Women Judges in the Muslim World = A Comparative Study of Discourse and Practice

Women Judges in the Muslim World: A Comparative Study of Discourse and Practice fills a gap in academic scholarship by examining public debates and judicial practices surrounding the performance of women as judges in eight Muslim-majority countries (Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Syria, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia and Morocco). Gender, class, and ethnic biases are inscribed in laws, particularly in t…

Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic = iterature Their Status and R…

Women in the Bible, Qumran and Early Rabbinic Literature: Their Status and Roles portrays the tension between the unity of husband and wife and their different legal and social status from a wide range of perspectives, as deduced from the texts of the three corpora. The volume discusses the related topics of divorce, polygamy, woman’s obligations to fulfill precepts, membership in the communi…

Progress in Landslide Research and Technology, Volume 3 Issue 2, 2024

Buku akses terbuka ini memberikan gambaran tentang kemajuan dalam penelitian dan teknologi tanah longsor dan merupakan bagian dari seri buku Konsorsium Internasional tentang Tanah Longsor (ICL). Buku ini menyediakan platform bersama untuk publikasi kemajuan terbaru dalam penelitian dan teknologi tanah longsor untuk aplikasi praktis dan manfaat bagi masyarakat yang berkontribusi pada Komitmen Ta…

Women and War in Roman Epic

In Women and War in Roman Epic, Elina Pyy discusses the narrative and ideological functions of gender in the works of Virgil, Lucan, Statius, Silius Italicus and Valerius Flaccus. By examining the themes of violence, death, guilt, grief, and anger in their epics, she offers an account of the intertextual tradition of the genre and its socio-political background. Through a combination of classic…

Royal Courts in Dynastic States and Empires : A Global Perspective

In recent decades the history of premodern states and empires has undergone major revision. At the heart of this process stood the court, encompassing the household as well as government institutions. This volume for the first time brings

What Caused the Big Bang?

This book critically explores answers to the big question, What produced our universe around fifteen billion years ago in a Big Bang? It critiques contemporary atheistic cosmologies, including Steady State, Oscillationism, Big Fizz, Big Divide, and Big Accident, that affirm the eternity and self-sufficiency of the universe without God. This study defends and revises Process Theology and argumen…

Western Subanon Grammar

Western Subanon Grammar is the first ever comprehensive description of Western Subanon, a highly endangered indigenous Austronesian minority language in the southern Philippines. Written by a native speaker and the result of intensive fieldwork, the book's 26 chapters cover the phonological, morpho-syntactic, and discourse properties of the language. Special attention is devoted to the salient …

Bruno Latour in the Semiotic Turn : An Inquiry into the Networks of Meaning

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Verse and Transmutation : A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry (Criti…

Verse and Transmutation: A Corpus of Middle English Alchemical Poetry identifies and investigates a corpus of twenty-one anonymous recipes for the philosophers’ stone dating from the fifteenth century. These were circulated and received in association with each other until the mid-seventeenth century, when a number of them appeared in Elias Ashmole’s Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum. These …

Treason : Medieval and Early Modern Adultery, Betrayal, and Shame

Volume Editor: Larissa Tracy The willingness to betray one’s country, one’s people, one’s family—to commit treason and foreswear loyalty to one entity by giving it to another—is a difficult concept for many people to comprehend. Yet, societies have grappled with treason for centuries; the motivations, implications, and consequences are rarely clear cut and are often subjective. Set a…