An innovative history of deep social and economic changes in France, told through the story of a single extended family across five generations Marie Aymard was an illiterate widow who lived in the provincial town of Angoulême in southwestern France, a place where seemingly nothing ever happened. Yet, in 1764, she made her fleeting mark on the historical record through two documents: a power of attorney in connection with the property of her late husband, a carpenter on the island of Grenada, and a prenuptial contract for her daughter, signed by eighty-three people in Angoulême. Who was Marie Aymard? Who were all these people? And why were they together on a dark afternoon in December 1764? Beginning with these questions, An Infinite History offers a panoramic look at an extended family over five generations. Through ninety-eight connected stories about inquisitive, sociable individuals, ending with Marie Aymard’s great-great granddaughter in 1906, Emma Rothschild unfurls an innovative mo

Most people think of yoga as a solitary activity that isinherently therapeutic. While that is generally true, yoga posesand breathing practices can also be prescribed for specific healthproblems—often in combination with dietary advice taken fromAyurveda, traditional Indian medicine. Yoga Therapy is an essentialguide for yoga teachers, advanced practitioners, and anyone whowants to make therapeutic use of yoga. A. G. and Indra Mohanprescribe postures, breathing techniques, and basic Ayurvedicprinciples for a variety of common health problems, includingasthma, back pain, constipation, hip pain, knee pain, menstrualproblems, and scoliosis. Yoga Therapy is one of the few books that shows yoga teachers howto put together appropriate yoga sequences and breathing techniquesfor their students. Mohan details how to correctly move into, hold,and move out of poses, how to breathe during practice to achievespecific results, and how to customize a yoga practice by creatingsequences of yoga poses for a particular pers

How does mood affect non-verbal communication, the gazes,gestures and facial expressions which accompany dialogue? Thisimportant monograph, based on a longitudinal study of five hundredinterviews with depressed patients and normal subjects,systematically examines the ways in which mental illness may affectnon-verbal interaction patterns. A number of specific patterns ofnon-verbal behaviour are identified which relate directly topsychological state and also depend on the interaction of theparticipants in a dialogue. Non-verbal Communication in Depressionis not only rich in much-needed empirical data, but it also offersa fresh theoretical and methodological perspective on communicativebehaviour in general. Most importantly, perhaps, it represents areal advance in our understanding of the functions of variousnon-verbal mechanisms and thus provides the clinical psychologistand psychiatrist with an important diagnostic tool.

The world is getting older and no one knows exactly what lifewill be like in tomorrow's older societies. But we do know that agedependency ratios--the ratio of retirees to workers--will be muchhigher than we see today. The combined effects of fewer workers,more retirees and longer retirement periods threaten not only thesustainability of pension systems but also the broader economicprospects of many developed countries. This analysis describescurrent trends in birth rates, longevity and labor forceparticipation and productivity, the cross-border flow of capital,the globalization of labor markets, the financial viability ofsocial insurance programs, and the ways economic output is sharedbetween working-age and retiree populations.

In this 1996 cultural history which considers thetransformation of south Indian institutions under British colonialrule in the nineteenth century, Pamela Price focuses on the twoformer 'little kingdoms' of Ramnad and Sivaganga which came undercolonial governance as revenue estates. She demonstrates howrivalries among the royal families and major zamindari temples, andthe disintegration of indigenous institutions of rule, contributedto the development of nationalism and identity amongst the peopleof southern Tamil country. The author also shows how religioussymbols and practices going back to the seventeenth century werereformulated and acquired a new significance in the colonialcontext. Arguing for a reappraisal of the relationship of Hinduismto politics, Price finds that these symbols and practices continueto inform popular expectation of political leadership today.

How did humankind deal with the extreme challenges of the lastIce Age? How have the relatively benign post-Ice Age conditionsaffected the evolution and spread of humanity across the globe? Bysetting our genetic history in the context of climate change duringprehistory, the origin of many features of our modern world areidentified and presented in this illuminating book. It reviews theaspects of our physiology and intellectual development that havebeen influenced by climatic factors, and how features of our lives- diet, language and the domestication of animals - are also theproduct of the climate in which we evolved. In short: climatechange in prehistory has in many ways made us what we are today.Climate Change in Prehistory weaves together studies of the climatewith anthropological, archaeological and historical studies, andwill fascinate all those interested in the effects of climate onhuman development and history.

It was the most expensive bottle of wine ever sold. In 1985, at a heated auction by Christie’s of London, a 1787bottle of Ch?teau Lafite Bordeaux—one of a cache of bottlesunearthed in a bricked-up Paris cellar and supposedly owned byThomas Jefferson—went for $156,000 to a member of the Forbesfamily. The discoverer of the bottle was pop-band manager turnedwine collector Hardy Rodenstock, who had a knack for findingextremely old and exquisite wines. But rumors about the bottle soonarose. Why wouldn’t Rodenstock reveal the exact location where ithad been found? Was it part of a smuggled Nazi hoard? Or did hisreticence conceal an even darker secret? It would take more than two decades for those questions to beanswered and involve a gallery of intriguing players—among themMichael Broadbent, the bicycle-riding British auctioneer who speaksof wines as if they are women and staked his reputation on therecord-setting sale; Serena Sutcliffe, Broadbent’s elegantarchrival, whose palate is c

This book examines the Aberdeen Administration of 1852–1855 indetail in order to clarify the complicated subject of partyrelationships in mid-nineteenth-century British politics and theoperation of the British parliamentary system at that time. Itsinterest centres on the role of the Peelites in the Coalition as astage in the evolution of the Gladstonian Liberal party. The authordescribes the formation of the Coalition, the Cabinet membershipand the legislative achievements of 1853 Gladstone's famous Budgetsettling the issue of the Income Tax, the now forgotten India Actand valuable reform legislation. The success of 1853 is contrastedwith the failure of 1854. The author describes the routine problemsthat faced all ministries, the endless parliamentary wrangles overreligion and Ireland, the colourful contributions to debate by sucheccentrics as Colonel Sibthorpe, the problems of patronage, and therelations between the Prime Minister and the Queen.

The Ross Orogen of the Transantarctic Mountains is the part ofthe orogenic system that formed at the Pacific continental marginof present-day Antarctica. According to a recent hypothesis, thiscontinental margin was created by the rifting and subsequent driftof Laurentia from Gondwana. With an unparalleled breadth and depthof information, this book provides a detailed synthesis of thehistory of the Ross orogen. In doing so, it incorporates classicalstudies with discussions of the most recent and controversialresearch from the international community. The book also includes acomprehensive bibliography and a historical chronology of allexpeditions that have worked on the Ross orogen in theTransantarctic Mountains, from the first sightings by Ross in 1840right up to the present day. This review of the Ross orogen of theTransantarctic Mountains will be valuable to all geologistsinterested in these episodes in the Earth's history, and toresearchers of the geology of Antarctica.

This book examines the history of the colonial conquest of aneglected region of Angola from an alternative perspective. DrClarence-Smith has used advances in Marxist theory to develop amodel of the early colonial period which differs greatly from theestablished historiography of `African resistance'. Although themain focus is on local socio-economic structures, one chapterplaces the region in the wider context of the political economy ofthe partition of Africa, with strong emphasis on the economicmotivations of Portugal. A brief epilogue brings the story inoutline to the end of Portuguese colonialism. The rest of the bookanalyses colonial society and African peasant societies in turn.Capitalist relations of production were generally predominant inlocal colonial society, but slavery persisted into the 1910s andwas followed by a system of forced labour.