal began a lifetime of interplay and reflection upon self-denial, purgation, and self-surrender.

Dans Identités françaises, Mame-Fatou Niang interroge la périphérisation et l'identité nationale, à travers l'étude de discours sur les banlieues françaises. L'attention sur des femmes et sur le quotidien illumine des processus qui créent citoyenneté et marginalité dans la France républicaine. In Identités françaises, Mame-Fatou Niang illuminate approaches to marginalization and national identity, through the study of discourses on the French banlieues. The focus on the quotidian and on women interrogate the processes that create citizenship and marginality in republican France.

This book explores how international criminal justice interacts with the human senses - sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch - when it comes to perceiving mass atrocity and thereafter holding perpetrators accountable.

Medieval Westerners accepted killing for religion and eulogized the outcome of the First Crusade. Their attitude to violence was also ambivalent and fragmented. This book explains how religious violence was depicted, justified, and remembered in the sources of the First Crusade.

Diese Studie liefert die erste umfängliche Untersuchung der "Republiken", den ersten und einflussreichsten frühneuzeitlichen Staatsbeschreibungen, die als Buchreihe publiziert wurden. Die Untersuchung liefert Erkenntnisse zu den Lesern und Nutzern der Republiken, ihrer Rolle auf dem Buchmarkt, ihren Funktionen im Wissenschaftsbetrieb sowie den Text-, Ideen- und politischen Traditionen, in denen sie stehen. This book offers the first large-scale study of the earliest and most notable early modern book series of state descriptions, the 'Republics'. It aims to explore their readerships, role in the book market, academic purposes, and textual, intellectual, and political traditions.

This important volume researches and analyzes energy security policies of states in the specific geostrategic aspects of the Caspian region, considering the variability of its security environment.

The book demonstrates for the first time that transculturality - the mixed constitution of cultures - is by no means only a characteristic of the present, but has de facto determined the composition of cultures since time immemorial. This is demonstated using examples from the arts across all cultures and continents.

This edited volume integrates multiple sources of knowledge (most notably from history, religious studies and social science) to address questions about the emotional dimension of mass mobilization, the socio-political implications of heterodoxy, and attributions of crime in traditional China.