A bestselling historian takes readers on an intellectual and cultural adventure, offering a carefully curated guide to great, short nonfiction works by some of the world’s most influential writers—from Plato to Toni Morrison, Ernest Hemingway to b...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822948612)
Sanitizing Moscow presents an environmental history of public health reforms in late imperial Moscow between 1870 and 1917. It explores the relationship between Russias urban modernization and the more-than-human environment in the context of the ma...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822948803)
Rehabilitate Marx! conceptualizes new forms of socialist modernity during the post-Stalinist era, in the second half of the 1950s and 1960s. After the demise of Stalinism, Czechoslovak intellectuals within the Communist Party realized that the prima...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953878)
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedomGrievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their person...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Virginia Press, ISBN-13: 9780813953885)
How abolitionists persuaded people of their personal complicity with slavery to advance the cause of freedomGrievous Entanglement explores the most common way that people in the Atlantic world came to understand their person...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...
The epic, “fascinating” (Wall Street Journal)?story of the planet’s oldest trees and the making of the modern world Humans have always revered long-lived trees. But as historian Jared Farmer reveals in Elderflora, our ven...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of California Press, ISBN-13: 9780520424708)
A chilling global history of the human shield phenomenon. From Syrian civilians locked in iron cages to veterans joining peaceful indigenous water protectors at the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation, from Sri Lanka to Iraq and from Yemen...Loe edasi...
In this magisterial book, historian Sunil Amrith twins the stories of environment and Empire, of genocide and eco-cide, of an extraordinary expansion of human freedom and its planetary costs. Drawing on an extraordinarily rich diversity of primary so...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Pennsylvania Press, ISBN-13: 9781512827385)
The third volume of the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia situates the region in the wider world. Exploring the immigrants who peopled the Delaware Valley, the faiths they practiced, the environment they shaped, the wars they waged, and the globa...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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Random House Large Print, ISBN-13: 9798217287925)
One of the world’s most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body takes his ultimate journey—into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer....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...
This book examines how the Iberian empires of the early modern period were structured around population control, segregation, and racial policies rather than nation-state characteristics....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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822967743)
Rehabilitate Marx! conceptualizes new forms of socialist modernity during the post-Stalinist era, in the second half of the 1950s and 1960s. After the demise of Stalinism, Czechoslovak intellectuals within the Communist Party realized that the prima...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Oct-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Pittsburgh Press, ISBN-13: 9780822967729)
Sanitizing Moscow presents an environmental history of public health reforms in late imperial Moscow between 1870 and 1917. It explores the relationship between Russias urban modernization and the more-than-human environment in the context of the ma...Loe edasi...
