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This ground-breaking book assesses the state of implementation of international human rights law, identifies new challenges in international protection, and calls for a new human rights diplomacy suited to the contemporary geopolitical situation of the world.

Korean Art since 1945: Challenges and Changes provides a comprehensive, engaging survey of Korean contemporary art. It draws on primary sources and is filled with facts and ideas that are new to foreign readers. The book is an invaluable study to grasp the entire scope of modern art in Asia.

Imaginons être à la place de l'artisan divin ? Comment aurions-nous fait pour fabriquer le cosmos tout entier ? Platon répond à cette question dans le Timée en proposant une expérience de pensée qui consiste à ordonner un chaos primordial. Imagine being in the shoes of the divine craftsman? How would you have gone about creating the entire cosmos? Plato answers this question in the Timaeus offering a thought experiment that involves ordering a primordial chaos.

In volume 4 of The Geometrid Moths of Europe on Perizomini and Eupitheciini a total of 151 species are inclued of which 133 are Eupitheciini. One new species is described and a number of species are recorded from Europe for the first time.

The book comprises contemporary legal theory pertaining to Democratic States based on the Rule of Law from the perspective of general principles of law. It explains in detail, theoretically and based on the specific case law, the phenomenon of general principles of law - as a source of law and directly applicable legal norms.

This study reframes and reorients the discussion of 2 Enoch, away from standard accounts of Jewish or Christian authorship, arguing that its features reflect the eclectic and philosophically erudite religious culture of Syria or Babylonia in late antiquity.

"Shamanism is thriving as an exotic import and a hidden native tradition in Italy today. This ethnographical work uncovers two faces of Italian shamanism. The first is transcultural shamans who creatively adapt rituals and beliefs from indigenous cultures worldwide. Second, extensive fieldwork shows how regional folk magic practices of segnatori and segnatrici constitute a little-known but enduring form of native Italian shamanism"--

Transposed Memory explores the visual culture of national recollection in modern and contemporary East Asia by emphasizing memories that are under the continuous process of construction, reinforcement, alteration, resistance, and contestation.

Performing Arguments: Debate in Early English Poetry and Drama proposes a fresh performance-centered view of rhetoric by recovering, tracing, and analyzing the trope and tradition of aestheticized argumentation as a mode of performance across several early ludic genres: Middle English debate poetry, the fifteenth-century 'disguising' play, the Tudor Humanist debate interlude, and four Shakespearean works in which the dynamics of debate invite the plays' reconsideration under the new rubric of 'rhetorical problem plays.'

This book reassesses the so-called Roman School, a nineteenth-century theological network centered in Jesuit Roman College. It shows how this long-neglected movement not only shaped the theology of its day but also anticipated twentieth-century theological renewal.

Dans cet ouvrage-testament que sont les contes, Perrault livre à travers le thème vestimentaire ses messages les plus subversifs. Il dénonce l'immoralité des possesseurs de pouvoir, les agressions sexuelles, les impostures bourgeoises, la cupidité des grands et jusqu'au pouvoir en place. In this work-testament that are the tales, Perrault delivers through the theme of clothing his most subversive messages. He denounces the immorality of the possessors of power, sexual assault, bourgeois impostures, the greed of the great and even the political monarchy.

This exciting new collection of cutting-edge, multidisciplinary scholarship brings together analyses of two dynamic and longstanding Jewish communities. From historical, sociological, literary, and other perspectives, contributing authors offer rich new understandings of Argentine and Canadian Jewish life.

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.

Hoe ziet natuurinclusieve landbouw eruit in de praktijk? Wat weten we over de effecten op bodem, water, biodiversiteit en klimaat? Hoe integreer je maatregelen voor een natuurinclusieve bedrijfsvoering? Deze vragen worden beantwoord in dit boek bomvol ervaringen van agrariërs en onderzoekers.

The Companion to Public Theology offers a collection of cutting-edge essays by an international group of scholars that provides a foundation for public theology as well as engagement with a wide range of public issues in dialogue with other disciplines.

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.

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 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 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.