This book examines the confrontational war pictures of Otto Dix 1891 1969 and explores their role in shaping the memory of World War I in Germany from 1914 to 1936. Dix s thirty-eight months on the World War I battlefields profoundly influenced his post-war artistic c... Lees meer.

Markets in Historical Contexts is the result of a dialogue between historians and social scientists thinking about markets in modern society. How should we approach markets after the collapse of Marxism. What alternative ways of thinking about markets can we recover fr... Lees meer.

The book contains published papers of the conference Textiles Identity in the Medieval and Early Modern Mediterranean. Paradigms of Contexts and Cross-Cultural Exchanges of the British School at Athens held at the Benaki Museum of Islamic Art in 2016 as well as... Lees meer.

This book examines the confrontational war pictures of Otto Dix 1891 1969 and explores their role in shaping the memory of World War I in Germany from 1914 to 1936. Dix s thirty-eight months on the World War I battlefields profoundly influenced his post-war artistic c... Lees meer.

Daniel Lynwood Smith orients readers of the New Testament to its historical and cultural settings introducing the cast of characters and illuminating key concepts by exploring their use in ancient texts. Smith includes quotations from many primary sources including Jo... Lees meer.

Daniel Lynwood Smith orients readers of the New Testament to its historical and cultural settings introducing the cast of characters and illuminating key concepts by exploring their use in ancient texts. Smith includes quotations from many primary sources including Jo... Lees meer.

This volume addresses the most important issues related to the study of New Testament writings. Two respected senior scholars have brought together a team of distinguished specialists to introduce the Jewish Hellenistic and Roman backgrounds necessary for understandin... Lees meer.

This book codifies describes and contextualizes group rituals and individual practices from world religious traditions. At the interface of religious studies psychology and medicine it elucidates the cultural richness of practices and rituals from numerous world re... Lees meer.

The Hebrew word zimzum originally means contraction withdrawal retreat limitation and concentration. In Kabbalah zimzum is a term for God s self-limitation done before creating the world to create the world. Jewish mystic Isaac Luria coined this term in Gali... Lees meer.

As with every other region of Europe and the world the traditional folklore of Ireland abounds with tales involving the supernatural and the fantastic but nowhere else have these tales so influence the literature and the shaping of that country and no other country h... Lees meer.

This book systematically explores cultivation policies for normal university students from a comparative perspective. This book systematically explores cultivation policies for normal university students from a comparative perspective. A normal school or normal univer... Lees meer.

This book examines the pre-service teacher education policy development of seven countries including the USA the UK Japan Canada Singapore Australia and Russia. This book reviews the history of pre-service teacher education policies in those countries and discuss... Lees meer.

This volume addresses the most important issues related to the study of New Testament writings. Two respected senior scholars have brought together a team of distinguished specialists to introduce the Jewish Hellenistic and Roman backgrounds necessary for understandin... Lees meer.

This book examines the childhood education policy development in China. It involves investigating the holistic landscape of China s childhood development from a policy perspective. It also offers a specific lens to examine the migrant childhood education policy in China... Lees meer.

A Critical Study of Classical Religious Texts in Global Contexts. Challenges of a Changing World challenges toxic stereotypes of world religions by providing scholarly investigations into classic sacred texts in global contexts. By engaging more perspectives importan... Lees meer.