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 Free Download Louisa Campbell, "Roots of Nationhood: The Archaeology and History of Scotland" English | ISBN: 1784919829 | 2019 | 216 pages | PDF | 14 MB In a break away from the traditional mono-disciplinary scope of academic enquiry, this volume sets forth a challenge for practitioners within, and outwith archaeology to develop multi-disciplinary approaches in the study of identity in general and aspects in the formation of national identity in particular. The entanglement of identity and nationhood is explored from the prehistory of northern Britain; the establishment of a proto-Scottish identity in the early Middle Ages; facets of Scottish identity at home and in the wider diaspora of Empire; and the more recent heralding of Scottish identity as a multiethnic construction. Set against the backdrop of a groundswell change in the Scottish political landscape and the unprecedented, and largely unexpected, energised and proactive politicisation of the Scottish electorate in the lead up to and aftermath of the 2014 Independence Referendum, the volume is a timely and relevant contribution to discussions of national identities. By bringing together specialists covering a wide array of time periods and subject specialisms, we transcend the concept of identity. This is achieved by exploring the links of nationhood and Scottish identity in the early 20th and 21st Centuries in the ongoing quest for independence demonstrating the political manipulation of history, imagery and mythology entangled in political propaganda.  Free Download Rome's Enemies Within: Imperial Conspiracies and Assassinations in the Roman Empire during the First Century AD by John S McHugh English | 2024 | ISBN: 1399061550 | 304 Pages | True ePUB | 5.5 MB  Free Download Rome Through the Mist: Walks Among the Fountains of the Eternal City by Joe Gartman English | March 2, 2023 | ISBN: 1476689245 | True EPUB | 270 pages | 48.8 MB Join Joe Gartman, culture columnist for Italia! Magazine, on a journey among 80 of Rome's celebrated fountains, and find a more intimate way of experiencing the Eternal City. On foot with book in hand, or simply in imagination, each chapter takes readers on a vivid walk, enhanced with colorful, revealing photographs of Roman life. Every fountain in Rome tells a story and every story is about Rome: her history, her legends, and her extraordinary people-poets and popes, artists and models, architects and emperors, saints and sinners. Every street, piazza, wall and garden that contains a fountain has a past worth knowing.  Free Download Romantic Medicine and the Gothic Imagination: Morbid Anatomies by Laura R. Kremmel English | 2022 | ISBN: 1786838486 | 272 Pages | True ePUB | 0.51 MB  Free Download Roman Year: A Memoir (US Edition) by André Aciman English | October 22, 2024 | ISBN: 0374613389 | True EPUB | 368 pages | 0.7 MB The author of Call Me by Your Name returns with a deeply romantic memoir of his time in Rome while on the cusp of adulthood.  Free Download Alan Wilkins, "Roman Imperial Artillery: Outranging the Enemies of the Empire " English | ISBN: 1803277831 | 2024 | 221 pages | PDF | 19 MB Greek and Roman torsion catapults were the most powerful missile projectors in the western world from their invention in the 4th century BC to the 11th century AD. Powered by the energy stored in tensioned and twisted rope springs, they outranged archers, slingers and all other missile launchers. After tracing their Greek origins, Roman Imperial Artillery describes the machines used from the time of Sulla and Caesar, the Roman improvements in their design and power, and their importance in the defence of the Roman Empire. Full-size reconstructions, made in collaboration with engineers Len Morgan and Tom Feeley, are based firmly on the author's revised editions of the texts of the Greek and Roman engineers, the latest archaeological finds and the evidence of relief sculptures. This revised edition analyses remarkable new finds from the Rhine frontier in the Netherlands and elsewhere. The 1999 find of a catapult frame in Germany allows an accurate reconstruction of the standard early Imperial bolt-shooter, as used in the AD 43 invasion of Britain by Vespasian against hillforts at Maiden Castle and Hod Hill. The siege-camps at Burnswark Hill, Dumfriesshire are investigated. 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The archaeobotanical remains (seeds and fruit) and the objects involved in the ceremonies constitute an important investigatory lens to reconstruct the mortuary rituals and attendance at the funerary space.
 Free Download Branka Migotti, "Roman Funerary Monuments of South-Western Pannonia in their Material, Social, and Religious Context " English | ISBN: 1789690218 | 2018 | 290 pages | PDF | 22 MB This book has come about as a result of the project 'Roman Funerary Monuments of South-Western Pannonia in their Material, Social, and Religious Context', unfolding between 2015 and 2018 in the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts under the auspices of the Croatian Science Foundation, with B. Migotti as the project leader and M. Šašel Kos and I. Radman-Livaja as collaborators. 'Roman Funerary Monuments of South-Western Pannonia in their Material, Social, and Religious Context' examines around two hundred funerary monuments and fragments (stelai, sarcophagi, ash-chests, tituli, altars, medallions and buildings) from three Roman cities in the south-west part of the Roman province of Pannonia in the territory of north-west Croatia: colonia Siscia (Sisak) and municipia Andautonia (Ščitarjevo) and Aquae Balissae (Daruvar). A juxtaposition of the evidence from three administrative units of different dimensions and municipal profiles, and of unequal importance in the wider area, offered a good opportunity for a meaningful comparison of the main components for a reconstruction of material, social and cultural components of the three Romano-provincial communities. The components studied were: 1 - territorial scope of the individual cities; 2 - quantification of the monuments in terms of kinds and chronology; 3 - structural typology and iconography; 4 - social aspects of the monument use; 5 - ritual and religious aspects (incineration vs. inhumation, classical religion vs. Christianity); 6 - geo-archaeological aspect. The most valuable contributions have been achieved in the geo-archaeological field, as such research had never been carried out in the studied area before.  Free Download Rolling Pennies in the Dark: A Memoir with a Message by Douglas MacKinnon English | February 28, 2012 | ISBN: 1451607881, 145160789X | True EPUB | 240 pages | 1.3 MB A heartbreaking and inspirational memoir of one man's journey from abject childhood poverty and abuse to a high-level career as a White House writer.  Free Download Rollenmodelle der Führung: Führungskräfte aus der Sicht der Mitarbeiter By Jürgen Mühlbacher (auth.) 2003 | 217 Pages | ISBN: 3824406705 | PDF | 10 MB Führung als Forschungsthema gewinnt seit einiger Zeit zunehmend an Bedeutung. Im Vordergrund steht dabei meist die Auseinandersetzung zwischen Eigenschafts- und Verhaltenstheorien. Auf der Basis einer empirischen Untersuchung rückt Jürgen Mühlbacher attributionstheoretische Rollenmodelle der Führung in den Mittelpunkt seiner Studie und entwickelt ein eigenes Modell der Wahrnehmung von Führung, das er mittels einer linguistischen Inhaltsanalyse testet. Der Autor beschreibt Führung als quasi unabhängig von konkreten Eigenschaften oder Verhaltensweisen der Führenden, einzig beruhend auf den Wahrnehmungen und Zuschreibungen der Beobachtenden, also der Geführten. |
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