Focusing on Russia's history from the time of the Tsars to the present (though a few articles go back earlier), this encyclopedia features 1,500 artic ...
Assembling contributions from top thinkers in the field, this companion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration of the history of economi ...
Most writings on church history have been concerned mainly with church hierarchy, and with theology, liturgy and canon law. This book looks at the chu ...
The Quaternary, which spans approximately the last 2 million years, is characterized by dramatic environmental changes, commonly known as the "ice age ...
Stephen Hawking, one of the most brilliant theoretical physicists in history, wrote the modern classic A Brief History of Time to help nonscientists u ...
A Linguistic History of Arabic challenges the traditional accounts of the progression of classical Arabic to contemporary dialects. It presents a rich ...
A Linguistic History of Arabic presents a reconstruction of proto-Arabic by the methods of historical-comparative linguistics. It challenges the tradi ...
Introduction to Greek cinema --Early Greek cinema (1905-1945) --Constructing a visual language (1945-1960) --Glory and demise (1960-1970) --The formal ...
The northern pike—sometimes affectionately known as the “aquatic wolf”—is one of the most sought after and mythologized fishes in Minnesota, but until ...
Roman law, one of the key legal systems from which modern European law is derived, is also one of the binding factors par excellence within the Europe ...
For many Americans, capitalism is a dynamic engine of prosperity that rewards the bold, the daring, and the hardworking. But to many outside the Unite ...
This expansive history depicts Latin America s pan-regional culture of political murder. Unlike typi
Cinema is quite simply a unique book from one of the most influential film-makers in the history of cinema. Here, Jean-Luc Godard looks back on a cent ...
Is gender determined by biology, society or experience? How have notions of gender and sexuality differed in past societies? Addressing such questions ...
Despite its international significance, Madrid has been almost entirely ignored by urban, literary and cultural studies published in English. A Cultur ...
A Linguistic History of Arabic challenges the traditional accounts of the progression of classical Arabic to contemporary dialects. It presents a rich ...
This exciting history, featuring an introduction by famed DJ John Peel, tells the two-decade-long history of grindcore and death metal through the eye ...
This book is the first thoroughgoing study in any language of the philosophy of music history. Drawing on competing philosophies of history throughout ...
Through a richly detailed examination of the practices of spinning yarn from the fleece of llamas and alpacas, Earth, Water, Fleece and Fabric explore ...
This book discusses key philosophical concepts and ideologies, including ontology, epistemology, logic, semantics, moral and political philosophy, the ...
Based on a groundbreaking synthesis of recent scientific findings, an acclaimed New York Times science reporter tells a bold and provocative new story ...
Contributors to this volume explore the changing concepts of the social and the economic during a period of fundamental change across Asia. They chall ...
This comparative historical study of econometrics focuses on the development of econometric methods and their application to macroeconomics. The analy ...
Development of the thermionic valve. Historical survey of early research in semiconductors. Development of the transistor. Major technical processes u ...
A new simplified edition translated by Don Sanderson. The original three-volume work, first published in 1979, has been revised specially as a single ...
