In Cattle Lords and Clansmen, Nerys Patterson provides an analysis of the social structure of medieval Ireland, focusing on the pre-Norman period. By combining difficult, often fragmentary p...więcej »
Przewalski's horse, the only true horse never to have been domesticated, is believed to be extinct in the wild. Experts from around the world come together in this book and offer a complete synthes...więcej »
This book examines the linkage between literacy and linguistic diversity, embedding them in their social and cultural contexts. It illustrates that a more complete understanding of literacy among d...więcej »
This volume explores facets of Nietzsche relatively untouched by the majority of the vast literature on him. Stambaugh concentrates on his ideas on art and creativity in general, regarding these re...więcej »
This book is an English translation of Morin's treatise on Primary Directions, which constitutes Book 22 of his Astrologia Gallica, with appendices containing supplementary material relating to Boo...więcej »
A companion volume to Art and Illusion. Provides an intriguing overview of art and our perception of it. Discusses subjects as diverse as photography's tricks with perspective, the problems of expr...więcej »
"Feminine Force" is the ultimate self-help book for women, written by a woman whose own life and career literally defined the term "self-made". A fatherless working-class girl form the Indiana stee...więcej »
For forty-five years Europe was divided, and at the center of that divided continent lay a divided Germany. In this brilliantly nuanced book, one of our most respected authorities on Central Europe...więcej »
The authors trace the origins of the Imperial Army back to its samurai roots in 19th-century Japan to tell the story of the rise and fall of this extraordinary military force. "Analyzes the militar...więcej »
These essays by the famous analytical psychologist and student of creativity Erich Neumann belong in the context of the depth psychology of culture and reveal a prescient concern about the one-s...więcej »
Rich with implications for the history of sexuality, gender issues, and patterns of Hellenic literary imagining, Marcel Detienne's landmark book recasts long-standing ideas about the fertility m...więcej »
Abridged from the four-volume The Passion of al-Hallaj, one of the major works of Western orientalism, this book explores the life and teaching of a famous tenth-century Sufi mystic and m...więcej »
Using first-person accounts in historical archives, David Roberts presents many sides of the Indian rebellion that began in the mid-1800s. Here is the epic and tragic story of Indian heroes--men an...więcej »