Interviews with History and Power

Examining the quest for nuclear power in Africa through the case of Ghana's Atomic Energy Commission, this comprehensive history of nuclear researc...

This book draws on multiple disciplines - including economics, political economy, foreign policy and security policy - and interviews with key poli...

Reducere. Black Power burst onto the world scene in 1966 with ideas, politics, and fashion that opened the eyes of millions of people across the globe. In th...

A revealing collection of interviews with one of the greatest artists in the history of rock 'n' roll--as brilliant, punchy, and blustery as the ma...

Reducere. BE SURE YOU ARE BUYING THE CORRECT BOOK. THE ISBN FOR THE NEWEST PAPERBACK EDITION OF "THE NAZI SEIZURE OF POWER" IS 978-1626548725. IT IS PUBLISHE...

Reducere. Tracing the use of air power in World War II and the Korean War, Mark Clodfelter explains how U. S. Air Force doctrine evolved through the American...

Soon after the American Revolution, ?certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and the vast mat...

DescriptionSoon after the American Revolution, certain of the founders began to recognize the strategic significance of Asia and the Pacific and th...

Widely considered in his own time as a genial but provincial lightweight who was out of place in the presidency, Abraham Lincoln astonished his all...

Reducere. DescriptionIn The Life Of Blur, Martin Power explores the history and debunks the myths around the band formerly known as Seymour: from their art s...

Reducere. The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister is a sweeping, dramatic account of how three great figures changed the course of history. All of th...

Reducere. Michel Foucault was one of the most influential philosophical thinkers in the contemporary world, someone whose work has affected the teaching of h...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Xiaoming ZhangThe Korean conflict was a pivotal event in China's modern military history. The fighting in Korea constituted...

Saul Alinsky, according to Time Magazine in 1970, was a "prophet of power to the people, " someone who "has possibly antagonized more people . . . ...

Reducere. From the New York Times bestselling author of 20 books about the Secret Service, FBI, and CIA comes the detailed account of the life and times of t...

Reducere. From the Armenian Genocide to the ethnic cleansings of Kosovo and Darfur, modern history is haunted by acts of brutal violence. Yet American leader...

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! The definitive biography of Nancy Pelosi, the most powerful woman in American political history, written by N...

DescriptionThe first book-length biography of Richard Oakes, a Red Power activist of the 1960s who was a leader in the Alcatraz takeover and the In...

Reducere. Few philosophers have had as strong an influence on the twentieth century as Michel Foucault. His work has affected the teaching of any number of d...

DescriptionAfter centuries of colonial domination and a twentieth century riddled with dictatorships, indigenous peoples in Bolivia embarked upon a...

It is a very hard thing to look a man in his eyes knowing he will not be a live soon and listen to his whole life and how he came to power. Many pe...

Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chávez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. Geor...

Reducere. On the last hot day of summer in 1992, gunfire cracked over a rocky knob in northern Idaho, just south of the Canadian border. By the next day thre...

Reducere. This is a detailed history of one of the most important and dramatic episodes in modern science, recounted from the novel vantage point of the dawn...

In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dr...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jakobi WilliamsIn this comprehensive history of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party (ILBPP), Chicago native Jak...

DescriptionA magisterial, kaleidoscopic, riveting history of Los Angeles in the Sixties Histories of the sixties in the United States invariably ov...

DescriptionSince its opening in 1965, the Watergate complex has been one of Washington's chicest addresses, a home to power brokers from both polit...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Heather Andrea WilliamsAfter the Civil War, African Americans placed poignant "information wanted" advertisements in newspa...

DescriptionA View from The East represents a second edition built upon expanded archival research and a contextualizing of the organization within ...

Reducere. Clarence Thomas, the youngest and most controversial member of the Supreme Court, could become the longest-serving justice in history, influencing ...

Reducere. The story of the twentieth century is largely the story of the power of science and technology. Within that story is the incredible tale of the hum...

Reducere. After decades under lock and key, Hollywood's best kept secret is about to be revealed. Love to Love You Bradys: The Bizarre Story of The Brady Bun...

The history and meaning of the Berlin Wall remain controversial, even three decades after its fall. Drawing on an extensive range of archival sourc...

Reducere. The exhortation to "Go West " has always sparked the American imagination. But for gays, lesbians, and transgendered people, the City of Angels pro...

Reducere. Now in paperback, this definitive history of Air Force One by the award-winning chief White House correspondent for U.S. News & World Report is a "...

Reducere. During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forc...

Reducere. The occupation of Alcatraz Island by American Indians from November 20, 1969, through June 11, 1971, focused the attention of the world on Native A...

Reducere. Power, position, property. That's been the name of the game throughout human history. And the urge to gain new territory -- or keep what's already ...

Reducere. After Ross Benes left Nebraska for New York, he witnessed his polite home state become synonymous with "Trump country." Long dismissed as "flyover"...

Reducere. Based on an exhaustive review of formerly classified government documents-as well as previously unexplored corporate filings, office diaries and un...

Reducere. "Relying on a rich cache of previously classified notes, transcripts, cables, policy briefs, and memoranda, Andrew Cooper explains how oil drove, e...

Reducere. 'Mr. MacDonald's knowledge, perception, and insight, together, with his narrative power and grace, are impressive. The best and most readable accou...

Rockaway Beach was once a popular seaside resort in south Queens with a small permanent population. Shortly after World War II, large parts of this...

Reducere. Demonstrating the power of protest and standing up for a just cause, here is an exciting tribute to the educators who participated in the 1965 Selm...

Reducere. Not one but two civil rights movements flourished in mid-twentieth-century Texas, and they did so in intimate conversation with one another. Far fr...

Reducere. From the award-winning chief White House correspondent for U.S. News & World Report comes the definitive history of Air Force One. From FDR's prop-...

Reducere. Revisit the definitive book on Pearl Harbor in advance of the 75th anniversary (December 7, 2016) of the "date which will live in infamy" At 7: 53 ...

"Don't let nobody steal your joy." Essie CabletonThis book of interviews and photographs features ten Arkansas AfricanAmerican women of stature and...

DescriptionThis true story of a Korean comfort woman documents how the atrocity of war devastates women's livesGrass is a powerful antiwar graphic ...

Reducere. DescriptionSerendipity placed David Johnston on Mount St. Helens when the volcano rumbled to life in March 1980. Throughout that ominous spring, Jo...

Anglo-American relations, the so-called 'Special Relationship', reached a new era with the rise of New Labour and the New Democrats in the late-198...

Reducere. Frederick Douglass Opie deconstructs and compares the foodways of people of African descent throughout the Americas, interprets the health legacies...

Reducere. In Indian Voices, Alison Owings takes readers on a fresh journey across America, east to west, north to south, and around again. Owings's most rece...

Reducere. FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER JUSTICE ON TRIAL Stunned by the turbulence of the 2020 election, millions of Americans are asking the...

Reducere. Gillian G. Gaar s critically acclaimed, breakthrough book, the first full history of women in rock and pop ever written, became an instant classic ...

DescriptionA poignant and unexpectedly inspirational account of women's suffering and resilience in Stalin's forced labor camps, diligently transcr...

Reducere. Coup is the behind-the-scenes story of an abrupt political transition, unprecedented in US history. Based on 163 interviews, Hunt describes how col...