ISBN: 9781501738456 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 378 Rok wydania: 2019
Ancient and medieval labyrinths embody paradox, according to Penelope Reed Doob. Their structure allows a double perspective--the baffling, fragmented prospect confronting the maze-treader within,...
ISBN: 9781501702488 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 294 Rok wydania: 2016
In Too Few Women at the Top, Kumiko Nemoto draws on theoretical insights regarding Japan's coordinated capitalism and institutional stasis to challenge claims that the surge in women's...
ISBN: 9781501763496 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 240 Rok wydania: 2022
ISBN: 9781501753008 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 330 Rok wydania: 2021
ISBN: 9781501707162 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 174 Rok wydania: 2016
The Electrification of Russia, 1880-1926 is the first full account of the widespread adoption of electricity in Russia, from the beginning in the 1880s to its early years as a state technology...
ISBN: 9780801449888 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 376 Rok wydania: 2013
As portrayed in this masterful biography, Jozef Tiso's life not only illuminates the modern history of Slovakia but also supplies a missing piece of the larger puzzle that was interwar and...
ISBN: 9781501769924 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 336 Rok wydania: 2023
ISBN: 9780875807560 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 506 Rok wydania: 2016
Since its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux. In the late medieval and early modern...
ISBN: 9780801485985 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 224 Rok wydania: 1999
The popularity of such books as Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes, May Karr's The Liar's Club, and Kathryn Harrison's controversial The Kiss, has led columnists to call ours...
ISBN: 9780801475771 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 248 Rok wydania: 2009
Mitrovich argues that the Cold War policy of containment was only the first step in America's clandestine campaign to destroy Soviet power, revealing a range of previously unknown covert...
ISBN: 9780801473340 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 352 Rok wydania: 2006
Trance states, prophesying, convulsions, fasting, and other physical manifestations were often regarded as signs that a person was seized by spirits. In a book that sets out the prehistory of the...
ISBN: 9780801490613 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 188
The author describes the various ideas that may be called chivalric, illustrates their nature and content from contemporary literature, and attempts to show what effect they had on the ethical...
ISBN: 9780875806105 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 246 Rok wydania: 2006
A twenty-five-year veteran of field research in Niger and Mali, anthropologist Susan J. Rasmussen examines the female-dominated practice of herbalism in the seminomadic Muslim communities of...
ISBN: 9781501735813 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 288 Rok wydania: 2019
As the site of the assassination that triggered World War I and the place where the term "ethnic cleansing" was invented during the Yugoslav Wars of the 1990s, Bosnia has become a global...
ISBN: 9781501710698 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 384 Rok wydania: 2017
In Afterlives, Nancy Mandeville Caciola explores this extraordinary phenomenon of the living's relationship with the dead in Europe during the five hundred years after the year...
ISBN: 9781501761737 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 330 Rok wydania: 2021
ISBN: 9781501747779 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 304 Rok wydania: 2019
"Follow the Flag" offers the first authoritative history of the Wabash Railroad Company, a once vital interregional carrier. The corporate saga of the Wabash involved the efforts of...
ISBN: 9780875800950 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 248
The Chicago Great Western Railroad was a spunky midwestern carrier that contributed mightily to the transportation industry. The 1,500-mile CGW, built by the iconoclastic and ambitious A. B....
ISBN: 9780801439438 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 368 Rok wydania: 2015
Written by the foremost experts on larval amphibians, this is the first guide of its kind and will transform the fieldwork of scientists and fish and wildlife...
ISBN: 9780801485879 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 416 Rok wydania: 2000
The Yucatan Peninsula is today divided among Belize, Guatemala, and Mexico. Travelers to this region discover both astonishing archaeological sites and a stunning array of wildlife, including...