The phenomenon of filial piety is fundamental to our understanding of Chinese culture, this excellent collection of essays explores its role in various areas of life throughout history. Often regarded as the key to preserving tradition
Analyzing the poets Melvin B. Tolson, Langston Hughes, and Amiri Baraka, this study charts Afro Modernist epic. Within context of Classical traditions, early 20th century American modernist long poems, griot of West
This book looks at the experiences and achievement levels of Irish born football migrants to Britain further afield. In particular, it draws on interviews with twenty four footballers, each of whom has played league in Engl
In times when the social sciences have become increasingly fragmented and more focused on 'the pieces of puzzle', puzzle, as a topic in its own right, has slowly been moved towards background. Nonetheless, as humanity becomes ever
Because of illness and age the Jesuit theologian philosopher Bernard Lonergan never completed systematic study on Christology, doctrine concerning person of Christ, that he had planned to write. History, written
Cognition, Literature, and History models the ways in which cognitive literary studies may collaborate thereby mutually advance. It shows understanding of underlying structures of mind can productively inform analysis
All groups tell stories about their beginnings. Such tales are oft repeated, finely wrought, and usually much beloved. Among those institutions most in need of an impressive creation account is state: it's one of primary ways states attemp
This book integrates history of science and technology with modern social network theory. Using examples from of machines, as well as case studies wireless, radio chaos theory, author challenges genius model of inventi
This is an archaeological and historical study of Mexico City Xaltocan, focusing on the early years after Spanish conquest of Aztec empire in 1521. The of households excavated in probate inventories of 39 colo
Hannah Arendt (1906 1975) first argued that there were continuities between age of European imperialism and of fascism in in The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). She claimed theories of race, notions of racial an