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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos, 1933-1945, Volume I

Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA)

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Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2009

This monumental 7-volume encyclopedia, the result of years of work by the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will describe the universe of camps and ghettos—some 20,000 in all—that the Nazis and their allies operated,...

Seeking a Sanctuary, Second Edition

Seventh-day Adventism and the American Dream

by Keith Lockhart, Malcolm Bull
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2006

The completely revised second edition further explores one of the most successful of America’s indigenous religious groups. Despite this, the Adventist church has remained largely invisible. Seeking a Sanctuary casts light on this marginal religion through its socio-historical context and discusses several Adventist figures that shaped the perception of this Christian sect.

Sites of Exposure

Art, Politics, and the Nature of Experience

by John Russon
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2017

John Russon draws from a broad range of art and literature to show how philosophy speaks to the most basic and important questions in our everyday lives. In Sites of Exposure, Russon grapples with personal experiences such as growing up and confronting death and with broader issues such as political...

Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life

Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein

by Hilary Putnam
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2008

Distinguished philosopher Hilary Putnam, who is also a practicing Jew, questions the thought of three major Jewish philosophers of the 20th century—Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Emmanuel Levinas—to help him reconcile the philosophical and religious sides of his life. An additional presence...
by Dominique Janicaud
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015

Dominique Janicaud claimed that every French intellectual movement—from existentialism to psychoanalysis—was influenced by Martin Heidegger. This translation of Janicaud’s landmark work, Heidegger en France, details Heidegger’s reception in philosophy and other humanistic and social science...

Biology of the Sauropod Dinosaurs

Understanding the Life of Giants

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Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2011

Sauropods, those huge plant-eating dinosaurs, possessed bodies that seem to defy every natural law. What were these creatures like as living animals and how could they reach such uniquely gigantic sizes? A dedicated group of researchers in Germany in disciplines ranging from engineering and materials...

A Dance of Assassins

Performing Early Colonial Hegemony in the Congo

by Allen F. Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012

A Dance of Assassins presents the competing histories of how Congolese Chief Lusinga and Belgian Lieutenant Storms engaged in a deadly clash while striving to establish hegemony along the southwestern shores of Lake Tanganyika in the 1880s. While Lusinga participated in the east African slave trade,...

Off the Main Lines

A Photographic Odyssey

by Don L. Hofsommer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013

In this visually stunning and comprehensive photographic essay, railroad historian and photographer Donovan L. Hofsommer records the end of branchline passenger service, the demise of electric railroads, the transition from steam to diesel power, as well as the end of common carrier freight service...

Wallace W. Abbey

A Life in Railroad Photography

by Kevin P. Keefe, Scott Lothes
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018

From the late 1940s on, Wallace W. Abbey masterfully combined journalistic and artistic vision to transform everyday moments in transportation into magical photographs. Abbey, a photographer, journalist, historian, and railroad industry executive, helped people from many different backgrounds understand...

Wet Britches and Muddy Boots

A History of Travel in Victorian America

by John H.Jr. White
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2012

What was travel like in the 1880s? Was it easy to get from place to place? Were the rides comfortable? How long did journeys take? Wet Britches and Muddy Boots describes all forms of public transport from canal boats to oceangoing vessels, passenger trains to the overland stage. Trips over long distances...
by Lee Mandrell, DeeDee Niederhouse-Mandrell
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018

- Just in time for the Illinois Bicentennial - Photographs profile the diversity of Illinois state parks, rrom the rock formations at Cave-In-Rock State Park, to the water ways of Chain O’Lakes State Park, to the sunset over Eldon Hazlet State Park. - Lee Mandrell and DeeDee Niederhouse-Mandrell are professional photographers and authors of several books.

Where Chiang Kai-shek Lost China

The Liao-Shen Campaign, 1948

by Harold M. Tanner
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2015

“A masterful contribution not simply to the history of the civil war, but also to the history of 20th century China.” —Steven I. Levine author, Anvil of Victory: The Communist Revolution in Manchuria, 1945-1948) The civil war in China that ended in the 1949 victory of Mao Zedong’s Communist...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

A fascinating look at one of the most experimental, volatile, and influential decades, Film, Fashion, and the 1960s, examines the numerous ways in which film and fashion intersected and affected identity expression during the era. From A Hard Day’s Night to Breakfast at Tiffany’s, from the works...

Global Clay

Themes in World Ceramic Traditions

by John A. Burrison
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017

For over 25,000 years, humans across the globe have shaped, decorated, and fired clay. Despite great differences in location and time, universal themes appear in the world’s ceramic traditions, including religious influences, human and animal representations, and mortuary pottery. In Global Clay:...
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