Lessons and inspiration from a lifetime of teaching about race and ethnic relations When Al Camarillo grew up in Compton, California, racial segregation was the rule. His relatives were among the first Mexican immigrants to settle therein...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241582862)
Few historians write with Serhii Plokhys authority, clarity or global vision... Essential reading, and a marvellous book From the bestselling author of Chernobyl comes a sweeping history of the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race,...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Grand Central Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781538770689)
Tony Cornell spent his life probing the very edges of reality and paranormal activity. A member of the UK’s Society for Psychical Research (SPR) from the post-war era to the dawn of the 21st century, Cornell’s role as an investigator of so-called “sp...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526181954)
Centring on a 1927 libel trial, this book tells the story of the cosmopolitan London neighbourhood of Seven Dials and its battles with racism and gentrification throughout the 1920s and 1930s, a struggle that would shape the city we know today. -- ....Loe edasi...
From a top scholar of World War II, the definitive history of Germany’s U-boat campaign that challenged British naval supremacy and brought international trade to its knees Winston Churchill once remarked that the only threat to truly...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: St Martin's Press, ISBN-13: 9781250374479)
The true story of the deadliest submarine in World War II and the courageous captain who survived torture and imprisonment at the hands of the enemy. There was one submarine that outfought all other boats in the Silent Service in Wo...Loe edasi...
Sari: George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Wisconsin Press, ISBN-13: 9780299353902)
Ever since the Salvation Army, a British Protestant social welfare organization, arrived in Germany in 1886, it has navigated overlapping national and international identities. After decades of existing on the margins of the German religious landsca...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: The Penguin Press, ISBN-13: 9780593657386)
A major new history that transforms our understanding of World War II—tracing the conflict and its most infamous crime, the Holocaust, to Germany’s implacable hostility towards Soviet RussiaIn the West, World War II is commonly underst...Loe edasi...
A sweeping history of the geopolitics behind the nuclear arms race, from the first atomic bomb to todays rush to stockpile nuclear weapons....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487552916)
Set against the shattered landscape of post-war Berlin, Death in the Rubble follows a nurse battling addiction who murders her victims to buy gifts for her lover a married police detective....Loe edasi...
The artistic, cultural, and institutional exchanges between West and East Germany and the United States during the Cold War. Throughout the Cold War era, a sustained and intense dialogue developed between both the West and East German and...Loe edasi...
Reading Faces is the first book to discuss the historical contexts and theoretical underpinnings of the artificial intelligence systems (AIs) that identify individuals, or purport to ascribe emotions and characteristics to them based on the...Loe edasi...
Reading Faces is the first book to discuss the historical contexts and theoretical underpinnings of the artificial intelligence systems (AIs) that identify individuals, or purport to ascribe emotions and characteristics to them based on the...Loe edasi...
Sari: De Gruyter Series in Holocaust Studies and Antisemitism
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter, ISBN-13: 9783111580029)
Holocaust monuments in Central Europe, especially in todays Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, and Germany, have received surprisingly little academic attention. Yet these sites of memory offer deep insight into the individual, collective and cultural...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487557119)
Queerness remains one of the most stigmatized and overlooked aspects of Holocaust history, often erased due to the lingering homophobia of survivors. People Without History Are Dust challenges this silence, weaving together compelling storie...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781487557102)
Queerness remains one of the most stigmatized and overlooked aspects of Holocaust history, often erased due to the lingering homophobia of survivors. People Without History Are Dust challenges this silence, weaving together compelling storie...Loe edasi...
This volume delves into the colonial past and identifies papers on nature and natural phenomenon that were deemed ‘primitive’ and ‘superstitious’ by those who narrated them and analyzed them in the pages of the Journal of the Anthropological Socie...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: BBC Books, ISBN-13: 9781785949807)
Accompanying the 4-part documentary series from multi-award-winning filmmaker, James Bluemel. Its been 63 years since Yuri Gagarin became the first human to ever go into space. Since then, only 676 people have followed him up there. But n...Loe edasi...
This is an examination of fascism from its fin-de-siecle origins to the the re-emergence of fascist ideas in recent times. Historiographical discussions, illustrations, biographical textboxes and maps are interwoven into the text, while a valuable c...Loe edasi...
A narrative history of fascism from its origins to the present which foregrounds the importance of the authoritarian, charismatic figures who have led these political cults....Loe edasi...
Magnificent ROBERT MACFARLANE Discover the many lives of Peter Matthiessen writer, naturalist, activist, CIA agent, Zen master in this kaleidoscopic biography of an American literary giant. Author of The Snow Leopard, co-fou...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: John Donald Publishers Ltd, ISBN-13: 9780859767415)
The Battle of George Square, a riot during the Forty Hours Strike in Glasgow, on 31 January 1919, is routinely claimed to be one of the most iconic events in Scottish working-class history. It is also the most mythologised. For a century, the narrati...Loe edasi...
A detailed and richly illustrated operational history of the highly classified, joint-service special operations command of the United States during the Vietnam War. The Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (M...Loe edasi...
In June 1967 Israel, which seemed on the verge of being annihilated by its Arab neighbors, took six days to redraw the Middle Eastern strategic map in one of the most dramatic reversals of fortune in modern times.The success was almost a decade in th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198853992)
The history of the twentieth century in Italy is marked by industrial unrest. And yet, our knowledge of the cultures that informed those protests and, equally important, of the forms they took is still limited, leaving important questions unanswered...Loe edasi...
A feast of colorful artwork adorns the walls of a Second World War-era officers club in the North Atlantic city of St. Johns -- cartoons painted onto ship gun shields that convey stories of courage and cowardice, resolve and resilience, triumph...Loe edasi...
A Great Storm Arising first examines the broad context in which the German offensive was undertaken in 1918 in terms of political, economic, diplomatic and militaristic considerations. The book then assesses the morale of the British troops during th...Loe edasi...
As industrialization began to evolve in the early nineteenth century, engineers were urgently needed to integrate science into the field of construction. They needed to learn how to innovate and understand the new materialiron. Industrializing Iron...Loe edasi...
As industrialization began to evolve in the early nineteenth century, engineers were urgently needed to integrate science into the field of construction. They needed to learn how to innovate and understand the new materialiron. Industrializing Iron...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Oklahoma Press, ISBN-13: 9780806196077)
In the mid-1920s, the heyday of silent film, the epic Western swept Hollywood and the nation. Movie moguls sought to add gravitas to their output with the productions—films they argued offered American audiences authentic history and lessons in citiz...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Notre Dame Press, ISBN-13: 9780268209827)
Marie-Dominique Chenu demonstrates how this once condemned theologian influenced the major shifts of twentieth-century Catholicism and reveals the relevance of his thought for contemporary theology.In 1942, historian...Loe edasi...
From its pre-war inception and difficult gestation as a high-speed bomber to its adaptation as a night fighter, torpedo bomber and reconnaissance platform, the Junkers Ju 88 was one of the most versatile and widely used aircraft of World War II. Junk...Loe edasi...
Sari: Schriften des Bundesinstituts für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, ISBN-13: 9783110597165)
The conference volume should raise the awareness for the promotion of national minorities among agents, institutions as well as to an interested public. It sheds light on state policies regarding national minorities with a multilateral, multidisc...Loe edasi...
Now a TV series on FOX starring Morris Chestnut, Yaya DaCosta, Nadine Ellis, and Joe Morton.“Fascinating. . . . ( Graham) has made a major contribution both to African-American studies and the larger American picture...Loe edasi...
Now a TV series on FOX starring Morris Chestnut, Yaya DaCosta, Nadine Ellis, and Joe Morton.“Fascinating. . . . ( Graham) has made a major contribution both to African-American studies and the larger American picture...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241479414)
From the bestselling author of Too Big to Fail, the definitive history of the 2008 banking crisis,* comes a spellbinding narrative of the most infamous stock market crash in history. With the depth of a classic history and the drama of a thriller, 1...Loe edasi...
