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Superman: The High-Flying History of America's Most Enduring Hero

by Larry Tye

Seventy-five years after he came to life, Superman remains one of America’s most adored and enduring heroes. Now Larry Tye, the prize-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author of Satchel, has...

The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone---Especially Ourselves

by Dan Ariely

The New York Times bestselling author of Predictably Irrational and The Upside of Irrationality returns with thought-provoking work to challenge our preconceptions about dishonesty and urge us to take an honest...

The British Home Front 1939-45

by Martin Brayley & Malcolm Mcgregor

Osprey's study of the British home front during World War II (1939-1945). The population of Britain was mobilized to support the war effort on a scale unseen in any other Western democracy – or in Nazi Germany....

Spartan Warrior 735-331 BC

by Duncan Campbell & Steve Noon

Immortalized through their exploits at the battle of Thermopylae under the legendary Leonidas, as well as countless other victories throughout the classical period, the Spartans were some of the best trained,...

Victorian Britain (Routledge Revivals): An Encyclopedia

by Sally Mitchell

First published in 1988, this encyclopedia serves as an overview and point of entry to the complex interdisciplinary field of Victorian studies. The signed articles, which cover persons, events, institutions,...

Dress and the Roman Woman: Self-Presentation and Society

by Kelly Olson

In ancient Rome, the subtlest details in dress helped to distinguish between levels of social and moral hierarchy. Clothes were a key part of the sign systems of Roman civilization - a central aspect of its...

The Small Wars of the United States, 1899-2009: An Annotated Bibliography

by Benjamin R. Beede

The Small Wars of the United States, 1899-2009 is the complete bibliography of works on US military intervention and irregular warfare around the world, as well as efforts to quell insurgencies on behalf of...

Mirrors of Mortality (Routledge Revivals): Social Studies in the History of Death

by Joachim Whaley

First published in 1981, this reissue examines mankind's preoccupation with death and mortality by isolating various societies in different periods of time. The authors examine not only the formal rituals associated...

Projections of Power in the Americas

by Helene Balslev Balslev Clausen, Niels Bjerre-Poulsen & Jan Gustafsson

Two phenomena are of central interest in the nine contributions that make up this volume: one is the question of power and its multiple forms, and the other is that geographical, political and cultural multifaceted...

Practice These Principles And What Is The Oxford Group

by Anonymous

Those interested in A.A. history will find this two-book volume to be a must-have edition. Practice These Principles is an edited version of the original work, What is the Oxford Group? (full text reprinted)...

A Linking of Heaven and Earth: Studies in Religious and Cultural History in Honor of Carlos M.N. Eire

by Michelson & K. Taylor

Carlos M.N. Eire's deeply innovative publications have helped to shape new fields of study of the Reformation, intertwining social, intellectual, cultural, and religious history to reveal how, lived beliefs...

Plague Hospitals: Illness and Isolation in Early Modern Venice

by L. Stevens Crawshaw

Lazaretti, or plague hospitals, took on a central role in early modern responses to epidemic disease. An in-depth study of the Venetian lazaretti in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, this book asks what...

Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora

by Marika Sherwood

Origins of Pan-Africanism: Henry Sylvester Williams, Africa, and the African Diaspora recounts the life story of the pioneering Henry Sylvester Williams, an unknown Trinidadian son of an immigrant carpenter...

The Muslim Conquest of Iberia: Medieval Arabic Narratives

by Nicola Clarke

Medieval Islamic society set great store by the transmission of history: to edify, argue legal points, explain present conditions, offer political and religious legitimacy, and entertain. Modern scholars, too,...

Bunch of Amateurs: A Search for the American Character

by Jack Hitt

WHAT IS IT THAT DRIVES THE SUCCESS OF AMERICA AND THE IDENTITY OF ITS PEOPLE? ACCLAIMED WRITER AND CONTRIBUTING EDITOR TO THIS AMERICAN LIFE JACK HITT THINKS IT’S BECAUSE WE’RE ALL A BUNCH OF AMATEURS.

America’s...

A Harvest of Reluctant Souls: Fray Alonso de Benavides's History of New Mexico, 1630

by Baker H. Morrow

The most thorough account ever written of southwestern life in the early seventeenth century, this engaging book was first published in 1630 as an official report to the king of Spain by Fray Alonso de Benavides,...

Transformations of Retailing in Europe after 1945

by Ralph Jessen & Lydia Langer

The volume focuses on processes of transformation in the retail business in several European countries mainly during the second half of the 20th Century. After World War II, structures, practices and the culture...

Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror and Deliverance in the City of Love

by David Talbot

In a kaleidoscopic narrative, bestselling author David Talbot recounts the gripping story of San Francisco in the turbulent years between 1967 and 1982—and of the extraordinary men and women who led to the...

Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens

by Andrea Wulf

The author of the highly acclaimed Founding Gardeners now gives us an enlightening chronicle of the first truly international scientific endeavor—the eighteenth-century quest to observe the transit of Venus...

Opium: Reality's Dark Dream

by Thomas Dormandy

Opium and its derivatives morphine and heroin have destroyed, corrupted, and killed individuals, families, communities, and even whole nations. And yet, for most of its long history, opium has also been humanity's...