Feud stands at the core of the Old Icelandic sagas. Jesse Byock shows how the dominant concern of medieval Icelandic society—the channeling of violence into accepted patterns of feud and the regulation of conflict—is reflected in the...

"Andrew Diamond's wide-ranging and significant book movingly tells the history of Chicago, how it has become a tale of two cities, from the shimmering and branded opulence of the Loop to the poverty-filled and underserved streets of the...

"The Secret History of Al Qaeda, Updated Edition" von Abdel Bari Atwan bietet einen detaillierten Einblick in die Entstehung und Entwicklung der Terrororganisation Al-Qaida. Der Autor, ein erfahrener Journalist mit tiefen Kenntnissen...

"Tribes of India: The Struggle for Survival" von Christoph von Fürer-Haimendorf ist eine umfassende ethnographische Studie über die indigenen Völker Indiens. Das Buch untersucht die vielfältigen Herausforderungen, denen diese Stämme...

Illustrated version of selected passages from Pepys' diary between 1660 and 1669, showing his robust enjoyment of both his public and private lives

This user-friendly, practical guide was written for large and small greenhouse producers of containerized crops. Written by industry-based professionals and academics, its seventeen chapters demonstrate how water, root media, and...

In this new and brilliantly organized book of essays, Anthony Giddens discusses three main theoretical traditions in social science that cut across the division between Marxist and non-Marxist sociology: interpretive sociology,...