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The seminal work on the evolution, aesthetics and politics in the late Qing period of wuxia, a genre of modern Chinese martial arts fiction, from one of China's leading literary scholars, presented here in English translation for the first time.

How did decolonization impact on Britain? And how did Britain manage its transition from colonial power to postcolonial nation? These questions are explored in an account of the ways in which domestic institutions reconfigured their activities for a

A groundbreaking study exploring the origins of Byzantine ritual, the rites of Greek Orthodoxy, and its unique relationship with traditional theatre. The work argues that the Church's rites were composed by public intellectuals, and performs an in-de

Learn to master basic programming tasks from scratch with real-life scientific examples drawn from many different areas of science and engineering. This complete introduction to using Python teaches Numpy, SciPy and Matplotlib libraries and is suppor

Deborah Lutz investigates the high value the Victorians placed on the artefacts and personal effects of the dead. By close study of works by Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Thomas Hardy, Lutz explores the ways these objects we

This edition of Stesichorus is the first full-scale treatment that this important ancient Greek poet has ever received. Presenting a newly constituted text and apparatus, it takes full advantage of recent manuscript discoveries and developments of sc

Boek The Archaeology Of Urbanism In Ancient Egypt, geschreven door Nadine (University of Chicago) M, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., Oudheid (tot 500)

This pioneering and unique treatise shows how the newly developed mathematical techniques of holographic duality can unify the fundamental theories of physics. Written for both students and researchers, this innovative text, with a layered style, def

This is the first comprehensive history of the campaign that determined control of Germany following Napoleon's catastrophic defeat in Russia. Michael Leggiere reveals how, in the spring of 1813, Prussia, the weakest of the Great Powers, led the stru

Compelling account of Protestant loss of power and self-confidence in Ireland since 1795, illustrating how 'descendancy' was experienced and perceived

Boek The Cambridge History Of Latin American Women's Literature, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., LITERARY CRITICISM / General

Boek Ancient Greece And China Compared, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

This is a major new account of the German drive on Moscow in November 1941, one of the largest and most significant battles of the Second World War. Drawing on unparalleled research, David Stahel explores the disastrous erosion of German strength, wh

Boek Jewish Childhood In The Roman World, geschreven door Hagith (University of Kansas) Si, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / General

Boek Mapping The Ottomans, geschreven door Palmira (Brown University, Rhode, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

A History of Mexican Literature examines the literary culture of Mexico from its indigenous beginnings to the twenty-first century

Boek Babur, geschreven door Stephen F. (Ohio State Universit, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General

Drawing from a wide range of archival sources, this study illustrates the resonance of radio within early twentieth-century debates. It rejects the idea of radio as a tool for a totalitarian state and instead offers a more nuanced picture of the impa

Boek A History Of American Civil War Literature, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., LITERARY CRITICISM / General

The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland presents the lates

Boek Founding Weimar, geschreven door Mark Jones, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

Boek Machiavelli's Florentine Republic, geschreven door New Hampshire) Clarke, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / Europe / General

This fascinating study uncovers the rich variety of exploration texts flourishing before the Victorian equation of discovery with disaster: from the manuscript culture of secretive corporations like the Hudson's Bay Company, to the Admiralty and its

Boek An Archaeology Of The English Atlantic World, 1600 - 1700, geschreven door Orser, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., HISTORY / General

Modernism and the Materiality of Texts argues that elements of modernist texts that are meaningless in themselves are motivated by their authors' psychic crises. This book provides new readings of key modernists including Stein, Woolf, and Kipling, a

This is the only introductory Latin textbook to feature texts by ancient Romans specifically for Latin learners. It includes clear explanations of grammatical concepts, 5,000 easy practice sentences, and 158 longer passages (from inscriptions, graffi

This book presents key case studies for human and technological mobility across the eastern Mediterranean in later prehistory. It will be of interest primarily to Mediterranean archaeologists, though also to historians and anthropologists, as this re

Argues that freed slaves contributed to the transformation of Roman values under the Principate by modelling strategies for the negotiation of power that were appropriated by the aristocracy. Examines the profound impact that a marginal social group

This fascinating study explores the ways in which fin-de-siecle periodicals portrayed science, both imaginatively and intellectually. It shows how general interest magazines and those who wrote for them, particularly H. G. Wells, contributed to the b

During the twentieth century, the Soviet Union turned the Kola Peninsula into one of the most populated, industrialized, militarized, and polluted parts of the Arctic. This in-depth exploration of five industries in the region examines cultural perce

These three accounts on the Holy Roman Empire and Denmark were written by diplomats from England and Scotland during the second half of the sixteenth century. They demonstrate the complex interplay of politics and religion in international relations

Boek A History Of Irish Working-Class Writing, uitgegeven door Van Ditmar Boekenimport B.V., LITERARY CRITICISM / General

This book defines and analyzes a full range of programming language concepts in a single unifying framework that isolates core abstractions and avoids irrelevant details of specific languages. It stresses the central role of types and teaches the use

This book traces the hardening of Christian attitudes to Jews, Judiasm and their history during the second half of the Middle Ages

This book explains the growth, durability and eventual shrinkage of Roman imperial power alongside the Roman state's internal power structures

This wide-ranging investigation of the theorising about the divine that is implicit and explicit in the religious practices and literary and philosophical texts of the ancient Greeks, shows that Greeks thought hard about what gods must be like and wh