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

Threshold Concepts in the Moment presents chapters that span the field, tackling questions that range from the overarching values and practices of higher education, teaching for breakthroughs and supporting students in difficult and complex learning.

"The book takes an in-depth look at a hitherto unexplored part of the oeuvre of prominent Polish economist and historian of economic thought Tadeusz Kowalik: his thesis that the systemic transformation that took place in Poland in the late 1980s was a de facto "epigonic bourgeois revolution". Since Kowalik actually never extended his argument to support this thesis, the aim of the book is to answer the following question: If some important reflections on the revolutionary character of the Polish transformation scattered throughout Kowalik's works were to be found, would they together constitute a convincing justification for the thesis of the "epigonic bourgeois revolution"?"--

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.

Threshold Concepts in the Moment presents chapters that span the field, tackling questions that range from the overarching values and practices of higher education, teaching for breakthroughs and supporting students in difficult and complex learning.

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.

"This volume reimagines the first-century reception of the Gospel of Mark within a reconstructed (yet hypothetical) performance event. In particular, it considers the disciples' character and characterization through the lens of performance criticism. Questions concerning the characterization of the disciples have been relatively one-sided in New Testament scholarship, in favor of their negative characterization. This project demonstrates why such assumptions need not be necessary when we (re-)consider the oral/aural milieu in which the Gospel of Mark was first composed and received by its earliest audiences"--

In this volume on Yoga and meditation from a sociological point of view, the contributions cover a wide range of topics, traditions, and geographic contexts, all raising a different facet of sociological approaches to Asian forms and dynamics of aesceticism.

This book traces the pictorial and ideological traditions behind printers' devices, placing the usage of these unassuming compositions in the broader cultural context early modern Poland-Lithuania: a multinational, multiethnic, and multilingual state with a rich and heterogeneous book culture.

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.

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.

Beyond the search for escape and nostalgia, by understanding the formative texts of early Arthurian historical narrative and the foundation stories with which Arthur is inextricably linked, we may better understand our own ethnic and individual identities in an age of increasing anonymity and globalization.

"In Prophet, Intermediary, King: The Dynamics of Mediation in the Biblical World and Old Babylonian Mari, Julie B. Deluty investigates the mediation of prophecy for kings in biblical narratives and the Old Babylonian corpus from Mari. In many cases, the prophet's message is delivered through a third party-sometimes a royal official or family member-who may exercise a degree of autonomy in the transmission of the words. Drawing on social network theory, the book highlights the importance of third-party intermediaries in the process of communication that lies at the core of biblical and ancient Near Eastern prophecy. Recognition of the place of non-prophetic intermediaries in a monarchic system offers a new dimension to the study of prophecy in antiquity"--

After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the Swiss government oscillated between neutrality and solidarity in one of the Cold War's major hot wars. They delivered humanitarian aid, hosted Soviet prisoners and eventually mediated between the Afghan regime and the resistance.

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.

Taking a long view of history, this work explores the colonial roots, modern context, trajectory and complex legacy of the Shining Path insurgency in the region of Huancavelica, Peru.

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.

In the Arab world, people belong to kinship groups that are named after wolves, birds, and plants. Why these names? Young's book questions old explanations and suggests a new hypothesis: Bedouin tribes use such names to obscure internal cleavages.

"The growth of Global Pentecostalism in the past century has been studied and documented from many perspectives. Its leadership, culture and ecclesiology, however, has received scant academic and theological attention. This book based on an extensive research study of the Assemblies of God of Great Britain (AoG) could not be more timely, conducted as AoG entered its centenery decade and faced the challenges that its historic culture and leadership dynamics posed. The leadership struggles discussed in this book will resonate with any denomination that has grown or wrestled with polity, leadership and culture"--

Jacob Campo Weyerman was the author and editor of a satirical weekly, 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).