Long belittled for their ignorance of foreign cultures—not to mention an inability to locate well-known countries on world maps—an increasing number of U.S. high school students are taking courses ...

From the early civilizations of ancient Mesopotamia to our present-day globalized society, readers will learn how humans interacted―and still interact―with the environment around them, as well as the ...

Historical Social Research / Historische Sozialforschung, Vol. 40, No. 1 (151), Special Issue: Law and Conventions from a Historical Perspective (2015), pp. 203-218 (16 pages) In the history of ...

This course is compulsory on the BA in Geography, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Environment and Sustainable Development and BSc in Geography with Economics. This course is available on ...

IT is, perhaps, one of the consequences of the antiquity of astronomy that it is not now usually presented to the youthful mind in a thoroughly scientific manner. The established truths of the science ...

OCEANOGRAPHY is an extraordinarily composite subject; it touches on almost every branch of science, from the astronomical theory of the tides to the biological significance of the plankton. For this ...