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Modern Architecture

a very short introduction

Somewhere between 1910 and 1970, architecture changed. Now that modern architecture has become familiar (sometimes celebrated, sometimes vilified), it's hard to imagine how novel it once seemed. Expensive buildings were transformed from ornamental fancies which referred to the classical and medieval pasts into strikingly ...

AngloArabia

why gulf wealth matters to Britain

UK ties with Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf monarchies are under the spotlight as never before. Huge controversy surrounds Britain's alliances with these deeply repressive regimes, and the UK's key supporting role in the disastrous Saudi-led intervention in Yemen has lent added ...

Le voyage à Compostelle

du Xe au XXe siècle

Ce volume nous fait vivre le mythique voyage à Compostelle à travers les témoignages directs des pèlerins, depuis l'origine jusqu'à nos jours. C'est avec l'annonce de la découverte en Galice, au milieu du IXe siècle, du tombeau de l'apôtre Jacques ...

Barcelona

Barcelona is the second book in Polity s exciting new Cities in World History series, which provides the general reader and traveller with historically informed companions to the world s greatest cities.

The Psychology of Music

a very short introduction

Music has been examined from multiple perspectives: as a product of human history, for example, or a product of human culture. But there is also a long tradition, intensified in recent decades, of thinking about music as a product of the human mind. Whether considering ...

Typography

a very short introduction

Typography, the art of designing printed words, was once the domain of an elite few artists but has become an area with which millions of people engage daily. The widespread usage of digital devices from laptops to tablets and smart phones which are used for ...

Psychiatry

a very short introduction

Psychiatry is an endlessly controversial endeavour, incorporating emotively-charged questions over the reality of mental illness, the medicalization of everyday life, and the role of nature versus nurture which cause constant discussion today, and on which almost everyone has an opinion. In this Very Short Introduction ...

Eyewitness and crusade narrative

perception and narration in accounts of the Second, Third and Fourth Crusades

"Eyewitness" is a familiar label that historians apply to numerous pieces of evidence. It carries compelling connotations of trustworthiness and particular proximity to the lived experience of historical actors. But it has received surprisingly little critical attention. This book seeks to open up discussion of ...

Myth and materiality

The aim of this book is to promote the thesis that myth may illuminate archaeology and that on occasion archaeology may shed light on myth. Medieval Irish literature is rich in mythic themes and some of these are used as a starting point. Some myths ...

Lands of the Shamans

archaeology, cosmology and landscape

'Shamanism' is a term with specific anthropological roots, but which is used more generally to cover a set of interactions between a practitioner or 'shaman' and a spiritual or religious realm beyond the reach of most members of the community. It has often been considered ...

Money

5000 years of debt and power

The major French economist offers a new theory of money As the financial crisis reached its climax in September 2008, the most important figure on the planet was Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. The whole financial system was collapsing, with little to stop it. When ...

Biografía de la Humanidad

historia de la evolución de las culturas

La especie humana es un híbrido de biología y cultura, y este sorprendente y original libro le da todo el protagonismo no a la genética, sino a la historia de la evolución cultural, a través de un recorrido que explora el desarrollo del arte, la ...

Women letter-writers in Tudor England

Women Letter-Writers in Tudor England represents one of the most comprehensive study of women's letters and letter-writing during the early modern period to be undertaken, and acts as an important corrective to traditional ways of reading and discussing letters as private, elite, male, and ...

Rationalizing myth in Antiquity

The Greek myths are characteristically fabulous; they are full of monsters, metamorphoses, and the supernatural. However, they could be told in other ways as well. This volume charts ancient dissatisfaction with the excesses of myth, and the various attempts to cut these stories down to ...

Beyond the Northlands

vikings voyage and the Old Norse Sagas

In the dying days of the eighth century, the Vikings erupted onto the international stage with brutal raids and slaughter. The medieval Norsemen may be best remembered as monk murderers and village pillagers, but this is far from the whole story. Throughout the Middle Ages ...

Ypres

In 1914, Ypres was a sleepy Belgian city admired for its magnificent Gothic architecture. The arrival of the rival armies in October 1914 transformed it into a place known throughout the world, each of the combatants associating the place with it its own particular palette ...

Radicalization

From Paris to San Bernardino, Barcelona to Manchester, home-grown terrorism is among the most urgent challenges confronting Western nations. Attempts to understand jihadism have typically treated it as a form of political violence or religious conflict. In this book, Kevin McDonald shows that the term ...

Contemporary russian politics

Vladimir Putin's return to the Kremlin for a third presidential term in 2012 has seen Russian democracy further weaken and Russia's relations with the West seriously deteriorate. Yet within Russia Putin's position remains unchallenged and his foreign policy battles have received widespread ...

The Parthian and Early Sasanian Empires

adaptation and expansion

Although much of the primary information about the Parthian period comes from coins, there has been much new research undertaken over the past few decades into wider aspects of both the Parthian and Sasanian Empires including the Arsacid Parthians, and their material culture. Despite a ...

The Early Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of Southern Britain AD 450-650

Beneath the tribal hidage

The Tribal Hidage, attributed to the 7th century, records the named groups and polities of early Anglo-Saxon England and the taxation tribute due from their lands and surpluses. Whilst providing some indication of relative wealth and its distribution, rather little can be deduced from the ...