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Dialogue with Death

Arthur Koestler

• Paperback | Engels
• In 1937 during the Spanish Civil War, Arthur Koestler, a German exile writing for a British newspaper, was arrested by Nationalist forces in Málaga. H... Lees meer

The Dictionary of Nineteenth-Century British Scientists

• Hardcover | Engels
• Containing more than 1,200 new entries on both major and minor figures of British science, this four-volume dictionary examines how the theories and p... Lees meer

Venusberg

Anthony Powell

• Paperback | Engels
• Written from a vantage point both high and deliberately narrow, the early novels of the late British master Anthony Powell nevertheless deal in the un... Lees meer

Vivaldi

H C Robbins Landon

• Paperback | Engels
• Vivaldi boasted that he could compose a concerto faster than a scribe could copy one. Despite his prolificacy, The Four Seasons , and the majority of ... Lees meer

Perspectives on Trade and Development

Anne O Krueger

• Hardcover | Engels
• Developing countries typically have wage rates that are a small fraction of those in developed countries. Trade theories traditionally attributed this... Lees meer

The Illusion of Cultural Identity

Jean-François Bayart

• Paperback | Engels
• The concept of cultural identity has become for many a convenient explanation for most of the world's political problems. In The Illusion of Cultural ... Lees meer

Sexology Uncensored

• Paperback | Engels
• Sexology Uncensored brings together, for the first time, many of the key documents of the modern science of sexuality that emerged in the late ninetee... Lees meer

The Open Mind

Jamie Cohen-Cole

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Open Mind chronicles the development and promulgation of a scientific vision of the rational, creative, and autonomous self, demonstrating how thi... Lees meer

Earth's Deep History

Martin J S Rudwick

• Hardcover | Engels
• Earth has been witness to mammoths and dinosaurs, global ice ages, continents colliding or splitting apart, and comets and asteroids crashing catastro... Lees meer

Chicago's Block Clubs

Amanda I Seligman

• Hardcover | Engels | Historical Studies of Urban America
• What do you do if your alley is strewn with garbage after the sanitation truck comes through? Or if you're tired of the rowdy teenagers next door keep... Lees meer

Court, Cloister, and City

Thomas Dacosta Kaufmann

• Hardcover | Engels
• The collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe opened the doors to cultural treasures that for decades had been hidden, forgotten, or misinte... Lees meer

Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods

Sarah Thal

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
• When people create new societies, economies, and nations--both now and in the past--they create gods, rituals, and miracles to support them. Even what... Lees meer

All the Rage

Suzanna Danuta Walters

• Hardcover | Engels
• From the public outing of Ellen DeGeneres to the murder of Matthew Shepard, gay lives and images have moved onto the centre stage of American public l... Lees meer

Threads of Life

Richard Freadman

• Hardcover | Engels
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History's Shadow

Steven Conn

• Paperback | Engels
• Who were the Native Americans? Where did they come from and how long ago? Did they have a history, and would they have a future? Questions such as the... Lees meer

Executing Freedom

Daniel LaChance

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the mid-1990s, as public trust in big government was near an all-time low, 80% of Americans told Gallup that they supported the death penalty. Why ... Lees meer

The Black Child-Savers

Geoff K Ward

• Hardcover | Engels
• During the Progressive Era, a rehabilitative agenda took hold of American juvenile justice, materializing as a citizen-and-state-building project and ... Lees meer

Theory of Neutron Star Magnetospheres

F Curtis Michel

• Paperback | Engels | Theoretical Astrophysics
• An incomparable reference for astrophysicists studying pulsars and other kinds of neutron stars, Theory of Neutron Star Magnetospheres sums up two dec... Lees meer

Love Stories

Jonathan Ned Katz

• Paperback | Engels
• In Love Stories , Jonathan Ned Katz presents stories of men's intimacies with men during the nineteenth century--including those of Abraham Lincoln--d... Lees meer

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

John Richardson

• Paperback | Engels
• The Sorcerer's Apprentice is John Richardson's vivid memoir of the time he spent living with and learning from the deeply knowledgeable and temperamen... Lees meer

Picturing a Colonial Past

• Hardcover | Engels
• This volume presents for the first time the selected photographs of the renowned British anthropologist Isaac Schapera (1905-2003). Taken between 1929... Lees meer

The Thinking Student's Guide to College

Andrew Roberts

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Guides to Academic Life
• Each fall, thousands of eager freshmen descend on college and university campuses expecting the best education imaginable: inspiring classes taught by... Lees meer

How to Study

Arthur W Kornhauser

• Hardcover | Engels | Chicago Guides to Academic Life
• A complete guide for successful studying, How to Study is concise, practical, time-tested, and free of gimmicks. Designed originally for freshmen at t... Lees meer

A Nation of Speechifiers

Carolyn Eastman

• Hardcover | Engels
• In the decades after the American Revolution, inhabitants of the United States began to shape a new national identity. Telling the story of this messy... Lees meer