E-book Architecture and Asceticism: Cultural interaction between Syria and Ge…

In Architecture and Asceticism Loosley Leeming explores the links between Syria and Georgia in late antiquity. The book takes an inter-disciplinary approach and examines the question from archaeological, art historical, historical, literary and theological viewpoints. Readership: This work is aimed at specialists in Oriental and Eastern Christianity, Late Antique material culture, Syrian (and S…

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Top 10 Cancun and the Yucatan

True to its name, this Cancun and the Yucatan travel guide covers all the region's major sights and attractions in easy-to-use top 10 lists that help you plan the vacation that's right for you. This newly updated pocket travel guide for Cancun and the Yucatan will lead you straight to the best attractions these locations have to offer, from swimming with whale sharks to snorkeling with turtl…

E-book Eyewitness Travel: Top 10 Los Angeles

An unbeatable, pocket-sized guide to Los Angeles, packed with insider tips and ideas, colour maps, top 10 lists, and a laminated pull-out map - all designed to help you see the very best of Los Angeles. Go hiking in the Hollywood Hills, spend time on Venice Beach, explore Beverly Hills or visit the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. From Top 10 beaches to the Top 10 movie theaters - discover …

E-book Top 10 Washington DC (Eyewitness Top 10 Travel Guide)

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Top 10 Washington, D.C. will lead you straight to the very best attractions the city has to offer. Whether you're looking for the things not to miss at the Top 10 sights or want to find the best nightspots, this guide is the perfect pocket-sized companion. Rely on dozens of Top 10 lists — from the Top 10 museums to the Top 10 events and festivals. There's even a l…

E-book Eyewitness Travel Guide: Barcelona & Catalonia

DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Barcelona and Catalonia will lead you to the best attractions this region has to offer. The fully updated guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of Barcelona's major architectural sights, plus a pull-out city map clearly marked with attractions from the guidebook and an easy-to-use street index. DK's insider travel tips and essential local …

E-book Eyewitness Travel Guide: Greek Islands

Whether you want to follow in the footsteps of legendary heroes at the Minoan palace, swim in the turquoise waters of idyllic Zakynthos bay or watch the sun set over Corfu from Kaiser's throne, your DK Eyewitness travel guide makes sure you experience all that the Greek Islands have to offer. The perfect escape, the Greek Islands offer spectacular beaches, crystal-clear seas and picturesque …

E-book Labouring with Large Stones : A study into the investment and impact o…

Considering their imposing nature, this study thus aims to find out how the communities coped with the investments associated with manufacturing the buildings. Analysing the cost of large-scale construction for a society has been researched before (e.g. Abrams and Bolland 1999, who focused on Central America), but few have made Mycenaean Greece the primary focus of such…

E-book The Development of Neolithic House Societies in Orkney

Orkney is an archipelago that lies off the rugged northeastern coast of Caithness in northern Scotland (Fig. 1.1). It is separated from the Scottish mainland by the volatile Pentland Firth, one of the roughest and unpredictable stretches of water in the world. On calm summer days the southern isles of Orkney appear colourful, tranquil and e…

E-book Song of Exile: A Cultural History of Brazil’s Most Popular Poem, 184…

Song of Exile: A Cultural History of Brazil’s Most Popular Poem, 1846–2018 is the first comprehensive study of the influence of Antônio Gonçalves Dias’s “Canção do exílio.” Written in Coimbra, Portugal, in 1843 by a homesick student longing for Brazil, “Song of Exile” has inspired thousands of parodies and pastiches, and new variations continue to appear to this day. Every ge…

E-book Growing Up in the Cis-Baikal Region of Siberia Russia

The Cis-Baikal is a vast region in Northeast Asia encompassing the western part of Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia. During the middle Holocene (c.8200–3700 cal BP1), the Cis-Baikal was inhabited by many individuals who left behind a rich archaeological and mortuary record. Archaeological research in the Cis-Baikal has been ongoing since the 19th century …

E-book Paradise Blues : Travels through American Environmental History

Wiseman is in the Arctic, a hundred kilometres north of the polar circle. In summer, the sun does not set there and, in winter, it’s pitch black for days. According to the census, the former gold-rush boomtown had just fourteen inhabitants in 2010: seven men and seven women. In the farthest northern region of the USA where Wiseman lies, wild animals have outnumbered humans several times over …

E-book The Bible in Buffalo Country : Oenpelli Mission 1925–1931

In this book we share the rich documentary and photographic sources from the early years of the Oenpelli mission. Though it consists mainly of records produced by non-Indigenous missionaries, we consider this book a book of Aboriginal history. Why? The letters, reports and photographs that form its core were produced by missionaries who sought to convert and change Aboriginal peop…

E-book The End of the Cold War and The Third World: New Perspectives on Regio…

This book brings together recent research on the end of the Cold War in the Third World and engages with ongoing debates about regional conflicts, the role of great powers in the developing world, and the role of international actors in conflict resolution. Most of the recent scholarship on the end of the Cold War has focused on Europe or bilateral US-Soviet relations. By contrast, relatively l…

E-book Writing from Invention to Decipherment

This book corrals global scholarship on ancient writing systems from China, Mesopotamia, Central America, the Mediterranean, to more recent newly created scripts such as the Rongorongo from Easter Island, the Caroline Island scripts, as well as the alphabet. The aim is to dig into the foundations of writing and showcase the complexities and varieties of scripts, from their invention to the pote…

E-book Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600�…

This landmark collection of essays makes a major contribution to the globally burgeoning f ield of broadside ballad study by extending our gaze to include the largely underexplored treasure trove of some 100,000 Central/Eastern European broadside ballads of the Czech Republic, from the beginning of the sixteenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries. Czech broadside ballads, when viewed within…

E-book A Genealogy of Bamboo Diplomacy : The Politics of Thai Détente with R…

‘Bamboo’ or ‘bending with the wind’ diplomacy is a key concept frequently used in international relations (IR) and describes Thailand’s diplomacy in particular. It alludes to the way in which the country has pursued a flexible, pragmatic policy, aimed at maintaining national survival and independence. In bamboo diplomacy, Thailand is blatantly pl…

E-book Maria Thereza Alves : Seeds of Change

In an era of extractivist economies, climate change, and forced mobil-ity, who and what belongs? Who and what does not? What can be learned from sitting with a plant you germinated from seed? One of the most significant voices to emerge in recent years, Brazil-born Maria 'lhereza Alves has focused precisely on such questions in her twenty-year art project Seeds o/Change that has spanned contine…

E-book Water and the Law : Water Management in the Statutory Legislation of L…

A recent report by the World Meteorological Organization updated to January 2022 showed that around 11% of the world’s population has no access to sufficiently safe sources of water. In addition, drought in some regions of Africa, Central Asia and the American continent is hastening the expansion of the desert belts and is causing serious difficulties in a growing…

E-book The Social Drama of Daily Work : A Manual for Historians

A second reason to study work is that it is inherently social: it necessarily involves relations between people that are arguably more fundamental than their ideological relationships. Since work must go on, while ideology may be ignored or even f louted, it is a good place to start trying to understand society. Applebaum argued that the study of work is even more important for studying societi…

E-book Yuarn Music Dramas : Studies in Prosody and Structure and a Complete C…

The term shie-tzyy was appropriated from the Chinese car-penter, to whom it denoted a small wedge-shaped cut of wood usedto fill a crack or cleavage in an article of furniture. With similarprecision, the Yuarn dramatist could always turn to the demi-actfor a flexible alternative to the simple four-act format of the stan-dard music drama.…

E-book Designs on Pots : Ban Chiang and the Politics of Heritage in Thailand

I identify as an anthropologist, with a slight undercoating of archaeology, which was triggered f ifty years ago by seeing pots with unusual designs in a Bangkok market. In a grade seven project on choosing a career, I wrote that I wanted to be an archaeologist; much later I learned that anthropology was the best route to that career. I received my BA in anthropology from the University of Toro…

E-book Cultural and Civilisational Links between India and Southeast Asia

The books presents the study undertaken by the ASEAN-India Centre (AIC) at Research and Information System for Developing Countries (RIS) on India’s cultural links with Southeast Asia, with particular reference to historical and contemporary dimensions. The book traces ancient trade and maritime links, Chola Empire and Southeast Asia, religious exchanges (the Hindu, Buddhist and Islamic he…

E-book A Brief History of Indonesia: Sultans, Spices, and Tsunamis: The Incre…

Indonesia is by far the largest nation in Southeast Asia and has the fourth largest population in the world after the United States. Indonesian history and culture are especially relevant today as the Island nation is an emerging power in the region with a dynamic new leader. It is a land of incredible diversity and unending paradoxes that has a long and rich history stretching back a thousand …

E-book Ancient Southeast Asia (Routledge World Archaeology)

Ancient Southeast Asia provides readers with a much needed synthesis of the latest discoveries and research in the archaeology of the region, presenting the evolution of complex societies in Southeast Asia from the protohistoric period, beginning around 500BC, to the arrival of British and Dutch colonists in 1600. Well-illustrated throughout, this comprehensive account explores the factors whic…

E-book Illustrated Atlas of the Himalaya

The Himalaya are world-renowned for their exquisite mountain scenery, ancient traditions, and diverse ethnic groups that tenaciously inhabit this harsh yet sublime landscape. Home to the world's highest peaks, including Mount Everest, and some of its deepest gorges, the region is a trove of biological and cultural diversity. Providing a panoramic overview of contemporary land and life in the Ea…

E-book The Spanish Connection : French and Flemish Merchant Networks in Sevil…

During the time of Spanish splendor, at the peak of the Spanish Indies trade,the position of the rich merchants in Seville was remarkably strong. ?ey resid-ed at the hub between the European and the American economy and the com-mercial opportunities seemed endless. Based on recent literature and abundantsource material, this chapter gives a survey of the economic and social struc-ture of the ci…

E-book Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516 : Study and Transcrip…

This book is devoted to an imposing world map, printed on twelve sheets and rich in detail, that was designed by the Germancartographer Martin Waldseemüller in 1516, whose only surviving exemplar is in the Jay I. Kislak Collection at the Libraryof Congress. This map, theCarta marina, has tended to live in the shadow of Waldseemüller’s earlier world map, thatprinted in 1507, which is famous …

E-book Politics of Security: British and West German Protest Movements and th…

The Politics of Security tells the story of how people experienced the cold war as a war. It is about the impact of the cold war on political cultures. This crucial issue is often forgotten in historical memory. In particular, the book follows British and West German anti-nuclear-weapons activists in their attempts to campaign for and create security after the destruction of the Second World Wa…

E-book The Declaration of Independence: A Global History

In a stunningly original look at the American Declaration of Independence, David Armitage reveals the document in a new light: through the eyes of the rest of the world. Not only did the Declaration announce the entry of the United States onto the world stage, it became the model for other countries to follow. Armitage examines the Declaration as a political, legal, and intellectual document…

E-book Northeastern Asia and the Northern Rockies : Treasures from the Los An…

his exhibition, Northeastern Asia and the Northern Rockies, has been conceived as an introduction in four parts that will help visitors to the museum and scholars of the university understand key elements of both traditional and current Northeastern Asian native and migrant cultures. The first three parts of the exhibition introduce fundamen-tal concepts inherent in Daoism, Confucian…

E-book Rethinking the Andes–Amazonia Divide : A cross-disciplinary exploration

Maps in this book were reproduced by Paul Heggarty from maps provided by chapter authors, by converting them into a GIS (Geographic Information System) database, collated and enriched for South America for the purposes of this book. All data used on the maps are thus geo- referenced – set to actual latitude and longitude coordi-nates – as precisely as possible. Individual p…

E-book Talking Dialogue : Eleven Episodes in the History of the Modern Interr…

The last two decades have seenadynamic increase in the number of activitiesthat are explicitlylinked to the notion of interreligious dialogue (IRD). All overthe world, empirical research projects underlinethe establishment of highlycomplex local scenes of these types of initiatives.¹Especiallyatthe nationallevel, it is possibleto identifyasignificant increase in dialogue organizations–either…

E-book The Essential Rumi

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E-book Cultural Heritage and Slavery: Perspectives from Europe

In the recent cultural heritage boom, community-based and national identity projects are intertwined with interest in cultural tourism and sites of the memory of enslavement. Questions of historical guilt and present responsibility have become a source of social conflict, particularly in multicultural societies with an enslaving past. This became apparent in the context of the Black Lives Matte…

E-book Papua New Guinea & Solomon Islands

Complemented by easy-to use, reliable maps, helpful recommendations, authoritative background information, and up-to-date coverage of things to see and do, these popular travel guides cover in detail countries, regions, and cities around the world for travelers of every budget, along with extensive itineraries, maps with cross-referencing to the text, "Top 10" and "Top 5" lists, and other pract…

E-book Tokyo Travel Guide

This contains information about travel in Tokyo.

E-book Country Guide : Denmark

Doing Business in Denmark is intended as a guide for foreign investors. Its focus is to introduce some of the most important regulation and practical issues to be considered before committing to a more detailed examination of Denmark as an investment destination. This guide concentrates on in-bound investments, mergers & acquisitions, and various issues which should be considered when making an…

E-book Mnemonic Solidarity : Global Interventions

This volume introduces a new publication series and a new emphasis in memory studies. The title of the series is Entangled Memories in the Global South. The term “mnemonic solidarity” which gives this book its title signals one response to the observation that historical memories have become entangled. It proposes that that entanglement invites us to rethink memory stu…

E-book Bob Marley: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

Bob Marley was the first, and possibly the only, superstar to emerge from the Third World. Although he lived a short life, only 36 years, Bob penned an enormous quantity of songs, pioneering a new reggae rhythm and sound that was distinctly Jamaican. An expert lyricist who could more than hold his own with any contemporary hip-hop word slinger, Bob crafted emotionally powerful chains of words t…

E-book Warlords of Ancient Mexico: How the Mayans and Aztecs Ruled for More T…

Learn the unbelievable true history of the great warrior tribes of Mexico. More than thirteen centuries of incredible spellbinding history are detailed in this intriguing study of the rulers and warriors of Mexico. Dozens of these charismatic leaders of nations and armies are brought to life by the deep research and entertaining storytelling of Peter Tsouras. Tsouras introduces the reader…

E-book Che Guevara: A Biography (Greenwood Biographies)

This concise biography of the world famous revolutionary Che Guevara provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of his remarkable life, tragic death, and enduring political legacy. Che Guevara is one of the most controversial and iconic figures in recent memory and is still a hero to many. Che Guevara: A Biography provides a balanced and engaging introduction to the fam…

E-book Reading Maya Art: A Hieroglyphic Guide to Ancient Maya Painting and Sc…

Lavishly illustrated, fully cross-referenced and an invaluable book for anyone wishing to see and understand Maya art through the eyes of ancient scribes and artists. The art of the ancient Maya may be considered their most singular cultural achievement. Yet despite a surge of popular interest in these remarkable people, few are fully aware of the richness of their artistic legacy, unique in al…

E-book Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World

Presents the latest archaeological and historical research on all aspects of Maya society, from its earliest beginnings to the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century.

E-book Stalin: New Biography of a Dictator

osef Stalin exercised supreme power in the Soviet Union from 1929 until his death in 1953. During that quarter-century, by Oleg Khlevniuk’s estimate, he caused the imprisonment and execution of no fewer than a million Soviet citizens per year. Millions more were victims of famine directly resulting from Stalin's policies. What drove him toward such ruthlessness? This essential biography, by t…

E-book Babylon: Legend, History and the Ancient City

For two thousand years the real, physical metropolis lay buried while another, ghostly city lived on through ideas as varied as the legendary Hanging Gardens, the career of the biblical Daniel, and even the Apocalypse. More recently, the site of Babylon has been the centre of major excavation, yet the spectacular results of this work have done little to displace the many other fascinating ways …

E-book 50 Beaches to Blow Your Mind

From the people who have been delivering trustworthy guidebooks to every destination in the world for 40 years, Lonely Planet's 50 Beaches To Blow Your Mind helps you discover the planet's most pristine, jaw-dropping, wild and wonderful sandy spots. This pocket-sized book is the perfect gift for any sun-worshipper or beach-lover and is the ultimate guide to the world's best beaches. A beach …

E-book 50 Natural Wonders To Blow Your Mind

From the people who've been delivering trustworthy guidebooks to every destination in the world for 40 years,Lonely Planet's 50 Natural Wonders To Blow Your Mind will take you on a tour of the world's most mind-boggling wild and wonderful places, and help you discover just how extraordinary our planet really is. For all of our obsessions with man-made wonders, nothing compares to the creatio…

E-book The Malay Archipelago

A century and a half after it was first published, this book remains one of the great classics of natural history and travel—perhaps the greatest. Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) deserves equal billing with Charles Darwin for his independently drawn but parallel conclusions on the theory of evolution. Darwin himself called Wallace "generous and noble" and referred favorably to his work in l…

E-book The Medieval Economy of Salvation : Charity, Commerce, and the Rise of…

It was a cold winter evening in 2010, and I had just arrived in Paris for a short research trip. The tiny hotel where I would be staying was on the fifth floor of the ophthalmological wing of the hôtel-Dieu (or hospital) just across from the cathedral of Notre Dame. 1 Given the subject of the book I was in France to research, it seemed appropri-ate that I should s…

E-book History of Yugoslavia

Why did Yugoslavia fall apart? Was its violent demise inevitable? Did its population simply fall victim to the lure of nationalism? How did this multinational state survive for so long, and where do we situate the short life of Yugoslavia in the long history of Europe in the twentieth century? The Complete History of Yugoslavia by Marie-Janine Calic provides a concise, accessible, comprehensive…