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Amira Jarmakani - Imagining Arab Womanhood.jpgWinner of the 2008 National Women's Studies Association Gloria Anzaldúa prize!Imagining Arab Womanhood examines orientalist images of Arab womanhood in the United States since the turn of the twentieth century, exploring, in particular, representations of belly ...
Cameron H. Lacquement - Architectural Variability in the Southeast (2007).jpg
Some of the most visible expressions of human culture are illustrated architecturally. Unfortunately for archaeologists, the architecture being studied is not always visible and must be inferred from soil inconsistencies or charred remains. This study deals with ...
H. John Poole - Phantom Soldier.jpg
Phantom Soldier: The Enemy’s Answer to U.S. Firepower may be the best treatise on Oriental warfare ever produced in the West. Well researched and illustrated, it sheds new light on what an Eastern infantry unit can do in combat: (1) alternate between guerrilla, mobile, ...
Randall Mason - The Once and Future New York.jpg
In the popular imagination, the controversial 1963 demolition of Pennsylvania Station gave birth to New York City’s historic preservation movement. As Randall Mason reveals, however, historic preservation has been a persistent force in the development of New York ...
Zbigniew Brzezinski - Second Chance.jpg
Review "Brzezinski has described the challenge of future American leadership with unusual clarity." -- Washington Post. 3/14/07 "[C]ompelling... Brzezinski's verdict on the current president's record -- "catastrophic," he calls it -- is nothing short of ...
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I think the set overreaches in that it tries to cover too much material in three volumes. I think that compressive coverage of narrower focus would have been better than shorting really important political issues such as the potential for manipulation of the bacterial and ...
G.J. Barker-Benfield - The Horrors of the Half-Known Life.jpg
With an updated introduction, the revolutionary book that changed our understanding of the history of gender in America is now back in print. Controversial and considered ahead of its time, The Horrors of the Half-Known Life is a startling portrait of male attitudes toward ...
Robert J. Miller - Native America.jpg
Manifest Destiny, as a term for westward expansion, was not used until the 1840s. Its predecessor was the Doctrine of Discovery, a legal tradition by which Europeans and Americans laid legal claim to the land of the indigenous people that they "discovered." Thus the ...
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The morality of sex, violence and money is at the centre of much human life. While the first two have been subject to intensive historical and philosophical investigation, the latter has largely been neglected. The authors provide the first comprehensive introduction to ...
Bernard Lown M.D. - Prescription for Survival.jpg
In Prescription for Survival, physician Bernard Lown tells the extraordinary story of how a group of Soviet and American doctors came together to stop nuclear proliferation and ended up winning the Nobel Peace Prize and influencing the course of history. In 1981, Lown and a ...
Stephen V. Arbogast - Resisting Corporate Corruption.jpg
As scandals at Enron, WorldCom, and elsewhere became public, American business schools came under attack for inadequate ethical formation of the country's up-and-coming managers. A less obvious but related problem has been the lack of realistic ethical training ...
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In the summer of 1862, the U.S. Army court martialed Colonel John B. Turchin, a Russian-born Union officer, for "outrages" committed by his troops in Athens, Alabama. By modern standards, the outrages were minor: stores looted, safes cracked, and homes vandalized. There ...
Robert Malcomson - Historical Dictionary of the War of 1812 (2006).jpg
Covers the period leading up to the war (1803-1812) and the events of the war itself (1812-1815), the chronology lays out the war. The dictionary includes more than 1,400 dictionary entries covering descriptions of engagements, explanations of weaponry, the ...
Trudy Eden - Cooking in America.jpg
There are no recipes for what the Indians ate in Colonial times, but this cookbook uses period quotations to detail what and how the foodstuffs were prepared. The bulk of the cookbook is devoted to what the European immigrants cooked and what evolved into American cooking. ...
Andrew J. Rotter - Hiroshima.jpg
The US decision to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima remains one of the most controversial events of the twentieth century. But as this fascinating new history shows, the bomb dropped by an American pilot that hot August morning was in many ways the world's bomb, in both a ...
Leonardo Maugeri - The Age of Oil.jpg
Oil is the most vital resource of our time. Because it is so important, misperceptions about the black gold abound. Leonardo Maugeri clears the cobwebs by describing the colorful history of oil, and explaining the fundamentals of oil production. He delivers a unique, ...
Martha S. Hewson - Stonewall Jackson.jpg
This well-written story of Harriet Beecher Stowe is hard to put down. Details of her childhood, marriage, children, and writing career are thoroughly covered...This biography would be an asset to any study of the Civil War or slavery. Students who enjoy history will ...
Thirteen Colonies - Craig A. Doherty.jpg
In an engaging narrative style, South Carolina thoroughly examines life in the early colony, including such details as the Yamasee War, pirate attacks, slavery, and the effect of such crops as indigo and rice. An entire chapter focuses on the numerous American Indian ...
Steve Nicholls - Paradise Found.jpg
This well documented book traces American natural history from the time of Jamestown (sometimes regressing to earlier times) into the present. If you would like to read history from the perspective of the American Indian, Jesuit priest explorers and all the fauna and flora ...
Thirteen Colonies - Craig A. Doherty.jpg
To understand how the United States came together as a nation, students must first acquaint themselves with the original 13 colonies - and how each of these colonies followed its own path to the ratification of the Constitution. "The Thirteen Colonies" set conveys the ...
Frances Negrón-Muntaner - Boricua Pop.jpg
Boricua Pop is the first book solely devoted to Puerto Rican visibility, cultural impact, and identity formation in the U.S. and at home. Frances Negrón-Muntaner explores everything from the beloved American musical West Side Story to the phenomenon of singer/actress/ ...
Arnold Krammer - Prisoners of War.jpg
The fate of war prisoners through history has been cruel and haphazard. The lives of captives hung by a thread. Execution, enslavement, torture, or being held for ransom were equally likely. International agreements developed haltingly through the 19th and 20th ...
American Political Leaders 1789-2005 (2005).jpg
Newly updated, this guide contains biographical information on approximately 9,000 of the most important US elected and appointed leaders. Organized for quick, easy reference, this is a guide for researchers, students, or anyone who needs names, dates, and other basic ...
David W. reed - The Battle of Shiloh and the Organizations Engaged (2008).jpg
The inquiry I most often received as a park ranger was if I had ever seen a ghost at Shiloh. I always said no. Working at the park for years and actuallyliving on the battlefield a good part of that period have convinced me there are no ghosts at Shiloh. Work-related tasks took me ...
Gerald F Linderman - Embattled Courage.jpg
Linderman, history professor at the University of Michigan, describes the unreasonably high standards of morality prevalent in the nation at the start of the Civil War, citing for example a letter from General Custer assuring his wife that he has "not uttered a single oath, ...
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Just as education has promoted democracy and economic growth, the Internet has the potential to benefit society as a whole. Digital citizenship, or the ability to participate in society online, promotes social inclusion. But statistics show that significant segments of ...