19 papers from an international workshop held in Venzuela in 2005 which explore a range of issues related to human exploitation of molluscs in the distant past.

This compilation includes common names of plants in their historical sequence, weaving together what was formerly esoteri

When City of God erupted on screens worldwide, it became one of the most critically and commercially successful foreign films of recent years. But few were aware of the story behind the film.

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In this monumental book, sociologist Robert Castel reconstructs the history of what he calls "the social question," or the ways in which both labor and social welfare have been organized from the Middle Ages onward to contemporary ...

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