The increasingly globalized circulation and interdependence of literary practices calls for a revision of the history of national and continental g...

With this book, we are entering an area of public controversy: the field of museums. The focus is on a topic that is equally the subject of much cr...

Keyboard instruments are living witnesses of past times. Their splendid appearance together with their tonal magic produces an almost mystical attr...

"Keyboard instruments are living witnesses of past times. Their splendid appearance together with their tonal magic produces an almost mystical att...

This bibliographical handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the historiography of philosophy and thought in Japanese based on a comprehensiv...

If you think of William Hogarth as a moralist who gave charitable support to foundlings and provided ethical guidance through his pictorial satires...

Ibadi jurisprudence looks back on more than 1000 years of tradition and productive development. Nevertheless, in terms of scholarly research, a lon...

The aim of this volume is to explore different issues of Ibadi theology from the early beginnings until the present day. Ibadi Islam emerged in the...

The aim of this volume is to explore different issues of Ibadi theology from the early beginnings until the present day. Ibadi Islam emerged in the...

Omanis in the pre-Islamic period were already familiar with the coastal regions of East Africa and the islands east of them. In the early Middle Ag...

Omanis in the pre-Islamic period were already familiar with the coastal regions of East Africa and the islands east of them. In the early Middle Ag...

What do artists who choose dance as their subject tell us -- or not tell us -- about dancers and dancing? Spanning the globe from eastern and weste...

On 24 December 2012, towards 6pm, Sultan Qaboos bin Said stepped out of his limousine against the backdrop of a Muscat sunset and paid a royal visi...

Interest and self-interest are concepts that have attracted multiple interdisciplinary approaches in the last decades. In this monograph, the autho...

An outstanding representative of this culture was Israel Alter (1901-1979), from 1925 to 1935 celebrated Chief Cantor of the New Synagogue in Hanov...

The name BUGATTI is legendary in the history of the motor car. "ELITE CARS FOR THE ELITE" was his own claim. When people talk about BUGATTI they al...

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This volume includes a selection of contributions (fifty papers and six plenary lectures) presented during the Eleventh International Conference on...

Text in English & Spanish. One of the concepts which deserve particular attention by philosophers of the 21st century is that of life and, more...

"The light, the colour, the horizon line are parameters for the perception of the Mediterranean. The key issue is how we can connect all the specif...

When Prince Albert died in 1861 at the age of forty-two, his wife Queen Victoria followed this tragic event by an elaborate mourning period in whic...

In this book we spend the day with Lina the Swedish mouse from the moment she gets up until she snuggles down at night. Delightful drawings and sho...

We learn about all the months of the year by watching Lina the Swedish mouse at work and play. A charming book with verses for every month from Jan...