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New Aramaic Papyri from Elephantine in Berlin
(2022)
The famous German excavations between 1906 and 1908 of Elephantine Island in Egypt produced some of the most important Aramaic sources for understanding the history of Judeans and Arameans living in 5th century BCE Egypt ...
Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory
(2024)
This open access book bridges a gap between introductory Quantum Field Theory (QFT) courses and state-of-the-art research in scattering amplitudes. It covers the path from basic definitions of QFT to amplitudes, which are ...
Hispaniola - Hell or Home?
(2020)
Grand Narratives of colonization, especially ones related to the Spanish and Portuguese Americas, began circulating soon after 1492. The danger of these Grand Narratives is that they are often mistaken as reality and eclipse ...
Video Game Characters and Transmedia Storytelling
(2023)
Characters are a vital aspect of today’s transmedia practices. Combining theories on fictional persons from Japanese and Euro-American practices, this book discusses video game characters embedded in our popular media ...
The Libri Feudorum (the ‘Books of Fiefs’)
(2023)
The Libri Feudorum (the ‘books of fiefs’) are the earliest written body of feudal customs in Europe, codified in northern Italy c.1100-1250, which gave rise to feudal law as a branch of civil law. Their role in shaping ...
Shakir M. Pashov. History of the Gypsies in Bulgaria and Europe: Roma
(2023)
The publication of this outstanding book marks the beginning of the Brill book series Roma History and Culture. The core of the present volume is an until now unpublished manuscript by Shakir Pashov (1898-1981), a Bulgarian ...
Culture-bearing Women
(2019)
The study examines the fiction of Black Women’s Renaissance. It focuses on the novels of the 1980s, which appreciated “culture-bearing” mothers as reproducers of the nation, to analyze the vexed relationship between cultural ...
Naturae cognoscere causas…
(2021)
The book prepared by students, working under tutorship of their teachers, from three Polish high schools, on the theme of Classical Antiquity and Nature, within the Our Mythical Childhood Project.
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De viris mulieribusque illustribus
(2019)
Teachers and Students from the Schools involved in the Project: Barbara Bibik & the students from Nicolaus Copernicus University Academic Junior and Senior High School in Toruń, Janusz Ryba and the students from Bartłomiej ...