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The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to the Crusades

• ISBN:
• 0028642430
• Authors:
• Paul Williams, Paul L. Williams

Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil

• ISBN:
• 006095339X
• Authors:
• Ron Rosenbaum

When Hitler's war ended in 1945, the war over Hitler--who he really was, what gave birth to his unique evil--had just begun. Hitler did not escape the bunker in Berlin but, half a century later, he has managed to escape explanation in ways both frightening and profound. Explaining Hitler is an extraordinary quest, an expedition into the war zone of Hitler theories. This is a passionate, enthralling book that illuminates what Hitler explainers...

Modern China: The Fall and Rise of a Great Power, 1850 to the Present

• ISBN:
• 0061661163
• Authors:
• Jonathan Fenby

No country on earth has suffered a more bitter history in modern times than China. In the second half of the nineteenth century, it was viewed as doomed to extinction. Its imperial rulers, heading an anachronistic regime, were brought low by enormous revolts, shifting social power patterns, republican revolutionaries, Western incursions to "split the Chinese melon" and a disastrous defeat by Japan. The presence of predatory foreigners has often...

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Volume 152

• ISBN:
• 0123742196

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics merges two long-running serials--Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy. This series features extended articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor devices), particle optics at high and low energies, microlithography, image science and digital image processing, electromagnetic wave propagation, electron microscopy, and the...

The Essential Guide to Image Processing

• ISBN:
• 0123744571
• Authors:
• Alan C. Bovik

A complete introduction to the basic and intermediate concepts of image processing from the leading people in the field A CD-ROM contains 70 highly interactive demonstration programs with user friendly interfaces to provide a visual presentation of the concepts Up-to-date content, including statistical modeling of natural, anistropic diffusion, image quality and the latest developments in JPEG 2000 This comprehensive and state-of-the art...

Classical and Modern Direction-of-Arrival Estimation

• ISBN:
• 0123745241
• Authors:
• T. Engin Tuncer, Benjamin Friedlander

Brings together in one book classical and modern DOA techniques, showing the connections between them Contains contributions from the leading people in the field Gives a concise and easy- to- read introduction to the classical techniques Evaluates the strengths and weaknesses of key super-resolution techniques Includes applications to sensor networks Classical and Modern Direction of Arrival Estimation contains both theory and practice of...

Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943

• ISBN:
• 0140284583
• Authors:
• Antony Beevor

This gripping history is the definitive account of the battle that shifted the tide of World War II. Historians and reviewers worldwide have hailed Antony Beevor's magisterial Stalingrad as the definitive account of World War II's most harrowing battle. In August 1942, Hitler's huge Sixth Army reached the city that bore Stalin's name. In the five month siege that followed, the Russians fought to hold Stalingrad at any cost, then caught their...

The Medieval Vision: Essays in History and Perception

• ISBN:
• 0195019636
• Authors:
• Carolly Erickson

This exceptionally readable book describes how medieval men and women perceived their world, and how their vision of it colored their ideas about natural and supernatural occurrences and their attitudes about land and property, government, the role of women, crime, lawlessness, and outlaws.

Religion in Twentieth Century America (Religion in American Life)

• ISBN:
• 0195112954
• Authors:
• Randall Balmer

Covering Protestant, Hindu, Jewish, New Age, Mormon, Buddhist, Roman Catholic, and many other faiths, Religion in Twentieth Century America is a dynamic look at religion in America through two World Wars, vast industrialization, the civil rights movement, and massive immigration. Included are crucial moments, such as: * The appointment of Louis Brandeis, a Jew, to the U.S. Supreme Court * The contentious court trial of John T. Scopes, which...

Ancient Egyptians: People of the Pyramids (Oxford Profiles)

• ISBN:
• 0195122216
• Authors:
• Rosalie F. Baker, Charles F. Baker

The ultimate who's who of ancient Egypt, Ancient Egyptians is an engaging look at the ancient world through its important leaders. Included are biographies of: * The magnificent Imhotep, who set the standard for pyramid-building * Nefertiti, the renowned beauty * Khufu, the builder of the Great Pyramid * Hatshepsut, a woman pharaoh who defied tradition and called herself "king" * Tutankhamun, whose tomb unveiled fantastic riches * Rameses the...

Modern Japan: A History in Documents (Pages from History)

• ISBN:
• 0195147421
• Authors:
• James L. Huffman

The civilization of Japan is an ancient one, and by the time the first Western visitors arrived in 1542, the Japanese people were as highly educated as any in the world and enjoyed a sophisticated culture. From the sixteenth century on, the country's history was shaped by a tension between its people's thirst to understand foreign institutions and customs and their determination to assert and preserve its native traditions. In Modern Japan,...

The South Vs. The South: How Anti-Confederate Southerners Shaped the Course of the Civil War

• ISBN:
• 0195156293
• Authors:
• William W. Freehling

Why did the Confederacy lose the Civil War? Most historians point to the larger number of Union troops, or to the North's greater industrial might. Now, in The South Vs. the South, a leading authority on the Civil War era offers a critical supplementary viewpoint. William Freehling argues that 450,000 Union troops from the South--especially border state whites and southern blacks--helped cost the Confederacy the war. In addition, when the...

Beyond the Stony Mountains: Nature in the American West from Lewis and Clark to Today

• ISBN:
• 0195162439
• Authors:
• Daniel B. Botkin

America's great epic of exploration--the journey of Lewis and Clark--was also one of the most successful scientific expeditions in history. In notebooks filled with vivid and remarkably accurate descriptions of rivers, prairies, forests, mountains, native Americans, and wildlife, Lewis and Clark gave the world an image of wild country that has rarely been equaled. In this richly illustrated volume, which features more than one hundred...

Shifting Sands: The Rise and Fall of Biblical Archaeology

• ISBN:
• 0195167104
• Authors:
• Thomas W. Davis

Before the 1970s, 'biblical archaeology' was the dominant research paradigm for those excavating the history of Palestine. Today this model has been 'weighed in the balance and found wanting.' Most now prefer to speak of 'Syro/Palestinian archaeology.' This is not just a nominal shift but reflects a major theoretical and methodological change. It has even been labeled a revolution. In the popular mind, however, biblical archaeology is still...

Hating America: A History

• ISBN:
• 0195167732
• Authors:
• Barry Rubin, Judith Colp Rubin

In the early twenty-first century, the world has been seized by one of the most intense periods of anti-Americanism in history. Reviled as an imperialist power, an exporter of destructive capitalism, an arrogant crusader against Islam, and a rapacious over-consumer casually destroying the planet, it seems that the United States of America has rarely been less esteemed in the eyes of the world. In such an environment, one can easily overlook the...

Writing on the Tablet of the Heart: Origins of Scripture and Literature

• ISBN:
• 0195172973
• Authors:
• David M. Carr

This book explores a new model for the production, revision, and reception of Biblical texts as Scripture. Building on recent studies of the oral/written interface in medieval, Greco-Roman and ancinet Near Eastern contexts, David Carr argues that in ancient Israel Biblical texts and other texts emerged as a support for an educational process in which written and oral dimensions were integrally intertwined. The point was not incising and reading...

Graham Greene's Catholic Imagination (American Academy of Religion Academy Series)

• ISBN:
• 0195177150
• Authors:
• Mark Bosco

Much has been written about Graham Greene's relationship to his Catholic faith and its privileged place within his texts. His early books are usually described as "Catholic Novels" - understood as a genre that not only uses Catholic belief to frame the issues of modernity, but also offers Catholicism's vision and doctrine as a remedy to the present crisis in Western civilization. Greene's later work, by contrast, is generally regarded as falling...

The Last Imaginary Place: A Human History of the Arctic World

• ISBN:
• 0195183681
• Authors:
• Robert McGhee

Sea ice and the midnight sun, flaming aurora and endless winter night--the arctic of traveler's tales and romantic novels is the unattainable dream of a vast and desolate world--the last imaginary place on Earth. Now, in this fascinating volume, renowned archeologist Robert McGhee lifts the veil to reveal the true Arctic. Combining anthropology, history, and personal memoir, this book dispels romanticized notions of the Arctic as a world apart,...

Writings on Common Law and Hereditary Right (Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes)

• ISBN:
• 0198237022
• Authors:
• Thomas Hobbes

This volume in the Clarendon Edition of the Works of Thomas Hobbes contains A dialogue between a philosopher and a student, of the common laws of England, edited by Alan Cromartie, supplemented by the important fragment "Questions relative to Hereditary Right," discovered and edited by Quentin Skinner. As a critique of common law by a great philosopher, the Dialogue should be essential reading for anybody interested in English political thought...

Cancer in Children: Clinical Management (Oxford Medical Publications)

• ISBN:
• 0198529325

"Cancer in children" introduces paediatric oncology in a clear and concise way, covering all the possible complications that can arise during treatment and the various outcomes of the illness. Although childhood cancer is rare, accounting for under 1% of all cancer in industrialized countries, it is one of great scientific interest for a number of reasons. Several types of cancer are virtually unique to childhood, whereas the carcinomas most...

Parasitism and Ecosystems

• ISBN:
• 0198529872

For several years there has been a growing interest in understanding the dynamics of parasites in ecosystems, as well as the diversity of ways in which they influence ecosystem functioning through their effects on host populations and communities. Ecologists, epidemiologists, evolutionary biologists, and other scientists are increasingly coming to realise that parasites must be taken into account when studying ecosystems. Parasitism and...

Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine: The Master Codebreaker's Struggle to Build the Modern Computer

• ISBN:
• 0198565933

The mathematical genius Alan Turing (1912-1954) was one of the greatest scientists and thinkers of the 20th century. Now well known for his crucial wartime role in breaking the ENIGMA code, he was the first to conceive of the fundamental principle of the modern computer-the idea of controlling a computing machine's operations by means of a program of coded instructions, stored in the machine's 'memory'. In 1945 Turing drew up his revolutionary...

Observing Animal Behaviour: Design and Analysis of Quantitive Controls

• ISBN:
• 019856936X
• Authors:
• Marian Stamp Dawkins

This book introduces the reader to the power of observation before, and sometimes instead of, experimental manipulation in the study of animal behavior. It starts with simple and easily accessible methods suitable for student projects, before going on to demonstrate the possibilities that now exist for far more sophisticated analyses of observational data. At a time when animal welfare considerations are attracting political as well as...

Europe Since 1945 (The Short Oxford History of Europe)

• ISBN:
• 0198731795

Mary Fulbrook's Introduction to this splendid concluding volume in The Short Oxford History of Europe begins with a vivid contrast, setting the struggle for survival in a devastated rubble-strewn street of East Berlin in 1945 against the same location in the reunited city at the end of the century, unrecognizable in its gleaming, confident, cosmopolitan affluence. The book brings home the extraordinary waves of transformation that have washed...

With Voice and Pen: Coming to Know Medieval Song and How It Was Made Includes CD

• ISBN:
• 019921476X
• Authors:
• Leo Treitler

Fully revised and updated, Leo Treitler's seventeen classic essays trace the creation and spread of song (cantus), sacred and secular, through oral tradition and writing, in the European Middle Ages. Each of these seminally influential essays has been revised to take account of recent developments, and is prefaced with a new introduction to highlight the historical issues. The accompanying CD contains performances of much of the music discussed.

Spectacular Power in the Greek and Roman City

• ISBN:
• 0199242348
• Authors:
• Andrew Bell

Andrew Bell's analysis of the power of prestige in civic communities of the ancient world demonstrates the importance of crowds' aesthetic and emotional judgement upon leaders and their ambitious claims for immediate and lasting significance; and also finds consideration of this dynamic still to be valuable for modern citizens. An initial discussion of the fall of Ceausescu in 1989 prompts theoretical considerations about the inseparability of...

Credit and Community: Working-Class Debt in the UK since 1880

• ISBN:
• 0199263310
• Authors:
• Sean O'Connell

Credit and Community examines the history of consumer credit and debt in working class communities. Concentrating on forms of credit that were traditionally very dependent on personal relationships and social networks, such as mail-order catalogues and co-operatives, it demonstrates how community-based arrangements declined as more impersonal forms of borrowing emerged during the twentieth century. Tallymen and check traders moved into doorstep...

John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought

• ISBN:
• 0199289840
• Authors:
• Gordon Campbell, Thomas N. Corns

Winner of the Milton Society of America's James Holly Hanford Award for a distinguished monograph on Milton published in 2008 Drawing on insightful new findings in the study of seventeenth-century history and in a more nuanced exploration of notions like Puritanism, republicanism, radicalism, and dissent, this book sheds fresh light on the writings, the thought, and the life of poet John Milton, whose career spanned one of the most turbulent...

Trade Union Merger Strategies: Purpose, Process, and Performance

• ISBN:
• 0199544948
• Authors:
• Roger Undy

As Trade Union membership has declined, union mergers have been prominent features in strategies of revitalization. Yet, there is very little systematic and empirical research into the effects of union mergers on the unions actually merging or of their impact on the wider union movement. This ground-breaking study fills this gap with its in-depth analysis of British unions' mergers since 1978: the point at which British unions moved from growth...

The Believing Primate: Scientific, Philosophical, and Theological Reflections on the Origin of Religion

• ISBN:
• 0199557020

Over the last two decades, scientific accounts of religion have received a great deal of scholarly and popular attention both because of their intrinsic interest and because they are widely as constituting a threat to the religion they analyse. The Believing Primate aims to describe and discuss these scientific accounts as well as to assess their implications. The volume begins with essays by leading scientists in the field, describing these...

The Man Who Believed He Was King of France: A True Medieval Tale

• ISBN:
• 0226145255
• Authors:
• Tommaso di Carpegna Falconieri

Replete with shady merchants, scoundrels, hungry mercenaries, scheming nobles, and maneuvering cardinals, The Man Who Believed He Was King of France proves the adage that truth is often stranger than fiction—or at least as entertaining. The setting of this improbable but beguiling tale is 1354 and the Hundred Years’ War being waged for control of France. Seeing an opportunity for political and material gain, the demagogic dictator of...

Concentration Camps on the Home Front: Japanese Americans in the House of Jim Crow

• ISBN:
• 0226354768
• Authors:
• John Howard

Without trial and without due process, the United States government locked up nearly all of those citizens and longtime residents who were of Japanese descent during World War II. Ten concentration camps were set up across the country to confine over 120,000 inmates. Almost 20,000 of them were shipped to the only two camps in the segregated South—Jerome and Rohwer in Arkansas—locations that put them right in the heart of a much older,...

Contested Medicine: Cancer Research and the Military

• ISBN:
• 0226465314
• Authors:
• Gerald Kutcher

In the 1960s University of Cincinnati radiologist Eugene Saenger infamously conducted human experiments on patients with advanced cancer to examine how total body radiation could treat the disease. But, under contract with the Department of Defense, Saenger also used those same patients as proxies for soldiers to answer questions about combat effectiveness on a nuclear battlefield.            Using the Saenger case as a means to...

Chicago Made: Factory Networks in the Industrial Metropolis (Historical Studies of Urban America)

• ISBN:
• 0226477010
• Authors:
• Robert Lewis

From the lumberyards and meatpacking factories of the Southwest Side to the industrial suburbs that arose near Lake Calumet at the turn of the twentieth century, manufacturing districts shaped Chicago’s character and laid the groundwork for its transformation into a sprawling metropolis. Approaching Chicago’s story as a reflection of America’s industrial history between the Civil War and World War II, Chicago Made explores not only the...

Coast Lines: How Mapmakers Frame the World and Chart Environmental Change

• ISBN:
• 0226534030
• Authors:
• Mark Monmonier

In the next century, sea levels are predicted to rise at unprecedented rates, causing flooding around the world, from the islands of Malaysia and the canals of Venice to the coasts of Florida and California. These rising water levels pose serious challenges to all aspects of coastal existence—chiefly economic, residential, and environmental—as well as to the cartographic definition and mapping of coasts. It is this facet of coastal life that...

The Natural Origins of Economics

• ISBN:
• 0226735702
• Authors:
• Margaret Schabas

References to the economy are ubiquitous in modern life, and virtually every facet of human activity has capitulated to market mechanisms. In the early modern period, however, there was no common perception of the economy, and discourses on money, trade, and commerce treated economic phenomena as properties of physical nature. Only in the early nineteenth century did economists begin to posit and identify the economy as a distinct object,...

Serengeti III: Human Impacts on Ecosystem Dynamics

• ISBN:
• 0226760340

Serengeti National Park is one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems, a natural laboratory for ecology, evolution, and conservation, with a history that dates back at least four million years to the beginnings of human evolution. The third book of a ground- breaking series, Serengeti III is the result of a long-term integrated research project that documents changes to this unique ecosystem every ten years.        Bringing together...

Culture and Power: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu

• ISBN:
• 0226785955
• Authors:
• David Swartz

Pierre Bourdieu is one of the world's most important social theorists and is also one of the great empirical researchers in contemporary sociology. However, reading Bourdieu can be difficult for those not familiar with the French cultural context, and until now a comprehensive introduction to Bourdieu's oeuvre has not been available. David Swartz focuses on a central theme in Bourdieu's work—the complex relationship between culture and...

Language and Empiricism - After the Vienna Circle

• ISBN:
• 0230524761
• Authors:
• Siobhan Chapman

This book compares attitudes to empiricism in language study from mid-twentieth century philosophy of language and from present-day linguistics. It focuses on responses to the logical positivism of the Vienna Circle, particularly in the work of British philosopher J. L. Austin and the much less well-known work of Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess.

Sherman (Great Generals)

• ISBN:
• 0230610242
• Authors:
• Steven E. Woodworth

Sherman is not only one of the most important generals in the American Civil War, but also one of the most famous commanders in the military annals of the western world. He has become an almost mythical character in popular memory, the embodiment of grim-visaged, implacable war. Legend has him burning a sixty-mile-wide swath of desolation across the South, and southerners still confidently assert that their ancestors were burned out by...

The Focal Encyclopedia of Photography, Fourth Edition

• ISBN:
• 0240807405

*Searchable CD ROM containing the entire book (including images) *Over 450 color images, plus never before published images provided by the George Eastman House collection, as well as images from Ansel Adams, Howard Schatz, and Jerry Uelsmann to name just a few The role and value of the picture cannot be matched for accuracy or impact. This comprehensive treatise, featuring the history and historical processes of photography, contemporary...

The Concise Focal Encyclopedia of Photography: From the First Photo on Paper to the Digital Revolution

• ISBN:
• 024080998X

Defining photography is impossible. Revealing it is another matter, and that's what The Concise Focal Encyclopedia of Photography does, with each turn of the page. History: The technical origins and evolution of photography are half of the story. The other half consists of the ways that cultural forces have transformed photography into a constellation of practices more diverse than any other mode of representation. Photographers can tell a more...

Technologies of Power: Essays in Honor of Thomas Parke Hughes and Agatha Chipley Hughes

• ISBN:
• 0262011840

An examination of technology, on a wide, social scale, and as a phenomenon. Takes a historical view of technology and power in the Cold War era, and in other contexts, featuring the work of Tom Hughes, a man known for his intellectual explorations of technology. DLC: History--technology.

The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction (Acting with Technology)

• ISBN:
• 0262042207
• Authors:
• Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza

In The Semiotic Engineering of Human-Computer Interaction , Clarisse Sieckenius de Souza proposes an account of HCI that draws on concepts from semiotics and computer science to investigate the relationship between user and designer. Semiotics is the study of signs, and the essence of semiotic engineering is the communication between designers and users at interaction time; designers must somehow be present in the interface to tell users how to...

Closer: Performance, Technologies, Phenomenology (Leonardo Books)

• ISBN:
• 0262113104
• Authors:
• Susan Kozel

In Closer, Susan Kozel draws on live performance practice, digital technologies, and the philosophical approach of phenomenology. Trained in dance and philosophy, Kozel places the human body at the center of explorations of interactive interfaces, responsive systems, and affective computing, asking what can be discovered as we become closer to our computers—as they become extensions of our ways of thinking, moving, and touching. Performance,...

Designing Interactions

• ISBN:
• 0262134748
• Authors:
• Bill Moggridge

Digital technology has changed the way we interact with everything from the games we play to the tools we use at work. Designers of digital technology products no longer regard their job as designing a physical object—beautiful or utilitarian—but as designing our interactions with it. In Designing Interactions , award-winning designer Bill Moggridge introduces us to forty influential designers who have shaped our interaction with technology....

The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment (Dibner Institute Studies in the History of Science and Technology)

• ISBN:
• 026219516X

The integration of scientific knowledge and military power began long before the Manhattan Project. In the third century BC, Archimedes was renowned for his research in mechanics and mathematics as well as for his design and coordination of defensive siegecraft for Syracuse during the Second Punic War. This collection of essays examines the emergence during the early modern era of mathematicians, chemists, and natural philosophers who, along...

Mind and Hand: The Birth of MIT

• ISBN:
• 0262195240
• Authors:
• Julius A. Stratton, Loretta H. Mannix

The motto on the seal of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "Mens et Manus"—"mind and hand"—signals the Institute's dedication to what MIT founder William Barton Rogers called "the most earnest cooperation of intelligent culture with industrial pursuits." Mind and Hand traces the ideas about science and education that have shaped MIT and defined its mission—from the new science of the Enlightenment era and the ideals of...

Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion

• ISBN:
• 0262201402
• Authors:
• Nancy J. Troy

In Couture Culture , Nancy Troy offers a new model of how art and fashion were linked in the early twentieth century. Focusing on a leader of the French fashion industry, Paul Poiret, Troy uncovers a logic of fashion based on the tension between originality and reproduction that bears directly on art historical issues of the period. This tension lies at the heart of haute couture, which, although designed for the wealthy, was also intended to be...

Biopolis: Patrick Geddes and the City of Life

• ISBN:
• 0262232111
• Authors:
• Volker M. Welter

The Scottish urbanist and biologist Patrick Geddes (1854-1932) is perhaps best known for introducing the concept of "region" to architecture and planning. At the turn of the twentieth century, he was one of the strongest advocates of town planning and an active participant in debates about the future of the city. He was arguably the first planner to recognize the importance of historic city centers, and his renewal work in Edinburgh’s Old Town...

Agency, Democracy, and Nature: The U.S. Environmental Movement from a Critical Theory Perspective

• ISBN:
• 0262522810
• Authors:
• Robert J. Brulle

In this book Robert Brulle draws on a broad range of empirical and theoretical research to investigate the effectiveness of U.S. environmental groups. Brulle shows how Critical Theory--in particular the work of Jürgen Habermas--can expand our understanding of the social causes of environmental degradation and the political actions necessary to deal with it. He then develops both a pragmatic and a moral argument for broad-based democratization...

Enriching the Earth: Fritz Haber, Carl Bosch, and the Transformation of World Food Production

• ISBN:
• 0262693135
• Authors:
• Vaclav Smil

The industrial synthesis of ammonia from nitrogen and hydrogen has been of greater fundamental importance to the modern world than the invention of the airplane, nuclear energy, space flight, or television. The expansion of the world's population from 1.6 billion people in 1900 to today's six billion would not have been possible without the synthesis of ammonia. In Enriching the Earth , Vaclav Smil begins with a discussion of nitrogen's unique...

Military Technologies of the World (Praeger Security International)

• ISBN:
• 0275995356
• Authors:
• T.W. Lee

From the introduction of gunpowder to the reigning era of nuclear weapons, military technological advances have been at the forefront of change. These changes in weaponry have influenced the outcome of many historical events and the downfall or success of major civilizations. All nations have sought to improve military technologies in the hope of gaining the upper hand in conflict. The developments in guns, cannon technology, warships, tanks,...

Amazigh Arts in Morocco: Women Shaping Berber Identity

• ISBN:
• 0292712952
• Authors:
• Cynthia Becker

In southeastern Morocco, around the oasis of Tafilalet, the Ait Khabbash people weave brightly coloured carpets, embroider indigo head coverings, paint their faces with saffron, and wear ornate jewellery. Their extraordinarily detailed arts are rich in cultural symbolism; they are always breathtakingly beautiful - and they are typically made by women. Like other Amazigh (Berber) groups (but in contrast to the Arab societies of North Africa), the...

"Evil" Arabs in American Popular Film: Orientalist Fear

• ISBN:
• 029271341X
• Authors:
• Tim Jon Semmerling

The "evil" Arab has become a stock character in American popular films, playing the villain opposite American "good guys" who fight for "the American way." It's not surprising that this stereotype has entered American popular culture, given the real-world conflicts between the United States and Middle Eastern countries, particularly since the oil embargo of the 1970s and continuing through the Iranian hostage crisis, the first and second Gulf...

The Texas Book: Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University (Focus on American History Series)

• ISBN:
• 0292714297

As the University of Texas at Austin celebrates its 125th anniversary, it can justly claim to be a "university of the first class," as mandated in the Texas Constitution. The university's faculty and student body include winners of the Nobel Prize, the Pulitzer Prize, the MacArthur "genius award," and Rhodes and Marshall Scholarships, as well as members of learned societies all over the world. UT's athletic programs are said to be the best...

Versions of History from Antiquity to the Enlightenment

• ISBN:
• 0300047762

The problems, purposes and methods of history writing have been the subject of varied debate for almost three millennia. This book is a collection of views on a range of fundamental historical questions by Western historians from early Greece to the end of the 18th century.

Edmund Husserl and Eugen Fink: Beginnings and Ends in Phenomenology, 1928-1938 (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics)

• ISBN:
• 0300092091
• Authors:
• Professor Ronald Bruzina

Eugen Fink was Edmund Husserl’s research assistant during the last decade of the renowned phenomenologist’s life, a period in which Husserl’s philosophical ideas were radically recast. In this landmark book, Ronald Bruzina shows that Fink was actually a collaborator with Husserl, contributing indispensable elements to their common enterprise. Drawing on hundreds of hitherto unknown notes and drafts by Fink, Bruzina highlights the scope and...

The Kings and Their Hawks: Falconry in Medieval England

• ISBN:
• 0300100582
• Authors:
• Robin S. Oggins

In medieval Europe, falconry was perhaps the most popular form of hunting among the aristocracy. Owning a falcon, and the necessary falconer to go with it, was a status symbol throughout the middle ages. This book is the first broad history of English royal falconry in medieval times, a book that draws on forty years of research to provide a full description of the actual practice and conditions of the sport and of the role of falconers in the...

The Spanish Civil War, The Soviet Union, and Communism

• ISBN:
• 030010068X
• Authors:
• Stanley G. Payne

In this compelling book Stanley G. Payne offers the first comprehensive narrative of Soviet and Communist intervention in the revolution and civil war in Spain. He documents in unprecedented detail Soviet strategies, Comintern activities, and the role of the Communist party in Spain from the early 1930s to the end of the civil war in 1939. Drawing on a very broad range of Soviet and Spanish primary sources, including many only recently...

Interpreting the Bible and the Constitution (John W. Kluge Center Books)

• ISBN:
• 0300102674
• Authors:
• Professor Jaroslav Pelikan

Both the Bible and the Constitution have the status of "Great Code," but each of these important texts is controversial as well as enigmatic. They are asked to speak to situations that their authors could not have anticipated on their own. In this book, one of our greatest religious historians brings his vast knowledge of the history of biblical interpretation to bear on the question of constitutional interpretation. Jaroslav Pelikan compares...

Barbaros : Spaniards and Their Savages in the Age of Enlightenment

• ISBN:
• 0300105010
• Authors:
• David J. Weber

Two centuries after Cortés and Pizarro seized the Aztec and Inca empires, Spain’s conquest of America remained unfinished. Indians retained control over most of the lands in Spain’s American empire. Mounted on horseback, savvy about European ways, and often possessing firearms, independent Indians continued to find new ways to resist subjugation by Spanish soldiers and conversion by Spanish missionaries.In this panoramic study, David J....

America's Inadvertent Empire (Yale Nota Bene)

• ISBN:
• 0300107714
• Authors:
• Gen. William E. Odom, Robert Dujarric

The United States finds itself at the center of a historically unparalleled empire, one that is wealth-generating and voluntary rather than imperialistic, say the authors of this compelling book. William E. Odom and Robert Dujarric examine America’s unprecedented power within the international arenas of politics, economics, demographics, education, science, and culture. They argue persuasively that the major threat to this unique empire is...

What Stalin Knew: The Enigma of Barbarossa

• ISBN:
• 0300107803
• Authors:
• Mr. David E. Murphy

This extensively researched book illuminates many of the enigmas that have surrounded the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, offering keen insights into Stalin’s thinking and the reasons for his catastrophic blunder.  “If, after the war, the Soviet Union had somehow been capable of producing an official inquiry into the catastrophe of 6/22—comparable in its mandate to the 9/11 commission here—its report might have read a little like...

The Cutter Incident: How America's First Polio Vaccine Led to the Growing Vaccine Crisis

• ISBN:
• 0300108648
• Authors:
• Dr. Paul A. Offit M.D.

Vaccines have saved more lives than any other single medical advance. Yet today only four companies make vaccines, and there is a growing crisis in vaccine availability. Why has this happened? This remarkable book recounts for the first time a devastating episode in 1955 at Cutter Laboratories in Berkeley, California, thathas led many pharmaceutical companies to abandon vaccine manufacture.Drawing on interviews with public health officials,...

Reconceiving the Gene: Seymour Benzer's Adventures in Phage Genetics

• ISBN:
• 0300110782
• Authors:
• Professor Frederic Lawrence Holmes

This book relates how, between 1954 and 1961, the biologist Seymour Benzer mapped the fine structure of the rII region of the genome of the bacterial virus known as phage T4. Benzer’s accomplishments are widely recognized as a tipping point in mid-twentieth-century molecular biology when the nature of the gene was recast in molecular terms. More often than any other individual, he is considered to have led geneticists from the classical gene...

Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes

• ISBN:
• 0300115016
• Authors:
• Maurice Isserman, Stewart Weaver

The first successful ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by Sir Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa teammate Tenzing Norgay is a familiar saga, but less well known are the tales of many other adventurers who also came to test their skills and courage against the world’s highest and most dangerous mountains. In this lively and generously illustrated book, historians Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver present the first comprehensive history of Himalayan...

History of Warfare: War In The Air 1914-45 (The History of Warfare)

• ISBN:
• 0304352233
• Authors:
• Williamson Murray

Almost as soon as airplanes were invented, military strategists realized their potential. As early as the First World War planes served as scouts, fighters, and bombers--and by World War II all the advanced states had large military air forces dedicated to bombardment. Starting with the less-than-perfect aircraft that flew over Europe in 1915, which caused countless deaths, see how technology developed between the wars; the early campaigns of...

War at Sea in the Age of Sail (Cassell History of Warfare)

• ISBN:
• 0304352462
• Authors:
• Prof. Andrew Lambert

"Every library requires a basic source on sailing ship warfare, a need solidly met by Lambert's profusely illustrated survey of the two centuries of naval dominance...Lambert, a naval historian in Britain, efficiently economizes his text, wasting few words to narrate the geopolitical framework for the expensive construction and maintenance of fleets, of strategies...and, ultimately, of their tactics in battle....Twenty maps and perspective...

Galleons and Galleys

• ISBN:
• 0304352632
• Authors:
• John Francis Guilmartin

The turn of the 16th century saw the start of a revolution in sea warfare--one long in the making but, once begun, remarkably swift. The driving force: gunpowder. The principal agents: galleys (long, low boats propelled principally by oars) and galleons (heavy, square rigged sailing ships). Suddenly, Europe, formerly on a technological par with India and China, dominated the waters. They crossed the Atlantic, reached America, and became world...

Sealing Their Fate: The Twenty-two Days That Decided World War II

• ISBN:
• 0306816202
• Authors:
• David Downing

As the Japanese fleet prepared to sail from Japan to Pearl Harbor, the German army was launching its final desperate assault on Moscow, while the British were planning a decisive blow against Rommel in North Africa. The British conquered the desert, the Germans succumbed to Moscow’s winter, and the Japanese awakened the sleeping giant of American might. In just three weeks, from November 17 to December 8, the course of World War II was decided...

Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror

• ISBN:
• 0307377237
• Authors:
• Mahmood Mamdani

From the author of Good Muslim, Bad Muslim comes an important book, unlike any other, that looks at the crisis in Darfur within the context of the history of Sudan and examines the world’s response to that crisis. In Saviors and Survivors , Mahmood Mamdani explains how the conflict in Darfur began as a civil war (1987—89) between nomadic and peasant tribes over fertile land in the south, triggered by a severe drought that had expanded the...

The Common Thread: A Story of Science, Politics, Ethics and the Human Genome

• ISBN:
• 0309084091
• Authors:
• John Sulston and Georgina Ferry

Sulston takes us behind the scenes for an in-depth look at the controversial story behind the headlines; The Human Genome Project. A compelling history and an impassioned call for ethical responsibility in scientific research.

Einstein Defiant: Genius versus Genius in the Quantum Revolution

• ISBN:
• 0309089980
• Authors:
• Edmund Blair Bolles

"I find the idea quite intolerable that an electron exposed to radiation should choose of its own free will, not only its moment to jump off, but also its direction. In that case, I would rather be a cobbler, or even an employee in a gaming house, than a physicist." -Albert Einstein A scandal hovers over the history of 20th century physics. Albert Einstein — the century’s greatest physicist — was never able to come to terms with quantum...

Russia and the Origins of the First World War (Making of the 20th Century)

• ISBN:
• 0312696086
• Authors:
• D. C. B. Lieven

Signs of the Zodiac: A Reference Guide to Historical, Mythological, and Cultural Associations

• ISBN:
• 0313302766
• Authors:
• Mary Ellen Snodgrass

The zodiacal signs impact art, advertising, literature, history, mythology, psychology, health, and language with their evocative imagery, symbols and scientific and religious lore. This fact-filled reference guide pulls together applications of the zodiacal signs in those fields and others. Each sign is explicated in a separate chapter which discusses its origin and importance in diverse cultures, including its history, artistic applications,...

The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life in America (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series)

• ISBN:
• 0313336997

The course of daily life in the United States has been a product of tradition, environment, and circumstance. How did the Civil War alter the lives of women, both white and black, left alone on southern farms? How did the Great Depression change the lives of working class families in eastern cities? How did the dicovery of gold in California transform the lives of native American, Hispanic, and white communities in western territories? Organized...

The Borderlands: An Encyclopedia of Culture and Politics on the U.S.-Mexico Divide

• ISBN:
• 0313339961

The more than 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border is a focus of intense interest today, as immigration, security, and environmental issues dominate the headlines. This is the first A-to-Z encyclopedia to overview the unique and vibrant elements that make up the borderlands. More than 150 essay entries provide students and general readers with a solid sense of the U.S.-Mexico border history, culture, and politics. Coverage runs the gamut from key...

Abortion: A Documentary and Reference Guide

• ISBN:
• 0313340323
• Authors:
• Melody Rose

This thought-provoking reference work explores the evolution of America's heated abortion debate in a selection of over 40 primary documents from the 19th century to the present day. The guide includes not only key laws and court cases that have determined abortion policy, but also political speeches, medical essays, theological writings, newspaper advertisements, magazine articles, and popular books that offer insight into America's changing...

Sports Scandals (Scandals in American History)

• ISBN:
• 0313344582
• Authors:
• Peter Finley, Laura L. Finley, Jeffrey J. Fountain

Cheaters, gamblers, drugs, and violence. Sound like the latest action/adventure film? It is most likely playing in a stadium, ice rink, track field, basketball court, or ballpark near you. We're talking about the larger-than-life scandals that often surround and sometimes engulf the world of sports. Covering everything from the little leagues to college and professional sports, this indespensable book offers students an intriguing, readable...

Pediatric Dermatology (Cohen, Pediatric Dermatology)

• ISBN:
• 0323023630
• Authors:
• Bernard (Buddy) A Cohen, Bernard A. Cohen MD

Clinically focused and practical, this diagnostic reference is ideal for anyone who treats children with skin disorders. Over 800 top-quality full-color illustrations, balanced by clear and succinct text, deliver the right amount of clinical detail to help readers identify a wide range of diseases. Plus, summary tables and differential diagnosis algorithms help simplify diagnosis. * Contains differential diagnosis algorithms and summary tables...

Comprehensive Pediatric Nephrology: Text with CD-ROM

• ISBN:
• 0323048838
• Authors:
• Denis F. Geary MB, Franz Schaefer MD

This new clinical resource brings you a state-of-the-art comprehensive review on every clinical condition encountered in pediatric nephrology in one concise, clinically focused text. International experts provide you with the latest on epidemiology, diagnosis, investigations, management, and prognosis for a full range of pediatric kidney disorders. A full-color, highly visual, meticulously crafted format, makes this material remarkably easy for...

Rapid Diagnosis in Ophthalmology Series: Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (Rapid Diagnoses in Ophthalmology)

• ISBN:
• 0323051685
• Authors:
• Mitchell B. Strominger MD

This title in the Rapid Diagnosis in Ophthalmology Series presents a wealth of full-color images - along with differential diagnoses - in side-by-side page layouts to assist you in identifying a full range of disorders. A templated format expedites access to the guidance you need to diagnose the most common conditions related to pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus - from simple to complex - encountered in practice. Coverage of cutting-edge...

King James (British History in Perspective)

• ISBN:
• 0333613961
• Authors:
• J. Pauline Croft

Pauline Croft's clear and concise study provides a narrative of the reign of King James VI and I in his dominions of England, Ireland and Scotland, together with an authoritative analysis of his remarkable, though flawed, achievements. Croft emphasises the inter-relationships between domestic and foreign policy, religious tensions at home and abroad, finance and parliamentary politics, whilst also discussing the king's writings, his personal...

A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present: A Guide to World Affairs, Fourth Edition

• ISBN:
• 0333971639
• Authors:
• William Woodruff

By investigating the major changes of world history during the past five hundred years, this book provides the necessary global perspective to understand the geopolitical and geoeconomic changes facing us today. We have reached a crucial transitional stage in world history in which the world will no longer be shaped by the single image of western modernism, but increasingly by the image of all cultures and civilizations. The need to take a world...

A Short History of Chemistry

• ISBN:
• 0385036736
• Authors:
• Isaac Asimov

From the use of metals by prehistoric man to the alchemical experiments of medieval and renaissance man to the complex chemical skills of contemporary man, Asimov traces the development of this building block of our technological world.

Color Atlas of Congenital Heart Surgery

• ISBN:
• 0387354158
• Authors:
• S. Bert Litwin

Color Atlas of Congenital Heart Surgery covers the full spectrum of congenital heart defects, first depicting the pathology in pre-repair photographs and then detailing step-by-step the operative procedure. Dr. Litwin depicts the most common procedures along with the most complex ones, providing a range of information vital to residents and fellows in training as well as clinicians in practice. One of the key aspects of the utility and...

Animals in Space: From Research Rockets to the Space Shuttle (Springer Praxis Books / Space Exploration)

• ISBN:
• 0387360530
• Authors:
• Colin Burgess, Chris Dubbs

Many readers will doubtless be astonished to learn that animals were being fired aloft in U.S. and Soviet research rockets in the late 1940s. In fact most people not only believe that the Russian space dog Laika was the first canine to be launched into space, but also that the high-profile, precursory Mercury flights of chimps Ham and Enos were the only primate flights conducted by the United States. In fact, both countries had sent literally...

The Mathematical Experience

• ISBN:
• 0395929687
• Authors:
• Phillip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh

This is the classic introduction for the educated lay reader to the richly diverse world of mathematics: its history, philosophy, principles, and personalities.

The First Christians in Their Social Worlds: Social-Scientific Approaches to New Testament Interpretation

• ISBN:
• 0415111226
• Authors:
• Philip F. Esler

An examination of how the New Testament was influenced by the social realities of the early Christian communities for whom the books were wtitten. It reveals an intimate connection between society and Gospel.

The Wearing of the Green: A History of St. Patrick's Day

• ISBN:
• 041518004X
• Authors:
• Dr. Mike Cronin

For a few hours each year, millions of Irish and non-Irish commemorate the life of a 1500-year-old saint in a boisterous display of parading and revelry, festooned in the shamrock and emerald green. The Wearing of the Green captures the dramatic story of how March 17 was transformed from a stuffy dinner for Ireland's religious elite to the world's most public ethnic festival. Long celebrated with more fanfare in New York than in Dublin, the...

The Soviet Military Experience: A History of the Soviet Army, 1917-1991 (Warfare and History)

• ISBN:
• 0415217202
• Authors:
• Roger R Reese

From its revolutionary inception in 1917 to its demise in 1991, the Red Army played a crucial role in all aspects of Soviet life. The Soviet Military Experience is the first general work to place the Soviet army into its true social, political and international contexts. This timely account includes discussion of: the origins of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army; the Bolshevik regime's use of the military as a school of socialism; the Second...

The Ukrainian Diaspora (Global Diasporas)

• ISBN:
• 0415296587
• Authors:
• Vic Satzewich

In this fascinating book, Vic Satzewich traces one hundred and twenty five years of Ukranian migration, from the economic migration of the end of the nineteenth century to the political migration during the inter-war period and throughout the 1960s and 1980s resulting from the troubled relationship between Russia and the Ukraine. The author looks at the ways the Ukranian Diaspora has retained its identity, at the different factions within it and...

Seapower: A Guide for the Twenty-First Century (Cass Series, Naval Policy and History)

• ISBN:
• 0415480892
• Authors:
• Geoffrey Till

The sea has always been central to human development as a source of resources, and as a means of transportation, information-exchange and strategic dominion. It has been the basis for our prosperity and security. This is even more the case, now, in the early 21st century, with the emergence of an increasingly globalized world trading system. Navies have always provided a way of policing, and sometimes exploiting, the system. In contemporary...

An Environmental History of the World: Humankinds's Changing Role in the Community of Life

• ISBN:
• 041548149X
• Authors:
• J. Donald Hughes

This second edition of "An Environmental History of the World" continues to present a concise history, from ancient to modern times, of the interactions between human societies and the natural environment, including the other forms of life that inhabit our planet. Throughout their evolutionary history, humans have affected the natural environment, sometimes with a promise of sustainable balance, but also in a destructive manner. This book...

International Economic Integration in Historical Perspective (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)

• ISBN:
• 0415770270
• Authors:
• D.m.p Mccarthy

International economic integration is perceived as one of the paramount forces shaping the modern world. Many organizations, both public and private, are trying to combine economic activities across international borders. The European Union and the North American Free Trade Area are two examples of government-managed international economic integration. Private organizations include various criminal groups as well as international churches....

An Economic History of the American Steel Industry (Routledge Explorations in Economic History)

• ISBN:
• 0415777607
• Authors:
• Robert P. Rogers

This book provides a basic outline of the history of the American steel industry, a sector of the economy that has been an important part of the industrial system. The book starts with the 1830's, when the American iron and steel industry resembled the traditional iron producing sector that had existed in the old world for centuries, and it ends in 2001. The product of this industry, steel, is an alloy of iron and carbon that has become the most...

The Philosophy of Science and Technology Studies

• ISBN:
• 0415941059
• Authors:
• Steve Fuller

Science and Technology Studies (STS) is a broad, interdisciplinary, and rapidly growing field that explores the relationship between science, technology and the ways they shape society and our understanding of the world. But as the field has become more established, it has increasingly hidden its philosophical roots. While the trend is typical of disciplines striving for maturity, Steve Fuller, a leading figure in the field, argues that STS has...

Philosophy Through Video Games

• ISBN:
• 0415988578
• Authors:
• Jon Cogburn, Mark Silcox

How can Wii Sports teach us about metaphysics? Can playing World of Warcraft lead to greater self-consciousness? How can we learn about aesthetics, ethics and divine attributes from Zork , Grand Theft Auto , and Civilization ? A variety of increasingly sophisticated video games are rapidly overtaking books, films, and television as America's most popular form of media entertainment. It is estimated that by 2011 over 30 percent of US households...

The Real History Behind the Templars

• ISBN:
• 0425215334
• Authors:
• Sharan Newman

The medieval historian who revealed The Real History Behind the Da Vinci Code uncloaks the Templars. In the year 1119, these noblemen found their calling as protectors of the faithful on a dangerous pilgrimage to newly conquered Jerusalem. Now, historian Sharan Newman elucidates the mysteries and misconceptions of the Templars, from their true first founding and role in the Crusades to more modern intrigues, including: - Were they devout knights...

Practical Pediatrics

• ISBN:
• 044307139X
• Authors:
• Maxwell J. Robinson, Don M. Roberton

A comprehensive textbook of pediatrics in which childhood disease is described within the context of social determinants of illness, such as genetic origins and social factors. The emphasis is on differential diagnosis from a presenting problem viewpoint, making it suitable for any problem-based learning style of curriculum.

Pediatric Ultrasound: How, Why and When

• ISBN:
• 0443072752
• Authors:
• Rose de Bruyn MBBCh DMRD FRCR

The book takes an evidence-based approach to common diagnostic imaging dilemmas in pediatric ultrasound. It provides clear and referenced pediatric imaging guidelines for common and controversial dilemmas. * Uses a practical, step-by-step approach. * Covers the practical aspects of scanning, as well as the role, value, and limitations of ultrasound in different diseases. * Features over 500 illustrations, including 80 color scans * Written at a...

Leonhard Euler: Life, Work and Legacy (Studies in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Volume 5)

• ISBN:
• 0444527281

The year 2007 marks the 300th anniversary of the birth of one of the Enlightenment's most important mathematicians and scientists, Leonhard Euler. This volume is a collection of 24 essays by some of the world's best Eulerian scholars from seven different countries about Euler, his life and his work. Some of the essays are historical, including much previously unknown information about Euler's life, his activities in the St. Petersburg Academy,...

Virtual History: Alternatives and Counterfactuals

• ISBN:
• 0465023231

Speculative history at its best, in which a talented team of historians, led by Niall Ferguson, explore what might have happened if nine momentous events had turned out differently. What if there had been no American War of Independence? What if Hitler had invaded Britain? What if Kennedy had lived? What if Russia had won the Cold War? Niall Ferguson, author of the highly acclaimed The Pity of War, leads the charge in this historically rigorous...

Caring for Children and Families (Wiley Series in Nursing)

• ISBN:
• 0470019700

This text will help students understand fundamental aspects of clinical practice in order to provide safe and effective care to children and their families in various situations. When in clinical practice, students may find themselves being supervised from a distance, and as such, this text will help the student when they find themselves in a variety of settings to assist their integration of theory and practice. The reader will develop their...

British Military History For Dummies (For Dummies (History, Biography & Politics))

• ISBN:
• 0470032138
• Authors:
• Bryan Perrett

A plain-English guide to Britons in battle, from the Roman invasion to the ongoing Iraqi war Charging through the Britain's military past, this accessible guide brings to life the battles and wars that shaped the history of Britain-and the world. The book profiles commanders, explains strategies and tactics, and covers key developments in weaponry and technology.

Complete Idiot's Guide to World War I

• ISBN:
• 0028639022
• Authors:
• Ph.D. Alan Axelrod

For history buffs, students, and anyone interested in the 20th century, this book reveals why World War I began, explores the "guns of August," describes the horrors of trench warfare and the first uses of poison gas, and explains why the Americans were so slow to enter the war. From the eastern front to the west, from Gallipoli to the Marne, from the Lafayette Escadrillo to Lawrence fo Arabia, the book tells the whole story of "the war to end...

F-22 Raptor: America's Next Lethal War Machine

• ISBN:
• 0071342710
• Authors:
• Steve Pace

The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor, about to be launched as America's premier Air Dominance Fighter, will replace the vaunted F-15C Eagle as the world's foremost fighter aircraft. Once operational, it will be the swiftest, stealthiest, and deadliest plane in the skies, ready to out fly and out fight any opponent. Its Supercruise feature allows it to exceed the speed of sound without afterburners-an aviation first. Its radar profile is nearly as...

The Nature of All Being: A Study of Wittgenstein's Modal Atomism

• ISBN:
• 0195071115
• Authors:
• Raymond Bradley

In this comprehensive study of Wittgenstein's modal theorizing, Bradley offers a radical reinterpretation of Wittgenstein's early thought and presents both an interpretive and a philosophical thesis. A unique feature of Bradley's analysis is his reliance on Wittgenstein's Notebooks, which he believes offer indispensable guidance to the interpretation of difficult passages in the Tractatus. Bradley then goes on to argue that Wittgenstein's...

The Poetics of Fascism: Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Paul de Man

• ISBN:
• 0195080858
• Authors:
• Paul Morrison

Morrison examines the legacy of the modernist poetics of Ezra Pound and T.S. Eliot, as it relates to current theoretical orthodoxies, and traces its influence on the current crisis in post-structural literary theory. Morrison reads the politics of post-structural theory in relation to the socio-cultural arguments espoused in the poetry and prose by Pound and Eliot, and reveals a continuity between that theory and high modernism's tendency...

The Great War and the Language of Modernism

• ISBN:
• 0195101766
• Authors:
• Vincent Sherry

With the expressions ""Lost Generation"" and ""The Men of 1914,"" the major authors of modernism designated the overwhelming effect the First World War exerted on their era. Literary critics have long employed the same phrases in an attempt to place a radically experimental, specifically modernist writing in its formative, historical setting. What real basis did that Great War provide for the verbal inventiveness of modernist poetry and fiction?...

The Elements of Style (4th Edition)

• ISBN:
• 0205313426
• Authors:
• William Strunk, E. B. White

The hardcover version of the most indispensable writing resource! Features a new Glossary of grammatical terms Includes a new Foreword by Roger Angell Retains the classic principles of English style You know the authors' names. You recognize the title. You've probably used this book yourself. This is The Elements of Style , the classic style manual, now in a fourth edition. The revisions to the new edition are purposely kept minimal in...

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity (Gender and Culture Series)

• ISBN:
• 0231134444
• Authors:
• Christine Froula

Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde traces the dynamic emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's future in a period marked by two world wars and rising threats of totalitarianism. Educated informally in her father's library and in Bloomsbury's London extension of Cambridge, Virginia Woolf came of age in the prewar decades, when progressive political and social movements gave hope that...

If Mahan Ran the Great Pacific War: An Analysis of World War II Naval Strategy

• ISBN:
• 0253351057
• Authors:
• John A. Adams

Alfred Thayer Mahan's The Influence of Sea Power upon History (1660-1783) was one of the most influential books on military strategy in the first half of the 20th century. A core text in the naval war colleges of the United States, Britain, and Japan, Mahan's book shaped doctrine for the conduct of war at sea. Adams uses Mahan's ideas to discuss the great Pacific sea battles of World War II and to consider how well they withstood the test of...

A Rumor About the Jews: Reflections on Antisemitism and "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion"

• ISBN:
• 0312218044
• Authors:
• Stephen Eric Bronner

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion is among the most infamous documents of anti-semitism. A forgery created in Russia by the czarist secret police and quickly translated into a host of languages, it portrayed Judaism as a worldwide conspiracy dedicated to the destruction of Christian civilization. The appearance of the Protocols sparked a number of bloody pogroms and it helped shape the thinking of rightwing movements worldwide from Hitler's...

A Companion to Jane Austen Studies

• ISBN:
• 0313306621
• Authors:
• Robert Thomas Lambdin, Laura Lambdin

Jane Austen significantly shaped the development of the English novel, and her works continue to be read widely today. In addition, her writings have attracted considerable critical and scholarly attention. This reference is a guide to her works and the response to them. Each of her major works is the subject of a reader-response oriented essay and a separate bibliographical survey. In addition, separate chapters overview her letters, poems, and...

Developing Extensions for Macromedia Dreamweaver 8

• ISBN:
• 0321395409
• Authors:
• Anne Sandstrom, Bob Berry

Powerful development and design tools require thorough and authoritative technical advice and documentation. When it comes to Macromedia Dreamweaver, no one is more authoritative than Macromedia’s own development and writing teams. Now their official documentation is available to you in printed book form. As you work, keep this guide by your side for ready access to valuable information on using Dreamweaver. We’ve designed it so that it’s...

Editing Virginia Woolf: Interpreting the Modernist Text

• ISBN:
• 0333770455

This volume covers a wide range of editorial confrontations with Virginia Woolf's writings, touching on almost every genre in which she wrote: fiction, diary, letter, and biography. It describes a variety of editorial practices and deals with current theories informing the critical editing of the prose of this singular 20th-century writer. Essays by distinguished scholar-critics of Virginia Woolf confront a number of contemporary issues in...

Virginia Woolf and Fascism: Resisting the Dictators' Seduction

• ISBN:
• 0333801156

This unique collection of essays brings together for the first time consideration of Virginia Woolf's writing within the political context of fascism. Virginia Woolf and Fascism probes Woolf's fiction and non-fiction from Mrs. Dalloway in 1927 to Between the Acts , in 1941, for her responses not only to the growing menaces of dictators abroad, but also to mounting evidence of fascist ideology at home in England. The essays present a portrait of...

The Second Sophistic: A Cultural Phenomenon in the Roman Empire

• ISBN:
• 0415099889
• Authors:
• Graham Anderson

Graham Anderson provides a comprehensive view of the Second Sophistic, the single most important movement in 2nd century literature. Texts from this period, unlike most contemporaneous prose, came to be written as entertainment literature rather than being confined to historical subjects.Anderson describes the cultural aspirations sought by Greek sophists in the Roman Empire as well as their skills in public speaking which enabled them to...

The Swastika: Constructing the Symbol (Material Cultures)

• ISBN:
• 041510095X
• Authors:
• Malcolm Quinn

Despite the enormous amount of material on the subject of Nazism, there has been no substantial work on its emblem, the swastika. This original and controversial contribution examines the role that the swastika played in the construction of the Aryan myth in the nineteenth century, and its use in Nazi ideology as a symbol of party, nation and race, treating it as symbolic phenomenon in a cultural context. By identifying the swastika as a...

Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England

• ISBN:
• 0415109213
• Authors:
• Roger Sales

In Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England, Roger Sales looks at Jane Austen's entire oeuves, and views her historically as a Regency writer voicing concerns on the condition of England. Examining Austen's literary works and her letters, in the context of those of other Regency women, as well as contemporary texts such as television adaptations of her work, Jane Austen and Representations of Regency England reconstructs the breadth...

Aspects of British Political History 1914-1995 (Aspects of History)

• ISBN:
• 0415131022
• Authors:
• Stephen J. Lee

HIST 98 short blurb This text examines all the major themes, personalities and issues of this important period in a clear and digestible form. Illustrated with with helpful maps, charts and diagrams. Aspects of British Political History 1914-1995 examines all the major themes, personalities and issues of this important period in a clear and digestible form. It: introduces fresh angles to long-studied topics; consolidates a great body of recent...

From European Community to European Union: An Historical and Political Survey

• ISBN:
• 0415142652
• Authors:
• R. Mcallister

The evolution of the European Community has not followed a smooth path on the way to European Union. Richard McAllister's comprehensive history considers a number of key episodes and periods that have had a long-term impact in shaping the European Community, providing a reminder of key battles to date. Community institutions, member states and non-members have all sought to mold the European Community according to their individal wishes....

Roman Eastern Frontier and the Persian Wars: 363-628 AD, a Narrative Sourcebook (Pt. 2)

• ISBN:
• 0415146879

Late Antiquity was an eventful period on the eastern frontier of the Roman empire. From the failure of the Emperor Julian's invasion of Persia in 363 AD to the overwhelming victory of the Emperor Heraclius in 628, the Romans and Persians were engaged in almost constant conflict. This book, sequel to the volume covering the years 226-363 AD, provides translations of key texts on relations between the opposing sides, taken from a wide range of...

Chinese National Cinema (National Cinemas Series.)

• ISBN:
• 041517290X
• Authors:
• Yingjin Zhang

What does it mean to be "Chinese?" This controversial question has sparked off a never-ending process of image-making in Chinese and Chinese-speaking communities throughout the twentieth century. This introduction to Chinese national cinema, written by a leading scholar, covers three "Chinas": mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan. It traces the formation, negotiation and problematization of the national on the Chinese screen over ninety years....

The English Wars and Republic, 1637-1660 (Questions and Analysis in History)

• ISBN:
• 0415199026
• Authors:
• Graham E. Seel

The English Wars and Republic explores the period of turmoil in British history from 1637 and the latter part of the reign of Charles I, to the restoration with Charles II in 1660. The religious and political crises surrounding the Civil Wars, and the key personalities of Charles I and Oliver Cromwell are discussed in detail.

The Social History of Art: Rococo, Classicism and Romanticism Vol III

• ISBN:
• 0415199476
• Authors:
• Arnold Hauser

First published in 1951, Arnold Hauser's commanding work presents an account of the development and meaning of art, from its origins in the Stone Age through to the "Film Age." This new edition of a classic work explores historical and social movements and the effects these have had on the production of art--the centrality of class and class struggle, the cultural roles of ideologies and the determining influence of modes of economic...

Health in Antiquity

• ISBN:
• 0415220653
• Authors:
• Helen King

How healthy were people in ancient Greece and Rome, and how did they think about maintaining and restoring their health? For students of classics, history or the history of medicine, answers to these and many previously untouched questions are dealt with by renowned ancient historians, classical scholars and archaeologists. Using a multidisciplined approach, the contributors assess the issues surrounding health in the Greco-Roman world from...

Childhood, Class and Kin in the Roman World

• ISBN:
• 0415235782
• Authors:
• Suzanne Dixon

Experts assess ault to hear the voices of Roman children, vast range of evidence-inscriptions, burial data, domesticof architecture, sculpture, and the law, as well as Christianhe and dream-interpretation literature-to give a voice to Roman children, women and slaves.

Miletos: A History

• ISBN:
• 0415238463
• Authors:
• Alan M. Greaves

Miletos, on the coast of Asia Minor, was one of the most important of the Greek poleis - a key economic power as wellas a centre of philosophy and learning. Yet with historical sources scarce, and the mass of archaeological work done in the past century inaccessible in English, studying the city has not always been straightforward. Alan Greaves puts this right with a welcome survey of the origins and development of Miletos from prehistory to its...

Cannae: The Experience of Battle in the Second Punic War

• ISBN:
• 0415261473
• Authors:
• Gregory Daly

On a hot, dusty summer's day in 216 BC, the forces of the Carthaginian general Hannibal faced the Roman army in a dramatic encounter at Cannae. Hannibal slaughtered the much larger Roman army. It was the high point of his military career. Massively outnumbered, they nevertheless won an astonishing victory-one that left more than 50,000 Romans dead. Gregory Daly's enthralling narrative recreates the infamous battle and provides a compelling...

Jane Austen: A Sourcebook (Routledge Guides to Literature)

• ISBN:
• 0415314356
• Authors:
• Robert Irvine

Jane Austen's early nineteenth-century novels marked a turning point in the history of the genre and paved the way for the blossoming of the form in the decades to follow. As a result, her work has long occupied a central place in the study of English literature, as well as entertaining generations of readers. This volume: *Outlines the social, historical and literary contexts within which Austen wrote *Offers an extensive, insightful guide to...

Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany: The 'Fascist' Style of Rule (Historical Connections)

• ISBN:
• 0415336317
• Authors:
• De Alexander

'The book is perfectly pitched...It is an impressive and clear presentation of a very complex and central historical phenomenon...It offers a provocative and approachable thesis and argument for students to debate.' Marla Stone, Occidental College 'An incredibly concise and manageable comparative analysis...Its combination of compression and comprehensiveness make it ideal for students.' Philip Morgan, University of Hull Fascist Italy and Nazi...

Fifty Major Economists (Routledge Key Guides)

• ISBN:
• 0415366496
• Authors:
• Steven Pressman

Fully updated to include the most recent developments in economic thought, this new edition explores the work of fifty major economists, from seventeenth century philosophers such as John Lock to contemporary practitioners like Joseph Stiglitz. Other entries include: DT Thomas Munn DT Joan Robinson DT Amartya Sen DT Daniel Kahneman DT Robert E. Lucas Fifty Major Economists contains brief biographical information on each featured economist, as...

New Buddhist Movements in Thailand (Roultedge Critical Studies in Buddhism Series)

• ISBN:
• 0415408695
• Authors:
• Mackenzie

Vastly different in belief and practice, two new Buddhist religious movements in Thailand, namely the Wat Phra Dhammakaya and Santi Asoke emerged in Thailand in the 1970s at a time of political uncertainty, social change and increasing dissatisfaction with the Thai Sangha and its leadership. Examining these movements, which represent two distinctive trends within contemporary Buddhism in Thailand, this book explains why they have come into...

The New Navy, 1883-1922 (U.S. Navy Warships)

• ISBN:
• 0415978718
• Authors:
• Paul H. Silverstone

The third volume of The U.S. Navy Warship Series covers the fifty-year period from 1883-1922. In 1883, Congress authorized the first ships of the New Navy and ordered removal of all obsolete ships. All US Navy ships since that time have stemmed from these first three cruisers. The numbering system in effect since 1920 was effectively begun in 1886. The ships built during the next few years fought in the Spanish-American War. The success and...

Everything You Need to Know about American History Homework: 4th to 6th Grades

• ISBN:
• 0439625203
• Authors:
• Anne Zeman, Kate Kelly

The newly revised and updated Everything You Need to Know About series provide kids and parents with a quick refresher to 4th through 6th grade curriculum topics. The organization and scope of these concise homework-help guides make them an essential reference resource. Researched according to middle-grade curriculum and current textbooks, and created in conjunction with subject experts, these titles answer kids' most frequently asked homework...

Lying About Hitler: History, Holocaust Holocaust And The David Irving Trial

• ISBN:
• 0465021522
• Authors:
• Richard J. Evans

In ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, last 00/04, the High Court in London labeled him a falsifier of history. No objective historian, declared the judge, would manipulate the documentary record in the way that Irving did. Richard J. Evans, a Cambridge historian and the chief advisor for the defense, uses this pivotal trial as a lens for exploring a range of...

mental ray for Maya, 3ds Max, and XSI: A 3D Artist's Guide to Rendering

• ISBN:
• 0470008547
• Authors:
• Boaz Livny

Turn 3D models into film-worthy digital animations by mastering mental ray rendering once and for all. This must-have guide is the only book on the market to focus exclusively on mental ray in Maya, 3ds Max, and XSI, and it's packed with techniques and insights you can't get anywhere else. Best of all, the book's advanced rendering concepts apply to other rendering software as well, including V-Ray, Brazil, Maxwell and RenderMan. Discover...

The Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey

• ISBN:
• 0470294191
• Authors:
• Emmanuel Goldstein

Since 1984, the quarterly magazine 2600 has provided fascinating articles for readers who are curious about technology. Find the best of the magazine’s writing in Best of 2600: A Hacker Odyssey , a collection of the strongest, most interesting, and often most controversial articles covering 24 years of changes in technology, all from a hacker’s perspective. Included are stories about the creation of the infamous tone dialer “red box”...

Heathrow's Terminal 5: History in the Making

• ISBN:
• 0470754354
• Authors:
• Sharon Doherty

This book reveals the inside track on the making of Terminal 5: the courage, the ground-breaking management thinking and the many lessons learnt from the leaders, the client and integrated supply chain teams, - involving over 50,000 people from 20,000 companies - which led to the successful delivery of this mega project on time, on budget, and safely. Love or hate Heathrow we can’t ignore it! An economic power house for the UK, 155,000 earn...

Six Sigma Team Dynamics: The Elusive Key to Project Success

• ISBN:
• 0471222771
• Authors:
• George Eckes, Sandra Derickson

"Any Six Sigma effort without Facilitative Leadership is a swing-and-a-miss. Six Sigma Team Dynamics is a thorough discussion of the roles, responsibilities, and pitfalls to avoid as a project team traverses through the DMAIC process. Touch ’em all George, you’ve hit an upper deck shot here!" –Mike Kaupa Senior VP, Process Management Park Nicollet Health Services "George makes Six Sigma simple. His solutions from real life about how to...

Understanding Craniofacial Anomalies: The Etiopathogenesis of Craniosynostoses and Facial Clefting

• ISBN:
• 047138724X

This comprehensive textbook, edited by world-renowned experts in the field, provides answers to challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of craniofacial anomalies.The book integrates basic science and clinical perspectives, creating a more unified and practical “patient centered” approach. Organized in a logical, easy-to-follow structure, this reference reviews and presents cutting-edge findings, covering the state of the art in...

Daring Missions of World War II

• ISBN:
• 0471404195
• Authors:
• William B. Breuer

Critical acclaim for William B. Breuer "A first-class historian."–Wall Street Journal For Top Tales of World War II "As evidenced time and again by the prolific Breuer, WWII continues to be a source of absorbing espionage tales. . . . This is a book for rainy days and long solitary nights by the fire. If there were a genre for cozy nonfiction, this would be the template."–Publishers Weekly "A perfect book for the curious and adventure...

The Science of Sherlock Holmes: From Baskerville Hall to the Valley of Fear, the Real Forensics Behind the Great Detective's Greatest Cases

• ISBN:
• 0471648795
• Authors:
• E. J. Wagner

Praise for The Science of Sherlock Holmes "Holmes is, first, a great detective, but he has also proven to be a great scientist, whether dabbling with poisons, tobacco ash, or tire marks. Wagner explores this fascinating aspect of his career by showing how his investigations were grounded in the cutting-edge science of his day, especially the emerging field of forensics.... Utterly compelling." —Otto Penzler, member of the Baker Street...

Renaissance Diplomacy

• ISBN:
• 0486255700
• Authors:
• Garrett Mattingly

Famed historian's definitive history of the origins of diplomacy, tracing the diplomat's role as it emerged in the Italian city-states and spread northward in the 16th and 17th centuries. "An important book...carefully and elegantly written." — The Times (London). "Excellent." — New York Herald Tribune . Notes. Bibliography. Index.

The Ancient City: A Study of the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (Dover Books on History, Political and Social Science)

• ISBN:
• 0486447308
• Authors:
• Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges

This influential survey synthesizes ancient documents and physical evidence to build an account of religious, family, and civic life of Periclean Athens and Rome during the time of Cicero. In bypassing the body of often-glorified post-Classical histories, it builds an accurate and detailed depiction of Hellenic and Latin urban culture.

Analogies Between Analogies: The Mathematical Reports of S.M. Ulam and his Los Alamos Collaborators (Los Alamos Series in Basic and Applied Sciences)

• ISBN:
• 0520052900
• Authors:
• S. M. Ulam

During his forty-year association with the Los Alamos National Laboratory, mathematician Stanislaw Ulam produced many Laboratory Reports, usually in collaboration with colleagues. Some remain classified to this day. The rest are in this volume, easily accessible for the first time to mathematicians, physical scientists, and historians. The timeliness of these papers is remarkable. They contain seminal ideas in fields such as the theory of...

Encarnación's Kitchen: Mexican Recipes from Nineteenth-Century California (California Studies in Food and Culture)

• ISBN:
• 0520236513
• Authors:
• Encarnación Pinedo

In 1991 Ruth Reichl, then a Los Angeles Times food writer, observed that much of the style now identified with California cuisine, and with nouvelle cuisine du Mexique, was practiced by Encarnacion Pinedo a century earlier. A landmark of American cuisine first published in 1898 as El cocinero espanol (The Spanish Cook), Encarnacion's Kitchen is the first cookbook written by a Hispanic in the United States, as well as the first recording of...

Women with Mustaches and Men without Beards: Gender and Sexual Anxieties of Iranian Modernity

• ISBN:
• 0520242629
• Authors:
• Afsaneh Najmabadi

Drawing from a rich array of visual and literary material from nineteenth-century Iran, this groundbreaking book rereads and rewrites the history of Iranian modernity through the lens of gender and sexuality. Peeling away notions of a rigid pre-modern Islamic gender system, Afsaneh Najmabadi provides a compelling demonstration of the centrality of gender and sexuality to the shaping of modern culture and politics in Iran and of how changes in...

The Queen of Fats: Why Omega-3s Were Removed from the Western Diet and What We Can Do to Replace Them (California Studies in Food and Culture, 15)

• ISBN:
• 0520242823
• Authors:
• Susan Allport

A nutritional whodunit that takes readers from Greenland to Africa to Israel, The Queen of Fats gives a fascinating account of how we have become deficient in a nutrient that is essential for good health: the fatty acids known as omega-3s. Writing with intelligence and passion, Susan Allport tells the story of these vital fats, which are abundant in greens and fish, among other foods. She describes how scientists came to understand the role of...

How the Cows Turned Mad: Unlocking the Mysteries of Mad Cow Disease

• ISBN:
• 0520243374
• Authors:
• Maxime Schwartz

Fear of mad cow disease, a lethal illness transmitted from infected beef to humans, has spread from Europe to the United States and around the world. Originally published to much acclaim in France, this scientific thriller, available in English for the first time and updated with a new chapter on developments in 2001, tells of the hunt for the cause of an enigmatic class of fatal brain infections, of which mad cow disease is the latest...

The Uses of Literacy in Early Mediaeval Europe

• ISBN:
• 0521344093

The book investigates the ways in which literacy was important in early medieval Europe, and examines the context of literacy, its uses, levels, and distribution, in a number of different early medieval societies, including Ireland, Anglo-Saxon England, Visigothic and Umayyad Spain, Papal Rome, and Byzantium, between c. 400 and c. 1000. The contributors set out to provide the factual basis for assessments of the significance of literacy in the...

Vico: The First New Science (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

• ISBN:
• 0521382904
• Authors:
• Gianbattista Vico

This account of the basic theme of Vico's mature philosophy explores the question of whether philosophical theories can ever be more than an intellectual expression of the underlying beliefs of an age. The first complete English translation of the 1725 text, Vico's The First New Science ia now accessible to a broad, new readership. It is accompanied by a glossary, bibliography, chronology of Vico's life and expository introduction.

Pheromones and Animal Behaviour: Communication by Smell and Taste

• ISBN:
• 052148068X
• Authors:
• Tristram D. Wyatt

The importance of chemical communication is illustrated in this study with examples from a diverse range of animals including humans, marine copepods, Drosophila, Caenorhabditis elegans, moths, snakes, goldfish, elephants and mice. For students of ecology, evolution and behavior, Tristram Wyatt provides an introduction to the rapid progress in the understanding of olfaction at the molecular and neurological level. In addition, he offers...

Ancient Epistemology (Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy)

• ISBN:
• 0521691893
• Authors:
• Lloyd P. Gerson

This is the first title in the Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy series, which provides concise books, written by major scholars and accessible to non-specialists, on important themes in ancient philosophy which remain of philosophical interest today. In this book, Professor Gerson explores ancient accounts of the nature of knowledge and belief from the Presocratics up to the Platonists of late antiquity. He argues that ancient philosophers...

Women at the Gates: Gender and Industry in Stalin's Russia

• ISBN:
• 0521780640
• Authors:
• Wendy Z. Goldman

In the annals of Industrialization, the Soviet experience is unique in its whirlwind rapidity. The vast transformations that shook Europe over the centuries--proletarianization, industrialization, urbanization--were telescoped into a mere decade. The working class grew at an unprecedented rate, changing in size and social composition, and in no other country of the world did women constitute such a significant part of the working class in so...

Machiavelli, Hobbes, and the Formation of a Liberal Republicanism in England

• ISBN:
• 0521833612
• Authors:
• Vickie B. Sullivan

Certain English writers of the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, whom scholars often associate with classical republicanism, were not, in fact, hostile to liberalism. Indeed, these thinkers contributed to a synthesis of liberalism and modern republicanism. As this book argues, Marchamont Nedham, James Harrington, Henry Neville, Algernon Sidney, and John Trenchard and Thomas Gordon, the co-authors of a series of editorials entitled...

New Frontiers in Economics

• ISBN:
• 0521836867

Analyzing the new directions that subdisciplines of economics have taken in the face of modern economic challenges, these essays represent invention and discovery in the areas of information, macroeconomics and public policies, international trade and development, finance, business, contracts, law, gaming, and government. They offer not only a wealth of factual information on the current state of the economy, but also theoretical and empirical...

Hitler, the Allies, and the Jews

• ISBN:
• 0521838770
• Authors:
• Shlomo Aronson

This book offers a new analysis of the Holocaust as a multiple trap, of its origins, and of its final stages, in which rescue seemed to be possible. Developing like a sort of a doomsday machine set in motion from all sides, the Jews found themselves between the hammer and various anvils. Each and one of them working according to the logic created by the Nazis and by other reasons described here , which dictated the behavior of third and fourth...

Machiavelli and Empire (Ideas in Context)

• ISBN:
• 0521839459
• Authors:
• Mikael Hörnqvist

Exploring both the political and intellectual contexts within which Machiavelli's political vision was formed, Mikael Hornqvist stresses the classical and rhetorical character of Machiavelli's thought. He analyzes his preoccupation with glory and liberality in relation to the revival of Roman ideas of triumphalism. The result is a revealing account of the formation of Machiavelli's characteristic preoccupations.

Monetary Theory and Bretton Woods: The Construction of an International Monetary Order (Historical Perspectives on Modern Economics)

• ISBN:
• 0521867592
• Authors:
• Filippo Cesarano

Over the twentieth century monetary theory played a crucial role in the evolution of the international monetary system. The severe shocks and monetary gyrations of the interwar years interacted with theoretical developments that superseded the rigid rules of commodity standards and led to the full-fledged conception of monetary policy. The definitive demise of the gold standard then paved the way for monetary reconstruction. Monetary theory was...

Case Studies in Pediatric Critical Care

• ISBN:
• 0521878349

Case Studies in Pediatric Critical Care presents a spectrum of real and interesting case studies relating to critically ill children. Each case study includes details of the presenting history and symptomatology, results of investigations and the subsequent critical care management of the patient. Cases have been chosen to illustrate the increasingly diverse range of problems that may be encountered by pediatric critical care physicians...

On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa

• ISBN:
• 0521887240
• Authors:
• Ghislaine Lydon

This study is the first of its kind to examine the history and organization of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material. It documents the internal dynamics of a trade network system based on a case-study of the Wad Nun traders, who specialized in outfitting camel caravans in the nineteenth century. Through an examination of contracts, correspondence, fatwas, and interviews with retired caravaners, Lydon shows how...

Marking the Mind: A History of Memory

• ISBN:
• 0521898153
• Authors:
• Kurt Danziger

Memory is one of the few psychological concepts with a truly ancient lineage. Presenting a history of the interrelated changes in memory tasks, memory technology and ideas about memory from antiquity to the late twentieth century, this book confronts psychology's 'short present' with its 'long past'. Kurt Danziger, one of the most influential historians of psychology of recent times, traces long-term continuities from ancient mnemonics and tools...

Nanny Ogg's Cookbook (Discworld Series)

• ISBN:
• 0552146730
• Authors:
• Terry Pratchett

A useful and improving Almanack of Information, including Astonishing Recipes from Terry Pratchett’s Discworld.

A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, Book 2)

• ISBN:
• 0553579908
• Authors:
• George R.R. Martin

In this eagerly awaited sequel to A Game of Thrones , George R. R. Martin has created a work of unsurpassed vision, power, and imagination. A Clash of Kings transports us to a world of revelry and revenge, wizardry and warfare unlike any you have ever experienced. A Clash Of Kings A comet the color of blood and flame cuts across the sky. And from the ancient citadel of Dragonstone to the forbidding shores of Winterfell, chaos reigns. Six...

The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ, Vol. 1

• ISBN:
• 0567022420
• Authors:
• Emil Schurer

The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ, Vol. 2

• ISBN:
• 0567022439
• Authors:
• Emil Schurer

The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.-A.D. 135) Vol. 3, Part 1

• ISBN:
• 0567022447
• Authors:
• Emil Schurer

The History of the Jewish People in the Age of Jesus Christ: 175 B.C.-A.D. 135, (Volume III Part 2)

• ISBN:
• 0567093735
• Authors:
• Emil Schurer, Geza Vermes, Fergus Millar, Martin Goodman

Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs

• ISBN:
• 0596005873
• Authors:
• Arup Nanda, Steven Feuerstein

PL/SQL, Oracle's powerful procedural language, has been the cornerstone of Oracle application development for nearly 15 years. Although primarily a tool for developers, PL/SQL has also become an essential tool for database administration, as DBAs take increasing responsibility for site performance and as the lines between developers and DBAs blur. Until now, there has not been a book focused squarely on the language topics of special concern to...

Retro Gaming Hacks

• ISBN:
• 0596009178
• Authors:
• Chris Kohler

Maybe it was the recent Atari 2600 milestone anniversary that fueled nostalgia for the golden days of computer and console gaming. Every Game Boy must ponder his roots from time to time. But whatever is driving the current retro gaming craze, one thing is certain: classic games are back for a big second act, and they're being played in both old and new ways. Whether you've just been attacked by Space Invaders for the first time or you've been a...

RFID Essentials (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))

• ISBN:
• 0596009445
• Authors:
• Bill Glover, Himanshu Bhatt

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is rapidly changing the way businesses track inventory and assets. From Wal-Mart and Tesco to the U.S. Department of Defense, early efforts are already showing benefits, but software, integration, and data processing for RFID still present a challenge. If you are a developer or an architect charged with developing an RFID system, this book is for you. Drawing on extensive experience, Bill Glover and Himanshu...

Integrating Excel and Access

• ISBN:
• 0596009739
• Authors:
• Michael Schmalz

In a corporate setting, the Microsoft Office Suite is an invaluable set of applications. One of Offices' biggest advantages is that its applications can work together to share information, produce reports, and so on. The problem is, there isn't much documentation on their cross-usage. Until now. Introducing "Integrating Excel and Access," the unique reference that shows you how to combine the strengths of Microsoft Excel with those of Microsoft...

XSLT Cookbook, Second Edition (Cookbooks (O'Reilly))

• ISBN:
• 0596009747
• Authors:
• Sal Mangano, Mangano Salvatore

Forget those funky robot toys that were all the rage in the '80s, XSLT (Extensible Stylesheet Transformations) is the ultimate transformer. This powerful language is expert at transforming XML documents into PDF files, HTML documents, JPEG files--virtually anything your heart desires. As useful as XSLT is, though, most people have a difficult time learning its many peculiarities. And now Version 2.0, while elegant and powerful, has only added to...

Halo 2 Hacks: Tips & Tools for Finishing the Fight

• ISBN:
• 0596100590
• Authors:
• Stephen Cawood

Even if you've finished Halo 2 in Legendary Mode, you're not done with this game. Not by a long shot. You know there's a lot more you can squeeze out of Halo 2, and with the clever hacks we have in store, you'll turn the game into a whole new experience. "Halo 2 Hacks" is the creation of consummate gamer and Microsoft insider Stephen Cawood, an original member of the Halo 2 beta test team. He's got it all, whether you're into single or...

Excel 2003 for Starters: The Missing Manual

• ISBN:
• 0596101546
• Authors:
• Matthew MacDonald

The dominant spreadsheet program and one of the most widely used software applications in the world, Microsoft Excel is unbelievably powerful--and can be downright intimidating. If you're new to Excel or among the many existing Excel users who are dazed and confused by all that the program can do (and by how little it has actually done for you), "Excel for Starter: The Missing Manual" is your ideal resource. For everyone who wants to quickly get...

Backup and Recovery

• ISBN:
• 0596102461
• Authors:
• W. Curtis Preston

Packed with practical, freely available backup and recovery solutions for Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X systems -- as well as various databases -- this new guide is a complete overhaul of "Unix Backup & Recovery" by the same author, now revised and expanded with over 75% new material. "Backup & Recovery" starts with a complete overview of backup philosophy and design, including the basic backup utilities of tar, dump, cpio, ntbackup, ditto,...

MySQL Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))

• ISBN:
• 0596514263
• Authors:
• George Reese

To help you be more efficient in your work, this handy pocket reference gives you instant reminders on how to use important MySQL functions, especially in conjunction with key parts of the LAMP open source infrastructure. This powerful database system is so rich in features that no administrator or programmer can stay familiar with all of them. MySQL Pocket Reference is an ideal on-the-job companion, well organized to help you find and adapt the...

Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault

• ISBN:
• 0631180338
• Authors:
• Pierre Hadot

Pierre Hadot is arguably one of the most influential and wide-ranging historians of ancient philosophy writing today. As well as having an important influence on the work of Michel Foucault, Hadot's work has been pivotal in the development of contemporary French philosophy. His work is currently concerned with a redefinition of modern philosophy through a study of ancient life and ancient philosophical texts. This book presents a history of...

A History of Political Thought: From the Middle Ages to the Renaissance

• ISBN:
• 0631186530
• Authors:
• Janet Coleman

Janet Coleman's two-volume history of European political theorizing, from the ancient Greeks to the Renaissance is the introduction that many have been waiting for. It treats some of the most influential writers who have been considered by educated Europeans down the centuries to have helped to construct their identity, their shared "languages of politics" about the principles and practices of good government, and the history of European...

Judges Through the Centuries (Blackwell Bible Commentaries)

• ISBN:
• 0631222510
• Authors:
• David M. Gunn

This bible commentary traces the reception of Judges through the ages, not only by scholars and theologians, but also by preachers, teachers, politicians, poets, essayists and artists. A bible commentary focusing on The Book of Judges , best known for the tale of Samson and Delilah, but full of many other rich and colourful stories. Treats the text story by story, making it accessible to non-specialists, Considers the stories of women in Judges...

A Companion to the History of Economic Thought (Blackwell Companions to Contemporary Economics)

• ISBN:
• 0631225730

Assembling contributions from top thinkers in the field, this companion offers a comprehensive and sophisticated exploration of the history of economic thought. The volume has a threefold focus: the history of economic thought, the history of economics as a discipline, and the historiography of economic thought. Provides sophisticated introductions to a vast array of topics. Focuses on a unique range of topics, including the history of economic...

Architectures: Modernism and After (New Interventions in Art History)

• ISBN:
• 0631229434

Architectures: Modernism and After surveys the history of the building from the advent of industrialization to the cultural imperatives of the present moment. The collection of essays brings together international art and architectural historians to consider a range of topics that have influenced the shape, profile, and aesthetics of the built environment from 1851 to the present time, showing how buildings and our responses to them are embedded...

Alexander the Great in his World (Blackwell Ancient Lives)

• ISBN:
• 063123246X
• Authors:
• Carol G. Thomas

Alexander the Great is one of the most celebrated figures of antiquity. In this book, Carol G. Thomas places this powerful figure within the context of his time, place, culture, and ancestry in order to discover what influences shaped his life and career. The book begins with an exploration of the Macedonia that conditioned the lives of its inhabitants. It also traces such influences on Alexander's life as his royal Argead ancestry, his father,...

American Identities: An Introductory Textbook

• ISBN:
• 0631234314

American Identities is a dazzling array of primary documents and critical essays culled from American history, literature, memoir, and popular culture that explore major currents and trends in American history from 1945 to the present. The textbook charts the rich multiplicity of American identities as refracted through the different lenses of race, class, and gender, and shaped by common historical social processes such as migration, families,...

Twentieth Century: The History of the World, 1901 to 2000

• ISBN:
• 0670884561
• Authors:
• J. M. Roberts

One of our greatest contemporary historians greets the millennium with an authoritative and engrossing survey of the twentieth century When it comes to narrative history, J. M. Roberts is an undisputed master of his craft. His classic History of the World (more than a quarter million copies sold worldwide) remains, in the words of eminent historian A. J. P. Taylor, "a stupendous achievement...the unrivaled World History of our day. . ....

A History of Western Philosophy (Simon & Schuster)

• ISBN:
• 0671314009
• Authors:
• Bertrand Russell

First published in 1946, History of Western Philosophy went on to become the best-selling philosophy book of the twentieth century. A dazzlingly ambitious project, it remains unchallenged to this day as the ultimate introduction to Western philosophy. Providing a sophisticated overview of the ideas that have perplexed people from time immemorial, Russell's History of Western Philosophy offered a cogent précis of its subject. Of course this...

Mastering Unreal Technology: The Art of Level Design

• ISBN:
• 0672326922
• Authors:
• Jason Busby, Zak Parrish, Joel VanEenwyk

Let your imagination run wild in the world of Unreal Technology. Mastering Unreal Technology: The Art of Level Design knows no boundaries as it shows you how to build custom mods, maps and levels with the Unreal engine. Its tutorial format will give you immediate results through the tips and demos provided from the industry's top level designers. Learn to create your own characters, weapons and gaming environments, as well as how to go beyond...

Mystery of Mysteries: Is Evolution a Social Construction?

• ISBN:
• 0674005430
• Authors:
• Michael Ruse

With the recent Sokal hoax--the publication of a prominent physicist's pseudo-article in a leading journal of cultural studies--the status of science moved sharply from debate to dispute. Is science objective, a disinterested reflection of reality, as Karl Popper and his followers believed? Or is it subjective, a social construction, as Thomas Kuhn and his students maintained? Into the fray comes Mystery of Mysteries , an enlightening inquiry...

The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression

• ISBN:
• 0674076087
• Authors:
• Mark Kramer, Stephane Courtois, Jean-Louis Panne, Andrzej Paczkowski, Karel Bartosek, Jean-Louis Margolin

Already famous throughout Europe, this international bestseller plumbs recently opened archives in the former Soviet bloc to reveal the actual, practical accomplishments of Communism around the world: terror, torture, famine, mass deportations, and massacres. Astonishing in the sheer detail it amasses, the book is the first comprehensive attempt to catalogue and analyze the crimes of Communism over seventy years. "Revolutions, like trees, must...

Judeophobia: Attitudes toward the Jews in the Ancient World

• ISBN:
• 067448777X
• Authors:
• Peter Schäfer

Taking a fresh look at what the Greeks and Romans thought about Jews and Judaism, Peter Schäfer locates the origin of anti-Semitism in the ancient world. Judeophobia firmly establishes Hellenistic Egypt as the generating source of anti-Semitism, with roots extending back into Egypt's pre-Hellenistic history. A pattern of ingrained hostility toward an alien culture emerges when Schäfer surveys an illuminating spectrum of comments on Jews and...

Sex And Suits

• ISBN:
• 0679430962
• Authors:
• Ann L. Hollander

Essays on the Anthropology of Reason

• ISBN:
• 0691011583
• Authors:
• Paul Rabinow

This collection of essays explains and encourages new reflection on Paul Rabinow's pioneering project to anthropologize the West. His goal is to exoticize the Western constitution of reality, emphasize those domains most taken for granted as universal, and show how their claims to truth are linked to particular social practices, hence becoming effective social forces. He has recently begun to focus on the core of Western rationality, in...

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy

• ISBN:
• 069101695X
• Authors:
• Eric D. Weitz

Weimar Germany still fascinates us, and now this complex and remarkably creative period and place has the history it deserves. Eric Weitz's Weimar Germany reveals the Weimar era as a time of strikingly progressive achievements--and even greater promise. With a rich thematic narrative and detailed portraits of some of Weimar's greatest figures, this comprehensive history recaptures the excitement and drama as it unfolded, viewing Weimar in its...

Outsiders Together: Virginia and Leonard Woolf.

• ISBN:
• 0691058849
• Authors:
• Natania Rosenfeld

The marriage of Virginia and Leonard Woolf is best understood as a dialogue of two outsiders about ideas of social and political belonging and exclusion. These ideas infused the written work of both partners and carried over into literary modernism itself, in part through the influence of the Woolfs' groundbreaking publishing company, the Hogarth Press. In this book, the first to focus on Virginia Woolf's writings in conjunction with those of...

Between Women: Friendship, Desire, and Marriage in Victorian England

• ISBN:
• 0691128359
• Authors:
• Sharon Marcus

Women in Victorian England wore jewelry made from each other's hair and wrote poems celebrating decades of friendship. They pored over magazines that described the dangerous pleasures of corporal punishment. A few had sexual relationships with each other, exchanged rings and vows, willed each other property, and lived together in long-term partnerships described as marriages. But, as Sharon Marcus shows, these women were not seen as gender...

The Secret History of the Mongols: The Life and Times of Chinggis Khan (Institute of East Asian studies)

• ISBN:
• 0700713352
• Authors:
• Professor Onon

There has long been a need for a scholarly English edition of the great 13th century historical epic, The Secret History of the Mongols, the only surviving Mongol source about the empire. The book is mainly about the life and the career of Chinggis Khan, his ancestors and his rise to power. Chinggis Khan was a consummate manipulator of the complex system of alliances which existed between diverse tribes, and through a combination of armed force...

The Welsh King and His Court

• ISBN:
• 0708316271

Early medieval kingship was exercised in a domestic setting with no divide between the officers of state and the royal household. The Laws of Court in the medieval Welsh lawbooks provide some of the most interesting evidence for the structure and operation of a royal court in early medieval Europe. These are richly detailed but also problematic texts, and their correct interpretation is the central concern of The Welsh King and his Court .The...

Religion and National Identity: Wales and Scotland c1700-2000 (University of Wales - Bangor History of Religion)

• ISBN:
• 070831662X
• Authors:
• Robert Pope

While the Christian faith has played a major part in the history of both Wales and Scotland, there has been little previous work looking at their histories in a comparative manner. In the light of the establishment of the Welsh Assembly and the Scottish Parliament, this issue is of particular contemporary importance. This collection discusses religion in Scotland and Wales from a historical perspective and examines the contribution of religion...

Myth and Thought Among the Greeks

• ISBN:
• 0710095449
• Authors:
• Jean-Pierre Vernant

When Jean-Pierre Vernant first published Myth and Thought among the Greeks in 1965, it transformed the field of ancient Greek scholarship, calling forth a new way to think about Greek myth and thought. In eighteen essays—three of which, along with a new preface, are translated into English for the first time—Vernant freed the subject of ancient Greece from its philological chains and reread the questions of "muthos" and "logos" within...

Beaufort Special

• ISBN:
• 0711006679
• Authors:
• Bruce Robertson

A-20 Boston at War

• ISBN:
• 0711009651
• Authors:
• William Hess

Although built by the U.S. Douglas corporation, the A-20 "Boston" got its name and had some of its finest moments in British service. The first Bostons arrived in England during the Battle of Britain, when aircraft of all sorts were in short supply. It proved to be one of the best light bombers of the war, serving on nearly all fronts and with most of the Allies. Due to its superior bomb-aimer, Bostons led formations of more modern bombers even...

Messerschmitt Bf 110 at War

• ISBN:
• 071101504X
• Authors:
• Armand Van Ishoven

Raf Tornado ("Aircraft Illustrated" Special)

• ISBN:
• 0711016569
• Authors:
• Paul Jackson

Swordfish at War

• ISBN:
• 0711016763
• Authors:
• W.A. Harrison

Raf Phantom (Aircraft Special Illustrated)

• ISBN:
• 0711018707
• Authors:
• Peter R. Foster

Attacker, Swift, and Scimitar (v. 7)

• ISBN:
• 0711020345
• Authors:
• Philip Birtles

Air War Over Italy

• ISBN:
• 0711026904
• Authors:
• Andrew Brookes

The Allied advance through Italy 1943-1945 is less known than the parallel campaign in France and the air war is perhaps the least known aspect. Maintaining air superiority over the battlefield and hampering German supply and reinforcement became of prime importance to the Allied air forces, who faced a more co-ordinated opposition by German forces under the overall command of a Luftwaffe general.

FORTRESS EUROPE: HITLER'S ATLANTIC WALL: The German Viewpoint

• ISBN:
• 0711027692
• Authors:
• George Forty

Once it became apparent that German military ambitions in the west were to be thwarted by British resistance and Hitler's attention turned to the greater goal of the defeat of Stalin's Russia, the need to shore up the defense of Europe against any possible attack from the British Isles became imperative. Although earlier phases of the war had proved the ineffectiveness of fixed defensive lines- most notably in the failure of the French Maginot...

Air War Over Russia

• ISBN:
• 0711028907
• Authors:
• Andrew Brookes

If World War 1 was characterized, certainly on the Western Front, by the endless miles of trenches and the remarkable lack of mobility in the front line during more than four years of war, those military strategists who expected a similar war of attrition in any second conflict were to be confounded. World War 2 was to witness the triumph of offense over defense, with the awesome power of tank armies and air forces deployed to devastating...

WWII GERMAN INFANTRYMAN AT WAR

• ISBN:
• 0711029296
• Authors:
• George Forty

This book looks at the lot of the average Landser, the German "Grunt", who fought through Blitzkrieg, in the Western Desert, and in the horrific frozen wastes of Russia against the most implacable of foes. Most of the photographs in this book come from private collections and have not been published before, many from Feldwebel Gerhard Sandmann who joined the German Army at Northeim in September 1939 and fought from May 9, 1940, through Belgium,...

Magic in Ancient Egypt

• ISBN:
• 0714119369
• Authors:
• Geraldine Pinch

Reclaims Egyptian mysticism from the loony fringe. A serious exploration of how different sorts of `magic' were used in very practical ways by a society known throughout the ancient world as the `mother of magicians'. A final chapter examines its persistent fascination.

Modern Egypt: Studies in Politics and Society

• ISBN:
• 071463168X
• Authors:
• Elie Kedourie

India as an Emerging Power

• ISBN:
• 0714683213
• Authors:
• Sumit Ganguly

These essays examine India's relations with key powers including the Russian Federation, China and the USA and with key adversaries in the global arena in the aftermath of the Cold War. One positive relationship is that of India's relations with Israel since 1992.

ABC of Preterm Birth (ABC Series)

• ISBN:
• 0727917633

Preterm birth is a major challenge in perinatal health care. Most perinatal deaths occur in preterm infants, and preterm birth is an important risk factor for neurological damage, including cerebral palsy. This ABC covers all the latest information on this complex and multidisciplinary area from obstetric issues to immediate care of preterm infants, respiratory complications, and how to provide support to the parents and relatives of the preterm...

MCAD/MCSD Self-Paced Training Kit: Developing Windows®-Based Applications with Microsoft® Visual Basic® .NET and Microsoft Visual C#® .NET, Second Ed (Pro-Certification)

• ISBN:
• 0735619263
• Authors:
• Matthew A. Stoecker, Microsoft Corporation

Get self-paced, from-the-source exam preparation and self-assessment for the skills measured by MCP Exams 70-306 and 70-316—core requirements for MCAD and MCSD certification. Features an enhanced testing tool, plus deeper coverage of Microsoft ADO.NET.

XML and PHP

• ISBN:
• 0735712271
• Authors:
• Vikram Vaswani

XML and PHP is designed to introduce PHP developers to the synergies that become visible when their favorite web-scripting language is combined with one of the most talked about technologies of recent times, XML. XML and PHP teaches PHP developers how to use PHP's XML functions to develop and maintain XML-based web applications and sites, and it demonstrates the power inherent in the XML/PHP combination. This book provides information on all hte...

The Man Who Found Time: James Hutton and the Discovery of Earth's Antiquity

• ISBN:
• 073820692X
• Authors:
• Jack Repcheck

The story of the gentleman farmer from Edinburgh who discovered that the earth was millions of years old, not six thousand, and paved the way for Darwin's theory of evolution. There are three men whose contributions helped free science from the straitjacket of theology. Two of the three-Nicolaus Copernicus and Charles Darwin-are widely known and heralded for their breakthroughs. The third, James Hutton, never received the same recognition, yet...

Imagining the Internet: Personalities, Predictions, Perspectives

• ISBN:
• 0742539369
• Authors:
• Janna Quitney Anderson

In the early 1990s, people predicted the death of privacy, an end to the current concept of property, a paperless society, 500 channels of high-definition interactive television, world peace, and the extinction of the human race after a takeover engineered by intelligent machines. Imagining the Internet zeroes in on predictions about the Internet's future and revisits past predictions--and how they turned out. It gives the history of...

The Making of Modern America: The Nation from 1945 to the Present

• ISBN:
• 0742548198
• Authors:
• Gary A. Donaldson

When World War II ended in 1945, America emerged as the only superpower. It had defeated Germany and Japan, it was the only nation with the bomb, and much of the rest of the world lay in ruins as a result of the war. In addition, the wartime economy had dragged the nation out of the worst depression in modern history. The United States seemed on the verge of its greatest age, and from that starting point, its people embarked on a journey through...

Weather Scientists: Earth and Space Science (Science Readers)

• ISBN:
• 0743905520
• Authors:
• Debra J. Housel, M.S. Ed.

Connect content-area literacy and science with differentiated readers featuring lab activities and profiles of related scientitists

Israel and Palestine - Out of the Ashes: The Search for Jewish Identity in the Twenty-first Century

• ISBN:
• 0745319572
• Authors:
• Marc H. Ellis

As the world watches with horror the unfolding events in Palestine and Israel, Marc Ellis, a Jewish American scholar, examines what he sees as a crisis point in Jewish identity. In this book, Ellis offers a vision of Judaism that testifies to an ethical life in our era, based on the principles of justice and community upon which the Jewish faith was founded. Only by addressing the way in which those original principles are being squandered by a...

Invisible Giant: Cargill and its Transnational Strategies

• ISBN:
• 0745319599
• Authors:
• Brewster Kneen

* No hold's barred exposé of the world's largest food company * Uncovers predatory activities and unfettered monopoly that effect every American consumer Transnational corporations straddle the globe, largely unseen by the public. Cargill, with its headquarters in the US, is the largest private corporation in North America, and possibly in the world. Cargill trades in food commodities and produces a great many of them: grains, flour, malt,...

The Greatest Sedition Is Silence: Four Years in America

• ISBN:
• 0745320104
• Authors:
• William Rivers Pitt

This passionate and controversial book is the work of one of America's most outspoken and talented new journalists. William Rivers Pitt's caustic critique of the last four years of American government gives voice to the growing tide of dissent and outrage with America's leaders both inside the country and in the wider world. Burning with anger, this incisive and readable book argues that, under George W. Bush, America makes a mockery of the...

The Pre-Emptive Empire: A Guide to Bush's Kingdom

• ISBN:
• 0745321402
• Authors:
• Saul Landau

Saul Landau is an internationally known scholar, author, journalist, poet and activist. An Emmy-award-winning film maker, he does frequent radio and TV shows, and his work on human rights and Latin America have won him acclaim the world over. This, his latest book, is a scathing account of George W. Bush's world before and after the 9/11 terrorist attacks that will appeal to anyone who is disenchanted with the cynicism of Bush's government, and...

The Road To Al-Qaeda: The Story of Bin Laden's Right-Hand Man (Critical Studies on Islam)

• ISBN:
• 0745321763
• Authors:
• Montasser al-Zayyat, Ahmed Fekry, Sara Nimis

The Road to Al-Qaeda is a controversial book. Written by an Egyptian human rights lawyer, it is the first English-language account of the development of tensions between violent and non-violent factions in radical Islamist movements, from the perspective of an insider. It is also a biography of one of the world's most-wanted terrorists: Egyptian-born Dr Ayman al-Zawahiri. Widely recognized as the man who will take over the leadership of Al-Qaeda...

The River of Angry Dogs: A Memoir

• ISBN:
• 0745322336
• Authors:
• Mira Hamermesh

"An extraordinary book, an extraordinary, frightening life. To be Polish without nation, Jewish without family, hunted down in a land at war - and to be a genius in the making - well, it's not the normal teenager's life. Mira Hamermesh sees past and present with a film-maker's flawless eye, in this shattering written memorial to those she loved and lost." -- Fay Weldon, Introduction Mira Hamermesh is an award-winning filmmaker, painter and...

Failing Peace: Gaza and athe Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

• ISBN:
• 0745322352
• Authors:
• Sara Roy

This book is the culmination of 20 years of research, fieldwork and analysis on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the impact of Israeli occupation. Discussion of Israeli policy toward Palestinians is often regarded as a taboo subject, with the result that few people -- especially in the U.S. -- understand the origins and consequences of the conflict. Roy's book provides an indispensable context for understanding why the situation remains so...

U.S. Foreign Policy in the Middle East: The Role of Lobbies and Special Interest Groups

• ISBN:
• 0745322581
• Authors:
• Janice Terry

Millions of dollars are spent every year by companies and special interest groups attempting to influence government policy. They work behind the scenes, lobbying politicians to represent their interests. From tobacco companies, to energy companies, from anti-abortion campaigners to civil rights campaigners, the list is vast. And nowhere is their influence more keenly felt than on the issue of the Middle East.Israel is America's key ally in the...

Occupied Minds: A Journey Through the Israeli Psyche

• ISBN:
• 0745323669
• Authors:
• Arthur Neslen

Israel's founders sought to create a nation of new Jews who would never again go meekly to the death camps. Yet Israel's strength has become synonymous with an oppression of the Palestinians that provokes anger throughout the Muslim world and beyond. How are Israelis able to see themselves as victims while victimising others? What does Israeli Jewish identity mean today? Arthur Neslen explores the dynamics, distortions and incredible diversity...

Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State

• ISBN:
• 0745325564
• Authors:
• Jonathan Cook

What does Israel hope to achieve with its recent withdrawal from Gaza and the building of a 700km wall around the West Bank? Jonathan Cook, who has reported on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during the Second Intifada, presents a lucid account of the Jewish state's motives. The heart of the issue, he argues, is demography. Israel fears the moment when the region’s Palestinians – Israel's own Palestinian citizens and those in the Occupied...

Israel and Palestine: Competing Histories

• ISBN:
• 0745325661
• Authors:
• Mike (Glasgow University Media Group) Berry, Greg Philo

-- Ideal for anyone approaching the subject for the first time this is the most accurate, accessible and up-to-date account available -- Following on from their acclaimed book Bad News from Israel, Greg Philo and Mike Berry present a concise guide to the Israel-Palestine conflict. This uniquely accessible book will appeal to anyone looking for an approachable introduction. Uniquely, the authors show how there are many different, competing...

Overcoming Zionism: Creating a Single Democratic State in Israel/Palestine

• ISBN:
• 0745325696
• Authors:
• Joel Kovel

A call to transform Israel into a secular democracy by a leading writer -- This book is absolutely fundamental for those who reject the unfortunate confusion between Jews, Judaism, Zionism and the State of Israel -- a confusion which is the basis for systematic manipulation by the imperialist power system. It convincingly argues in favour of a single secular state for Israelis and Palestinians as the only democratic solution for the region....

The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution

• ISBN:
• 0745327818
• Authors:
• Mobo Gao

Mao and his policies have long been demonized in the West, with the Cultural Revolution considered a fundamental violation of human rights. As China embraces capitalism, the Mao era is being denigrated by the Chinese political and intellectual elite. This book tackles the extremely negative depiction of China under Mao in recent publications and argues that most people in China, including the rural poor and the urban working class, actually...

The Bases of Empire: The Global Struggle against US Military Posts (Transnational Institute)

• ISBN:
• 0745328334
• Authors:
• Catherine A. Lutz

This book examines US military bases across the globe including those in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. It documents the massive political, economic and environmental impacts that these outposts have and studies the movements and campaigns against them.US Military bases form a huge global system but are poorly understood by those not directly involved in their operation. The Pentagon is currently relocating many bases to fit with the...

The Bombers Command Handbook 1939-1945 (Military Handbook)

• ISBN:
• 075093171X
• Authors:
• Jonathan Falconer

Night after night through six long years of war, RAF Bomber Commands squadrons pounded away at the cities of Nazi Germany in a determined effort to bring the Third Reich to its knees. Pitted against Bomber Harris's aircrews and aircraft were some of the most effective and deadly defenses the world has ever seen. For Bomber Command to launch a 'maximum effort' raid on the Ruhr by night, or a low-level strike on an enemy target in occupied Europe...

The Dam Busters Story (The Story)

• ISBN:
• 0750947586
• Authors:
• Jonathan Falconer

The raid on the great dams of western Germany by Lancaster bombers of 617 Squadron in May 1943 is one of the best known, most widely told stories of the Second World War. Led by Wing Commander Guy Gibson, each Lancaster in the nineteen-strong force was equipped with the revolutionary bouncing bomb designed by the inventor Barnes Wallis. Two of the three main dams were breached and the unleashed floodwaters inundated the Ruhr valley below,...

World War II (Eyewitness Guides)

• ISBN:
• 0751328766
• Authors:
• Simon Adams

This resource intended both for project work and for school libraries supports the National Curriculum History Key Stage 2. The integration of words and pictures enables readers of different abilities to access information about the most important battles and events of World War II.

Wild West (Eyewitness Guides)

• ISBN:
• 0751335894
• Authors:
• Stuart Murray

Part of the "Eyewitness guides" series, this illustrated text explores the legends of the rough-and-tumble American West. Readers can see a real cowboy cook wagon, discover how the American West was won, how miners panned for gold, and what really happened at the OK Corral.

Pirate (Eyewitness Guides)

• ISBN:
• 0751347493
• Authors:
• Richard Platt

Be an eyewitness to pirates and their world from their skillful navigation techniques to their bloodthirsty battles.

The Quest for the Invisible

• ISBN:
• 0754661504
• Authors:
• Marc J. Ratcliff

The eighteenth century has often been viewed as a period of relative decline in the field of microscopy, as interest in microscopes seemed to wane after an intense period of discovery in the seventeenth century. As such, developments in the field during the Enlightenment have been largely overlooked. This study therefore fills a considerable gap in the study of this life science, providing a thorough analysis of what the main concerns of the...

Car Troubles (Transport and Society)

• ISBN:
• 0754677729
• Authors:
• Jim Conley, Arlene Tigar McLaren

Bringing together an international and multi-disciplinary team of leading transportation scholars, this book's central premise is that the car as the dominant mode of travel needs to be problematised. It examines a wide range of issues that are central to automobility by situating it within social, economic, and political contexts, and by combining social theory, specific case studies and policy-oriented analysis. With contributors primarily...

Castle (DK Eyewitness Books)

• ISBN:
• 0756637694
• Authors:
• Christopher Gravett

The most trusted nonfiction series on the market, Eyewitness Books provide an in-depth, comprehensive look at their subjects with a unique integration of words and pictures. DK's classic look at the history and structure of castles, now reissued with a CD and wall chart!

Berlin 1945: The Final Reckoning

• ISBN:
• 0760312400
• Authors:
• Karl Bahm

A comprehensive history of the last battle of Nazi Germany, this book begins with a study of the background to the battle and a description of events.

FDR's Folly: How Roosevelt and His New Deal Prolonged the Great Depression

• ISBN:
• 0761501657
• Authors:
• Jim Powell

“Admirers of FDR credit his New Deal with restoring the American economy after the disastrous contraction of 1929—33. Truth to tell–as Powell demonstrates without a shadow of a doubt–the New Deal hampered recovery from the contraction, prolonged and added to unemployment, and set the stage for ever more intrusive and costly government. Powell’s analysis is thoroughly documented, relying on an impressive variety of popular and academic...

Dead Space: Prima Official Game Guide (Prima Official Game Guides)

• ISBN:
• 0761559876
• Authors:
• Fernando Bueno

• Walkthrough: Extensive step-by-step walkthrough for all 12 levels. • Maps: Detailed maps pinpointing points of interest and equipment pickups. •Tactics: Learn to master your alternate powers like Kinesis and Stasis, as well as the strengths and weaknesses of all enemies and weapons and how you can exploit them. • Achievements and Trophies: Complete list of all Xbox 360 Achievements and PlayStation 3 Trophies!

State Service in Sixteenth Century Novgorod: The First Century of the Pomestie System

• ISBN:
• 076184385X
• Authors:
• Vincent E. Hammond

Panzertruppen 2: The Complete Guide to the Creation & Combat Employment of Germany's Tank Force ¥ 1943-1945/Formations ¥ Organizations ¥ Tactics Combat Reports ¥ Unit Strengths ¥ Statistics

• ISBN:
• 0764300806
• Authors:
• Thomas L. Jentz

This companion volume presents how the Panzertruppen fought during their defensive struggle with details on the units, organizations, types of Panzers, and tactics.

Secret Wonder Weapons of the Third Reich: German Missiles 1934-1945

• ISBN:
• 0764300865
• Authors:
• Justo Miranda, Paula Mercado

This new book covers the great variety of secret and largely unknown German missile programs: GUIDED MISSILES: Ruhrstahl/Kramer X1 ""Fritz-X"", Henschel Hs 293, Hs 294, Hs 295 and Henschel ""Zitterrochen"", Blohm und Voss Bv 226, Bv 246 ""Hagelkorn"" and Lippis

Aircraft of the Chaco War 1928-1935

• ISBN:
• 0764301462
• Authors:
• Antonio L. Sapienza, Dan Hagedorn

More than 150 never before published illustrations, complimented by an exhaustively researched text, document the little-known air war between Bolivia and Paraguay during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Full details of such aircraft as Fiat C.R. 20s, Curtiss Hawk IIs, Curtiss Ospreys, Potez 25s and all other types employed by both combatants, including acquisition, operations, and markings make this a must for historians, modelers, and anyone...

Blohm & Voss Bv 138 (Schiffer Military History)

• ISBN:
• 0764302965
• Authors:
• Heinz J. Nowarra, Don Cox

Covers the design and deployment of the Bv 138 in the Luftwaffe during WWII.

Junkers Ju 290, Ju 390 Etc. (Schiffer Military History)

• ISBN:
• 0764302973
• Authors:
• Heinz J. Nowarra

Covers the various models of the Junkers Ju 290 and its counterparts.

Fieseler Fi 156 Storch: (Schiffer Military History)