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A SOCIAL HISTORY OF BYZANTIUM“Until now, the social history of Byzantium has remained a neglected field. Professor John Haldon has put together a team of leading international Byzantinists, each of...

A groundbreaking history of Prohibition and a new creation story for the powerful American state.Prohibition has long been portrayed as a “noble experiment” that failed, a newsreel story of glamorous...

Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Berlin before 1918 -- History of Weimar and Nazi-Era Berlin...

This book seeks to elucidate picture engineering as a new discipline for hand- ling the entire scope of picture processing in a systematic manner. Picture engineering as a discipline has three...

The Second World War's Pacific conflict was one of the most complex in history. It embrioled peoples from opposite sides of the globe; it was fought in China, across the expanses of the Pacific, and...

In the early 20th century, Indonesia was divided into 350 greater and lesser kingdoms. Although Dutch imperialism influenced this pattern, the political history of the archipelago over the centuries...

From historian Peter Jones comes a surprising and insightful guide to navigating contemporary life through the wisdom of the Middle Ages A few years ago, Peter Jones was teaching medieval history at...

A concise and accessible guide to techniques for detecting doctored and fake images in photographs and digital media.Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussolini, and other dictators routinely doctored photographs...

A Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year From "one of the most thoughtful ancient historians in Britain over more than half a century" (Mary Beard) comes a powerful look at how the modern...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of The Joy Luck Club comes a gorgeous and witty exploration of birding and nature. This inspiring work cultivates hope and connection, revealing the...

Contemporary translations and adaptations of ancient Greek poet Callimachus by noted writer and critic Stephanie BurtCallimachus may be the best-kept secret in all of ancient poetry. Loved and...

Foreword; Preface; Part I. Summary of the First Global Integrated Marine Assessment; Part II. The Context of the Assessment: 1. Introduction: planet, oceans and life; 2. Mandate, information sources...

The first World Climate Conference, which was sponsored by the World Meteorological Organization in Genève in 1979, triggered an international dialogue on global warming. From the 1997 United...

In this acclaimed book, Torgovnick explores the obsessions,fears, and longings that have produced Western views of theprimitive. Crossing an extraordinary range of fields(anthropology, psychology,...

The Royal Historical Society Transactions offers readers an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians...

This history of African motherhood over the longue durée demonstrates that it was, ideologically and practically, central to social, economic, cultural, and political life. The book explores how...

Addressing researchers and graduate students in the active meeting ground of analysis, geometry, and dynamics, this book presents a study of renormalization of quadratic polynomials and a rapid...

The glorious history of how Middle-earth would change—and become the world readers recognize in The Lord of the RingsAs friends and fellow members of the literary circle known as The Inklings, J. R...

Of all the classical poets Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84-54 BC) is the most accessible to the modern reader. Presented alongside the original Latin text, this new translation reflects Catullus'...

A Newbery Medal WinnerAlthough she is the daughter of Damar's king, Aerin has never been accepted as full royalty. Both in and out of the royal court, people whisper the story of her mother, the...