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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.

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 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 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).

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.

A revised reprint of the classic study of the communal Arabic dialects of Baghdad (Muslim, Christian, and Jewish).

International tragedies, national disgraces, and local dangers: reporting can magnify trauma. But how can we gain a deeper analytical understanding of episodes seemingly too immediate for detached observation by our sources or even, perhaps, by ourselves? This volume brings together a broad range of current research in Europe and abroad, regarding an issue of crucial importance for understanding past cultures and our own.

This handbook offers a comprehensive anthology of gender studies on the Caribbean islands of the Netherlands. It illuminates the diversity and complexity of Dutch Caribbean gender history, culture and politics, covering five decades of scholarship, source texts, and literary expression.

This volume offers readings of Luke-Acts varying from an economic perspective to cultic influences and the reception of Luke-Acts in Cyprian's treatise on prayer. It contains insightful studies from leading scholars and forms a valuable addition to any academic library.

In American Christian Programmed Quaker Ecclesiology, Derek Brown proposes a normative, deductive, ontological ecclesiology, based on the biblical concept of koinonia, for pastoral Friends churches in America.

"As the Oracles of God" illuminates mechanisms of oversight which American Quakers employed to police the spoken and written word within their religious communities, with particular attention paid to issues of censorship within the colonial world.

This book offers the first comprehensive examination of the authority of the International Committee of the Red Cross in the determination of international humanitarian law, addressing, among other things, the institution's most distinctive interpretations and law-ascertainments through case studies.

A team of experts view the relationship between rulers and their leading subjects across Europe and beyond. If both parties benefited, rival political theories of the divine right of monarchs and consensual rule tended to undermine the working relationship, at times violently.

In this comprehensive volume, Gönenç Uysal analyzes state-military-society relations in Turkey from the late Ottoman era to today by exploring state-class-capital relations under the dynamics of uneven development.

Utilizing Performance Criticism, this volume explores how the traditional literary configurations of the disciples' characterization in the Gospel of Mark are complicated by considerations of the oral milieu of the first-century.

SEG LXVIII covers newly published Greek inscriptions and studies on previously known documents from the year 2018, with occasional additions from previous years that have been missed in earlier volumes and from studies published after 2017 but pertaining to material from 2018.

Climate Change and the Testing of International Law / Le droit international au défi des changements climatiques by Sandrine Maljean-Dubois and Jacqueline Peel

Interdisciplinary perspective on the origin and significance of the numeral zero. Over 40 international scholars explore zero under four broad themes: history; religion, philosophy & linguistics; arts; and mathematics & science. With the existing research being very specialized, this is the first serious interdisciplinary study.

In Prophet, Intermediary, King: The Dynamics of Mediation in the Biblical World and Old Babylonian Mari, Julie B. Deluty investigates the central role of parties mediating prophetic communication with kings. Her book offers an innovative dimension to the social landscape of prophecy.

Science education and prison education. This volume opens a conversation on STEM education in US prisons. It foregrounds the voices of incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated science students. The book covers biology education, sustainability programs, and science pedagogy design for carceral environments.

Science education and prison education. This volume opens a conversation on STEM education in US prisons. It foregrounds the voices of incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated science students. The book covers biology education, sustainability programs, and science pedagogy design for carceral environments.

This book examines whether the current system of international law is still adequate. Analysing the compatibility of trade measures on child labour with world trade law, it makes the case for a new cognitive frame, a New Legal Humanism.

The leadership challenges discussed in this book will resonate with any denomination or church that has grown or wrestled with polity and culture, but will hold special appeal for those interested in the history of the Assemblies of God.

Weyerman was the author and editor of a satirical weekly periodical of which two volumes are analysed here. They are a primary source on the customs and manners of urbanised Western Europe, especially Holland, in the early eighteenth century.

How widespread was authorship among rulers in the premodern Islamic world? The writings of different types of rulers in different regions and periods are analyzed, shedding light on the role that authorship had in the construction of the rulers' authority and legitimacy.

In this book, Christopher Hart provides a comprehensive description of an applied form of Cognitive Linguistics in Cognitive Critical Discourse Analysis (Cognitive CDA).

Political Theology the "Modern Way" details the life and provides an original interpretation of the political theology of the French philosopher-theologian, Jacques Almain (d. 1515).

This volume explores the creation, dissemination, and consumption of 'business news' in the early modern Atlantic World. Through a series of case studies from scholars at all career stages, a variety of methodological and theoretical approaches to 'business news' are showcased.

This book shows how artists since the fifteenth century have given shape to the strange and often human-made environment in the Netherlands. It gathers essays that show the sensitivity to nature's materials in landscape painting, cartographic practice, the ecological practices of early modern artists, the relationship between landscapes, politics, and animals, and land art and its eco-critical potential in the late 20th twentieth century.

The present volume will serve its purpose if it consolidates the view of early modern Catholic book culture as an autonomous field of investigation and encourages further research and discussion.