Russia in Upheaval

Russia in UpheavalEdward Alsworth Ross, one of the founders of the academic field of sociology, spent JulyDecember 1917 traveling across the Russian Empire and talking to the people there. As he states in his brief introduction, I have taken it as my business to describe impartially the major social changes going on in Russia in the latter half of 1917, and leave it to others or to time itself to judge them.

Covers the 2004 season of clearing and mapping on the 4th Dynasty settlement at the Lost City of the Pyramids (Heit el-Ghurob) on the Giza Plateau

interpretation

the art of lavish yet legible handwriting is no longer being taught to schoolchildren or employed in daily life—much to the dismay of those who receive hastily scrawled love notes or try to decipher a doctor’s prescription

A Knack to Know a Knave

fuller version of the play

Frank Ackerman and Elizabeth A

stripping away these higher ideals to reveal the greed

strategies for the creation/capture and classification of records and information

the morality of consumption and the position of scientific knowledge within popular culture

in the Museum of Byzantine Culture

Britain today is falling apart

described a biblical copper-mining industry at the shore of the Red Sea