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by Phillip Harman
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
This is a factual story of a young American civilian imprisoned and tortured by the Japanese when they conquered Hong Kong. In a foreword by General Russell Hearn, who was instrumental in organizing the quasi-military Flying Tigers, there is an interesting personal reaction to the events described...
by Michael Lynch
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Adolf Hitler is the most notorious political figure of the twentieth century. The story of his life, how he became a dictator, and how he managed to convince so many to follow his cause is a subject of perennial fascination.
Balancing narrative and analysis, this biography employs a chronological...
Music and the Elusive Revolution
Cultural Politics and Political Culture in France, 1968–1981
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2011
In May 1968, France teetered on the brink of revolution as a series of student protests spiraled into the largest general strike the country has ever known. In the forty years since, May ’68 has come to occupy a singular place in the modern political imagination, not just in France but across the...
1913
The Year Before the Storm
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
An International Bestseller
“An absolute gem of a book.” —The Observer
Just before one of its darkest moments came the twentieth century’s most exciting year . . .
It was the year Henry Ford first put a conveyer belt in his car factory, and the year Louis Armstrong...
The Immortal Comedy
The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2005
Immortal Comedy is the first book to 'think' philosophically about the comic phenomenon in general. Although author Agnes Heller had written a book that is both deeply scholarly and meditative on the subject of the comic form in film, literature, and life her writing is eminently approachable. In...
Collecting Art in the Italian Renaissance Court
Objects and Exchanges
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2018
In this book, Leah R. Clark examines collecting practices across the Italian Renaissance court, exploring the circulation, exchange, collection, and display of objects. Rather than focusing on patronage strategies or the political power of individual collectors, she uses the objects themselves to...
A Trip around Iceland
History of the country and its people
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
The study of islands, whether the attention of the visitor is directed to their structure or their inhabitants, yields a peculiar pleasure. They are quite definite and unique units. They reveal interesting relations with neighboring continents, of which they so often are merely separated fragments,...
Albert Einstein
El genio tras la teoría de la relatividad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: March 24, 2017
Este libro es una guía práctica y accesible para saber más sobre Albert Einstein, que le aportará la información esencial y le permitirá ganar tiempo.En tan solo 50 minutos usted podrá:• Comprender los avances progresivos de la física a lo largo de la historia y su influencia en la física...
Fascism
100 Questions Asked and Answered
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
After World War Two, 'fascist' became the F word of political debate to be applied liberally against anyone who left-wing polemicists disliked. But what did it really mean and what did its British supporters really stand for? In this pre-War book written in convenient Question and Answer form by Oswald...
by Tim Moore
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2017
Tim Moore and a rickety metal steed are back together—riding the entirety of the Iron Curtain, where history, mechanical failures, physical endurance, and humor come together for "the Bill Bryson on two wheels."
Not content with tackling the Italian Alps or the route of the Tour...
The Young Leonardo
Art and Life in Fifteenth-Century Florence
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2011
Leonardo da Vinci is often presented as the 'transcendent genius', removed from or ahead of his time. This book, however, attempts to understand him in the context of Renaissance Florence. Larry J. Feinberg explores Leonardo's origins and the beginning of his career as an artist. While celebrating...
Death in Modern Scotland, 18551955
Beliefs, Attitudes and Practices
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
The period 1855 to 1955 was pivotal for modern Scottish death culture. Within art and literature death was a familiar companion, with its imagined presence charting the fears and expectations behind the public face of mortality. Framing new concepts of the afterlife became a task for both theologians...
by Major Paul A. Braunbeck Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
“Before the war, and still more during the conquest of the West, Hitler came to appear a gigantic figure, combining the strategy of a Napoleon with the cunning of a Machiavelli and the fanatical fervour of a Mohomet. After his first check in Russia, his figure began to shrink, and towards the end...
Cultural Exchange
Jews, Christians, and Art in the Medieval Marketplace
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2013
Demonstrating that similarities between Jewish and Christian art in the Middle Ages were more than coincidental, Cultural Exchange meticulously combines a wide range of sources to show how Jews and Christians exchanged artistic and material culture. Joseph Shatzmiller focuses on communities in northern...