The Molecule Hunt : How Archaeologists Are Bringing the Past Back to Life

Jones, Martin

Penguin??Books

Feast: Why Humans Share Food

The family dinner, the client luncheon, the holiday spread--the idea of people coming together for a meal seems the most natural thing in the world. But that is certainly not the case for most other members of the animal kingdom. In Feast, archeologist Martin Jones presents both historic and modern scientific evidence to illuminate how prehistoric humans first came to share food and to trace the ways in which the human meal has shaped our cultural evolution. Jones shows that by studying the activities of our closest animal relative, the chimpanzee, and by unearthing ancient hearths, some more than 30,000 years old, scientists have been able to piece together a picture of how our ancient ancestors found, killed, cooked, and divided food. In sites uncovered all over the world, fragments of bone, remnants of charred food, pieces of stone or clay serving vessels, and the outlines of ancient halls tell the story of how we slowly developed the complex traditions of eating we recognize in our own societies today. Jones takes us on a tour of the most fascinating sites and artifacts that have been discovered, and shows us how archeologists have made many fascinating discoveries. In addition, he traces the rise of such recent phenomena as biscuits, "going out to eat," and the Thanksgiving-themed TV dinner. From the earliest evidence of human consumption around half a million years ago to the era of the drive-through diner, this fascinating account unfolds the history of the human meal and its profound impact on human society.

History

Oxford University Press

The twin categories of the state and nature collectively embody some of the most fundamental reference points around which our lives and thinking are organized. Despite their combined significance, however, the complex relationships that exist between modern states and nature remain under-theorized and are relatively unexplored. Through a detailed study of different sites, moments, and framing strategies The Nature of the State challenges the ways in which geographers and social scientists approach the study of state-nature relations. The authors analyse different instances of state-nature interaction from all over the world, considering the geo-politics of resource conflicts, the operation of natural history museums, the organizational practices of environmental departments and ministries, the regulation of genetic science, and contemporary forms of state intervention within issues of climate change. Introducing original research into the different institutional, spatial, and temporal strategies used by states to frame the natural world this book provides a critical overview of the latest political and ecological theories and addresses a wide range of pressing socio-environmental debates.

The Nature of the State: Excavating the Political Ecologies of the Modern State (Oxford Geographical and Environmental Studies Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Jones, Rhys

Whitehead, Mark

Social Sciences

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Cooking Education & Reference

England before Domesday

Europe

Barnes Noble Books(imports

Europe 1783–1914

Europe 1783–1914 is an accessible history of Europe from the advent of the French Revolution to the origins of the First World War, covering political, economic and social aspects of the period. Each chapter is structured with concise backgrounds to events, including tables of key dates, a selection of primary documents and questions to test current interpretations of important themes, and a guide to further reading. Extensively illustrated with maps, contemporary cartoons and portraits, Europe 1783–1914 surveys the following main themes interspersed with studies of significant countries including France, Italy, Germany and Russia:  the impact of the French Revolution and Napoleon the Industrial Revolution Nationalism the 1848 Revolutions Imperialism Marxism the origins of the First World War. Europe 1783–1914 is an essential and invaluable introduction to this turbulent and exciting period of European history.

Simpson, William

Routledge

Europe 1783–1914 is an accessible history of Europe from the advent of the French Revolution to the origins of the First World War, covering political, economic and social aspects of the period. Each chapter is structured with concise backgrounds to events, including tables of key dates, a selection of primary documents and questions to test current interpretations of important themes, and a guide to further reading. Extensively illustrated with maps, contemporary cartoons and portraits, Europe 1783–1914 surveys the following main themes interspersed with studies of significant countries including France, Italy, Germany and Russia: <ul>
<li>the impact of the French Revolution and Napoleon</li> <li>the Industrial Revolution</li> <li>Nationalism</li> <li>the 1848 Revolutions</li> <li>Imperialism</li> <li>Marxism</li> <li>the origins of the First World War.</li>
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Europe 1783–1914 is an essential and invaluable introduction to this turbulent and exciting period of European history.

An Introduction to Political Geography: Space, Place and Politics

An Introduction to Political Geography provides a broad-based introduction to how power interacts with space; how place influences political identities; and how policy creates and remoulds territory. By pushing back the boundaries of what we conventionally understand as political geography, the book emphasizes the interactions between power, politics and policy, space, place and territory in different geographical contexts. This is both an essential text for political geographers and also a valuable resource for students of related fields with an interest in politics and geography.

Woods, Michael

An Introduction to Political Geography

An Introduction to Political Geography continues to provide a broad-based introduction to contemporary political geography for students following undergraduate degree courses in geography and related subjects. The text explores the full breadth of contemporary political geography, covering not only traditional concerns such as the state, geopolitics, electoral geography and nationalism; but also increasing important areas at the cutting-edge of political geography research including globalization, the geographies of regulation and governance, geographies of policy formulation and delivery, and themes at the intersection of political and cultural geography, including the politics of place consumption, landscapes of power, citizenship, identity politics and geographies of mobilization and resistance. This second edition builds on the strengths of the first. The main changes and enhancements are: <ul>
<li>four new chapters on: political geographies of globalization, geographies of empire, political geography and the environment and geopolitics and critical geopolitics</li> <li>significant updating and revision of the existing chapters to discuss key developments, drawing on recent academic contributions and political events</li> <li>new case studies, drawing on an increasing number of international and global examples</li> <li>additional boxes for key concepts and an enlarged glossary. </li>
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As with the first edition, extensive use is made of case study examples, illustrations, explanatory boxes, guides to further reading and a glossary of key terms to present the material in an easily accessible manner. Through employment of these techniques this book introduces students to contributions from a range of social and political theories in the context of empirical case study examples. By providing a basic introduction to such concepts and pointing to pathways into more specialist material, this book serves both as a core text for first- and second- year courses in political geography, and as a resource alongside supplementary textbooks for more specialist third year courses.

Dixon, Deborah

Hannah, Matthew

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