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

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,...

Reducere. The original (1985) edition of this work attempted to cover the main lines of development of phonological theory from the end of the 19th century t...

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

Reducere. 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 ...

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

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

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...

Contributor(s): Editor: David KaldeweyEditor: D. Schauz The distinction between basic and applied research was central to twentieth-century science...

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. 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...

Reducere. Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2, 500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, New York T...

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...

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

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

Reducere. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder's lessons for surviving and resisting America's arc toward authoritariani...

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

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

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...

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...

DescriptionA dazzling group portrait of Franz Boas, the founder of cultural anthropology, and his circle of women scientists, who upended American ...

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

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

A major new account of poetry in the twentieth century.

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...

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

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

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...

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

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...