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The distinguished Russian archeologist Aleksei P. Okladnikov's study reveals how a field archeologist goes about determining and writing prehistory. Relying on petroglyphs and pictographs left on cliffs and boulders, Okladnikov lays out in detail and straightforward language the prehistory of Siberia by ""reading"" these artifacts.

Explores national security challenges posed by new technologies and examines some ongoing efforts to understand and mitigate their potential negative effects. The authors, drawn from among a roster of international scholars, approach these issues from different yet ultimately complementary angles.

Explores the mimetic encounters of classical material across Alexander Pope's poetry. Focusing particularly on Pope's Horatian Imitations, Megumi Ohsumi attempts to identify the extent to which mimesis plays a role in Pope's oeuvre.

Presents a fresh perspective on certain themes of Renaissance erotic magic and its relation to mass psychology and psychoanalysis, and offers an alternative for the study of the media strategies that determine Western worldviews and behaviours.

Presents a collection of essays about the transformation of America, which has turned from a united nation to one more divided than ever under the presidency of Donald Trump. Author and attorney Tiberiu Dianu writes in the hope that America is mature enough to learn from its mistakes and avoid further scars along its evolving history.

Noted Nigerian historian Onianwa Oluchukwu Ignatus investigates the air war component of the Nigerian-Biafran War, a crucial postcolonial conflict in Africa. The book focuses on the Biafra's air operations against oil installations and facilities owned by multinational oil companies in Nigeria.

Boldly focusing on sexuality as a definer of social order, this book argues that there is an ""M theory"" - a master theory of theories - not only in Quantum Physics, but also in Continental Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Sociology, disclosing how the ontological structure of the ""fantastic four"" ingredients of metaphysics has recurred through time.

Top analyst Leslie Gruis's timely new book argues that privacy is an individual right and democratic value worth preserving, even in a cyberized world. Since the time of the printing press, technology has played a key role in the evolution of individual rights and helped privacy emerge as a formal legal concept. All governments exercise extraordinary powers during national security crises. In the United States, many imminent threats during the twentieth century induced heightened government intrusion into the privacy of Americans. The Privacy Act of 1974 and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA, 1978) reversed that trend. Other laws protect the private information of individuals held in specific sectors of the commercial world. Risk management practices were extended to computer networks, and standards for information system security began to emerge. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) incorporated many such standards into its Cybersecurity Framework, and is currently developing a Privacy Framework. These standards all contribute to a patchwork of privacy protection which, so far, falls far short of what the U.S. constitutional promise offers and what our public badly needs. Greater privacy protections for U.S. citizens will come as long as Americans remember how democracy and privacy sustain one another, and demonstrate their commitment to them.

Alexandra Kitty's vital new book is a guide to the stratagems and techniques of war propaganda. When nations go to war, governments need reliable and effective methods of rallying public opinion to support their actions, regardless of the political leanings or educational background of citizens. The Mind Under Siege explores real life case studies and research in human motivation to show why propaganda is more powerful, potent, and effective than other types of persuasive messages. Reliance on primal phobias, and the threat to reproduction, well-being, and life itself make propaganda a reliable and powerful tool. For journalists and other news producers, Kitty's book shows how to ask the right questions and avoid spreading misinformation and propaganda and how to see more insidious forms of manipulation and narrative through psychological research and case studies.

Examines how universities effectively censor teaching, how social and political activism effectively censors its opponents, and how academics censor themselves and each other. A Book Too Risky To Publish concludes that few universities are now living up to their original mission to promote free inquiry and unfettered critical thought.

As this dynamic biography reveals, the writer Ernest William Hornung (1866-1921) became a household name in the 1890s. Peter Rowland's superb literary biography traces Hornung's rise to fame and fortune, as the writer deftly turned his hand to comedy, romance, and drama.

Analyses the internal tensions of the Soviet-led Cold War alliance as its careened toward its end. Starting with the peak of the alliance's power under Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, the book follows its ossification to its increasing haplessness under Brezhnev's successors Yuri Andropov and Konstantin Chernenko.

Examines figures of speech, arguing that figures of speech in prose and poetry, literature and talk, make sense as turns of rhetoric by means of their energeia (vividness, radiance). David Reid analyses figures from Homer to literary giants of the twentieth century, mostly drawn from poetry, but also from prose and colloquial turns of phrase.

Examines the concept of ""forbidden knowledge"" in religion, science, government, and psychology. Burton Porter takes the general position that too much material is prohibited, especially today, even while business and government invade individual privacy more and more.

Brings together the memoirs of five members of an extended Russian family who remained in the USSR between 1917 and 1943 but subsequently escaped from Soviet rule, ultimately settling in the United States after enduring decades of communism, war, and life in refugee camps.

Covers pressing issues of environmental politics, such as environmental activism and litigation, climate change, conservation, the challenges of coastal communities, flood prevention, and waste management. Oil subsidy removal, rule of law, and the roles of media and religion are also closely considered.

Analyses US bankruptcy law with a focus on the concept of automatic stay. Dimitris Liakopulos' work identifies legal sources and authorities having repercussions in terms of operational protection. He then examines their functional profiles, with specific regard to procedure.

In this groundbreaking collections of essays, Canada-based Chinese scholar Simin Li explores the latest insights into information, knowledge, political communication, and identity in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and their neighbors, friends, and adversaries.

Soon after a series of protests in Ferguson, Missouri, African-American protestors there and Palestinian protestors in the West Bank began to use the slogan ""From Ferguson to Palestine, Occupation is a Crime"". Randa Serhan explores how these communities found common cause in protesting the militarization of the forces that policed them.

A collection of more than 125 letters written by Private 1st Class Raymond W. Maker, to his sister, Eva, a county nurse living in Framingham, Massachusetts, describing his everyday service in combat during World War 1. The lettersare accompanied by 365 pocket-diary entries that Raymond kept throughout 1918.

In Diversity, Funding, and Standardized Testing in American Education, noted education expert Jose Martinez's examines current aspects of inequality in American education, examining the complex nexus of funding, diversity, and the increasingly contentious role of standardized testing. A readable narrative format assesses the extensive documentation, which demonstrates that inequality is becoming entrenched throughout the education system, in no small measure due to biases in standardized testing systems. Students from kindergarten through university face the arising challenges while their environments are becoming more diverse. Funding levels in education are also posited as causes of inequality. This complements the view that standardized testing at all levels of education mirrors and exacerbates entrenched economic inequality. Education funding and standardized testing at all levels have thus become basic mechanisms that purposefully reproduce and maintain a two-tiered society. The solutions are not difficult to discern, as other societies can attest, but Martinez's thought-provoking new book moves toward engaging them.

Considers the logical and eschatological consequences of the pivotal union of ""perspectives"" in the Christian concept of Incarnation. The systematic approach proceeds as ""according to a whole,"" or both theologically and scientifically relevant.

Explores such apparent polarities as justice and forgiveness, belief and scepticism, the ascetic and the sensuous. When we unpack these concepts, we discover that in some cases the two sides align and a compromise is possible. In other cases, they repel each other, like identical poles of magnets.

Presenting a highly original chronological case study of the role of sports in the making of Taiwan's foreign policy, Catherine Kai-Ping Lin enriches our understanding of Taiwan's unique position in the world by arguing that nationalist forces within the Taiwanese government used athletic competition to promote Taiwanese nationalism and nationhood.

Explores fashion to understand how the mediated image of gender equality in the twenty-first century relates to reality by examining cross-dressing and transvestism through the construction of personal style. The book uncovers the motivations for those who cross dress and analyses the construction of gendered personal styles in relation to fashion.

Highlights, analyses, and contrasts, from a "human rights law" perspective, the situation in Tunisia - the success model of the Arab Spring - before and after the "Jasmine Revolution," and in Egypt, the Arab Spring's most notable failure - before the 2011 revolution and after the subsequent "counter-revolution" led by the military establishment.

Using both realist and critical theories in a comparative framework, China Moves South states that while realism may offer a reasonable approach to explaining China's geopolitical behaviour, critical theory is a more appropriate lens to challenge China's occupations.

Makes an eye-opening global exploration of human organisation in a tumultuous world. It suggests needed innovation for America's educational system, dissects the evolution of political and economic systems up to modern times as influenced by the world's diversity of cultures and religions, and projects these challenging processes of change into a turbulent twenty-first century.

Explores images of Venice in the written and visual art of the multi-talented American writer, painter, lecturer, and engineer Francis Hopkinson Smith (1838-1915). This is the first scholarly work to examine the life and work of this unique American artist, whose legacy spans two centuries and was grounded in the enduringly popular fin-de-siecle.

This ground breaking study is the first biography in any language of the Russian industrialist, entrepreneur, and political leader Nikolai Fedorovich von Ditmar (1865-1919). Von Ditmar's life presents a kaleidoscopic view of Russia at a time of immense transition and transformation.