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Style and the Future of CompositionStudies explores style’s potential for informing how students are taught to write well and its power as a tool fo...
Democracy in American Social Movements
This “excellent study of activist politics in the United States over the past century” challenges the conventional wisdom about participatory demo...
With 135 years of Chicago Cubs history, this lively, detailed book explores the personalities, events, and facts every Cubs fan should know. More than...
"Most Americans first heard of Michael Harrington with the publication of The Other America, his seminal book on American poverty. Isserman expertly t...
My Family in American History
Arthur Link (1920-1998) was one of the great historians of his generation, a prolific author with a wide following inside and outside the profession. ...
With his blockbuster bestselling novels The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, author Dan Brown introduced readers to a world of symbols and secret ...
A B-24 Pilot's Missions from Italy during World War II
In 1944 and 1945, Tom Faulkner was a B-24 pilot flying out of San Giovanni airfield in Italy as a member of the 15th Air Force of the U.S. Army Air Fo...
Institutional Innovation and High-Tech Competition in Western Europe
At the close of the twentieth century, Denmark, Finland, and Ireland emerged as unlikely centers for high-tech competition. In When Small States Make ...
Reclaiming the Sciences, the Family, and Education
'A systematic overview of the advances made by antisecular religious movements over the past twenty-five years and show[ing] the impact these movement...
Disappearance, Deliverance, and the United States in Guatemala
"Members of the Guatemalan army abducted Maritza Urrutia after she took her son to school one morning in 1992. [book title] describes her ordeal. Afte...
The Art of Telling Your Story
In Presenting to Win: Persuading Your Audience Every Time, the world's #1 presentation consultant shows how to connect with even the toughest, most hi...
LaborÕs Last Best Weapon
When Steven Burd, CEO of the supermarket chain Safeway, cut wages and benefits, starting a five-month strike by 59,000 unionized workers, he was confi...
How to Write a Money-making Book in Only 12 Hours!
This book gives potential authors the information they need to turn their expertise and passion into their own money-making book, in less than 12 hour...
The Struggle for Democratic Unionism
Thousands of African Americans poured into northwest Indiana in the 1920s dreaming of decent-paying jobs and a life without Klansmen, chain gangs, and...
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Martin Scorsese, the Religious Right, and the Culture Wars
A behind-the-scenes look at the making of The Last Temptation of Christ and the controversy following its release. In 1988, director Martin Scorsese f...
Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
With a Foreword by Angela Y. Davis Winner of the 2003 Oral History Association Book AwardWinner of the 2003 Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights Out...
C. Wright Mills, the Left, and American Social Thought
Sociologist, social critic, and political radical C. Wright Mills (1916-1962) was one of the leading public intellectuals in twentieth century America...
A Companion to American Sport History presents a collection of original essays that represent the first comprehensive analysis of scholarship relating...
Stigma and the Fat Body in American Culture
One of Choice's Significant University Press Titles for Undergraduates, 2010-2011 A necessary cultural and historical discussion on the stigma of fatn...
"The fruit of many years of loving labor," Scottish Presbyterian minister Matthew George Easton's Illustrated Bible Dictionary has become a classic re...
The Battle Over Litigation in American Society
"Burke drills deep into America's unique culture of litigation and is rewarded with a powerful insight: it is not the public or even lawyers that are ...
Stories of Early California Outlaws in Their Own Words
Early outlaws tell their own raw tales of holdups, shootouts, and desperate flights from the law. Witness the cruel confessions of California bandits ...
A. B. Hammond and the Age of the Timber Baron
Born in the timber colony of New Brunswick, Maine, in 1848, Andrew Benoni Hammond got off to an inauspicious start as a teenage lumberjack. By his dea...
Things aren’t going well for 16 year old Malcolm. Many of his family members are either in jail or wanted by the police; his father is missing; the ...
Created as intercultural and interdisciplinary, conferences of the series “Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics” have been successfully held since 19...
Navy and Marine Corps Codebreakers, Translators, and Interpreters in the Pacific War
This book is about Americans not of Japanese ancestry, who served as Japanese language officers in World War II. Covering the period 1940-1945, it des...
Containing the Old and New Testaments, According to the Authorised Version; with Explanatory Notes, Practical Observations, and Copious Marginal References
Reprint of the original, first published in 1858. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books...
Media and Politics in the Iraq War
How were the American people prepared for the war on Iraq? How have political agents and media gatekeepers sought to develop public support for the fi...
100 No-Cost, Low-Cost Weapons for Selling Your Work
Build your career as a successful author with this proven, no-nonsense guide to marketing your own books. In today’s competitive publishing marketpl...
From Deep Freeze to DĂ©tente, 1945-1970
During the Cold War, American labour organizations were at the centre of the battle for the hearts and minds of working people. At a time when trade u...
The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America
What caused the New Left rebellion of the 1960s? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian argues that the "underground press" contributed to t...
A Tale of Ancient Egypt
A young Egyptian accidentally kills a sacred cat and must flee from an angry mob. Set in 1250 B.C., this thrilling adventure also features fascinating...
American Families, Child Guidance, and the Limits of Psychiatric Authority
"In Taming the Troublesome Child, these questions lead to the complex history of "child guidance," a specialized psychological service developed early...
The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux Klan
In 'Klansville, U.S.A.', David Cunningham tells the story of the astounding trajectory of the Klan during the 1960s by focusing on the pivotal and und...