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This book throws light on what diplomats did in the Cold War, and how they did it. It underlines the variety of diplomatic processes and actors, by paying attention to overlooked lowly consuls and consulates.

Path-breaking studies on population displacement during the disintegration process of the Ottoman Empire.

In "The Book of the Crown (Kitāb al-Iklīl) of pseudo-Rhazes" Oliver Kahl and Henrietta Sharp Cockrell offer a facsimile edition, with annotated English translation and introductory study, of a unique and highly unusual medieval Arabic medical text.

Henk Versnel's work in the field of ancient religion has been seminal: this volume explores and celebrates his oeuvre in honour of the 80th birthday, based on a roundtable held in Oegstgeest on 7 and 8 October, 2016.

Shaping a Dutch East Indies discusses the construction of knowledge in Francois Valentyn's multi-volume account of the trading empire of the Dutch East India Company from 1724-1726, and the foundational role it played in Dutch perceptions of the East Indies as an imperial space for more than a hundred years after its publication.

Zénon Kaluza, combining philological work with doctrinal analysis, examines the metaphysics of Nicolas of Autrécourt (c. 1298-1369), one of the most daring thinkers in the history of philosophy, who was both a critic of his contemporaries and of Aristotle, and a victim of the theological authorities of his time.

Cyril ibn Laqlaq's Book of Confession offers a critical edition and annotated translation, with an introduction, of a pivotal treatise about auricular confession, written by the 75th Coptic Patriarch, and is published here for the first time.

A coherent analysis of lexical semantics and cultural linguistics.

Adam Sammut advances an original approach to cultural production in wartime, restoring St Paul's to the crux of Antwerp's civic life by examining Rubens's procurement of three outstanding works of painting.

From Being Woke to Doing #theWork: Using Culturally Relevant Practices to Support Student Achievement & Sociopolitical Consciousness provides 1) explicit guidance on unpacking self, 2) guidance on how to explore the community and lived experiences of students) and exemplar practitioner culturally relevant curriculum strategies in Humanities and STEM classrooms.

From Being Woke to Doing #theWork: Using Culturally Relevant Practices to Support Student Achievement & Sociopolitical Consciousness provides 1) explicit guidance on unpacking self, 2) guidance on how to explore the community and lived experiences of students) and exemplar practitioner culturally relevant curriculum strategies in Humanities and STEM classrooms.

Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice presents the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, namely intellectual history, manuscript studies and material culture.

Philosophical Theology in Islam explores the later history of the Ashʿarī school of theology through in-depth studies on its thought, sources, scholarly networks and contexts.

In Picturing the Islamicate World, Nadja Danilenko explores the message of the first preserved maps from the Islamicate world in al-Iṣṭakhrī's Book of Routes and Realms(10th century C.E.) and unravels how the treatise was transmitted for almost a millennium.

Since the early nineteenth century, the things which Black South Africans have had in their homes have changed completely. They have adopted things like tables, chairs, knives, forks, spoons, plates, cups and saucers, iron pots, beds, blankets, European clothing, and later electronic apparatus. Thus they claimed modernity, respectability and political inclusion. This book is the first systematic analysis of this development. It argues that the desire to possess such goods formed a major part of the drive behind the anti-apartheid struggle, and that the demand to consume has significantly influenced both the economy and the politics of the country.

Most South African principals believe that subject heads and Heads of Departments should manage curriculum and teaching monitoring instead of (HODs). Due to this impression, curricular management by principals does not support teaching and learning.

Most South African principals believe that subject heads and Heads of Departments should manage curriculum and teaching monitoring instead of (HODs). Due to this impression, curricular management by principals does not support teaching and learning.

Violence, Justice, and Law in Classical Antiquity collects together forty-three of Andrew Lintott's most significant papers, delineating a society in which justice and law encompass a readiness to resort to violence ranging from legally-sanctioned forms of "self-help" to politically-legitimised tyrannicide.

How can human vulnerability be a platform for community and a potential for political agency? A Political Theology of Vulnerability explores how religious, and in particular Christian, resources may inspire a radical precarious politics.

Imagined Racial Laboratories reveals the watermarks of science in the dynamics of racialisation in Southeast Asia, during and after the colonial period. It brings together critical histories of race sciences that demonstrate that racialisation took -- and continues to take -- mutable and multiple forms in the region.

Patent Exhaustion and International Trade Regulation provides a comparative overview of patent laws of different jurisdictions, interfacing with WTO and different regional agreements. Vividly capturing the negotiating history of TRIPS, it also lays the foundation for public policy maneuvering space by WTO members.

Uncovering a history of music 'from below', the book examines the diverse working worlds of professional musicians in the 19th and 20th centuries and thus casts a new light on German musical life in the modern era.

This book uses semiotic theory (and, secondarily, other theories) to explain the social, economic, cultural and psychological significance of sports--primarily baseball and football in America, and, by implication, other sports.

This volume showcases latest developments and innovations in teaching and learning materials in, about and for endangered languages, as well as discusses challenges in the production of such materials.

The 'future of teaching' represents a technological disruption of moral traditions of teaching and what teaching might become and is a serious concern for the current generation of philosophers in both China and the West.

The 'future of teaching' represents a technological disruption of moral traditions of teaching and what teaching might become and is a serious concern for the current generation of philosophers in both China and the West.