Louisiana Women: Their Lives and Times, volume 2, highlights the significant historical contributions of some of Louisiana’s most noteworthy and also overlooked women from the eighteenth century to the present. This volume underscores the cultural, social, and political distinctiveness of the state as well as showcases the actions and activities of women who greatly affected the history of Louisiana in profound and interesting ways.These essays on women at the forefront of...

There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international, economic, political and environmental context, this unique book expands these issues by reviving...

Generations of scholars have debated the influence of Greco-Roman culture on Jewish society and the degree of its impact on Jewish material culture and religious practice in Palestine and the Diaspora of antiquity. Judaism and Hellenism in Antiquity examines this phenomenon from the aftermath of Alexander’s conquest to the Byzantine era, offering a balanced view of the literary, epigraphical, and archeological evidence attesting to the process of Hellenization in Jewish life and i...

Ein kleines Zelt, eine in eine Wolldecke eingewickelte Geige, Wäsche zum Wechseln und eine Dose Kekse: Das ist die ganze Ausrüstung Laurie Lees, als er an einem strahlenden Junimorgen sein Heimatdorf in Gloucestershire verlässt und sich auf den Weg nach London macht. "Neunzehn Jahre war ich alt, noch nicht trocken hinter den Ohren, aber ich verließ mich auf mein Glück." Mithilfe seines Geigenspiels schlägt er sich als liebenswürdiger, alle Eindrücke intensiv erlebender Vagabund zunächst bi...