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Enduring Motives
The Archaeology of Tradition and Religion in Native America
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
Normal0falsefalsefalseEN-USX-NONEX-NONEMicrosoftInternetExplorer4Enduring Motives examines tradition and religious beliefs as they are expressed in landscape, the built environment, visual symbols, stories, and ritual.
Bringing together archaeologists and Native American experts,...
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Legal Change, Legal Meanings
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Transitions: Legal Change, Legal Meanings illustrates the various intersections, crises, and shifts that continually occur within the law, and how these moments of change interact with and comment on contemporary society.
Together the essays in this volume investigate the transformation of...
Stories from the Iliad
Retold by H.L. Havell (Illustrated)(Annotated)
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2019
HAVELL, Herbert Lord (1863-1913).
Late Reader in English in the University of Halle Formerly Scholar of University College Oxford.
Author of Stories from Herodotus , Stories from Greek Tragedy , Stories from the Æneid , Stories from the Iliad , etc.
Race and Displacement
Nation, Migration, and Identity in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
Race and Displacement captures a timely set of discussions about the roles of race in displacement, forced migrations, nation and nationhood, and the way continuous movements of people challenge fixed racial definitions.
The multifaceted approach of the essays in Race and Displacement...
Moving Natures
Mobility and the Environment in Canadian History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Mobility - the movements of people, things, and ideas, as well as their associated cultural meanings - has been a key factor in shaping Canadians' perceptions of and interactions with their country. Approaching the burgeoning field of environmental history in Canada through the lens of mobility reveals...
by L. W. King and H. R. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
Maspero's History Of Egypt, Volume 13 by L. W. King and H. R. Hall.
Targeted Tracks
The Cumberland Valley Railroad in the Civil War, 1861-1865
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2019
The Civil War was the first conflict in which railroads played a major role. Although much has been written about their role in general, little has been written about specific lines. The Cumberland Valley Railroad, for example, played an important strategic role by connecting Hagerstown, Maryland...
Democratic Reason
Politics, Collective Intelligence, and the Rule of the Many
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
Individual decision making can often be wrong due to misinformation, impulses, or biases. Collective decision making, on the other hand, can be surprisingly accurate. In Democratic Reason, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that the very factors behind the superiority of collective decision making add...
The Yellowhammer War
The Civil War and Reconstruction in Alabama
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Published to mark the Civil War sesquicentennial, The Yellowhammer War collects new essays on Alabama’s role in, and experience of, the bloody national conflict and its aftermath.
During the first winter of the war, Confederate soldiers derided the men of an Alabama Confederate unit for their...
by H. A. L. (herbert Albert Laurens) Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2015
The life of a great scholar may be filled with activity as intense and continuous as that demanded by any other calling, and yet is in the nature of things uneventful. Or rather it is a story which tells itself not in outward details of perils endured, places visited, appointments held, but in the...
The Physics of Reality
Space, Time, Matter, Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
A truly Galilean-class volume, this book introduces a new method in theory formation, completing the tools of epistemology. It covers a broad spectrum of theoretical and mathematical physics by researchers from over 20 nations from four continents. Like Vigier himself, the Vigier symposia are noted...
Screw Chocolate 2
14(+2) Queer Valentines to Get You Through February 14
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2018
Roses, cupid’s arrows, chocolate—chocolate? Screw chocolate! Queer up Valentine’s Day instead with these hilarious, heartbreaking (sometimes deliciously filthy) valentines by a posse of queer authors who have a fresh, occasionally revolutionary (always, insightful) take on love.
This...
by H.L. Mencken
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2012
This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. H. L. Mencken’s The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (1908) was the first complete exposition of Nietzsche’s thought written in English. It provides a coherent and systematic picture of the tapestry that is Nietzsche’s...
La Fugitive
L'Automne des magiciens, T1
Language: French
Release Date: February 14, 2018
Octavianne, huitième fille de la reine d’Elgem, a grandi dans le palais royal. À seize ans, sa sœur aînée régnante veut la marier contre son gré. Acculée, Octavianne s’enfuit et mène une vie d’errance, avant d’intégrer une école de magie runique où elle apprend à maîtriser ses...