Winner of the Pfizer Award from the History of Science Society "Contrary to legend, Ivan Pavlov (1849-1936) never trained a dog to salivate to the sound of a bell." So begins this definitive, deeply researched biography of Ivan Pavlov. Daniel P. Todes fundamentally...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-10-15

PDF, ePub

Rainer Forst develops a critical theory capable of deciphering the deficits and potentials inherent in contemporary political reality. This calls for a perspective which is immanent to social and political practices and at the same time transcends them. Forst regards...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-10-15

PDF, ePub

Jewish Contiguities and the Soundtrack of Israeli History unfolds the cultural itineraries of modernJewish and Israeli art music. Extending from modernJewish art music in Europe through its dislocation to British Palestine and Israel, the book captures the tensions...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-10-15

PDF

Condemned as a fascist putsch in the East and praised as a 'people's uprising' in the West, the uprising of 17 June 1953 shook East Germany. Drawing on interviews and archive research, this book examines East German citizens' memories of the unrest and reflects on the...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-14

PDF

Despite emancipation from the evils of enslavement in 1838, most people of African origin in the British West Indian colonies continued to suffer serious material deprivation and racial oppression. This book examines the management and treatment of those who became...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-14

PDF

The Human Footprint: A Global Environmental History, Second Edition, presents a multidisciplinary global history of Earth from its origins to the present day. Provides a comprehensive, global, multidisciplinary history of the planet from its earliest origins to the...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2014-10-14

PDF, ePub

Abraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own taciturn father, Lincoln turned to the great men of the founding-Washington, Paine, Jefferson-and their great documents-the Declaration of...

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2014-10-14

ePub

Exploring Religion in Ancient Egypt offers a stimulating overview of the study of ancient Egyptian religion by examining research drawn from beyond the customary boundaries of Egyptology and shedding new light on entrenched assumptions. Discusses the evolution of...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2014-10-14
Collection : Blackwell Ancient Religions
PDF, ePub

This book examines Anglo-Italian political and cultural relations and analyses the importance of religion in the British 'Orientalist' perception of Italy. It puts religion at the centre of a harsh political and cultural war, one that was fought on international,...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-14

PDF

The fourth edition of A History of Germany, 1918-2014: A Divided Nation introduces students to the key themes of 20th century German history, tracing the dramatic social, cultural, and political tensions in Germany since 1918. Now thoroughly updated, the text includes...

Editeur : Wiley-Blackwell
Parution : 2014-10-13

PDF

After midnight, 19 June 1815...On the battlefield more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lie dead and wounded; the wreckage of a once proud French Grande Armée struggles in abject disorder to the Belgian frontier pursued by murderous Prussian lancers; and Napoleon...

Editeur : Vintage Digital
Parution : 2014-10-09

ePub

This eye-opening study gives a nuanced, provocative account of how German soldiers in the Great War experienced and enacted masculinity. Drawing on an array of relevant narratives and media, it explores the ways that both heterosexual and homosexual soldiers expressed...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2014-10-09

PDF

A daring behind-enemy-lines mission from the author ofA Time of Gifts and The Broken Road, who was once described by the BBC as 'a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene'. Although a story often told, this is the first time Patrick Leigh Fermor's own...

Editeur : John Murray
Parution : 2014-10-09

ePub

The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune from change and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-10-09

ePub

States of Division analyses the division of Germany and the development of the Iron Curtain during the four and a half decades of the Cold War. The centerpiece of this global fault-line was the thousand-mile-long border dividing Germany into West and East. This long...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-10-09

PDF

The changes that followed the fall of the Berlin Wall in November 1989 were particularly dramatic for East Germans. With the German Democratic Republic effectively taken over by West Germany in the reunification process, nothing in their lives was immune from change and...

Editeur : OUP Oxford
Parution : 2014-10-09

PDF

On the night of November 9, 1989, massive crowds surged toward the Berlin Wall, drawn by an announcement that caught the world by surprise: East Germans could now move freely to the West. The Wall -- infamous symbol of divided Cold War Europe -- seemed to be falling....

Editeur : Basic Books
Parution : 2014-10-07

ePub

The study of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture has a long history that goes back to the second half of the 18th century and has provided an essential contribution towards the creation and the definition of the wider disciplines of Art History and Architectural...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2014-10-07

PDF

In the 19th century, Alessandro Manzoni dedicated himself to writing the novel I promessi sposi that encouraged the Italian Risorgimento. This book traces how the renowned novelist was inspired by an event that occurred at the beginning of the 17th century, which he...

Editeur : Palgrave Pivot
Parution : 2014-10-03

PDF

In Home Francis Pryor, author of The Making of the British Landscape, archaeologist and broadcaster, takes us on his lifetime's quest: to discover the origins of family life in prehistoric BritainFrancis Pryor's search for the origins of our island story has been the...

Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2014-10-02

ePub