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"The Neolithic Cemetery at Tell el-Kerkh"
The Neolithic Cemetery at Tell el-Kerkh is the second volume of the final reports on the excavations at Tell el-Kerkh, northwest Syria. The 12-year field campaigns at Tell el-Kerkh yielded several unexpected archaeological findings. The existence of the oldest cultural deposits from the early Pre-Pottery Neolithic B period (c. 8700-8300 BC) in northwestern Syria was revealed. The investigations…
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A Companion to the Cavendishes
"The noble Cavendishes were one of the most influential families in the politics and culture of early modern England and beyond. A Companion to the Cavendishes offers a comprehensive account of the Cavendish family's creative output and cultural significance in the seventeenth century. It discusses the writings of individuals including William and Margaret Cavendish, and William's daughters Jan…
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A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth
A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval Britain, Geoffrey (d. 1154) popularized Arthurian literature and left an indelible mark on European romance, history, and genealogy. Despite this outsized influence, Geoffrey’s…
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- Volume: 22
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A Companion to Anticlassicisms in the Cinquecento
,Antiklassizismen' reagieren auf unterschiedliche Formen von ,Klassizismen.' Der Band untersucht die Geschichte und die mo?glichen Implikationen dieses Terminus fu?r die Renaissanceforschung und analysiert zugleich solche ,Antiklassizismen.' Er unterscheidet ihre unterschiedlich gearteten Gegenstellungen zu ,Klassizismen' hinsichtlich ihrer Reichweite (auf einer Skala zwischen radikaler poetolo…
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- 9783110783438
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A British Childhood? Some Historical Reflections on Continuities and Disconti…
This book considers how adults attempt to socialise young children into the adults it aspires to produce, from a number of diverse perspectives. The evolution of storytelling and its impact upon child development is initially explored, followed by the consideration of how social class, ethnicity, culture, and colonialism impact upon the ways that societies 'school' children about what to expect…
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- 978-3-03921-934-6
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A Buddhist Approach to International Relations : Radical Interdependence
This book is an open access book. Many scholars have wondered if a non-Western theory of international politics founded on different premises, be it from Asia or from the "Global South," could release international relations from the grip of a Western, "Westphalian" model. This book argues that a Buddhist approach to international relations could provide a genuine alternative. Because of its di…
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- 978-3-030-68042-8
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A Byzantine Book on Dream Interpretation : The Oneirocriticon of Achmet and I…
This monograph compares the most important Byzantine work on dream interpretation with the 2nd-century A.D. Greek work of Artemidoros and five medieval Arabic dreambooks and demonstrates that it was based on Islamic Arabic sources adapted for Christian readers of Greek
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A Catalogue of 18th-Century Symphonies
A Catalogue of 18th-Century Symphonies makes possible for the first time a comprehensive view of one of the largest and most significant repertories in the history of music. Until now, no one has known for certain who wrote what, and hundreds of symphonies have been attributed in manuscript and printed sources to two or more composers. Under these conditions no reliable history of the symphony …
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A Century of Parks Canada 1911-2011
When Canada created a Dominion Parks Branch in 1911, it became the first country in the world to establish an agency devoted to managing its national parks. Over the past century this agency, now Parks Canada, has been at the centre of important debates about the place of nature in Canadian nationhood and relationships between Canada’s diverse ecosystems and its communities. Today, Parks Cana…
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A Century of Violence in a Red City : Popular Struggle, Counterinsurgency, an…
In A Century of Violence in a Red City Lesley Gill provides insights into broad trends of global capitalist development, class disenfranchisement and dispossession, and the decline of progressive politics. Gill traces the rise and fall of the strong labor unions, neighborhood organizations, and working class of Barrancabermeja, Colombia, from their origins in the 1920s to their effective activi…
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