"This volume examines in inter-disciplinary perspective the degree to which the medieval Ashkenazi were innovative in the area of communal activity surrounding burial and mourning customs. The topics
Substance abuse comprises a global biopsychosocial phenomenon for the world as billions of human beings are experimenting with various illicit chemicals and millions are addicted to various substances
Meurant, Sinte, Van Herreweghe, and Vermeerbergen edit this interdisciplinary linguistics volume addressing the interaction of deaf community culture with linguistic practice. The introduction offers
Seventeen essays, presented by Oergel (director, Centre for Translation and Comparative Cultural Studies, U. of Nottingham, England), explore 18th-century discourses on aesthetics, politics, and philo
The state of migration research has undergone rapid change since methods of analysis involving stable and radiogen isotopes and molecular genetics have been started to be applied. At a conference held
This volume contains the proceedings of the conference "Casimir Force, Casimir Operators and the Riemann Hypothesis–Mathematics for Innovation in Industry and Science" held in Novemb
Classical Approaches to the Study of Religion was groundbreaking in establishing religious studies as an independent academic field. This second edition includes a new foreword by Russell McCutcheon,
The monograph considers the relationships of ethical systems in the ancient Near East through a study of warfare in Judah, Israel and Assyria in the eighth and seventh centuries BCE. It argues that a
The use of English as a lingua franca (ELF) on a global scale forces a reassessment of our understanding of the relationships between language, culture and identity in intercultural communication. Thi
The two volumes deal with cross-linguistic variation in valency classes in terms of argument coding and argument alternations. The first systematic typological attempt to uncover the universal and the
Seriot examines the claim made by Roman Jakobson and Nikolai Trubetzkoy during the 1920s that a new era of science had arrived in the world, a new way of organizing knowledge, and that it was Russian.
In recent years a range of formal methods of spatial analysis have been developed for the study of human engagement, experience and socialisation within the built environment. This volume brings toget
