Author: Germaine Greer File Type: epub Influential feminist writer and intellectual Germaine Greer tracks the life of her father, an Australian intelligence officer during World War II, who died in her childhood. A secretive man, Reg Greer took pains to hide his working-class roots. As she painstakingly assembles the jigsaw pieces of his life, Germaine discovers surprising secrets about her father, her family, and herself.Obsessed with family history, Greer is chasing not just her fathers life story, but the parental love she always felt deprived of. Brimming with emotion, loss, regret, fury, and the intense depth of love, this book offers a moving climax—as well as sharp observations about Australian culture during the war.

Author: Paul-Alain Beaulieu File Type: pdf Provides a new narrative history of the ancient world, from the beginnings of civilization in the ancient Near East and Egypt to the fall of ConstantinopleWritten by an expert in the field, this book presents a narrative history of Babylon from the time of its First Dynasty (1880-1595) until the last centuries of the citys existence during the Hellenistic and Parthian periods (ca. 331-75 AD). Unlike other texts on Ancient Near Eastern and Mesopotamian history, it offers a unique focus on Babylon and Babylonia, while still providing readers with an awareness of the interaction with other states and peoples. Organized chronologically, it places the various socio-economic and cultural developments and institutions in their historical context. The book also gives religious and intellectual developments more respectable coverage than books that have come before it.A History of Babylon, 2200 BC AD 75teaches readers about the most important phase in the development of Mesopotamian culture. The book offers in-depth chapter coverage on the Sumero-Addadian Background, the rise of Babylon, the decline of the first dynasty, Kassite ascendancy, the second dynasty of Isin, Arameans and Chaldeans, the Assyrian century, the imperial heyday, and Babylon under foreign rule.ullFocuses on Babylon and BabyloniallWritten by a highly regarded AssyriologistllPart of the very successful Histories of the Ancient World seriesllAn excellent resource for students, instructors, and scholarslulA History of Babylon, 2200 BC - AD 75is a profound text that will be ideal for upper-level undergraduate and graduate courses on Ancient Near Eastern and Mesopotamian history and scholars of the subject.**From the Back CoverAbout the AuthorPaul-Alain Beaulieu is Professor of Assyriology at the University of Toronto. He is the author of several articles and books on the history and culture of Babylonia, as well as the greater spectrum of Mesopotamian history. He has been teaching Assyriology and Ancient Near Eastern History for almost eleven years.

Author: Nikolai Vakhtin File Type: pdf The first book to offer a detailed exploration of the condition of public debate in Russia, this pioneering volume presents a truly interdisciplinary perspective on Russian language and society. Offering case studies of the past and present communicative successes and failures in various social groups, the contributors explore why Russian society is unable to reach a consensus through dialogue.It is essential reading for advanced students and specialist in the fields of Slavic Studies, Cultural Studies, Sociolinguistics and Russian history, politics and sociology. **

Author: Raquel A. G. Reyes File Type: pdf This Palgrave Pivot explores the social and cultural impact of global trade at a micro-level from around 1600 to 1950. Bringing together the collaborative skills of cultural, social, economic, and art historians, it examines how the diffusion of trade, goods and objects affected peoples everyday lives. The authors tell several stories of the role played by a host of intermediariessuch as apothecaries, artisans and missionaries who facilitated the process of objects such as Japanese export lacquer-ware and paintings of how diverse artistic influences came to be expressed in colonial church architecture in the Philippines of revolutionary changes wrought on quotidian tastes and preferences, as shown in the interior decoration of private homes in the Dutch East Indies and of transformations in the smoking and drinking habits ofSoutheast Asians. The chapters consider the conditions from which emerged new forms of artistic production and transfer, fresh cultural interpretations, and expanded markets for goods, objects and images. **From the Back Cover This Palgrave Pivot explores the social and cultural impact of global trade at a micro-level from around 1600 to 1950. Bringing together the collaborative skills of cultural, social, economic, and art historians, it examines how the diffusion of trade, goods and objects affected peoples everyday lives. The authors tell several stories of the role played by a host of intermediaries - such as apothecaries, artisans and missionaries who facilitated the process of objects such as Japanese export lacquer-ware and paintings of how diverse artistic influences came to be expressed in colonial church architecture in the Philippines of revolutionary changes wrought on quotidian tastes and preferences, as shown in the interior decoration of private homes in the Dutch East Indies and of transformations in the smoking and drinking habits ofSoutheast Asians. The chapters consider the conditions from which emerged new forms of artistic production and transfer, fresh cultural interpretations, and expanded markets for goods, objects and images. About the Author Raquel A. G. Reyes is an Associate Research Fellow at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK, and former British Academy Post-doctoral Fellow in London.She works on the history of science and medicine, the history of gender and sexuality, and global trade and local cultural innovation in early modern Southeast Asia, with particular reference to the Philippines.She is the author of Love, Passion and Patriotism Sexuality and the Philippine Propaganda Movement, 1882-1892, and co-editor ofSexual Diversity in Asia c.600-1950. She is also a columnist for the Manila Times.