This book provides the first comprehensive, easy-to-read, and up-to-date account of the fascinating discipline of archaeoastronomy, in which the relationship between ancient constructions and the sky is studied to gain a better understanding of the ideas of the architects of the past and their religious and symbolic worlds.
This book places the contemporary fear of climate change in historical perspective, showing that throughout human history the dominant perspective on the future has been one of fear.
Addiction Literature's Past and Present aims to realign consideration of addiction as a transhistorical and transcultural aspect of the human condition.
This book examines the issues arising from British contested history by looking at how it came to be constructed, how it developed, and how attitudes over time have begun to change towards it.
It is over sixty years since the office of epistrategos in Roman Egypt was subjected to a detailed examination and in the interverring years a great deal of new papyrological and epigraphic material has come to light.
Die Idee zu diesem Buch geht auf ein Symposium zuruck, das im Sommer 1996 yom Institut fur Journalistik der UniversiUit Hamburg in Kooperation mit dem Verein "Weiterbildung fur Europa, Projekt Offentlichkeitsarbeit" durchgefuhrt wurde.
