A Guide to Their Identification, Ecology, and Conservation
Dangerous Snakes of Australia is an indispensable field guide to all 150 identified species of venomous elapid snakes on the continent. Through detailed species accounts, Mike Swan introduces readers to the physical features, habitat, behavior, and other distinctive characteristics of some of the most charismatic-and ......
Plato's Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Crito and Aristophanes' Clouds
Widely adopted for classroom use, this book offers translations of four major works of ancient Greek literature which treat the life and thought of Socrates, focusing particularly on his trial and defense (three dialogues by Plato: Euthyphro, Apology of Socrates, and Crito) and on the charges against Socrates (Aristophanes' comedy Clouds). This ......
Christian Sanctuaries from Late Antiquity Through the Middle Ages
In Shrines, Relics, and Saints,the eminent medievalist Andre Vauchez explores the evolution of spaces in Christianity-chapels, monasteries, holy wells, grottos, and other holy places-that are considered sacred because they house the relics of a saint or because they preserve the memory of an appearance by a saint, angel, or the Virgin Mary. ......
"Though the book was first published in German in 1988, this English version includes many revisions and updates and will be the definitive English-language study of the Avar empire for years to come. It will be invaluable for those interested in medieval history or in the impact of nomadic steppe empires on sedentary civilizations."-Choice The ......
In The Afterlife of Utopia, Samantha Maurer Fox traces the transformation of Eisenhuettenstadt, East Germany's first planned socialist city, from a Cold War showcase to a paragon of sustainable shrinkage. Founded in 1950 as Stalinstadt, the city was designed to embody socialist ideals. After German reunification, Eisenhuettenstadt lost over half ......
In The Afterlife of Utopia, Samantha Maurer Fox traces the transformation of Eisenhuettenstadt, East Germany's first planned socialist city, from a Cold War showcase to a paragon of sustainable shrinkage. Founded in 1950 as Stalinstadt, the city was designed to embody socialist ideals. After German reunification, Eisenhuettenstadt lost over half ......
Networking Putinism explores the internet's impact on political discourse in Russia and the strategies adopted both by Vladimir Putin and his associates to secure and legitimate their authority, as well as by the regime's most determined critics. Michael S. Gorham shows that despite Putin's famously dismissive attitude toward the internet, the ......
Networking Putinism explores the internet's impact on political discourse in Russia and the strategies adopted both by Vladimir Putin and his associates to secure and legitimate their authority, as well as by the regime's most determined critics. Michael S. Gorham shows that despite Putin's famously dismissive attitude toward the internet, the ......
Grassroots Ecology and the Collapse of East Germany
The Filthiest Village in Europe traces how a community shrouded by "industrial fog" at the brink of gaping coal pits became a symbol that galvanized grassroots ecology: campaigns by diverse local actors that exposed environmental and economic crises East Germany's political system could not resolve. Notorious by the late 1980s as "the filthiest ......
