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Armut - Arbeit - Menschenwürde : Die Euböische Rede des Dion von Prusa
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ISBN: 9783161518256 316151825X 3161564367 Year: 2012 Volume: XIX Publisher: Mohr Siebeck

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Der von Gustav Adolf Lehmann herausgegebene Band enthält eine vollständige Übersetzung und Kommentierung der Euböischen Rede des Dion von Prusa. Eine Reihe von Essays erschließt den literarischen, archäologischen, politisch-ethischen und politisch-sozialen Inhalt des Werkes und macht erstmals eine umfassende Würdigung dieser Schrift möglich.


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Hunters, heroes, kings : the frieze of tomb II at Vergina
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ISBN: 9780876619667 Year: 2012 Publisher: Princeton : American School of Classical Studies at Athens,


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Field guide to mushrooms of western North America
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ISBN: 1280813997 9786613711496 0520953606 9780520953604 0520271076 9780520271074 0520271084 9780520271081 9780520271074 9780520271081 9781280813993 6613711497 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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California and the Western States are rich in abundant and diverse species of mushrooms. Amateur mushroom collectors and mycologists alike will find over 300 species of the region's most common, distinctive, and ecologically important mushrooms profiled in this comprehensive field guide. It provides the most up-to-date science on the role of fungi in the natural world, methods to identify species, and locations of mushroom habitats. With excellent color illustrations showing top and side views of mushrooms of the Western States and a user-friendly text, it is informative but still light enough to be carried into the woods. When used to identify mushrooms, keys bring the reader to individual species, with a descriptive text providing cues for identifying additional species. Mushrooms common in urban landscapes are included, which is especially useful for the casual encounter with backyard fungi. The guide also provides a table of both old and new species names, and information on edibility and look-alikes, both dangerous and benign.A section on mushroom arts and crafts features mushroom photography, painting, philately, spore prints, dyes, and cultivation. The guide also offers a comprehensive list of resources including national field guides, general mushroom books and periodicals, club and society contact information, and web sites.· Primary descriptions and illustrations of 300 species of mushrooms plus text descriptions of many more.· Latest word in mushroom taxonomy and nomenclature. Clear discussion of DNA sequencing and new classifications. · Especially good coverage of southern California and Southwestern mushrooms often neglected in other field guides.


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Headhunting and the body in Iron Age Europe
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ISBN: 9780521877565 9781139016971 9781139338318 1139338315 9781139336574 1139336576 1139016970 0521877563 1139334077 1107225973 1280393874 9786613571793 1139337440 1139339893 1139341472 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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Across Iron Age Europe the human head carried symbolic associations with power, fertility status, gender, and more. Evidence for the removal, curation and display of heads ranges from classical literary references to iconography and skeletal remains. Traditionally, this material has been associated with a Europe-wide 'head-cult', and used to support the idea of a unified Celtic culture in prehistory. This book demonstrates instead how headhunting and head-veneration were practised across a range of diverse and fragmented Iron Age societies. Using case studies from France, Britain and elsewhere, it explores the complex and subtle relationships between power, religion, warfare and violence in Iron Age Europe.


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Across Atlantic ice : the origin of America's Clovis culture
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ISBN: 1280095792 9786613520470 0520949676 9781280095795 9780520227835 0520227832 9780520949676 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press,

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Who were the first humans to inhabit North America? According to the now familiar story, mammal hunters entered the continent some 12,000 years ago via a land bridge that spanned the Bering Sea. Distinctive stone tools belonging to the Clovis culture established the presence of these early New World people. But are the Clovis tools Asian in origin? Drawing from original archaeological analysis, paleoclimatic research, and genetic studies, noted archaeologists Dennis J. Stanford and Bruce A. Bradley challenge the old narrative and, in the process, counter traditional-and often subjective-approaches to archaeological testing for historical relatedness. The authors apply rigorous scholarship to a hypothesis that places the technological antecedents of Clovis in Europe and posits that the first Americans crossed the Atlantic by boat and arrived earlier than previously thought. Supplying archaeological and oceanographic evidence to support this assertion, the book dismantles the old paradigm while persuasively linking Clovis technology with the culture of the Solutrean people who occupied France and Spain more than 20,000 years ago.


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Game changer : animal rights and the fate of Africa's wildlife
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ISBN: 1280116587 9786613520876 0520952057 9780520952058 0520266269 9780520266261 9780520266261 Year: 2012 Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press,

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"Are conservation and protecting animals the same thing? In Game Changer, award-winning environmental reporter Glen Martin takes a fresh look at this question as it applies to Africa's megafauna. Martin assesses the rising influence of the animal rights movement and finds that the policies championed by animal welfare groups could lead paradoxically to the elimination of the very species--including elephants and lions--that are the most cherished. In his anecdotal and highly engaging style, Martin takes readers to the heart of the conflict. He revisits the debate between conservationists, who believe that people whose lives are directly impacted by the creation of national parks and preserves should be compensated, versus those who believe that restrictive protection that forbids hunting is the most effective way to conserve wildlife and habitats. Focusing on the different approaches taken by Kenya, Tanzania, and Namibia, Martin vividly shows how the world's last great populations of wildlife have become the hostages in a fight between those who love animals and those who would save them"--

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