Social Synthesis: Finding Dynamic Patterns in Complex Social Systems
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How is it possible to understand society and the problems it faces? What sense can be made of the...
Sport: A Very Short Introduction
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Sport is big business; international in nature and the focus of much media and cultural attention....
Taken at Midnight
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In your quest for respectability I think we can say you have been talking out of both corners of...
The Church in the Later Middle Ages
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The Later Middle Ages (1300-1500 CE) have often been characterised as a period of decline for...
The Cinema of Cuba: Contemporary Film and the Legacy of the Revolution
Ann Marie Stock, Guy Baron and Antonio Alvarez Pitaluga
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Contemporary Cuba is opening up to the rest of the world. Its colonial past and the Communist...
The Confucian-Legalist State: A New Theory of Chinese History
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The Confucian-Legalist State analyzes the history of China between the 11th century BCE and 1911...
The Decline of Serfdom in Late Medieval England: From Bondage to Freedom
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Scholars from various disciplines have long debated why western Europe in general, and England in...
The History of Radiology
Adrian M K Thomas and Arpan K. Banerjee
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In 1890, Professor Arthur Willis Goodspeed, a professor of physics at Pennsylvania USA was working...
The 'Katrina Effect': On the Nature of Catastrophe
William M. Taylor, Michael P. Levine, Oenone Rooksby and Joely-Kym Sobott
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On August 29th 2005, the headwaters of Hurricane Katrina's storm-surge arrived at New Orleans, the...
The Tears of Re: Beekeeping in Ancient Egypt
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According to Egyptian mythology, when the god Re cried, his tears turned into bees upon touching the...