Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove: The Secret History of Nuclear War Films, Hardcover - Sean M. Maloney

King of the Cold War crisis film, Dr. Strangelove became a cultural touchstone from the moment of its release in 1964. The duck-and-cover generatio...

Reducere. Emergency War Plan examines the theory and practice of American nuclear deterrence and its evolution during the Cold War. Previous examinations of ...

Contributor(s): Author: Sean M. JudgeEditor: Jonathan M. HouseAuthor: Midway through 1942, Japanese and Allied forces found themselves fighting on ...

Reducere. The success of books such as Elaine Pagels's Gnostic Gospels and Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code proves beyond a doubt that there is a tremendous thirst ...

Spacetime and Geometry is an introductory textbook on general relativity, specifically aimed at students. Using a lucid style, Carroll first covers...

Reducere. In early May 1961, a U.S. military aircraft taxied toward a well-guarded terminal building. The plane slowed to a halt; steps were maneuvered up to...

Ninjutsu is the most renowned and misunderstood of all martial arts. The long history of ninjutstu is often murky; surrounded by mystery and legend...

Reducere. In this groundbreaking and now famous work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling tour of our world's secret histories. Starting from a dangerous pr...

Reducere. "Jessi Kirby's books just keep getting better and better, and The Secret History of Us is her best yet. It beautifully touches on all the most impo...

Reducere. NORAD and the Soviet Nuclear Threat is the history of the air defence of Canada during the Cold War era. The reader is taken into the Top Secret wo...

Reducere. A history that is equal parts science and mythology, Sacred Sites offers a rare and poetic vision of a world composed of dynamic natural forces and...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Linda AlchinMany nursery rhymes are believed to be associated with actual events in history, and include references to murd...

Reducere. In Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry, Clinton Heylin examines the entire modern history of this underground culture: from...

Reducere. Type is the bridge between writer and reader, between thought and understanding. Type is the message bearer: an art-form that impinges upon every l...

The Secret History of the New World Order outlines the historical evolution of a secret organization which has the final goal of creating a planeta...

Reducere. The six stories in Andrew Boden's debut collection comprise a reinvented history of the town of Cranbrook, British Columbia, from its birth in the ...

The Raphael Trail. The Secret History of One of the World's Most Precious Works of Art - Joanna Pitman

A personal investigation into the history that surrounds us, from the historian and award-winning author of The Hidden WaysPublisher: Canongate Boo...

Reducere. From the loremaster who brought us THE SECRET HISTORY OF GIANTS comes an intriguing new chronicle revealing the mysterious ways of merfolk. Since a...

The sometimes shocking, always fascinating history of brainwashing, from the bestselling author of COCAINE

Reducere. The story of the Sackler Dynasty, Purdue Pharma, and their involvement in the opioid crisis that has created millions of addicts, even as it genera...

Reducere. In The Yamato Dynasty, Sterling Seagrave, who divulged the secrets of Mao Tse-tung and the ruthlessness of Chiang Kai-shek in the New York Times be...

Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trouser...

Disco emerged from the fall-out of the Black Power Movement and an almost exclusively gay scene in a blaze of poppers, strobe lights, tight trouser...

Reducere. A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose...

The story of the Sackler dynasty, their company Purdue Pharma, its bestselling drug OxyContin, their immensely generous philanthropy and their invo...

From top secret spy missions to recently declassified WWII documents, this richly illustrated account of the covert espionage operations of World W...

From the loremaster who brought us THE SECRET HISTORY OF GIANTS comes an intriguing new chronicle revealing the mysterious ways of merfolk. Since a...

Reveals evidence of visionary plants in Christianity and the life of Jesus found in medieval art and biblical scripture--hidden in plain sight for ...

An exploration of the historical origins of the "witches' ointment" and medieval hallucinogenic drug practices based on the earliest sources - Deta...

The Secret History of the Gnostics offers long-awaited illumination on the mystical movement that teaches 'gnosis' - knowledge of God as opposed to...

Tells the story of the world's elite and legendary investment bank - and the men who reigned over it all. In this title, the author himself a forme...

A biography of Eve Babitz, who started out as an icon on art and sex in the 1960s and went on to design album covers and write seven books.

The Secret History of Here is the story of a single place, a farm in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat's farm now stands has ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ryan Tucker JonesIllustration(s): 30 halftonesNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022Dimens...

Reducere. More than a high-stakes espionage thriller, "Fallout "painstakingly examines the huge costs of the CIA's errors and the lost opportunities to halt ...

Reducere. "Brilliantly researched, utterly gripping history: the first full account of a remarkable group of Jewish refugees--a top-secret band of brothers--...

Reducere. The groundbreaking investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about A...

From the co-creator of the landmark series, the story millions of fans have been waiting to get their hands on for 25 long years.The Secret History...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. This revelatory and dramatic history of disinformation traces the rise of secret organized deception operations from the interwar period to contemp...

A Washington Post Style editor's fascinating and irresistible look back on the Miss America pageant as it approaches its 100th anniversary. The sas...

A remarkable and very important unpublished chronicle written by two soldiers, covering in detail the English campaigns in France from 1415 to 1429...

Reducere. DescriptionEngland's Secret Weapon examines the way Hollywood used Sherlock Holmes in a series of fourteen films that spanned the years of World Wa...

What we know of war is always mediated knowledge and feeling. We need lenses to filter out some of its blinding, terrifying light. These lenses are...

Reducere. The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon Schechter attends to a diverse ar...

DescriptionOn the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, this fascinating visual history explores the relics abandoned when the Cold War ...