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Are artistic engagements evolving, or attracting more attention? The range of artistic protest actions shows how the globalisation of art is also the globalisation of art politics, while artivists seek alternative modes of social transformation

This collective work sheds light on our understanding of the notions of expatriation and migration. The main objective is to highlight and critically examine the dichotomy that lies beyond these terms. Based on field research by authors from four continents, this book offers a global perspective on the social distinction between the same human faces.

Literature is an art that can be taught. One of its most famous teachers was the Roman writer Sallust, who showed Europe how to create captivating and meaningful stories about the past and present. This book shows how.

This book considers the work of the bestselling, contemporary Swiss author Christian Kracht through the lenses of authorship, irony, and globalism.

Various forms of control play a central role in our lives. Yet the nature of control is a difficult conundrum to probe. Art practices help us to make sense of questions and paradoxes related to the intertwining of control and non-control by putting it on display.

Serial killers are popular-culture icons, selling books, movies and podcasts in every country in the world. This innovative and timely book uses methods in Media and Cultural Studies to analyse why global audiences are mesmerised by representations of serial killing. Unique in its transnational case studies, it addresses serial murder through a new perspective of the "serial spectator."

This book offers diverse readings on how Adult Education can make or already makes its contribution, with other factors, to living as relational beings. It puts forward urgent challenges to adult educators, social movements and other relevant sources of learning.

This book offers diverse readings on how Adult Education can make or already makes its contribution, with other factors, to living as relational beings. It puts forward urgent challenges to adult educators, social movements and other relevant sources of learning.

A study, including annotated translations, of materials associated with the Daoist mountain hermit and eventual immortal Chén Tuán 陳摶 (Xīyí 希夷 [Infinitesimal Subtlety]; d. 989). Includes explorations of Daoist views and practices related to sleeping, dreaming, and temporality.

International standards play an important role in the regulation of global trade. This book investigates who actually develops these standards and how the design of international trade agreements influences international standardization, and vice versa.

Professor Dr Fuat Sezgin meticulously documented the scientific writings and advances achieved by Muslim scholars. His celebrated Geschichte des arabischen Schrifttums (GAS), the largest bio-bibliography for the Arabic literary tradition in general, and the history of science and technology in the Islamic world in particular, is still of utmost importance for the field.

This is the first critical edition of all the extant fragments of Didymus' commentaries on ancient Greek comedy, which played a pivotal role in the ancient and modern understanding of Aristophanes and other great comic playwrights of Classical Greece.

Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903-1994) was an Israeli philosopher and scientist. For decades, his thinking and persona were the embodiment of a Judaism in Israel. Getting to know him is getting to know a great Israeli thinker and also invites a window into the life of Israel and its problems.

"As global investment flows continue to grow, the role of stability guarantees in protecting the interests of both host states and foreign investors has become increasingly important. In this book, we undertake a critical assessment of stabilization and renegotiation clauses in international investment law"--

This book introduces the diversity of Anglican biblical interpretation in the nineteenth-century. It draws out theological trends in biblical interpretation by examining the sermons, commentaries, and monographs of Anglican interpreters, comparing their readings of Scripture.

This book discusses recent work on Horace by genre, moving from the early Satires through to the late Epistles. It also suggests new scholarly approaches to the author, and considers what Horace has to offer the twenty-first century.

Exploring the metamorphoses of the body as a crucial aspect of the Robinsonade's ideologies in the eighteenth century and beyond, Castaway Bodies sheds new light on this fascinating genre through a series of engaging focused readings.

Conceptualising the normative dimensions of the acts that constitute international crimes as processes of construction and meaning making, this book develops a novel theoretical approach to offer a dynamic, pluralist and socially constructed account of wrong in international criminal law.

This book reflects critically on the value of research in, on and for teacher education. It explores the nature and role of teacher education research, identifying ways to enhance its value for policy and practice. Bringing together international studies, it offers a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches.

This lecture series introduces the basic concepts of grammaticalization theory and the methods to determine and measure grammaticalization, by means of many analyzed examples from diverse languages including specifically Chinese.

This book explores how Judaism shaped the spaces of ancient Galilee, and how in turn, these spaces generated further expressions of Judaism. Evidence is drawn from the beginnings of Hasmonean influence in Galilee, until the outbreak of the Great Revolt.

This book places judgements of the Constitutional Court of Indonesia in its response to population diversity and pluralism, in a comparative context with judgements of other constitutional courts in the world. It makes for fascinating reading and analysis.

This book introduces readers to the life, thought, social activism and political conflicts of the Quaker intellectual and peace activist Henry Cadbury (1883-1974). Cadbury was a prominent Quaker intellectual and founding member of the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC).

Petroleum from Coal: a Century of Synthesis provides a global and comparative history of the twentieth-century coal-to-petroleum conversion processes. It examines the invention and development of the Bergius and Fischer-Tropsch processes; Germany's industrialization of the processes; and their global transfer.

An exploration of Quaker origins and historiographical traditions concerning James Nayler, this study advances significant new theses regarding this radical religious group and its import to wider historical practice.

Carolingian Medical Knowledge and Practice casts fresh light the practicality and applicability of medical knowledge recorded in early medieval manuscripts, considering not only the written record but also the skeletal remains of individuals from the period.

The book showcases the Conrad-effect in contemporary culture. It consists of various essays authored by scholars from diverse cultures, nations and languages. They cover Conrad's presence in contemporary culture across multiple media areas (fiction, films, comics, and graphic novels).

The present volume explores for the first time the concept of synagonism (from "σύν", "together" and "ἀγών", "struggle") for an analysis of the productive exchanges between early modern painting, sculpture, architecture, and other art forms in theory and practice.