The Tarikhnamah is a history of the world and the oldest surviving work of Persian prose. This book examines it as a political and cultural document a ...
The former Soviet republics of Central Asia comprise a sprawling, politically pivotal, densely populated, and richly cultured area of the world. Yet t ...
This undertaking represents the first dedicated attempt at a complete coverage, both geographically and chronologically, of all linguistic traditions, ...
In Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation (1984) Noble recounts the history of machine tool automation in the United States. ...
In Forces of Production: A Social History of Industrial Automation (1984) Noble recounts the history of machine tool automation in the United States. ...
Colin Wilson tells the story of human violence from Peking Man to the Mafia - taking into account the calculated sadism of the Assyrians, the opportun ...
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 ...
" 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 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 ...
Development of the thermionic valve. Historical survey of early research in semiconductors. Development of the transistor. Major technical processes u ...
Following his book on the origin of control engineering (1800-1930 (see separate entry), the author now traces development through the critical period ...
* An active, engaging approach that brings History alive in the classroom! * Exam tips, activities and sources in every chapter give students the conf ...
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 ...
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 ...
Introduction to Greek cinema --Early Greek cinema (1905-1945) --Constructing a visual language (1945-1960) --Glory and demise (1960-1970) --The formal ...
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 ...
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 ...
