In the Shadows of the American Century - Alfred W McCoy

The rapid decline of the bastions of American power established over the twentieth century is the subject of this extensive historical analysis emp...

Reducere. The first book to prove CIA and U.S. government complicity in global drug trafficking, "The Politics of Heroin" includes meticulous documentation o...

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Publisher: New York University PressAuthor(s): Renee Knake JeffersonIllustration(s): 15 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 304Publication date: 2022...

Reducere. This book shows how Ford's first large automotive plant-the Crystal Palace-transformed the sleepy village of Highland Park, Michigan, into an indus...

Reducere. Lisbon had a pivotal role in the history of World War II, though not a gun was fired there. The only European city in which both the Allies and the...

Reducere. The inspiring and previously untold history of the women considered-but not selected-for the US Supreme Court In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor became t...

Reducere. This book contemplates current crises guided by a core Buddhist teaching: the roots of deepest suffering lie in what we grasp most tightly. Thus, t...

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DescriptionNo nation was more deeply affected by America's rise to world power than Japan. President Franklin Roosevelt's uncompromising policy of ...

French North America in the Shadows of Conquest is an interdisciplinary, postcolonial, and continental history of Francophone North America across ...

Reducere. Amanda felt nothing."I can't return to who I was, " she said. "I don't know who I am."The United States is finally a meritocracy, where the best an...

Tells a story of crazed road trips fuelled by bourbon and black acid, of insane judges and giant porcupines, of girls, guns, explosives and, of cou...

The greatest undisclosed secret of the war haunts the lives of 4 people across three continents and 15 years.

Re-deployed from convoys in the Atlantic, the men of PC-450 - an advanced sub chaser - face Japanese submarines and air attacks as they support the...

Understanding US culture through the post-apocalyptic novel This book explores the post-apocalyptic novel in American literature from the 1940s to ...

DescriptionIn 1941 the magazine publishing titan Henry R. Luce urged the nation's leaders to create an American Century. But in the post-World-War-...

Reducere. DescriptionAndrew Bacevich is a leading American public intellectual, writing in the fields of culture and politics with particular attention to wa...

Reducere. " A] masterpiece." --The Guardian "A good biography holds your attention; a great one transcends its subject and sheds light on the myriad forces b...

This volume addresses the relationship between the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Angkor (Cambodia), and the nearby town of Siem Reap, assessing the...

A prodigiously researched biography of Vannevar Bush, one of America's most awe-inspiring polymaths and the secret force behind the biggest technol...

Reducere. The unbelievable true story of Harrison Post--the enigmatic lover of one of the richest men in 1920s Hollywood--and the battle for a family fortune...

Winner of the 2019 Hitchens Prize "Portrays Holbrooke in all of his endearing and exasperating self-willed glory...Both a sweeping diplomatic histo...

An eye-opening look at the invisible workers who protect us from seeing the worst of humanity on today's commercial internetPublisher: Yale Univers...

Reducere. A longitudinal study of race relations in a major southern city, Macon Black and White examines the ways white and black Maconites interacted over ...

Reducere. James P. Woodard's history of consumer capitalism in Brazil, today the world's fifth most populous country, is at once magisterial, intimate, and p...

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Reducere. How children and children's literature helped build America's empire America's empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twent...

Thuy Linh Nguyen Tu examines the legacies of the Vietnam War on contemporary ideas about race and beauty, showing how US wartime efforts to allevia...

Reducere. "This story has haunted me since I was a child, " begins Anne Sinclair in a personal journey to find answers about her own life and about her grand...

Reducere. The eleven original essays presented here serve to enlarge the canvas upon which American history is to be portrayed so that it will allow--or more...

Guidebook to walking in the Aosta valley, a stunning, autonomous region in the Italian Alps. Describes 32 scenic routes (ranging from 4 to 20km) wi...

A story about family and forgiveness, a sequel to The Monsters of Rookhaven, from the bestselling author of Tin.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): ...

A story about empathy and difference, from the bestselling author of Tin.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): Padraig KennyNumber of pages: 384Public...

A story about family and forgiveness, a sequel to The Monsters of Rookhaven, from the bestselling author of Tin.Publisher: Pan MacmillanAuthor(s): ...