W. Caleb McDaniel, Alexander X. Byrd, Ruth J. Simmons
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807184424)
During the first quarter of the twenty-first century, more than one hundred institutions of higher education in the United States launched projects to study and share their histories concerning slavery, segregation, and racial injustice. Slavery, Se...Loe edasi...
This book presents a critical history of Yugoslav socialist economics, from its inception in the late 1940s to its dissolution in the late 1980s....Loe edasi...
Lessons and inspiration from a lifetime of teaching about race and ethnic relationsWhen Al Camarillo grew up in Compton, California, racial segregation was the rule. His relatives were among the first Mexican immigrants to settle the...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 existing on the margins of the German religious landscape while sol...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 today’s rush to stockpile nuclear weapons. The nuclear age came into existence with the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico des...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...
New York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman turns his sharp eye and meticulous storytelling to one of pop culture’s most enduring and enigmatic figures—Tupac Shakur—presenting the definitive retelling of his life, complete wit...Loe edasi...
New York Times bestselling author Jeff Pearlman turns his sharp eye and meticulous storytelling to one of pop culture’s most enduring and enigmatic figures—Tupac Shakur—presenting the definitive retelling of his life, complete wit...Loe edasi...
The fascinating untold story of one scientist’s pursuit of a legendary surfer in his quest to define human nature, written with the compelling drama and narrative insight of Why Fish Don’t Exist and The Lost City of Z. ...Loe edasi...
The fascinating untold story of one scientist’s pursuit of a legendary surfer in his quest to define human nature, written with the compelling drama and narrative insight of Why Fish Don’t Exist and The Lost City of Z. ...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...
