Creating the Boston Police. Francis Tukey and the Invention of Modern Crime Fighting, Paperback - Timothy B. Riordan

Tells the story of Francis Tukey and the formation of the Boston Police Department, featuring many of the department-s earliest cases and crises. S...

Jeevan Vasagar is a superb and evocative writer, and Lion City is a compelling, illuminating and personal history that will be regarded as the defi...

The extraordinary story of Singapore told by the expert correspondent for the Financial TimesPublisher: Little, Brown Book GroupAuthor(s): Jeevan V...

A narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 ...

Reducere. A narrative of early capitalism's most famous scandal, a speculative frenzy that nearly bankrupted the British state during the hot summer of 1720 ...

Reducere. What does it mean to own something? What sorts of things can be owned, and what cannot? How does one relinquish ownership? What are the boundaries ...

The unlikely tale of Frances Glessner Lee and her revolutionary work in forensic science through the creation of the Nutshell Studies of Unexplaine...

DescriptionMichel Goya's Flesh and Steel during the Great War is one of the most thoughtful, stimulating and original studies of the conflict to ha...

On September 9, 1919, an American nightmare came true. The entire Boston police force deserted their posts, leaving the city virtually defenseless....

Reducere. Richard Tuck traces the history of the distinction between sovereignty and government and its relevance to the development of democratic thought. T...

Reducere. J.B. Schneewind's remarkable book is the most comprehensive study ever written of the history of moral philosophy. Its aim is to set Kant's still i...

Reducere. A fascinating history of the practice of surgery from one of the leading figures in the field, chronicling centuries of scientific breakthroughs by...

`We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, le...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Michael RiordanAuthor: Lillian HoddesonOn December 16, 1947, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, physicists at Bell Laborator...

Richly illustrated with manuscripts, portraits, Sir John Tenniel's original line drawings and contemporary photographs, this is a fresh look at two...

A nuanced account of the life and art of Piero della Francesca.Illustrations: 94 colour illustrations

Reducere. In 12 April 1937 Frank Whittle became the first person to successfully start and run a turbojet engine. In May 1941 the engine took to the air in a...

Reducere. During the Golden Age of Sports in the 1920s, Walter Hagen was to golf what Babe Ruth was to baseball. The first professional golfer to make his li...

DescriptionAn engaging critique of the science and metaphysics behind our understanding of the universe The James Webb Space Telescope, when launch...

Publisher: Datum Publishing LimitedAuthor(s): John GolleyIllustration(s): Illustrations, mapsNumber of pages: 284Publication date: 2010Dimensions: ...

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From the Costa Prize-winning author of The Invention of Nature, Magnificent Rebels is a riveting, eye-opening biography of the first Romantics: a r...

Does a more academic type of police education produce new police officers that are reluctant to patrol the streets? These are some of the questions...

The Invention of Tradition - Eric Hobsbawm, Terence Ranger

Gripping story of the events that led up to the sailing of the Mayflower

Reducere. L.A. Times Book PrizeOn the eve of the centennial of the Wright brothers' historic flights at Kitty Hawk, a new generation will learn about the oth...

Reducere. In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization ...

Reducere. Chartres Cathedral, south of Paris, is revered as one of the most beautiful and profound works of art in the Western canon. But what did it mean to...

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Reducere. DescriptionThis book presents the first detailed history of the modern passport and why it became so important for controlling movement in the mode...

Reducere. This gorgeous and empowering picture book from award-winning author-illustrator Evan Turk paints the portrait of Marietta Barovier, the groundbreak...

The story of Alan Turing, the persecuted genius who helped break the Enigma code and create the modern computer, and who received a royal pardon in...

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DescriptionThis book offers an in-depth analysis of the case of Corbett v Corbett, a landmark in terms of law's engagement with sexual identity, ma...

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Reducere. In Children of Rus', Faith Hillis recovers an all but forgotten chapter in the history of the tsarist empire and its southwestern borderlands. The ...

Reducere. It is 1936 and A. E. Housman is being ferried across the river Styx, glad to be dead at last. The river that flows through Tom Stoppard s ``The Inv...

Reducere. From Paul Auster, author of the forthcoming 4 3 2 1: A Novel his very first book, a moving and personal meditation on fatherhood This debut work by...

'Every Scot should read it. Scotland now has the lively, provocative and positive history it deserves.' Irvine Welsh, GuardianA dramatic and intrig...

Connecting the emergence and development of certain dog breeds to both scientific understandings of race and blood as well as Britain's posture in ...

This book tells the remarkable story of Robert F. Williams--one of the most influential black activists of the generation that toppled Jim Crow and...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Suleiman OsmanConsidered one of the city's most notorious industrial slums in the 1940s and 1950s, Brownstone Brooklyn by t...

DescriptionGiorgio Vasari (1511-1574) was a man of many talents--a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar--but he is best known for Live...

Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, the author argues that the emerging understa...

This book argues that Cicero deserves to be spoken of with more respect and to be studied with greater care. Using Plato's influence on Cicero's li...

Reducere. Here you have the product of my thinking as an anthropologist who has studied and traveled to Japan for over thirty years.In one sense, the book is...

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Reducere. Kingmakers is the gripping story of how the modern Middle East came to be, as told through the lives of the Britons and Americans who shaped it. So...

Reducere. 2008 Caldecott Medal winnerThe groundbreaking debut novel from bookmaking pioneer, Brian Selznick Orphan, clock keeper, and thief, Hugo lives in th...