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The Genesis of Roman Architecture
This groundbreaking study traces the development of Roman architecture and its sculpture from the earliest days to the middle of the 5th century BCE. Existing narratives cast the Greeks as the progenitors of classical art and architecture or rely on historical sources dating centuries after the fact... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Religions of Rome: A Sourcebook (Volume #2)
The book presents a wide range of documents illustrating religious life in the Roman world - from the foundations of the city in the eighth century BC to the Christian capital more than a thousand years later. Each document is given a full introduction, explanatory notes and bibliography, and acts a... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
Cognitive Approaches to Ancient Religious Experience (Ancient Religion and Cognition)
For some time interest has been growing in a dialogue between modern scientific research into human cognition and research in the humanities. This ground-breaking volume focuses this dialogue on the religious experience of men and women in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Each chapter examines a ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire
In the period of Roman domination there were communities of Jews, some still in Palestine, some dispersed in and around the Roman Empire; they had to face at first the world-wide power of the pagan Romans and later on the emergence of Christianity as an Empire-wide religion. How they coped with thes... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1992 -
Religions of Rome Volume 1
This book offers a radical new survey of more than a thousand years of religious life in Rome, from the foundation of the city to its rise to world empire and its conversion to Christianity. It sets religion in its full cultural context, between the primitive hamlet of the eighth century BC and the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1998 -
The Collaboratory: A Co-creative Stakeholder Engagement Process for Solving Complex Problems
by Adam Kahane • John North • Paul Shrivastava • Zaid Hassan • Stephen Hickman • Peter Hayward • Ronald Fry • Philip Mirvis • Eddie Blass • Claire Maxwell • Katrin Muff • Aaron Williamson • Anders Aspling • Anthony Buono • Bill Burck • Caroline Rennie • Gregoire Serikoff • Jackie Bagnall • Janette Blainey • Jonas Haertle • Louie Gardiner • Mark Drewell • Otto Scharmer • Patrick Frick • Svenja Rüger • Thomas DyllickThe introduction is free to download here.This book is about empowering ordinary people to make a difference in the world. It explores the transformation that emerges when groups spread around the world working on similar issues discover synchronicities, often cross-pollinating, and collaborate rath... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2014 -
Violence and Social Orders
by Douglass C. North • John Joseph Wallis • Barry R. Weingast • DOUGLASS C. NORTH JOHN JOSEPH WALLISAll societies must deal with the possibility of violence, and they do so in different ways. This book integrates the problem of violence into a larger social science and historical framework, showing how economic and political behavior are closely linked. Most societies, which we call natural stat... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2009 -
Cosmos: An Illustrated History of Astronomy and Cosmology
For millennia humans have studied the skies to help them grow crops, navigate the seas, and earn favor from their gods. We still look to the stars today for answers to fundamental questions: How did the universe begin? Will it end, and if so, how? What is our place within it? John North has been exa... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2008 -
Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America (Borderlands and Transcultural Studies)
Borderlands are complex spaces that can involve military, religious, economic, political, and cultural interactions—all of which may vary by region and over time. John W. I. Lee and Michael North bring together interdisciplinary scholars to analyze a wide range of border issues and to encourage a nu... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
In the Shadow of Violence
This book applies the conceptual framework of Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, and Barry R. Weingast's Violence and Social Orders (Cambridge University Press, 2009) to nine developing countries. The cases show how political control of economic privileges is used to limit violence and coordi... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1993 -
On Freedom, Love, and Power
Jacques Ellul (1912-1994) was a French law professor, historian, sociologist, lay theologian, and Christian anarchist. During the Second World War, he was active in the French resistance; his efforts to save Jews during this time eventually earned him the title "Righteous Among the Nations." A tower... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 1973 -
Adventure Time (Planet of the Apes #75)
by Maarta Laiho • Braden Lamb • Shelli Paroline • Ian McGinty • Zachary Sterling • Ryan North • Mariko Tamaki • Christopher HastingsFollow the story of Ooo from the past, present, and future in this oversized final issue! At the wedding of Jake’s granddaughter, Jake, Finn, and the residents of Ooo reminisce on the long path that took them here, remembering friends, enemies, and those who fall somewhere in between.... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2018 -
Managing Employee Performance and Reward
by Patrick O'Leary • John Shields • Michelle Brown • John Shields Michelle Brown Sarah Kaine Catherine Dolle-Samuel Andrea North-Samardzic Peter McLean Robyn Johns Patrick O'Leary Geoff Plimmer • Jack Robinson • Sarah Kaine • Catherine Dolle-Samuel • Andrea North-Samardzic • Peter Mclean • Robyn Johns • Geoff PlimmerNow in its second edition, Managing Employee Performance and Reward continues to offer comprehensive coverage of employee performance and reward, presenting the material in a conceptually integrated way. This new edition has been substantially updated and revised by a team of specialist contributor... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2016 -
Continent in Crisis: The U.S. Civil War in North America (Reconstructing America)
by Susan-Mary Grant • John Craig Hammond • Brian Schoen • Andrew L. Slap • Frank Towers • Remaking North American Sovereignty Jewel L. Spangler • John W. Quist • Alice Baumgartner • Beau D. Cleland • Amy GreenbergWritten by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world history... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023 -
Remaking North American Sovereignty: State Transformation in the 1860s (Reconstructing America)
by Andrew Smith • Steven Hahn • Christopher Clark • Andrew L. Slap • Frank Towers • Benjamin Johnson • Mary Ryan • Robert E. Bonner • Ryan Hall • Jane Dinwoodie • Pablo Mijangos • Remaking North American Sovereignty Jewel L. Spangler • Marcela Terrazas y BasanteNorth America took its political shape in the crisis of the 1860s, marked by Canadian Confederation, the U.S. Civil War, the restoration of the Mexican Republic, and numerous wars and treaty regimes conducted between these states and indigenous peoples. This crisis wove together the three nation-sta... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2020 -
The Fig: Botany, Production and Uses (Botany, Production and Uses)
by Mohammad Abdolahipour • Fateh Aljane • Azam Amiri • Maria L Amodio • Francisco C Balas • Patrick Brown • Zeinab Bolboli • Anshul Chawla • Pasqualina Colasuonno • Giancarlo Colelli • Neda Dalir • Naser Davatgar • Birgül Ertan • Engin Ertan • Louise Ferguson • Giuseppe Ferrara • Badii Gaaliche • Ana I Galván • A. J Galán • Carlos A. Garza • Jan H. Giliomee • Phoebe Gordon • Matthew J. Grieshop • G Dalkiliç Günver • Professor Jose Ignacio Hormaza • Akihiro Hosomi • Hidetoshi Ikegami • Ali Akbar Kamgar-Haghighi • Finn Kjellberg • Moslem Jafari • Zhihong Li • Margarita López Corrales • Mahshad Maghoumi • Giuseppe Massimino Cocuzza • Chabane Mazri • Andrea Mazzeo • Themis J. Michailides • Reza Mostowfizadeh-Ghalamfarsa • Diganta Narzary • Mohamed H Neily • Hitoshi Nogata • Professor A Aytekin Polat • Asghar Ramezanian • Jean-Yves Rasplus • Maria G.F. Rodrigues • Sead Sabanadzovic • Rajwinder K. Sandhu • Manuel Joaquín Serradilla Sánchez • Zeinab Shokoohi • Federica Spagnoli • Vassilio Stournaras • Mohammad H. Tarazkar • Ioannis Tzanetakis • Simon Van Noort • Alimohammad Yavari • Hiroshi Yakushiji • Yue Zhang • Megan Crivelli • Tatjana K Kokaj • Souhila Mahmoudi • Ilaria MarcotuliThe common fig Ficus carica L. is an ancient fruit native to the Mediterranean. Dried figs have been successfully produced and processed in arid regions with little sophisticated infrastructure for centuries. Figs are rich in fibre, trace minerals, polyphenols and vitamins, with higher nutrient leve... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2022 -
Knowing Him by Heart: African Americans on Abraham Lincoln
by Frederick Douglass • James Smith • Julius Lester • Barack Obama • Clarence Thomas • Langston Hughes • Benjamin Quarles • John Hope Franklin • Daisy Bates • Elizabeth Keckley • Mary Frances Berry • Richard Carwardine • James Weldon Johnson • Paul Laurence Dunbar • T. Thomas Fortune • James Oakes • Douglas L. Wilson • Charles Chesnutt • Gwendolyn Brooks • W. E. Du Bois • George Washington • Vincent Harding • Jackie Robinson • Sojourner Truth • Henry Johnson • St. Clair Drake • Thomas Hamilton • Michael Burlingame • Matthew Pinsker • Kelly Miller • Elizabeth Thomas • Rodney O. Davis • Hannah Johnson • Walter White • John Proctor • Claude McKay • Booker T Washington • Martin Delany • Robert Hamilton • Henry Louis Gates • Henry Highland Garnet • Edna Greene Medford • Alice Dunbar-Nelson • Thurgood Marshall • Gerald J Prokopowicz • John R Sellers • Jennifer L Weber • H. Ford Douglas • Jabez P Campbell • Henry McNeal Turner • Daniel Alexander Payne • Philip A Bell • Edward M Thomas • Alfred P Smith • Frances Ellen Harper • George B Vashon • Thomas Strother • Ezra R Johnson • Alexander T Cps • Alexander T Augusta • Jeremiah B Sanderson • Osborne P Anderson • Thomas Morris Chester • James H Hudson • Robert Purvis • Leonard A Grimes • Jeremiah Asher • John Willis Menard • Henry African Civilization Society • William Florville • Thomas R Street • John H Morgan • Mattild Burr • Amos G Beman • Richard H Cain • Jean Baptiste Roudanez • Arnold Bertonneau • George E North Carolina Freedmen • Don Carlos Rutter • George E Stephens • James W.C Pennington • S. W. Africano" • Annie Davis • S. W. Chase • Isaac J Hill • Alexander H Newton • Jacob Thomas • Angeline R Demby • Henry O Wagoner • George W Le Vere • Paul Trevigne • Thomas N.C Liverpool • H Cordelia • Emmanuel K Love • William S Scarborough • John Mercer Langston • Peter H Clark • Ews Hammond • Charles W Anderson • Harriet Tubman • Julius F Taylor • Ida B Wells-Barnett • Archibald H Grimke • Elizabeth Keckly • William A Sinclair • Jesse Max Barber • Mary Church Terrell • Reverdy C Ransom • William Monroe Trotter • Maude K Griffin • Hightower T Kealing • Silas X Floyd • George L Knox • Thomas S Inborden • George W Henderson • William Pickens • Etta M. Cottin • John M Gandy • Fred R Moore • Sylvanie F Williams • Harry C Smith • James H Magee • James L Curtis • John W. Bowen • Cora J Ball • Thomas Nelson Baker • Josephine Silone Yates • William H Lewis • John H Murphy • Robert R Wright • Theophile T Allain • Oliva Ward Bush-Banks • Richard W Gadsden • Edward A Johnson • Hubert H Harrison • Carter G Woodson • Robert R Moton • Georgia Douglas Johnson • Lamar Perkins • Samuel A Haynes • William E Lilly • Robert L Vann • William Lloyd Imes • Eugene Gordon • Arthur W Mitchell • Grace Evans • Aaron H Payne • Roscoe Conkling Simmons • Joel A Rogers • Mary McLeod Bethune • Ella Baker • Luther Porter Jackson • Willard Townsend • Ralph J Bunche • Roy Wilkins • Mordecai W Johnson • Carl J Murphy • Martin Luther King • Edith Sampson • Charles H Wesley • Julius Malcolm X • Lerone Bennett • Henry Lee Moon • John H Sengstacke • Norman E. Hodges • Arvarh E. Strickland • Barbara Jeanne FieldsThough not blind to Abraham Lincoln's imperfections, Black Americans long ago laid a heartfelt claim to his legacy. At the same time, they have consciously reshaped the sixteenth president's image for their own social and political ends. Frederick Hord and Matthew D. Norman's anthology explores the ... More
Language: ENGCopyright: 2023