The Violent Century

Reducere. In the remote hamlet of Thorlund stands the manor house known as the Strath, an eerie place that exercises a mysterious hold over anyone who enters...

Jordan is going to join a gang. But just as he's about to start his future with the Cobras, his past calls him back. Way back--to the nineteenth-ce...

Conceptualizes "graft"- the violent and creative processes of suturing arts as a method of empire building in western eighteenth-century IndiaPubli...

Reducere. The Racial Justice in America: Histories series explores moments and eras in America's history that have been ignored or misrepresented in educatio...

Reducere. The last decades of the nineteenth century were a violent period in China's history marked by humiliating foreign incursions and domestic rebellion...

Trow goes out on a high note with his sterling 11th and final mystery starring English playwright Kit Marlow.... Trow reinforces his place at the t...

Reducere. The Return of Robert Adams' Classic Horseclans Series for a New Generation!Milo of Morai, over 600 years old and immune to death by ordinary means,...

Reducere. A legendary literary figure who initiated a one-man Beat Generation in his native Germany, Wolf Wondratschek "is eccentric, monomaniacal, romantic-...

Reducere. This book describes some of the intriguing people who have lived in the 1300 and 1400 blocks of Pierce Street in Lynchburg, Virginia, but it is als...

Reducere. Piles of Slain, Heaps of Corpses reads the violence in the book of Nahum against the background of the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

Reducere. The recent revolution in Egypt has shaken the Arab world to its roots. The most populous Arab country and the historical center of Arab intellectua...

Reducere. It is the mid-eighteenth century, and young British subject Anson Granville Staplyton has traveled to Ireland, where his regiment has been sent to ...

Reducere. A celebrated revolution brought freedom to a group of enslaved people in northern India. Or did it? Millions of people today are still enslaved; ne...

Reducere. Few states can rival California in terms of natural beauty and exciting history. But nearly three centuries of violent crime, sickness, greed, and ...

Reducere. An impossible killer stalks the streets of London.Jack the Ripper faded into history over a century ago, his identity lost to the ages. Until a wor...

Reducere. The period of 1850-1865 consisted of violent struggle and crisis as the United States underwent the prodigious transition from slaveholding to oste...

Reducere. William Scully, an Irishman who was a member of the lesser landed gentry, put his life's energy into the accumulation of high-quality, low-cost lan...

Reducere. Herself Surprised is the story of Sara Monday, a former housemaid who tells of "her grand days" and of all her "coming down days since."Looking bac...

Reducere. After visiting the nineteenth-century German/Texan sculptor Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin, art crimes detective Professor Megan Crespi identifies a...

Reducere. Kara Nkosi is a Mariner-sworn to protect those of her blood and heart, sworn to protect the sea. Generations ago, her people escaped starvation and...

First book to bring together the wide range of violent entertainments that characterised popular culture in nineteenth-century London and seriously...

Reducere. Cumbres Borrascosas, de Emily Brontë, una de las tres hermanas Brontë, contiene la quintaesencia de la novela romántica inglesa decimonónica. En su...

Reducere. Filled with unforgettable characters and maritime adventure, the incredible story of a forgotten war that shaped the fate of the United States--and...

Reducere. In the tradition of Why Nations Fail, this book solves one of the great puzzles of history: Why did the West become the most powerful civilization ...

Reducere. National immigration debates have thrust both opponents of immigration and immigrant rights supporters into the news. But what happens once the ral...

Reducere. The definitive history of the ninja, based on a wealth of historical texts, local Japanese sources, and John Man's own treks across Asia"An immense...

Reducere. Welcome to the family! It's time get out your colored pencils and officially become a Made Man or Woman.This unique adult coloring book features so...

The saga of the Logan family--made famous in the Newbery Medal-winning Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry--concludes in a deeply fulfilling story, now av...

Reducere. The novel takes place in the Netherlands and is a colourful fictional portrait of early 19th-century Dutch life, as well as a tale of youthful hono...

The story of the notorious Jewish gangster who ascended from impoverished beginnings to the glittering Las Vegas strip "Fast-paced and absorbing. ....

Reducere. During the nineteenth century, the U.S. military fought numerous battles against American Indians. These so-called Indian wars devastated indigenou...

For half a century, cultural production in Colombia has labored under the weight of magical realism--above all, the works of Gabriel Garc a M rquez...

Reducere. At the height of his literary prowess, Xu Zhimo was the most famous living poet in all of China. With his round spectacles and aristocratic profile...

*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the projects' construction *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading The Transcont...

Reducere. The popular image of the Vikings is of tall red-headed men, raping and pillaging their way around the coast of Europe, stopping only to ransack mon...

Reducere. The West Virginia and Colorado Coal Mine Wars of the early twentieth century was a tumultuous and violent time in our nation's history. At the cent...

Reducere. After an attempted horse theft goes tragically wrong, sixteen-year-old Caleb Bentley is on the run with his mean-spirited older brother across the ...

The Magi, or Three Kings, of the Nativity story are among the best loved yet most mysterious figures in all history. The fleeting and sparse accoun...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading " T]he Stasi often used a method which was really diabolic. It...

Reducere. The first half of the 19th century was an era of upheaval. The United States nearly lost the War of 1812. Partisanship became endemic during violen...

The astonishing true story of "one of the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation" (The New York Times), from the Pulitzer Prize-...

Reducere. Chicago Heights was long the seat of one of the major street crews of the Chicago Outfit, but its importance has often been overlooked and misunder...

Reducere. This omnibus edition includes books five and six in the bestselling World's Scariest Places series.Mountain of the Dead - The greatest unsolved mys...

A law professor and former prosecutor reveals how inconsistent ideas about violence, enshrined in law, are at the root of the problems that plague ...

How art has addressed and transmuted trauma over the past half-century, from Louise Bourgeois to Glenn LigonTrauma in all its forms--internal and e...

Reducere. Since the nineteenth century, a succession of states has classified the inhabitants of what are now the borderlands of Northeast India and Banglade...

Reducere. Christians are the world's most widely persecuted religiousgroup, according to studiesby the Pew Research Center, Newsweek, and the Economist, amon...

Reducere. This lavishly illustrated full-color hardback explores the dark but compelling story of warfare, from its emergence in prehistoric tribal disputes,...

Reducere. An explosive, long-forgotten story of police violence that exposes the historical roots of today's criminal justice crisis A deeply researched and ...

In seventeenth century Italy, overcrowding, violent political uprising, and plague led an astonishing number of abandoned and orphaned children to ...

Reducere. What would Jesus do? This is an old question that Christians of each successive generation have had to pose anew if they want to be faithful discip...

We know of the blood and tears provoked by the projects of transformation of the world through war or revolution. Starting from the essay published...

From Pong to virtual reality, Understanding Video Games, 4th Edition, takes video game studies into the next decade of the twenty-first century, hi...

The story of Mount St. Helens is that of an active volcano and human interaction with it. The mountain is culturally important to the regional nati...

Reducere. "Suffragette" is now on release as a major motion picture starring Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst. . Illustrated with sixteen photographs. . In...

Reducere. Originally published in Ladies' Home Journal magazine (January 1960), THE NATIVE DOCTOR is A. J. Cronin's romantic and thrilling tale of Dr. Robert...

After the conquest of Mexico by Hernan Cortes in the sixteenth century, conquistadors and explorers poured into the territory of Nueva Espana. The ...

Reducere. Colonialism and Violence in Nigeria looks closely at the conditions that created a legacy of violence in Nigeria. Toyin Falola examines violence as...

Reducere. The Instant New York Times Besteller National Bestseller [The] authors' finest work to date. --Wall Street JournalThe explosive true saga of the le...

"Swanson has done a crucial public service by exposing the barbarous side of the Rangers." --The New York Times Book Review A twenty-first century ...

Reducere. A quest for knighthood motivates Myles Falworth through rigorous training and dangerous jousting tournaments to confront a lifelong enemy and claim...

Reducere. Reveals the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century. The author begins with the War...

The Communist Manifesto changed the face of the twentieth century beyond recognition, inspiring millions to revolution, forming the basis of politi...

Margaret of Anjou was a vengeful and violent woman, or so we have been told, whose vindictive spirit fuelled the fifteenth-century dynastic conflic...

A penetrating, character-filled history "in the manner of David McCullough" (WSJ), revealing the deep roots of our tormented present-day politics. ...

Reducere. The once-famous Hotel Iberia was where society's finest gathered in the days before 1859 when Victory, Louisiana became a ghost town. A building wh...

Reducere. "Heartbreaking and hilarious, tender and violent." --New York Times Book Review"Jordi Nopca's stories, written with clarity and flair, are smart an...

The transition from a predominantly self-sufficient economy to one primarily dependent on the market in the first half of the nineteenth century wa...

Raised to be weapons, Sentinels spend their lives fighting the monsters that prey upon humanity. Their hands will shape the world, and their swords...

Moscow in the middle of the seventeenth century had a distinctly apocalyptic feel. An outbreak of the plague killed half the population. A solar ec...