Drawing on newly-discovered archival materials, the study offers a comprehensive and critical reading of the polemics of Sheikh Rash?d Ri?? and his associates on Christianity in al-Man?r, and their fascinating encounters with Arab Christians and Christian missionary movements.
"The scholarship devoted to the complicity of German physicians in the Holocaust is rich and detailed, but there remains, as Michael Bryant demonstrates, still more to learn. It is well established that the techniques employed by the Nazis to exterminate Jews and others in conce…
by Böhmer, Johann Friedrich, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften., Regesta Imperii, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur (Germany). $b Deutsche Kommission für die Bearbeitung der Regesta Imperii
Der Band enthält 253 Regesten von 229 echten Urkunden und Briefen bzw. Deperdita Kaiser Sigismunds sowie von 21 mittelalterlichen Fälschungen bzw. stark verdächtigen Urkunden aus den Archiven Südböhmens. The volume contains 253 abstracts of 229 Emperor Sigismund's charters and …
by Böhmer, Johann Friedrich, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften., Regesta Imperii, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur (Germany). $b Deutsche Kommission für die Bearbeitung der Regesta Imperii
Der Band enthält 253 Regesten von 229 echten Urkunden und Briefen bzw. Deperdita Kaiser Sigismunds sowie von 21 mittelalterlichen Fälschungen bzw. stark verdächtigen Urkunden aus den Archiven Südböhmens. The volume contains 253 abstracts of 229 Emperor Sigismund's charters and …
Mobility and security are key themes for students of international politics that assume a globalized world. This book brings together research that looks into the political regulation of movement with research that engages the material enablers of and constraints on such movemen…
This study focuses on the relationship between nobility and freemasonry from 1750 to 1850. It examines the specific role of an esoteric discourse surrounding the roots of the human race, centring on legendary constructions of noble genealogies in eighteenth century Europe. The a…
This study focuses on the relationship between nobility and freemasonry from 1750 to 1850. It examines the specific role of an esoteric discourse surrounding the roots of the human race, centring on legendary constructions of noble genealogies in eighteenth century Europe. The a…
Maternal-Child Health is one of the greatest challenges the world has to cope with today. Every year, thousands of women, newborns and children die unnecessarily, particularly in resource-poor settings. There is a great disparity caused by food insecurity and hunger, environment…
It was in ancient Greek philosophy where the idea arose that there is a supreme law before which any civil law created by human societies has to be justified. Since then the concept of natural law not only remained one of the paradigms of Western civilization but has shaped the …
The late anthropologist Valerio Valeri (1944-98) was best known for his substantial writings on societies of Polynesia and eastern Indonesia. This volume, however, presents a lesser-known side of Valeri's genius through a dazzlingly erudite set of comparative essays on core topi…
The major principles and systems of C.S. Peirce's ground-breaking theory of signs and signification are now generally well known. Less well known, however, is the fact that Peirce initially conceived these systems within a 'Philosophy of Representation', his latter-day version o…
This book studies how the tirades and unrestrained villainy of Shakespeare???s art explode the decorum and safety of our sanitized lives and challenge the limits of selfhood. The literary criticism of anger and hate provides a vision of the experience of Shakespeare???s theater …
Whether reburied, concealed, stored, abandoned or publicly displayed, human remains raise a vast number of questions regarding social, legal and ethical uses by communities, public institutions and civil society organisations. This work presents a ground-breaking account of the …
Destruction and human remains investigates a crucial question frequently neglected in academic debate in the fields of mass violence and genocide studies: what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed? In the context of mass violence, death does not constitute …
Kitchen, cooking, nutrition, and eating have become omnipresent cultural topics. They stand at the center of design, gastronomy, nutrition science, and agriculture. Artists have appropriated cooking as an aesthetic practice? in turn, cooks are adapting the staging practices that…
From paintings and food to illness and icebergs, science is happening everywhere. Rather than follow the path of a syllabus or textbook, Andrew Morris takes examples from the science we see every day and uses them as entry points to explain a number of fundamental scientific con…
In The Emergence of the Digital Humanities, Steven E. Jones examines this shift in our relationship to digital technology and the ways that it has affected humanities scholarship and the academy more broadly. Based on the premise that the network is now everywhere rather than me…
Left-wing intellectuals in Britain and the US had long repudiated the Soviet regime. Why was the collapse of the Eastern Bloc experienced as a shock that destabilised their identities and political allegiances then? What happened to a collective project that had started out to f…
This ground-breaking book explores the points of convergence between corporate capitalism and terrorist practice. Assessing the increase in the number of terrorist attacks directed against commercial entities in urban areas, such as the Westgate mall in Nairobi or the Charlie He…
Terrorism trials are an exceptional opportunity for better understanding and, hence, countering terrorism, since they are often the only place where most if not all of the actors of a terrorist incident meet again, and where the media report and broadcast their respective accoun…