Bøger af Peter Mitchell

A short, polemical study of the persistence of imperial nostalgia in modern British culture, politics, heritage and media. -- .

"In this new edition, Peter Mitchell provides a comprehensive synthesis of Southern Africa's archaeology over more than three million years. It includes new work that addresses pre-colonial states and the transformations wrought by European colonialism, emphasising Indigenous agency and feeding into efforts to decolonise the discipline"--

Discover simple rules for building self-confidence and learn some of the basic reasons why we fail and lose faith in ourselves. You'll uncover the twisted, weed-strewn paths which lead to the "Real Failure" and the "Sophisticated Failure", plus the routes that lead to the "Pseudo Success" and the "Real Success." You'll learn how to identify the pyramids of failure and other false beliefs that sabotage your potential and how to replace them with the strengths and values. Erect your very own Pyramid of Success and discover the power to grow, to change with Polishing The Diamond Within: A Guide to Self-Confidence

This book sets out to reconstruct and analyze the rationality of Phineas Fletcher's use of figurality in The Purple Island (1633) a poetic allegory of human anatomy. To this end, textual analyses of The Purple Island lead via bibliographical, biographical, conceptual, formal, and linguistic connections to other works of literature, natural philosophy and theology, and to anatomical demonstrations.

Some of the earliest human populations lived in Southern Africa, and evidence from sites there has inspired key debates on human origins and on the emergence of modern humans.

Southern Africa is central to many key debates in contemporary archaeology, including hominid origins, origins of anatomically modern humans and modern forms of behaviour, and the development of ethnographically informed ways of understanding rock art. This book is an archaeological synthesis of the region in fifty years.

This text covers development from infancy to adulthood, and also considers related disorders of development especially autism. The text also challenges the view that children progress to a higher stage of understanding mind following a radical shift

From the exodus of early modern humans to the growth of African diasporas, Africa has had a long and complex relationship with the outside world. This book attempts to outline internal geographic, environmental, sociopolitical and economic factors over the long period of modern human history, to find their commonalities and development over time.