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Frontier Women and Their Art
A Chronological Encyclopedia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
While often less celebrated than their male counterparts, women have been vital contributors to the arts for centuries. Works by women of the frontier represent treasured accomplishments of American culture and still impress us today, centuries after their creation. The breadth of creative expression...
When the United States Invaded Russia
Woodrow Wilson's Siberian Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
In a little-known episode at the height of World War I, President Woodrow Wilson dispatched thousands of American soldiers to Siberia. Carl J. Richard convincingly shows that Wilson’s original intent was to enable Czechs and anti-Bolshevik Russians to rebuild the Eastern Front against the Central...
by Seán Street
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
The story of British radio begins long before the birth of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) in 1922. This book aims to tell this story through its component parts: the makers, the programs, and the policies that together shaped the development of a system of broadcasting, grounded initially...
by John Nici
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2015
In a world filled with great museums and great paintings, Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa is the reigning queen. Her portrait rules over a carefully designed salon, one that was made especially for her in a museum that may seem intended for no other purpose than to showcase her virtues. What has made...
Let Nobody Turn Us Around
An African American Anthology
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
This anthology of black writers traces the evolution of African-American perspectives throughout American history, from the early years of slavery to the end of the 20th century. The essays, manifestos, interviews, and documents assembled here, contextualized with critical commentaries from Marable...
The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible
How Scholars in Germany, Israel, and America Transformed an Ancient Text
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2011
Tracing its history from Moses Mendelssohn to today, Alan Levenson explores the factors that shaped what is the modern Jewish Bible and its centrality in Jewish life today. The Making of the Modern Jewish Bible explains how Jewish translators, commentators, and scholars made the Bible a keystone of...
My Life in Jewish Renewal
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
This powerful memoir chronicles the life of one of America’s most celebrated rabbis—Rabbi Zalman M. Schachter-Shalomi, or “Reb Zalman” as he is fondly known to friends and followers. The book traces his life from a youth in the shadow of the Nazis through the tumultuous 1960s in America to...
An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers
From Spinoza to Soloveitchik
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2006
Highlighting well-known Jewish thinkers from a very wide spectrum of opinion, the author addresses a range of issues, including: What makes a thinker Jewish? What makes modern Jewish thought modern? How have secular Jews integrated Jewish traditional thought with agnosticism? What do Orthodox thinkers...
Jewish Art in America
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2006
In this first book-length study of Jewish art in America, Matthew Baigell explores works from the early settlers of America to the present. It concentrates on exploring and examining Jewish subject matter employed by artists as they illustrated aspects of their religious and ethnic heritage and as...
Upstairs and Downstairs
British Costume Drama Television from The Forsyte Saga to Downton Abbey
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
The international success of Downton Abbey has led to a revived interest in period dramas, with older programs like The Forsyte Saga being rediscovered by a new generation of fans whose tastes also include grittier fare like Ripper Street. Though often criticized as a form of escapist, conservative...
by Samuel J. Umland
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Tim Burton is one of the most inventive filmmakers in the world. From his early work as an animator for Disney studios to his distinctive takes on iconic characters like Batman and Alice in Wonderland, Burton’s skewed vision of the world has informed all of his films. Imbuing his films with a comically...
The Perilous West
Seven Amazing Explorers and the Founding of the Oregon Trail
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Although a host of adventurers stormed west in 1806 after Lewis and Clark’s safe return, seven of them left unique legacies because of their monumental journeys, their lionhearted spirit in the face of hardship, and the way their paths intertwined time and again. The Perilous West tells this riveting...
The Trivia Lover's Guide to the World
Geography for the Lost and Found
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Gary Fuller’s entertaining and engaging guide enhances geographic know-how with good, old-fashioned fun, using trivia to open up new worlds of knowledge for all readers. Often dismissed as unimportant, trivia here highlights issues that are far from trivial, pondering, for example, what peaceful...
What They Didn't Teach You in American History Class
The Second Encounter
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
For the average person, most of the American history that he or she knows comes from facts taught to them in school to prepare them for their state mandated tests. That's not the fault of their teachers who were just carrying out the directives of their employers. But it's also a fact that a great...