Jocelyn Penny Small 
Wax Tablets of the Mind [PDF ebook] 
Cognitive Studies of Memory and Literacy in Classical Antiquity

Loades explores England »s religious cultures during the reign of Mary Tudor. He investigates how conflicting traditions of conformity and dissent negotiated the new spiritual, political and legal la …

Imperial Russia, 1801-1905 traces the development of the Russian Empire from the murder of  »mad Tsar Paul » to the reforms of the 1890s that were an attempt to modernise the autocratic state. This i …

Women and Religion in the First Christian Centuries focuses on religion during the period of Roman imperial rule and its significance in women »s lives. It discusses the rich variety of religious exp …

This carefully complied work marks an important contribution to the history of Medieval travel. It will appeal to the scholar and to the general reader. It covers such areas as the conception of the …

Recent years have witnessed growing concerns about the disengagement of young people from conventional politics both in Britain and internationally. Their non-participation is often viewed as reflect …

Merriam Press World War 2 In Review Series. The following articles on World War II weapons are in this issue: (1) Anti-tank Guns Part 5 (Russia and Swedish) (2) Artillery Practices by the Major Comba …

The reexamination of values that began during the USSRs last years continues today in the search for a new Russian culture, one rooted in the pre-Soviet past but dynamic and evolving. Multi-textual, …

Drawing upon the author »s extensive field research among pastoral peoples in the Middle East, India, and the Mediterranean, and on more than 30 years of comparative study of pastoralists around the …

First published in 2001. The dramatic rise to power of the Sa’udi family in Central Arabia and The emergence of the country from early Moslem ways into The modern materialism of The West are vividly …