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Can a scientific instrument be regarded as a failure? Why and how? By shelling light on the complexity of these questions, the volume marks a step forward in the way historical scientific instruments can be analysed and displayed.

Core themes and texts from ten subject areas in Leibniz's correspondence in science, technology and medicine (from 1676 to 1701) provide an overview of Leibniz's multifarious interests and a panoramic view of the world of science after the Scientific Revolution and in the age of Newton.

This book offers important insights into the legal, theoretical and ethical frameworks actualized when the core principles of the CRC such as 'the best interests of the child' and 'the child's right to be heard' are to be realized.

In Willing and Understanding, prominent scholars elucidate a variety of issues in and approaches to debating the interplay of the will and the intellect in the late Middle Ages.

In this volume of Capital, Race and Space, Richard Saull offers a distinct and original international historical sociology of the European far-right from its origins in 1848 to fascism, through the prism of uneven and combined development.

This book highlights the powerful impact of some important Spanish Jesuits (Suárez, Acosta, Ribadeneira, Mariana) on some relevant English thinkers such as Locke, Bacon, and others, regarding politics, law and natural rights, an influence sometimes hidden and always controversial.

This book presents Eastern Old Japanese corpus scattered in various 8-9th century texts and a cross-referenced dictionary including all the lexical items found in this corpus.

In Educating the Catholic People, Salomoni offers a new perspective on the pedagogical, institutional, and political innovations introduced in Italy by religious teaching congregations between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.

In Processus contra Templarios in Francia Magdalena Satora presents the first complete critical edition of the records of the Paris proceedings against the Order of the Temple (1309-1311). Dans Processus contra Templarios in Francia, Magdalena Satora présente la première édition critique complète des procès-verbaux de la procédure menée contre l'Ordre du Temple à Paris (1309-1311).

Grotius' Remonstrantie, being his recommendations to the States of Holland on the subject of the admission of the Jews in the Dutch Republic, offers insight in the political and religious constraints and in Grotius' carefully crafted line of thought and reasoning.

Through close reading of photography-inspired texts by Tanizaki, Abe, Horie and Kanai, The Rhetoric of Photography in Modern Japanese Literature by Atsuko Sakaki examines the Japanese literary engagement with photography as a means of bringing forgotten subject-object dynamics to light.

Ammianus Marcellinus was a soldier and an author. This book explores how his experience of 4th-century military life affected his writing of history and conversely how his knowledge of literature influenced his writing about the Roman army.

Dieses Wörterbuch basiert auf dem bewährten Hebräischen und Aramäischen Lexikon zum Alten Testament von Koehler & Baumgartner. Es enthält alle wesentlichen Informationen, die zum Übersetzen der Hebräischen Bibel nötig sind. Die etymologischen Angaben sind auf dem aktuellen Stand der Semitistik.__________________________________This dictionary is based on the Hebräisches und Aramäisches Lexikon zum Alten Testament by Koehler & Baumgartner. It provides the essential material for translating the whole of the Hebrew Bible. It also includes a completely updated set of etymological entries.

As an Indo-European language, Armenian has been the subject of etymological research for over a hundred years. There are many valuable systematic handbooks, studies and surveys on comparative Armenian linguistics. Almost all of these works, with a few exceptions, mostly concentrate on Classical Armenian and touch the dialects only sporadically. Non-literary data taken from Armenian dialects have largely remained outside of the scope of Indo-European etymological considerations. This book provides an up-to-date description of the Indo-European lexical stock of Armenian with systematic inclusion of dialectal data. It incorporates the lexical, phonetic, and morphological material in the Armenian dialects into the etymological treatment of the Indo-European lexicon. In this respect it is completely new.

This volume deals with the origins and evolution of the Islamic institution of pious endowments in al-Andalus and provide us with a complete review of relevant issues such as the structure of economic property, the idea of charity, the concept of general or common interest and the social and juridical role of men of religion.

This bibliography - intended to be as complete as possible - provides information on written material in 22 languages about "muwassa?" and "zajal" (poetical strophic forms in al-Andalus during the Middle Ages) and the "kharja" (final segment of "muwassa?" and some "zajals"), and about their popularity in East and West.

This volume deals with the complex but poorly understood relationship between women, gender, and language in Morocco, a Muslim, multilingual, multicultural, and developing country. The hypothesis on which the book is based is that an understanding of gender perception and women's agency can be achieved only by taking into account the structure of power in a specific culture and that language is an important component of this power. In Moroccan culture, history, geography, Islam, orality, multilingualism, social organization, economic status, and political system constitute the superstructures of power within which factors such as social differences, contextual differences, and identity differences interact in the daily linguistic performances of gender. Moroccan women are far from constituting a homogeneous group, consequently the choices available to them vary in nature and empowering capacity, thus 'widening' the spectrum of gender beyond cultural limits.

This work exmaines non-Kolmogorov probability models. It provides mathematical theory of negative probabilities with applications to quantum physics, information theory, complexity, biology and psychology. Natural models with negative probabilities are developed in the framework of p-adic analysis.

This volume concentrates on martingale approximations. Topics covered include: basic notions; semimartingales; inequalities; laws of large numbers; the central limit theorem; convergence of semimartingales; the rate of weak convergence; and applications of martingales.

This monograph deals with random forests and aims to show that, despite the outward simplicity of the forest graph design, the problems emerging in relation to the phenomenon are challenging, and their solution often requires subtle mathematical methods.

A collection of lectures on stochastic processes, which can be used in the preparation of courses in stochastic processes for which an understanding of basic notions of mathematical analysis, theory of complex functions, theory of differential equations and probability theory is required.

This work is devoted to stochastic operators in Hilbert space. A number of models in modern probability theory apply the notion of a stochastic operator in explicit or latent form. In this book, objects from the Gaussian case are considered.

The proceedings of the 30th International Geological Congress held in Beijing, China in August 1997. This volume focuses on lithospheric motion and seismic geology. It aims to present a view of contemporary geology to researchers interested in the geological sciences.

The proceedings of the 30th International Geological Congress held in Beijing, China in August 1997. This volume focuses on the structure of the lithosphere and deep processes. It aims to present a view of contemporary geology to researchers interested in the geological sciences.

This book explains the high level of current concern for the under-representation of women in politics.

This book traces the development of the rule of law in Georgia since its independence and speculates on its future direction.

The Pauline letters continue to provoke scholarly discussion. This volume includes papers that raise questions regarding the canon of Pauline writings. Some essays treat a single dimension or single letters, while others deal with the entire canonical formation process.