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Book SynopsisAncient Methone is situated in the northern Aegean in Greece, in the historical province of Macedonia; from the late eighth century B.C. it was a colony of the ancient Greek polis of Eretria (on the island of Euboia). Excavations carried out at the site since 2003 by the Greek Ministry of Culture have uncovered remains from the Late Neolithic period through the fourth-century B.C. destruction by Philip II of Macedon. These discoveries extend the history of the city by nearly three thousand years, into Greek prehistory. This 2-volume work presents results of the project in selected artifacts, burials and structures representing the chief phases of the city, in chronological order. An introduction covers historical sources, excavations from 2003 to 2013, and the unique location of Methone. Part I details the prehistoric settlement at Methone, from the fourth millennium to 1000 B.C., and the Bronze Age burials. Part II focuses on the copious artifacts and ecofacts from the Early Iron Age "Hypogeion" shaft. Part III presents artifacts and architecture from the Archaic and Classical periods, through the final days of the siege of the city in 354 B.C. The significance of this work lies in its interdisciplinary methods, combining stylistic analysis of artifacts and source-critical philology with natural history, bioarchaeology, materials analysis, and geochemistry. It reveals the long-term history of a site crucial to the economic and political history of Classical Greece and the north Aegean.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Ancient Methone Archaeological Project. John K. Papadopoulos and Sarah P. Morris (with contributions by Antonis Kotsonas) Chapter 1 Excavations at Methone (2003-2013). Matthaios Bessios, Athena Athanassiadou, and Konstantinos Noulas Chapter 2 Methone in Ancient Sources. Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos Chapter 3 At the Water's Edge. Samantha L. Martin-McAuliffe PART I. METHONE BEFORE ERETRIA: THE LATE NEOLITHIC THROUGH EARLY IRON AGE SETTLEMENT Chapter 4 The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Settlement and Pottery. Marianna Nikolaidou Chapter 5 The Middle and Late Bronze Age Pottery. Trevor Van Damme Chapter 6 The Late Bronze Age Cemetery. Sarah P. Morris, Sevi Triantaphyllou, and Vaso Papathanasiou (With Contributions by John K. Papadopoulos, Vanessa Muros, Brian Damiata, and John Southon) Chapter 7 The Early Iron Age Settlement and Pottery: An Overview. John K. Papadopoulos PART II. TRADE, INDUSTRY, AND LIFEWAYS IN EARLY IRON AGE METHONE: THE HYPOGEION Chapter 8 The Excavation of the Hypogeion. Matthaios Bessios Chapter 9 Catalogue of Select Pottery from the Hypogeion. Matthaios Bessios Chapter 10 Lifeways and Foodways in Iron Age Methone: A Perishable Material Culture Approach. Alexandra Livarda, Rena Veropoulidou, Anastasia Vasileiadou, and Llorenç Picornell-Gelabert Chapter 11 Inscriptions, Graffiti/Dipinti, and (Trade)Marks at Methone (ca. 700 B.C.). Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos Chapter 12 Why was Methone Colonized? Transport Amphoras and Greek Colonization between History and Archaeology. Antonis Kotsonas Chapter 13 Metallurgical Activity at Methone: The Evidence of the Stone Artifacts from the Hypogeion. Ioannis Manos and Ioannis Vlastaridis Chapter 14 Metallurgical Ceramics from the Hypogeion. Samuel Verdan Chapter 15 Metal Finds from the Hypogeion. John K. Papadopoulos Chapter 16 Clay Textile Tools from Methone: Spindlewhorls and Loomweights from the Hypogeion. Sarah P. Morris Chapter 17 Cut Sherd Disks from the Hypogeion. John K. Papadopoulos PART III. METHONE IN THE ARCHAIC AND CLASSICAL PERIODS Chapter 18 Building A on the East Hill of Ancient Methone. Samantha L. Martin-McAuliffe Chapter 19 a) Pottery Workshops of Ancient Methone. Matthaios Bessios b) Archaic Pottery from the Acropolis (West Hill) of Ancient Methone. Matthaios Bessios and Konstantinos Noulas Chapter 20 The Role of Methone in the Macedonian Timber Trade. Angelos Boufalis Chapter 21 Trade in the Archaic North Aegean: Transport Amphoras from the West Hill of Methone. Alexandra Kasseri Chapter 22 The East Greek Fine Pottery. John K. Papadopoulos Chapter 23 a) Selected Attic Black-Figure and Red-Figure Pottery from Methone. Seth Pevnick b) An Attic Red-Figure Cup by the Bonn Painter from Methone. Maria Tolia-Christakou Chapter 24 Terracotta Lamps. John K. Papadopoulos Chapter 25 Early Glass in Methone. Despina Ignatiadou (With a Contribution by Elissavet Dotsika, Petros Karalis, and Antonio Longinelli) Chapter 26 Metal Objects in Archaic and Classical Methone: Acropolis and its East Slope, the Agora, and the South Harbor Area. John K. Papadopoulos Chapter 27 Jewelry Molds from Methone from the Stamatios Tsakos Collection in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki. Styliana Galiniki Chapter 28 The Lead Sling-Bullets from Methone: Warfare (Un)inscribed. Angelos Boufalis, Androniki Oikonomaki, and Yannis Z. Tzifopoulos Chapter 29 The Ancient Agora of Methone: Pottery from the Destruction Layer. Athena Athanassiadou

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Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the role of religion in England's overseas companies and the formation of English governmental identity abroad in the seventeenth century. Drawing on research into the Virginia, East India, Massachusetts Bay, Plymouth, New England and Levant Companies, it offers a comparative global assessment of the inextricable links between the formation of English overseas government and various models of religious governance across England's emerging colonial empire. While these approaches to governance varied from company to company, each sought to regulate the behaviour of their personnel, as well as the numerous communities and faiths which fell within their jurisdiction. This book provides a crucial reassessment of the seventeenth-century foundations of British imperial governance.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Introduction: ‘A Just Government’: Empire, Religion, Chaplains and the Corporation .- 2. The Virginia Company and the Foundations of Religious Governance in English Commercial Expansion .- 3. The Plymouth Company and Massachusetts Bay Company (1622–1639): Establishing Theocratic Corporate Governance .- 4. Apostasy and Debauchery (1601–1660): Behaviour, Passive Evangelism and the East India and Levant Company Chaplains .- 5. The Massachusetts Bay Company and New England Company (1640–1684): Exportation, Revaluation and the Demise of Corporate Theocratic Governance .- 6. The East India Company (1661–1698): Territorial Acquisition and the ‘Amsterdam of Liberty’ .- 7. Conclusion .- 8. Bibliography.

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Book SynopsisThis book is the first comprehensive account of global Shakespeare commemoration in the period between 1916 and 2016. Combining historical analysis with insights into current practice, Memorialising Shakespeare covers Shakespeare commemoration in China, Ukraine, Egypt, and France, as well as Great Britain and the United States. Chapter authors discuss a broad range of commemorative activities—from pageants, dance, dramatic performances, and sculpture, to conferences, exhibitions, and more private acts of engagement, such as reading and diary writing. Themes covered include Shakespeare’s role in the formation of cultural memory and national and global identities, as well as Shakespeare’s relationship to decolonisation and race. A significant feature of the book is the inclusion of chapters from organisers of recent Shakespeare commemoration events, reflecting on their own practice. Together, the chapters in Memorialising Shakespeare show what has been at stake when communities, identity groups, and institutions have come together to commemorate Shakespeare.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Memorialising Shakespeare, Memorialising Ourselves; Monika Smialkowska and Edmund G. C. King.- 2. From Common Reader to Canon: Memorialising the Shakespeare-Reading Soldier during the First World War; Edmund G. C. King.- 3. A Greenwich Night’s Dream: Shakespeare, Empire, and the Royal Navy in Post-Armistice Britain; Kurt Schreyer.- 4. Culture and Colonialism: The 1916 Tercentenary in Egypt; Karma Sami and Monika Smialkowska.- 5. Divergence and Convergence: The ‘Universal’ versus the National Bard; Irena R. Makaryk.- 6. French Shakespeare: From Victor Hugo to Patrice Chéreau; Dominique Goy-Blanquet.- 7. Canonising Cleopatra? Shakespeare400 and the Library, Lovers, and Saints of Alexandria; Katherine Hennessey.- 8. Citizen of the world, or citizen of nowhere? Shakespeare Lives in China in 2016; Duncan Lees.- 9. Commemorating Shakespeare through Dance and Music, 1964–2016; Elizabeth Klett.- 10. Curating Shakespeare in the North; Adam Hansen.- 11. ‘The Conceit of This Inconstant Stay’: Exhibiting Shakespeares in Eugene, Oregon; Lara Bovilsky.- 12. Afterword; Ton Hoenselaars.

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Book SynopsisThis book examines the Danish Empire, which for over four hundred years stretched from Northern Norway to Hamburg and was feared by small German principalities to the South. Evolving over time, it has included most of Scandinavia and the North Atlantic, has shifted from a Western orientation under the Vikings to an Eastern one in the Middle Ages, and from a North Sea Empire to a Baltic Empire. From the seventeenth to the early twentieth century, it comprised small overseas colonies in India, Africa and the Caribbean. Exploring the rise and fall of Denmark's Kingdom, from 9 AD to the present, this textbook considers how such vast empires were kept together through ideology and symbols, military force, transport systems and networks of civil servants. The authors demonstrate how the lands under Danish rule included a variety of religious groups, social and economic structures, law systems, and ethnic and linguistic groups. They also consider the economic and ideological benefit of an empire structure in comparison to a nation state. Providing a detailed overview of the long history of the Danish Empire, whilst also confronting current debate and providing novel interpretations, this book offers an original, imperial and multi-territorial perspective on the history of the Danish state, providing essential reading for students of Danish or Scandinavian history and European or Global empires. Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. The Empire in Himlingøje3. The Christian Empire of the North Sea4. Crusade Empires in the Baltic5. The Union Empire6. The Princely State: The Decline of Baltic Power 1536-17207. From the Conglomerate state to the Unitary State 1720-18148. 1814-64: From United Monarchy to Nation-State9. The Empire After 186410. The Empire during the Cold War, International Integration, and the Welfare State11. The Danish Empire Through the Ages12. The Danish Legacy

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Book SynopsisSpatial Literary Studies in China explores the range of vibrant and innovative research being done in China today. Chinese scholars have been exploring spatially oriented literary criticism in two different and mutually reinforcing directions: the first has focused on the study of Western literature, especially U.S. and European texts and theory, and the second has examined Chinese cultures, texts, and spaces. This collection of essays demonstrates Chinese scholars’ insightful interpretation, evaluation, and innovative application of international spatial analyses, theories, and methodologies, as well as their inspiring exploration and reconstruction of distinctively Chinese critical and theoretical discourses. For the first time in English, the essays in this volume demonstrate the vitality of literary geography, geocriticism, and the spatial humanities in China in the twenty-first century.Table of ContentsPart I Spatial Theory and Technology1. Spatial Literary Studies in China: A Brief History2. An Exploration of the Problems of Space and Spatialization3. Mobility Studies: A New Direction in Spatial Literary Studies4. Developing the Chinese Academic Map Publishing Platform5. Space: The Keyword of Art History Study6. The Attributes of British and American Literary Maps: An Exploration7. Spatial Narrative in Fiction: “Spatialization” of Fiction NarrativePart II Studies in Literary Geography8. The Construction of Academic System in a New Literary Geography9. Regional Aesthetics and the Historical Formation of the Image of Jiangnan in the Literature of Six Dynasties10. American National Parks: Symbolic Landscapes11. Walking Landscape: Spatial Experience and Imagination of Modernity in the Overseas Travelogues in the Late Qing Dynasty12. Introducing Literary Geography to the History of Chinese Literature13. Spatial Metaphors and the Literary Cartography of Shanghai in Modern Chinese NovelsPart III Geocritical Studies and Textual Analysis14. The Middle Place: Mediation and Heterotopia in Nick Joaquín’s The Woman Who Had Two Navels15. Lewis’s Babbitt, Literary Maps, and the Production of Space in American Cities16. Pretext, Embedded-Text, Subtext: On the Landscape Narratives of Willa Cather’s One of Ours17. Embedded Geographies in GUO Pu’s “River Fu”18. The Source of the Terror: Interpreting the Liminal Space in Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter19. Antebellum Literary Cartography and the Construction of an American Oceanic Space

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Book SynopsisThis is the first book to tell the story of the bebop subculture in London’s Soho, a subculture that emerged in 1945 and reached its pinnacle in 1950. In an exploration via the intersections of race, class and gender, it shows how bebop identities were constructed and articulated. Combining a wide range of archival research and theory, the book evocatively demonstrates how the scene evolved in Soho’s clubs, the fashion that formed around the music, drug usage amongst a contingent of the group, and the moral panic which led to the police raids on the clubs between 1947 and 1950. Thereafter it maps the changes in popular culture in Soho during the 1950s, and argues that the bebop story is an important precedent to the institutional harassment of black-related spaces and culture that continued in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book therefore rewrites the first chapter of the ‘classic’ subcultural canon, and resets the subcultural clock; requiring us to rethink the periodization and social make-up of British post-war youth subcultures. Trade Review“Ray Kinsella’s book, which is based on his PhD thesis, sheds light on the dimly lit British bebop scene of the mid-to-late 1940s and early 1950s. It gently disproves misconceptions about beboppers and the milieu they created. … The Bebop Scene in London’s Soho is an authoritative text on a neglected subject in British cultural history. … the book uses it as an entry point to explore wider topics, such as histories of fashion, race, gender … .” (Jacob Bloomfield, H-Soz-Kult, hsozkult.de, July 6, 2023)Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Contextualizing Soho, 1800-19453. Bebop Music and the Soho Clubs4. Men’s and Women’s Sartorial Style in the Clubs: The Bebop Look5. The Police Raids on the Soho Bebop Clubs, 1947-19506. Soho After the Raids7. Is This a Subculture?8. Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThis book proposes a new Ethics of Political Commemoration adapted from the Just War tradition, reflecting that remembrance is often conducted with political – and even coercive – intent. With its Ius ad Memoriam (what to commemorate) and Ius in Memoria (how to commemorate) criteria, the framework looks to guide debates that are currently inchoate so that remembrance of the past can transform relationships in the present and build a shared future. Offering a moral argument with memorable illustrations, Gutbrod and Wood draw on experiences from Armenia, Georgia, Ireland, Lebanon, and Libya, while connecting to mainstream debates in Western Europe and the United States. Bringing together an ethical tradition with the practice of conflict transformation, the framework fuses two perspectives that enrich each other. The book, in providing a first systematic presentation of the ethics, seeks to engage citizens and scholars, and help those who work to transform conflicts. Table of ContentsChapter 1: Introduction: Towards an Ethics of Political CommemorationChapter 2: Ius ad Memoriam: What is Deserving of Commemoration? Chapter 3: Ius in Memoria: How Should we Commemorate?Chapter 4: Commemoration as Path for Conflict TransformationChapter 5: Applying the Framework and its LimitationsChapter 6: Conclusion: Roadmap for the Paradigm

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Book SynopsisIn this timely and meticulously researched book, Patrick Anderson compares and contrasts Algeria's anti-colonial struggle for independence with the republican campaign to dismantle Britain's colonial legacy. Comparing the French and British armies, the IRA and ALN, loyalists and OAS counter-terrorists', Anderson dissects, with devastating effect, the approach of constitutional' politicians and the respective media portrayals in an analogy that for critics will be too close for comfort.About the book, historian Dr Brian Feeney, in the Irish News, said, Unionists, including academics, have been aware of the striking analogies between Algeria and the north for decades: they all reject the uncanny similarities as dangerous It's easy to see why Accepting any analogy or similarity means accepting that the north is illegal, a temporary arrangement, and that Britain will eventually leave Ireland as the French did Algeria.'

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Book SynopsisForty-one thoughtful and generous contributions by artists, scholars, scientists, and ocean activists in response to the rapidly changing oceans.The ocean is rising and with it sea level, water temperature, acidity, algal blooms, and storm surges. Also on the rise are the metrics of accelerated human activity. How are we to fathom the political, aesthetic, and epistemological rise of the oceans from centuries-long invisibilization and forgetting? What ideas and memories do the oceans hold in their depth and reanimate, when the earth’s ecosystems suffer? Asking different questions and using multiple registers of sensing expand the possibilities to engage with the oceanic at this precarious moment and rethink its relations to the terrestrial. Oceans Rising is a companion reader to “Territorial Agency: Oceans in Transformation,” an independent oceanic research initiative commissioned by TBA21–Academy and operating out of Ocean Space in Venice. It offers forty-one thoughtful contributions by artists, scholars, scientists, and ocean activists in response to the rapidly changing oceans. Writing from places of conflict and concern, the contributions reveal the magnitude and urgency of ecological devastation, but more important, they provide alternative narratives that strengthen our knowledge communities and contribute to worldmaking practices from an oceanic perspective. 

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Book SynopsisOur short life together was fun, fascinating and happy. I accompanied my husband to chess tournaments. We traveled a lot, saw a lot, met the most interesting people. Meeting Alekhine, Euwe, Flohr, Capablanca, Keres was unforgettable. We became friends with many of them. Now, when I turn the pages of my life and remember my family, which was obliterated so ruthlessly, the old wounds open again and start bleeding.This book tells the story of one of the most enigmatic and tragic figures in chess history the Latvian grandmaster Vladimirs Petrovs (1908 1943). His name was struck out of chess literature for decades. His games and biography are largely unknown to the public even though Petrovs defeated Alekhine, Fine, Reshevsky, Boleslavsky and many other great players of the past, gained prizes at supertournaments including joint first at the famous Kemeri 1937 tournament, and performed strongly for Latvia at chess Olympiads. According to the Chessmetrics website, Petrovs was ranked no. 14 in the world in November 1938, and his performance at Kemeri 1937 was 2709. He had a 2.5-2.5 lifetime score against Alekhine.In the first part of this book, grandmaster and chess historian Dmitry Kryakvin instructively analyzes Petrovs' career through 52 games and fragments. As well as the above players, opponents include Smyslov, Euwe, Bogoljubov, Keres, Stahlberg, Flohr, Spielmann, and many other global stars of pre-war chess. In the second part, Petrovs' widow Galina Petrova-Matisa recounts the tragic fate of her husband and family members and her search for the truth of what happened to Petrovs. She further provides biographical details of their short, blissful family life for four-and-a-half years, including unforgettable meetings with the world's strongest chess players and their families. The work contains a large number of rare family and tournament photos.

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Book SynopsisSephardic Trajectories brings together scholars of Ottoman history and Jewish studies to discuss how family heirlooms, papers, and memorabilia help us conceptualize the complex process of migration from the Ottoman Empire to the United States. To consider the shared significance of family archives in both the United States and in Ottoman lands, the volume takes as starting point the formation of the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection at the University of Washington, a community-led archive and the world’s first major digital repository of archival documents and recordings related to the Sephardic Jews of the Mediterranean world. Contributors reflect on the role of private collections and material objects in studying the Sephardi past, presenting case studies of Sephardic music and literature alongside discussions of the role of new media, digitization projects, investigative podcasts, and family memorabilia in preserving Ottoman Sephardic culture. Trade Review"Sephardic Trajectories is a landmark demonstration of international collaboration between Turkey and the United States, advancing Jewish historiography by integrating the latest digital technology to copy, itemize, and disseminate Ladino literature. Sephardic Trajectories is not a sole beneficiary of state or foundational backing, but a collective labor of love involving over 80 community members from organizations as diverse as Koç University’s Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations (ANAMED) in downtown Istanbul and the Sephardic congregation of Bikur Holim in Seattle. The collections of Sephardic material, largely originating from printers and manufacturers in the Ottoman Empire, currently housed at the University of Washington, exemplifies the potential of community-led archives." * Tablet *"Sephardic Trajectories represents an exemplary mix of sources and creative thematic structure....there is no doubt that this volume and the novel sources that it introduces will inspire future works in Sephardic studies. Researchers who are interested in the Sephardim will certainly find value in this book. The large swath of materials from the UWSSC and the revisionist approaches of the authors will become an invaluable tool for Sephardic scholars, in general, and historians of Ottoman Jews, in particular." * Sephardic Horizons *Table of ContentsIntroduction (Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano, UPenn; Kerem Tinaz, Koç University) Part I Histories: The Formation of a Community-Led Archive Ottoman Imprints and Erasures among Seattle’s Sephardic Jews (Devin Naar, UW) “The Seeds for a New Judaeo-Spanish Culture on the Shores of Puget Sound?” (Ty Alhadeff, UW) Part II Studies: Reading the Past through the Seattle Sephardic Studies Collection From the Aegean to the Pacific: Ottoman Legacies in Seattle Sephardi Synagogues (Maureen Jackson) Walking Through a Library: Notes on the Ladino Novel and Some Other Books (Laurent Mignon, Oxford U.) Sephardic Soldiers in the Late Ottoman Army (Özgür Özkan, UW) Part III Reflections: Ottoman Pasts, Private Collections, and Family Memories Artifacts and their Aftermath: The Imperial and Post-Imperial Trajectories of Late Ottoman Material Objects (Benjamin Fortna, U. Arizona) Deporting Ottoman Americans (Chris Gratien, UVA; Sam Negri) Amid Galanti’s Private Documents: Reflections on the Legacy, Trajectory, and Preservation of a Sephardi Intellectual’s Past (Kerem Tinaz, Koç U.) Galante’s Daughter: Crafting an Archival Family Memoir (Hannah Pressman)

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Book SynopsisRebuilding societies where conflict has occurred is rarely a simple process, but where conflict has been accompanied by gross and systematic violations of human rights, the procedure becomes fraught with controversy. This volume brings together eminent scholars and practitioners with direct experience of some of the most challenging contemporary cases of international justice, and illustrates that justice and accountability remain complex ideals.

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Book SynopsisThe humanities include disciplines as diverse as literary theory, linguistics, history, film studies, theology, and philosophy. Do these various fields of study have anything in common that distinguishes them from, say, physics or sociology? The tripartite division between the natural sciences, the social sciences and the humanities may seem self-evident, but it only arose during the course of the 19th century and is still contested today. 'History and Philosophy of the Humanities: An Introduction' presents a reasoned overview of the conceptual and historical backgrounds of the humanities. In four sections, it discusses: - the most influential views on scientific knowledge from Aristotle to Thomas Kuhn; - the birth of the modern humanities and its relation to the natural and social sciences; - the various methodological schools and conceptual issues in the humanities; - several themes that set the agenda for current debates in the humanities: critiques of modernity; gender, sexuality and identity; and postcolonialism. Thus, it provides students in the humanities with a comprehensive understanding of the backgrounds of their own discipline, its relation to other disciplines, and the state of the art of the humanities at large.Trade Review''History and Philosophy of the Humanities: An Introduction' is a book that gives structure and meaning to a rich and vital academic field. It is well-structured, clearly written, and with useful summaries at the end of each chapter. A guiding light for our academic thinking and practice.' - Frits van Oostrom, University Professor, Utrecht University, former president of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences

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Hippos delves deeply into all aspects of ancient Athenian horsemanship, from the scientific analysis of a horse skeleton recently excavated at Phaleron to the roles of horses in Greek religion. Major discussion is devoted to hippotrophia, the training of equines, their competitive activities in horse racing, and their important role in the cavalry. This richly illustrated book consists of over 40 short essays on diverse topics such as the practices for naming of Athenian horses, their appearance on the city's coinage, the make-up of a chariot, the advice of the Athenian cavalry commander Xenophon, the cavalry inspection, and the possible appearance of horses on the Greek stage. This bilingual volume is the result of an exhibition held at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens in 2022. All of the objects in the exhibit are included, from small silver coins to large marble memorials for slain cavalry officers. Many of the artifacts documenting the Athenian cavalry come from wells in the Athenian Agora. Horse racing was a passion of all Greeks, but only Athens had a hero (Hippothoon) suckled by a mare. This book makes clear that hippomania was rampant in ancient Athens, just as Aristophanes implied in his comedies.

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Book SynopsisThis collection of 328 photographs shows the rhythm of daily life in Singapore between 1959 and 1965 – the pivotal time in its history when the city-state was granted internal self-rule by the British colonial government to the year it became a sovereign nation. This was when Singapore began its process of great development. Kampong folk moved into high-rise housing, new careers came with factories built in Jurong, the trading of stocks and shares began in Raffles Place, television was introduced to Singapore, and the new red-brick National Library opened on Stamford Road. Yet, some things remained unchanged. Bumboats still jostled on the fetid waters of the Singapore River, children played on five-foot-ways, families enjoyed the sea air along Queen Elizabeth Walk, and eating out at street-side hawker stalls was a way of life. For those who remember these scenes, this book will evoke a lost time. And for those who do not, it is a window to a simpler, unhurried life.

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Book SynopsisThis open access book offers unique in-depth, comprehensive, and comparative analyses of the motivations, context, and outcomes of recent land reforms in Africa. Whereas a considerable number of land reforms have been carried out by African governments since the 1990s, no systematic analysis on their meaning has so far been conducted. In the age of land reform, Africa has seen drastic rural changes. Analysing the relationship between those reforms and change, the chapters in this book reveal not only their socio-economic outcomes, such as accelerated marketisation of land, but also their political outcomes, which have often been contrasting. Countries such as Rwanda and Mozambique have utilised land reform to strengthen state control over land, but other countries, such as Ghana and Zambia, have seen the rise in power of traditional chiefs in managing the land. The comparative perspective of this book clarifies new features of African social changes, which are carefully investigated by area experts. Providing new perspectives on recent land reform, this book will have a considerable impact on scholars as well as policymakers.Table of ContentsPreface1. Shinichi Takeuchi & Kojo S. Amanor. “Introduction: Social outcomes of land reform in post-Cold War Africa” 2. Kojo S. Amanor. “Land governance, class and rural development in Ghana” 3. Peter Narh. “Traversing state, agribusinesses, and farmers' land discourses in Kenyan intensive agriculture” 4. Horman Chitonge. “Land reform in Africa: The governance of customary land in the spotlight” 5. Shuichi Oyama. “Shifting cultivation and land tenure reform in Zambia” 6. Akiyo Aminaka. “Politics over the land resource management in Mozambique” 7. Shinichi Takeuchi. “Land law reform and the state-building in Rwanda” 8. Teshome Emana. “Urban policy and state power in urban land commercialization in Ethiopia” 9. Chizuko Sato. “Land tenure reform in three former settler colonies in Southern Africa” 10. Lungisile Ntsebeza. “Land tenure reform in South Africa's former Bantustans: Reform or regression?” 11. Shinichi Takeuchi. “Conclusion: Community, chief, and the state,”

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Book SynopsisThis open access book explores the past and present of Quanzhou (Zayton) and the rich diversity and tolerance that kindled Quanzhou’s innovativeness and helped it prosper both commercially and culturally—values that are today being embraced by China’s global trade partners. Quanzhou (Zayton), Marco Polo’s port of departure and Columbus’ goal in China, was not only the start of the Maritime Silk Road and the Middle Age’s greatest port but also centuries ahead of its time in its tolerance and diversity. The fabled “City of Light” had 7 mosques for its 40,000 Muslims, some of whom served in government, as well as 3 Franciscan cathedrals funded in part by the emperor, Jewish synagogues, and centers for Nestorian Christians, Hindus, Taoists, Manicheans, Jains, etc. As Franciscan Bishop Andrew of Perugia wrote in 1322, “Tis a fact that in this vast empire, there are people of every nation under heaven, and every sect, and all and sundry are allowed to live freely according to their creed.” In 2021, UNESCO designated “Quanzhou, Emporium of the World,” as a world heritage site, and the city is now the hub of the Belt and Road Initiative, the 21st Century Silk Road, which was inspired by ancient Quanzhou.Table of ContentsQuanzhou at a Glance.- The Story of Zaytun.- Exploring Quanzhou Maritime Museum.- Exploring the Ancient Maritime Silk Road in Today’s Quanzhou.- Quanzhou: Home of Miraculous Chinese Puppets!.

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Book SynopsisA photography book that is a vital accompaniment to the many fans of Hilary Mantel's bestselling Wolf Hall TrilogyAt the very beginning of the twentieth century, Zola said, 'In my view you cannot claim to have really seen something till you have photographed it.'' The act of photographing, at least for a moment, distinguishes its object and estranges it from its context . . . Every stroke of the pen releases a thousand pictures inside the writer's head. This book has made some of them visible.' Hilary MantelHilary Mantel, Ben Miles, the stage's celebrated Thomas Cromwell, and his brother, photographer George Miles, spent many years exploring the locations we know Thomas Cromwell visited and inhabited Putney, Austin Friars, Wolf Hall, the Tower of London to capture the faint traces of Tudor England and his extraordinary life. Accompanied with extracts from The Wolf Hall Trilogy, some of them published here for the first time, and including a stunning new essay by its author, these phoTrade Review Praise for the Wolf Hall trilogy ‘The most masterful story telling imaginable’ Graham Norton ‘Very few writers manage not just to excavate the sedimented remains of the past, but bring them up again into the light and air so that they shine brightly once more before us. Hilary Mantel has done just that’ Simon Schama, Financial Times ‘Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall novels make 99 per cent of contemporary literary fiction feel utterly pale and bloodless by comparison’ The Times ‘So original and disconcerting that it will surely come to be seen as a paradigm-shifter’ Sunday Telegraph ‘Hers are books that refuse to shy away from the underside of life … Hilary Mantel is one of our bravest as well as our most brilliant writers’ Olivia Laing, Observer ‘It is the making of our English world, and who can fail to be stirred by it?’ Helen Dunmore, author of Birdcage Walk ‘Succeeds brilliantly in every particle … it’s an imaginative achievement to exhaust superlatives’ Spectator ‘Mantel in the voice of Cromwell is inspired. When she is in full flow as a novelist, creating scenes and inventing dialogue, she is more convincing than rendering a recorded scene from history’ Philippa Gregory, Sunday Express ‘Mantel has redefined what the historical novel is capable of . . . Taken together, her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century’ Observer, Stephanie Merritt

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Book SynopsisObjects found on the banks of the Thames tell the stories of Londoners through the centuries.

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Book SynopsisThe Anatomist's Library is a lavishly illustrated compendium of the anatomical publications that have informed medicine over six centuries. Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION ANATOMY IN THE ANCIENT WORLD (3000 bce–1300 ce) MEDIEVAL ANATOMY (1301–1500) ANATOMY IN THE RENAISSANCE (1501–1600) THE AGE OF THE MICROSCOPE (1601–1700) THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT (1701–1800) THE AGE OF INVENTION (1801–1900) WHAT HAPPENED NEXT? BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX PICTURE CREDITS ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the meaning and history of this fascinating object, and tells the tale of its remarkable survival and eventual passage to the British Museum.

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Book SynopsisProvide complete support for your GCSE Modern World History candidates with this bestselling textbook from an author you can really trust.GCSE Modern World History supports GCSE and IGCSE specifications. This book combines clear explanations, carefully-designed tasks and fascinating source material.Questions, activities and Focus Tasks are provided throughout to:> Deepen understanding of the content> Develop evaluative and investigative skills> Help students become more independent learners> Support exam preparationThis book covers the following topics:> The First World War, including Causes and Peace Treaties> The USSR, Germany and the USA between the wars Depth Studies> Cooperation and Conflict 1919-1945> International Relations 1945-1990The accompanying Teacher Resource Book includes structured support for every major task in the Student Book. It''s available free online at hoddereducation.co.uk/historynest

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA classic. It provides an invaluable aid to anyone seeking to understand Plato and Aristotle in their historical context. Dover uses a variety of literary sources to set out, with clarity and deep sensitivity, popular views on moral, political, and religious matters in fourth-century Greece. --Michael Morgan, Indiana University

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Book SynopsisDavid Frye''s skillful translation and abridgment of Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala''s monumental First New Chronicle and Good Government (composed between 1600-1616) offers an unprecedented glimpse into pre-colonial Inca society and culture, the Spanish conquest of Peru (1532-1572), and life under the corrupt Spanish colonial administration. An Introduction provides essential historical and cultural background and discusses the author''s literary and linguistic innovations. Maps, a glossary of terms, and seventy-five of Guaman Poma''s ink drawings are also included.Trade ReviewDavid Frye achieves a tour de force in rendering the chronicle comprehensible to a large audience without diminishing its richness as an historical source. The different sections of this book respect the chronicle's original composition and translate Guaman Poma's main argument with accuracy. . . . Frye's translation . . . offers a vivid portrayal of Peru's colonial society with its different strata, revealing the intricate nature of indigeneity and gender in the Andes following the Spanish conquest. . . . [T]he English text is fluid throughout. This fluidity, however, neither stifles Guaman Poma's voice nor tones down his zeal in condemning the brutality and inequity of the colonial system. Frye's achievement undoubtedly leans on his comprehension of the literary and historical context that surrounds the mestizo author, a context he summarizes in the introduction. Punctuated by knowledgeable annotations throughout the pages and complemented by a glossary of Pre-Hispanic and colonial terms, this translation proves to be a valuable contribution for introducing students to the Andean society of the colonial era. --Bulletin of Latin American ResearchDavid Frye is a professional anthropologist and skilled translator. [This book] includes an Introduction which provides most of the information needed to understand Guaman Poma de Ayala's text and Frye's translation thereof, a map, a glossary, an index, and generally helpful notes that demonstrate a solid command of the relevant primary and secondary literature. The sections of the lengthy manuscript . . . selected for translation are representative of the work as a whole. . . . Frye also includes some of Guaman Poma de Ayala's several hundred black-and-white drawings, which should be viewed as an integral, not merely supplementary, part of his work. . . . [T]his is a welcome translation, all the more so because it is well done. . . . Frye has been painstaking in his explanation of terminology. I recommend this work for courses on Latin America during the colonial period, or more specifically the Central Andes (i.e., Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia). --Hispanic American Historical ReviewGenerations of scholars have grappled with the challenge of interpreting the person and project of the native Andean chronicler Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This abridged English translation of Guaman Poma's Nueva corónica y buen gobierno represents at least two accomplishments. First, it brings this person and project to many readers for the first time. And, second, the words allow for new encounters with the possibilities in this text. These words have a piercing directness that cannot be denied, and they will jar even seasoned scholars, who thought they knew Guaman Poma. Frye has made judicious choices about inclusion, he has consulted widely, he has not shied away from the transformations that were part of being authentically native Andean in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, and he has wisely refused to fill the telling silences left by the author himself. Most significantly of all, for students and teachers, is that--in as much as it is possible--he has allowed Felipe Guaman Poma to speak for himself. --Kenneth Mills, University of TorontoTable of ContentsIntroduction; The First New Chronicle and Good Government; The Ages of the World; The Pontiff's Throne; The Ages of the Indians; The Fifth Age of Indians: The Incas; The Conquest of This Kingdom; Good Government; Conquest Society in the Andes; Andean Society Under Spanish Rule; Conclusions and Appendices; Glossary; Index.

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Book SynopsisThe debate and discussion around Game of Thrones has covered questions of climate issues, industrialization, and questions of power, sex and gender. But in this essential companion to both George R.R. Martin''s novels and the HBO show, Carolyne Larrington explores how this remarkable universe was constructed from the actual Middle Ages. The book examines sigils, giants, dragons and direwolves in medieval texts; ravens, old gods and the Weirwood in Norse myth; and a gothic, exotic orient in the eastern continent, Essos. From the White Walkers to the Red Woman, from Casterly Rock to the Shivering Sea, this is an indispensable guide to the 21st-century''s most important fantasy creation.Table of ContentsList of Abbreviations List of Illustrations Introduction Chapter One: The Centre Chapter Two: The North Chapter Three: The West Chapter Four: Across the Narrow Sea Chapter Five: The East Epilogue Notes List of Further Reading Index

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Book SynopsisMichael Napier details the critical role of air power in the skies over Afghanistan, from the ten-year occupation by the USSR in the 1980s through to the US and NATO campaign from 2001 to 2021.US and British forces, strongly supported by air power, invaded Afghanistan in late 2001 in response to the Al Qaida attacks on 9/11. What began as a small-scale operation of 2,500 troops with the limited objective of destroying Al Qaida became ever larger, growing to over 100,000 troops ten years later. This experience matched that of the Soviets after their invasion in late 1979, when they saw a massive increase in resistance by Mujahidin.Afghan Air Wars details how Soviet aircraft including the MiG-21, MiG-23, Su-17 and Su-25, as well as Mi-8 and Mi-24 helicopters supported Soviet offensives in the Panjshir Valley and other regions. Despite these high-octane operations and overwhelming air superiority, Soviet forces eventually withdrew.Trade ReviewA must for anyone interested in modern air power. * History of War *Table of ContentsAuthor's note Chapter 1: An Introduction to Afghanistan Chapter 2: The Soviet Experience 1979–1989 Chapter 3: US and NATO intervention 2001–2005 Chapter 4: Taliban Insurgency 2006–2008 Chapter 5: ISAF Takes Back Control 2009–2014 Chapter 6: Endgame 2015–2021 Endnotes Appendices Abbreviations Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisExam board: AQA; OCRLevel: AS/A-levelSubject: HistoryFirst teaching: September 2015First exams: Summer 2016 (AS); Summer 2017 (A-level)Put your trust in the textbook series that has given thousands of A-level History students deeper knowledge and better grades for over 30 years.Updated to meet the demands of today's A-level specifications, this new generation of Access to History titles includes accurate exam guidance based on examiners' reports, free online activity worksheets and contextual information that underpins students' understanding of the period.- Develop strong historical knowledge: in-depth analysis of each topic is both authoritative and accessible- Build historical skills and understanding: downloadable activity worksheets can be used independently by students or edited by teachers for classwork and homework- Learn, remember and connect important events and people: an introduction to the period, summary diagrams, timelines and links to additional online resources support lessons, revision and coursework- Achieve exam success: practical advice matched to the requirements of your A-level specification incorporates the lessons learnt from previous exams- Engage with sources, interpretations and the latest historical research: students will evaluate a rich collection of visual and written materials, plus key debates that examine the views of different historians

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Book SynopsisEmbarking on a quest to uncover your ancestry? Finding Your Family Tree is the perfect genealogy guide to have at your side, with special research techniques for underrepresented groups. Genealogy offers you the opportunity to understand who you are through your family history. With this knowledge, you can embrace your identity, understand your own health and wellness, reconnect with your roots and family origins, and find an overall sense of wholeness. Finding Your Family Tree: A Beginner’s Guide to Researching Your Family Tree is an ideal starting point for your own journey of self-discovery. Your are eager to learn your ancestry, but in these disconnected times it can be hard to figure out on your own. With author and expert genealogist Sharon L Morgan as your guide, you can explore even the thorniest family tree. Sharon shows you how to embrace the world of genealogical research and provides guidance for underrepresented groups, such as African Americans and Native Americans, and anyone else who is interested in connecting with their family background.In this engaging, accessible guide on how to do family research, you’ll find: Tips and tricks for using major online and offline research sources—without falling for false leads. Techniques for overcoming common research obstacles. Special attention to the challenges of genealogical research for groups that are underrepresented in the historical record. Sample research documents and useful visuals on how to interpret old records. Beyond exploring the practical challenges of researching your family history, this book will show you what’s most exciting about this research—the unique family stories and histories you’ll discover, but also the essential truths that bind and connect us all.Table of ContentsContents Introduction Chapter 1: Build Your Family Tree Chapter 2: My Family Story Chapter 3: Oral History Chapter 4: Census Records Chapter 5: Vital Records Chapter 6: Military Records Chapter 7: Court Records Chapter 8: Special People Chapter 9: DNA Testing Chapter 10: So Much More Research Checklist Resources Index Acknowledgements About the Author

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Book Synopsis"This volume represents a sea change in educational resources for the history of piracy. In a single, readable, and affordable volume, Lane and Bialuschewski present a wonderfully diverse body of primary texts on sea raiders. Drawn from a variety of sources, including the authors' own archival research and translations, these carefully curated texts cover over two hundred years (1548–1726) of global, early-modern piracy. Lane and Bialuschewski provide glosses of each document and a succinct introduction to the historical context of the period and avoid the romanticized and Anglo-centric depictions of maritime predation that often plague work on the topic." —Jesse Cromwell, The University of MississippiTrade Review"An important addition to the literature on piracy. The wide-ranging selection of documents makes it possible to compare and contrast piracy across the globe, and over time. Readers will gain a real sense of the scope of early modern sea raiders from these sources (several of which are translated into English for the first time here) and surely enjoy a few good yarns. The ancillary materials (short introductions to the documents, reading questions, chronology, maps, images, and glossary) will also facilitate classroom use of this anthology."—Sean T. Perrone, Saint Anselm College"A really exciting volume. The wide range of archival material collected here from around the world will allow readers to explore the early modern world, and real-life experience of piracy, first hand. But the book also serves as an effective introduction to such broader topics as working with, and learning from, sources; how researchers use archives; how historians can make dramatically different arguments about the same document; and how historians construct a narrative based on available evidence."—Mark G. Hanna, University of California, San Diego"[A] tremendous boon. Piracy in the Early Modern Era provides a much needed authoritative selection of texts, thematically and chronologically divided into eight well-chosen sections that effectively showcase the material’s interest, as well as its global range and significance. "The editors . . . have framed the anthology with a 'general introduction' that provides an authoritative overview of the history of piracy and ways of approaching it, from ancient to modern, as well as the debates about terminology and meaning concerning the terms corsair, pirate, privateer and buccaneer. "Taken together, the judicious selection of primary materials and informative contextual and ancillary resources in Piracy in the Early Modern Era makes it an excellent addition to the current literature available on piracy. "This valuable book has much to recommend it as, with its succinct introductions and broad-ranging and varied global sources, it challenges the dominance of English early modern maritime history, allowing readers to understand piracy in global contexts." —Claire Jowitt, University of East Anglia, in The Mariner’s Mirror: The International Quarterly Journal of The Society for Nautical ResearchSelected by CHOICE Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2020: "Defining piracy in the early modern period is frustrating; investigating the lives of early modern pirates is even more maddening. Their humble and diverse social origins, itinerant existences, and illicit activities conspire to obscure them, and what contemporaries thought about them, from our present view. This impressive collection helps shed light on these shadowy historical figures. As piracy was a contested crime in the early modern period, editors Lane (Tulane Univ.) and Bialuschewski (Trent Univ., Canada) note that to "get closer to the truth about piracy, one must examine as many sources as possible" (p. xv). Accordingly, they have scoured the globe for primary sources and truly provide a kaleidoscopic perspective on early modern piracy. In addition to a general introduction, chronology, select bibliography, and glossary, there are eight sections of documents, each concerned with a different period or place in the history of early modern piracy. Most appreciated are the heretofore unknown or untranslated non-English archival sources; their deft juxtaposition with previously published commentaries offers "rare insight into the actions" of early modern pirates (p. xxvii). This is, in sum, an exceptional resource for investigating early modern piracy. Highly recommended." —M. Reardon, West Texas A&M University, in CHOICE"Piracy in the Early Modern Era provides its reader with far more than its titular anthology of sources. Indeed, it constitutes a near-perfect teaching volume, one that would feel equally at home in a large undergraduate lecture or a small graduate seminar. (I know of no other book that shares its versatility.) Its length– 69 pages–deceives. Its offerings provide myriad tools for the student and scholar alike: maps, a glossary that includes a guide to place names, illustrations, a generous bibliography, and discussion questions following each section. These resources supplement the book’s main contents, forty-eight separate documents (including excerpts) that help elucidate the early modern crime of piracy for the reader. The documents, arranged according to both period and geographic location, span genres such as autobiography, legal treatise, and chronicle: it is evident that the editors sought breadth rather than depth. While Lane and Bialuschewski admit their European (and corresponding colonial) focus and add, “In lieu of major archival discoveries, a truly global history of piracy remains difficult to construct”, it should be noted that they provide as holistic a collection as possible." —Hayley Cotter, University of Massachusetts Amherst, in American and English Studies“[A] much-needed resource on an understudied topic. This alone makes it an important addition to material available for use in the classroom. . . The volume encourages readers to engage with particular historical approaches. These include the analysis of bias and perspective, the extrapolation of subaltern detail from hegemonic material, grappling with nuance, and understanding the complexity of historical categories. Ultimately, Lane and Bialuschewski’s efforts will generate more interest in an already fascinating topic.” —Cacey Farnsworth, Brigham Young University, in Sixteenth Century Journal"[A] much-needed resource on an understudied topic. This alone makes it an important addition to material available for use in the classroom. . . . The volume encourages readers to engage with particular historical approaches. These include the analysis of bias and perspective, the extrapolation of subaltern detail from hegemonic material, grappling with nuance, and understanding the complexity of historical categories. Ultimately, Lane and Bialuschewski's efforts will generate more interest in an already fascinating topic." —Cacey Farnsworth, Brigham Young University, in Sixteenth Century Journal

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Book SynopsisThere is a story in the name of almost every street and district in Glasgow, with some tracing their origins to pagan times, long before Glasgow could even be called a city. In this hugely informative and entertaining book, Carol Foreman not only investigates the influences and inspirations for many of the city's most famous thoroughfares, but also considers the origins of particular districts, buildings and even the great River Clyde itself. This revised edition includes new information on city-centre street names from the M8 to the north bank of the Clyde, to Glasgow Green and Bridgeton in the east and to Kingston Bridge in the west. Also included are the districts of the Gorbals, the West End and Anderston. Packed with fascinating information and enhanced with over a hundred photographs and drawings, Glasgow Street Names is an indispensable book which introduces the history of the city in an imaginative and accessible way.

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Book SynopsisThe remarkable autobiography of a Holocaust escapee. "Go on, my son. Maybe you will survive..." Aron Goldfarb was fifteen years old when he was ripped from his bed in Poland and forced to enter a Jewish work camp. Watching helplessly as Nazis murdered his friends and family, he and his brother, Abe, made their courageous escape after hearing rumours of fellow prisoners being executed in gas chambers. With astonishing bravery and an unshakeable will to survive, the brothers hid together in underground holes on an estate controlled by the Gestapo. In this moving testament to the strength of human endurance and the power of relationships, co-written with acclaimed author Graham Diamond, Goldfarb tells his unbelievable true tale at long last. Vivid, compelling and frequently harrowing, Maybe You Will Survive is essential reading for anyone with an interest in the human condition. Marking seventy-five years since the end of the Holocaust and Aron's liberation, this edition includes a foreword his from sons, Morris and Ira.

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Book SynopsisUsing a ‘battered medium format camera’ once belonging to Fay Godwin, Alex Boyd captures the archipelago of St Kilda in a new light, from a 21st century perspective. From the crumbling Cold War military base to the wild beauty of the natural landscape, this collection of photographs is both an ode to the history of the islands and an insight into the modern day lives of those who live and work on St Kilda today.Trade ReviewWhat a remarkable book this is: testimony to a commitment of method, a brilliance of eye and a subtlety of spirit. Made of what Rilke calls 'heart-work' as well as 'the work of the eyes', vigilant against nostalgia and ruin-lust, it explores and records the forces that have shaped contemporary St Kilda. Alex Boyd's images represent a major addition to the tradition of modern landscape photography, of which Fay Godwin - on whose camera these images were taken - was such a crucial twentieth-century figure. ROBERT MacFARLANE

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Book SynopsisThe discovery of the site of the Mycenean Palace of Odysseus, with dating evidence and photos.

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Book SynopsisThis book recovers the neglected history of Gerlin Bean, an activist and community organiser in the Black radical movement of the 1960s-1980s.

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Book SynopsisCollection, colonialism, translation, and the ephemera that shapes the stories we tell about ourselves.Featuring new original works by: Yásnaya Elena Aguilar, Cristina Rivera Garza, Joseph Zárate, Juan Cárdenas, Velia Vidal, Lina Meruane, Gabriela Cabezón Cámara, Dolores Reyes, Carlos Fonseca, Djamila RibeiroThe Central and South American collection at the British Museum collections contains approximately 62,000 objects, spanning 10,000 years of human history. The vast majority cannot be displayed, and those objects are the subject of Untold Microcosms , a collection of ten stories from ten Latin American writers, and inspired by the narratives about our past that we create through museums, in spite of their gaps and disarticulations.Trade Review

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Book SynopsisOld orchards have an irresistible appeal. Their ancient trees and obscure fruit varieties seem to provide a direct link with the lost rural world of our ancestors, a time when the pace of life was slower and people had a strong and intimate connection with their local environment. They are also of critical importance for sustaining biodiversity, providing habitats, in particular, for a range of rare invertebrates. Not surprisingly, orchards and the fruit they contain have attracted an increasing amount of attention over the last few decades, from both enthusiastic bands of amateurs and official conservation bodies. But much of what has been written about them is historically vague, romanticised and nostalgic. Orchards have become a symbol of unspoilt, picturesque rural England.This book attempts, for the first time, to provide a comprehensive review of the development of orchards in England from the Middle Ages to the present day. It describes the various different kinds of orchard and explains how, and when, they appeared in the landscape – and why they have disappeared, at a catastrophic rate, over the last six decades. Chapters discuss the contrasting histories of fruit growing in different regions of England, the complex story of ‘traditional’ fruit varieties and the role of orchards in wildlife conservation. In addition, a chapter on researching orchards provides a practical guide for those wishing to investigate the history and archaeology of particular examples.Trade ReviewThe book is an enjoyable read, it combines a vast amount of information in an accessible narrative * Antiquity *This is a well-produced book with ample colour illustrations and presents a useful summary on the subject of English orchards, in particular the consideration of the four different types of orchards and a comparison of orchard development between the three key regions of orchard landscapes in England. * Landscape History *Blending erudite landscape history and ecology with a perceptive eye for heritage and environmental issues, this book provides a superb overview of a neglected feature of our historic environment. It fully deserves the wide readership that it will doubtless receive. * Worcestershire Recorder *Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations 1. Introducing Orchards 2. Types of Orchard: Farmhouse and Commercial 3. Types of Orchard: Gardens and Institutions 4. The Orchard Countries: Western England 5. The Orchard Countries: South-East England 6. The Orchard Countries: East Anglia and the Fens 7. The Recent History of Orchards 8. Studying Old Orchards 9. The Importance of Orchards: Biodiversity 10. The Importance of Orchards: Culture and History 11. Conclusion Bibliography

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