WOMEN IN PEACE POLITICS This book’s premise is that women are important actors in peace politics. Before addressing the question of why focus on women in peace politics, one perhaps has to make an attempt to define what is peace. Peace has long been a problem and a puzzle, not the least because more histories are written of war than of peace. Peace is neither sensational nor heroic enough to command its own genre of history.
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Terry Deary and Martin Brown's brilliant books about the nastiest periods in history have now - with the help of some astounding actors and directed by Dirk Maggs - been transformed into a series of audio extravaganzas. Horrible Histories are guaranteed to bring you history with the nasty bits left in! Evil dwarves,.
Terry Deary and Martin Brown's brilliant books about the nastiest periods in history have now - with the help of some astounding actors and directed by Dirk Maggs - been transformed into a series of audio extravaganzas. Horrible Histories are guaranteed to bring you history with the nasty bits left in! Evil dwarves, not-so-jolly-giants, and the ever-present threat of getting a blood eagle (which, as everyone knows, is when you. No, it's just too horrible to say here are among the highlights in this extravaganza of Saxon violence.
This book traces the psychology, history, and theory of the compulsion to collect. As well as institutional collections it considers those that reflect a fascination with the ephemeral, exotic, or just plain curious.
"[A] brilliant book . . . a good read. Analysis of the relationship of collecting to identity, memory, and pyschosexual development raises fascinating questions."—The Modern Review
"[I]t is by challenging and expanding upon previous ideas and histories of collecting that the book offers ways of rethinking not only the nature of collecting but also the nature of museum practice."—Art History
