The Origins of the Twenty First Century

By 2016, it was impossible to ignore an international resurgence of xenophobia. What had happened? Looking for clues, psychiatrist and historian Ge...

Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century, and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. ...

Everyone loved The Hollies. They were the 'group's group'. Never confrontational or rebellious, always smartly suited, always smiling. This book te...

Reducere. How a journey of self-discovery unearthed the scandalous evolution of artificial insemination By his forties, Peter J. Boni was an accomplished CEO...

Reducere. Gregory S. Taylor's Central Prison is the first scholarly study to explore the prison's entire history, from its origins in the 1870s to its status...

Reducere. Equality is a fundamental American value. The nation's Declaration of Independence declared equality as a self-evident foundation for political lif...

City of Big Shoulders links key events in Chicago's development, from its marshy origins in the 1600s to today's robust metropolis. Robert G. Spinn...

Reducere. It is extraordinary enough that one small area in north-eastern France, on the northern edge of Europe's wine-growing regions, should be capable of...

Reducere. Living Magical Arts is founded upon the author's practical experience of the Western Magical Traditions, and contains specific teachings from withi...

This book describes the development of local history in England from its origins in the Middle Ages to its practise in the early twenty-first centu...

The new edition of The Cambridge History of Warfare offers an updated comprehensive account of Western warfare, from its origins in classical Greec...

Reducere. Between 1890 and 1915, a predominately African American state convict crew built Clemson University on John C. Calhoun's Fort Hill Plantation in up...

Reducere. The New Cambridge History of the Bible comprises four volumes that take into account the considerable advances in scholarship made in almost all bi...

Reducere. How the interplay between government regulation and the private sector has shaped the electric industry, from its nineteenth-century origins to twe...

DescriptionThis book presents a challenge to the discipline of international relations (IR) to rethink itself, in the light of both its own modern ...

The Curious History of the Riddle investigates the fascinating origin and history of the riddle, from the very first riddle (the Riddle of the Sphi...

Reducere. "Frenchmen were far ahead of Englishmen in the early Far West, not only prior in time but greater in numbers and in historical importance, " writes...

In The Politics of Decolonial Investigations Walter D. Mignolo provides a sweeping examination of how coloniality has operated around the world in ...

Over vast expanses of time, fire and humanity have interacted to expand the domain of each, transforming the earth and what it means to be human. I...

Reducere. Mormonism, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, is America's most successful-and most misunderstood-home grown religion. The church ...

DescriptionWhile popular movements in South Korea rightly grab the headlines for forcing political change and holding leaders to account, those mov...

Reducere. The thirteen-stripe, fifty-star flag is as familiar an American icon as any that has existed in the nation's history. Yet the history of the flag, ...

As the 2000 decision by the Supreme Court to effectively deliver the presidency to George W. Bush recedes in time, its real meaning comes into focu...

Reducere. The Adirondack Atlas provides a portal to the past, a mirror of the present, and a window to the future for a remarkable land and its people. It br...

DescriptionAn unprecedented survey of the origins and evolution of Chinese architecture, from the last millennia BCE to todayThroughout history, Ch...

A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the acclaimed and internationally b...

This book challenges the conventional (modernist-inspired) understanding of urbanization as a universal process tied to the ideal-typical model of ...

A brilliant, revelatory account of the Cold War origins of the data-mad, algorithmic twenty-first century, from the acclaimed and internationally b...

Reducere. In this definitive history of a unique tradition, Tyler D. Parry untangles the convoluted history of the broomstick wedding. Popularly associated w...

Reducere. - Welcome to CHELM - A cornucopia of irrepressible characters awaits within The Wise Folk of Chelm to welcome you to Europe's most famous town of f...

Twentieth-Century Influences on Twenty-First-Century Policing argues that to fully understand contemporary American policing, we must first underst...

Reducere. Zombie stories are peculiarly American, as the creature was born in the New World and functions as a reminder of the atrocities of colonialism and ...

Reducere. DescriptionThis highly acclaimed text provides a comprehensive selection of the most important documents in American legal history, integrating the...

Reducere. DescriptionStep back to London, 1895. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories are full of references to everyday activities and events from Victorian time...

Contributor(s): Editor: Cheryll GlotfeltyEditor: Harold FrommThe Ecocriticism Reader is the first collection of its kind, an anthology of classic a...

Reducere. In this incisive account, scholar Horace Campbell investigates the political and economic crises of the early twenty-first century through the pris...

DescriptionGlobalization and high-speed communication put twenty-first century people in contact with adherents to a wide variety of world religion...

Description Boy Bands and the Performance of Pop Masculinity provides a history of the boy band from the Beatles to One Direction, placing the mode...

Reducere. Can you trust what you read in the Old Testament? Are its documents historically reliable? Are its teachings relevant in the twenty-first century? ...

DescriptionThe thrilling history of archaeological adventure, with tales of danger, debate, audacious explorers, and astonishing discoveries around...

Contributor(s): Author: Roderick Frazier NashForeword by: Char Miller"The Book of Genesis for conservationists"--Dave Foreman Roderick Nash's class...

Contributor(s): Author: Charles HolcombeCharles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features...

A thought-provoking and entertaining twenty-first century look at what was once referred to as 'angelology', which searches out the origins of ange...

Reducere. Lauded for "bringing a bracing and much-needed dose of reality about the Founders' views of sexuality" (New York Review of Books), Geoffrey R. Ston...

Reducere. Yoga is so prevalent in the modern world--practiced by pop stars, taught in schools, and offered in yoga centers, health clubs, and even shopping m...

Reducere. This comprehensive narrative traces the history of the Navajos from their origins to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Based on extensive ...

One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's Hamlet is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. Now the first...

'Walking the Labyrinth' has reemerged today as a metaphor for the spiritual journey and a powerful tool for transformation. This walking meditation...

From writer and political analyst Jared Yates Sexton comes a journey through the history of the United States, from the nation's founding to the tw...

This collection provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in ...

Reducere. In the second edition of this major work, Dominican theologian Aidan Nichols provides a systematic account of the origins, development and recent h...