In imperial China, workers drawn from the local populace performed many of the basic functions of local administration. Standing between the rulers and the ruled,...
The first half of the nineteenth century witnessed an extraordinary transformation in British political, literary, and intellectual life. There was widespread social unrest, and debates...
Vivaldi Boasted That He Could Compose A Concerto Faster Than A Scribe Could Copy One. Despite His Prolificacy, The Four Seasons, And The Majority Of...
Who was Vivian Maier? Many people know her as the reclusive Chicago nanny who wandered the city for decades, constantly snapping photographs, which were unseen...
The National Institute Of Health Recently Announced Its Plan To Retire The Fifty Remaining Chimpanzees Held In National Research Facilities And Place Them In Sanctuaries....
Historian, journalist, educator, and civil rights advocate W. E. B. Du Bois was perhaps most accomplished as a sociologist of race relations and of the...
In his meticulous notes on the natural history of Concord, Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau records the first open flowers of highbush blueberry on May 11,...
Based on years of observation at a large state university, Wannabe U tracks the dispiriting consequences of trading in traditional educational values for loyalty to...
On college campuses and in high school halls, being white means being boring. Since whiteness is the mainstream, white kids lack a cultural identity thats...
An urgent reality check for Americas blinkered fixation on STEM education.We live in an era of STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies dominate American...
An urgent reality check for Americas blinkered fixation on STEM education.We live in an era of STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies dominate American...
Winner of the Rachel Carson Award for Excellence in Environmental Journalism, Water Always Wins is a hopeful journey around the world and across time, illuminating...
Despite advanced technology, the practice of water witchingusing a forked stick to indicate an underground source of waterpersists in both rural and urban areas. Water...
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First published in 1941, The Habsburg Monarchy has become indispensable to students of nineteenthcentury European history. Not only a chronological report of actions and changes,...
In This Haunting Chronicle Of Betrayal And Abandonment, Ostracism And Exile, Racism And Humiliation, Vincent Crapanzano Examines The Story Of The Harkis, The Quarter Of...
The Highlands Controversy is a rich and perceptive account of the third and last major dispute in nineteenthcentury geology stemming from the work of Sir...
For More Than 1500 Years, From The Indian Subcontinent To The Islands Of The Indonesian Archipelago, The Temple Has Embodied And Symbolized The Hindu Worldview...
The first book of volume 2 of the monumental History of Cartography focuses on mapping in nonWestern cultures, an area of study traditionally overlooked by...
Certain to be the standard reference for all subsequent scholarship.'John Noble Wilford, New York Times Book Review, on the History of Cartography series'The maps in...
Since its launch in 1987, the History of Cartography series has garnered critical acclaim and sparked a new generation of interdisciplinary scholarship. Cartography in the...
Note: This ISBN includes Volume 1and Volume 2For more than thirty years, the History of Cartography Project has charted the course for scholarship on cartography,...
By developing the broadest and most inclusive definition of the term map ever adopted in the history of cartography, this inaugural volume of the History...
David Grene, one of the best known translators of the Greek classics, splendidly captures the peculiar quality of Herodotus, the father of history.Here is the...