This volume explores the space between the world at large and the world within, where nothing is meaningless, and everything is in some way related to something else.

" This text chronicles the worldwide effects of the killer disease, with particular emphasis on the 19th and 20th centuries, including the devastations of the "speckled disease" during great armed conflicts.

The third edition of An Introduction to Sociology, with major revisions to the text.

To make Medea more accessible for the modern reader, our Prestwick House Literary Touchstone Edition includes a glossary of the more difficult words, as well as convenient sidebar notes to enlighten the reader on aspects that may be ...

J. E. Lendon offers a new interpretation of how the Roman empire worked in the first four centuries AD. A despotism rooted in force and fear enjoyed widespread support among the ruling classes of the provinces on the basis of an ...

This third edition of Historical Dictionary of Saudi Arabia contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography.

This collection of essays is the fruit of about fifteen years of discussion and research by James Force and me.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations.

The book can thus serve as an introduction to modern Japan in a more general sense - but its focus throughout is on the people themselves.

Rewritten and reorganized, this new edition weaves together the most recent scholarship, the most current thinking in art history, and the most innovative online supplements, including digital art library.