Edited by Barry Cunliffe, one of the world's leading archaeologists, this book provides a comprehensive account of prehistoric Europe from the coming of the Stone Age to the fall of the Roman Empire. Unique in its approach, it is a history of both h ..

In 1644, the Manchus, a relatively unknown people inhabiting China's northeastern frontier, overthrew the Ming, Asia's mightiest rulers, and established the Qing dynasty, which endured to 1912. From this event arises one of Chinese history's great co ..

In this tour de force of scholarship and vision, Ken Wilber traces the course of evolution from matter to life to mind and describes the common patterns that evolution takes in all three of these domains. From the emergence of mind, he traces the evo ..

From the bestselling author of „Audrey Style“ comes a lavish celebration of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis's life and style, revealed through untold stories and stunning color and b&w photos. Publication is timed to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Camelot, May 2001.

Naguib Mahfouz's magnificent epic trilogy of colonial Egypt appears here in one volume for the first time. The Nobel Prize–winning writer's masterwork is the engrossing story of a Muslim family in Cairo during Britain's occupation of Egypt in the ea ..

Completely updated with new entries and extensive revisions of the previous edition, „The Rolling Stone Encyclopedia Of Rock & Roll“ is the authoritative volume on the world's music makers–from the one-hit wonders to the megastars. Over 200 photos.

The Living Goddesses crowns a lifetime of innovative, influential work by one of the twentieth-century's most remarkable scholars. Marija Gimbutas wrote and taught with rare clarity in her original–and originally shocking–interpretation of prehisto ..

Die Kronen von Wald-, Stadt und Strassenbäumen reagieren auf Umweltveränderungen. Dieser Zusammenhang war zwanzig Jahre lang Gegenstand der Forschung von Andreas Roloff. Das Ergebnis seiner Tätigkeit eröffnet die Möglichkeit, Bäume als Bioindikatoren ..

Anyone can cook in the French manner anywhere,– wrote Mesdames Beck, Bertholle, and Child, – with the right instruction.- And here is the book that, for forty years, has been teaching Americans how.§ Mastering the Art of French Cooking is for both se ..

This volume originated as lectures for a course on political philosophy that Rawls taught regularly at Harvard in the 1980s. In time the lectures became a restatement of his theory of justice as fairness, revised in light of his more recent papers an ..

The only full treatise on architecture and its related arts to survive from classical antiquity, the De Architectura libri decem (Ten Books on Architecture) is the single most important work of architectural history in the Western world, having shape ..

The Message of the Alien God and the Beginnings of Christianity