Vertebrates As Bioindicators of Climate Change by Yevheniia Yanish

“…Such information is very important for historians and archaeologists, since it allows them to better understand the living conditions of people in the historical past. …”
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Black Histories Matter by Ghachem, Malick, James, Erica C.

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The anatomy of unbelief: a critical assessment of the cognitive science of (non)religion by Ovsepyan, M

“…</p> <p>In this thesis, I critically investigate the approach called cognitive science of religion (CSR), which Justin Barrett and Emily Burdett describe as "the scientific approach to the study of religion that combines methods and theory from cognitive, developmental and evolutionary psychology with the sorts of questions that animate anthropologists and historians of religion" developed to further the understanding of "the reasons for initial acquisition, recurrence, and continued transmission of religious concepts and behaviour" (2011: 252). …”

Weather by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology by Ferng, Jennifer H.

“…Farmers sometimes relied upon the intuition of wind direction, the natural instincts of animals, imminent storm clouds and heavy rainfall to predict how the weather would influence the prosperity of their forthcoming harvest. …”
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The Relationship between Religion and National Culture in Poland in Light of John Paul II’s Philosophical and Theological Reflections by Elżbieta Osewska, Józef Stala, Krzysztof Bochenek

“…Many historians and politicians acknowledge that John Paul II, along with other world-leaders of the 1980s brought about the destruction of European Communism. …”
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Eloisa Pressi (1883 - 1946) allieva di Emanuel Löwy alla Sapienza di Roma/Eloisa Pressi (1883 - 1946) student of Emanuel Löwy at La Sapienza in Rome by Chiara Piva

“…This paper analyse education and professional career of Eloisa Pressi (1883-1946) in the context of the first generation of art historians graduated in Italy. Looking at the scientific profile and the teaching method put into practice at Sapienza by his teacher Emanuel Löwy, the research investigates issues and debates that animated studies on antiquities at the turn of the century.  …”
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Quantifying Roman economic performance by means of proxies : pitfalls and potential by Wilson, A

“…I examine a number of commonly used proxies (shipwrecks, stature, lead and copper pollution, animal bone consumption), looking at their strengths and weaknessess. …”

A serendipity of mavericks: the Ratio Club and the British experience of cybernetics from 1949 to 1959 by Williams, C

“…On 22 October 1948, Norbert Wiener, a venerable yet idiosyncratic American mathematician, published <em>Cybernetics: or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine</em>. Confounding all expectations, the book became an instant success, and it spawned an international intellectual and cultural movement that laid the epistemological and ontological foundations for the Information Age.…”

Mapping past human land use using archaeological data: A new classification for global land use synthesis and data harmonization by Morrison, KD, Hammer, E, Boles, O, Styring, AK, Et al.

“…In the 12,000 years preceding the Industrial Revolution, human activities led to significant changes in land cover, plant and animal distributions, surface hydrology, and biochemical cycles. …”

Visual recognition in art using machine learning by Crowley, E

“…Solving this problem is extremely beneficial to art historians, who are often interested in determining when an object first appeared in a painting or how the portrayal of an object has evolved over time. …”

“This ʻqueenʼ, bluntly speaking, will bring us to beggary...” On the issue of the corn campaign of the thaw period of 1953–1964 by D.N. Konyshev

“…The validity and objectivity of the research results is ensured by comparing the data and conclusions of a number of Russian historians, as well as by analyzing the archival sources published and put into scientific circulation, contained in the Russian State Archive of Economics, the State Archive of the Russian Federation, the State Archive of Socio-Political History of the Kirov Region, the Russian State Archive of Modern History. …”

Contributions to Anatolian History and Numismatics 11. Eagle omens: Foundations of Cities and Cults at the behest of Zeus by Johannes Nollé

“…Unfortunately, in the case of the coins the representation of this motif is mostly overlooked, not recognised or misinterpreted, so that it may be helpful for historians as well as for numismatists to take another look at such coins. …”
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Agon: poetry’s resistance to the mathematisation of reality (1920s-1960s) by Sridhar, A

“…</p> <p>The thesis questions a broad consensus in the incipient field of modernism and mathematics, amongst both literary and mathematical historians, that literature and mathematics in the period undergo a ‘convergent evolution’, amiably informing one another. …”

The English boroughs and the King's government : a study of the Tory reaction, 1681-85 by Pickavance, R

“…For this treatment tones down the importance of parliamentary politics in the government of the nation: it is my view that by concentrating on the struggle between crown and parliament historians have in the past fallen into a whole series of misunderstandings in their allusions to the relations between central government and the localities in this period. …”

The Benefits and Burdens of Meat Consumption by Cynthia Coyle, Ashley McKinstry

“…Excessive consumption of animal protein negatively impacts public health both directly and indirectly through climate change, environmental degradation, and pollution. …”
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Simon V of Montfort: The exercise and aims of independent Baronial power at home and on crusade, 1195-1218 by Lippiatt, G

“…<p>Historians of political development in the High Middle Ages often focus on the late twelfth and early thirteenth centuries as the generations in which monarchy finally triumphed over aristocracy to create a monopoly on governing institutions in western Europe. …”