Authors:Michael Woods, Mary B. Woods,
Publisher: Runestone Press
Keywords: ancient, technology, graffiti, grunts, communication
Number of Pages: 88
Published: 2000-05
List price: $25.26
ISBN-10: 0822529963
ISBN-13: 9780822529965

Authors:Michael Woods, Mary B. Woods,
Publisher: Runestone Press
Keywords: ancient, technology, catapults, clubs, warfare
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2000-10
List price: $25.26
ISBN-10: 0822529998
ISBN-13: 9780822529996

Authors:Michael Woods, Mary B. Woods,
Publisher: Runestone Press
Keywords: ancient, technology, computing
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2000-08
List price: $25.26
ISBN-10: 0822529971
ISBN-13: 9780822529972

Authors:Larry Brooks, Larry Brook,
Publisher: Runestone Press
Keywords: cities, time, timbuktu, modern, life, ancient, daily
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1999-03
List price: $25.26
ISBN-10: 0822532158
ISBN-13: 9780822532156

Examines the history of the city of Timbuktu, or Tombouctou, from its time as a camping site for nomadic Tuaregs through its prominence in the sixteenth century to the current decline it faces.

Authors:Patricia L. McCarney, Richard E. Stren,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: woodrow, wilson, center, press, world, developing, ground, innovations, discontinuities, cities, governance
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-09-15
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0801878519
ISBN-13: 9780801878510

Governance on the Ground shows people at a local level working through municipal institutions to take more responsibility for their own lives and environment.This study reports what social scientists in eight local networks found when they chose their own subjects for a worldwide comparative study of institutional reform at the local level. Governance on the Ground is the culminating product of the Global Urban Research Initiative, a major 1990s research effort that created a worldwide network of some 400 social scientists. The topics these scholars cover include fiscal innovation, in

Authors:Sara Castro-Klarén, John Charles Chasteen,
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: woodrow, america, wilson, center, press, latin, century, reading, communities, writing, nation, nineteenth, imagined
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2003-12-23
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0801878527
ISBN-13: 9780801878527

"Every Latin Americanist will welcome the insight provided by this book into Latin America’s complex heterogeneity."—Mario J. Valdés, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Toronto How did the nationalisms of Latin America’s many countries—elaborated in everything from history and fiction to cookery—arise from their common backgrounds in the Spanish and Portuguese empires and their similar populations of mixed European, native, and African origins? Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America, discards one answ

Author: Lorae Parry
Publisher: Victoria University Press in association with the Women’s Play Press
Keywords: playscripts, zealand, new, eugenia
Number of Pages: 86
Published: 1996
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0864733046
ISBN-13: 9780864733047