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Armored Trains

by Steven Zaloga & Tony Bryan

First seen during the American Civil War and later appearing in the Franco-Prussian War and the Anglo-Boer Wars, the armored train came to prominence on the Eastern Front during World War I. It was also deployed...

V-1 Flying Bomb 1942#52: Hitler#s infamous "doodlebug"

by Steven Zaloga & Jim Laurier

The first deployment of the V-1 was in June 1944 when, following two years of tests, Hitler gave the order to attack England. Known to the Allies as the Buzz Bomb or Doodlebug, the V-1 was the world's first...

The Story of the Book: The Bible Your Questions Answered

by Terence Copley

Who wrote it? Who decided what was put into it? These questions and more are answered in this easy-to-understand description of the Bible.

Handbook of Cross-Cultural and Multicultural Personality Assessment

by Richard H. Dana

Throughout the world as in the United States, psychologists are increasingly being called upon to evaluate clients whose backgrounds differ from their own. It has long been recognized that standard personality...

Early Childhood Education

by Suzanne L. Krogh & Kristine L. Slentz

This text looks at careers in early education, what it's like to be a teacher or caregiver today, provides historical and philosophical perspectives of the field, compares and contrasts contemporary models of...

The Other Side of the Mountain

by Janice Angelique

Pamela loves her daughter very much, and, when she begins asking of their exiled relatives on the opposite mountain, Pamela drops everything to find out what had happened ten years ago to cause the rift between...

Beyond the Arab Disease

by Riad Nourallah

Presenting bold and original insights, this book examines the policies and diplomacies pursued by Arab and Western governments, while discussing both the political and cultural roles played by the modern Arab...

Citizenship and Ethnic Conflict

by Haldun Gülalp

Making a new case for separating citizenship from nationality, this book comparatively examines a key selection of nation-states in terms of their definitions of nationality and citizenship, and the ways in...

David Kranes Selected Plays

by David Kranes

Collection of plays by David Kranes

Where Did it All Go Wrong?

by Kerri Jones

Description An honest account of what it is like to live with a mental illness and self-injury. The author takes you on a journey through her life, discussing both her highs and lows throughout her life. The...

Tonight We Die As Men PB: The Untold Story of Third Batallion 506 Parachute Infantry Regiment from Toccoa to D-D

by Ian Gardner

The exploits of the 3rd Battalion, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment have long been overshadowed by those of Easy Company, 2nd Battalion. Yet the actions of the 3rd Battalion during the D-Day landings were every...

Inside the Castle: Law and the Family in 20th Century America

by Joanna L. Grossman & Lawrence M. Friedman

Inside the Castle is a comprehensive social history of twentieth-century family law in the United States. Joanna Grossman and Lawrence Friedman show how vast, oceanic changes in society have reshaped and reconstituted...

Islam - Simple Guides

by Danielle Robinson

THIS BOOK WILL HELP YOU

• to appreciate one of the world’s great religions and the Islamic way of life

• to understand what it means to follow the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad — ‘the Messenger...

Jesus Dub

by Robert Beckford

Robert Beckford explores the dialogue between two central institutions in African Caribbean life: the church and the dancehall. He highlights how Dub - one of the central features of dancehall culture - can...

Southern Africa

by Jonathan Farley

Southern Africa surveys the contemporary history of the whole region encompassing economic, social, political, security, foreign policy, health, environmental and gender issues in one short succinct volume....

Gender in World History

by Peter N. Stearns

From classical times to the twenty-first century, Gender in World History is a fascinating exploration of what happens to established ideas about men and women, and their roles, when different cultural systems...

Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education

by Elizabeth J. Allan, Susan Iverson & Rebecca Ropers-Huilman

Reconstructing Policy in Higher Education highlights the work of accomplished and award-winning scholars and provides concrete examples of how feminist poststructuralism effectively informs research methods...

The Mystery of Analytical Work

by Barbara Stevens Sullivan

This book provides an exploration of the clinical practice of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology. It explores the ways psychoanalysts and other clinicians are taught to evade direct emotional connections...

Broken Syntax

by Laura Hargrove Schneilin

Description 'Broken Syntax' was written over a period of a year and a half, after a lengthy hospitalisation. It carries the seeds of rebirth, yet also the melancholy of what most are never meant to see. The...

Betrayal of Minds

by Josephine Brown

Description This book describes a journey through the Mental Health system, where Josephine Brown has stood many times in defence of her son, David, at first aged just 13 years old. This mother needed more than...