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Conservation and Globalization in the Twentieth Century
Pollution, resource depletion, habitat management, and climate change are all issues that necessarily transcend national boundaries. Accordingly, they...
The Revolutionary Communist Party and its Curious Afterlives, 1976-2020
This book employs a history of ideas approach to trace the complex journey of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) and its afterlives. Although the...
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A Christian Introduction to the Love of Wisdom
A Faithful Guide to Philosophy is the only British Christian introduction to philosophy, a book that will be used as a course textbook and by church s...
Since the early days of television, well before most households had a set, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has been handing out honors for...
This book shows teachers how to use mentor texts in an integrative approach for teaching both content and informational writing. As you explore the pa...
The Instruments, Their Makers and Players, 1791-1940
The Man Who Used Jazz for Justice
โThe JAZZ AT THE PHILHARMONIC concerts were a turning point in my life. My fellow Californian Norman Granz figured it out. This biography lays out, ...
New Biographical Approaches to the History of International Communism in the Age of Lenin and Stalin
Using Comintern archives, oral interviews and a wide range of other sources, this collection presents a sample of some of the exciting new work curren...
The Life of Zebulon Pike
It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two. Their leader, not yet thirty, drove on, determined to ascend the grea...
Richmond, Virginia and Its People
A study of nearly four hundred years in the history of Richmond, Virginia, ranges from the first encounters between English colonists and Powhatan to ...
How Big Cities are Reshaping Public Education
In The Transformation of Great American School Districts, William Lowe Boyd, Charles Taylor Kerchner, and Mark Blyth argue that urban education reform...
From Victory to Collapse
A history of the Confederate troops under Robert E. Lee presents portraits of soldiers from all walks of life, offers insight into how the Confederacy...
A History of the Sojourner Truth Organization, 1969-1986
A poignant, compelling history of one of the most important radical groups you've never heard of....
A Life in Architecture
Harold Desbrowe-Annear was an enigma: an architect who counted among his clients some of Melbourne's wealthiest families and among his friends a wide ...
A Dictionary of Literary Disguises
The War for American Independence in Maine
In the late eighteenth century, the area that would become the state of Maine was still part of Massachusetts - a colony of a colony within the sprawl...
Stephen Jay Gould and the Struggle for American Democracy
How Stephen Jay Gould's career illustrates that criticizing science is important for American democracy. The question of public trust in science feels...
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The Cold War and the Struggle for the Third World
Rodman (Center for Strategic and International Studies) illuminates the tensions surrounding American foreign policy and presents an insider's account...
The Rise and Fall of Community Policing in New York Public Housing
In recent years, community policing has transformed American law enforcement by promising to build trust between citizens and officers. Today, three-q...
A Bibliography of Published Sources
The Genealogy Annual is a comprehensive bibliography of the year's genealogies, handbooks, and source materials. It is divided into three main section...
The Political Ecology of Wilderness and Civilization
The author suggests that the answer to the environmental problems of the world, is for humans to be saved from civilization. Humans need to return to ...
Reproductions of works of art; scientific and technical drawings; photographic works; prints and pictorial illustrations
Washington Heights and the Promise of New York City
Robert W. Snyder's Crossing Broadway tells how disparate groups overcame their mutual suspicions to rehabilitate housing, build new schools, restore p...
The B-24 Crash That Killed 38 Preschoolers and 23 Adults, August 23, 1944
The Freckleton catastrophe of August 23, 1944, occurred when an American B-24 Liberator crashed into the small village of Freckleton in northwest Engl...
Crow Warrior, Custer Scout, American Artist
The story of the Apsaalooke (Crow) men who scouted for the Seventh United States Cavalry in 1876 has been told by historians, with details sometimes d...