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Eric J Harvey
Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel

Creation myths in the ancient Middle East served, among other things, as works of political economy, justifying and naturalizing materially intensive ritual practices and their entanglements with broader …

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Arretium (Arezzo)

A comprehensive examination of the history and excavation of the Etruscan city of Arretium.

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Her Cup for Sweet Cacao

Presenting new data from leading scholars in the field, this collection uses evidence from archaeology, hieroglyphic texts, chemical analyses, and art to explore the many ways food was integral to Classic…

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Eileen O'Brien
Beautiful Solidarity, Symbolic Impacts

"For activists working for racial justice for decades, the year 2020 stood out from the rest. More people seemed to care about racism than ever before. Due to this unprecedented surge, was anything m…

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Fredrik Hagen
Hieratic

Hieratic was the most widely used script in ancient Egypt, but is today relatively unknown outside Egyptology. Generally written with ink and a brush, it was the script of choice for most genres of text, …

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Alice Yao, Wengcheong Lam
The Archaeology of Han China

Drawing on new archaeological finds from the last two decades, this book offers an up-to-date overview of the archaeology of the Han Empire. It uses material culture to showcase the range of institutions …

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Irmgard Hein, Kibaro&, Michaela Schauer, Anno Hein
Ceramic Analysis

This Element, authored by a team of specialist researchers, provides an overview of the various analytical techniques employed in the laboratory for the examination of archaeological ceramic materials. Po…

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Eric J Harvey
Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel

Creation myths in the ancient Middle East served, among other things, as works of political economy, justifying and naturalizing materially intensive ritual practices and their entanglements with broader …

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C J Pascoe
Nice Is Not Enough

"Nice Is Not Enough is a deeply observed, profoundly important statement on how schools' well-meaning 'cultures of kindness' mask inequalities of race, class, gender, and sexuality while claiming to …

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Poverty and Plenty in Scandinavia and the North Atlantic

"Examining the archaeological material of the modern period, over a period of the last 500 years, this open access book presents a series of case studies that challenges the fallacy of Nordic egalita…

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Rana Mitter
Modern China

This Very Short Introduction addresses the themes, developments, and controversies that have shaped Modern China. Covering a range of social issues, Rana Mitter provides a contemporary view of the world's…

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Brendan A Galipeau,
Crafting a Tibetan Terroir

"From the introduction of vineyards by nineteenth-century by French and Swiss Catholic missionaries to make sacramental wine, to twenty-first century commercialization, this ethnography documents the…

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David Weissman
Community

Communities are vital to personal and social well-being because collaboration is required where skills and resources are scarce; their pathologies-anonymity and isolation, tribalism and murder-defeat us.C…

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Alessandro Baricco,
Hegels Seele oder Die Kühe von Wisconsin

Hegel zufolge soll Musik die Seele erheben. In Wisconsin stieg bei Kühen die Milchproduktion signifikant an, als sie Symphonien hörten. Klassische Musik tut also einfach gut. Allerdings: Beethovens Ode an…

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Ruth Horowitz
Passionate Work

"Corps de ballet literally means the "body" of the ballet company, and it refers to the group of dancers who are not principals. Another large group of dancers puts together portfolios of w…

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Aaron Reeves, Sam Friedman
Born to Rule

The Economist , Best Books of 2024 The Times , Best Ideas Books of 2024 A uniquely data-rich analysis of the British elite from the Victorian era to today: who gets in, how they get there, what they like …

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The Latin American Revolutionary Movement

This important volume collects the proceedings of the First Latin American Communist Conference, organized in Buenos Aires, Argentina in June 1929 by the South American Secretariat of the Moscow-based Com…

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Ruth Horowitz
Passionate Work

"Corps de ballet literally means the "body" of the ballet company, and it refers to the group of dancers who are not principals. Another large group of dancers puts together portfolios of w…

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Nature, Disaster, and Animism in Japan

This book investigates various disastrous events and their aftermath in Japan to reveal a novel philosophy of life in contemporary Japan, which link humans, nature, and different forms of nonhumans includ…

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Sony Coráñez Bolton
Dos X

An examination of the interconnectedness of brown-racialized people across multiple identities, told through case studies of television, literature, and writing.

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