Script and Society. The Social Context of Writing Practices in Late Bronze Age Ugarit, Hardback - Philip J. Boyes

Proposes a methodology for analysing the social context of writing systems.Illustrations: B/w

Through an in-depth engagement with social theorist Pierre Bourdieu, this book explicates the relationship between theology and its social context,...

This is the second part of a study on Bronze Age tells and on our approaches towards an understanding of this fascinating way of life, drawing on t...

Lyndsey Stonebridge presents a new way to think about the relationship between literature and human rights that challenges the idea that empathy in...

An examination of awareness of the ecclesiastical doctrine of discretio spirituum, the means of testing whether visions were truly of divine origin...

This book provides an up-to-date synthesis of the rich histories of the peoples who lived on the Iberian Peninsula between 1, 400, 000 (the Paleoli...

DescriptionIn this book the much-debated problem of political organization in Mycenaean Greece (ca. 1400-1200 BC) is analysed and contextualised th...

From the early 1970s, working class writing and publishing in local communities rapidly proliferated into a national movement. This book is the fir...

This volume, introduced by Edgar Peltenburg, presents the results of latest research by young scholars working on aspects of Cypriot archaeology fr...

Explores the role, significance and technological development of textile manufacture in 1st millennium BC Sicily.Illustrations: B/w and colour

A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observersWe all sense it―something big is going on. You feel it in...

Outlines the sociocultural roots of education in the three countries, linking the tradition and philosophical orientations to each country's own hi...

The explosion of research in the field of ancient and historic glasses has opened up glass studies in recent years.Publisher: Oxbow BooksAuthor(s):...

This Element provides a comprehensive overview of collocation and writing quality as an area of academic scholarship and discusses the need for mor...

Publisher: Society of Antiquaries of ScotlandAuthor(s): Lindsey BusterIllustration(s): 195 colour illustrations; 195 colour illustrationsNumber of ...

Reducere. This monograph uses an archaeological approach to decipher folk classification of animals in ancient societies. Ningning Dong collates faunal data ...

A lively and original study tracing the development of 'laziness' as a social problem in the Ottoman Empire over the long nineteenth-century. Hafez...

This book provides new insights about the relationship between humans and birds in Northern Europe during the Bronze Age. It argues that birds as w...

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

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

DescriptionThe vampire has always had audience appeal. What is amazing is that Hollywood shunned the King of Vampires for years fearing the story w...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Minoans, then keep reading...The Minoans continue to be an intriguing subject for modern aud...

The popular culture of urban and rural tsarist Russia revealed a dynamic and troubled world. This is a collection of essays by Western and Russian ...

New ways of approaching the study of writing in the past.Illustrations: b/wEditor(s): Natalia Elvira Astoreca

Reducere. European arrowheads and crossbow bolts are relatively under-represented in the literature and are usually treated only as minor aspects. There is a...

This book puts to the test the prominent claim that social class has declined in importance in an era of affluence, choice and the waning of tradit...

Incorporating up-to-date archaeological evidence, and current methodological debates, Tim Cornell provides a lucid and authoritative account of Rom...

This book is a collection of papers originally presented at a conference of the same name in the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden ...

Thinking about Animals in the Age of the Anthropocene makes connections between the Anthropocene discourse and human-animal studies, thus facilitat...

The first look at the evidence from excavations at the site of Cladh Hallan (South Uist, Western Isles of Scotland).Publisher: Oxbow BooksAuthor(s)...

Considers what beauty and love in education look like. Where can it be seen, and how can we bring this forward so it can be instructive to those wh...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Necati (University of Bamberg, Germany) AlkanNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimension...

Provides a guide to the contexts of The Beatles' unparalleled cultural achievements, from their early performances to cultural legacy. Wide-ranging...

This intriguing study sheds light on Canada's relationship with Ireland, revealing the origins, trials, and successes of the intimate and at times ...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Martha B. CovenIllustration(s): 9 b/w illus.Number of pages: 144Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 2...

Reducere. In The Age of Thrivability, Michelle Holliday offers a bold reinterpretation of human history and a clear course to a better future. At the root of...

This book examines the purpose and structure of social policy and presents the various domains of policy required for the course (child welfare, ho...

Examines how school curriculum-based representations of Dominican identity navigate black racial identity, its relatedness to Haiti, and the cultur...

Social Entrepreneurship in the Age of Atrocities provides crucial insight into social entrepreneurship from visionaries in the field as well as oth...

The Renaissance was also the beginning of the Age of Empires, yet the Grand Duchy of Tuscany failed to secure overseas colonies. How did Tuscany re...

'Fizzes with clever vignettes and juicy tidbits... [a] joyous romp of a book.' Guardian'A fascinating, rollicking book in search of why, where and ...

This volume gathers together ten original essays on the contemporary politics of visibility. Contributions are interdisciplinary and address an arr...

A detailed study of the Waterloo armies, it includes an analysis of the armies engaged - French, British, Hanoverians, Brunswickers, Netherlanders,...

Explroes teachers' perceptions of the impact of implementing culturally responsive pedagogical (CRP) practices on the student learning outcomes of ...

Presents the history of how two countries on the northern edge of Europe built societies in the twentieth century that became objects of inspiratio...

"Based on a text originally published in Switzerland as: 'Ukraine zwischen Ost und West, ' by Ulrich Schmid A Ulrich Schmid, 2015, Vontobel-Stiftung

Riot grrrls, punk feminists most well-known for their girl power activism and message, used punk ideologies and the literacy practice of zine-ing t...