This book tells the fascinating story of physics from the 19th to the 20th century. It investigates the contrasting ideas and raging arguments that led to our current understanding of the physical world, from the theory of relativity to quantum mechanics.
The Genesis of the Second Scientific Revolution
Scientific revolutions are not born from “great geniuses,” but from clashes of practices. This book reveals the common origin of the Quantum and Relativistic revolutions: a skirmish between mechanics, electrodynamics, and thermodynamics, first addressed by Planck and Einstein.
The Genesis of the Turks
This book presents a new theory on the origins of the Turks, placing their Urheimat in the South Urals. Using linguistic, genetic, and archaeological sources, it argues the Turkic identity consolidated with the Sintashta culture, a foundation they shared with Hungarians.
Literature and Image in the Long Nineteenth Century
This book explores how word and image worked together, negotiated, and competed in nineteenth-century pictures, poetry, and fiction. It covers the Pre-Raphaelites’ fusion of text and image and the tensions between writer and artist in book illustration.
Innovation is not simply making things easier, but shifting power. This book explores how innovation gives nations a strategic advantage, from historical economic revolutions to the financial impact of Artificial Intelligence and the future of innovation in the classroom.
Medieval Legal and Political Thought
Far from “Dark,” the Middle Ages developed vital legal ideas to contain violence. This book reveals how religious law created new problems and argues that Renaissance thought began much earlier, blurring the line between the Medieval and Modern and leaving a lasting legacy.
The Christian Slaves of Depok
In 1714, Dutch official Cornelis Chastelein freed his slaves, bequeathing them his estate to create a Christian community. But this dream unraveled. Caught between worlds, they were excluded by the Dutch and labeled “black Hollanders” by Indonesians. A tale of survival.
This book offers new approaches to Iberian and Ibero-American cultures, with emphasis on Portuguese-Galician, Basque, and Catalan identities after the Spanish Civil War. It discusses issues of memory, social dynamics, and transatlantic exchanges with South America and Africa.
Living, Dying, Death, and Bereavement (Volume Two)
This unique book offers extensive interviews with pioneers in thanatology—the study of dying, death, loss, and grief. These in-depth conversations provide compelling life stories and a comprehensive, insightful review of the field for clinicians, researchers, and lay persons.
The cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Greece provide a crucial context for understanding the Bible. Beliefs and practices from literary works like the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Epic of Gilgamesh, and Homer’s epics deepen our understanding of the Biblical Books.
My Life as A Forensic Sociologist
A forensic sociologist involved in criminal trials, Dr. Erickson acts as an expert witness for the defence or prosecution. This is the real-life story of her involvement with violent crime, visiting scenes in the dead of night to uncover discoveries for her testimony.
Periodic Table of the Universe
This exploration weaves the story of the universe through the periodic table. From the birth of elements in stellar furnaces to their role in creating planets and life, discover how the fundamental building blocks of our existence have shaped the cosmos.
Politics and Peasants in Interwar Romania
This title discusses the integration of peasants into the nation building project of Greater Romania with a focus on social and cultural practices. It advocates a shift from a multiple top-down perspective to an analysis concentrating on regionally diverse rural societies.
Brazilian History
Machado presents a critical introduction to Brazilian history. Combining a didactic approach with insightful historical analysis, he discusses the main political, cultural, and social developments that took place in the Latin American country from 1500 to 2010.
Varian Studies Volume One
The Roman emperor misnamed Elagabalus is a mythic monster of depravity or an anarchist saint. This volume explores the historical individual, Varius, behind the legend: a boy-priest made emperor at fourteen and murdered before eighteen. It rescues him from centuries of fantasy.
Binicewicz analyses issues associated with the contemporary and memory in the Polish-German borderlands, showing it to be a complex, multidimensional cultural and geographic area.
Access new and exclusive research on Ancient Egypt, the Near East, the Classical World, and the Reception of Antiquity. Spanning fields from archaeology to art, this book offers insights into the most current investigations in modern academia.
This book exposes the hidden history of Central-Eastern Europe: a tiny minority dominating a vast majority through a culture of intolerance. It dismantles long-held myths, presenting a truth now irrefutably confirmed by modern genetic science.
This book links the personal lives and public actions of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and two ambassadors. Their friendly relations turned to bitter enmity over how to confront a rising Nazi Germany, a fascinating tale of egos, intrigue, and lives ending as Greek tragedies.
A dramatic history of the Labour Party’s first hundred years. From Glasgow rent strikes to the danger of Hitler, this book describes how the party impacted ordinary people and shaped modern Britain. Accessible and challenging, it asks: How does Labour measure up after a century?
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