Wonderful Things: A History of Egyptology: 3: From 1914 to the Twenty-First Century, Hardcover - Jason Thompson

Contributor(s): Author: Jason ThompsonThe discovery of ancient Egypt and the development of Egyptology are momentous events in intellectual and cul...

"A well written, informed, and at times exciting account" (Choice) of the field of Egyptology, part two of Thompson's bestselling monumental histor...

DescriptionArchitecture reflects not only a nation's history, but also how its people lived, worked, prayed and fought over the centuries. Since th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert ServiceRussia had an extraordinary twentieth century, undergoing upheaval and transformation. Updating his acclaimed...

Contributor(s): Author: Charles HolcombeCharles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features...

Part history, part explanation of early music, this book also plays devil's advocate, criticizing current practices and urging experimentation. Hay...

This major survey charts the development of live art across six continents since the turn of the twenty- first century, revealing how it has become...

Reducere. In Literary Afrofuturism in the Twenty-First Century, eminent contributors pay tribute to Afrofuturism as a powerful and evolving aesthetic practic...

Reducere. If clothes make the man, who makes the clothes and the trends they inspire? Fashion historian Daniel Delis Hill takes readers on a fascinatingly de...

Reducere. Savannah in the New South: From the Civil War to the Twenty-First Century, by Walter J. Fraser, Jr., traces the city's evolution from the pivotal p...

Reducere. Maps the Path of Pan-Wesleyan ChristologiesAn international group of Pan-Wesleyan scholars address this question posed by Jaroslav Pelikan: What ha...

Reducere. Over the past two decades, scholarship in architectural history has transformed, moving away from design studio pedagogy and postmodern historicism...

Open Democracy envisions what true government by mass leadership could look like.--Nathan Heller, New YorkerHow a new model of democracy that opens...

Reducere. From North Dakota beet fields to California campgrounds to Amazon's Texas CamperForce program, employers have found a new cheap labor pool: transie...

The specter of early twentieth-century eugenics-with its goal of preventing the "unfit" from reproducing through forced sterilization-still haunts ...

The changing face of the liberal creed from the ancient world to todayThe Lost History of Liberalism challenges our most basic assumptions about a ...

DescriptionTrans Kids is a trenchant ethnographic and interview-based study of the first generation of families affirming and facilitating gender n...

How moving beyond GDP will improve well-being and sustainabilityNever before in human history have we produced so much data, and this empirical rev...

Reducere. This book is about an idea--namely, that Scripture mandates a Jewish return to the historical region of Palestine--which in turn morphed into a pol...

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A Brief History of Archaeology details early digs and covers the development of archaeology as a multidisciplinary science, the modernization of me...

A new integrated history of Christianity in Britain and Ireland

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Lengthening hours, lessening pay, no parental leave, scant job security... Never have so many workers needed so much support. Yet the very labor un...

DescriptionThe Arab-Palestinian community, which constitutes 20 percent of Israel's population, is an ethnic minority living mainly in ethnically h...

Reducere. Noting that standard accounts of U.S. history often pay little attention to the working class, labor historian Paul Le Blanc presents a colorful, f...

Reducere. From the beet fields of North Dakota to the National Forest campgrounds of California to Amazon's CamperForce program in Texas, employers have disc...

While television has always played a role in recording and curating history, shaping cultural memory, and influencing public sentiment, the changin...

DescriptionAn exploration of the moral and ethical implications of new biotechnologies Many of the ethical issues raised by new technologies have n...

Reducere. A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, Thomas Berr...

DescriptionThe subject of Eschatology has been studied and written about for centuries. Various viewpoints based on differing hermeneutical perspec...

The Economy of Modern India: From 1860 to the Twenty-First Century - B. R. Tomlinson

All of Africa in a single volume. Not since John Gunther has the real Africa appeared between two covers. And, the continent is a puzzle for most p...

Reducere. The explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump's high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist an...

This book is for anyone interested in the history of encyclopedias, including academics in the humanities and non-academic readers with an interest...

This book examines Turkey's ethno-religious activism and power-related political strategies in the Balkans between 2002 and 2020, the period under ...

Rapid economic growth has put India at the centre of current debates about the future of the global economy. In this fully revised and updated text...

These are turbulent times in the world of book publishing. For nearly five centuries the methods and practices of book publishing remained largely ...

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Korean History in Maps: From Prehistory to the Twenty-First Century - Michael D. Shin, Lee Injae, Owen Miller, Park Jinhoon, Yi Hyun-Hae

Why do historians so often talk about objectivity, empathy, and fair-mindedness? What roles do such personal qualities play in historical studies? ...

Reducere. An Introduction to the Nonprofit Sector: A Practical Approach for the 21st Century is an introductory text on the nonprofit sector and nonprofit or...