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The Generals’ War
Operational Level Command on the Western Front in 1918
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
- 2018 is the anniversary of the final battles of WWI
- Explores the military strategies of the senior generals from both sides of the war.
- The forward is written by General Zinni, USMC (RET) and the book is authored by Lt. General Zabecki (RET), both experts in military strategy.
Bush on the Home Front
Domestic Policy Triumphs and Setbacks
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq consumed so much attention during his presidency that few people appreciated that George W. Bush was also an activist on the home front. Despite limited public support, and while confronting a deeply divided Congress, Bush engineered and implemented reforms...
Queer Ecologies
Sex, Nature, Politics, Desire
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2010
Treating such issues as animal sex, species politics, environmental justice, lesbian space and "gay" ghettos, AIDS literatures, and queer nationalities, this lively collection asks important questions at the intersections of sexuality and environmental studies. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines...
Impulse to Act
A New Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
What drives people to take to the streets in protest? What is their connection to other activists and how does that change over time? How do seemingly spontaneous activist movements emerge, endure, and evolve, especially when they lack a leader and concrete agenda? How does one analyze a changing...
The Battle for North Africa
El Alamein and the Turning Point for World War II
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
“A well-researched and highly readable account of one of World War II’s most important ‘turning point’ battles.” —Jerry D. Morelock, Senior Editor at HistoryNet.com
In the early years of World War II, Germany shocked the world with a devastating blitzkrieg, rapidly conquered most...
Orientalizing the Jew
Religion, Culture, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Orientalizing the Jew shows how French travelers depicted Jews in the Orient and then brought these ideas home to orientalize Jews living in their homeland during the 19th century. Julie Kalman draws on narratives, personal and diplomatic correspondence, novels, and plays to show how the "Jews of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2013
From the colonial period to the present, the Mississippi River has impacted religious communities from Minnesota to the Gulf of Mexico. Exploring the religious landscape along the 2,530 miles of the largest river system in North America, the essays in Gods of the Mississippi make a compelling case...
Logic
The Question of Truth
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2010
Heidegger’s radical thinking on the meaning of truth in a “clear and comprehensive critical edition” (Philosophy in Review).
Martin Heidegger’s 1925–26 lectures on truth and time provided much of the basis for his momentous work, Being and Time. Not published until 1976—three months...
The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics
Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2011
Burt C. Hopkins presents the first in-depth study of the work of Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein on the philosophical foundations of the logic of modern symbolic mathematics. Accounts of the philosophical origins of formalized concepts—especially mathematical concepts and the process of mathematical...
Shatterzone of Empires
Coexistence and Violence in the German, Habsburg, Russian, and Ottoman Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2013
Shatterzone of Empires is a comprehensive analysis of interethnic relations, coexistence, and violence in Europe's eastern borderlands over the past two centuries. In this vast territory, extending from the Baltic to the Black Sea, four major empires with ethnically and religiously diverse populations...
Youth Politics in Putin's Russia
Producing Patriots and Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2015
Julie Hemment provides a fresh perspective on the controversial nationalist youth projects that have proliferated in Russia in the Putin era, examining them from the point of view of their participants and offering provocative insights into their origins and significance. The pro-Kremlin organization...
Learning in Morocco
Language Politics and the Abandoned Educational Dream
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Learning in Morocco offers a rare look inside public education in the Middle East. While policymakers see a crisis in education based on demographics and financing, Moroccan high school students point to the effects of a highly politicized Arabization policy that has never been implemented coherently....
Economic and Political Reform in Africa
Anthropological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
What are the local effects of major economic and political reforms in Africa? How have globalized pro-market and pro-democracy reforms impacted local economics and communities? Examining case studies from The Gambia, Ghana, Mozambique, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Somalia, Peter D. Little shows how rural...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2014
For centuries, travelers have made Central Asia known to the wider world through their writings. In this volume, scholars employ these little-known texts in a wide range of Asian and European languages to trace how Central Asia was gradually absorbed into global affairs. The representations of the...