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The Power of Parables = Essays on the Comparative Study of Jewish and Christi…
The Power of Parables documents the surprising ways in which Jewish and Christian parables bridge religion with daily life. This 2019 conference volume rediscovers the original power of parables to shock and affect their audience, which has since been reduced by centuries of preaching and repetition. Not only do parables enhance the perspective on Scripture or the kingdom of heaven, they also c…
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- 9789004680043
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- Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series, Volume: 39
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The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan = Merchants, Jesuits and Jap…
In The Portuguese Slave Trade in Early Modern Japan: Merchants, Jesuits and Japanese, Chinese, and Korean Slaves Lucio de Sousa offers a study on the system of traffic of Japanese, Chinese, and Korean slaves from Japan. Using the Portuguese mercantile networks, de Sousa reconstructs the Japanese communities in the Habsburg Empire; and analyses the impact of the Japanese slave trade on the Iberi…
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- 9789004388079
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- Studies in Global Slavery, Volume: 7
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The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World = Writing Change
The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World connects the fascinating field of contemporary written Arabic with the central sociolinguistic notions of language ideology and diglossia. Focusing on Egypt and Morocco, the authors combine large-scale survey data on language attitudes with in-depth analyses of actual language usage and explicit (and implicit) language ideology. They show that …
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- 9789004346178
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- Studies in Semitic Languages and Linguistics, Volume: 90
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Doing Qualitative Data Analysis with NVivo
This open access textbook provides an introduction to the software program NVivo, the most widely used qualitative analysis program. It is a versatile program with an extensive range of accessible analysis tools, flexibly deployable in the diversity of qualitative analysis approaches. Qualitative analysis is almost standard practice today with the help of a software program. Yet there are ma…
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- 978-3-031-66014-6
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- XVI, 282
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The Politics of Multifaith = The Limits of Legible Religion in Europe
In this book, Ryszard Bobrowicz discusses why seemingly neutral rooms, multi-faith spaces, were subject to contestations from, and clashes between, their users, their managers, and those shaping policies concerning them. From street protests to parliamentary debates, from Sweden to Spain, this book explores the impact of multi-faith spaces in Europe by critically examining the visions of religi…
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The Poetics of Anti-Colonialism in the Arabic Qaṣīdah
Representing the most sustained investigation of the aesthetics of Anti-Colonialism in modern Arabic poetry, this book chronicles the evolution of a distinct poetics that sought to maintain the integrity of the qaṣīdah without circumventing its historical moment. It painstakingly analyses a selection of odes by four leading twentieth-century poets, Aḥmad Shawqī, Maʿrūf al-Ruṣāfī, Ba…
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- 9789047404408
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- Brill Studies in Middle Eastern Literatures, Volume: 29
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The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Naga ed-Deir, Cemeteries N 2000 and N 2500
The Phoebe A. Hearst Expedition to Naga ed-Deir, Cemeteries N 2000 and N 2500 presents the results of excavations directed by George A. Reisner and led by Arthur C. Mace. The site of Naga ed-Deir, Egypt, is unusual for its continued use over a long period of time (c. 3500 BCE–650 CE). Burials in N 2000 and N 2500 date to the First Intermediate Period/Middle Kingdom and the Coptic era. In keep…
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- 978900439690
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- Harvard Egyptological Studies, Volume: 10
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The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe
In The Pechenegs: Nomads in the Political and Cultural Landscape of Medieval Europe, Aleksander Paroń offers a reflection on the history of the Pechenegs, a nomadic people which came to control the Black Sea steppe by the end of the ninth century. Nomadic peoples have often been presented in European historiography as aggressors and destroyers whose appearance led to only chaotic decline and e…
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- 9789004441095
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- East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450, Volume: 74
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Disruptions, Diversity, and Ethics in Marketing: First International Conferen…
As the marketing landscape continues to evolve, posing fresh challenges for both academics and practitioners, this book explores contemporary marketing issues, trends, challenges, and opportunities. Featuring papers presented at the first annual International Conference on Advanced Marketing Practice (ICOAMP) held in Almería, Spain in 2024, this open access book covers a broad range of topics …
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- 978-3-031-70488-8
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- XIV, 174
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Diseases of the Chest, Heart and Vascular System 2025-2028: Diagnostic Imaging
This open access book offers an essential overview of chest, heart and vascular system imaging. Over the last few years, there have been considerable advances in this area, driven by both clinical and technological developments. Written by leading international experts and teachers, the chapters are disease-oriented and cover all relevant imaging modalities, with a focus on magnetic resonance i…
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- 978-3-031-83872-9
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- VIII, 260
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