by Teresa A. Meade (Editor), Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks (Editor)
February 2004
Blackwell Publishers
A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of women around the world, studies their interaction with men in gendered societies, and looks at the role of gender in shaping human behavior over thousands of years. It contains both thematic essays, which demonstrate how gender has intersected with other historical topics, and chronological-geographic essays, which explore gender in one area of the world during a specific period...
Poverty is more than just lack of income, it is deprivation from basic capabilities, rights, and freedoms that provide individuals the necessary choices and opportunities they need to lead a life they value. The Encyclopedia of World Poverty provides extensive and current information, as well as insight into the contemporary debate on poverty. The three volumes of this state-of-the-art Encyclopedia contain over 800 original articles written by more than 125 renowned scholars. The entries contributing to this work explore poverty in various regions of the world, and examine the difficulties associated with the definition and measurement of poverty.
(1971 Hugo for Best Novel, 1970 Nebula for Best Novel)
In the first book of this award-winning series, a huge architectural ring is constructed in outer space. In time it will house the inhabitants of the dying Earth. A whole new world is emerging, a world of huge dimensions, encompassing an area three million times the area of the Earth. Ringworld has a gravitational field and high walls to preserve its atmosphere. Its proximity to the sun maintains the new planet's climate. With those kinds of resources at its disposal, humankind can begin anew -- but not without meeting the disquieting challenges of a brave new world. Breath- taking ingenious from start to finish, RINGWORLD is fast becoming a science fiction classic.
Winston Churchill: Man of the Century. Modern Scholar Series
Churchill was an improbable hero for what was to be
called “the century of the common man,” not only
because he was personally so very uncommon, but
because he was from an elite British family and was never
closely in touch with “ordinary people” in Britain, let
alone the rest of the world. Yet, to pigeonhole Churchill
that way is misleading.
Winston Churchill was seen even in his own lifetime as a
historic figure, one of the great men of world history, commemorated
all across the world (but especially among the
English-speaking peoples) in statues, memorials, streets and
schools named after him, and in a plethora of stamps,
medals, plates, and other such memorabilia.
Cities of the World represents a compilation of government reports and
original research on the social, cultural, political, and industrial
aspects of the nations and cities of the world.
