This beautifully illustrated book traces the story of glass from its origins in Mesopotamia some 5000 years ago, to the creation of the elegant vessels of the Islamic Near East…

Catholic and Protestant missionaries followed their own, competing agendas rather than those of the colonial state. This volume unravels these agendas and challenges received wisdom on the histories of Rwanda…

A hundred years on from the first Moon landing, where will space exploration have taken us?

Henri Pirennewas a Belgian historian whose career was devoted to promoting the thesis since named after him. His claim (in Mohammed and Charlemagne, 1939) was that the classical world survived…

Addresses the many paradigm shifts occurring in the field of Surface and Nanometrology. This book explains the incorporation of physics to develop optimum solutions for manufacture and performance, and provides…

Metrology is the scientific study of measurement, and surface metrology is the study of the measurement of rough surfaces. The importance of surface metrology is recognized in a number of…

Now in its Tenth Edition and in continuous publication since 1959, Apley & Solomon’s System of Orthopaedics and Trauma is one of the world’s leading textbooks of orthopaedic surgery. Retaining…

Ethnographers of religion have created a vast record of religious behavior from small-scale non-literate societies to globally distributed religions in urban settings. This work features a range of ethnographers who…