History and Archaeology

Our lives are profoundly connected to the planet's unfolding ecological crisis, and the language we use-our words, stories, conversations, and beliefs-determines our ability to respond.

Apres avoir ecrit la vie de deux Peltier : L'armateur prefere de Beaumarchais, Jean Peltier Dudoyer et de son fils Marie-Etienne Peltier, capitaine corsaire de la Republique, Tugdual de Langlais s'est interesse a la vie du fils aine : Jean-Gabriel Peltier, dont l'existence s'est revelee mouvementee dans une periode difficile financierement puis troublee par la Revolution.

Professional architects first began to arrive in California in the 1880s.

The Mughal Empire is remembered for Taj Mahal splendor and Akbar's tolerance, but its real story lies in how provincial governors, revenue collectors, textile merchants, and regional nobles negotiated power across a subcontinent for over three centuries.

This book aims to provide insights regarding business management and corporate expansion in Germany from the late 19th century until the end of World War II (periods of the Second Reich, the Weimar Republic, and National Socialism) from the perspective of comparative management studies.

A careful investigation into the history and meaning of reading, Unprinted dives into the rich culture of unprinted manuscripts in early modern Iberia.

This second edition of Palestinian Activism in Israel deepens the exploration of Bedouin women’s leadership in the Naqab through the intergenerational activist biographies of three women from the Al-Sana lineage.

Before textbooks reduced American history to dates and names, Jacob Abbott told it as a living story.

This book examines the influence and strategic efforts of the Comintern, the agency created in 1919 by Lenin to promote world revolution, during the Spanish civil war.

This book examines the contents of libraries of Western individuals and trading companies in the Mediterranean and India between approximately 1600 and 1750.

This book examines the contents of libraries of Western individuals and trading companies in the Mediterranean and India between approximately 1600 and 1750.

This book explores multicultural religious interactions in Ancient Central and South Asia.

This book explores the rich and ancient tradition of Chinese astronomy, which developed as early as the third millennium BCE and was first documented on oracle bones over 4,000 years ago.

While the Armenian Genocide has received significant international recognition, the related experiences of Greeks and Assyrians are largely unknown and overlooked.

How should we understand promises as public, private, or political commitments?

Liberation and Libido delves into the vibrant, messy, and deeply political history of gay liberation in Canada, exploring how The Body Politic (TBP) shaped and challenged ideas of gay male masculinity - and gender more broadly - between 1971 and 1987.

Indigenous Spiritualities and Religious Freedom investigates the complex relationship between Indigenous legal orders and Canadian law, emphasizing the richness of Indigenous spiritual practices alongside their historical and ongoing suppression by the Canadian state.

The line between pirate and privateer was often a matter of political convenience rather than legal clarity.

Towns that once thrived as economic centers, mining camps, or agricultural communities now stand abandoned-silent testimony to boom-bust cycles, environmental limits, and the fragility of human settlement patterns.

The medieval millennium witnessed remarkable intellectual, technological, and cultural achievements that fundamentally reshaped European civilization-achievements long obscured by the misleading label "e;Dark Ages.

Secret societies operated at the intersection of elite networks and revolutionary movements, wielding influence through concealment rather than open political participation.

En este libro un grupo de historiadores y juristas responden a una bateria de preguntas sobre una problematica crucial en una sociedad hiperacelerada como la nuestra, en donde las nociones de justicia, historia y politica aparecen cada dia mas enredadas.

Unit 669, Israel's elite Air Force rescue unit, is a top-tier commando force of the IDF and one of the most formidable rescue units in the world. Deployed daily into chaos and danger, its teams rush into combat zones, disaster sites, and special ops deep behind enemy lines.

Whether evacuating wounded soldiers under fire from Gaza or Lebanon, retrieving a downed pilot, or saving a Syrian infant on a humanitarian mission, 669 operates where everything has gone wrong—and when failure is not an option.

Full Throttle is the gripping true story of life inside this legendary unit, told from the front lines by combat paramedic Guy M. Through daring extractions and heart-stopping moments under fire, Guy thrusts the reader, with raw and unflinching honesty, into the relentless world of combat rescue.

Originally published in Hebrew, the book became an instant bestseller and is now a modern classic for young Israelis. Full Throttle offers an intimate, action-packed, look inside one of the world's most distinguished special forces units.

Within these pages are never-before-published accounts of real missions, revealing the sacrifices, moral stakes, and unbreakable brotherhood of those who answer the call when no one else can.

Intrepid archaeologist James Tiberius uncovers a hidden chamber deep within the Great Pyramid after being imprisoned, betrayed, and hounded by a ruthless corporation intent on harnessing the power of the gods for itself.