Seizing Jerusalem

Alona Nitzan-Shiftan

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• After seizing Jerusalem's eastern precincts from Jordan at the conclusion of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel unilaterally unified the city and plunged... Lees meer

Lifeblood

Matthew T Huber

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• If our oil addiction is so bad for us, why don't we kick the habit? Looking beyond the usual culprits--Big Oil, petro-states, and the strategists of e... Lees meer

The Tourist State

Margaret Werry

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• No longer the dreary sheep farm at the end of the world, the New Zealand of the new millennium is a hot global ticket, heralded for its bicultural dyn... Lees meer

Zoo Renewal

Lisa Uddin

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• Why do we feel bad at the zoo? In a fascinating counterhistory of American zoos in the 1960s and 1970s, Lisa Uddin revisits the familiar narrative of ... Lees meer

Removing Mountains

Rebecca R Scott

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• A coal mining technique practiced in southern West Virginia known as mountaintop removal is drastically altering the terrain of the Appalachian Mounta... Lees meer

Rebirth of the Clinic

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• From physical location to payment processes to expectations of both patients and caregivers, nearly everything surrounding the contemporary medical cl... Lees meer

Spectacular Mexico

Luis M Castañeda

• Paperback | Engels | Quadrant Book
• In the wake of its early twentieth-century civil wars, Mexico strove to present itself to the world as unified and prosperous. The preparation in Mexi... Lees meer