With this study the cattle guard joins the sod house, the windmill, and barbed wire as a symbol of range country on the American Great Plains. A U.S. folk innovation now in use throughout the world, the cattle guard functions as both a gate and a fence: it keeps livestock from crossing, but allows automobiles and pe...

Introducing the ultimate guide to exploring the world, "The World in Your Hands". This comprehensive book provides a wealth of information on every country on the planet (they are in alphabetical order from volume 1 to 10 - each volume will contain 20 countries), covering all aspects of their history, language, food...

In this innovative study, Marietta Morrissey reframes the debate over slavery in the New World by focusing on the experiences of slave women. Rich in detail and rigorously comparative, her work illuminates the exploitation, achievements, and resilience of slave women in the British, Dutch, French, Spanish, and Danis...

Articulating the shifting interests in Korean art and offering new ways of conceiving the biases that initiated and impacted its collecting, this book traces the rise of the modern Korean art market from its formative period in the 1870s through to its peak and subsequent decline in the 1930s. The discussion centres...

South Africa provides a unique vantage point from which to examine the scientific imagination over the last three centuries, when its position on the African continent made it a staging post for Portuguese, Dutch, and British colonialism. In the eighteenth century, South African plants and animals caught the imagina...

This book focuses on the career of a single individualーan ambitious, resourceful Black Americanーand his efforts to realize personal fulfillment in a racist world. No Black American was more determined to realize the promise of American life following the Civil War, nor more frustrated by his inability to do so tha...

How the mindset of traditional Japanese society can guide our own efforts to lead a green lifestyle today. If we want to live sustainably, how should we feel about nature? About waste? About our forests and rivers? About food? Just Enough is a book of stories and sketches that give valuable insight into what it is l...

This book relates the modern development of the Kansas beef cattle industry, combining both the history of productionーincluding specific business problems and the significant work in upbreedingーand an examination of the marketing aspects of the industry that became so important during the twentieth century. Sharpe...

執歷史學家之筆 總匯十九到二十世紀臺灣最珍貴的地學史料 重現塵封超過一世紀的大地故事 　　★首部融合臺灣近代史與地質研究史的跨領域作品 　　★以臺北帝國大學理農學部早坂一郎教授為核心，回溯、開展近代科研精采歷程 　　★由科學訴說一段跨越國族藩籬的歷史 　　★從東亞到臺灣、從玉山到墾丁，復刻田野現場與遭遇 　　★科學史、殖民史、...

Discover a comprehensive and cross-disciplinary handbook exploring several sub-regions and key themes perfect for a new generation of students A Companion to the Hellenistic and Roman Near East delivers the first complete handbook in the area of Hellenistic and Roman Near Eastern history. The book is divided into se...

One of the most significant to the evolution of the modern city, were the cities of the classical age of the Greek city states. This period saw the flowering of the Classical Greek mind. It is the beginnings of a culture that is recognizably western and it was a time that saw a significant maturation of urban form. ...

Achieving Global Open Access explores some of the key conditions that are necessary to deliver global Open Access (OA) that is effective and equitable. Often assumed to be a self-evident good, OA has been subject to growing criticism for perpetuating global inequities and epistemic injustices. It has been seen as im...

This volume explores the roles and uses of abstraction in scientific and artistic practice. Conceived as an interdisciplinary dialogue between experts across histories and philosophies of art and science, this collection of essays draws on the shared premise that abstraction is a rich and generative process, not red...

This open access book considers that the Central and South Asian region sits at the middle of geographical, geopolitical, economic and historical cross-roads. Since the independence of the Central Asian states in the 1990s, following the demise of the Soviet Union, and emergence of regional trade and political ties ...

法書翰墨為國立故宮博物院典藏重要文物之一，如同其他院藏文物，主要源自歷代宮廷收藏外，亦含近數十年之捐贈與購藏。此套《故宮法書》經多次再版複印，圖版已漸失真；再者，學術研究推陳出新，原書內容說明需另増補。緣於此，本院重新出版，以原書選件及分輯為基礎，全書圖版改為彩色精印，歷代名家墨寶，逐年 編印出版。本院所藏書法墨蹟之...

The International Symposium on Humanities and Social Sciences: Addressing Global Challenges-Exploring Socio-Cultural Dynamics and Sustainable Solutions in a Changing World (ISHSS 2023) unfolds as a crucial academic undertaking, centred around the overarching theme of intellectual synergy and inquiry. This conference...