For centuries, the art and culture of China and Japan have exerted aparticular fascination on the West. Items from Imperial China once filledthe porcelain cabinets of European courts, and Japanese pai...
One of the first depictions of marine fauna comes from Samuel Fallours, whowas in the service of the Dutch East India Company. On the island of Ambon,one of the Moluccas, he made drawings of fish and ...
Scholars in the fields of history, theology, art history, and English, most of whom teach in the US (two are in Germany and France), have written the dozen articles that make up this volume on aspects...
Smallholder farmers are the guardians, as well as the beneficiaries, of a greater diversity of biological species than can be found in protected areas. The farmers' diverse practices are conserving th...
The book tackles significant contemporary problems that each historian of law faces in the light of present decline of philosophical, ethical and ideological canons in the overall context of western c...
Książka to trzy eseje w polskiej i angielskiej wersji językowej. Eseje zostały opatrzone przypisami zawierającymi wyjaśnienia terminów i obiektów. W każdym z tekstów znajdują się napisane przez Au...
Aparat bezpieczeństwa, ?tarcza i miecz partii?, był jednym z najważniejszych elementów systemu komunistycznego. To dzięki niemu totalitarna dyktatura przetrwała tak wiele lat. Komunistyczny aparat bez...
Table of Contents: • Robert Parker (University of Oxford), Introductory Remarks • Scott Scullion (University of Oxford), Penal Sacrifice • Włodzimierz Lengauer (University of Warsaw), Piety and Sacrif...
Tom powstał w ramach serii „Przestrzeń religijna Europy Środkowo-Wschodniej otwarta na Wschód i Zachód” i zawiera materiały konferencji naukowej Międzynarodowej Komisji Historii i Studiów nad Chrześci...
This is a classic adventure from the undisputed master of action and adrenalin-pumping suspense. When a plane crashes in the icy Greenland desert with no passengers on board, and no means of identific...
Zainspirowana prawdziwą historią zasiedlania Grenlandii opowieść o dzikiej Północy, mistrzowsko poprowadzona przez duńskiego autora, Sorena Mosdala. W roku 982 Eryk Thorwaldsson, znany również jako Er...
When the council that controlled the world spanning computer Mother fell out in civil war, it plunged the world in an instant from high-tech utopia to medieval nightmare. Now Herzer Herrick and Megan...
Vodka is enjoying unprecedented popularity in the West at the present time. Specialized vodka bars are opening all over Continental Europe and the U.S. It is becoming increasingly fashionable to drink...
Using Edward Said's framework - and developments in colonialist and post-colonialist studies - to investigate orientalism in the cinemas of France, England and America, the contributors draw upon femi...
Christoph Baumer is one of the very few Westerners to have visited many of the most important Assyrian sites, and has written the only comprehensive history of the Church, which now fights for surviva...
This is the latest book from Cengage Learning on "New Era of Management, International Edition".
Refuting the conventional wisdom that the end of the Cold War cleared the way for an era of peace and prosperity led solely by the United States, Charles A. Kupchan contends that the next challenge to...
From the author of the bestselling "The State of the World Atlas", here is an essential tool for understanding the Middle East and its pivotal role in global politics.As Western powers attempt to redr...
This new six-volume series from Europa provides an impartial record of the political, social, cultural, geographical, and economic events that have helped to shape world history. Each of the regional ...
In Sources of East Asian Tradition, Wm. Theodore de Bary offers a selection of essential readings from his immensely popular anthologies Sources of Chinese Tradition, Sources of Korean Tradition, and ...
Between the World Wars An illuminating study of the demographic, cultural, and socioeconomic condition of East Central European Jewry, the book focuses on the internal life of Jewish communities in th...
A Great scholar examines how history has shaped the identity of the Middle East. Most of the modern states of the Middle East are of recent origin, yet the region is the birthplace of 3 religions and ...
Complete set Since 1961 the Adelphi Papers have provided some of the most informed accounts of international and strategic relations. Produced by the world renowned International Institute of Strategi...
This book presents a clear, concise history of the extraordinary multicultural civilizations of the ancient Near East. Bestselling narrative of the complex history of the ancient Near East. Addresses ...
A wonderfully warm love story set in contemporary Kenya - timeless, funny, clever and utterly charming, starring the reserved, honourable Mr Malik. You wouldn't notice him in a Nairobi street - except...
Divided into three sections, the Handbook of US-Middle East Relations provides a thorough and up-to-date overview of contemporary US-Middle East relations in historical perspective. With chapters cont...
The third quarter of the twentieth century was a golden age for labor in the advanced industrial countries, characterized by rising incomes, relatively egalitarian wage structures, and reasonable leve...
The importance of East Asia in the global economy is now unquestionable, and its market expansion, driven by a population of nearly 1.9 billion, will strongly influence the tempo of international trad...
This new and updated second edition includes 35 all new entries, including Afghanistan, Al-Aqsa Mosque, Bin Laden, Abdallah Ibn Hussein, Islamic Movements, Northern Alliance, Palestine/Palestinian Ter...
This volume explores the role of informal networks in the politics of Middle Eastern economic reform. The editor's introduction demonstrates how network-based models overcome limitations in existing a...