Sērija : Monsters, Prodigies, and Demons: Medieval and Early Modern Constructions of Alterity
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Jul-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Medieval Institute Publications, ISBN-13: 9781580442763)
At the center of this interdisciplinary study are court monsters--dwarves, hirsutes, and misshapen individuals--who, by their very presence, altered Renaissance ethics vis-a-vis anatomical difference, social virtues, and scientific knowledge. The stu...Lasīt vairāk
This volume presents innovative studies of how the emerging disciplines of archaeology and ancient history shaped the modern Middle East, and how they were in turn shaped by competing visions and agendas of empires and new nations. The Middle East wa...Lasīt vairāk
This volume presents innovative studies of how the emerging disciplines of archaeology and ancient history shaped the modern Middle East, and how they were in turn shaped by competing visions and agendas of empires and new nations. The Middle East wa...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 13-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Texas Press, ISBN-13: 9781477330692)
A comparative, empire-wide study of the ceramics associated with the imperial Inca state, theorizing the role of these highly recognizable vessel forms in legitimizing Inca rule and establishing imperial identities.The beautiful polychrome ceramics o...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040341902)
A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history. The book offers the view that the main developments prior to 500 B.C. were the emergence of the Prophetic school in Israel, of Mazda...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 01-May-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040341759)
A Study in Creative History (1932) aims to present the main movements of thought as they emerge clearly into history. The book offers the view that the main developments prior to 500 B.C. were the emergence of the Prophetic school in Israel, of Mazda...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Apr-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691236674)
From one of todays most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history mattersand why it needs to be told in a radically different, global wayIts easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient historyobsolete,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 22-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691236674)
From one of todays most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history mattersand why it needs to be told in a radically different, global wayIts easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient historyobsolete,...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Apr-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816554676)
Reframing Paquime: Community Formation in Northwest Chihuahua is a groundbreaking reinterpretation of the Casas Grandes region by scholars Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis. This final installment in their comprehensive study challenges the domina...Lasīt vairāk
Presents archaeological evidence from the Azerbaijan-Japan excavations, revealing insights into Mesolithic to Neolithic transition and farming communities in the South Caucasus.Modern archaeological research carried out since the late 19th century ha...Lasīt vairāk
Presents archaeological evidence from the Azerbaijan-Japan excavations, revealing insights into Mesolithic to Neolithic transition and farming communities in the South Caucasus.Modern archaeological research carried out since the late 19th century ha...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040316771)
Mothering and Archaeology brings to light new insights connecting mothering in the past and present by exploring all aspects of this important but frequently under-valued and thus neglected subject and is underpinned by feminist theorizing of motherh...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 21-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040316733)
Mothering and Archaeology brings to light new insights connecting mothering in the past and present by exploring all aspects of this important but frequently under-valued and thus neglected subject and is underpinned by feminist theorizing of motherh...Lasīt vairāk
Analyzes the lives, roles, and experiences of Viking women, highlighting their societal contributions through interdisciplinary perspectives.This edited volume brings together an international group of scholars to address the lives, roles, myths, myt...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Architecture and Urbanism in the Global South
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040331149)
This book explores brick architecture of the nineteenth century in South India, through the lens of tectonics and materiality. The book is a diachronically elaborated history of brick architecture, especially analysing the hybridity due to the indige...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Architecture and Urbanism in the Global South
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040331132)
This book explores brick architecture of the nineteenth century in South India, through the lens of tectonics and materiality. The book is a diachronically elaborated history of brick architecture, especially analysing the hybridity due to the indige...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040306208)
This reference work provides detailed lists of the names and titles of Roman emperors from Augustus to Severus Alexander, as well as a chronology of significant historical events and a brief overview of imperial portraiture for each of these emperors...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040306086)
This reference work provides detailed lists of the names and titles of Roman emperors from Augustus to Severus Alexander, as well as a chronology of significant historical events and a brief overview of imperial portraiture for each of these emperors...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Mar-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Amsterdam University Press, ISBN-13: 9789048522842)
The identification of ceramic imports within prehistoric and historic assemblages has long been the primary indicator for identifying connections between different sites and regions. Yet this has fostered a presence/absence diagnosis for contact betw...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 04-Mar-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University of Arizona Press, ISBN-13: 9780816553495)
People traveling around the Sonoran Desert will see the traces of an ancient society, the Hohokam, through the material that they left behind-pottery, shell ornaments, carved stone, and rock imagery. The Hohokam and Their World offers readers the opp...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040270318)
In the Beginning describes the basic methods and theoretical approaches of archaeology. This is a book about fundamental principles written in a clear, engaging style, with minimal use of technical jargon, which approaches archaeology from a global p...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 28-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040270356)
In the Beginning describes the basic methods and theoretical approaches of archaeology. This is a book about fundamental principles written in a clear, engaging style, with minimal use of technical jargon, which approaches archaeology from a global p...Lasīt vairāk
First full publication of a cemetery of the Bronze Age Wadi Suq period (2000-1650 BC) in the region of the UAE, a period marked by large scale cultural and economic changes.The end of the 3rd millennium was a time of significant transformation in sou...Lasīt vairāk
First full publication of a cemetery of the Bronze Age Wadi Suq period (2000-1650 BC) in the region of the UAE, a period marked by large scale cultural and economic changes.The end of the 3rd millennium was a time of significant transformation in sou...Lasīt vairāk
Analyzes the use of water features in late antique homes across the Western Roman Empire, highlighting their aesthetic, social, and practical significance.For ambitious late antique homeowners seeking to demonstrate their status and taste, water and...Lasīt vairāk
In championing the work of local scholars, especially female, this volume begins to fill a politically imposed lacuna in the English language reporting of high quality research in one of the most formative regions for the development of human civiliz...Lasīt vairāk
In championing the work of local scholars, especially female, this volume begins to fill a politically imposed lacuna in the English language reporting of high quality research in one of the most formative regions for the development of human civiliz...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040314104)
This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move, and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures.Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both cu...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040314043)
This edited volume discusses images that bleed, speak, cry, move, and behave in ways we usually attribute to living creatures.Living images have been the object of devotion as well as targets of destruction, and they have been marginalised in both cu...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 25-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781839760785)
Christopher Hill was one of the leading historians of his generation. His work across more than fifteen books and dozens of articles fundamentally rewrote the way we understand the English Revolution and the development of the modern British state. W...Lasīt vairāk
Opening new ground in neglected aspects of R.G. Collingwoods philosophy, Peter Johnson presents essays on Collingwood as a pre-historian, economist, Christian and commentator of Edward Gibbon together with an investigation into the connection betwee...Lasīt vairāk
Opening new ground in neglected aspects of R.G. Collingwoods philosophy, Peter Johnson presents essays on Collingwood as a pre-historian, economist, Christian and commentator of Edward Gibbon together with an investigation into the connection betwee...Lasīt vairāk
I have never read a book on Mesopotamia that so beautifully brings to life the people themselves ... It melts away the sense of time. A wonderful read.TOM HOLLANDA tender, moving and vivid history of ancient Mesopotamia and how it still speaks to...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040307380)
This book explores the function and socio-cultural significance of rural bathhouses, seeking to redefine our understanding of the relationships between these buildings and the identities of the communities residing in the countryside of Roman Britain...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040307410)
This book explores the function and socio-cultural significance of rural bathhouses, seeking to redefine our understanding of the relationships between these buildings and the identities of the communities residing in the countryside of Roman Britain...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 18-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: American University in Cairo Press, ISBN-13: 9781649031600)
An innovative account of the lives and times of the warrior king Thutmose III, and the female pharaoh Hatshepsut, by renowned Egyptologist Aidan Dodson Thutmose III and Hatshepsut are among the best-known figures in Egyptian history...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040315996)
This book provides an important examination into the role of evolution of human traits of dominance as central to understanding social and political events, proposing a new view on human social evolution. It also examines basic biological universal n...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040315972)
This book provides an important examination into the role of evolution of human traits of dominance as central to understanding social and political events, proposing a new view on human social evolution. It also examines basic biological universal n...Lasīt vairāk
Embark on an exhilarating expedition through human history with this whirlwind tour of the essentials of archaeologyFrom the ancient wonders of Egypt and Pompeii to the mysteries of lost Mayan civilizations and the enigmatic Nazca Lines in Peru, this...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9781683404903)
How bioarchaeology can illuminate the lived experiences of people in the Roman Empire Research on the Roman Empire has long focused on Romes legendary leaders, culture, and conquest. But at the empires peak, tens of millions of ordinary people coexi...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9781683404859)
How bioarchaeology can illuminate the lived experiences of people in the Roman Empire Research on the Roman Empire has long focused on Romes legendary leaders, culture, and conquest. But at the empires peak, tens of millions of ordinary people coexi...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9781683405078)
Exploring a period of transformative change for theWoodland-era societies ofFloridas Lower Suwannee regionIn this book, Jessica Jenkins provides adetailed look at the transition from the Middle to Late Woodland periods in theLower Suwannee region of...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : Florida Museum of Natural History: Ripley P. Bullen Series
(Izdošanas datums: 11-Feb-2025, PDF+DRM, Izdevniecība: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9781683404996)
Exploring a period of transformative change for theWoodland-era societies ofFloridas Lower Suwannee regionIn this book, Jessica Jenkins provides adetailed look at the transition from the Middle to Late Woodland periods in theLower Suwannee region of...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 10-Feb-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226836225)
A nuanced take on how carceral expansions are changing labor and social life. In Carceral Citizens, anthropologist Caroline M. Parker offers an ethnographic portrait of therapeutic communities in Puerto Rico, the oldest colony in the Americas. As non...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 31-Jan-2025, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781040216552)
This book argues that tribal Scandinavia was set on the route to kingship by the arrival in the AD 180s-90s of warrior groups that were dismissed from the Roman army after defeating the Marcomanni by the Danube. Using a range of evidence, this book d...Lasīt vairāk
