Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century

A sweeping history of twentieth-century Europe, Out of Ashes tells the story of an era of unparalleled violence and barbarity yet also of humanity,...

* A significant contribution to our understanding of how politics affects real people, and abrilliant blend of sweeping narrative and detailed anal...

Reducere. Every piece of historical writing has a theoretical basis on which evidence is selected, filtered, and understood. This is as true of scientific em...

This book of thirteen conversations introduces us to the life of an exceptional person--theatre critic, Germanist, and long-time chair of the Open ...

Reducere. When it comes to large-scale public housing in the United States, the consensus for the past decades has been to let the wrecking balls fly. The de...

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Reducere. DescriptionThe roots of European witchcraft and magic lie in Hebrew and other ancient Near Eastern cultures and in the Celtic, Nordic, and Germanic...

Reducere. Two brothers grow up on the Jewish streets of Warsaw. At the turn of the twentieth century, Adolphe leaves to seek work and start a family in Switz...

Revised and updated, the third edition of Twentieth-Century Europe: A Brief History presents readers with a concise and accessible survey of the mo...

Reducere. Every day, in courtrooms around the United States, thousands of criminal defendants are represented by public defenders--lawyers provided by the go...

Reducere. Gunfighter Nation completes Richard Slotkin's trilogy, begun in Regeneration Through Violence and continued in Fatal Environment, on the myth of th...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Martin GilbertMartin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history...

This widely acclaimed book, first published in 1974, was a classic from its first day in print. Written in a direct, inviting way by Harry Braverma...

A revised and fully-updated new edition of this leading survey of the twentieth-century European economy. Ivan T. Berend provides an integrated, co...

Acclaimed author follows the work of the Situationist International after May 1968.Publisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): McKenzie WarkNumber of pages: 2...

By examining the popular and vernacular discourse of stress, the book traces the ways in which stress became a ubiquitous condition of everyday lif...

These highly original essays illuminate Virginia Woolf and a selection of other twentieth-century writers and artists. Based on detailed research a...

This book examines the array of financial crises, slumps, depressions and recessions that happened around the globe during the twentieth and early ...

The history of the twentieth century is most often told through its world wars, the rise and fall of communism, or its economic upheavals. In his s...

A major new account of poetry in the twentieth century.

Reducere. Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Richard (Professor of musicology, Professor of musicology, University of California, Berkeley) Tar...

"[This book] charts the transformation of one of the world's great religions during an age marked by world wars, genocide, nationalism, decolonizat...

Final volume of the seven-volume Cambridge History of the Book in Britain series, focusing on the twentieth century and beyond. The book is for stu...

Reducere. Description Part memoir, part study, The Making of a Philosopher is the self-portrait of a deeply intelligent mind as it develops over a life on bo...

An interdisciplinary book highlighting the relationship between the Red Sea region's colonial history and its present instability. Colonial Chaos e...

Reducere. Containing just the twentieth-century chapters from Howard Zinn's bestselling A People's History of the United States, this revised and updated edi...

This book provides a scholarly but accessible account of British regional development during the twentieth century, focusing on the emergence and d...

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 ...

A Miscarriage of Justice examines women's reproductive health in relation to legal and medical policy in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After the abolitio...

Reducere. In this collection of newly translated essays, philosopher and sociologist Raymond Aron chronicles the twentieth century with the authority of an a...

All-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective... this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It is wrong. Th...

A Short History of Ethics is a significant contribution written by one of the most important living philosophers. For the second edition Alasdair M...

A new edition of this seminal survey on the history of graphic design in the twentieth century.Publisher: Thames & Hudson LtdAuthor(s): Richard Hol...

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Supermarkets are a mundane feature in the landscape, but as Tracey Deutsch reveals, they represent a major transformation in the ways that American...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

An accessible and succinct account of the story of Europe from its ancient foundations to the twenty-first century, The History of Europe in Bite-s...

Eighteenth-century France is understood to have been the dominant cultural power on that era's international scene. Considering the emblematic case...

The third volume of The Cambridge History of Russia provides an authoritative political, intellectual, social and cultural history of Russia and th...

Despite a terrible two-stage 'European civil war' and the traumatic rise and fall of communism, wealth has increased dramatically alongside a four-...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Micaela BaranelloIllustration(s): 39 music examples, 6 b-w photographs, 1 tableNumber of pages:...

A vibrant new history of twentieth-century Europe - covering everything from war and politics to social, cultural, and economic developments in a p...

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Reducere. This book explores the close relationships between three of the most famous twentieth-century African Americans, W. E. B. Du Bois, Paul Robeson, an...

Publisher: Ebury PublishingAuthor(s): Janina RamirezNumber of pages: 464Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 163 x 241 x 43Cover type: HardbackRedesco...

A safety pin was all that kept Spectacular Bid from becoming the eleventh Thoroughbred to take the Triple Crown. This work examines Spectacular Bid...

Reveals how professional magicians shaped the early history of cinema. This book focuses on the work of the professional illusionists who actually ...

This book is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called 'Anarchy in the UK' was issued in London, and this event launched a tran...