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This book explores the core concept of Chinese ancient architecture from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Italy in the Seicento retained her prestige as the country most advanced in the arts of civilization.

Marina Martinez Mateo sucht nach einem positiven Ausweg aus der Kritik an der Identitätspolitik.

This book explores the core concept of Chinese ancient architecture from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Draws a direct line between redlining, incarceration, and gentrification in an American city.

The new edition of this classic text on modern U.

Marriages are under increasing strain these days, with over half of them ending in divorce.

The Western welfare state model is beset with structural, financial, and moral crises.

What does it mean for a husband to love his wife?

Taking place examines feminist and queer alternative art spaces across Canada and the United States from the late-1960s to the present.

This book is the first in-depth study of the changing perceptions and receptions of supernatural bodies in modern Britain and Ireland.

Originally published in 1926, this volume is much more than a biography of an outstanding politician, social reformer and philosopher.

Sexual politics in revolutionary England recounts a dramatic transformation in English sexual polemic that unfolded during the kingdom's mid-seventeenth-century civil wars.

What is the history of 'everyday health' in the postwar world, and where might we find it?

Socialist republic is a timely account of 1980s left-wing politics in South Yorkshire.

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.

Continuing their research uncovering the lives of women chemists at the turn of the 20th Century, Geoff and Marelene Rayner-Canham have turned their attention to some of the male chemists who enabled women to thrive in chemistry.

From Renaissance to Revolution (1923) traces in some of its many expressions the influence of the Renaissance on the politics and culture of Europe during the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Niklaus Meienbergs Enquête über den Landesverräter Ernst S.

Soviet Science (1936) gives information about the sort and conditions of research in Soviet scientific institutes in the 1930s.

The Red Pencil (1989) examines the many ways in which Soviet censorship interfered in the creative process - in the words of those who experienced it first hand.

The Development of Sociology in the Soviet Union (1974) examines the institutionalisation of sociology in the Soviet Union.

Exiting war explores a particular 1918-20 'moment' in the British Empire's history, between the First World War's armistices of 1918, and the peace treaties of 1919 and 1920.

In neighbourhoods and public spaces across Britain, young working people walked out together, congregated in the streets, and paraded up and down on the 'monkey parades'.

The postsocialist contemporary joins a growing body of scholarship debating the definition and nature of contemporary art.

The Official Spirit of America.

Göttingen – eine Stadt, deren Geschichte so facettenreich ist wie die Epochen, die sie durchlebt hat.

This book presents a novel approach to the study of contemporary social movements and activism.

Make love, not war.

The Rise of the Pelhams (1957) looks at the important period between the fall of Walpole and the appointment of Henry Pelham as First Lord of the Treasury, and the ensuing Pelhamite administration - its establishment, peak and fall and its aftermath.

Amid the vibrant culture and deep-rooted traditions of India thrive hundreds of Indigenous tribes and ethnic communities.

„Unam Sanctam: Die Herrschaft Bonifatius VIII.

How can the judgment calls we make in everyday life create or help eradicate social inequality?

The articles here concern the period from the end of the Roman Empire up to the 10th-11th centuries and the lands between the Loire and the Rhine, most particularly the Low Countries.

The 13th Dalai Lama: Bridging Faith and Diplomacy tells the remarkable story of a spiritual and political visionary who guided Tibet through an era of profound challenges.

In einer Welt, in der das Schicksal von Königreichen oft auf dem Schlachtfeld entschieden wurde, spielten Symbole eine entscheidende Rolle.

From the award-winning author of The Whisperers, Orlando Figes Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia is a dazzling history of Russia's mighty culture.