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The Suppression of Guilt

Is Israeli society losing touch with the rest of the world -- and with the reality of the on-going conflict with the Palestinians in the

The Last Refuge: Yemen, Al-Qaeda, and America's War in Arabia

Far from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States and al-Qaeda are fighting a clandestine war of drones and suicide bombers in an

1910's Britain In Pictures

This series is each devoted to a decade of British life and contains around 300 photographs which were hand-picked by PA Photos' own archivists. Most

The White Devil's Daughters

În prima sută de ani de imigrație chineză - din 1848 până în 1943 -, în San Francisco s-a desfășurat un șocant și extins comerț

History of Britain Book IV History of Britain

Povestind povestea istoriei britanice într-o narațiune cronologică simplă, „A History of Britain” acoperă matricea istoriei britanice, inclusiv evenimentele de peste măr...

Bill of the Century

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. This one law so dramatically

Last Man Out

The author of Praying for Sheetrock retells the fantastic story of how an incredibly lucky group of miners managed to live through the worst mining

Showers Brothers Furniture Company

Când familia Showers a sosit în Bloomington, Indiana, calea ferată venise de curând în oraș și o universitate modestă se lupta să supraviețuiască. După ce

1915 The First World War in Photographs: Setbacks & Failures

The Western Front was in stalemate, with the troops entrenched and little in the way of advance or retreat to counter the thousands of lives

Murders, Plots and Mysteries

Crime flows through history like a muddied tide, flecked with the red blood of murder.

A Safe Haven

Pe 14 mai 1948, sub conducerea președintelui Harry S. Truman, Statele Unite au devenit prima națiune care a recunoscut Statul Israel -- la doar câteva

The Value of Worthless Lives

There are many good books on Italian immigration to the United States, including success biographies, field researches and historical investigations. What is lacking howe...

Thrift

'In this lively and engaging book, Andrew L. Yarrow tells the story of a national movement that promoted an amalgam of values and practices ranging

Understanding Thomas Jefferson

Recent biographies of Thomas Jefferson have stressed the sphinxlike puzzles of his character—famous champion of freedom yet lifelong slaveholder, foe of miscegenation ye...

Game Change : Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime

Povestea captivantă din interiorul alegerilor prezidențiale din 2008, scrisă de doi dintre cei mai buni reporteri politici din țară. 'Este una dintre cele mai bune

1919 A Land Fit for Heroes : Britain at Peace

The year 1919 has often been ignored in historians' dizzy haste to enter the world of the Roaring Twenties but it was a year of

Pacific Futures

The Pacific region presents a huge diversity of cultural forms, which have fuelled some of the most challenging ethnographic work undertaken in the discipline. But

Plowed Under

During the Great Depression, with thousands on bread lines, farmers were instructed by the New Deal Agricultural Adjustment Act to produce less food in order

Grant's Final Victory

Shortly after losing all of his wealth in a terrible 1884 swindle, Ulysses S. Grant learned he had terminal throat and mouth cancer. Destitute and

Liberty and Conscience

Although the act of conscientious objection entered modern consciousness most strikingly as a result of the Vietnam War, Americans have long struggled to reconcile their

After Vietnam

Efforts to understand the impact of the Vietnam War on America began soon after it ended, and they continue to the present day. In After

A Higher Form of Killing

Between April 22 and May 31, 1915, Western civilization was shocked. World War I was already appalling in its brutality, but until then it had

The Empire of Necessity

Aisne 1914

The 1914 Battle of the Aisne, officially from 12 – 15 September, came about as a result of the German retirement from the Battle of

Calling All Cars

Calling All Cars shows how radio played a key role in an emerging form of policing during the turbulent years of the Depression. Until this

From here to there

This collection of unpublished talks and hard-to-find essays from legendary activist-historian Staughton Lynd blends themes that encourage the rejection of capitalist imp...

The American South in a Global World

These snapshots of globalization across a broad southern ground help redirect the study of the South in response to how the South itself is being

New Harmony then and now

Intellectuals as well as artisans are drawn to this place of science and spirit.

Great Upheaval

It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast

Dangerous convictions

'The debt-ceiling debacle of 2011 was clear evidence of the dangerous polarization of American politics. Heedless of the warnings of economists, a majority of Republicans...

The Reproach of Hunger

Based on meticulous research and on-the-ground reporting, an expert in the field explores whether ending extreme poverty and widespread hunger is within our reach as

The Three Trillion Dollar War

Reveals massive expenses associated with the Iraq War in a cautionary account that evaluates the war's long-term costs, both financial and human, as well as

War and Liberty: An American Dilemma

An analysis of the challenges of preserving civil liberties in wartime by the national award-winning author of Perilous Times provides in-depth coverage of how constituti...

The ABC-CLIO Companion to Women in the Workplace

Covers the employment of women, including individuals, laws, court cases, specific occupations, and other subjects

Riots, Pogroms, Jihad

In October 2002 a bomb blast in a Balinese nightclub killed more than two hundred people, many of them young Australian tourists. This event and

Sphinx

'Sphinxes are legion in Egypt—what is so special about this one? . . . We shall take a stroll around the monument itself, scrutinizing its

Playing Dirty

The repression of desire uncovered in the production of scatological comedy.

Dateline

“Oft times one day is better than sometimes a whole year.” William Caxton (1422–1491) Each day of the year commemorates the anniversaries of famous birthdays,

English Voices

Ferdinand Mount has spent many years writing articles, columns and reviews for prestigious magazines, newspapers and journals. Whether reviewing great published works by ...

An Historical Bibliography of Egyptian Prehistory

This bibliography contains 2,515 entries covering scholarship from the whole gamut of disciplines over the last two centuries. A selective guide to some of the

I Am the Border, So I Am

‘I was living the quiet life, watching the traffic and the sheep go by and then Brexit came along and I listened to people dismissing

With God on All Sides

Perhaps no other nation is or has ever been as religiously diverse as the United States. For elected officials, school principals, corporate leaders, and many

John Hull

A chronology is included tracing significant events in the history of the mint from its founding through its closing and the continuing requests to re-establish

Fighting the Invasion

In one of history’s most violent battles, Allied troops gathered along the shores of southern England, preparing for the invasion of Hitler's Fortress Europe. Facing

Jewish Women in Pre-state Israel

A critical look at the history and culture of women of the Yishuv and a call for a new national discourse

The Chameleon State

The role of the state in capitalist societies has been a bone of considerable contention among scholars. The two founding fathers of sociology held radically

'Time by Moments Steals Away'

Ruth Edgerton Douglass's diary recounts her winter journey from Detroit to Wisconsin and then her life through autumn and into the following winter on Isle

Storming the Court

Describes how, in 1992, a group of Yale law students came to the aid of three hundred Haitian men, women, and children who had won

Heroic Gangster

Urmărește viața și contribuțiile temutului lider de bande din Manhattan-ul de jos, care a ispășit o pedeapsă de zece ani în Sing Sing, înainte de

Last Rites for the Tipu Maya

A World Within

Philadelphia 1994 1st Center for Judaic Studies University of Pennsylvania. All Arabic facsimiles--no other text. 8vo., 375pp., wraps. Volume 2 only.

The Case of Abraham Lincoln

In 1856, Abraham Lincoln was at a personal crossroads. Often despondent, he had grown bored with his work as a lawyer. He was beginning to

Landscapes Of Conflict

William Robbins addresses efforts by individuals and groups within and outside the state to resolve inevitable conflicts between those most concerned for growth and perce...

American Library History

Spoting and foxing to boards and textblock. Ink stamp on front free endpaper. With foreword by Edward G. Holley. This is a bibliography of literature

The Chicagoization of America, 1893-1917

Discusses the growth of Chicago, Illinois from the end of the nineteenth century to the final years of World War I.

Orphans of the East

Spre deosebire de orfanul binevoitor găsit în The Kid de Charlie Chaplin sau de figura sentimentalizată a Micii Orfane Annie, orfanul din cinematografia est-europeană de...

The Red Tower (al-Burj Al-Ahmar)

The Crusaders' settlement of Palestine in the 12th and 13th centuries has been seen in terms of the domination of a native peasantry by an

God and Caesar

Shirley Williams, a practicing Catholic, explores the relationship between Christian teaching, the Church and public life in the modern world. God and Caesar includes di...

Death and conversion in the Andes

Iconoclasm vs. Art and Drama

The radical Protestantism that led to the suppression of religious drama in England also by the early years of Queen Elizabeth I destroyed perhaps the