Robert Gottlieb is the founder and former director of the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute and an emeritus professor at Occidental College. He is the author of thirteen books, including Global Cities: Urban Environments in Los Angeles, Hong Kong . . .

This chapter is a lesson plan for evaluating and understanding primary sources.

Lecture delivered at Humboldt State University on December 5, 2019. Part of the Sustainable Futures Speaker Series, which is sponsored by the Schatz Energy Research Center, the Environment & Community graduate program, and the College of Arts, Humanit . . .

Panel discussion delivered via webinar on April 16, 2020. Part of Humboldt State University's Sustainable Futures Speaker Series, which is sponsored by the Schatz Energy Research Center, the Environment & Community graduate program, and the College of . . .

In January and February of 1996 I had the great good fortune of joining the team of American archeologists, faculty, and students who went to Wadi Natrun, Egypt; we were there to excavate the Monastery of Saint John the Little and study firsthandCopti . . .

In a recent issue of The American Benedictine Review, David N. Bell offered a searching critique of early Christian monasticism and found it severely deficient in a number of ways. He points out that the monks of the fourth and fifth century were not . . .

The cory catfishes (Callichthyidae) are small, South American armored catfishes with a series of dermal scutes that run the length of the fish from posterior to the parieto-supraoccipital down to the caudal peduncle. In this study, we explore the anat . . .

Extreme episodic events have the capacity to transport large amounts of terrestrial material to the coastal ocean. While estuaries and deltas are typically thought to trap most of this material, some escapes these coastal features and is transported t . . .

Journeying to the interior is both physical fact and spiritual reality in early Christian monasticism, especially in Egypt, where the physical interior is clearly marked and life-threatening. The attacks of the demons in the Life ofAntony demonstrate . . .

Sometime in the sixth century, according to Palestinian monastic tradition, “a certain woman, poor in appearance,” arrived late one evening after vespers at the Monastery of Saint George of Choziba outside Jericho (a monastery that still exists)1and a . . .