Civilization

Culture from the Slums explores the history of punk rock in East and West Germany during the 1970s and 1980s. These decades witnessed an explosion of alternative culture across divided Germany, and punk was a critical constituent of this movement. For...

An eye-opening and urgent re-examination of nature in our cities, from the Sunday Times bestselling author.'Awe-inspiring... full of wonder, warning and hope' ISABELLA TREE, author of WildingOur modern-day cities might seem to represent our separation...

In this overview, Michael Burger's pedagogical goal is to provide a brief historical narrative of Western civilization to enable students to engage more fully with primary sources. The no-frills, uncluttered format and well-written, one-author approach...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400034284Author John Julius NorwichFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 712gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143132752Author Cody CassidyFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 215gDimensions(mm) 208mm * 138mm *...

How should we think about the "shape" of human history since the birth of cities, and where are we headed? Sociologist and historian John Torpey proposes that the "Axial Age" of the first millennium BCE, when some of the world's major religious and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393418729Author James M BrophyFormat PaperbackPage Count 720Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781423233237Author David HeadPage Count 6Imprint Barcharts, IncPublisher Barcharts, IncWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 4mm * 215mm

This outstanding account, written by a sympathetic Union officer and witness to the Civil War's denouement, covers the last days and downfall of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia (led by the indomitable Robert E. Lee), from the fall of Richmond...

How should we think about the "shape" of human history since the birth of cities, and where are we headed? Sociologist and historian John Torpey proposes that the "Axial Age" of the first millennium BCE, when some of the world's major religious and...

Michael Burger's goal in this inexpensive overview is to provide a brief, historical narrative of Western civilization. Not only does its length and price separate this text from the competition, but its no-frills, uncluttered format and well-written,...

This monograph is the final report of the excavation of the War Kabud graveyard in Luristan, Iran, by the University of Ghent and the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels. The excavations, directed by Louis Vanden Berghe, were conducted in 1965 and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393418712Author James M BrophyFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint W. W. Norton & CompanyPublisher W. W. Norton & CompanyWeight(grams)...

In our modern knowledge economy, the life sciences constitute a major driver of innovation, involving many people and huge capital investment. Frank Miedema discusses how external forces changed the life sciences and how this affected the lives and...

This collection demonstrates the usefulness of approaching texts-verbal, visual and aural-through a framework of humour. Contributors offer in-depth discussions of humour in the West within a wider cultural historical context to achieve a coherent,...

Jill Dudley writes about the clash of St. Paul's concept of love with the sexual pleasures which the pagans enjoyed at the great temple of Aphrodite on Acrocorinth. She describes how the Apostle spent his time at nearby Old Corinth observing, preaching...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525436331Author Ben WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 584gDimensions(mm) 232mm * 155mm...

This book examines the environment and society of North Africa during the late Roman period (fourth and fifth centuries CE) through the writings of Helvius Vindicianus, Theodorus Priscianus, Caelius Aurelianus, and Cassius Felix. These four medical...

Bringing together sources from many countries and many centuries, this study critically analyses the growth of national thought and of nationalism - from medieval ethnic prejudice to the Romantic belief in a nation's 'soul'. The belief and ideology of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641894258Author Joseph ShackFormat HardbackPage Count 181Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

Increasing doubts over the narratives that traditionally served to legitimize the tasks and possibilities of societal institutions - such as science - have also called into question the significance of philosophy to educational thinking. Related debates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525659532Author Simon Sebag MontefioreFormat HardbackPage Count 1344Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 1780gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501194115Author Valerie HansenFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm)...

Departing from the present need for cultural models within the public debate, this volume offers a new contribution to the study of cultural icons. From the traditional religious icon to the modern mass media icon, from the recognizable visual icon to...

In a late 1590s atlas proof from cartographer John Speed, Queen Elizabeth appears, crowned and brandishing a ruler as the map's scale-of-miles. Not just a map key, the queen's depiction here presents her as a powerful arbiter of measurement in her...

An introduction to the history of English morphology.Book InformationISBN 9781474413275Author Craig SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781575063324Author Simo ParpolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint EisenbraunsPublisher Pennsylvania State University PressWeight(grams)...

This thoughtful exploratory study deals with three seminal issues in film theory, notably the relationship of image and sound, early manifestations of the moving image, and new connections between the voice and the use of the body in contemporary cinema...

In the 5 days from July 16 through July 20, 2012, more than three hundred Assyriologists from all over the world gathered in Leiden, the Netherlands, to read more than 130 papers and to contribute to a variety of workshops. Many of the papers were read...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375703997Author Fernand BraudelFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 379gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Many have viewed Kaiser Wilhelm II as having personally ruled Germany, dominating its politics, and choreographing its ambitious leap to global power. But how accurate is this picture? As The Kaiser and the Colonies shows, Wilhelm II was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780609805367Author Daniel QuinnFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Crown PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

'Mendelsohn takes the classical costumes off figures like Virgil and Sappho, Homer and Horace ... He writes about things so clearly they come to feel like some of the most important things you have ever been told.' Sebastian Barry Over the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604860924Author CLR JamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 165g

At a time of unprecedented interest in Stoicism among scholars and the general public, this book offers a sustained examination of the core Stoic ethical claims and their significance for modern moral theory. The first part considers the Stoic ideas of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692049488Author SpencerFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Bryan SpencerPublisher Bryan SpencerWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

Explaining both why theory is important and how to use it, Lois Tyson introduces beginning students of literature to this often daunting field in a friendly and readable style. The new edition of this textbook is clearly structured with chapters based on...

How rhetorical training influenced deeds as well as words in the Roman EmpireThe assassins of Julius Caesar cried out that they had killed a tyrant, and days later their colleagues in the Senate proposed rewards for this act of tyrannicide. The killers...

'Erudite, bold and wide-ranging - a book that makes you think about knowledge, wisdom and what the future has in store.' PETER FRANKOPAN 'A book of remarkable sweep and scope - not just learned, but deeply humane.' TOM HOLLAND The long human...

When early Christians began to study the Bible, and to write their own history and that of the Jews whom they claimed to supersede, they used scholarly methods invented by the librarians and literary critics of Hellenistic Alexandria. But Origen and...