A Radical History of the World

Written in 1923, when Germany was in the throes of revolutionary demands from both the Left and the Right, Moeller van den Bruck envisioned a Germa...

Reducere. DescriptionBaruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was one of the most important philosophers of all time; he was also one of the most radical and controversial...

DescriptionA must-read book for understanding this vibrant and influential modern Jewish movementHasidism originated in southeastern Poland, in mys...

Reducere. In the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries a small but conspicuous fringe of the Jewish population became the world's most resolute, intellec...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book maps how American Methodists have responded to sexual change since World War II. It argues that the current United Methodist i...

A highly illustrated study of some of the weapons developed by Nazi Germany to equip the Luftwaffe in their desperate war against the encroaching A...

Reducere. Was Canada immune to the racist currents of thought that swept central Europe in the 1920's and 1930's? In this landmark book Angus McLaren, co-aut...

Reducere. Ye That Are Men Now Serve Him examines how religious belief reshaped concepts of gender during the New South period that took place from 1877 to 19...

Reducere. Sir Elton John, musician and philanthropist, has built one of the greatest private collections of photography in the world. This book presents an u...

Reducere. Gerald Massey's work has become essential for readers seeking a balanced understanding of human origins, religious thought and belief, and the role...

Reducere. This penetrating book sheds light on the psychology of fundamentalism, with a particular focus on those who become extremists and fanatics. What ac...

In 1969, several young men met on a rainy night in Kabul to form an Islamist student group. Their aim was laid out in a simple typewritten statemen...

Reducere. This book explores Greek collaboration with the Nazis during the Axis occupation of Greece in the Second World War, a topic that continues to be on...

Martin Luther King, Jr., may be America's most revered political figure, commemorated in statues, celebrations, and street names around the world. ...

Contributor(s): Author: John ZameticaExamining the origins of the First World War has been called "the ultimate who dunnit." In his book, published...

Reducere. The deaf community in the West has endured radical changes in the past centuries. This work of history tracks the changes both in the education of ...

Reducere. Clare Anderson provides a radical new reading of histories of empire and nation, showing that the history of punishment is not solely connected to ...

Reducere. Describing the radical transformation in German Infantry tactics that took place during World War I, this book presents the first detailed account ...

DescriptionThe concluding volume to the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved twentieth-century sculptors, and one...

Reducere. We are at a critical point in human history and that of the planet. In this book, a world leader in agricultural research, Professor Sayed Azam-Ali...

Reducere. In the 1930s and 1940s the early roots of the Chicano Movement took shape. Activists like Jes s Cruz, and later Ralph Cuar n, sought justice for mi...

DescriptionWhen searching for genuinely sustainable building design and technology - designs that go beyond conventional sustainability to be truly...

Our understanding of ourselves and the world as historical has drastically changed since the postwar period, yet this emerging historical sensibili...

DescriptionFor the last sixty years discussion of 1950s science fiction cinema has been dominated by claims that the genre reflected US paranoia ab...

This book reevaluates the changes to chymistry that took place from 1660 to 1730 through a close study of the chymist Wilhelm Homberg (1653-1715) a...

Reducere. DescriptionHegel's The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) is one of the most influential texts in the history of modern philosophy. In it, Hegel propos...

Reducere. Description"No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that's marked this new millennium."--Bill McKibbe...

Reducere. Millennia ago, Egyptian and Celtic authors recorded prophetic warnings for the future and their harbinger signs are now converging. These predictio...

Reducere. Millennia ago, Egyptian and Celtic authors recorded prophetic warnings for the future and their harbinger signs are now converging. These predictio...

Explores the diverse and sometimes conflicting attempts of lesbian and gay people to build a new world for themselves and those they loved.Publishe...

DescriptionIn today's culture, popular music is a vital site where ideas about gender and sexuality are imagined and disseminated. Popular Music an...

DescriptionA classic book on the legacy of Rosa Luxemburg's work with essays of political analysis by leading scholars As an advocate of social dem...

From its underground genesis during the Cultural Revolution (1966-76), contemporary Chinese art has become a dynamic and hugely influential force i...

DescriptionBefore World War I, the government reaction to labor dissent had been local, ad hoc, and quasi-military. Sheriffs, mayors, or governors ...

Reducere. A radical reconception of Degas' sculpture through the lens of gender, labor and more, with new photography of the worksThis substantial new monogr...

Reducere. The incarnation--the act of God assuming mortal flesh through Jesus Christ--reveals God's radical love for a world marked by the rebellion of the c...

Reducere. Presenting examples from the fields of critical race studies, cultural resource management, digital archaeology, environmental studies, and heritag...