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While recognizing that distinctions between categories are often fuzzy, Migration covers many types of migrants including explorers, slaves, pilgrims, mineworkers, labourers, …

At the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known, and that physics in the future would only …

Winner of the Literacy Research Association’s 2015 Edward B. Fry Book AwardImmigration is an ongoing, global phenomenon and schools and teachers in host countries must continually …

How can stories and legends, written and oral, help people suffering from severe traumas or harsh conditions, now or in the past? Can storytelling help us sort out our innermost …

This book presents translations of three dialogues Xenophon devoted to the life and thought of his teacher, Socrates. Each is accompanied by notes and an interpretative essay that …

Fritid men också arbete. Livet på herrgårdar och i Stockholms adelspalats, där högreståndsfamiljernas internationella mat- och shoppingvanor samsas med tjänstefolkets sysslor, …

Over the past century, the Italian landscape has undergone exceedingly rapid transformations, shifting from a mostly rural environment to a decidedly modern world. This changing …

'I'll stop doing it as soon as I understand what I'm doing.'Somewhere between a historical account and work of philosophy, Socrates' Defence details the final plea of Plato's …

How can we apply the teachings of the greatest ancient philosopher to modern life?Socrates is the quintessential Athenian philosopher, the source of the entire Western …

Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the …

År 1703 tar historien en ny vändning när tsar Peter I av Ryssland grundar Sankt Petersburg vid Nevamynningen. Samtidigt pågår blodiga strider över enorma landområden i nordöstra …