This volume of the Yearbook documents the situation, events, and developments of the principal human rights treaty of the Council of Europe during the year 2013. In facing pages of English and French,
This is the 54th volume of the Yearbook. Information is presented in side-by-side English and French. After an overview, part 2 explains the control mechanisms of the European Convention on Human Righ
Scholars from a number of countries explore the ways in which Jews lived within the Hellenistic and Greco-Roman contexts during late antiquity, and how they negotiated their religious and social bound
This year's general articles are augmented by special sections on education, minorities and the media, and minorities and religion. Among the topics are individual versus collective rights in protecti
An October 2000 international workshop in Groningen was called to take stock of the humanist aspects of medieval intellectual life and thought and of its appropriation by modern history and literature
At the Tilburg conference Narrative Syntax and the Hebrew Bible a discussion was held between Biblical Hebrew sentence-grammar and text-syntactic approaches, both in theoretical papers and in analyses
In this work of comparative law, 29 contributions (written by legal scholars and practitioners) looking at Islamic and Egyptian law and their relationship to the issues of democracy, the principle of
Contemporary social theorist Alain Touraine offers a more far-reaching hermeneutical dimension than either Giddens or Habermas, argues Ballantyne (sociology, Swinburne U. of Technology, Australia), bu
The new demands of this "computer and technology age" have focused international attention on literacy levels, on literacy development and literacy disorders. Governments have launched programs to red
In Genesis and Cosmos Adam Rasmussen examines how Basil and Origen addressed scientific problems in their interpretations of Genesis 1: namely, the nature of matter, the super-heavenly water, and astr
Multiple accounts of how theories of human psychology and of image-making influenced each other in a decisive period in the history of philosophy and art.
The Studies in Japanese and Korean Historical and Theoretical Linguistics and Beyond offers an excellent introduction to the state-of-art in the respective fields and currently ongoing debates in them
Athenian and Alexandrian Neoplatonism and the Harmonization of Aristotle and Plato by Ilsetraut Hadot deals with the Neoplatonist tendency to harmonize the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle.
This volume will attempt to explore the theological implications of the political and philosophical thought of Althusser. The return to Althusser’s theological writings is indeed a timely intervention
This volume synthesizes cutting-edge philosophical reflections on interpretation (Krausz, Lamarque, Leddy, Hagberg, Gibson) with their application to the practice of interpreting religious texts (Grub
The pieces collected in the second volume of Marxism and Historical Practice: Interventions and Appreciations, capture the range of Palmer’s interests as a historian of popular culture attuned to the
This collection is a timely reflection on the momentous concept of transculturalism. With its historical roots in globalization, transculturation, oriented to (new) aesthetics, seeks new cultural form
Origins and Futures: Time Inflected and Reflected offers an interdisciplinary approach to two fundamental often opposing concepts of time. The volume features both research on specific texts and autho
Every language has a way of talking about seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting and touching. This can be done through lexical means, and through grammatical evidentials. The studies presented here focus
The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (LOSC) has provided a substantial framework for international legal instruments of fisheries management, but those instruments have not succeeded at
Challenges and Recusal of Judges and Arbitrators in International Courts and Tribunals provides an in-depth analysis of a fundamental control mechanism of international dispute resolution in the conte
The first edition was published in 2006; this second (revised) edition is updated through August 1, 2011. The aim is to present a cohesive, authoritative reference for academics and legal practitioner
Both the national government of Canada and the sub-national, but significantly autonomous, government of Quebec have traditionally sought legitimacy through economic protectionist means that combined
Historians and archaeologists writing on the early history of technology tend not to provide a mathematical approach to the topic--which is less than satisfactory for engineers, suggests editor Lawton
Fourteen papers from a January 2000 symposium sponsored by the Orion Center for the Study of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Associated Literature are presented by Chazon (Hebrew literature, Hebrew U. of Jer
