Blood Rites. Origins and History of the Passions of War, Paperback - Barbara Ehrenreich

Published for the first time as a Granta Books paperback: Barbara Ehrenreich's groundbreaking investigation into the roots of war, with a new intro...

Reducere. Based on fieldwork at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory--the facility that designed the neutron bomb and the warhead for the MX missile--N...

Reducere. Lukas Prize ProjectWinner of the Bancroft Prize King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New Engl...

Reducere. DescriptionA brilliant and insightful exploration of the rise and fall of the American middle class by New York Times bestselling author, Barbara E...

Reducere. Description*Includes pictures *Includes ancient descriptions of the goddess and myths *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further rea...

Reducere. *Includes pictures of important places and historic art depicting Athena and other Greek gods and goddesses. *Explains the historical origins of th...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes medieval accounts of Loki *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Much of what is known of t...

}Smile Or Die{ author and seminal thinker reflects on our powerlessness in the failed attempt to control our bodies and selves, proposing a differe...

In 1144, the mutilated body of William of Norwich, a young apprentice leatherworker, was found abandoned outside the city's walls. The boy bore dis...

Hailed on publication as a thought-provoking, authoritative analysis of the true beginnings of the Second World War, this revised edition of The Ro...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes medieval accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Brothers shall fight - and fell e...

Reducere. The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from ``our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism``--The New Y...

This scholarly study presents a new political Wordsworth: an artist interested in 'autonomous' poetry's redistribution of affect. No slave of Whig ...

Reducere. DescriptionClash of Extremes takes on the reigning orthodoxy that the American Civil War was waged over high moral principles. Marc Egnal contends ...

WORLD WAR II POP QUIZAfter losing World War I, Germany was disarmed, forbidden to build an air force or submarines, and its army could not exceed 1...

The reissue of a searing investigation into white-collar unemployment from the bestselling author of Nickel and Dimed.

Reducere. Din cauze naturale. Epidemia de wellness, certitudinea mortii si cum ne omoram incercand sa ne prelungim viata De la nivelul celular pana la cel al...

Reducere. During the Civil War, Union and Confederate politicians, military commanders, everyday soldiers, and civilians claimed their approach to the confli...

James Joll's study is not simply another narrative, retracing the powder trail that was finally ignited at Sarajevo. It is an ambitious and wide-ra...

Reducere. DescriptionThe New York Times bestseller, now in paperback From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are k...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes medieval accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading "Yet remains that one of the sir w...

Reducere. Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time The Proud Tower, the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Guns of August, ...

Reducere. In the spring of 1793, eighteen-year-old Nancy Randolph, the fetching daughter of one of the greatest of the great Virginia tobacco planters, was a...

Reducere. Human rights activist and historian Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz has been described as ``a force of nature on the page and off.`` That force is fully prese...

DescriptionFor centuries Italy has been many things to many people. In this brilliant anthology and traveler's companion, twenty-eight first-rate w...

A concise introduction to one of the major historical controversies, brought right up-to-date for this 3rd edition.

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Reducere. In this unique history of the "Lost Battalion" of World War I, Alan D. Gaff tells for the first time the story of the 77th Division from the perspe...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes medieval accounts of Loki *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading Much of what is known of t...

Debunking what were accepted truths about the Second World War, the author argues provocatively that Hitler did not set out to cause the war as par...

Expert....[Jankowski] shrewdly juxtaposes interminable peace and disarmament conferences and political events with the national mood in a dozen cou...

Reducere. DescriptionPhysicians in ancient Greece believed four humours flowed within the human body--blood, phlegm, black bile, and choler--determining a pe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Richard KieckheferPreserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that...

Reducere. This book addresses a central question about the Cold War that has never been adequately resolved. Why did the United States go to such lengths not...

The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypa...

Reducere. Poets and Prophets of the Resistance offers a ground-up history and fresh interpretation of the polarization and mobilization that brought El Salva...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Jonathan MarshallNumber of pages: 298Publication date: 2020Dimensions: 152 x 229 x 19Cover type...

The Second World War lasted for 2, 174 days and claimed the lives of over 50 million people. Why did it take the course that it did? Why did the Ax...

Reducere. A comprehensive and readable history of Native Americans in the Upper Great Lakes region

Reducere. Winner of the R.B.Y. Scott Award from the Canadian Society of Biblical Studies Even in antiquity, writers were intrigued by the origins of the peop...

Reducere. 1926. The war-ravaged vineyards of France. In this masterpiece of suspense from CWA Historical Dagger Award-winner Barbara Cleverly, a nameless sol...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book offers a historical study of the Masonic "Rite of Memphis-Misraim, " allegedly established in 1881. The "Rite of Memphis" and ...

Reducere. "Roberts'spopulist approach makes for a rollicking good read and never comes at theexpense of accuracy. His mastery of the huge variety of subjects...

Formed in 1938, the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service was a remarkable legion of women; this is their story.

Target success in OCR AS/A-level History with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam pr...

Do you want an end to war and inequality? Listen to your starving ancestors for clues to a solution.

Reducere. Following Napoleon's defeat and exile in 1814, the future of the European continent hung in the balance. Eager to negotiate a lasting, workable pea...