J Watts: 32 books

The Final Pagan Generation recounts the fascinating story of the lives and fortunes of the last Romans born before the Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity. Edward J. Watts traces their experiences of living through the fourth century’s dramatic religious and political changes, when heated...

A new history of the Roman Republic and its collapse In Mortal Republic, prize-winning historian Edward J. Watts offers a new history of the fall of the Roman Republic that explains why Rome exchanged freedom for autocracy. For centuries, even as Rome grew into the Mediterranean's premier military...

By understanding how and when common sense fails, we can improve our understanding of the present and better plan for the future. Drawing on the latest scientific research, along with a wealth of historical and contemporary examples, Watts shows how common sense reasoning and history conspire...

The pioneering young scientist whose work on the structure of small worlds has triggered an avalanche of interest in networks. In this remarkable book, Duncan Watts, one of the principal architects of network theory, sets out to explain the innovative research that he and other scientists are...

A fascinating exploration of various freethinkers throughout history, including Thomas Hobbes, Shelley, Hume, Voltaire, Paine, Epicurus, Spinoza, Blount, Toland, and many more.

Standard English draws together the leading international scholars in the field, who confront the debates surrounding 'Standard English', grammar and correctness head-on. These debates are as intense today as ever and extend far beyond an academic context. Current debates about the teaching of English...

These twelve original essays by geographers and anthropologists offer a deep critical understanding of Allan Pred’s pathbreaking and eclectic cultural Marxist approach, with a focus on his concept of “situated ignorance”: the production and reproduction of power and inequality by regimes of...

Liz ist Personalchefin eines jungen und modernen Startup-Unternehmens und eigentlich jemand, der mit beiden Beinen im Leben steht. Bis sie ein Vorstellungsgespräch hat, das eine unerwartete Wendung nimmt. Eine Wendung, die ihr ganzes bisheriges Leben gehörig auf den Kopf stellt. *** ACHTUNG!!! Enthält erotische Inhalte, die nur für volljährige LeserInnen bestimmt sind ***

A philosopher, mathematician, and martyr, Hypatia is one of antiquity's best known female intellectuals. During the sixteen centuries following her murder, by a mob of Christians, Hypatia has been remembered in books, poems, plays, paintings, and films as a victim of religious intolerance whose death...

Frisch getrennt von ihrem Verlobten wacht die eher introvertierte Lucy, nach einer durchfeierten Nacht mit ihren Freundinnen, in einem fremden Bett auf. Ihr Schädel dröhnt und die Erinnerungen sind verschwommen bis kaum noch vorhanden. Was ist letzte Nacht passiert? Und wer ist der Kerl, der sich...

This thoroughly readable and stimulating social history of Western Europe, first published in 1984, explores the family, religion and the supernatural, and the social structure and social controls of rural society. This title will be of interest not only to students, but to anyone who is anxious to...

Richard und Leon sind seit vier Jahren liiert, sogar von Hochzeit war schon die Rede. Eigentlich ein ziemlich glückliches und zufriedenes Paar. Doch plötzlich drängt sich eine Frau in die traute Zweisamkeit ...

The relationship between language and music has much in common - rhythm, structure, sound, metaphor. Exploring the phenomena of song and performance, this book presents a sociolinguistic model for analysing them. Based on ethnomusicologist John Blacking's contention that any song performed communally...