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"For readers in search of a thoughtful, thorough, and approachable survey of the history of religion, this book is an excellent place to start."-Booklist ...
The Chinese invented gunpowder and began exploring its military uses as early as the 900s, four centuries before the technology passed to the West. But ...
Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-frets: of wraith-like fog ...
How was the Soviet Union like a soup kitchen? In this important and highly revisionist work, historian Sheila Fitzpatrick explains that a reimagining of the ...
Claude Levi-Strauss is probably the most complex anthropological theorist of all time. His work continues to influence present-day thinkers in his field, but he is ...
Tony Judt decided to write Postwar in 1989, the year the collapse of the Soviet Union provided European history with a rare example of a ...
Clifford Geertz has been called `the most original anthropologist of his generation' - and this reputation rests largely on the huge contributions to the methodology and ...
Pigs unite and divide people, but why?
Pig/Pork explores the love-hate relationship between humans and pigs through the lenses of archaeology, biology, history and ...
During the reign of Charles II, London was a city in flux. After years of civil war and political turmoil, England's capital became the ...
In his most powerful and important book, renowned psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton presents a brilliant analysis of the crucial role that German doctors played in ...
The story of sugar, and of mankind's desire for sweetness in food and drink is a compelling, though confusing story. It is also an ...
Stamped from the Beginning is a redefining history of anti-Black racist ideas that dramatically changes our understanding of the causes and extent of racist thinking ...
The Knights Templar did not write about themselves, or keep diaries, so you would be forgiven for thinking there would not be much to know ...
Despite a long history of external threats and internal strife, the Roman Catholic Church remains a vast and influential presence in our modern world. But ...
