Richard Swineshead’s short treatises (opuscula) on motion provide us with a direct insight into the successive stages in the fourteenth-century Oxford speculative, mathematical science of loc...
The book is representative of studies of the concept of political integration, present in the theory of political integration and international relations. It is considered a valuable source of know...
Eyewitness to history is written in short chapters that covers historic events ranging from Socrate's death right through to 9/11. Many of the event I knew about however there were a few in there t...
Seeing Science offers an insightful and reader-friendly collection of essays and pictures about photography's role in visualizing science and building human knowledge--from micro to macro levels an...
In the dying months of World War I, Spanish flu suddenly overwhelmed the world, killing between 50 and 100 million people.German soldiers termed it Blitzkatarrh, British soldiers called...
Witchcraft has recently been undergoing a huge popular revival, but does modern pagan witchcraft really bear any resemblance to its historical antecedents? This book explores the historical backgro...
An absorbing history, bringing explorers'tales vividly to life Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the men who went to Antarctica with Captain Scott, said"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest a...
Sad Topographies is an illustrated guide for the melancholic among us. Dispirited travellers rejoice as Damien Rudd journeys across continents in search of the world's most joyless place names and ...
To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, unc...
To say this series is "empowering" doesn't do it justice. Buy a copy for your daughters, sisters, mums, aunts and nieces - just make sure you buy a copy for your sons, brothers, dads, unc...
Art-writing at its most useful should share the dynamism, fluidity and passions of the objects of its enquiry, argues Marina Warner. In this new anthology of some of her most compelling work, she c...
The study, "The Language of the Gods in the World of Royal Ladies of Kerala. Toward a History of Women's Writing in Sanskrit in the 18th- to 20th-century Kerala", addresses the subject of...
Monografia wpisuje się w najnowszy światowy, europejski i polski dyskurs o charakterze politycznym, ekonomicznym, naukowym i prawnym związany z ideą zrównoważonego, zeroemisyjnego transportu...
Published in association with the Imperial War Museums, this book will provide the ultimate challenge to even the most knowledgeable military historian. You might think you know a great deal about ...
'Shines an incisive and entertaining light into the secretive world of the South Korean technology giant shaping our digital lives in ways we probably can't imagine' -- Brad StoneCan th...
Human beings, says Lee Smolin, author of The Trouble With Physics, have always had a problem with the boundary between reality and fantasy, confusing our representations of the world with the world...
Marcin SkinderDoctor of Political Sciences at the Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz,author of several books about among others social sciences,human resources management an...
This work is an attempt to assess to what extent the new economic governance of the EU helped to discipline public finances in the member states.The poor institutional design of the EU, the a...
Polish psychologist, Urszula Tokarska, has done a great service to the emerging field of temporal psychology by creating this unique volume, along with 18 authors from around the world, which illus...
Głównym celem powstania monografii było wypełnienie luki publikacyjnej na rynku literatury naukowo-technicznej, obejmującej zagadnienia związane z asynchronicznymi metodami radiolokalizacyjn...