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Recounts six summits which had a significant political impact during the twentieth century, including the Yalta summit in 1945 with Churchill, Rooseve...
Churchill Fighting and Writing the Second World War
Winston Churchill was one of the giants of the twentieth century. As Britain’s prime minister from 1940 to 1945, he courageously led his nation and ...
Churchill, Roosevelt, and the International History of the 1940s
The 1940s was probably the most dramatic and decisive decade of the 20th century. This volume explores the Second World War and the origins of the Col...
The Great War and the Twentieth Century
In Britain we have lost touch with the Great War. Our overriding sense now is of a meaningless, futile bloodbath in the mud of Flanders -- of young me...
A Global History Since 1945
The second half of the twentieth century was dominated by the unfolding drama of the Cold War, from the Berlin blockade to the fall of the Berlin Wall...
A New History
It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great 'empire of liberty.' In the first new one-volume history in two decades, David Rey...
Roosevelt's America and the Origins of the Second World War
A master historian's provocative new interpretation of FDR's role in the coming of World War II. Brilliant. —Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. American Way...
A Cultural Biography
Winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Ambassador Book Award and Finalist for the National for the Book Critics Circle Award In his poetry Walt Whitman ...
Constructive Living is a Western approach to mental health education based in large part on adaptations of two Japanese psychotherapies, Morita therap...
Six Meetings That Shaped the Twentieth Century
The Cold War dominated world history for nearly half a century, locking two superpowers in a global rivalry that only ended with the Soviet collapse. ...
What constitutes quality schooling? What are the implications for educational practice and administration? The text looks at these questions and exami...
British Policy and World Power in the Twentieth Century
This book brings together the often separated histories of diplomacy, defence, economics and empire in a provocative reinterpretation of British 'decl...
A Family Memoir
As a child, David Reynolds developed a fascination with the mysterious disappearance of his long-dead grandfather. Over the years he has pieced togeth...
The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville
The award-winning Beneath the American Renaissance is a classic work on American literature. It immeasurably broadens our knowledge of our most import...
The American Occupation of Britain, 1942-1945
The fascinating social and political history of a time when a million and a half American servicemen crowded onto a small island, training and waiting...
Happycise Your Life & Publish Me
Three erotic romances in one. In Running to Rose, Rick spots a woman running on a slick trail but fails to stop her from getting hurt. Needing his hel...
Constructive Living for Mental Health
“You can’t be happy all the time. You can’t feel comfortable all the time. You can’t have the feelings you want when you want them for as long...
"A magisterial account of our time by a distinguished historian".--Walter LaFeber, author of "The Clash". This brilliant history vividly captures the ...
Progressive Challenges to the Two Party System
David Reynolds explains how grassroots activists are translating mass discontent into new people-driven parties in America. This is the first and only...
Inside and Out
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Here, in plain language, is the definitive guide for taking control of your life and imbuing it with greater meaning and productivity. Constructive Li...
An Illustrated History of Britain's Airborne Forces
A history of Britain's airborne fighting units from WWII through the Falklands conflict and into the 1990s. The author covers actions at Arnhem, durin...
International Perspectives on School Effectiveness
In this book the authors have conducted extensive research and describe what makes a successful school and how this varies in different countries. The...
A Study in Competitive Co-operation
Winner of the 2014 PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize for the Best Work of History. "If you only read one book about the First World War in this anniversary ye...
This volume reviews the research in the field of school effectiveness and improvement. Many key questions are examined, such as different methods for ...
Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
A new biography of Winston Churchill, revealing how his relationships with the other great figures of his age shaped his own triumphs and failures as ...
War, Peace, and Legacies
This volume assesses Franklin Roosevelt's role as war leader from the vantage point of the twenty-first century, by looking at different aspects of hi...
A New History of the United States
It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great "empire of liberty." This paradoxical phrase may be the key to the American saga: ...
The pressure on schools to improve and to raise achievement continues to be a dominant issue in both school and government policies. School Effectiven...
"Covers iDisk, HomePage, Sync, and the other parts of the .Mac service from Apple Computer"--Cover....
“Fascinating . . . a lively and perceptive cultural history.” —Annette Gordon-Reed, The New Yorker In this wide-ranging, brilliantly researched ...
Linking School Effectiveness and School Improvement
This book is the first to attempt to bring together the disciplines of school effectiveness and school improvement, in a coherent way, by leading writ...
Evidence and Practice
Looks at research in teacher effectiveness and provides strategies to achieve student's goals....
The Missing Manual
AppleWorks, the integrated application that arrives in 4 million homes, schools, and offices a year, includes word processing, drafting, painting, dat...
America in the Age of Jackson
A New York Times Notable Book “Far more than just a political story or, for that matter, a story of Andrew Jackson, Reynolds’s book shines a brigh...
The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds pre...
Portrays Walt Whitman in the social, political, and cultural context of his day....
Of all the British amateur ambassadors, none was more distinguished than Philip Kerr, 11th Marquis of Lothian (1882-1940). His tenure of office was br...
Fine Tuning the Mind
"No one lives within a continuous stream of peak experiences. Everyday life is both ordinary and marvelous. While sailing your mind in the sky, don't ...