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A Little History of the United States

James West Davidson

• Paperback | Engels | Little Histories
• A character-filled history that brings the American saga to life The United States is one of the most powerful countries in the world. This is the rem... Lees meer

The Stories Old Towns Tell

Marek Kohn

• Paperback | Engels
• A fascinating journey through Europe’s old towns, exploring why we treasure them—but also what they hide about a continent’s fraught history Lees meer

A Little History of Art

Charlotte Mullins

• Paperback | Engels | Little Histories
• A thrilling journey through 100,000 years of art, from the first artworks ever made to art's central role in culture today Art can help us see the wor... Lees meer

Stalin's War with Germany

John Erickson

• Paperback | Engels | Road to Berlin | nr. 2
• Completing the most comprehensive and authoritative study ever written of the Soviet-German war, John Erickson in this volume tells the vivid and comp... Lees meer

The Crown Jewels

Nigel West, Oleg Tsarev

• Hardcover | Engels
• This lively account of Soviet foreign intelligence activity in Great Britain during the Cold War is based on documents newly released from the KGB arc... Lees meer

The South China Sea

Bill Hayton

• Hardcover
• A discerning account of simmering conflict in the South China Sea and why the world can't afford to be indifferent Lees meer

Apocalypse as Holy War

Emma Wasserman

• Hardcover | Engels | Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library
• Prevailing theories of apocalypticism assert that in a world that rebels against God, a cataclysmic battle between good and evil is needed to reassert... Lees meer

Fruitlands

Richard Francis

• Paperback | Engels
• The fascinating story of Bronson Alcott's utopian experiment This is the first definitive account of Fruitlands, one of history's most unsuccessful--b... Lees meer

The Politics of Cultural Retreat

Iryna Vushko

• Hardcover | Engels
• An illuminating history of state-building, nationalism, and bureaucracy, this book tells the story of how an international cohort of Austrian official... Lees meer

Of Human Kindness

Paula Marantz Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels
• An award-winning scholar and teacher explores how Shakespeare's greatest characters were built on a learned sense of empathy "Thoughtful, astute, invi... Lees meer

Antony and Cleopatra

Adrian Goldsworthy

• Paperback | Engels
• From the prizewinning author of Caesar and How Rome Fell, a major new account of the charged love affair between Antony and Cleopatra, richly informed... Lees meer

It's a Jungle Up There

Margaret D Lowman, James Burgess, Edward Burgess, Ghillean T Prance

• Hardcover | Engels
• Drawn to the mysteries of tropical rain forests and fascinated by life in the treetops, Meg Lowman has pursued a life of scientific exploration while ... Lees meer

Power and Justice in Medieval England

Joshua C Tate

• Hardcover | Engels | Yale Law Library Legal History and Reference
• How the medieval right to appoint a parson helped give birth to English common law Appointing a parson to the local church following a vacancy--an "ad... Lees meer

Horace Pippin, American Modern

Anne Monahan

• Hardcover | Engels
• A nuanced reassessment that transforms our understanding of this self-taught artist Arguably the most successful African American artist of his day, H... Lees meer

Parties and Policies

David R Mayhew

• Paperback | Engels
• In this wide-ranging new volume, one of our most important and perceptive scholars of the workings of the American government investigates political p... Lees meer

The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Vol. 20

Benjamin Franklin

• Hardcover | Engels | Papers of Benjamin Franklin | nr. 20
• Franklin's activities in 1773 were as multifarious as ever, but behind them were two developments that closely affected his future. One was the growin... Lees meer

The Long Shadow of Default

David James Gill

• Hardcover | Engels
• Rethinking the causes and consequences of Britain's default on its First World War debts to the United States of America The Long Shadow of Default fo... Lees meer

Beginning Japanese

Eleanor Harz Jorden, Hamako Ito Chaplin

• Paperback | Engels | Yale Language
• Beginning Japanese (Parts I and II) contains thirty-five lessons, all of which have the same basic pattern and involve the same procedures. Each lesso... Lees meer

The Age of Guilt

Mark Edmundson

• Hardcover | Engels
• How Freud's concept of the super-ego can help us to understand the harsh cultural climate of the digital age Cancellation, scapegoating, raving on Twi... Lees meer

Picking Up the Pieces

Grace Jackson, Fayek Nakhla

• Paperback | Engels
• "The doctor says, You have to keep cutting yourself. Go on cutting yourself; you have to remain in touch with your body, with yourself, in whatever wa... Lees meer

In Adamless Eden

Patricia Ann Palmieri

• Paperback | Engels
• One of the most influential women's colleges in the country, Wellesley has educated many illustrious women, from Katharine Lee Bates--author of Americ... Lees meer

Stephen F. Austin

Gregg Cantrell

• Paperback | Engels | Lamar Series in Western History
• Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas," has long been enshrined in the public imagination as an authentic American hero, but one who was colorless a... Lees meer

Birth Power

Carmel Shalev

• Paperback | Engels
• "Carmel Shalev presents her argument for 'a free market in reproduction, ' for recognition of 'the reproducing woman as an autonomous moral and econom... Lees meer

Yale French Studies, Number 79

• Paperback | Engels | Yale French Studies | nr. 79
• The contributors to this issue--among them writers, philosophers, literary critics, and psychoanalysts--evaluate the relationship between ethics and l... Lees meer