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Rural Architectural Traditions in Central Asia

Anthropologist Thomas Barfield on ethnic distinctions of architectural forms, earthquakes, and local construction traditions adapted to the environment

The Revolution and Violence in World War I

Historian Jay Winter on the global character of wars in the 20th century, the influence of technical progress on the number of casualties, and the first genocide

Historian Carlo Ginzburg on the benandanti witches, clashes between medieval peasants and inquisitors, and the misconception in the inquisition trials

Historian Carlo Ginzburg on the value of an individual, geopolitical traditions in history and globalization

55,000-year-old skull as an evidence of modern man in vicinity of Neanderthals

The discovery of a 55,000-year-old partial skull in Northern Israel provides new insights into the migration of modern humans out of Africa

Global Architecture History

Professor Mark Jarzombek on what Buddhist temples express, transfer of architectural techniques, and the Eurocentric worldview

Biologist Steven Benner on the questions answered by paleogenetics, how laboratory work in the field is conducted, and what paleogenetics has already taught us

Scientific Work in Los Alamos Program

Nobel Prize laureate Roy Glauber on avoiding predetonation, the Trinity test, and the hydrogen bomb

Terror by Quota

Historian Paul Gregory on Stalin's "limity", death sentences, and the academic research with great political importance

Security and the Soviet Command Economy

University of Warwick Prof. Mark Harrison on military-industrial complex, Stalin's Great Breakthrough, and paperwork in KGB

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