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From the History of the World series, Making Civilizations traces the origins of large-scale organized human societies. Led…

Christian Raffensperger tracks the dynastic marriages of the Volodimerovici, the ruling family of Rus´. Using a modern…

\nIn a career spanning seven decades, Liu Kuo-sung has reinvented the millennium-old tradition of ink painting. The Liu…

Economists investigate the workings of markets and tend to set ethical questions aside. Theologians often dismiss economics,…

The eastern Roman Empire was the largest state in western Eurasia in the sixth century. A century later, it was a fraction…

• Čeština

\nThe Painting Master\'s Shame describes the remarkable circumstances of the period around 1120, when the Xuanhe Catalogue…

\nDavid Kennedy and Martti Koskenniemi, two leading critics of law\'s role in global life, join together to explore the…

For most of human history, states and regions were connected by long-distance commerce and war, yet they developed…

\nNo Birds of Passage explores the remarkable business success of three Gujarati Muslim commercial castes: the Bohras,…

It is commonly believed that international law originated in respectful relations among free and equal European states. But…

Maura Dykstra shows how information overload resulting from the administrative revolution of China's eighteenth-century Qing…

Horses were domesticated about 6000 years ago on the vast Eurasian steppe. The author presents an encyclopedic synthesis of…

\nRotary International spreads America\'s good news. The organization spent the interwar years convincing Main Street and…

Samantha Kelly tells the story of Ethiopian Orthodox pilgrims in sixteenth-century Rome. The only African community in…

A classic work, first published in 1941, translated into half a dozen languages, and now in a fifth edition, "Space, Time…

• Rok vydání 2007

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\nIn Dreaming and Self-Cultivation in China, 300 BCE-800 CE, Robert Ford Campany examines how dreaming was addressed in…

\nIn Lineages Embedded in Temple Networks, Richard Wang explores the key role played by elite Daoists in social and cultural…

Though blacks were not often seen on the streets of seventeenth-century London, they were already capturing the British…

Cataglyphis ants can set out across vast expanses of desert terrain in search of prey, and then find the shortest way home.…

Like its state emblem the double-headed eagle, Russia has always looked to both East and West for secure trade routes,…

This work plumbs opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism…

\nPulitzer Prize-winner Bert Hoelldobler and behavioral ecologist Christina Kwapich reveal a universe of behavioral…

The first intellectual history of Song, Yuan, and Ming China written from a local perspective, Localizing Learning traces…

\nWang Hui asks what it means for China to be modern and for modernity to be Chinese. Is there a rupture between tradition…

Daniel J. C. Kronauer brings to life the research surrounding army ants, nature\'s preeminent social hunters. Without…

Materials from ten different cultures and traditions that arose and developed in Mediterranean religions are presented side…

This volume describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core commitments of Darwinism, examines…

\nVice President John Adams faces a turbulent world of rebellion in this volume of the Papers of John Adams, which…

\nThe Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation…

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient…

Offers commentary and an illustrated history of the representations of people of African descent ranging from the ancient…

\nThe Image of the Black in Latin American and Caribbean Art is the first comprehensive survey of the visual representation…

Nearly everything we treasure in the world\'s most beautiful cities was built over a century ago. Yet the ideas and…

Through a study of how a colony of bees is organized to gather its resources, this work examines the way in which a…