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This study deals with a specific set of institutions in nineteenth-century Athens. Relying on matrimonial contracts, travellers' accounts, memoirs and popular literature, the authors show how distinctive forms of marriage, kinship and property transmission evolved in Athens in the nineteenth century. These forms then became a feature of wider Greek society which continued into the twentieth century. Greece was the first post-colonial modern na...

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This book provides extensive annotated translations of the writings of the music theorist Ernst Kurth (1886 1946).

This study focuses on China's rural industries, offering a theoretical framework to explain institutional change.

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Provides a full introduction and notes describing the members of the 'Little Academy' and giving the background of two dialogues that he has reproduced.

This work studies one of China's greatest poets, Tu Fu, as both cultural icon and literary genius.

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bule gila (BU-leh GEE-lah) n Indonesian for "crazy foreigner"In a secluded corner of a shopping and entertainment complex in Jakarta lies a bar called BuGils. BuGils, a contraction of bule and gila (in addition to being the Indonesian word for ¿naked¿), has had the honor of hosting the most colorful collection of locals and foreigners Jakarta has ever seen. The manager of BuGils, Bartele Santema, has spent five years amongst these creatures an...

The Birth of Hathor features the early work of the artist Heather Cushman-Dowdee, the creator of the Hathor the Cowgoddess comics. The Hathor the Cowgoddess comic is the unfolding story of the artist and her family as they champion the benefits of homebirthing, breastfeeding on demand, maintaining constant contact, sharing space, unschooling and saving the world. This book follows the artist through Graduate School where the comic evolved from...

A powerful analysis of demographic patterns in London over the 'long eighteenth century'.

This book develops a theoretical framework for the analysis of social problems.

Throughout history, from the Hindu Kavadi ceremony to the Lakota Sun Dance, the Ordeal Path has been an honored spiritual road to the magic of the flesh, and to touching the Gods. Today many Pagans are discovering this path, by accident or by design. Simultaneously, many practitioners of secular BDSM are finding themselves having spiritual experiences in the middle of their most secular scenes. This book explores the crossover points between b...

This book explores the causes, operations, endings, and justifications of war. In the process, it demolishes many currently fashionable illusions, such as that peace is always preferable to war, that wars occur because of accidents or misunderstandings, and that technology changes the nature of war. Abundant historical and contemporary examples show, the authors contend, that all wars are deliberate political choices, that military operations ...

This book describes techniques used to predict the quality of images formed by optical systems, such as telescopes, camera lenses, and microscope objectives. It covers in detail how the ray and wave pictures of lens behavior can be combined and developed to produce a theory capable of dealing with the large angles encountered in real optical systems. Several applications are considered, including the propagation of a Gaussian beam along a skew...

This book presents empirical research on the nature and structure of political violence. While most studies of social movements focus on single-nation studies, Donatella della Porta uses a comparative research design to analyze movements in two countries - Italy and Germany - from the 1960s to the 1990s. Through extensive use of official documents and in-depth interviews, della Porta explains the actors' construction of external political real...