The Oxford Companion to Archaeology
The Oxford Companion to Archaeology

Author: Neil Asher Silberman

Publisher:

Published: 2012-11

Total Pages: 2130

ISBN-13: 0199735786

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The second edition of The Oxford Companion to Archaeology is a thoroughly up-to-date resource with new entries exploring the many advances in the field since the first edition published in 1996. In 700 entries, the second edition provides thorough coverage to historical archaeology, the development of archaeology as a field of study, and the way the discipline works to explain the past. In addition to these theoretical entries, other entries describe the major excavations, discoveries, and innovations, from the discovery of the cave paintings at Lascaux to the deciphering of Egyptian hieroglyphics and the use of luminescence dating. Recent developments in methods and analytical techniques which have revolutionized the ways excavations are performed are also covered; as well as new areas within archeology, such as cultural tourism; and major new sites which have expanded our understanding of prehistory and human developments through time. In addition to significant expansion, first-edition entries have been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the progress that has been made in the last decade and a half.

The Racial Contract
The Racial Contract

Author: Charles W. Mills

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2022-04-15

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1501764306

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The Racial Contract puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged "contract" has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence "whites" and "non-whites," full persons and sub-persons, how it influences white moral theory and moral psychology; and how this system is imposed on non-whites through ideological conditioning and violence. The Racial Contract argues that the society we live in is a continuing white supremacist state. As this 25th anniversary edition—featuring a foreword by Tommy Shelbie and a new preface by the author—makes clear, the still-urgent The Racial Contract continues to inspire, provoke, and influence thinking about the intersection of the racist underpinnings of political philosophy.

Early Islamic Syria
Early Islamic Syria

Author: Alan Walmsley

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2013-11-20

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1472537769

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After more than a century of neglect, a profound revolution is occurring in the way archaeology addresses and interprets developments in the social history of early Islamic Syria-Palestine. This concise book offers an innovative assessment of social and economic developments in Syria-Palestine shortly before, and in the two centuries after, the Islamic expansion (the later sixth to the early ninth century AD), drawing on a wide range of new evidence from recent archaeological work. Alan Walmsley challenges conventional explanations for social change with the arrival of Islam, arguing for considerable cultural and economic continuity rather than devastation and unrelenting decline. Much new, and increasingly non-elite, architectural evidence and an ever-growing corpus of material culture indicate that Syria-Palestine entered a new age of social richness in the early Islamic period, even if the gains were chronologically and regionally uneven.

Philosophy in Classical India
Philosophy in Classical India

Author: Jonardon Ganeri

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2003-09-01

Total Pages: 218

ISBN-13: 1134551630

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This original work focuses on the rational principles of Indian philosophical theory, rather than the mysticism more usually associated with it. Ganeri explores the philosophical projects of a number of major Indian philosophers and looks into the methods of rational inquiry deployed within these projects. In so doing, he illuminates a network of mutual reference, criticism, influence and response, in which reason is used to call itself into question. This fresh perspective on classical Indian thought unravels new philosophical paradigms, and points towards new applications for the concept of reason.

Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa
Intellectual History in Contemporary South Africa

Author: M. Eze

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-04-30

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0230109691

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In examining the intellectual history in contemporary South Africa, Eze engages with the emergence of ubuntu as one discourse that has become a mirror and aftermath of South Africa s overall historical narrative. This book interrogates a triple socio-political representation of ubuntu as a displacement narrative for South Africa s colonial consciousness; as offering a new national imaginary through its inclusive consciousness, in which different, competing, and often antagonistic memories and histories are accommodated; and as offering a historicity in which the past is transformed as a symbol of hope for the present and the future. This book offers a model for African intellectual history indignant to polemics but constitutive of creative historicism and healthy humanism.

Warranted Christian Belief
Warranted Christian Belief

Author: Alvin Plantinga

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 529

ISBN-13: 0195131924

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Describes the notion of warrant as that which distinguishes knowledge from true belief. This volume examines warrant's role in theistic belief, tackling the questions of whether it is rational, reasonable, justifiable, and warranted to accept Christian belief and whether there is something epistemically unacceptable in doing so.

Managerialism
Managerialism

Author: T. Klikauer

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2013-09-05

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1137334274

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Most people know what management is but often people have vague ideas about Manageralism. This book introduces Manageralism and its ideology as a colonising project that has infiltrated nearly every eventuality of human society.

Ultrasocial
Ultrasocial

Author: John M. Gowdy

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-08-26

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 110883826X

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Society is an ultrasocial superorganism whose requirements take precedence over individuals. What does this mean for humanity's future?

The Soils of Italy
The Soils of Italy

Author: Edoardo A.C. Costantini

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-03-29

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 9400756429

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The Soils of Italy is the first comprehensive book on Italian pedology in seventy years. Taking advantage of the authors’ large experience and of the most up-to-date information and technology, this book treats the main soil types of Italy, their diffusion, their functions, ecological use, and the threats to which they are subjected during centuries of intensive management. It also deals with future scenarios of the relationships between soil science and other disciplines, such as urban development, medicine, economics, sociology, and archaeology. The description of the soils is accompanied by a complete set of data, pictures and maps, including benchmark profiles. Factors of soil formation are also treated, making use of new, unpublished data and elaborations. The book also includes a history of pedological research in Italy, spanning over a century.

Fairness, Class and Belonging in Contemporary England
Fairness, Class and Belonging in Contemporary England

Author: K. Smith

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-06-28

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1137009330

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Using experiences of the white, English, working-classes in Manchester, this book explores the local frustrations with feeling 'ignored' and 'neglected' by the government through articulations of fairness.