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Based on rich case studies, this book explores how people build their futures as they navigate the fast-changing landscape of late socialist Asia, where party-state politics intersects with capitalist economics.

This book traces the history of the Cangin languages of Senegal, and presents a reconstruction of Proto-Cangin through careful application of historical linguistic methods, helping to understand the history of Niger-Congo, the world's largest language family

The book is not only aimed at scholars and students of the Ottoman Empire; the thematic range is also of interest to linguists, historians, and cultural historians.

Rural education presents a unique context unlike other settings, and English learning is no exception. Each chapter here offers insight into the unique context of rural schools, shedding light on the challenges and opportunities for teachers and learners of English.

Rural education presents a unique context unlike other settings, and English learning is no exception. Each chapter here offers insight into the unique context of rural schools, shedding light on the challenges and opportunities for teachers and learners of English.

The Berlin council movement of 1919-20 proves that there was a left alternative beyond Social Democracy and Stalinism in the German Revolution. Here, the movement is systematically analysed for the first time in all its diversity and on the basis of a broad range of sources.

Bringing examples and insights from field studies, the present volume elaborates on the ways Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and Vygotskian approaches are transforming how educational researchers, psychologists, and social scientists study human actions, thoughts and emotions in their cultural contexts.

This book addresses the role of astrology in the Society of Jesus, offering a new perspective into early modern Jesuit culture, science, and education by highlighting an element that has been long overlooked: astrology.

This book brings together for the first time the full range of Lycian epigraphic evidence, examines it in a systematic way, and investigates three central elements of familial life in the Hellenistic and Roman periods: marriage, children, and inheritance practices; in doing so it briefly touches on a number of prosopographical, demographic, and anthropological questions.

The first book-length research entirely devoted to the cryptic figure of the cinaedus in ancient Rome

The powerful concepts of Responsibility to Protect and Counter-Terrorism are often considered contradictory. However, these norms have begun to interact in new and unexpected ways, finding areas of conflict and congruence that challenge the way we approach humanitarian protection.

Using 9/11 as a window, this book seeks to analyse the history of terrorism through case studies from Greece and Rome to present day.

A must-read book to understand the nuances of Pakistan's Energy Security which gives comprehensive details of domestic impediments and institutional hazards alongside the regional complexities casting an intricate pattern of challenges and opportunities on the country's Energy Security milieu.

One of the first anglophone books dealing with the expansion of the confraternities of Misericórdia beyond the Portuguese world.

Modern Orthodox identity is deeply interwoven with the notion of deification or union with God. This much needed volume undertakes the task of critically examining the extent to which deification informs the main debates inside Orthodox theology, focusing on four essential loci: anthropology, the Trinity, epistemology, and ecclesiology.

This book provides empirical evidence that answers the question, how have Zimbabweans survived? The Title Zimbos Never Die? is deliberately a question mark because we do not seek to valorise or overstate Zimbabweans' resilience, for in this battle for survival, some succumbed.

Through interpretations of Jacques Derrida's early work, the philosophical turn in twenty-first century Mennonite pacifist theology, and Grace Jantzen's feminist critique of violence, this book provides a critical theory that neither abandons the concept of violence to subjectivity, nor fixes it in place.

This book discusses Celsus and Origen's opposing views on divine descent. The commentary focuses on persuasive strategies, communication with readers, and conceptions of God and his relation to the world.

Volume 33 of Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion illuminates new vistas in the study of religious and non-religious belief. It examines religion in Greater Khurāsān and religious expressions of children. By examining less-studied subjects, it interrogates the power dynamics that determine how religion and non-religion are studied.

In Saints hommes de Chiraz et du Fārs. Pouvoir, société et lieux de sacralité (Xe-XVe s.), Denise Aigle studies the spiritual role, but also the political one, played by the Sufi shaykhs. The particular interest of this research is its contribution to the history of Lāristān, a region that has long remained terra incognita.

This book combines the teachings of Christian theology, Enlightenment liberalism, and modern social science to defend the marital family as an essential institution for adults and children, regardless of sexual orientation.

In Financial Transparency & Information Asymmetry: A critical perspective of EU disclosure regime, Daniel Bar Aharon offers an interdisciplinary critical analysis addressing the inherent limitations mandated disclosure have on market discipline.

Going beyond a single national context, the volume draws attention to the intertwining, connections, and bonds that make up women's history on a global level from mid-eighteen century to today.

Going beyond a single national context, the volume draws attention to the intertwining, connections, and bonds that make up women's history on a global level from mid-eighteen century to today.

This volume, the first one dedicated to the ancient scholia to Cicero's speeches, analyzes them from different angles and positions them in the broader context of late antique commentaries and learning.

This book brings together expert views that, taken together, speak to the desirability, necessity and feasibility of unified rules to resolve Private International Law issues arising in the context of the digital economy.

This is the first comprehensive study of Greek language ordinary chants (Gloria/Doxa, Credo/Pisteuo, Sanctus/Hagios and Agnus Dei/Amnos tu theu) in Western manuscripts from the 9th to the 14th centuries. For the first time, this book presents an in-depth analysis of these chants and their historical, linguistic and theological-liturgical environment from a Byzantine perspective. The new approach enables the author to refute numerous (and largely contradictory) theories on the origin and development of the Missa Graeca and provides new answers to old questions.

In this book Divjak and Milin introduce the new paradigm of computational cognitive linguistics. Going beyond corpus-based and experimental approaches, they showcase how computational models anchored in theories of learning, can be used to generate and test hypotheses concerning language cognition.

In Between Memory and Power, Antoine Borrut offers a fresh approach to early Islamic Syria from a perspective of history of memory, revealing Umayyad and Abbasid historiographical projects, as well as their practices of power.

Unyoking African University Knowledges unpacks and explores a new trajectory of how universities in Africa and the knowledges they deliver and produce can be emancipated from the vestiges of the relics of colonialism year after political independence.