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Underground!
The Disinformation Company 2005; US$ 24.95Everything from the fingerprints of the gods through the hidden history of the human race. more...
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Global Medieval Life and Culture
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 350.00The period we know as the Middle Ages, roughly the years 400-1400, saw the formation of ideas and institutions that mark modern societies. Developments as disparate as the foundation of Islam and the emergence of the middle class occurred during this pivotal millennium. Although historical study of the Middle Ages has traditionally focused on Western... more...
Technology and Science in Ancient Civilizations
ABC-CLIO 2009; US$ 55.00Why did the Greeks excel in geometry, but lag begin the Mesopotamians in arithmetic? How were the great pyramids of Egypt and the Han tombs in China constructed? What did the complex system of canals and dykes in the Tigris and Euphrates river valley have to do with the deforestation of Lebanon's famed cedar forests? This work presents a cross-cultural... more...
Vermeer's Hat
Profile 2009; US$ 13.60In one painting, a Dutch military officer leans toward a laughing girl. In another, a woman at a window weighs pieces of silver. In a third, fruit spills from a porcelain bowl onto a Turkish carpet. The officer's dashing hat is made of beaver fur, which European explorers got from Native Americans in exchange for weapons. Beaver pelts, in turn,... more...
Life in a Medieval City
HarperCollins 2010; US$ 11.99For students, researchers, and history lovers, a look at day-to-day life in a rarely explored era. "About life and death, midwives and funerals, business, books and authors, and town government."-- Choice more...
From Plato to NATO
Free Press 2010; US$ 37.95A Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...
The End of Modernity
Edinburgh University Press 2010; US$ 38.00Global financial crisis, global environmental crisis - what connects them? Stuart Sim claims they are both symptoms of the end of modernity, the cultural system that has prevailed in the West from the Enlightenment onwards. In this provocative book, Sim argues that the modern world's insatiable need for technologically-driven economic progress... more...
Renaissance? Perceptions of Continuity and Discontinuity in Europe, c.1300- c.1550
BRILL 2010; US$ 191.00At least since the publication of Burckhardt's seminal study, the Renaissance has commonly been understood in terms of discontinuities. Seen as a radical departure from the intellectual and cultural norms of the 'Middle Ages', it has often been associated with the revival of classical Antiquity and the transformation of the arts, and has... more...
International Cultural Policies and Power
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 100.00Political scientists by and large ignore cultural industries and technologies whereas they are prominent in other disciplines. This book provides insights from local, societal, national, and international levels in understanding cultural industries, technologies, and policies and integrates these perspectives into the study of political science. more...
The Making of Memory in the Middle Ages
BRILL 2009; US$ 225.00Based on case studies from across Europe including its ?peripheries,? this book offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the notion of memory in the Middle Ages concentrating on contructing memory both as individual competence and as part of a society?s identity. more...









