There is probably no set of issues of greater importance in the contemporary world than those that are to do with the Earth on which we live and depend. The more alienated we become from it the mor...więcej »
Academics across the globe are being urged by universities and research councils to do research that impacts the world beyond academia. Yet to date there has been very little reflection amongst ...więcej »
The long twelfth century, from the seizure of the throne by Alexius I Comnenus in 1081, to the sack of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade in 1204, is a period recognized as fostering the most bri...więcej »
Amerindian societies have an iconic status in classical political thought. For Montaigne, Hobbes, Locke, Hume and Rousseau, the native American 'state of nature' operates as a foil for t...więcej »
Although uncertainty is intertwined with all human activity, plans, and aspirations, it is experienced differently: at times it is obsessed over and at times it is ignored. This ethnography show...więcej »
A huge chasm has developed between modern science and undergraduate education. The result of this chasm is that students who are graduating from college are unable to exploit the ma...więcej »
The consociational democracy, introduced in the Republic of Macedonia in 2001, based on the Ohrid Framework Agreement represents a temporary solution and consists inherent weaknesses per se, regard...więcej »
For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. How much did “ordinary” Germans know abo...więcej »
The returns on investing in education and capacity building through a Social Protection Scheme for refugees can be far reaching. It helps refugees become economically sustained, strengthen family w...więcej »
This book provides an insight into contemporary views on smoking and drinking of alcohol and caffeine as well as a general attitude towards healthy lifestyle during pregnancy. It summarizes differe...więcej »
The book consists of two parts: the first considers questions of a general nature. They concern matters of identification, the rationale for the period and the way it is reported, the potential whi...więcej »
The end of socialism posed a historical challenge to European societies. The former socialist Central and East European countries were faced with what has been called a "triple transformation": Mut...więcej »
For the first time in history, Australia will be uncomfortably close to the designs and demarches of competing great powers. In the years ahead, we will no longer be too small to make a difference....więcej »
The Harvard Classics Volume One consists of three complete titles.1) The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin2) The Journal of John Woolman3) Fruits of Solitude: William Pennwięcej »
The world, contrary to popular understanding, is not less religious but in many ways more religious than ever. Two issues seem to be emerging in this resurgence. One is the need for a spiritual cen...więcej »
The Conservative Revolution in Germany, 1918-1932 is one the most comprehensive, most lasting, and most influential studies of the European Right—in particular, the fifteen years ...więcej »
The use of computation in archaeology is a kind of magic, a way of heightening the archaeological imagination. Agent-based modelling allows archaeologists to test the 'just-so' stories they te...więcej »
Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life of Zambia and in many other communities across Africa. This innovative book provides a collection and analysis of oral narrative tr...więcej »
This captivating book is a story of the friendship between a genius physicist Wolfgang Pauli and Charlotte Houtermans whose career in physics was not as glamorous. They met in the late 1920s in ...więcej »
SUNSHINE IN SHADOW: KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, NOT MONEY If you were to ask anyone for their realistic opinion on what matters the most in the contemporary world, you would undoubtedly hear the word 'mone...więcej »