History

As the first book-length study of Nakanishi Natsuyuki's sculptural practice, this volume explores his assemblages in dialogue with the postwar history of sculpture as a global phenomenon in the 1960s and beyond.

Deep within the clandestine laboratories of Los Alamos, a fourteen-pound sphere of solid plutonium sat on a table, waiting to be pushed to the brink of a nuclear chain reaction.

Dieses Buch fuhrt in die oft ubersehene Welt der militarischen Logistik - dorthin, wo Versorgung zur Machtfrage wird und Hunger gezielt eingesetzt wird, um Gegner zu schwachen.

"e;The Sea Peoples: The End of the Bronze Age"e; investigates one of history's greatest enduring mysteries: the sudden, violent collapse of the thriving Late Bronze Age civilizations.

Die British East India Company kontrollierte den indischen Subkontinent jahrzehntelang nicht durch britische Soldaten, sondern durch hunderttausende einheimische Soldner, die Sepoys.

Als Bauern im Jahr 1974 in der Nahe von Xi'an einen Brunnen gruben, stieen sie auf den groten archaologischen Fund des 20.

In the late 17th century, the independent nation of Scotland gambled everything on a wildly ambitious dream.

Eine simple Pyramide aus beschichtetem Papier veranderte in den 1950er Jahren die Ernahrungsgewohnheiten der gesamten Menschheit radikal.

Wirtschaftlicher Druck soll Regierungen lenken, Konflikte eindammen und Macht zeigen - doch oft entfalten Sanktionen und Embargos eine andere Wirkung, als beabsichtigt.

Mitten in den sturmischen Gewassern der Nordsee, knapp auerhalb der britischen Hoheitsgewasser, steht eine verrostete Flakplattform aus dem Zweiten Weltkrieg.

The Taiping Rebellion was the deadliest civil war in world history, claiming an estimated 20 to 30 million lives in 19th-century China.

Latin America: Geographical Perspectives (1971) is a collection of geographical essays by individual authors that consider the specific problems of each region discussed in their geographical, economic and social context, emphasising the particular features of the cultural landscape.

Dieses Buch untersucht, wie Religion in den Kriegen und Bewaffneten Konflikten des 20.

At the mouth of the Persian Gulf lies a slim stretch of water that moves the world.

The genetic diversity of the entire human race is startlingly narrow, suggesting that at some point in our distant past, our ancestors were nearly wiped from the face of the Earth.

In 1897, Swedish explorer Salomon August Andree devised a plan to conquer the North Pole that was equal parts brilliant and suicidal.

We interact with the internet as if it were a truly wireless, invisible web of data connecting the globe instantaneously.

Since 1979, the narrow waters of the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz have become a stage for global tension.

Dieses Buch begibt sich auf die Spuren der Grenzregionen, in denen Schmuggler, Soldaten und Handler jahrhundertelang das wahre Gesicht der Grenzwirtschaft gepragt haben.

Reims est l'une des trois villes martyres de la premiere guerre mondiale avec Arras et Verdun.

In the late 19th century, the American West was a lawless frontier not just for outlaws, but for scientists.

Decades before Chernobyl, the world's first catastrophic nuclear reactor fire occurred on the coast of Northern England.

Originally published in 1973, Thomas Szasz's collection of aphorisms, definitions and maxims strikes at the heart of confusion, mystification and humbug, in the areas of human relations, language, thought and psychiatry.

Originally published in 1976 the theme of this book was that the advance of the British economy between 1660 and 1780 was not continuous and, contrary to a widely held view, there was a pause or at best retarded growth between about 1725 and 1750.

This book compares the enlightenment thought of China and Japan amid 19th-century Western imperialism, offering a groundbreaking analysis of how two iconic thinkers shaped their nations' divergent paths to modernity.

Residential Housing and Nuclear Attack (1984) considers the likely effects of a nuclear attack and examines the effectiveness of proposed civil defence measures.

Das klassische Wiener Schnitzel gilt heute als burgerliche Delikatesse, doch die Erfindung des Panierens und Frittierens war ursprunglich eine bittere soziookonomische Notwendigkeit.

Political Leadership in Africa (1983) reviews the different types of leadership in Africa, ranging from the beneficial guidance of Nyerere to the despotism of Amin.

West African Government for Nigerian Students (1965) was originally prepared as a guide to a Government exam in Nigeria, but now serves as a useful source of information to pre-colonial institutions and existing institutions in Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and the Gambia.

Scattered across continents yet united by memory, the Persian diaspora carries a culture that constantly redefines itself between loss and renewal.

Dieses Buch untersucht geheime Vertrage und Hinterzimmer Absprachen, die im 20.

Economic sanctions aim to isolate and weaken nations-but they often fuel the very networks they seek to destroy.

When the rule of law erodes, power shifts into darker hands.

Im Jahr 1970 stand ein australischer Farmer namens Leonard Casley vor dem Ruin.

Outer Mongolia and its International Position (1951) examines the economic, social and political changes which occurred in Mongolia as well as the history of the relations between the country and its neighbours in modern times.

Before the invention of synthetic fertilizers, the survival of global agriculture depended entirely on a single, unlikely resource: bird excrement.

This compelling volume addresses key issues at the critical intersection of intangible cultural heritage and traditional medical practices, highlighting the urgent need for their preservation in an increasingly globalized world.

Dieses Buch geht hinter die Kulissen der groen Gipfeltreffen des 20.

The Metaphysician of Syndicalism brings together for the first time exciting new research on the radical French philosopher and political theorist Georges Sorel (1847-1922).

This compelling volume addresses key issues at the critical intersection of intangible cultural heritage and traditional medical practices, highlighting the urgent need for their preservation in an increasingly globalized world.

Dieses Buch erzahlt die Geschichte der Grenzen, nicht als abstrakte Linien auf Karten, sondern als konkrete Bauwerke aus Mauern, Stacheldrahtzaunen und Kontrollpunkten, die sich uber Jahrzehnte durch Landschaften fraen.

Illegal markets often expose truths that legal ones conceal.

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Dieses Buch fuhrt in die moralisch und politisch brisante Diskussion uber autonome Waffensysteme - Maschinen, die toten konnen, ohne dass ein Mensch unmittelbar entscheidet.

Am Ende einer Kindervorstellung in der britischen Victoria Hall im Jahr 1883 sturmten uber tausend Kinder die engen Treppenhauser hinab, um an der Ausgabe von kostenlosen Spielsachen teilzunehmen.

California is legendary for its devastating droughts, but its greatest existential threat comes from the sky.

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Dieses Buch zeichnet die wechselvolle Geschichte internationaler Bundnisse von den fruhen Entente-Abkommen bis zu den multilateralen Sicherheitsstrukturen der Gegenwart nach.

This book examines Greek and Roman pharmacology in its mercantile dimensions, studying the people who were involved in the trade, the places where they worked, and the consumers whom they tried to attract through promises of health.

This book examines Greek and Roman pharmacology in its mercantile dimensions, studying the people who were involved in the trade, the places where they worked, and the consumers whom they tried to attract through promises of health.