Brill jun 2025 (79 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The volume is a collection of essays by acclaimed and widely published international scholars of 'space' working within different disciplines, such as social sciences, history, applied sciences and media theory, literary and cultural studies (American, Canadian, French, German, Mexican-American, and Polish). Their contributions substantiate the argument that the debate on 'space' has produced a polyphony of argumentation which resulted in the multiplication and diversification of perspectives and interpretations of the studied concept. The volume captures the present state of the most recent debate on 'space,' exploring the importance of its multifaceted nature evinced by the abundance of research on such related terms as 'border,' 'boundary,' and/or 'region.'. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated that unexpected and unpredictable situations can hinder the conduct of general elections around the world. The book is a comprehensive analysis of the organization of elections during the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the theoretical perspective, it familiarizes the public with specific electoral solutions adopted during the pandemic in selected European countries (Italy, Germany, Lithuania, Serbia, Russia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Poland). The editors believe that this book will bring closer the specific solutions adopted in the considered countries during the COVID-19 pandemic and provide readers with a multi-faceted understanding of elections in emergency situations. Contributors are: Roman Bäcker, Ryszard Balicki, Piotr Chrobak, Rafal Dudala, Kamil Glinka, Maciej Górny, Maciej Hartlinski, Marcin Jastrzebski, Izabela Kapsa, Agnieszka Kasinska-Metryka, Joanna Kielin-Maziarz, Jakub Klepanski, Oliwia Kowalik, Krzysztof Kozbial, Aleksandra Kuczynska-Zonik, Natalia Kusa, Elzbieta Lesiewicz, Natasza Lubik-Reczek, Agnieszka Lukasik-Turecka, Pawel Malendowicz, Martinas Maluzinas, Radoslaw Marzecki, Magdalena Musial-Karg, Adam Pluszczyk, Agata Pyrzynska, Marcin Rachwal, Joanna Rak, Kamila Sierzputowska, Krzysztof Skotnicki, Piotr Walewicz, Jacek Wojnicki, and Waldemar Wojtasik.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Written by leading experts in the field, The Book of Genesis: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation offers a wide-ranging treatment of the main aspects of Genesis study. Its twenty-nine essays fall under four main sections. The first section contains studies of a more general nature, including the history of Genesis in critical study, Genesis in literary and historical study, as well as the function of Genesis in the Pentateuch. In the second portion, scholars present commentary on or interpretation of specific passages (or sections) of Genesis, as well as essays on its formation, genres, and themes. The third part includes essays on the textual history and reception of Genesis in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The final section explores the theologies of the book of Genesis, including essays on Genesis and ecology and Genesis in the context of Jewish thought.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The expectations, hopes, dreams as well as anxieties and fears of the youth are often marginalized. This book presents answers to pivotal questions about the preferred individual and collective futures. Authors give the voice to young Polish students, who willingly and broadly describe their life projects and their desired world in the future. Qualitative and quantitative studies employed in the research document strong variations in students' plans, aims and opinions. Certainly, their future visions may transfer you to unknown futures. Let's remember that always and everywhere various futures are possible. Which one is preferred by you.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this book, Dr Rene Novak reveals new ways of understanding children's play by liberating it from the constraints of standardised educational agendas. Drawing on Heidegger's concepts of Enframing and poiesis, and phenomenological inquiry, this innovative study explores how immersive virtual reality (VR) videos can serve as metaphysical laboratories. Through vivid, embodied experiences, early childhood educators cross the cybernetic looking glass to become one with play and discover transformative insights for holistic child development. Dr Rene Novak investigates the potential of immersive pedagogy by merging visual pedagogy with embodiment theory to highlight the critical role of teacher presence in educational phenomena. Educators become 'invisible observers,' stepping inside the flow of play while relinquishing preconceived enframed discourses and misconceptions. The result is a reshaping of pedagogy and policy, steering away from prescriptive goals toward play as a self-actualising educational experience. By reconceptualising how free play unfolds, this book challenges educators, policymakers, and parents to embrace the true essence of play in early learning. This book is an essential resource for anyone seeking to understand how to foster creativity, social-emotional growth, and deeper engagement in a play-based curriculum.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book considers the role and function of creativity for anchoring educational practices both in universities and beyond. Crucially, the educational practices in question model responsive, careful and attentive encounters with an unfolding present. Reinterpreting the ground-breaking creative processes of leading artists, writers, musicians and dancers, this book offers a toolkit of invitations and encounters that demonstrate how creativity can be practiced - and taught - as a competency that cultivates expertise in harnessing experiment, curiosity, somatic intuition and collaborative practices of world-building. In doing so, the book mounts a vital critical call for developing languages, approaches and methods in both digital and face-to-face learning environments that reconsider creativity as a literacy foundational to all learning settings. Vital to diverse disciplines, fields and professional sectors, this book boldly changes the conversation around the conspicuous role creativity takes in shaping our learning and teaching futures.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This book adopts the arts-based methodology of social fiction to explore the professional becoming of a teacher educator, Patricia Morgan. The aim of the book is to examine and generate new knowledge about how cumulative life and educational experiences shape teacher educators as teachers, doctoral candidates, academics, mentors and colleagues. Through reading Patricia's story, you will explore how she reflects on, and tries to make sense of, who she is as a learner, educator and professional. Grounded in research on the work of teachers and teacher educators, Patricia's story will encourage you to reflect on your own experiences and support you in becoming the professional that you aspire to be.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Developments at the international level over the past 5 years have re-ignited the relevance of a mechanism that had remained dormant for decades: inter-state communications before UN treaty bodies. Under-utilised and, consequently, under-studied, inter-state communications allow States to bring cases against other States for violations of their human rights obligations. Given the strong human rights dimension of cases currently under consideration by the ICJ and other international disputes, as well as the numerous and significant cases being presently considered by human rights treaty bodies and other human rights courts, this edited volume seeks to consider the potential of inter-state communications for promoting and ensuring respect for human rights around the globe.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - During the 1st millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia acted as a melting pot and crossroads of languages, cultures and peoples. The political map of the world changed after the collapse of the Bronze Age, the horizon of sea routes was expanded to new interregional networks, new writing systems emerged including the alphabets. The Mediterranean world changed dramatically, and Indo-European languages - Luwic, Lydian, but also Phrygian and Greek - interacted with increasing intensity with each other and with the neighbouring idioms and cultures of the Syro-Mesopotamian, Iranian and Aegean worlds. With an innovative combination of linguistic, historical and philological work, this book will provide a state-of-the-art description of the contacts at the linguistic and cultural boundary between the East and the West.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - EAIR - The European Higher Education Society is an international association connecting scholars, practitioners, students, managers, and policymakers in higher education. This volume, part of the EAIR book series, features papers from the EAIR Forum 2024 at University College Cork, Ireland. It explores the role of higher education in addressing global challenges like climate change, resource depletion, and inequality. The chapters highlight the importance of integrating Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into curricula, research, and community programs. They focus on areas such as sustainable governance, teaching, research, quality culture, digitalization, and transnational cooperation for a sustainable future. Contributors are: Joris Boonen, Bruno Broucker, Pawel Bryla, Jannica Budde, Thierry Burger-Helmchen, Ana Maria Carneiro, Flávia Colus, Bård Drange, Brigitte Ecker, Erik Fledderus, Jon Furholt, Anne Gannon, Isabelle Grosch, Ankie Hoefnagels, Arlette Jappe, Jouni Kekäle, Ben Kokkeler, Andrea Kottmann, Carrie Kovacs, Jean-Yves Le Corre, Julia Mayr, Jessica Nooij, Mark O'Hara, Atul Kr. Ojha, Neslihan Onder-Ozdemir, Rómulo Pinheiro, Katie Power, Silke Preymann, Verena Régent, Anna Santucci, Louise Schubotz, Margrete Søvik, Sandra von Sydow, Mingfeng Tang, Jens Tobor, Gerhard Yngve Amundsen and Jin Zhao.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume examines the Rabbinic, Qur'anic and Christian understandings of prophecy from a historical and comparative theological perspective. The Rabbinic perspectives on the phenomenon of prophecy are analyzed in their historical continuity and engagement with the theological traditions of Islam and Christianity. The examination of female prophecy also occupies a central place here. Similarly, several contributors describe the deep roots of Qur'anic prophetology in the Christian and Jewish traditions of Late Antiquity and the Arabic context. Finally, the anthology attempts to reflect on these different theological traditions of prophecy in the Christian, Jewish, and Qur'anic traditions from a comparative theological perspective and to discuss the possible theological significance of this phenomenon in the modern age.Brill I Schoeningh, Wollmarktstraße 115, 33098 Paderborn 350 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume examines the Rabbinic, Qur'anic and Christian understandings of prophecy from a historical and comparative theological perspective. The Rabbinic perspectives on the phenomenon of prophecy are analyzed in their historical continuity and engagement with the theological traditions of Islam and Christianity. The examination of female prophecy also occupies a central place here. Similarly, several contributors describe the deep roots of Qur'anic prophetology in the Christian and Jewish traditions of Late Antiquity and the Arabic context. Finally, the anthology attempts to reflect on these different theological traditions of prophecy in the Christian, Jewish, and Qur'anic traditions from a comparative theological perspective and to discuss the possible theological significance of this phenomenon in the modern age.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam appears in substantial segments each year, both online and in print. The new scope includes comprehensive coverage of Islam in the twentieth century and of Muslim minorities all over the world.This Part 2025-1 of the Third Edition of Brill's Encyclopaedia of Islam will contain 27 new articles, reflecting the great diversity of current scholarship in the fields of Islamic Studies.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Having made his reputation in the 1940s and '50s, Arthur Miller continued to write into the twenty-first century, producing his final play in 2004, the year before his death. With little critical, academic, or theatrical attention being paid to his plays after 1968's The Price, he had one of the longest 'late' periods in literary history. This book brings new attention to Miller's writing from this period, analysing 5 plays--The Archbishop's Ceiling, Some Kind of Love Story, Clara and The Ride Down Mt. Morgan, Resurrection Blues--and a host of essays to highlight the influence of postmodernism on his work. Using relevant novels and films, these plays are situated within the context of their cultural moments to show that Miller remained an engaged, aware, and contemporary writer until his death.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This edition presents a selection of 15 sermons by Stefan Javors'kyj (1658-1722), a Ukrainian poet and preacher of the late 17th century. His imagination, knowledge, and rhetorical skills made him one of the leading European writers of his time. For political reasons, his sermons remained in manuscript for over 300 years. The editors have painstakingly transcribed the Ukrainian texts and annotated them in English. The edition makes Javors'kyj's works available to scholars who wish to broaden their knowledge of an unknown part of early modern European literature. Edited by Giovanna Brogi, Maksym Yaremenko, Tetiana Kuzyk, Marzanna Kuczynska, and Jakub Niedzwiedz with an introduction by Marzanna Kuczynska in collaboration with Bartosz B. Awianowicz, Grzegorz Franczak, and Monika Miazek-Meczynska. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Intertwined with the histories of Arab migration to the Americas from the nineteenth century until now, the emergence of competing nationalist narratives within Arab communities in Latin America, and the birth of anti-imperialist and anticolonial struggles, the history of cultural entanglements between the Arab world and Latin America spans over a hundred years--and reveals the vital role of art in creating bridges between the two regions. This book, the first of its kind, gathers interventions that showcase the twentieth century as a period of intense redefinitions and cultural effervescence across the whole of Latin America and the Arab world. The result is a polished image of the twentieth century as a period whose shifting categories of affiliation were tied to events and movements that connected the two regions in ever deepening ways, and to forms of artful experimentation through which political ideologies, alternative collective identities, and aesthetic movements could be contested or embraced. Contributors are Diogo Bercito, Kevin Funk, Silvina Schammah Gesser, Laure Guirguis, Olivier Hadouchi, Julia Solana Jáuregui, John Tofik Karam, Edgardo Manero, Mariano Mestman, Gabriella Nugent, Maru Pabón, Laura Reali and Juan José Vagni.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Textual History of the Bible brings together for the first time all available information regarding the manuscripts, textual history and character of each book of the Hebrew Bible and its translations as well as the deuterocanonical scriptures. In addition, it covers the history of research, the editorial history of the Hebrew Bible and other aspects of text-critical research and its subsidiary fields, such as papyrology, codicology, and the related discipline of linguistics. Volume 1C provides detailed entries on the different primary translations (Greek, Aramaic, Syriac, Latin) and uniquely the secondary translations as well (Latin, Coptic, Ethiopic, Syriac, Armenian, Georgian, Christian Palestinian Aramaic, Old Slavonic, and Arabic) most of which were sourced from the Greek. Volumes 1A, 1B and 1C will comprise a total of 353 articles, approximately 2,000 pages, presented in three volumes. For each textual version 15 area editors, who are highly recognized specialists in their field, have invited contributions from 120 authors. See the Table of Contents here. The Textual History of the Bible is also available online. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Open Access publication of this book has been made possible by the Swiss National Science Foundation. What is a border, and why does it exist Reappraising a key idea from Arnold van Gennep's Les rites de passage, this book argues that a border is a threshold, a limen, made to be crossed. African Thresholds studies places of passage spanning from the riverine networks of Senegambia to border-making in colonial Gold Coast and Côte d'Ivoire; from the desert roads of central southern Africa to river heartlands in colonial Togo; from flows of cowrie shells across the Volta River to insurgent borderities in the Lake Chad. In a time when state borders are increasingly shut, this book aims to show us that a border is made by those who cross it as much as by those who stand by it. Contributors are: Ettore Morelli, Fernando Mouta, Pierluigi Valsecchi, María José Pont Cháfer, Giulia Casentini, and Aimé Raoul Sumo Tayo.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In this book, Valdis Gauss anthologizes the Formosan anthropogonic myths from all of Taiwan's Austronesian tribes. Over 250 origin texts, sourced from dozens of linguistic, anthropological, historical, and mythological corpora as well as other publications have been collated and analysed rendering the present literary survey far more comprehensive than any prior study on this subject. Over 100 Formosan myths, many of which were never previously available in English have been translated here for the first time. In the absence of longstanding traditional orthographical records, the Austronesian tribes that inhabit the island of Taiwan have relied on the transmission of oral literatures for the preservation of historical events since the dawn of time. The earliest historical events that are still recited by tribal elders relate to the origins of the gods and first ancestors of mankind. This anthology continues the tradition of collecting and transcribing these myths for everyone interested in the corpus of literature from Taiwan's aboriginal peoples.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Romans 6:1-14, Paul corrects an erroneous ethical conclusion drawn from the narrative of God's grace in Romans 3-5. This innovative study employs tools from cognitive linguistics to unveil Paul's sophisticated rhetorical strategy for resolving the 'indicative-imperative' tension. By moving beyond traditional theological frameworks, the book shows how Paul presents believers' new identity as defined by a new obligation, illuminating the metaphorical narrative that undergirds Paul's logic. Readers will better understand the importance of conceptual spaces like 'in sin' and 'in Christ,' and how Paul conceptualizes the relationship between believers and their 'old selves' who have been crucified.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -This volume examines the Rabbinic, Qur'anic and Christian understandings of prophecy from a historical and comparative theological perspective. The Rabbinic perspectives on the phenomenon of prophecy are analyzed in their historical continuity and engagement with the theological traditions of Islam and Christianity. The examination of female prophecy also occupies a central place here. Similarly, several contributors describe the deep roots of Qur'anic prophetology in the Christian and Jewish traditions of Late Antiquity and the Arabic context. Finally, the anthology attempts to reflect on these different theological traditions of prophecy in the Christian, Jewish, and Qur'anic traditions from a comparative theological perspective and to discuss the possible theological significance of this phenomenon in the modern age. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume explores the treatise Giuochi mathematici, which is only the second known collection of mathematical riddles written in Italian. This treatise was written by Piero d'Antonio di Nicolao da Filicaia between 1515 and 1516, but was not published at the time. It offers a fascinating glimpse into the minds of the people of the Renaissance and is a valuable resource for historians of mathematics and enthusiasts of Florentine Renaissance culture. This edition, based on the two extant manuscripts of this work, brings this intriguing text to light for the first time and allows you to explore the rich tradition of mathematical riddles.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This Festschrift honors the remarkable career of Prof. Dr.h.c. Huub Lelieveld, celebrating his 80th birthday and the 20th anniversary of the Global Harmonization Initiative (GHI). Spanning a distinguished career across industry, academia, and public service, Huub's dedication to excellence, innovation, and ethics has profoundly impacted all those who have worked with him, from colleagues at Unilever to members of the GHI. This compilation of research papers, contributed by friends and colleagues who have collaborated with Huub, explores diverse and significant topics close to his heart. These include the realization of food culture, nutrition, food safety, religious food regulations during times of conflict, food fortification, novel food technologies like irradiation, improving religious slaughter practices, safe cassava consumption, and sustainable food futures and environmental responsibility and planetary health. Each article serves as a tribute to his vision and legacy, highlighting his lasting influence on global food science and public health.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This volume by both younger and more established specialists of legal, maritime, diplomatic, and political history covers the nuanced interplay of neutrality and the law of the sea within Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, emphasising the opening up of the world in the early modern period (i.e. Africa, North America, and the Caribbean). The various faces of neutrality, both in law and politics, appear through commercial, administrative, and geopolitical practical cases and in the writings of famous legal writers. By linking up different sets of knowledge, a kaleidoscope of power configurations and arguments guides the reader through the labyrinth of trade, sea power, and negotiations. Contributors are: Stefano Cattelan, Frederik Dhondt, John Freeman, Nora Naguib Leerberg, Christian Pfister-Langanay, Leos Müller, Stephen C. Neff, and Victor Wilson. Outsmarting Great Powers: Neutrals In Maritime Multipolarity Drs. S. Cattelan &. F. Dhondt.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Solomonic magic has captivated imaginations for centuries, yet its definition remains elusive. Is it a specialized branch linked to King Solomon, or a broader classification of practices attributed to him This book explores the mysterious world of demon subjugation, examining previously unknown texts in multiple languages (Aramaic, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and more) to reveal the historical evolution of this magical tradition. Divided into three parts, the book presents analyses of key manuscripts and examines the historical influence of Hebrew texts on later traditions. Featuring many unpublished manuscripts, this book challenges previous scholarly assumptions and offers a new perspective on the textual network that shaped medieval and early modern magical works. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - This title is published in Open Access with the support of the University of Helsinki Library. International scholarly consensus holds that despite his obvious Platonic affinities, Clement of Alexandria (ca. 150-215 CE) rejected the doctrine of reincarnation. This study finds that this consensus does not do justice to what Clement actually writes. In his most explicit statement, Clement singles out reincarnation as the example he wants to give of the finest doctrines of the best philosophers. Though most of Clement's other writing is more subtle than that, endorsement is still the most plausible explanation of what he says. The tenet - clearly esoteric for Clement - is in harmony with his anthropology, ethics, and his synergistic soteriology that includes the crucial role of Jesus.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -During the 1st millennium BCE, Pre-Classical Anatolia acted as a melting pot and crossroads of languages, cultures and peoples. The political map of the world changed after the collapse of the Bronze Age, the horizon of sea routes was expanded to new interregional networks, new writing systems emerged including the alphabets. The Mediterranean world changed dramatically, and Indo-European languages - Luwic, Lydian, but also Phrygian and Greek - interacted with increasing intensity with each other and with the neighbouring idioms and cultures of the Syro-Mesopotamian, Iranian and Aegean worlds. With an innovative combination of linguistic, historical and philological work, this book will provide a state-of-the-art description of the contacts at the linguistic and cultural boundary between the East and the West. 494 pp. Englisch.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Our contemporary society is obsessed with the idea of self-optimization, a concept that implies the need to constantly work on improving oneself and one's appearance. The roots of postmodern self-optimization, however, lie in the cultural industries that emerged in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With its equally profound and transient interest in new forms of expression, new ways of life, and new technologies, modernism thoroughly and critically embraced the idea of the self as something that can be created and recreated, either in accordance with or in contradiction to social norms. This book explores strategies of self-optimization developed in modernist literature and culture. In doing so, it offers a panoramic view of an often-overlooked aspect of European and North American modernity that anticipates our current postmodern crisis of the self.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In Kosovo: History in Maps, the story of Kosovo's history is told through maps which take us through space and time, from antiquity to the present day. Placed at the intersection of the Ottoman, Habsburg, and Serbian Empires, Kosovo attracted the attention of cartographers and mapmakers from various imperial and cultural circles. Each of them embodied and circulated ideas of Kosovo and its geographical space in their own way, creating different visions of state power, historic memory, identity, imperial and national borders, and territoriality. In this regard, the book delineates the geographical reality of Kosovo in different contexts, namely war space, historical space, travel space, and sacred space. Moreover, Kosovo: History in Maps examines the diffusion of geographical knowledge and maps on Kosovo, contributing to the growing historiography on the circulation of knowledge and the translation of culture.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Transgressive City-Making and Governance delves into the pressing global issue of housing exclusion and forced evictions, using Lisbon as a case study. This book, based on a 15-month engaged ethnography, critically examines council housing occupations and evictions, revealing how these practices challenge neoliberal urban governance and put forward alternative forms of urban citizenship. Exploring gendered, classed, and racialised dynamics, it sheds light on the transformative potential of housing occupations and the role of social movements in contesting systemic exclusion. It is essential reading for those interested in housing rights, social justice, and urban governance. …