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As early as 1441, and well before other European countries encountered Africa, small Portuguese and Spanish trading vessels were plying the coast o...

The term "secular" inspires thinking about disenchantment, periodization, modernity, and subjectivity. The essays in Sacred and Secular Transaction...

DescriptionThe world has become increasingly separated into the haves and have-nots. In The Culture of Contentment, renowned economist John Kenneth...

Reducere. In contemporary discourse, much of the discussion of U.S. border politics focuses on the Southwest. In Bootlegged Aliens, however, Ashley Johnson B...

Reducere. In Haunted Media Jeffrey Sconce examines American culture's persistent association of new electronic media-from the invention of the telegraph to t...

For the past century and a half, extensive looting and illicit trafficking of Southeast Asia's cultural heritage have scattered art objects from th...

In the aftermath of the efflorescence of experimental literature and theory that characterized the Trente Glorieuses (1945-75), 'contemporary' Fren...

Reducere. In the 5th century BCE, Herodotus wrote the first known Western history to build on the tradition of Homeric storytelling, basing his text on empir...

Reducere. Each year in France approximately 1.5 million people practice naturisme or naturism, an activity more commonly referred to as nudism. Because of Fr...

Reducere. A bold poetic intervention into the pastoral tradition. Elizabeth Willis's new collection is a stunning collision of the pastoral tradition with th...

Reducere. ABC Apple Pie is a book for elementary school children about the tale of an apple pie and how some town folks relate to it in various ways when wan...

Reducere. Methods of "Nourishing the Vital Principle" in the Ancient Daoist Religion is a tiré à part of Book IX of Henri Maspero's seminal work Taoism and...

In the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Marisa J. Fuentes creates a portrait of urb...

In 1230, Jews in the English city of Norwich were accused of having seized and circumcised a five-year-old Christian boy named Edward because they ...

Reducere. DescriptionAlexander Romanovich Luria, one of the most influential psychologists of the twentieth century, is best known for his pioneering work on...

Reducere. One of the great intellectual battles of modern times is between evolution and religion. Until now, they have been considered completely irreconcil...

The history of modern Italy is characterized by recurrent cultural and political projects of modernity, rejuvenation, and regeneration; projects wh...

Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, developed a totally new way of looking at human nature. Only now, with the hindsight of the half-cent...

In his Discourses (1755), Rousseau argues that inequalities of rank, wealth, and power are the inevitable result of the civilizing process. If ineq...

Reducere. Inspired by the process of creating a library for his fifteenth-century home near the Loire, in France, Alberto Manguel, the acclaimed writer on bo...

Contributor(s): Editor: Daniel LerchContribution by: Sarah ByrnesContribution by: Chuck CollinsThe sustainability challenges of yesterday have beco...

A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian cap...

Reducere. The ancient practice of alchemy, which thrived in Europe until the seventeenth century, dealt with the phenomenon of transformation--not only of ma...

Contributor(s): Author: Peter James HudsonFrom the end of the nineteenth century until the onset of the Great Depression, Wall Street embarked on a...

Contributor(s): Author: Marisa J. FuentesIn the eighteenth century, Bridgetown, Barbados, was heavily populated by both enslaved and free women. Ma...

Reducere. DescriptionAll of humanity is going through an awakening from third density consciousness. It is part of our evolution and the children that are co...

Reducere. DescriptionEvery night we enter a mythic realm, a dark, primordial world of fear and desire. What this world offers, Anthony Stevens suggests, may ...

In his scathing The Theory of the Leisure Class, Thorstein Veblen produced a landmark study of affluent American society that exposes, with brillia...

In the wake of the Scientific Revolution, the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries saw the complete demolition of traditional structures of au...

DescriptionThe civil rights revolutions of the 1950s and 1960s transformed the literature on Reconstruction in America by emphasizing the social hi...

Reducere. DescriptionA History of Modern Italy addresses the question of how Italy's modern history--from its prolonged process of nation-building in the nin...

Rachel and Ben are resigning themselves to a long, wet summer stuck at their uncle's house in the English countryside, until they discover the unde...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Paul O'CallaghanChrist Our Hope is a masterful reflection on Christian eschatology, in a textbook of twelve accessible chap...

Contributor(s): Author: Reinhart KoselleckReinhart Koselleck is one of the most important theorists of history and historiography of the last half ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: David W. BlightEditor: Jim DownsThis collection of eleven original essays interrogates the concept of freedom and recenters...

Since its original publication in 1976, Perception and Misperception in International Politics has become a landmark book in its field, hailed by t...

Reducere. Arvo Part is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional tech...

DescriptionPrivate, voluntary standards shape almost everything we use, from screw threads to shipping containers to e-readers. They have been crit...

DescriptionIn this pioneering study of slavery in colonial Ecuador and southern Colombia--Spain's Kingdom of Quito--Sherwin Bryant argues that the ...

DescriptionAs new and disruptive technologies continue to transform the workplace, both employers and employees struggle to keep pace. The business...

Reducere. DescriptionThe roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic...

Reducere. This collection of documents in translation brings together the seminal sources for the late Merovingian Frankish kingdom. It inteprets the chronic...

Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins ...

A Poverty of Rights is an investigation of the knotty ties between citizenship and inequality during the years when the legal and institutional bas...

DescriptionIn Patriarchy of the Wage, Silvia Federici, best-selling author and the most important Marxist feminist of our time, asks why Marx and t...

During and especially after World War II, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunat...

DescriptionFor better or for worse, in recent times the rapid growth of international economic exchange has changed our lives. But when did this pr...

DescriptionBased on ethnographic fieldwork at a small Chicago adoption agency specializing in transracial adoption, Contingent Kinship charts the e...

A nuanced reassessment that transforms our understanding of this self-taught artist Arguably the most successful African American artist of his day...

Reducere. Established in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson, the University of Virginia was known as "The University" throughout the South for most of the nineteenth c...

Reducere. With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth centu...

Reducere. Undoubtedly the most influential black intellectual of the twentieth century and one of America's finest historians, W.E.B. DuBois knew that the li...

Reducere. Following Zebulon Pike's expeditions in the early nineteenth century, U.S. expansionists focused their gaze on the Southwest. Explorers, traders, s...

Reducere. For decades, we've been warned that video killed the radio star, and, more recently, that social media has replaced reading. Nerdfighteria, a first...

Reducere. Turning Selling into Buying strips away the fear, uncertainty and doubt that has surrounded sales and selling for too long. This well-proven, pract...

Reducere. Black ecopoet observes the changing world from a high-rise window Award-winning poet Ed Roberson confronts the realities of an era in which the fat...

How did we come to imagine what ideal childhood requires? Beginning in the late eighteenth century, German child-rearing radically transformed, and...

Reducere. An Examination of the evolution and impact of American intellectual property rights during the 'long nineteenth century, ' this book compares the A...

Reducere. Between the early seventeenth century and the early twentieth, nearly all the land in the United States was transferred from AmericanIndians to whi...

Reducere. In Age of Rogues, leading scholars engage with themes of historical and cultural legacies, contentious interactions within imperial regimes, and th...

Reducere. What has it meant to be Jewish in a nation preoccupied with the categories of black and white? The Price of Whiteness documents the uneasy place Je...

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the most admired and honored American composers of the twentieth century. An unabashed Romantic, largely indepe...

The surprising history of the scientific method--from an evolutionary account of thinking to a simple set of steps--and the rise of psychology in t...

The disconcerting reappearance of fascism in many parts of the Western world since the late twentieth century has prompted a re-evaluation of previ...

Reducere. A rare and inspiring guide to the health and well-being of Aboriginal women and their communities.The process of "digging up medicines" - of redisc...

Reducere. In 1823, as the first American missionaries arrived in Hawai'i, the archipelago was experiencing a profound transformation in its rule, as oral law...

Conversion to Islam is a phenomenon of immense significance in human history. At the outset of Islamic rule in the seventh century, Muslims constit...

Reducere. From an award-winning anthropologist, a lively, accessible, and irreverent introduction to the fieldWhat is anthropology? What can it tell us about...

Reducere. On September 30, 1919, local law enforcement in rural Phillips County, Arkansas, attacked black sharecroppers at a meeting of the Progressive Farme...

Reducere. With Zohar Studios, Stephen Berkman has perfected the rare and extremely difficult antique photographic process known as "wet collodion." Made with...