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Today's analysts of world affairs are often loosely referring to 'geopolitics', but do not always clearly define it. This book therefore offers a necessary introduction into the main components of geopolitical analysis, an overview of the main geopolitical schools of thought, as well as reflections on technology and geopolitics. In addition, empirical studies showcase innovative approaches.

Taking a pan-European perspective, this volume situates the Latin love poetry of the early modern period in relation to classical, mediaeval and contemporary traditions, and traces the development of its various genres and forms over time and in local and transnational contexts.

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.

This volume is the first to consider in detail the relationships between Classical Latin and Ancient Greek as these languages were written and spoken in the early modern period (especially the Low Countries) and outlines promising research perspectives.

The anthology explores the professional studies from the perspective of practical knowledge and related, hermeneutic approaches, including studies of practical wisdom, tacit knowledge, and normativity from a life world perspective. The contributions focus on both specific practices and general questions.

The anthology explores the professional studies from the perspective of practical knowledge and related, hermeneutic approaches, including studies of practical wisdom, tacit knowledge, and normativity from a life world perspective. The contributions focus on both specific practices and general questions.

Through analysis of untapped sources, Xuduo Zhao tells the captivating stories of two forgotten Cantonese socialists and discovers a key moment in the history of the Chinese revolution, which has shaped China's political trajectory to the present day.

Twenty-five years after the dawn of democracy, education is still in a parlous state in many communities in South Africa, but it is in the rural areas mainly in the former homelands - that learners are most disadvantaged.

Twenty-five years after the dawn of democracy, education is still in a parlous state in many communities in South Africa, but it is in the rural areas mainly in the former homelands - that learners are most disadvantaged.

This book critiques the dominant contemporary strategy for local economic and social development, and proposes an alternative socialist strategy.

In scholarly debate Ezekiel's temple is considered to be a blueprint for a new temple or a symbolic designation for the future Israel. A middle ground between these two options may be found in interpreting the vision as a spatial concept.

This edited volume seeks to examine the complex and multi-faceted concept and social phenomenon of friendship by shedding light on the way it is represented in a range of ancient Greek literary, historical, and philosophical sources.

This book undertakes an intertextual reading of the apocalyptic discourse of Paul, contextualizing it within Paul's understanding of the world, history, and supernatural phenomena through interaction with his cultural texts and context.

How do teenagers learn to read and appreciate manga? How is manga embedded in their cultural practices and daily lives? This book, based on interviews with French teenagers, analyzes how their tastes and reading habits are built and expressed.

The Divine/Demonic Seven and the Place of Demons in Mesopotamia investigates and contextualizes the Mesopotamian figures known as the Sebettu, highlighting their political and religious importance across textual and artistic sources from the late third to first millennium BCE.

This book is a philosophical-historical examination of the influence of the knowledge of China imparted by the Jesuits on the thinking of the German Enlightenment in the 18th century.

The book deals with distorted humanities and social sciences and examines alternatives. The topic is analysed in a way that is ground-breaking in its global comparison of research in Central Europe, Latin America, China, Russia, Africa and India.

The authors of The Modern Experience of the Religious explore the different ways in which religious experience is lived within the context of modernity, and how religious life responds to the challenges presented by our age.

Written by Maurice Dommanget, one of the greatest of France's left-wing historians, Sylvain Maréchal, The Godless Man recounts the life and ideas of one of the first modern atheists and a precursor of communism.

Military Ethics and the Changing Nature of Warfare discusses whether or not the ethical rules of warfare are keeping pace with the changing nature of human conflicts.

This edited volume explores the Song of Songs, the ancient biblical poem that privileges a woman's voice and erotic experience, in light of questions raised by #MeToo, especially how contemporary perspectives on women, gender, and the problematic of the public can reinvigorate feminist scholarship on the Song.

This in-depth study of Takkanot Kandiyah, a collection of Jewish communal legislation from medieval and early Venetian Crete, offers a unique opportunity to see the history of an important Mediterranean Jewish community from the perspective of its own members.

The volume presents proceedings from recent encounters between Moltmann and twelve Chinese interlocutors in theology and philosophy, along with original contributions by Moltmann and essays by scholars in and outside of China probing the Sinophone reception of Moltmann's theology.

By expanding the metaphor of light within the Christian and Quaker traditions to include light's role in our planet's ecosystems, this project develops an ecotheology of light. The authors connect the Inward Light to interdependence theologies and implications for Friends testimonies.

This work is the first to take a detailed look at the usage and range of basic colour terms in Irish, and its sister Gaelic languages, on the basis of a comprehensive investigation of lexicographical and didactic works, placenames, proverbs and fieldwork with native speakers.