Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present, Paperback - Frank M. Snowden

This sweeping, multidisciplinary exploration of the major epidemics since the Black Death reveals the impact of diseases ranging from bubonic plagu...

A riveting, thought-provoking and very timely account of the idea and the reality of quarantine around the world, examining not only the history bu...

From the Black Death to Covid-19, pandemics have shaped and reshaped human society. Science and history can give us insight into two urgent questio...

Dr Richard Gunderman shows how disease has shaped the evolution of our species and, if we don't take the proper steps, may yet threaten our very ex...

Can a long-term perspective on human adaptations to climate change inform Ireland's response to the crisis we face today?Climate and Society in Ire...

Reducere. In this richly illustrated account of black-white contacts from the Pharaohs to the Caesars, Frank Snowden demonstrates that the ancients did not d...

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Modern Greece is an updated and enhanced edition of a classic survey of Greek history since the beginning of the 19th century. Giving equal weighti...

Reducere. The colorful characters, poets and thinkers who populate this book range from Romania, Serbia, Greece, England, France and also include exiles from...

A fully updated, authoritative and exceptionally readable history of Britain from the Romans to the present.

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The most interesting tensions and ambitions of twentieth-century American poetry intersect in one resonant word: voice. The term "poetic voice" emp...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Vrasidas (University of Sydney, Australia) KaralisIllustration(s): 26 bw illusNumber of pages: 304Co...

Historian Thomas J. Misa's sweeping history of the relationship between technology and society over the past 500 years reveals how technological in...

From the author of Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters comes an in-depth examination of sexual serial killers throughout human histo...

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"A sweeping look at the history of voting rights in the U.S."--VoxWho has the right to vote? And who benefits from exclusion?For most of American h...

Reducere. Welcome To A Whole New Underwater World...Whether you're new to the sport of scuba diving, considering giving it a try, or a seasoned veteran, you ...

Recent challenges to US maritime predominance suggests a return to great power competition at sea, and this new volume looks at how navies in previ...

Reducere. Delving behind Canada's veneer of multiculturalism and tolerance, Policing Black Lives traces the violent realities of anti-blackness from the slav...

Reducere. An Oxford professor of archaeology explores the unique history of magic--the oldest and most neglected strand of human behavior and its resurgence ...

Reducere. - A study of the primordial figure of the Great Goddess and her continued worship through time as shown by the myths, shrines, and sanctuaries arou...

Now in a fully revised and updated edition, this comprehensive and balanced history of modern Korea explores the social, economic, and political is...

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Shakespeare's plays have been adapted or rewritten in various ways since the seventeenth century. This anthology brings together thirteen theatrica...

DescriptionNew edition of a classic work on the history of propaganda. Topical new chapters on the 1991 Gulf War, September 11 and terrorism. An id...

What Is Work? offers a multi-disciplinary approach to understanding labor within the highly gendered realm of household economies.Editor(s): Manuel...

A history of Americans who spied against their country and what their stories reveal about national securityWhat's your secret?American Spies prese...

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DescriptionBeginning with Aristotle and the Greeks and ending with semiotics and post-structuralism, Theories of the Theatre is the first comprehen...

Reducere. "A superior book. . . . Many readers will be surprised to see that today's arguments about history education follow the culture wars that go back t...

Publisher: West Virginia University PressIllustration(s): 7 tables, 8 graphsNumber of pages: 336Collection: Energy and SocietyPublication date: 202...

Reducere. DescriptionThe long battle between exclusionary and inclusive versions of the American storyWas America founded as a Christian nation or a secular ...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Stephen MennellNumber of pages: 408Publication date: 1995Dimensions: 228 x 154 x 26Cover type: Pa...

Sets out in a new and authoritative way the history of the essay; explains how the essay has come to mean what it does, surveys the widely various ...

Reducere. Treats the Pantheon from the unique perspective of its construction history, survival, and reception through history.

The first complete history of Central Eurasia from ancient times to the present day, Empires of the Silk Road represents a fundamental rethinking o...

Reducere. A concise history of how American law has shaped--and been shaped by--the experience of contagion, "taking us from the smallpox outbreaks of the co...

Publisher: Hodder EducationAuthor(s): Joanne De PenningtonIllustration(s): black and white illustrations and photosNumber of pages: 304Collection: ...

DescriptionA second edition of the classic introduction to arts in social movements, fully updated and now including Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wal...