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Disenchanted with the mainstream environmental movement, a new, more radical kind of environmental activist emerged in the 1980s. Radical environmentalists used direct action, from blockades and tre……続きを見る

“[A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers” by a Pulitzer Prize winner (The New Yorker). In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial live……続きを見る

From the days of his earliest manhood, Crammon, a pilgrim upon the paths of pleasantness and delight, had been a constant wayfarer from capital to capital and from country-seat to country-seat. He c……続きを見る

Crimea in War and Transformation is the first book to examine the terrible toll of violence on Crimean civilians and landscapes from mobilization through reconstruction. When war landed on Crimea's ……続きを見る

Ever since the definition of the Neolithic Revolution by Vere Gordon Childe, archaeologists have been aware of the crucial importance of food for the understanding of prehistoric developments. Numer……続きを見る

Imagining the Witch explores emotions, gender, and selfhood through the lens of witch-trials in early modern Germany. Witch-trials were clearly a gendered phenomenon, but witchcraft was not a unique……続きを見る

This volume reflects on what happens when the idea and practice of universal human rights cross the cultural borders between different communities of knowledge. Although such rights are usually pres……続きを見る

Den Auftakt der Großen (innersozialistischen) Debatte (über die Oktoberrevolution) bildete ein Aufsatz Karl Kautskys, der eine Woche nach dem Umsturz in Russland, am 15. November, in der Leipziger V……続きを見る

A detailed City guide of Sibiu, one of the most beautiful city of Transylvania, Romania. After a brief historical summary, the reader will find information on accommodation, eating, how to travel th……続きを見る

The Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat Era generates a new history of the Ottoman Empire’s Tanzimat reforms in the provinces of Edirne and Ankara. It studies variation across the two provinces and the c……続きを見る

The phenomenon of time was a central preoccupation of Tarkovsky throughout his career. His films present visions of time by temporal means - that is, in time. Tarkovsky does not represent time throu……続きを見る

Animals were omnipresent in the everyday life and the visual arts of classical Greece. In literature, too, they had significant functions.This book discusses the role of animals - both domestic and ……続きを見る

In "The Religion of The Chinese", scholarly book published in 1910, Jan Jakob Maria de Groot details the history, rituals, and beliefs of the major traditional religions of China: universal animism,……続きを見る

Queens of Poland are conspicuously absent from the study of European queenshipーan absence which, together with early modern Poland’s marginal place in the historiography, results in a picture of Eu……続きを見る

Inhalt des Buchs Das Buch enthält ein kurzes Vorwort, das sich in mehrere thematische Sektionen teilt. Danach kommt die Origo Gentis Langobardorum, die mit seinen sieben Absätzen die Legende des Nam……続きを見る

Between the Two Rivers was a true Cinderella of Mesopotamia story. Young Mannig rose from starving Armenian orphan to the teenage bride of a wealthy philanthropist. Beyond the Two Rivers begins in B……続きを見る

Modern Israel's founding fathers provided some of the boldest and most principled leadership of any nation--now Israel needs their example more than ever. Modern Israel's founding fathers provided s……続きを見る

A family man who ran afoul of the Nazis, Josef Jakobs was ill-prepared for an espionage mission to England. Captured by the Home Guard after breaking his ankle, Josef was interrogated at Camp 020, b……続きを見る

The Staff of the 5th East Siberian Rifles, with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Companies, arrived at Chin-chou on April 1, 1903. The regiment, for the past three years, had been stationed at various points o……続きを見る

Peut-on mettre en lien la langue de l'Egypte ancienne avec une langue encore parlée actuellement ? Se serait-elle transmise de génération en génération ? Et si la langue des pharaons d’Egypte avait ……続きを見る

En 1836, suite au scandale provoqué par sa première Lettre philosophique, Piotr Tchaadaïev fut déclaré fou par le pouvoir du tsar Nicolas Ier et assigné à résidence. Il écrivit cette Apologie d’un f……続きを見る

There is constant pressure on hospitals to improve health care delivery and increase cost effectiveness. New initiatives are the order of the day in the dramatically different health care systems of……続きを見る

Civil Rights and Beyond examines the dynamic relationships between African American and Latino/a activists in the United States from the 1930s to the present day. Building on recent scholarship, thi……続きを見る

In a fascinating blend of biography and history, Joseph Tartakovsky tells the epic and unexpected story of our Constitution through the eyes of ten extraordinary individualsーsome renowned, like Ale……続きを見る

Following World War I, horse cavalry entered a period during which it fought for its very existence against mechanized vehicles. On the Western Front, the stalemate of trench warfare became the defi……続きを見る

Finland, skærtorsdag 28. marts 1918. Sammen med sin bataljon stormer den frivillige danske soldat Carl Borre Larsen ud over det store og åbne snedækkede terræn frem mod industribyen Tammerfors. En s……続きを見る

"I Himlens navn,” skrev Oliver Worm til vennerne efter de lange, eksperimenterende nætter i boligkarréen, ”hvor Ryparken 154, 178 og rimeligvis også 210 er dejlige steder.” “Jeg opnåede,” fortsatte ……続きを見る

This book provides a unique insight into understanding the Igbo social, economic, and political world through comprehensive analyses of indigenous and foreign religious practices, issues surrounding……続きを見る

À mes amis russes et polonais, 1862 .. Me voilà libre, enfin, après huit ans d’emprisonnement dans différentes forteresses et quatre ans d’exil en Sibérie. L’âge m’est venu, ma santé s’est délabrée,……続きを見る

Ce plaidoyer matérialiste, rationaliste et radicalement démocratique, répond à Voltaire et à son « Si Dieu n’existait pas, il faudrait l’inventer » par « Si Dieu existait réellement, il faudrait le ……続きを見る