Coins and Power in Late Iron Age Britain, Paperback - John (University of Reading) Creighton

Combining archaeological, literary and numismatic evidence, John Creighton paints a vivid picture of how people in late Iron Age Britain reacted to...

From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spir...

Through an analysis of glass beads from four key study regions in Britain, the book aims to explore the role that this object played within the net...

Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age is a fascinating account of British history from a period that begins around 840, 000 when hu...

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflic...

Exploring why food aid exists and the deeper causes of food poverty, this book addresses neglected dimensions of traditional debates. It challenges...

Reducere. Whether in characterizing Catharine MacKinnon's theory of gender as itself pornographic or in identifying liberalism as unable to make good on its ...

Examines and explores distinctive traditions of landscape writing. This book explores 'landscape' theories and writings, allowing students of geogr...

'The Darkened Room' looks at the central role played by women as healers, mediums, and believers in the golden age of spiritualism in the late Vict...

This book explores the changing nature of power and identity from the Iron Age to the Roman period in Britain. It provides fresh insights into the ...

A fascinating look at the scientific benefits - and joys - of reading aloud to children of all ages.

Describe a pervasive way of conducting private and public affairs in which state and local office holders throughout Hawaii took their personal fin...

Hannah Arendt was one of the foremost political theorists of the twentieth century to wrestle with the role of violence in public life. Yet remarka...

This volume is for advanced undergraduates and scholars of the Mediterranean with interest in first half of the first millennium BCE. It is also fo...

DescriptionEighteenth-century British culture was transfixed by the threat of contagion, believing that everyday elements of the surrounding world ...

An entertaining and highly illuminating account of Commedia's origins as a popular theatrical form, plus a practical and timely step-by-step guide ...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book reconstructs the early history of money in the Mediterranean, adding an important chapter to our understanding of the ancient world. Inte...

By carefully retelling the story of the foundations of public health in industrial revolution Britain not as the triumph of responsible government ...

DescriptionOccult topics have long fascinated artists, and the subject of witches--their imagined bodies and fantastic rituals--was a popular one f...

This book traces the remarkable and sometimes hazardous rise of a Welsh family of the Anglo-Welsh borderland, from relatively humble origins to bec...

The rise of agrarian capitalism in Britain is usually told as a story about markets, land, and wages. This study reveals that it was also about boo...

A treatise on the issues and conflicts present in philosophy, this book examines ethics, the philosophy of law, the nature of moral judgement, phil...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): John (University of Stirling, UK) FieldNumber of pages: 118Collection: Key IdeasPublication date: 2016Dim...

DescriptionAs anyone who has read Chaucer's Canterbury Tales knows, Middle English literature is rife with sexually explicit language and situation...

Reducere. On February 17, 1894, the Diesel engine was operated successfully for the first time. Since then it has been a prime mover for civilization, and to...

The contributors to Indigenous Textual Cultures examined the ways in which indigenous peoples created textual cultures to navigate, shape, and cont...

Reducere. Seneca Possessed examines the ordeal of a Native people in the wake of the American Revolution. As part of the once-formidable Iroquois Six Nations...

Reducere. A lively and authoritative investigation into the lives of our ancestors, based on the revolution in the field of Bronze Age archaeology which has ...

This book traces affinities across the digital-medieval divide to explore how reading functioned as a nexus for concerns about literacy, audiences'...

Publisher: Cengage Learning, IncAuthor(s): John (University of Chicago) CacioppoNumber of pages: 816Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 231 x 276 x 3...

Archaeological explorations of magic and witchcraft in Iron Age Transylvania - Aurel Rustoiu

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anthony GiddensModernity differs from all preceding forms of social order because of its dynamism, its deep undercutting of...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Dal JinNumber of pages: 232Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 154 x 229 x 12Cover type: Paperback ...

DescriptionThe medieval reception of Alexander the Great inspired a complicated literary corpus not simply because it involved so many source-texts...

The rise of a populist conservative nationalism in the United States has triggered unease at home and abroad. Riding the populist wave, Donald Trum...

Reducere. Peter Brown, perhaps the greatest living authority on Mediterranean civilization in late antiquity, traces the growing power of Christian bishops a...

Identity in landscape connectivity and diversity in Iron Age Transylvania - Sándor Berecki

An investigation of the obscure centuries that followed the departure of the Romans from Britain.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Max AdamsNumber ...

John Polkinghorne brings unique qualifications to his exploration of the possibilities of believing in God in an age of science: he is internationa...

A history of the peoples of Britain, in the century and a half between the first Viking raids and the expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954.

This is the first in-depth study of post-war female religious life. Rooted in the lived experiences of women religious in Britain, it explores Brit...

Publisher: Authorhouse UKAuthor(s): John (University of Manchester) LeeIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 160Publicati...

Reducere. Since the end of the Cold War the United States and other major powers have wielded their air forces against much weaker state and non-state actors...

Andrew J. Priest offers a new understanding of the roots of American empire that foregrounds the longer history of perceptions of European powers. ...

Numerous metallic artefacts, deposited in a hoard in ancient times, came to light by chance on the campus of the Sultan Qaboos University in Al Kha...

Headhunting and the Body in Iron Age Europe - Ian Armit