In April 1986 a series of explosions shook the Chernobyl nuclear reactor. Flames lit up the sky and radiation escaped to contaminate the land and poison the people for years to come. While officials tried to hush up the accident, Svetlana Alexievich...Loe edasi...
From the international bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky, a sweeping oral history of the atomic bombs creation and deployment...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-May-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198939122)
Spanning a millennium from the 4th to the 14th century, this book explores the dynamic role of the R m ya a and the Mah bh rata in shaping the political and socio-cultural landscape of the Deccan. Drawing on a wealth of epigraphic evidence, especiall...Loe edasi...
Safeguarding collective wisdom is a powerful tool for civilization to overcome the major upheavals ahead.Climate change, civil unrest, wars: How will we make it through the tough times looming ahead of us? By remembering, Mary Soderstr...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 05-May-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Alberta Press, ISBN-13: 9781772128574)
I Can Do Anything presents an intimate and poignant portrayal of life in Palestine through the compelling oral history of Um Baseem Al Kafarneh, an Indigenous farmer from Beit Hanoun, Gaza. Born in the 1930s in historic Palestine, Um Base...Loe edasi...
This book offers new ways of understanding the past glory of the Majapahit empire from the present-day perspective through re-interpretations of the existing data, research of new data and findings, and syntheses of various results of previous stu...Loe edasi...
This book offers an in-depth study of Catholic sisters in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, covering the period 1968-2008 from the outbreak of conflict into the era of peace. It investigates the experiences of sisters as they negotiated a changin...Loe edasi...
Public History, Gender, and Power in Latin American Museums brings together pioneering voices of women curators, museum professionals, and community leaders who are transforming the cultural landscape of Latin America....Loe edasi...
Public History, Gender, and Power in Latin American Museums brings together pioneering voices of women curators, museum professionals, and community leaders who are transforming the cultural landscape of Latin America....Loe edasi...
A gripping, vividly told journey into a familys wartime past, from the bestselling author of The Ruin of All Witches Endearingly personal, honest and reflective invites you to rethink where memory ends and history begins Domi...Loe edasi...
A gripping, often irreverent exploration of the past, present, and future of archaeology in America.Archaeology has long captivated the American public, yet pop culture mythology often obscures the harsh realities, thrilling disc...Loe edasi...
This book is a collection of essays covering a wide range of issues related to tribes residing in the Aravalli ranges, traditional medicinal societies of Kashmir, wandering communities and the martial classes of Haryana and Punjab. The depiction of...Loe edasi...
Justin Bengry, Matt Cook, Rebecca Jennings, E-J Scott
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526165312)
A queer scrapbook assembles sources that highlight LGBTIQ+ histories from across the UK and Ireland since 1945, accompanied by commentaries and short essays. A beautifully illustrated compendium of LGBTIQ+ life.A queer scrap...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198958956)
Across different cities, countries, and continents, the womens liberation movement grew from the grassroots, beginning with small discussion groups in the late 1960s to thousands marching in the streets less than a decade later. Political positions...Loe edasi...
To see The Clash on the White Riot tour was like discovering how to be a rock star: you just did it yourself. You didnt wait for someone to come and discover you. That was the most important thing that came out of punk... We came home and we cut o...Loe edasi...
Sari: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231221566)
Based on interviews with dozens of musicians, I Hear Freedom tells the story of free jazz and its connection to the broader Black experience. Around the 1960s, a musical revolution took place in the industrial landscapes of Cleveland a...Loe edasi...
Sari: Black Lives in the Diaspora: Past / Present / Future
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231221573)
Around the 1960s, a musical revolution took place in the industrial landscapes of Cleveland and Detroit. Disenchanted with the strictures of bebop, musicians forged a new style—free jazz—that took inspiration from a vast range of sources, including f...Loe edasi...
Women Unsilenced: Hope, Freedom, and Music in Palestine explores how Palestinian women use music to express, protest, and celebrate their identities. Divided into two parts, the book is told through two different narrative styles. In Part 1...Loe edasi...
Women Unsilenced: Hope, Freedom, and Music in Palestine explores how Palestinian women use music to express, protest, and celebrate their identities. Women Unsilenced: Hope, Freedom, and Music in Palestine explo...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Mar-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: The History Press Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781837052158)
Previously undocumented testimonies telling stories of love, laughter, adventure and activism from the Greenham Common Womens Peace Camp....Loe edasi...
“We are a much-lectured people,” wrote Robert Spence Watson in 1897. Beginning at mid-century, cities and towns across England used the popular lecture for purposes ranging from serious education to effervescent entertainment and from regi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198970989)
Focusing on the case of Greece, this book examines the multilayered relationship between contemporary attitudes and the refugee past, exploring the 1922–24 memories and identities of forced displacement in the context of subsequent migration....Loe edasi...
Articulates the importance of oral traditions and symbolism as repositories of philosophical knowledge and reaffirms African systems of thought as philosophy. What defines a philosophical tradition? The primacy of the written text and i...Loe edasi...
What defines a philosophical tradition? The primacy of the written text and individual authorship are two major defining and interwoven credentials that have been used to deny African philosophical thought prior to the postcolonial phase. In th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Feb-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192894342)
How do different generations remember the democratic transitions in the post-authoritarian European South fifty years later, and why does it matter? A Collective Biography of Southern European Democratization shows how individual, family, an...Loe edasi...
While Armenian genocide recognition efforts have generated significant international attention, the parallel experiences of Greeks and Assyrians remain largely unknown or overlooked. This book presents the first comprehensive comparative analysis...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Jan-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Manchester University Press, ISBN-13: 9781526194909)
This book follows the lives of female Jewish refugees who fled Nazi persecution and became nurses. Nursing was nominally a profession but with its poor pay and harsh discipline, it was unpopular with British women. In the years preceding the Secon...Loe edasi...
