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This book examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium.

Ken Rigby outlines the existing methods used to address bullying in school, describing when and how each method can be best applied.

Visual literacy is an increasingly critical skill in a globalizing, digital world. This book addresses the core issues concerning visual literacy in education, underscoring its importance for the instruction of students and educators.

Shedding fresh light on modern art beyond the West, this text introduces readers to artists, art movements, debates and theoretical positions of the modern era that continue to shape contemporary art worldwide.

In this book, Rocco Sinisgalli investigates theories of linear perspective in the classical era.

Composed of fourteen wide-ranging but finely integrated essays by Richard Shusterman, the originator of the field, Thinking through the Body explains the philosophical foundations of somaesthetics and applies its insights to central issues in ethics, education, cultural politics, consciousness studies, and the arts.

The American National State and the Early West challenges the widely held myth that the American national state was weak in the early days of the republic.

This book features essays from leading academics that consider various aspects of the lives and legacies of our fourth and fifth presidents.

This book challenges the scholarly consensus that blames criticism of the United States on foreigners' irrational resistance to democracy and modernity.

This book provides an introduction to the archaeology and history of ancient Palestine from the destruction of Solomon's temple in 586 BCE to the Muslim conquest in 640 CE.

Drawing on a wealth of textual and archaeological evidence, Ronnie Ellenblum explores the impact of climatic and ecological change across the eastern Mediterranean during the tenth and eleventh centuries, to offer a new perspective on why this was a turning point in the history of the Islamic world.

In the 1880s a New York based faction of militant Irish nationalists conducted the first urban bombing campaign in history, targeting symbolic pubic buildings in Britain with homemade bombs. This book investigates the people and ideas behind this spectacular new departure in revolutionary violence.

This book draws together leading historians to locate Margaret Thatcher and Thatcherism within the political, social, cultural and economic history of modern Britain.

For more than 200 years, the Mughal emperors ruled supreme in northern India. How was it possible that a Muslim, ethnically Turkish, Persian-speaking dynasty established itself in the Indian subcontinent to become one of the largest and most dynamic empires on earth? In this book, the author explores Mughal state formation through the pivotal role of the Mughal princes.

Reparations for Nazi Victims in Postwar Europe traces reparations back to their origins in the final years of the Second World War, when victims of Nazi persecution for the first time articulated demands for indemnification in masse.

This book presents an original new history of the most important conflict in European affairs during the 1930s, prior to the events that produced World War II - the Spanish Civil War.

This revealing book gives readers insight into the crucial final months of the First World War.

This book will guide readers through traditional and new approaches in the field, focusing particularly on phenomena at the elusive semantics/pragmatics boundary to explore the role of context in linguistic communication.

Jodie Medd argues that lesbianism's representational instability, and the scandals it generated, rendered it an influential force within modern politics, law, art, and the literature of modernist writers like James Joyce, Ezra Pound, and Virginia Woolf.

Clive Scott argues that translators need new linguistic resources to do justice to the intricacies of the reading consciousness, and he explores different ways of envisaging the translation of a literary work, not only from one language to another, but also from one form to another within the same language.

Through an examination of literary history, art history, urban history and social history, this book identifies the early nineteenth century figure of the Cockney as the true ancestor of modernity.

This book looks at Latin fakes as sophisticated products of a literary culture in which collaborative practices of supplementation, recasting and role-play were the absolute cornerstones of rhetorical education and literary practice.

Book XII brings Virgil's Aeneid to a close, as the long-delayed single combat between Aeneas and Turnus ends with Turnus' death. In this book, the author explores Virgil's complex portrayal of the opposing champions, his use and transformation of earlier poetry and his shaping of the narrative in its final phases.

Despite its significant influence on international law, international relations, natural law and political thought in general, Grotius's Law of War and Peace has been virtually unavailable for many decades. Stephen Neff's edited and annotated version of the text rectifies this situation.

Capturing the sheer drama of the Burr treason trial, one of the greatest criminal trials in American history, Kent Newmyer's book shed's light on the chaotic process by which lawyers, judges, and politicians fashioned law for the new nation.

This third edition of The WTO Dispute Settlement Procedures collects together the treaty texts, decisions and agreed practices relating to the procedures that apply in the settlement of WTO disputes.

In light of the need to keep students, researchers, and other interested readers informed and up-to-date on the issues surrounding health care in the U.S., this volume uses introductory essays followed by point/counterpoint articles to explore prominent and perennially important debates, providing readers with views on multiple sides of this complex issue.

Integrating Schenkerian tools and an innovative approach to harmony, David Damschroder provides numerous penetrating analyses of works by Haydn and Mozart.

This volume discusses normative theological categories from a black perspective and argues that there is no major Christian doctrine on which black theology has not commented.

This book brings together twenty-nine leading experts in the field of philosophy and covers the years 1790-1870.

Drawing upon field studies conducted in 1978, 1980, and 2001 with the Oksapmin, a remote Papua New Guinea group, Geoffrey B. Saxe traces the emergence of new forms of numerical representations and ideas in the social history of the community.

Ethnic Patriotism and the East African Revival shows how, in the era of African political independence, cosmopolitan Christian converts struggled with east Africa's patriots over the definition of culture and community.

This book will be valuable to readers seeking to understand the complex phenomenon of ancient Greek religion.

This book examines numerous topics central to ancient Greek inquiries into the nature of the physical world, covering subjects such as cause and effect, whole and part, bodies, place, motion, time, number, coming into being and perishing and is the most extensive surviving treatment of these topics by an ancient Greek sceptic.

This volume constitutes a timely and unique addition to the literature on human development from a cultural-contextual perspective.

This collection of original essays by leading historians of political thought examines modern European thinkers' writings about conquest, colonization, and empire.

Sovereignty and the sovereign state are often seen as anachronisms--Globalization and Sovereignty challenges this view.

What are the consequences of globalization for the structure of political conflicts in Western Europe? How are political conflicts organized and articulated in the 21st century? How does the transformation of territorial boundaries affect the scope a content of political conflicts? This book sets out to answer these questions.

This book advances a new theory about what makes chief executives most successful and explores this theory through original data.

How do influential social ideas contribute to global governance? This book takes an original approach to international relations by looking at the way social ideas help to portray the world in a particular way.

This book enlightens readers on the basic surface properties and distance-dependent intersurface forces on must understand to obtain even simple data from an atomic force microscope (AFM).

The availability of synchrotron x-ray sources and the subsequent developments described in this book have led to substantial progress in our understanding of molecular ordering at liquid interfaces. This practical guide enables readers working in physics, chemistry, biology and materials science to understand and carry out experimental investigations into the basic physical and chemical properties of liquid surfaces and interfaces.

Matroid theory is a vibrant area of research that provides a unified way to understand graph theory, linear algebra and combinatorics via finite geometry. This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the field which will appeal to undergraduate students and to any mathematician interested in the geometric approach to matroids.

In this book, the author shows secondary mathematics teachers the value of being a researcher in the classroom by constantly experimenting with methods for developing students' mathematical thinking and then connecting this research to practices that enhance students' understanding of the material.

While the Weibull distribution is widely used in science and engineering, most engineers do not have the necessary statistical training to implement the methodology effectively. This book fills a gap in the current literature on the topic, introducing a self-contained presentation of the probabilistic basis for the methodology while providing powerful techniques for extracting information from data.

Some scholars argue that trust is lower when we are surrounded by people who are different than us. Eric M. Uslaner challenges this view and argues that residential segregation, rather than diversity, leads to lower trust levels.

Distinguishing four sources of power--ideological, economic, military and political--this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This third volume begins with 19th century global empires and continues with a global history up to 1945.

Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies--ideological, economic, military, and political--The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. In this first volume, Michael Mann examines inter-relations between elements from neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilizations, the classical Mediterranean age, and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England.

In 1970, the Red Army Faction declared war on West Germany. The militants failed to bring down the state, but this book argues that the decade-long debate they inspired helped shape a new era.

This introductory textbook provides readers with a system-level perspective and the tools they need to understand, analyze and design digital systems.

This book analyzes the latest developments and research efforts that are aimed at improving production methods, post-harvest storage and processing, safety, quality and developing new processes and products.

This book focuses exclusively on quality aspects of products of animal origin, in depth discussions and recent developments in beef, pork, poultry, and seafood quality, updated sensory evaluation of different meat products, and more.

Probabilistic Reliability Models helps readers understand and properly use statistical methods and optimal resource allocation to solve engineering problems.