Bohemians West: Free Love, Family, and Radicals in Twentieth Century America, Hardcover - Sherry L. Smith

Reducere. A historical biography of a radical relationship at the dawn of the 20th Century The opening years of the twentieth century saw a grand cast of rad...

Reducere. Popular perceptions of American writers as either godless radicals or God-fearing reactionaries overlook a vital tradition of Christian leftist tho...

In the 1960s biologists and social scientists engaged in a public debate about human nature. The question-whether humans are innately aggressive or...

Reducere. Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the go...

In 1918, Rebecca Goldberg--a Jewish immigrant from the Russian Empire living in rural Wilmington, Massachusetts--lost her husband, Nathan, to a rai...

Reducere. Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of th...

Reducere. Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of Look magazine, one of the greatest mass-circulation publications in American history, and the very different Un...

Reducere. Whether or not we've come a long way since then, this engaging study of courtship shows that at least half the fun is in reading about getting ther...

Contributor(s): Author: Margot CanadayThe Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Uneart...

DescriptionRecent events--the Citizens United Supreme Court decision, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and efforts to increase the minimum wage, am...

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Reducere. In this "penetrating new analysis" (New York Times Book Review) Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century America...

Reducere. Each year in France approximately 1.5 million people practice naturisme or naturism, an activity more commonly referred to as nudism. Because of Fr...

As Lillian Faderman writes, there are "no constants with regard to lesbianism, " except that lesbians prefer women. In this groundbreaking book, sh...

Renowned food scholar Carole Counihan serves up a delicious narrative about family and food in twentieth-century Florence.

These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research a...

This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, art music and jazz on equal terms. It highlights...

Reducere. A writer investigates her family's secret history, uncovering a story that spans a century, two World Wars, and three generations. Hadley Freeman k...

Reducere. Two brothers grow up on the Jewish streets of Warsaw. At the turn of the twentieth century, Adolphe leaves to seek work and start a family in Switz...

Reducere. Are 'Dear John' letters lethal weapons in the hands of men at war? Many US officers, servicemen, veterans, and civilians would say yes. Drawing on ...

A major history of the impact of Caribbean migration to the United States.

With unique authority and unparalleled scholarship, Sassoon traces the fortunes of the political parties of the left in Western Europe across 14 co...

Deals with the toothpaste and toothbrush industries from 1900 to 2008. This book shows that during these years, America moved from a nation of peop...

DescriptionA fascinating look at the lives of women who bore the heat of day in Christian mission, but who were often forgotten by history until now.

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Reducere. Award NameIndependent Publisher Book AwardsAward categoryAnthologiesTaken from the pages of South Dakota History, these essays explore modern Ameri...

Reducere. DescriptionALPHEUS HARLAN'S CLASSIC TOME "History and Genealogy of the Harlan Family in America" is not only a must-have keepsake for everybody wit...

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Reducere. The author of the The Children's Blizzard delivers an epic work of twentieth century history through the riveting story of one extraordinary Jewish...

Reducere. During the early twentieth century, a neo-humanist education reform burgeoned in Spain. Building upon the new science of child study, known as paid...

Reducere. The original (1985) edition of this work attempted to cover the main lines of development of phonological theory from the end of the 19th century t...

DescriptionIntroduce your brilliant baby to the ABCs with this colorfully illustrated primer about love and friendship. Valentine's Day is a time t...

DescriptionDiscover 100 of the most beautiful English gardens and landscapes designed since 1914, courtesy of the Twentieth Century Society. See ho...

Reducere. Provides an ambitious history of pigs and pig products from the Columbian exchange to the present, emphasizing critical stories of production, cons...

Free Radicals in Biology and Medicine has become a classic text in the field of free radical and antioxidant research since its first publication i...

Contributor(s): Author: Furio JesiTranslator: Richard BraudeIn the decades before the rise of the Third Reich, "Secret Germany" was a phrase used b...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

DescriptionFor decades, beloved chef Lidia Bastianich has introduced Americans to Italian food through her cookbooks, TV shows, and restaurants. No...

DescriptionDuring states of emergency, normal rules and rights are suspended, and force can often prevail. In these precarious intervals, when the ...

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning bestselling author of Alexander Hamilton, the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical, comes this definitive biogr...

In The Maverick Soul, Miv Watts opens the doors to twenty-five authentic bohemian homes, occupied by some of the world's most inspirational free sp...

Reducere. Working Class Radicals: The Socialist Party in West Virginia, 1898-1920 examines the rise and fall of organized socialism in West Virginia through ...

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Reducere. DescriptionFrom a leading journalist and activist comes a brave, beautifully wrought memoir.When Darnell Moore was fourteen, three boys from his ne...

Reducere. As the modern celebration of Christmas took shape across the nineteenth century, American writers gave it new meaning in the pages of countless boo...

My book begins with a brief consideration of what we mean by "English music" and what factors are involved. I explain the reasons behind my choice ...

DescriptionPicking up where her #1 New York Times bestseller, Liars, Leakers and Liberals, left off, Judge Jeanine Pirro of Fox's Justice with Judg...

Reducere. Power couples aren't a modern phenomenon. The greatest American couple ever to have served America in a public capacity was the country's fourth pr...