Selim Ferruh Adali & Hyun Jin Kim 
Eurasian Empires in Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages [PDF ebook] 
Contact and Exchange between the Graeco-Roman World, Inner Asia and China

In Search of the City on a Hill challenges the widespread assumption that Americans have always used this potent metaphor to define their national identity. It demonstrates that America»s »red …

Why, from the eighteenth century onwards, did some countries embark on a path of sustained economic growth, while others stagnated? This text looks at the kind of institutions that are required in or …

This work sets forth the guidelines for an Afrocentric literary theory and goes on to apply that theory to three novels: Invisible Man , Song of Solomon and The Chaneysville Incident . …

This work focuses on the service economy, it introduces the fundamentals of markets, consumer choice, financial assessment, risk avoidance, and other topics. …

As the 19th century drew to a close, France and Italy experienced an explosion of crime, vagrancy, insanity, neurosis and sexual deviance. “Misfits” in Fin-de-Siècle France and Italy examines how the …

Taking as his point of departure the authors, the audience, and the texts of Victorian writings on sex in general and of Victorian pornography in particular, Steven Marcus offers a startling and revo …

The latest volume of the Political and Military Sociology annual review features empirical research on topics that focus on security, military training, culture, and the challenges of bureaucracy, la …

In this fascinating story of colonial competition around Lake Rudolf, a remote body of water in northern Kenya, Pascal James Imperato examines the political and diplomatic aspects of colonial competi …

Pictures of Cold War: Marshall Plan, Korean War, Hungarian Revolution of 1956, Suez Crisis, Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, 1967 Arab—lsraeli War, Vietnam War (1955—75), Soviet war in Afghanistan, Sovi …

From Popular Movements to Rebellion: The Naxalite Decade argues that without an understanding of the popular sources of the rebellion of that time, the age of the Naxalite revolt will remain beyond o …