Cambridge University Press
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Africa and World War II
$45.00 Add to cartThis volume considers the military, economic, and political significance of Africa during World War II. The essays feature new research and innovative approaches to the historiography of Africa and br… [more below]
- Author: Byfield, Judith A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 564
- Publish Date: April 16 2015
- ISBN10: 1107630223
- Language: English
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The Lifeways of Hunter-Gatherers: The Foraging Spectrum
$56.67 Add to cartIn this book, Robert L. Kelly challenges the preconceptions that hunter-gatherers were Paleolithic relics living in a raw state of nature, instead crafting a position that emphasizes their diversity, … [more below]
- Author: Kelly, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1107607612
- Language: English
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The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires
$49.58 Add to cartIn the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. Entitled The History of the Rus’, it became one of the … [more below]
- Series: New Studies in European History
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: July 31 2014
- ISBN10: 1107449030
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Hungary
$32.00 Add to cartThis book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary, from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the 1988 elections. It tells abo… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Moln?r, Mikl?s
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: April 30 2001
- ISBN10: 0521667364
- Language: English
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From Bondage to Contract: Wage Labor, Marriage, and the Market in the Age of Slave Emancipation
$45.33 Add to cartThis book explores the centrality of contract to debates over freedom and slavery in nineteenth-century America. It focuses on the contracts of wage labor and marriage, investigating the connections b… [more below]
- Author: Stanley, Amy Dru
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: November 13 1998
- ISBN10: 0521635268
- Language: English
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Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800
$39.00 Add to cartThis book explores Africa’s involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, i… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Comparative World History
- Author: Thornton, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: April 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0521627249
- Language: English
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The Western Medical Tradition: 800 BC to Ad 1800
$70.83 Add to cartThe influence of Greek medical practices dating back to the fifth century B.C. has had an immeasurable impact on the development of medicine in the West over the subsequent centuries. This text is des… [more below]
- Author: Conrad, Lawrence I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 574
- Publish Date: August 17 1995
- ISBN10: 0521475643
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Music Guide
$70.83 Add to cartThe Cambridge Music Guide is for all those who love music and wish to know more about its colorful history, development and theory. Superbly illustrated, the Guide is a comprehensive tour of every asp… [more below]
- Author: Sadie, Stanley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 546
- Publish Date: April 05 1990
- ISBN10: 0521399424
- Language: English
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The Cambridge Companion to Arvo Pärt
$49.58 Add to cartArvo P rt is one of the most influential and widely performed contemporary composers. Around 1976 he developed an innovative new compositional technique called ‘tintinnabuli’ (Latin for ‘sounding bell… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Companions to Music
- Author: Shenton, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: May 17 2012
- ISBN10: 0521279100
- Language: English
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African American Religions, 1500-2000
$49.58 Add to cartThis book provides a narrative historical, postcolonial account of African American religions. It examines the intersection of Black religion and colonialism over several centuries to explain the rela… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Sylvester A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 438
- Publish Date: August 06 2015
- ISBN10: 0521157005
- Language: English
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The Rise of the Israeli Right: From Odessa to Hebron
$63.75 Add to cartThe Israeli Right first came to power nearly four decades ago. Its election was described then as ‘an earthquake, ‘ and its reverberations are still with us. How then did the Right rise to power? What… [more below]
- Author: Shindler, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: July 30 2015
- ISBN10: 052115166X
- Language: English
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Hegel: A Biography
$85.00 Add to cartOne of the founders of modern philosophical thought Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831) has gained the reputation of being one of the most abstruse and impenetrable of thinkers. This first major… [more below]
- Author: Pinkard, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 812
- Publish Date: June 18 2001
- ISBN10: 0521003873
- Language: English
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Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It
$42.50 Add to cartPlastic pollution is a global problem that defies a singular solution. Our Plastic Problem and How to Solve It considers plastic’s harm to the environment, from its production to its disposal, and off… [more below]
- Author: Morath, Sarah J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: March 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1108795374
- Language: English
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A Philosopher Looks at Work
$18.99 Add to cartIs work as we know it disappearing? And if so why should we care? These questions are explored by Raymond Geuss in this compact but sweeping survey which integrates conceptual analysis, historical ref… [more below]
- Series: A Philosopher Looks at
- Author: Geuss, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: May 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1108930611
- Language: English
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Ultrasocial: The Evolution of Human Nature and the Quest for a Sustainable Future
$24.00 Add to cartUltrasocial argues that rather than environmental destruction and extreme inequality being due to human nature, they are the result of the adoption of agriculture by our ancestors. Human economy has b… [more below]
- Author: Gowdy, John M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 282
- Publish Date: August 26 2021
- ISBN10: 110883826X
- Language: English
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Engaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms
$58.75 Add to cartEngaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms draws on extensive theoretical knowledge to examine engagement from a wide range of perspectives, going beyond the study of motivation to explore … [more below]
- Series: Engaging Language Learners in Contemporary Classrooms
- Author: Mercer, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1108445926
- Language: English
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Freud’s Thinking: An Introduction
$45.33 Add to cartIn this brief but comprehensive introduction to Freud’s theories, Mikkel Borch-Jacobsen provides a step-by-step overview of his ideas regarding the unconscious, the cure, sexuality, drives, and cultur… [more below]
- Author: Borch-Jacobsen, Mikkel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1009371142
- Language: English
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Learning and Everyday Life: Access, Participation, and Changing Practice
$41.08 Read moreWritten by world-renowned social anthropologist, Jean Lave, with an afterword by Brazilian anthropologist Ana Maria R. Gomes, this book weaves together ethnographic accounts of work and learning, appr… [more below]
- Author: Lave, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1108727433
- Language: English
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Practical Astronomy with your Calculator or Spreadsheet
$49.00 Add to cartNow in its fourth edition, this highly regarded book is ideal for those who wish to solve a variety of practical and recreational problems in astronomy using a scientific calculator or spreadsheet. Up… [more below]
- Author: Duffett-Smith, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: July 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1108436072
- Language: English
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Slavery’s Metropolis: Unfree Labor in New Orleans During the Age of Revolutions
$28.00 Add to cartNew Orleans is an iconic city, which was once located at the crossroads of early America and the Atlantic World. New Orleans became a major American metropolis as its slave population exploded; in the… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
- Author: Johnson, Rashauna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 258
- Publish Date: January 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1107591163
- Language: English
