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Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life
Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:...
New Georgia
The Second Battle for the Solomons
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
In 1942, the Solomon Islands formed the stepping stones toward Rabaul, the main base of Japanese operations in the South Pacific, and the Allies primary objective. The stunning defeat of Japanese forces at the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal in November marked the turning point in the war against Japan...
Dispatches from the Pacific
The World War II Reporting of Robert L. Sherrod
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
In the fall of 1943, armed with only his notebooks and pencils, Time and Life correspondent Robert L. Sherrod leapt from the safety of a landing craft and waded through neck-deep water and a hail of bullets to reach the shores of the Tarawa Atoll with the US Marine Corps. Living shoulder to shoulder...
Giants in Their Tall Black Hats
Essays on the Iron Brigade
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1998
"Editors Alan Nolan and Sharon Eggleston Vipond's insightful essays provide fresh perspectives on the Iron Brigade's exploits, detailing military and political events in the words of actual combatants." —Military Review
Originally called "The Black Hat Brigade" because...