Everyday Movies: Portable Film Projectors and the Transformation of American Culture, Paperback - Haidee Wasson

Everyday Movies documents the twentieth-century rise of portable film projectors. It demonstrates that since World War II, the vast majority of mov...

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In Covid-19 and the Transformation of American Society, the first book-length consideration of the Covid-19 pandemic's implications, noted sociolog...

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A vivid and fast-paced history, Gary May's Bending toward Justice offers a dramatic account of the birth and precarious life of the 1965 Voting Rig...

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In this expansive history, Steinfeld develops a thorough, systematic account describing how American judicial review was brought into being during ...

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Analyzes the evolution of American-Soviet relations during the 1970s, from the rise of detente during the Nixon administration to the policy's cris...

This modern classic by one of our leading scholars seeks to explain the values prevalent in today's mass culture by tracing them back to their root...

Reducere. James F. Sulzby Book AwardCombining biography with regional and national history, Dan T. Carter chronicles the dramatic rise and fall of George Wal...

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Perhaps no one in the 20th century had a greater long-term impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. This title provides a biography of his life....

William F. Bristow presents an original and illuminating study of Hegel's hugely influential but notoriously difficult Phenomenology of Spirit (180...

Examines how ancient Greeks, Romans, and Chinese constructed a civilized sense of Self and a 'barbarian' Other, and how these notions held up in cr...

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The onslaught of globalization has brought with it sweeping changes to the foreign economic policy of the last 50 years. As the international polit...

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Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Tristram HuntNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 162 x 241 x 37Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

This Element focuses on Xin Fengxia (1927-1998), a star of the regional xiqu form pingju, and her prominent role in transforming the genre from fol...

DescriptionHow remarkable changes in ancient Greek pottery reveal the transformation of classical Greek cultureWhy did soldiers stop fighting, athl...

Ruthless and passionate, Catherine the Great is singularly responsible for amassing one of the most awe-inspiring collections of art in the world a...

Even the most seasoned Middle East observers were taken aback by the events of early 2011. Protests born of oppression and socioeconomic frustratio...

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Howard Chiang traces the genealogy of sexual knowledge in China from the demise of eunuchism to the emergence of transsexuality, showing its role i...

Dr. Smil is the world's authority on nitrogenous fertilizer.Norman Borlaug, Nobel Peace Laureate and IFDC Board Member

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Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Deborah (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Ascher BarnstoneIllustration(s): 41 color and 6...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Deborah (University of Technology Sydney, Australia) Ascher BarnstoneIllustration(s): 41 color and 6...