In 1935, the English writer Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards from himsel...
The shiny aluminum tree was the symbol of everything he thought was right in their lives and everything she thought was wrong. It was 1958 and Jimmy Jackson had...
Offering insights from pioneering new perspectives in addition to well-established traditions of research, this Handbook considers the activities not only of ad...
Manchuria entered the twentieth century as a neglected backwater of the dying Qing dynasty, and within a few short years became the focus of intense internation...
The Emperor Jones draws on O'Neill's own hallucinatory experience hacking through the jungle while prospecting for gold in Honduras in 1909, as well as the brie...
byThomas David,Gerarda Westerhuis
Corporate networks, the links between companies and their leaders, reflect a country’s economic organization and its corporate governance system. Most researc...
Religious ideas and actors have shaped Asian cultural practices for millennia and have played a decisive role in charting the course of its history. In this en...
byDominic Thomas,Nicolas Bancel,Thomas David
This edited collection explores the genesis of scientific conceptions of race and their accompanying impact on the taxonomy of human collections internationally...
This book explores how fieldwork has been used to research Chinese history in the past and new ways that others might use in it the future. It introduces the pr...
In 1935, the English novelist Stephen Spender wrote that the historical pressures of his era should "turn the reader's and writer's attention outwards from hims...
This is such fine writing that the reader will have trouble remembering that this is a novel! "Danged if sitting here doesn't make it easy to remember all ...
In Shifting Sands, Thomas W. Davis charts the evolution and the demise of the discipline. Davis traces the fascinating story of the interaction of biblical stud...
Religion in Philanthropic Organizations explores the tensions inherent in religious philanthropies across a variety of organizations and examines the effect ass...
An essential, pocket-sized manual for industrial craftspeople from a brand relied on for more than a century The Audel(tm) Industrial Trades Multi-Craft Referen...
byThomas Davis,Martin Landrø,Malcolm Wilson
Geosequestration involves the deep geological storage of carbon dioxide from major industrial sources, providing a potential solution for reducing the rate of i...