For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide an answer to the pressing question of the earth's age, even though nature abounds ...
The book is an interesting experiment focusing on the way that archaeology and the various arts have cross-pollinated each other. 19 essays from diffe ...
Introduction to Greek cinema --Early Greek cinema (1905-1945) --Constructing a visual language (1945-1960) --Glory and demise (1960-1970) --The formal ...
This book studies on how soccer became professionalized in Scotland in the late nineteenth century. It shows how the sport turned from an organized bu ...
From his first book, From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto, to his well-known volume on Jewish memory, Zakhor, to his treatment of Sigmund Freud in Fre ...
* An active, engaging approach that brings History alive in the classroom! * Exam tips, activities and sources in every chapter give students the conf ...
Following his book on the origin of control engineering (1800-1930 (see separate entry), the author now traces development through the critical period ...
Development of the thermionic valve. Historical survey of early research in semiconductors. Development of the transistor. Major technical processes u ...
This book extends the critical scope of the previous volume, De-Medicalizing Misery, into a wider social and political context, developing the critiqu ...
Driven by high tech foreign investment, the ''Celtic Tiger'' economy in the Republic of Ireland was one of the economic ''success stories'' of the 199 ...
This book is a gripping account of the murky world of the international oil industry and its role in world politics. Scandals about oil are familiar t ...
The Global Environment Facility (GEF) is a publicly funded, multi-billion dollar experiment in global resource management. It was set up in 1991 under ...
This is the definitive resource on the nature and origins of the movement towards a one-world government. A wealth of in-depth research explains the r ...
" The first comprehensive history of the state since the publication of Thomas D. Clark's landmark History of Kentucky over sixty years ago. A New His ...
This book deals with the thought of William Harrison, a well-known Elizabethan intellectual, whose ideas are significant chiefly because they are ofte ...
This book deals with the thought of William Harrison, a well-known Elizabethan intellectual, whose ideas are significant chiefly because they are ofte ...
