War, Peace, and Alliance in Demosthenes' Athens. New ed, Paperback - ***

This book examines the oratorical appeals deployed in assembly speeches to understand the wide range of thinking and feeling that determined Atheni...

The first global history of 1917-a year of calamitous events, and of pivotal importance in the development of the First World War.

Policymakers, legislators, scientists, thinkers, military strategists, academics, and indeed all with an interest in understanding the future want ...

The first assessment of religious violence throughout the whole of Antiquity, with a particular focus on Late Antiquity where a much more nuanced p...

Written from the perspective of an insider of the most prominent events in the Middle East over the last fifty years, this book examines Egypt's di...

Publisher: University of Notre Dame PressAuthor(s): Justus D. DoeneckeIllustration(s): 47 b&w illustrations, 4 mapsNumber of pages: 560Publication ...

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 ...

When first published, Alvin Jackson's Ireland 1798-1998 received widespread critical acclaim for its analytical, skeptical and humane view of moder...

DescriptionThis highly illustrated study examines, in detail, the brutal Paraguayan War of 1864--70, one of the largest and bloodiest conflicts in ...

DescriptionWritten from the perspective of an insider of the most prominent events in the Middle East over the last fifty years, this book examines...

This is the story of clothing use when manufacturing for civilians nearly stopped and raw materials and workers across the globe were shifted to wa...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdAuthor(s): Colin S. (University of Reading, UK) GrayIllustration(s): 4 Tables, black and white; 9 Illustrations, bla...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Andrew ImbrieIllustration(s): 8 figuresNumber of pages: 240Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 161 x 235 x 30Cover...

Sixteen life-changing live music events are looked at to address how music in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has interacted with politics...

Edited by one of the most renowned scholars in the field, this reader assembles classic and contemporary readings on enduring problems of internati...

The Stalingrad of the ancient world, this is an immensely readable, brilliant, brutal and vivid history of the greatest and bloodiest war of ancien...

Since the end of the Cold War, America's national security establishment has been searching for a new operating theory to explain how this seemingl...

Reducere. Part memoir, part reportage, Louder Than Bombs is a story of music from the front lines. Ed Vulliamy, a decorated war correspondent and journalist,...

Reducere. The History of the Peloponnesian War is a historical account of the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC), which was fought between the Peloponnesian Leag...

In this highly provocative and documented book, Thibault Muzergues describes how war in Europe is now more likely than it has been for at least the...

"Brilliant."--Time "Admirable, rigorous. De Waal is] a wise and patient reporter."--The New York Review of Books "Never have all the twists and tur...

Reducere. This book is the product of 23 scholars across various denominations who have collaborated annually for six years to specify the 10 practical steps...

Clearly and accessibly written, Dixon provides a lively introduction to the nature and politics of the Northern Ireland conflict and of successive ...

An accessible re-evaluation of the US-Israel relationship, this book provides critical background on the origins and development of the 'special' r...

Reducere. 1. Jephtha, HWV 70, Act 1: "Some dire event hangs o'er our heads... Scenes of horror, scenes of woe" (Storge)5: 132. Andromaca, Act 1: "Prendi quel...

A groundbreaking and revealing portrait of two of the greatest British political leaders by a prize-winning historian.Illustrations: 2x8pp b&w plates

Reducere. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, French colonists and their Native allies participated in a slave trade that spanned half of North Amer...

The Great War set in motion all of the subsequent violence of the twentieth century. This volume offers a significant interdisciplinary contributio...

Publisher: Peter Lang LtdAuthor(s): Michael BroersIllustration(s): 7 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 234Publication date: 2017Dimensions...

War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the Great War - Robert Gerwarth, John Horne

Together in one volume for the first time ever - the classic novel of epic future conflict THE FOREVER WAR, its sequel FOREVER FREE, and the compan...

A fine tribute to the unsung heroes and vessels during war and peace which is complemented with many evocative photographs.Publisher: Whittles Publ...

The bestselling poetry anthology for GCSE and A-Level! This popular anthology for schools contains poems, extracts, historical documents and illust...

Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War.

DescriptionPraise for In Peace and War""A comprehensive, balanced, and compelling history of a first-class educational institution, and of the comp...

A lively introduction to one of the oldest but still most relevant ethical debates. The third edition has been revised and updated throughout. The ...

Reducere. Welcome to the intriguing world of an adventurous American Intelligence Agent, Colonel Sidney Mashbir (1891-1973), who spent the 1920s and 1930s se...

Provides a view of global diplomacy during one of the most tumultuous periods in UN history. This title shows readers a world where solutions are a...

Through the untold stories of the biracial children born from the encounter between Italian women and Black Allied soldiers in the immediate afterm...

Written for the general visitor, the Athenian Agora Museum Guide is a companion to the 2010 edition of the Athenian Agora Site Guide and leads the ...

A history of the peoples of Britain, in the century and a half between the first Viking raids and the expulsion of the Vikings from York in 954.

Publisher: Catholic Truth SocietyAuthor(s): Bishop Kallistos WareNumber of pages: 56Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 147 x 109 x 3Cover type: Pape...

From Hannah Arendt's "banality of evil" to Joseph Conrad's "fascination of the abomination, " humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-h...