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This collection of studies celebrating the work of Professor Marcelo Kohen brings together the leading scholars and practitioners of public international law from different continents and generations to explore some of the most challenging issues of contemporary international law.
Discover the surprising transformations of Poland over 30 years. This timeless book uses unique longitudinal data from the Polish Panel Survey POLPAN 1988 - 2018 to understand the radical social, economic, and political changes from the end of Communism to the rise of populism, offering a holistic understanding of the country's post-1989 history.
Why is the dragon idea globally distributed when no such creature existed? This book argues that the idea of dragons evolved from preliterate attempts to explain the causality and nature of rainbows.
v. 1. "Ever since the early 2nd millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia has been a crossroads of languages and peoples. Indo-European peoples - Hittites, Luwians, Palaeans - and non-Indo-European ones - Hattians, but also Assyrians and Hurrians - coexisted with each other for extended periods of times during the Bronze Age, a cohabitation that left important traces in the languages they spoke and in the texts they wrote. By combining, in an interdisciplinary fashion, the complementary approaches of linguistics, history and philology, this book offers a comprehensive, state-of-the-art study of linguistic and cultural contacts in a region that was the bridge between the East and the West. With the contribution of Paola Cotticelli-Kurras, Alfredo Rizza, Maurizio Viano, and Ilya Yakubovich"--
Syntax on the Edge defines and applies an original approach to syntactic structure based on graph theory. We explore the nature of syntax as a formal system of connections between expressions, and address long-standing puzzles in English and Spanish grammar.
This rich volume is an homage to the significant impact Professor Siegfried Wiessner has had on scholarship and practice in many areas of international law. It is also a collection of thought-provoking, original essays, exploring topics as diverse as theory about law, human rights, the rights of indigenous peoples, the rule of law, constitutional law, the rights of migrants, international investment law and arbitration, space law, the use of force, and many more - all integrated by the problem and policy-oriented framework of what has come to be known as the New Haven School.
This Handbook includes numerous contributions from some of the most well-regarded researchers in Cognitive Semantics and it aims to provide the most comprehensive coverage of the field to date.
Using newly analyzed sources and database analysis, this book tells the stories of the personal friendships and professional failures of Chinese and American engineers in Republican China.
Humans are unlikely to be the only intelligent species in the universe. Contact may occur at any time. It may be peaceful or hostile. This book argues that we need a global consensus on how to respond in either scenario.
This book is a collection of chapters and response essays that seek to take up key tensions, possibilities, and gaps in the field of queer and trans studies in education. The authors work across contexts and engage a range of theoretical, methodological, and practical issues with an eye toward building generative futures in the field.
A ground-breaking study of early Christian society and history in Asia Minor from the second to the eleventh century, based on a comprehensive evaluation of the inscriptions and archaeological remains, and a re-evaluation of the written sources, including a fundamental new appraisal of saints' lives from the region.
This book guides you in investigating writing interventions in everyday educational practice. Innovative approaches on how to conceptualize, design, implement, and evaluate writing interventions are presented and illustrated by inspiring examples.
This book demonstrates the potential of the study of colour to enhance our understanding of the material nature and production of maps and the historical, social, geographical, and political contexts in which they were made.
Bringing examples and insights from field studies, the present volume elaborates on the ways Cultural-Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) and Vygotskian approaches are transforming how educational researchers, psychologists, and social scientists study human actions, thoughts and emotions in their cultural contexts.
A diverse collection of texts that take Edward Albee's theatre beyond the Anglophone sphere, examining the reception and impact of his works in different linguistic, cultural and socio-political contexts.
Sketch maps, despite their informal appearance, are intellectual devices that reflect and shape geographical imagination, regardless of the drawing skills of their makers. This book deciphers why and how the intuitive mechanisms behind sketch mapping activate knowledges about place and space.
This book presents an overview of the historical context and the content of the largest cache of documents ever excavated in China, which provide a wealth of new materials on the history of South China.
Going beyond a single national context, the volume draws attention to the intertwining, connections, and bonds that make up women's history on a global level from mid-eighteen century to today.
This book brings together expert views that, taken together, speak to the desirability, necessity and feasibility of unified rules to resolve Private International Law issues arising in the context of the digital economy.
In this book Divjak and Milin introduce the new paradigm of computational cognitive linguistics. Going beyond corpus-based and experimental approaches, they showcase how computational models anchored in theories of learning, can be used to generate and test hypotheses concerning language cognition.
In Between Memory and Power, Antoine Borrut offers a fresh approach to early Islamic Syria from a perspective of history of memory, revealing Umayyad and Abbasid historiographical projects, as well as their practices of power.
How much choice do you have in life? Charles Dickens's dramatisation of the relationship between characters and their audiences within his novels reflects upon us: in spectating spectators, readers engage in a dynamic of sameness and difference that will define and decide the struggle for choice in our own lives.
Focusing on Ilyenkov and Vygotsky, this book presents David Bakhurst's most compelling essays on Russian philosophy and psychology. It paints a dramatic portrait of Soviet intellectual culture and reveals how the insights of its most creative exponents are of enduring philosophical significance.
This lavishly illustrated book is the first systematic study of cartographic cartouches, the most important element in interpreting historic maps--and the most visually engaging. It explores four centuries of cartouches, focusing on examples with particularly rich symbolism.
Dramatic changes during the Reformation era in Northern Europe, such as witchcraft and new global discoveries, are examined through visual culture, both prints and paintings.
A coherent analysis of lexical semantics and cultural linguistics.
As one of the most debated categories of Tocharian nominal morphology, grammatical gender is in this book investigated from the point of view of Indo-European comparative reconstruction, by applying the methods of historical linguistics, Tocharian philology, and typological linguistics.
Islamicate Occult Sciences in Theory and Practice presents the latest research on Islamic occult sciences from a variety of disciplinary perspectives, namely intellectual history, manuscript studies and material culture.
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