Après avoir été longtemps négligée, l'étude du monde grec sous la domination romaine a connu ces dernières années un regain d'intérêt tant de la part des historiens que des archéologues. Mais alors que l'époque antonine a déjà récemment suscité de nombreux travaux, les constructions de la période qui correspond à l'entrée progressive de la Grèce dans l'orbite politique et culturelle de Rome restaient jusqu'à ces dernières années encore trop négligées. Au cours de cette période, qui voit dans une large mesure la genèse de l'architecture romaine, l'architecture grecque sert de référence et les nouvelles provinces orientales de champ d'expérimentation pour les modèles italiens. Les vingt-cinq contributions que regroupe ce volume sont consacrées aux constructions publiques et aux programmes édilitaires réalisés dans l'ensemble des territoires qui furent englobés dans les provinces d'Achaïe, de Crète, de Macédoine et d'Epire, entre la fin de la deuxième Guerre de Macédoine et la fin de l'époque flavienne. Elles sont regroupées autour de trois thèmes: techniques et décors; édifices et complexes monumentaux; urbanisme et topographie civique. Rapports de synthèse et études de cas permettent d'évaluer l'importance, le rythme et la diversité des changements qui affectèrent alors les villes et les sanctuaires grecs.

The Boron '97 meeting was a great success in summarising all recent developments in basic and applied research on boron's function, especially in plants. New techniques have since been developed and new insight has been gained into the role of boron in plant and animal metabolism. Nevertheless, there were still lots of open questions. The aim of the present workshop held in Bonn as a satellite meeting to the International Plant Nutrition Colloquium was thus to gather all actual information which has been gained since the Boron '97 meeting and to compile knowledge, both from animal and plant sciences. Furthermore, applied aspects had to be addressed too, as there is an increasing awareness of boron deficiencies even in crops such as wheat, which have formerly not been considered as responsive to boron application. Genetic differences in boron demand and efficiency within one species are a further important topic which has gained importance since the 1997 meeting. More in-depth knowledge on the mechanisms of boron efficiency are required as an increased efficiency will be one major possibility to maintain and improve crop yields for resource-poor farmers. Nevertheless, it has also clearly been shown that an adequate supply of boron is needed to obtain high yields of crops with a high quality, and that a sustainable agriculture has to provide an adequate boron supply to compensate for inevitable losses through leaching (especially in the humid tropics and temperate regions) and for the boron removal by the crop.

This book focuses on management of a sustainable aquatic environment, covering climate change and water bodies; water quality and agriculture; interaction of surface and ground waters; Karst Hydrogeology; role of water in civil engineering projects and more.

Human development is a long and steady process that began with stone tool making. Because of this skill, humans were able to adapt to climate changes, discover new territories, and invent new technologies. "Pressure knapping" is the common term for one method of creating stone tools, where a larger device or blade specifically made for this purpose is use to press out the stone tool. Pressure knapping was invented in different locations and at different points in time, representing the adoption of the Neolithic way of life in the Old world. Recent research on pressure knapping has led for the first time to a global thesis on this technique. The contributors to this seminal work combine research findings on pressure knapping from different cultures around the globe to develope a cohesive theory. This contributions to this volume represents a significant development to research on pressure knapping, as well as the field of lithic studies in general. This work will be an important reference for anyone studying the Paleolithic, Mesolithic, and Neolithic periods, lithic studies, technologies, and more generally, cultural transmission.

One of the most unusual decisions of the leaders of the French Revolution - and one that had immense practical as well as symbolic impact - was to abandon customarily-accepted ways of calculating date and time to create a Revolutionary calendar. The experiment lasted from 1793 to 1805, and prompted all sorts of questions about the nature of time, ways of measuring it and its relationship to individual, community, communication and creative life. This study traces the course of the Revolutionary Calendar, from its cultural origins to its decline and fall. Tracing the parallel stories of the calendar and the literary genius of its creator, Sylvain Maréchal, from the Enlightenment to the Napoleonic era, Sanja Perovic reconsiders the status of the French Revolution as the purported 'origin' of modernity, the modern experience of time, and the relationship between the imagination and political action.