Brill sep 2009 (50 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Overexploitation of natural resources is often associated with poverty among local populations. A multi-disciplinary team studied artisanal fishers along the Kenyan coast on the Indian Ocean. The main focus of the research was on income diversification of fishers, the pressure on marine re…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book contains the latest scientific findings on nutrition and training of racing and sport horses discussed by renowned experts during the Equine NUtrition and TRAining COnference 2009. Furthermore, state of the art reviews are published on the prevention and treatment of gastric ulce…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This provoking study of the Japanese tea ceremony (chanoyu) examines the ideological foundation of its place in history and the broader context of Japanese cultural values where it has emerged as a so-called 'quintessential' component of the culture. Sen Soshitsu Xl argued that tea be view…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume, which originated with a conference at the Collège de France, comprises contributions by many of the leading researchers in Babylonian and Assyrian medicine. A wealth of topics are studied, including medical lexicography, prosopography, and technology, economic aspects of healing, and…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Taking up the challenge of Saba Mahmood to feminist studies in religion, that there is a liberalist understanding of agency and a tendency to mix the feminist political project with the analytical, the authors of this anthology discuss the relations between pieties and politics, pieties and metho…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Monasteries have been the locus classicus of the academic investigation of Tibetan religions. This volume seeks to balance this emphasis with an exploration of the diverse religious specialists who operate outside of the monastery in Tibet and along the Himalayan belt. The articles collected here…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Between the middle of the eighth century and the late ninth century in western Europe, the course of legal history was shaped by interaction with religious ideas, especially with regard to the meaning of confession, suffering, and the balance of protections for an accused individual and the welfa…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The collegia centonariorum were often seen as the municipal fire-brigades or status groups of sorts in the Roman cities. Through a close investigation of the chronological development and geographical distribution of the collegia centonariorum, their legal privileges, and the prosopographical dat…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 19 October 2009 marked the 400th anniversary of the death of Jacobus Arminius in Leiden. He was esteemed for the way in which he sought a via media between strict Calvinism and a more humanistic variant of Christian belief. However, because of his deviation from mainstream Calvinism, he has also…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The studies in this volume present early science in its rich and divergent complexity. Many historians of the Scientific Revolution have used early modern scholasticism to represent pre-seventeenth century science as a whole, but a close look at ancient, medieval, and even early modern scientific…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - It is usually assumed that economic, social and cultural rights are two differens kinds of rights. Despite this dichotomous perception of human rights we talk about human rights as indivisible, interrelated and interdependent. The purpose of the book has been to examine how the European Court of…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Along with the processes of globalization and the end of the cold war we have seen an upsurge in religious nationalism and an increasing focus on the role of religion as a legitimizing force in democratic secular states. Holy Nations & Global Identities draws on the combined theoretical and histo…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - What is the ultimate explanatory factor for the existence of the world, for all its changing phenomena and the enduring order found in it In the history of Western thought, we can find a longstanding philosophical tendency to answer this question in terms of power: the universe is understood as a…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Metempsychosis was a prominent element in Renaissance conceptualizations of the human being, the universe, and the place of the human person in the universe. A variety of concepts emerged in debates about metempsychosis: human to human reincarnation, human to vegetal, human to animal, and human t…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Glossa Ordinaria on the Bible was the ubiquitous text of the Middle Ages. Compiled in twelfth-century France, this multi-volume work, containing the entire text of Scripture surrounded by a commentary drawn from patristic and medieval authors, is still extant in thousands of manuscripts, test…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The present study explores the possibility of using variant readings of the Targum of the Prophets to get a better insight into the origin and history of Targum Jonathan. The focus is on two sorts of variant readings: the Tosefta Targums and the targumic quotations in rabbinic and medieval Jewish…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Considering seminal sources of doctrine, literary expressions of practice and colonial records of reform, this book challenges dominant perspectives on South Asian Muslim society between 1526-1947, and offers an original paradigm of Islamic doctrine and Muslim practice applicable more broa…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Gospel scholarship has long recognized that Matthean Christology is a rich, multifaceted tapestry weaving multifold Old Testment figures together in the person of Jesus. It is somewhat strange, therefore, that scholarship has found little role for the figure of Isaac in the Gospel of Matthew. Emp…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The 2008 volume of The China Society Yearbook, the third volume in the annual China Society Blue Book series to be translated into English, contains important statistics and analysis from Chinese scholars on a wide array of social issues in China. Topics explored in this volume include emp…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The Knight's Tale is one of the most controversial of all the Canterbury Tales. Does Chaucer portray Theseus, the duke of Athens whose actions dominate the tale, as an ideal ruler, one who is noble, wise and chivalrous, or does the duke's behaviour reveal him to be immoral, self-seeking and tyran…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The theme of conversion constitutes a privileged point to study the framework linking an individual to the sociocultural contexts in which he or she is included. Changes in personal biographies and sociocultural change are interwoven when we speak of conversion: values, speech, norms, behaviors,…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This third English volume of 'The China Economy Yearbook,' based on the 2008 annual report in Chinese, provides an in-depth analysis of China s economy during 2007 and predictions for 2008. Written by leading economic researchers from China s premier economic research institutions, the articles i…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book provides the first publication of the tract 'Tiferet Bachurim' (The Glory of Youth) which was written in the mid-seventeenth century by R. Pinhas Barukh ben Pelatiyah Monselic in Ferrara, Italy. The tract was written as a guide for young men about to marry regarding their family life an…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The essays in this volume concentrate on imperial conflict. Until recently, most historians of empire have concerned themselves with economic issues. More recently, scholarship has turned to social and cultural aspects of Empire. The role of the military, however, continues to be largely ignored.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Although the Spanish Inquisition looms large in many conceptions of the early modern Hispanic world, relatively few studies have been made of the Spanish state and Inquisition's approach to book censorship in the seventeenth century. Merging archival and rare book research with a case study of th…