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Geography

why it matters

Today, the physical and social composition of the world is changing at an unprecedented pace, as a result of rising sea levels, deforestation, species extinction, rapid urbanisation and mass migration. Modern technologies have brought people from across the globe into contact with each other, with ...

Rethinking the Age of Revolutions

France and the Birth of the Modern World

Much of the historiography on the age of democratic revolutions has seemed to come to a halt until recent years. Historians of this period have tried to develop new explanatory paradigms but there are few that have had a lasting impact. David A. Bell and ...

Our psychiatric future

Our everyday lives are increasingly intertwined with psychiatry and discussions of mental health. Yet the dominant medical discipline of psychiatry remains surrounded by controversy. Is mental distress really an illness like any other, treatable by drugs? Can psychiatrists differentiate between mental disorders normal eccentricities, anxieties ...

What is power?

Power is a pervasive phenomenon yet there is little consensus on what it is and how it should be understood. In this book the cultural theorist Byung-Chul Han develops a fresh and original perspective on the nature of power, shedding new light on this key ...

The globalization backlash

Globalisation, heralded for decades as a harbinger of prosperity, faces a huge backlash. Derided by right-wing nationalists as a 'globalist' plot to undermine traditional communities, and by left-wing critics as the rule of rampaging corporations, it's become a political punching bag around the world ...

The jungle

Calais's Camps and migrants

For nearly two decades, the area surrounding the French port of Calais has been a temporary staging post for thousands of migrants and refugees hoping to cross the channel to Britain. It achieved global attention when, at the height of the migrant crisis in 2015 ...

William Penn

a life

On March 4, 1681, King Charles II granted William Penn a charter for a new American colony. Pennsylvania was to be, in its founder's words, a bold "Holy Experiment" in religious freedom and toleration, a haven for those fleeing persecution in an increasingly intolerant ...

God, guns, gold and glory

american character and its discontents

From a small group of devout Puritan settlers, the USA ultimately became the richest, most powerful Empire in the history of the world. Yet it is now in a process of implosion and decay. This book, inspired by Frankfurt School Critical Theory, offers a unique ...

Gifts, goods and money

comparing currency and circulation systems in past societies

The papers gathered in this volume explore the economic and social roles of exchange systems in past societies from a variety of different perspectives. Based on a broad range of individual case studies, the authors tackle problems surrounding the identification of (pre-monetary) currencies in the ...

Knossos and the Near East

a contextual approach to imports and imitations in Early Iron Age tombs

In this book, Dr Vyron Antoniadis presents a contextual study of the Near Eastern imports which reached Crete during the Early Iron Age and were deposited in the Knossian tombs. Cyprus, Phoenicia, North Syria and Egypt are the places of origin of these imports. Knossian ...

A bestiary of monsters in Greek Mythology

Greek myths abound in images of beauty and perfection: charming gods, attractive goddesses, and handsome heroes, all of them standards of physical and spiritual flawlessness. However, the ancient Greeks were not fond of absolutes. No god or hero is shown without blemishes in character and ...

Mosaici funerari Tardoantichi in Italia

repertorio e analisi

Il mosaico funerario è una particolare tipologia musiva spesso sottovalutata e poco studiata. Le origini sono da ricercarsi, probabilmente, nell'antica regione della Bizacena, attuale Tunisia, a partire dagli ultimi decenni del III secolo d.C. Nel IV secolo iniziò l'esportazione dei cartoni musivi ...

Thinking about Shakespeare

In Thinking About Shakespeare, Kay Stockholder reveals the rich inner lives of some of Shakespeare's most enigmatic characters and the ways in which their emotions and actions shape and are shaped by the social and political world around them. In addressing all genres in ...

Artemis and her cult

Greek sanctuaries are among the best known archaeological sites in ancient Greece. However, after over 150 years of excavations and research we know surprisingly little about some of their aspects, such as the rituals enacted in the sanctuary, the nature of original local deities and ...

Portuguese intervention in the Manila galleon trade

In this study of the Portuguese intervention in the Manila Galleon Trade, Etsuko Miyata explores its history through a new approach: the examination of Chinese ceramics. The excavated Chinese ceramics from Mexico City shed light on the nature of Portuguese involvement in this huge sixteenth-century ...

Huosiland

a small country in Carolingian Europe

Discussed here is the landscape of western Bavaria in the early-medieval period, between about 750 and 850. The title of the study derives from several indications that a noble genealogia, the Huosi, were particularly influential there during the period. Huosiland may be the best documented ...

Tener el azúcar bajo llave

“Entre la variada tipología que puede aplicarse al género humano existe un grupo de seres para quienes ver consiste en sorprenderse continuamente. Pertenezco a este grupo. Y supongo que los que, a lo largo de la historia, se han dedicado al escrutinio de lo visible ...

La mujer de Huguenin

cuentos fantásticos

«Con este volumen se inician las publicaciones del Reino de Redonda, minúscula y deshabitada isla antillana de la que el autor, Matthew Phipps Shiel (1865-1947), fue coronado primer rey en 1880, dando lugar a una curiosa "dinastía literaria" que aún continúa. »Nacido en la vecina ...

El relato documental

Siempre que hay mediación tecnológica solo existe, en términos de relato audiovisual, la parte de realidad que pue­de ser captada con los medios disponi­bles. La técnica determina también qué entendemos por realidad y qué realidad puede ser documentada y mostrada. La realidad es ...

Sofía

nuestra reina

La reina Sofía, una de las mujeres más importantes de la historia reciente de España, ha afrontado en la última década situaciones muy difíciles, desde los problemas de salud y la posterior abdicación del rey Juan Carlos y el divorcio de la infanta Elena hasta ...