Statelessness: A Modern History, Hardcover - Mira L. Siegelberg

DescriptionToday over 12 million people are stateless and millions more are refugees or displaced persons. Mira Siegelberg shows how the much-conte...

This revised edition builds upon and updates its twin themes of Turkey's continuing incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization o...

What is the kimono? Everyday garment? Art object? Symbol of Japan? As this book shows, the kimono has served all of these roles, its meaning changi...

DescriptionA masterfully researched and compelling history of Iran from 1501 to 2009 This history of modern Iran is not a survey in the conventiona...

DescriptionIn the early 20th century, Argentina possessed one of the world's most prosperous economies, yet since then Argentina has suffered a ser...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michael (Independent Scholar, UK) DillonIllustration(s): 35 bw illusNumber of pages: 512Publication ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Michael (Independent Scholar, UK) DillonIllustration(s): 35 bw illusNumber of pages: 512Publication ...

The story of how humiliation has been used as a means of coercion and control in the modern age - from the shaving of the heads of alleged women co...

This revised edition builds upon and updates its twin themes of Turkey's continuing incorporation into the capitalist world and the modernization o...

Contributor(s): Author: Michael M. GunterThe Kurds are America's most reliable allies in the fight against ISIS in Syria and Iraq, in a region whos...

This major history of Hong Kong tells the remarkable story of how a cluster of remote fishing villages grew into an icon of capitalism. The story b...

Reducere. The environmental, the economic - and indeed the political - impact of the catastrophic 2010 blowout of BP's well in the Gulf of Mexico has highlig...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Dr. Neil (De Montfort University, UK) CarterNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 15...

Antiquarian interest in the Roman period mosaics of Britain began in the 16th century. This book is the first to explore responses and attitudes to...

Rosemary Wakeman's original survey text comprehensively explores modern European urban history from 1815 to the present day. It provides a journey ...

Reducere. In this sweeping history, Alexander Kitroeff shows how the Greek Orthodox Church in America has functioned as much more than a religious institutio...

Reducere. What role does Qatar play in the Middle East, and how does it differ from the other Gulf states? How has the ruling Al-Thani family shaped Qatar fr...

A history and consideration of the way of life on Ireland's offshore islands, shattering cheerful illusions of life at the edge of Europe, past and...

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 ...

Reducere. DescriptionReviews modern 'synthetic terror' events mainly in Europe and mainly in the 21st century. With color illustrations It argues that Muslim...

Reducere. Award NameNational Jewish Book AwardAward categoryBiography/Autobiography"One of the greatest religious biographies ever written." - Dennis PragerI...

Ucraina Mir. Al 4-lea Reich - Marius Conu

Reducere. A stunning story about the Women Airforce Service Pilots, whose courage during World War II turned ordinary women into extraordinary heroes1941. Au...

DescriptionOne can see farther when standing on the shoulders of giants. The great philosophers of antiquity are truly the intellectual giants brid...

Reducere. Established in 1830 and named by the famed pioneer William Clark, the city of Paducah thrived as a result of its position along the waterways. From...

Reducere. DescriptionTHE YAKUB EXPERIMENT THE EXPLANATION OF RACISM. How can someone explain racism that is often demonic or otherwise unexplainable. The ans...

Publisher: Society of Biblical LiteratureAuthor(s): Nadav SharonNumber of pages: 552Publication date: 2017Dimensions: 158 x 237 x 39Cover type: Har...

Reducere. Sailing on the Chesapeake Bay's myriad inlets in summer, it is hard to imagine that, come January, icebreakers may be plowing the waters you cruise...

Reducere. This fast-paced narrative traces the emergence of the United States Navy as a global power from its birth during the American Revolution through to...

Siddharth Kara is a tireless chronicler of the human cost of slavery around the world. He has documented the realities of human trafficking and for...

Reducere. DescriptionA History of Modern Italy addresses the question of how Italy's modern history--from its prolonged process of nation-building in the nin...

The Middle Ages is a term coined around 1450 to describe a thousand years of European History. In this Very Short Introduction, Miri Rubin provides...

Reducere. A fancy flight of lyrics specifies that Santa Catalina Island is "26 miles across the sea." But mapmakers put the distance at 19.7 miles from the c...

Reducere. In 1979 Elizabeth Eisenstein provided the first full-scale treatment of the fifteenth-century printing revolution in the West in her monumental two...

Reducere. The wide variety of psychotherapies that psychologists and students of psychology face can make for a confusing picture. The level of complexity is...

Reducere. DescriptionThey believed they would live forever. So begins Mira Ptacin's haunting account of the women of Camp Etna--an otherworldly community in ...

The first true people's history of modern India, told through a seven-year, 9, 000-mile journey along its many contested borders Sharing borders wi...

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...

DescriptionSeen through the eyes of the patients who lived there, Inside Oregon State Hospital" examines the world of the Northwest's oldest mental...

Reducere. From the Penobscots, Passaquamoddies, Puritans, and pilgrims, to the proud people "Down East, " "L is for Lobster" is the alphabet book for all Mai...

Reducere. A sweeping cultural and economic history of porcelain, from the eighteenth century to the presentPorcelain was invented in medieval China--but its ...

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 ...

A concise account of how revolutions made modern China and helped shape the modern world China's emergence as a twenty-first-century global economi...

Reducere. In one century she loved him madly, and in another she wants nothing to do with him In 1844 Ireland, Liam O'Connor, a rogue and a thief, fell madly...

Reducere. Modern Slavery: A Reference Handbook addresses essential questions about slavery in its contemporary manifestations. The book examines the growing ...

Reducere. Today's Fundamentalist Mormons in the American West resist assimilation like their forefathers. Centered on faith, they survive despite efforts to ...