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This book presents the select contributions of the 2nd International Conference on Innovative, Sustainable materials and technologies and it provides an in-depth exploration of the most recent developments in sustainable engineering, emphasizing cutting-edge materials, techniques, and technologies that have paved the way to a more sustainable future.

Legal transplant in the Meiji Restoration gave birth to Taishinin, which is the former of today’s Supreme Court of Japan, but the objective of it was not solely for legal justice at the beginning.

The Winter 2014 Issue brings us duels and Dashboard Poets, eels and fauxvillages, a beloved television icon, interviews with liberal hero Walter Mondaleand conservative activist Jack Kershaw, Civil War battlefi eld monuments, andmore.

Cities are nothing without the streetsthe arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow.

The second edition of Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman transports students into the bohemian section of New York City known as an epicenter of rebels, artists, and seekers of personal transformation.

It is 1942, and World War II is raging.

New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history.

The Future and the Past: A Translation and Study of the Gukansh takes readers deep into the intellectual and cultural landscape of 13th-century Japan, offering a detailed translation and analysis of the Gukansh, a pivotal historical work written by the Buddhist priest Jien in 1219.

At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners.

In April 1983, a dynamic, multiracial political coalition did the unthinkable, electing Harold Washington as the first Black mayor of Chicago.

'A thorough guide to just about everything worth drinking.

The Enlightenment, as concept and time period, was haunted by ambiguities about the relationships between mind and body, humans and the natural world, and reason and imagination.

Since the 'cultural turn' of the 1980s the history of Renaissance medicine has been radically transformed, with older narratives stood on their head as concepts and categories for research have been re-thought.

Patient, disease and physician were the three corners of the 'medical triangle' according to one of the texts attributed to Hippocrates, a famous ancient Greek doctor.

The Colorado River region looms large in the history of the American West, vitally important in the designs and dreams of Euro-Americans since the first Spanish journey up the river in the sixteenth century.

The authors examine popular religion as a vital source of new values and experiences as well as a source of pressure for change in the church, political life, and the social order as a whole and deal with the issues of poverty and the role of the poor within the church and political structures.

Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas.

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Historians describe the 'long 19th century' as an age of empire, characterized by expansion and industrialization.

A Cultural History of Medicine presents anauthoritative survey from ancient times to the present.

"e;Jerusalem Besieged is a fascinating account of how and why a baffling array of peoples, ideologies, and religions have fought for some four thousand years over a city without either great wealth, size, or strategic importance.

In Our Rightful Share, Aline Helg examines the issue of race in Cuban society, politics, and ideology during the islands transition from a Spanish colony to an independent state.

The Praying South and the Fighting South are two of our most popular images of white southern culture.

Rosenfeld argues that farm women have rarely been identified as productive farm workers and that they continue to be seen only as mothers and homemakers.

This book offers a rigorous social and cultural history of the formation of medical professionals in modern Iraq and their role in shaping public health institutions.

From the Rockefeller Foundation to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, U.

This book offers a rigorous social and cultural history of the formation of medical professionals in modern Iraq and their role in shaping public health institutions.

This book offers an insightful reappraisal of international broadcasting as discursive rather than 'soft' power in service of democratic statecraft.

This book offers an insightful reappraisal of international broadcasting as discursive rather than 'soft' power in service of democratic statecraft.

This book is a unique transdisciplinary study on animals and plants in medieval Chinese religions and science, especially in such a critical era of environmental crisis today.

It is 1942, and World War II is raging.

This book is a culmination of the "e; Herstory-the Legal History of Chinese American Women"e; exhibition.

Cities are nothing without the streetsthe arteries through which goods, people, and ideas flow.

The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party (PNPR) understood that to successfully establish an independent nation it needed to generate solidarity across the Americas with its struggle against US colonial rule.

New Orleans is a city that is rich in culture, music, and history.

The second edition of Greenwich Village, 1913: Suffrage, Labor, and the New Woman transports students into the bohemian section of New York City known as an epicenter of rebels, artists, and seekers of personal transformation.

An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation.

The Lands of St.

'Bursting with colourful anecdotes and nostalgia for a bygone New York City, this is an invaluable artifact for hip-hop fans' Publisher's WeeklyFlash provides a captivating insider look at the emergence and dominance of the now ubiquitous hip-hop culture that music enthusiasts will relish David Szatmary, Library Journal'A must for anyone interested in the history of American music' Kirkus ReviewsStep into the vibrant streets of the 1970s Bronx and witness the exact moment a global movement began.

In this classic study of the relationship between technology and culture, Miles Orvell demonstrates that the roots of contemporary popular culture reach back to the Victorian era, when mechanical replications of familiar objects reigned supreme and realism dominated artistic representation.

The extraordinary story of the heroic doctor whose courage and leadership were a lifeline for thousands of Australian prisoners-of-war on the infamous Thai-Burma Railway of World War II - brilliantly told by Australia's favourite storyteller, Peter FitzSimonsIn September 1939, young Australian surgeon Edward 'Weary' Dunlop was working in London when the dogs of war were unleashed.

Eleven battles and seventy-three skirmishes were fought in North Carolina during the Civil War.

In the late 1960s, Brazilian artists forged a watershed cultural movement known as Tropiclia.

During the great oil speculations in the 1920s, both promoters and investors became victims of their common greed.

Latinos are already the largest minority group in the United States, and experts estimate that by 2050, one out of three Americans will identify as Latino.

At the turn of the twentieth century, good highways eluded most Americans and nearly all southerners.

An alternative history and geography of the Bay Area that highlights sites of oppression, resistance, and transformation.

The city of Florence has long been admired as the home of the brilliant artistic and literary achievement of the early Renaissance.

The first birth control clinic in El Paso, Texas, opened in 1937.

Tokugawa Japan ranks with ancient Athens as a society that not only tolerated, but celebrated, male homosexual behavior.