In the Wake of the Jomon: Stone Age Mariners and a Voyage Across the Pacific, Paperback

Reducere. The story of an uncovered voyage as colorful and momentous as any on record for the Age of Discovery--and of the Black mariner whose stunning accom...

Reducere. 1. Peace: A Beginning2. Pictures of a City (including 42nd at Treadmill)3. Cadence and Cascade4. In the Wake of Poseidon (including Libra's Theme)5...

Reducere. In 2001 The Kent State University Press published James Jessen Badal's In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland's Torso Murders--the first book to exa...

Reducere. DescriptionA New World version of a classic, set on a New England coastal estuary in the 1920's. This is a story about the denizens of a very speci...

Reducere. After more than a century of silence, the true story of one of history's most notorious mutinies is revealed in Joan Druett's riveting "nautical mu...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Sam JeffersonIllustration(s): Chartlets and colour photography throughoutNumber of pages: 224Publica...

Tracing the global circulation and consumption of Hello Kitty, Christine R. Yano analyzes the spread of Japanese "cute-cool" culture, which she see...

Reducere. A New World version of a classic, set on a New England coastal estuary in the 1920's. This is a story about the denizens of a very special river. F...

Reducere. A New York Times bestseller, In the Wake of the Plague is a fascinating study of the cultural and religious consequences of one of the deadliest tr...

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 ...

DescriptionThe origins of a transnational adoption strategy that secured the future for Korean-black children The Korean War left hundreds of thous...

Explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of C...

Mike Roberts reveals how Alexander the Great's Macedonian homeland benefitted so little from the remarkable empire he built and explains its remark...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the aftermath of the Holocaust, the Jewish historian Zosa Szajkowski stole tens of thousands of archival documents related to French ...

Provides an overview of climate change mitigation and adaptation priorities in the agriculture and land use sectors of countries in the Pacific, as...

A well-planned attack on the U.S. leaves the Hawaiian Islands isolated. After enduring a high casualty first wave attack by a Chinese regime, the i...

Reducere. "This book celebrates without apology the fact that indigenous spirituality lives and breathes in our Pacific person and personhood. In so doing, i...

Reducere. In 1987, following a public outcry about its questionable medical practices, Staten Island's Willowbrook State School for people with intellectual ...

Reducere. Race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, migration status, religion, and numerous other cultural factors play important roles in recovery from traumati...

Reducere. The current return to spiritual values has spawned a surge of interest in the ancient goddess-based religions as a remedy to a long tradition of mi...

Offers an account of the closing stages of the war against Japan, victory being due to the contribution of the British Pacific Fleet. This book is ...

Focusing on transformation and continuity over time in Fiji, Tonga, and Samoa, among others, contributors assert that kinship is a lived and living...

Reducere. "The legacy of the Marshall players who perished transcends wins and losses. Their tragic deaths squashed the likelihood of a bloody race riot on c...

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 ...

What leads us to respond politically to the deaths of some citizens and not others? This is one of the critical questions Heather Pool asks in Poli...

Reducere. On April 10, 1912, fourteen-year-old Christopher Watkins boards the Titanic with his family. While sailing across the Atlantic, the giant ship stri...

Reducere. A rare glimpse into heaven, hell, and previous lives--Dr. Rajiv Parti's near-death experience brought him on a journey through the afterworld, lead...

The stories of two veterans - one traumatised, one blind - who rediscover themselves with the help of a friend in the course of two epic ocean adve...

The stories of two veterans - one traumatised, one blind - who rediscover themselves with the help of a friend in the course of two epic ocean adve...

Reducere. After the attack on Pearl Harbor on Decvember 7, 1941, the United States Navy had no major fleet to battle the Japanese drive across the Pacific. I...

Reducere. Award NamePulitzer PrizeAward categoryGeneral NonfictionDescriptionDrawing on a vast range of Japanese sources and illustrated with dozens of aston...

Examining the ways in which "rights talk" is used and adapted locally by groups in Argentina, this book explores the relationship between ideas of ...

Through the figure of Medea, shows how important violence was for seventeenth-century French tragedy and contextualizes that violence in a longer l...

Drawing on decades of research on the most infamous human and environmental calamities, Button shows how states, corporations, and other actors att...

Reducere. On the stormy night of August 29, 1776, the Continental Army faced capture or annihilation after losing the Battle of Brooklyn. The British had tra...

Reducere. In the summer of 1987 Ed Gillet achieved what no person has accomplished before or since, a solo crossing from California to Hawaii by kayak. Gille...

The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled.Publisher: Head of ZeusAuthor(s): Nicholas ThomasIllustration...

Assesses the historical significance of the International Military Tribunal for the Far East (IMTFE) - commonly called the Tokyo trial - establishe...

Markets of Sorrow, Labors of Faith is an ethnographic account of long-term recovery in post-Katrina New Orleans. It is also a sobering exploration ...

Although most people associate the term D-Day with the Normandy invasion on June 6, 1944, it is military code for the beginning of any offensive op...

In the face of widespread misinformation and misunderstanding, a climate scientist ventures into the vast heart of America's new oil country on jus...

By applying philosophical and historical perspectives to drawing instruction, this volume demonstrates how diverse teaching methods contribute to c...

Reducere. Description"No one's insights about the craft and journey of being an artist have guided me in the day-to-day struggle of this profession more than...

This book taps into discussions about social vulnerability, empowerment, and resistance in relation to disaster relief and recovery. It disentangle...

This book examines the Red Love vogue that swept across the Asia-Pacific in the 1920s and 1930s as part of a worldwide interest in socialism and fo...

DescriptionJohn Gray is the bestselling author of such books as Straw Dogs and Al Qaeda and What it Means to be Modern which brought a mainstream r...

Changes in Britain from the Stone Age to the Iron Age is a fascinating account of British history from a period that begins around 840, 000 when hu...

Reducere. Who gets to speak for China? During the interwar years, when American condescension toward "barbarous" China yielded to a fascination with all thin...