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The Middle Ages and the Renaissance were a period of scientific and literary reawakening. This reference work describes more than 75 experiments, inventions, and discoveries of the period, as well as
With extensive cross references and production data, filmlovers and students will find this a valuable reference for identifying feature films that take place during a specific period of world histor
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This one-stop resource for information and examination of the ten most important topics and events in Ancient Greek history is an ideal student companion to a study of Greek civilization. Each chapte
Provides a decade-by-decade analysis of consumer product advertising in the United States during the twentieth century, and discusses how products evolve to become cultural icons.
The first comprehensive introduction to the Orthodox Church in the United States from 1794 to the present, this book includes a succinct picture of the distinctive history of Orthodoxy and its particu
Technology is everywhere, even on battlefields. The difference now is not so much that we are finding more efficient ways to kill, which we are always doing, but that we are developing rapidly advanci
Isaak, editor of the Index of Creationist Claims on the Web site Talkorigins.org, notes that arguments for intelligent design and other creationist pseudoscience often sound powerful and convincing; m
Gives the scientific community of international psychology a new understanding of how Asian psychologists study the behavior and psychology of their own people via methods of the indigenous perspectiv
