This book explores the vital role language plays in shaping how we understand and discuss medicines, making for a more detailed study of pharmaceutical and pharmacological language to more clearly understand the intersection of language, health, and culture.
Congress prohibited slave trading in 1808, Lincoln University was chartered in 1854, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 and in 1916 Carter G.
Der Speyerer Dom ist mehr als ein herausragendes Bauwerk der Romanik – er ist ein Zeugnis europäischer Geschichte, eine architektonische Meisterleistung und ein Symbol für Macht, Glaube und kulturelles Erbe.
'A fascinating, passionate and political case for art's world-changing power, by a fizzingly good writer' - Robert MacfarlaneIn Acts of Resistance, Amber Massie-Blomfield writes about the artists who have treated the protest site as their canvas and contributed to movements that have transformed history - from the musicians in Auschwitz to the four-year Siege of Sarajevo, from the to ACT UP's 1989 invasion of the New York Stock Exchange, to the Niger Delta and indigenous communities in Bolivia.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Madness, though ostensibly the story of Crownsville, is really about the continued lack of understanding, treatment and care of the mental health of a people, Black people, who need it most' New York TimesIn the tradition of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, a page-turning 93-year history of Crownsville Hospital, one of the United States' last segregated asylums.
This is the first systematic study of language conflict in a developing society and of its consequences for the integrational processes of nation building.
El traje de caballero es uno de esos símbolos subestimados pero perdurables de la civilización moderna, escribe Christopher Breward al comienzo de este libro, y plantea que durante casi cuatrocientos años, artistas y filósofos lo han señalado como evidencia de la incesante búsqueda humana de la perfección.
From the birth of Berlin's railway network to the time when the bombs of the Second World War and the concrete slabs of the Wall changed the city forever, the Prussian and later German capital counted eight major railway stations.
Based on theatrical research of unusual depth and enterprise, Theatre as a Weapon (1986) shows how the workers' theatre of the 1920s and 1930s transformed the social function of theatre.
Der Gotthardpass ist weit mehr als nur eine geografische Verbindung zwischen Nord- und Südeuropa – er ist ein Symbol für kulturellen Austausch, wirtschaftliche Entwicklung und die Überwindung von Barrieren.
Im Spannungsfeld von Macht, Glauben und Intrigen zeichnet diese packende Biografie das faszinierende Leben von Giulio de' Medici nach, der als Clemens VII.
This second selection of articles by Professor Meleze-Modrzejewski deals with the questions of personal status and family ties in Classical law, both Greco-Roman and Eastern.
From the Gilded Age to World War II, elite collectors and museums in the United States transformed from owning a smattering of Chinese porcelain as curios to possessing some of the world's largest and most sophisticated collections of Chinese art.
This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history of Australia.
With the end of the Cold War, the invention of the World Wide Web, the widespread availability to cellphones and personal computers, and remarkable advances in space exploration-the 1990s introduced a new era in human history.
The articles in the first part of this volume, two being a revised English version of an article originally in Spanish, examine the place of the city in the historical development of Castile.
Sexual politics in revolutionary England recounts a dramatic transformation in English sexual polemic that unfolded during the kingdom's mid-seventeenth-century civil wars.
