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Cambridge University Press The Dimensions and Implications of the Publics Reactions to the January 6 2021 Invasion of the U.S. Capitol
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Cambridge University Press Archaeology of the Roman Conquest
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Cambridge University Press Asymmetric Warfare
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Cambridge University Press Tiptoeing through the Tulips with Congress
Book SynopsisOver the years, the US has intervened covertly in many countries to remove dictators, subvert elected leaders, and support coups. Explanations for this focus on characteristics of target countries or strategic incentives to pursue regime change. This Element provides an account of domestic political factors constraining US presidents'' authorization of covert foreign-imposed regime change operations (FIRCs), arguing that congressional attention to covert action alters the Executive''s calculus by increasing the political costs associated with this secretive policy instrument. It shows that congressional attention is the result of institutional battles over abuses of executive authority and has a significant constraining effect independent of codified rules and partisan disputes. These propositions are tested using content analysis of the Congressional Record, statistical analysis of Cold War covert FIRCs, and causal-process evidence relating to covert interventions in Chile, Angola, Central America, Afghanistan, etc.
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Cambridge University Press Tiptoeing through the Tulips with Congress
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Cambridge University Press Early Greek Portraiture
Book SynopsisThis synthesis of Archaic and Classical Greek portraiture surveys the origins and development of portrait sculpture at major sites including Olympia, Delphi and the Athenian Acropolis. Portraits are discussed in relation to historical events including the Persian Wars and canonical texts such as Herodotus' Histories.Trade Review'The first four chapters of this excellent scholarly study focus primarily on Greek portrait images, their origins, meaning, and various contexts from the Archaic to the late classical periods (sixth–fourth centuries BCE). The last chapter deals with the Hellenistic period down to the Roman conquest of Greece, a time when new portraits of contemporary Greeks were set up in various locations, and a number of old Greek sculptural images were removed to Italy by the Romans, or were reused in Greece by local authorities to represent Roman personages (especially prominent military men and statesmen) by providing them with new identifying inscriptions on their bases. Throughout the book Keesling makes excellent use of ancient primary sources, including dedicatory inscriptions and their significance for understanding the social, political, and religious contexts in which these images were set up. Two appendixes list, and provide pertinent information about, known portrait statues set up (c. 600–300 BCE) at the religious sanctuaries of Olympia and Delphi.' ChoiceTable of ContentsIntroduction: Why portraits?; Part I. Portraits among Heroes and Gods: 1. From votive statues to honorific portraits; 2. Arete, heroism, and divine choice in early Greek portraiture; 3. Portraits in Greek sanctuaries; Part II. Documenting Archaic and Classical Greek History: 4. Retrospective portraits as historical documents; 5. Early Greek portraits under Roman rule: removal, renewal, reuse, and reinscription; Conclusion: The limits of representation.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Communism
Book SynopsisThe first volume of The Cambridge History of Communism deals with the tumultuous events from 1917 to the Second World War, such as the Russian Revolution and Civil War, the revolutionary turmoil in post-World War I Europe, and the Spanish Civil War. Leading experts analyse the ideological roots of communism, historical personalities such as Lenin, Stalin, and Trotsky and the development of the Communist movement on a world scale against this backdrop of conflict that defined the period. It addresses the making of Soviet institutions, economy, and society while also looking at mass violence and relations between the state, workers, and peasants. It introduces crucial communist experiences in Germany, China, and Central Asia. At the same time, it also explores international and transnational communist practices concerning key issues such as gender, subjectivity, generations, intellectuals, nationalism, and the cult of personality.Trade Review'For those who have come to expect much of the Cambridge Histories, if the other two volumes in this three part series are anything like the volume under review, they will not be disappointed … it is comprehensive, detailed and easy to read and understand, both for the non-academic, non-professional readership, as well as for those who earn a living from examining and analyzing past, present and future.' Steven J. Main, Journal Of European Asia StudiesTable of ContentsGeneral introduction Silvio Pons; Volume introduction Silvio Pons and Stephen A. Smith; Part I. Origins: 1. Marxism and socialist revolution Geoff Eley; 2. The Russian Revolution and Civil War Rex Wade; 3. Revolution and counter revolution in Europe 1917–1923 John Paul Newman; 4. Lenin as historical personality Robert Service; 5. Bolshevik roots of international communism Lars Lih; 6. Stalin as a historical personality James Harris; 7. Trotsky and Trotskyism Bertrand Patenaude; 8. Communism and the crisis of the colonial system Sobhanlal Datta Gupta; 9. The Comintern as a world network Serge Wolikow; 10. The popular fronts and the civil war in Spain Tim Rees; Part II. Patterns and Extensions: 11. Communism, violence and terror Hiroaki Kuromiya; 12. The Soviet government 1917–1941 E. A. Rees; 13. Migration and social transformations in Soviet society 1917–1941 Lewis Siegelbaum; 14. Foundations of the Soviet command economy 1917–1941 Mark Harrison; 15. The Soviet state and workers Donal Filtzer; 16. The Soviet state and peasants Nicholas Werth; 17. Bolshevik feminism and gender agendas of communism Anna Krylova; 18. Communism, nations and nationalism Andrea Graziosi; 19. Communism, youth and generations Matthias Neumann; 20. Communism as existential choice Brigitte Studer; 21. Communism and intellectuals Michael David-Fox; 22. Cults of the individual Kevin Morgan; 23. German communism Eric Weitz; 24. The Chinese Communist Party movement 1919–1949 Alexander Pantsov; 25. Communism on the frontier: the Sovietization of Central Asia and Mongolia Adeeb Khalid; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Cultivating Commerce
Book SynopsisCultivating Commerce is an accessibly written and beautifully illustrated new social history of botany in Britain and France. It will appeal to all students and scholars working on British and French culture, the history of science and social and gender history in the late eighteenth century.Trade Review'An impressive comparison between France and Britain which succeeds in restoring horticulture to a central place in the polite practice of natural history. Easterby-Smith's carefully-researched account of the social world of public botany in the decades around 1800 makes a valuable contribution to the field. The book is a model for future research in its attentiveness to paper technologies, social status, gender and taste as sites for constructing the cosmopolitan network of collecting and consuming plants where botanists and gardeners exchanged specimens and knowledge, as well as in its insights into the nursery trade.' E. C. Spary, University of Cambridge'In this ambitious, wide-ranging and elegantly-written monograph, Sarah Easterby-Smith unlocks the door leading into the unsuspected world of plant traders in England and France in the late Enlightenment and early nineteenth century. Neglected in standard histories of botany, these modest figures established transnational global mercantile connections, stimulated botanical collecting and helped trigger the emergence of a public audience for gardening lore, in so doing refashioning themselves in ways that allowed them to bridge the worlds of commercial culture and polite science. Cultivating Commerce will be warmly welcomed by all scholars of Enlightenment science, culture and commerce - and by gardening enthusiasts everywhere.' Colin Jones, Queen Mary University of London'Cultivating Commerce very convincingly retraces the protean pathways of knowledge through the logic of the marketplace, while at the same time highlighting how the elite nurseries played out their rivalries within scientific fields that they had contributed to broaden. This work will stand as an essential contribution to the history of science in the public sphere.' Therese Bru, MetascienceTable of ContentsIntroduction: cultivating commerce; 1. Plant traders and expertise; 2. Science, commerce and culture; 3. Amateur botany; 4. Social status and the communication of knowledge; 5. Commerce and cosmopolitanism; 6. Cosmopolitanism under pressure; Conclusion: commerce and cultivation.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Communism
Book SynopsisThe second volume of The Cambridge History of Communism explores the rise of Communist states and movements after World War II. Leading experts analyze archival sources from formerly Communist states to re-examine the limits to Moscow''s control of its satellites; the de-Stalinization of 1956; Communist reform movements; the rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet alliance; the growth of Communism in Asia, Africa and Latin America; and the effects of the Sino-Soviet split on world Communism. Chapters explore the cultures of Communism in the United States, Western Europe and China, and the conflicts engendered by nationalism and the continued need for support from Moscow. With the danger of a new Cold War developing between former and current Communist states and the West, this account of the roots, development and dissolution of the socialist bloc is essential reading.Table of ContentsIntroduction Norman Naimark, Silvio Pons and Sophie Quinn-Judge; Part I. Expansion and Conflict: 1. World War II, Soviet power and international communism Evan Mawdsley; 2. Anti-fascist resistance movements in Europe and Asia during the Second World War Alfred Rieber; 3. The Sovietization of East Central Europe, 1945–1989 Norman Naimark; 4. The Chinese Communist Revolution and the world Chen Jian; 5. Nikita Khrushchev and de-Stalinization in the Soviet Union 1953–1964 Joerg Baberowski; 6. The changing pattern of Soviet-East European relations, 1953–1968 Mark Kramer; 7. Reform undercurrents and the Prague Springs Pavel Kolar; 8. The socialist modernization of China between Soviet model and national specificity, 1949–1960s Thomas Bernstein; 9. The Chinese cultural revolution Andy Walder; 10. The rise and fall of the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949–1989 Sergey Radchenko; 11. Mao Zedong as a historical personality Daniel Leese 12. Cold War anti-communism and the impact on the West Federico Romero; Part II. Becoming Global, Becoming National: 13. Communism, de-colonization, and the Third World Andreas Hilger; 14. The Socialist camp and the challenge of economic modernization in the Third World Sara Lorenzini; 15. The Cuban Revolution: the first decade Piero Gleijeses; 16. Latin American communism Victor Figueroa Clark; 17. The history of the Vietnamese Communist Party (1941–1975) Sophie Quinn-Judge; 18. Korean communism: from Soviet occupation to Kim family regime Charles Armstrong; 19. Indonesian communism: the perils of the parliamentary path John Roosa; 20. Communism in India Hari Vasudevan; 21. Comparing African experiences of communism Allison Drew; 22. Communism in the Arab World and Iran Johan Franzén; 23. Yugoslav communism and the Yugoslav State Ivo Banac; 24. Italian communism Giovanni Gozzini; 25. The French Communist Party Marc Lazar; 26. American communism Phillip Deery; Index.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge History of Communism
Book SynopsisThe third volume of The Cambridge History of Communism spans the period from the 1960s to the present, documenting the last two decades of the global Cold War and the collapse of Soviet socialism. An international team of scholars analyze the rise of China as a global power continuing to proclaim its Maoist allegiance, and the transformation of the geopolitics and political economy of Cold War conflict in an era of increasing economic interpenetration. Beneath the surface, profound political, social, economic and cultural changes were occurring in the socialist and former socialist countries, resulting in the collapse and transformations of the existing socialist order and the changing parameters of world Marxism. This volume draws on innovative research to bring together history from above and below, including social, cultural, gender, and transnational history to transcend the old separation between Communist studies and the broader field of contemporary history.Table of ContentsIntroduction Juliane Fürst, Silvio Pons and Mark Selden; 1. The Global 1968 and international communism Robert Gildea; 2. The Vietnam War as a world event Sophie Quinn-Judge and Marilyn Young; 3. The Soviet Union and the global Cold War Artemy Kalinovsky; 4. Marxist revolutions and regimes in Latin America and Africa in the 1970s Piero Gleijeses; 5. The aging pioneer: late Soviet Socialist society, its challenges and challengers Juliane Fürst and Stephen Bittner; 6. Communist propaganda and media in the era of the Cold War Stephen Lovell; 7. The zones of late Socialist literature Polly Jones; 8. Visualizing the Socialist public sphere Reuben Fowkes; 9. The decline of Soviet-type economies André Steiner; 10. Reform Communism Silvio Pons and Michele Di Donato; 11. Cambodia: detonator of communism's implosion Ben Kiernan; 12. Make some get rich first. State consumerism and private enterprise in the creation of postsocialist China Karl Gerth; 13. Gorbachev's reforms and the Soviet crisis Mark Kramer; 14. Communism and religion Stephen A. Smith; 15. Human rights and communism Mark Bradley; 16. Feminism, communism, and global Socialism, 1968–1995: encounters and entanglements Celia Donert; 17. The communist and post-socialist gender order in China and Russia Marko Dumancic; 18. Communism and environment Douglas Weiner; 19. Europe's '1989' in global context James Mark and Tobias Rupprecht; 20. The collapse of the Soviet Union Vladislav Zubok; 21. Thirty years after: the end of European communism in historical perspective Charles Maier; 22. Communism and nationalism in the Soviet Union and Russia Nikolai Mitrokhin; 23. China's human development after Socialism Carl Riskin; 24. China's post-Socialist transformation and global resurgence: political economy and geopolitics Mark Selden and Ho fung Hung; 25. Legacies of communism. Comparative remarks Jan Behrends; 26. Cultural memories of communism Jan Plamper; Index.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Koshersoul
Book SynopsisTrade Review“In this fascinating book — which includes recipes — Twitty explores, as he puts it, “the intersections between food and identity.” — Washington Post “Twitty makes the case that Blackness and Judaism coexist in beautiful harmony, and this is manifested in the foods and traditions from both cultures that Black Jews incorporate into their daily lives…Twitty wishes to start a conversation where people celebrate their differences and embrace commonalities. By drawing on personal narratives, his own and others’, and exploring different cultures, Twitty’s book offers important insight into the journeys of Black Jews.” — Library Journal “…a fascinating, cross-cultural smorgasbord grounded in the deep emotional role food plays in two influential American communities.” — Booklist “Serving up a hefty helping of heart and wit, Twitty’s narrative is thrilling in its originality.” — Publishers Weekly
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Secret History of Food
Book SynopsisAn irreverent, surprising, and entirely entertaining look at the little-known history surrounding the foods we know and loveIs Italian olive oil really Italian, or are we dipping our bread in lamp oil? Why are we masochistically drawn to foods that can hurt us, like hot peppers? Far from being a classic American dish, is apple pie actually . . . English? “As a species, we’re hardwired to obsess over food,” Matt Siegel explains as he sets out “to uncover the hidden side of everything we put in our mouths.” Siegel also probes subjects ranging from the myths—and realities—of food as aphrodisiac, to how one of the rarest and most exotic spices in all the world (vanilla) became a synonym for uninspired sexual proclivities, to the role of food in fairy- and morality tales. He even makes a well-argued case for how ice cream helped defeat the Nazis. The Secret History of Food is a rich and satisfying exploration of the historical, cultural, scientific, sexual, and, yes, culinary subcultures of this most essential realm. Siegel is an armchair Anthony Bourdain, armed not with a chef’s knife but with knowledge derived from medieval food-related manuscripts, ancient Chinese scrolls, and obscure culinary journals. Funny and fascinating, The Secret History of Food is essential reading for all foodies.
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Penguin Putnam Inc The Womans Hour
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Penguin Random House India On a Wing and a Prayer
Book SynopsisTrade Review'An absorbing and enchanting breathwork bildungsroman that moves us from the meniality of modern corporate culture to the mesmerisms of meditation' James Nestor, New York Times bestselling author of Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art 'It's like Autobiography of a Yogi set in modern-day New York. It will stay in your heart long after you have put the book down'Vishen Lakhiani, CEO, Mindvalley; author of New York Times bestseller The Code of the Extraordinary Mind , Nautilus Book Award winner 'Like the WWII pilot forced to land his battle-damaged plane on "a wing and a prayer", Wall Street banker Kushal Choksi is forced by catastrophic events to embark on a remarkable journey of spiritual self-discovery. A poignant, funny, and thought-provoking read!' Carol Kline, New York Times bestselling co-author of Happy for No Reason, Love for No Reason , five books in the Chicken Soup for the Soul series and Conscious Luck: Eight Secrets to Intentionally Change Your Fortune 'Kushal delivers a powerful and earnest narrative of a curious mind's struggle to know what lies beyond the unknown and to find a purpose along the way' Jeffrey Perlman, brand architect, former CMO, Zumba Fitness. 'Kushal's authentic journey of self-exploration inspires us all to question what it really means to lead a successful life. His heartfelt account will appeal to anyone seeking answers from within'Chandrika Tandon, business leader, humanitarian and Grammy-nominated artist ' On a Wing and a Prayer is a life-changing spiritual adventure. Deeply insightful and superbly written!' Emma Seppälä, author of The Happiness Track ; science director at Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education (CCARE), Stanford University
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The University of Chicago Press Console and Classify
Book SynopsisThis edition of the classic work on the history of science and French intellectual history gives the reader the chance to revisit the rise of psychiatry in 19th-century France, the shape it took and why, and its importance both then and in contemporary society.
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The University of Chicago Press The Lost Promise of Patriotism
Book SynopsisJonathan Hansen tells the story of a group of American intellectuals who believed the solution to the crisis of American identity leading up to World War I lay in rethinking the meaning of liberalism.
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The University of Chicago Press A Community Built on Words The Constitution in
Book SynopsisCombing history and theory, Powell analyzes a series of constitutional controversies from 1790 to 1944 to demonstrate that constitutional law from its very beginning has involved politically charged and ideologically diverse arguments.Trade Review"The Constitution is not an apolitical text; rather, from its beginning it has been more like a contested battlefield over which rival interpretations struggled. Such is the legal-philosophical point of Powell's powerful work.... A beautifully written text, and as an historical narrative it may well convince its readers, and convince them more powerfully, than a mere theoretical argument." - Virginia Quarterly Review"
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MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin I Am Evelyn Amony Reclaiming My Life from the
Book SynopsisMore than 60,000 children were abducted in east and central Africa in the 1990s by the violent rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army and its notorious commander Joseph Kony. Evelyn Amony was one of them. I Am Evelyn Amony tells a harrowing story of heartbreaking loss, unrelenting horror, and courageous survival.Trade Review'I am Evelyn Amony may be the ultimate example of a determined woman using her own powerful voice.'-African Arguments“In addition to the inherent drama of Amony’s voyage, the book uses the immediacy of oral storytelling that transitions well into written form, conveying her observations interspersed with barbed, often poetic analysis.”—International Journal of African Historical Studies
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Heinemann Educational Books Big Brother and the National Reading Curriculum
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WW Norton & Co The Story of American Freedom
Book SynopsisA stirring history of America focused on its animating impulse: freedom.Trade Review"Brilliant, important.... [A] superb book." -- Fred Anderson - Los Angeles Times Book Review"Succinct, information-packed, wonderfully readable.... An excellent choice for serious readers." -- Pauline Maier - New York Times Book Review"Foner tackles the whole drama of American history. He succeeds, with far-reaching intelligence and a genial respect for his reader." -- Mark Greif - Boston Sunday Globe"A masterful book... that covers two centuries of courage, violence, achievement, and unfulfilled dreams in the quest for liberty." -- Herbert Mitgang - Newsday"A thought-provoking look at the historical uses of freedom in the United States." -- Seattle Times"Powerful.... Eric Foner has held up a mirror and asked us as a people to take a good, hard look at ourselves. It is incumbent on us not to turn away." -- Raleigh News & Observer
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WW Norton & Co Double Eagle
Book SynopsisA thrilling page-turner....This is a great read.Publishers Weekly, starred reviewTrade Review"Frankel steers her reader through a world of coin fairs, backroom deals, gossip and meticulous scholarship. The result is a thriller-like narrative that tacks swiftly back and forth among the principal players." -- Jason Goodwin - Wall Street Journal
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WW Norton & Co Faster Higher Farther
Book SynopsisA rich history of a company whose cars, for better and worse, have touched millions of lives, a character study of a brilliant but deeply flawed leader, and a case study in how a corporate culture can turn toxic. -Bethany McLean, New York Times Book ReviewTrade Review"A damning indictment of corporate malfeasance and… an accessible account of one of the most expensive business mistakes ever recorded." -- Patrick McGee - Financial Times"Faster, Higher, Farther: The Volkswagen Scandal takes readers through the combination of pressures that produced what may be the biggest corporate scandal ever, detailing the company’s personalities and the history behind the saga with fluency and wit." -- Atlantic"Perversely engaging." -- Barron’s"Exhaustive." -- Richard Epstein - Forbes"A fantastic book." -- Catherine Wolfram, co-director of the Energy Institute at Haas, University of California, Berkeley"This book, which races along like Jensen Button, tells the inside story of the Volkswagen scandal. Ewing tells it quite beautifully." -- Daily Mail"Ewing reveals for the first time the true extent of the scandal." -- The Times (London)"A must read." -- Handelsblatt
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Crown Publishing Group (NY) DDay Girls
Book SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The dramatic, untold history of the heroic women recruited by Britain’s elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II“Gripping. Spies, romance, Gestapo thugs, blown-up trains, courage, and treachery (lots of treachery)—and all of it true.”—Erik Larson, author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake In 1942, the Allies were losing, Germany seemed unstoppable, and every able man in England was on the front lines. To “set Europe ablaze,” in the words of Winston Churchill, the Special Operations Executive (SOE), whose spies were trained in everything from demolition to sharpshooting, was forced to do something unprecedented: recruit women. Thirty-nine answered the call, leaving their lives and families to become saboteurs in France. In D-Day Girls, Sarah Rose draws on recently declassified files, diaries, and oral histories to tell the thrilling story of three of these remarkable women. There’s Andrée Borrel, a scrappy and streetwise Parisian who blew up power lines with the Gestapo hot on her heels; Odette Sansom, an unhappily married suburban mother who saw the SOE as her ticket out of domestic life and into a meaningful adventure; and Lise de Baissac, a fiercely independent member of French colonial high society and the SOE’s unflappable “queen.” Together, they destroyed train lines, ambushed Nazis, plotted prison breaks, and gathered crucial intelligence—laying the groundwork for the D-Day invasion that proved to be the turning point in the war.Rigorously researched and written with razor-sharp wit, D-Day Girls is an inspiring story for our own moment of resistance: a reminder of what courage—and the energy of politically animated women—can accomplish when the stakes seem incalculably high.Praise for D-Day Girls“Rigorously researched . . . [a] thriller in the form of a non-fiction book.”—Refinery29“Equal parts espionage-romance thriller and historical narrative, D-Day Girls traces the lives and secret activities of the 39 women who answered the call to infiltrate France. . . . While chronicling the James Bond-worthy missions and love affairs of these women, Rose vividly captures the broken landscape of war.”—The Washington Post“Gripping history . . . thoroughly researched and written as smoothly as a good thriller, this is a mesmerizing story of creativity, perseverance, and astonishing heroism.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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The University of Michigan Press Floating Palaces of the Great Lakes
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The University of Michigan Press A History of Disability
Book SynopsisIn addressing Western discourse on disability, Stiker examines the cultural assumption that equality/sameness/similarity is always desired by those in society and asserts his own view that difference is not only acceptable but desirable and necessary'
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The University of Michigan Press Illegitimacy in Renaissance Florence
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The University of Michigan Press Category 5
Book SynopsisLate in the day of August 17, 1969, Hurricane Camille slammed into the Mississippi coast near Biloxi with a force of near-biblical proportions. This is the story of Camille, the violent hurricane, and of the lessons that remain to be learned about human failing in the face of nature's fury.
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University of California Press American Peril
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Penguin Putnam Inc Major Labels
Book SynopsisOne of Oprah Daily's 20 Favorite Books of 2021 • Selected as one of Pitchfork's Best Music Books of the Year“One of the best books of its kind in decades.” —The Wall Street Journal An epic achievement and a huge delight, the entire history of popular music over the past fifty years refracted through the big genres that have defined and dominated it: rock, R&B, country, punk, hip-hop, dance music, and pop Kelefa Sanneh, one of the essential voices of our time on music and culture, has made a deep study of how popular music unites and divides us, charting the way genres become communities. In Major Labels, Sanneh distills a career’s worth of knowledge about music and musicians into a brilliant and omnivorous reckoning with popular music—as an art form (actually, a bunch of art forms), as a cultural and economic force, and as a tool that we use to build our identitie
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Random House USA Inc A Short History of Drunkenness
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Penguin Putnam Inc In the Shadow of the Gods
Book SynopsisA dazzling account of the men (and occasional woman) who led the world’s empires, a book that probes the essence of leadership and power through the centuries and around the world.From the rise of Sargon of Akkad, who in the third millennium BCE ruled what is now Iraq and Syria, to the collapse of the great European empires in the twentieth century, the empire has been the dominant form of power in history. Dominic Lieven’s expansive book explores strengths and failings of the human beings who held those empires together (or let them crumble). He projects the power, terror, magnificence, and confidence of imperial monarchy, tracking what they had in common as well as what made some rise to glory and others fail spectacularly, and at what price each destiny was reached.Lieven’s characters—Constantine, Chinggis Khan, Trajan, Suleyman, Hadrian, Louis XIV, Maria Theresa, Peter the Great, Queen Victoria, and dozens more—come alive with co
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Arcadia Publishing Mount Union College College History
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Arcadia Publishing New York City Firefighting
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Quarto Publishing Group USA Inc The Who Quadrophenia
Book SynopsisThe Who & Quadrophenia offers a generously illustrated deep dive into all aspects of one of the most popular rock albums of all time.Trade Review“Everything about the writing, recording, and touring of Quadrophenia—as well as its lengthy afterlife and how it fits into the Greater Who History—is explored in Martin Popoff’s The Who & Quadrophenia. The ultra-prolific Popoff, as usual, leaves no detail unexplored in his latest in a series of high-quality coffee table books.” -- Bob Ruggiero * Houston Press *Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1: “Remember when stars were in reach:” The Context: The Who as of 1972 Sidebar 1: Mods Sidebar 2: Chris Stamp and Kit Lambert Chapter 2: “You only see what we show you:” The Sessions Sidebar 1: Concept Albums versus Rock Operas Chapter 3: “Can you see the real me, can you?:” Side One Sidebar 1: The Graphics Sidebar 2: Pete Townshend Chapter 4: “I hear the music of a heartbeat:” Side Two Sidebar 1: Roger Daltrey Chapter 5: “Let me flow into the ocean:” Side Three Sidebar 1: Keith Moon Chapter 6: “Oh God, I need a drink of cool, cool rain:” Side Four Sidebar 1: John Entwistle Chapter 7: “You fight computers and receipts:” The Tour Sidebar 1: Charts, Sales and Rankings Chapter 8: “I’m dressed right for a beachfight:” Quadrophenia: The Movie Sidebar 1: Quadrophenia: The Soundtrack Album Sidebar 2: The Mod Revival Chapter 9: “I pick up phones and hear my history:” The Who Post-Quadrophenia Sidebar 1: Performances of Quadrophenia in the Modern Day Sidebar 2: Quadrophenia Collectibles Tour Dates Discography Image Credits About the Author Index
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Running Press,U.S. This Is a Book for People Who Love Hot Sauce
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Schiffer Publishing An Illustrated History of Hairstyles 18301930
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Evolution of Western Private Law
Book SynopsisThe result is a work that incorporates all the ideas that Watson has put forward during his twenty-five years studying comparative law and the development of legal systems, combining a remarkable range of sources with superb insight.Trade ReviewThe Evolution of Western Private Law is an innovative look at the development of the Western legal tradition. It makes an important contribution to the literature on legal history, and Watson has carefully examined the sources and the relevant legal documents. Although highly detailed and somewhat technical, Watson writes with great clarity. -- Gerald J. Russello Bryn Mawr Classical ReviewTable of ContentsPrefaceAcknowledgementsAbbreviations1. Legislation2. Jurists3. Judges4. Custom5. Legislation and Jurists: French Delit6. Jurists, Judges, Custom, Legislation: Water Rights7. Legal Transplants I: The Cause of the Reception of Roman Law8. Legal Transplants 2: Other Reception of Roman Law9. The Case of English Common law10. Humanism, The Law of Reason, Codification11. ConclusionsNotesGlossaryIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press The Reluctant Metropolis
Book SynopsisThe only way to reverse the historical trends that have made Los Angeles increasingly unliveable, Fulton concludes, is to confront the prevailing cocoon citizenship,the mind-set that prevents the city's inhabitants and leaders from recognizing Los Angeles's patchwork of communities as a single metropolis.Trade ReviewA surprisingly lively case study of the battles and alliances of politics, business and people that formed-or deformed-a great American city. Publishers Weekly (starred review) One of the most entertaining and thought-provoking books I have read in a long time about urban growth and change... Important reading for anyone interested in contemporary urban development. [Fulton] tells a story that may sound uniquely Los Angeles, but really applies to every growing city in America. -- Richard Peiser APA JournalTable of ContentsContents: Preface to the Paperback Edition Introduction: The Collapse of the Growth MachinePart 1: Power Chapter 1: The Beachhead Chapter 2: Perestroika Co-opted Chapter 3: Suburbs of ExtractionPart 2: Structure Chapter 4: Chinatown Redefined Chapter 5: The Money Train Chapter 6: The Reluctant MetropolisPart 3: Land Chapter 7: The Education of Maria VanderKolk Chapter 8: The Politics of ExtinctionPart 4: Money Chapter 9: The Taking of Parcel K Chapter 10: Welcome to Sales Tax CanyonPart 5: Consequences Chapter 11: Whose Riot Was This, Anyway? Chapter 12: Cloning Los Angeles Chapter 13: Cocoon Citizenship and the Toon Town UrbanismAcknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index Photography Credits
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Johns Hopkins University Press Flight in America From the Wrights to the
Book SynopsisHe offers a glimpse of the developments one might expect in the new millennium.Trade ReviewThe standard history of the American aerospace enterprise-with good reason. -- Tom D. Crouch Museums New York 2004Table of ContentsContents: Preface to the Third Edition Abbreviations Chapter 1: The Awkward Years: Early Flight to 1918 Chapter 2: The Aviation Business, 1918-1930 Chapter 3: Adventure, Airways, and Innovation, 1930-1940 Chapter 4: Air Power at War, 1930-1945 Chapter 5: Air-Age Realities, 1945-1955 Chapter 6: Higher Horizons, 1955-1965 Chapter 7: From the Earth to the Moon, 1965-1975 Chapter 8: Aerospace Perspectives, 1975-1983 Chapter 9: Turmoil and Transition, 1983-2000 Notes Index
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Johns Hopkins University Press Thinking with Objects
Book SynopsisExamining objects helps us appreciate the shift from the study to the practice of mechanics and challenges artificial dichotomies among practical and conceptual pursuits, mathematics, and experiment.Trade ReviewClearly the result of meticulous research and extensive study, I suspect this work will stand the test of time. PhiloBiblos 2007 The revival of extensive discourses makes this a unique, invaluable resource for any study of the history of science. Choice 2007 Fascinating reading for anyone interested in the history of science... incredibly thorough. -- David Nuttall Physics Education 2007 An important contribution... and his book should find a welcome place on the bookshelf of anyone interested in the history of the Scientific Revolution. -- William R. Shea American Historical Review 2007 A very interesting book... I have no doubt that it is destined to find a pivotal place in the study of the history of science. -- Michael Box Australian Physics 2008 The most important contribution to the history of mechanics of the last decade, likely to become a standard reference and without any doubt a must for every historian of physics. -- Jurgen Renn Renaissance Quarterly 2008 A superb, if difficult book, that belongs as basic to the curriculum of early modern history of science. -- Margaret Jacob History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 2007 Meli's stress on the importance of engagements with materiality in the development of seventeenth-century mechanics thus achieves a spectacular vindication in demonstrating the full meaning of Newton's pretensions to be contributing not just to 'mathematics' in the Principia, but to natural philosophy itself. -- Peter Dear British Journal for the History of Science 2008 [Meli's] approach is new and convincing... a groundbreaking change of focus. -- Sophie Roux Metascience 2009 Full of pertinent detail in the text itself, Thinking with Objects cleverly uses the captions of figures to provide more extended samples of seventeenth-century arguments, thus demonstrating in practice how helpful it is to think with visual or geometric representations. -- Edith Dudley Sylla Isis 2008 Thinking with Objects is a significant book. Its success lies in reformulating our ideas of the methods and practices of early modern sciences... No serious future study of early modern physics and its transformations will be able to ignore the analyses and conclusions of this work. -- Craig Martin Huntington Library Quarterly 2009Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Beyond Inertia: From Laws to Objects2. Motion and Mechanics3. The Role of Mathematics4. Experience and Experiment5. Practitioners, Sites, and Forms of Communication6. Structure and Organization of the Present Work1. Machines in the Field, in the Book, and in the Study1.1. Between Classical Theory and Engineering Practice1.2. Machines, Equilibrium, and Motion1.3. The Balance of dal Monte and the Problem of Rigor1.4. Pulleys and the Contingency of Matter1.5. Rival Traditions on the Inclined Plane2. Floating Bodies and a Mathematical Science of Motion2.1. Some Features of Archimedes' Floating Bodies2.2. Reading Floating Bodies2.3. Benedetti against the Philosophers2.4. Galileo's Early Speculations2.5. Mazzoni, Stevin, and Galileo3. The Formulation of New Mathematical Sciences3.1. The Broadening of the Mechanical Tradition3.2. Galileo at Padua and the Science of Motion3.3. From Buoyancy to the Science of Waters3.4. Motion between Heaven and Earth3.5. The Science of the Resistance of Materials3.6. The Science of Motion4. Novel Reflections and Quantitative Experiments4.1. Different Readings of Galileo4.2. Mersenne's Harmonie and the Dialogo4.3. Rethinking Galileo's Axiomatic Structure4.4. Continuity and the Law of Fall4.5. Trials with Projectiles, Pierced Cisterns, and Beams4.6. The Experiments and Tables of Riccioli5. The Motion and Collision of Particles5.1. The Rise of the Mechanical Philosophy5.2. Mechanics and the Mechanical Philosophy5.3. Beeckman, Galileo, and Descartes5.4. Motion and Its Laws5.5. From the Balance to Impact: Beeckman, Marci, and Descartes5.6. The Workings of the Cartesian UniverseIntermezzo: Generational and Institutional Changes6. The Equilibrium and Motion of Liquids6.1. A Characterization of a Research Tradition6.2. Studies around the Time of the Cimento Academy6.3. Pressure and Equilibrium in Pascal and Boyle6.4. Studying the Motion of Waters North of the Alps6.5. Guglielmini and the Bologna Scene6.6. Experiments Combining Pressure and Speed7. Projected, Oscillating, and Orbiting Bodies7.1. The Tools of Investigation7.2. The Analyses of Orbital Motion by Fabri and Borelli7.3. Falling Bodies on a Moving Earth7.4. Projectiles and Air Resistance7.5. Huygens's Pendulum7.6. English Approaches to Orbital Motion8. Colliding Bodies, Springs, and Beams8.1. The Emergence of Elasticity8.2. Boyle and Elasticity8.3. The Transformation of the Impact Rules8.4. Springs between Technology and Cosmology8.5. Bending and Breaking Beams9. A New World-System9.1. Teamwork and Anti-Cartesianism9.2. Halley, Wren, Hooke, and Newton9.3. The Principia's Structure and Conceptual Framework9.4. The Role of Experiments9.5. The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy9.6. A New World-System: Newton and Flamsteed10. Causes, Conservation, and the New Mathematics10.1. Mechanics at the Turn of the Century10.2. The New Analysis10.3. Conservation10.4. Early Responses to Newton's Principia10.5. The New Analysis and Newton's PrincipiaConclusion: Mapping the Transformations of MechanicsNotesReferencesIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Nylon and Bombs
Book SynopsisReflecting on the experiences and contributions of the company's engineers and physicists, Ndiaye traces Du Pont's transformation into one of the corporate models of American success.Trade ReviewFresh because of its innovative approach to the history of DuPont... Stimulating book. -- Terrence J. Gough Journal of Military History 2007 The reader who is well versed in the field will... gain insight into the significant contributions made by chemical engineers and into the interaction between technological developments and broad social, cultural, and political changes. -- Christiane Diehl Taylor Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 Nylon and Bombs will no doubt be put to great use in the emerging field of engineering studies. -- Jody Roberts Technology and Culture 2008 A very important book that ought to be read by all chemical engineers who seek a broad understanding of the history of their profession. -- Robert W. Seidel Bulletin for the History of Chemistry 2008 Ndiaye makes a worthwhile contribution to the literature and opens up many questions with which specialists will want to engage. -- Jeff Hughes Isis 2008Table of ContentsTranslator's NoteIntroduction1. DuPont and the Rise of Chemical Engineering2. From Ammonia to Nylon: Technologies and Careers3. Culture and Politics at DuPont before World War II4. The Forgotten Engineers of the Bomb5. The Heyday and Decline of Chemical EngineeringConclusionNotesEssay on Sources and HistoriographyIndex
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Johns Hopkins University Press Horse People Thoroughbred Culture in Lexington
Book SynopsisCassidy's investigation reveals the factors-ethical, cultural, political, and economic-that have shaped the racing tradition.Trade ReviewCombining thorough research with an excellent writing style, this volume goes beyond such personal accounts as Jane Smiley's A Year at the Races (2004) and Nan Mooney's My Racing Heart (2002). Not about the sport of horseracing per se, this is an entertaining and enjoyable anthropological study of the relationships between humans and animals. Choice 2008 Cassidy has created an engaging study that would appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in horse racing. -- Jeff Meyer Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 2007 [A] comprehensive and entertaining book. -- Margaret Taylor Journal of the Royal Anthropological Inst. 2009Table of ContentsPreface1. Histories2. The Right to Be Well Born3. The Horseman Makes the Horse4. The Centers of the World5. Stud Farm6. Auction7. Training8. Racing TodayEpilogueNotesEssay on SourcesIndex
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co The Early History of God Yahweh and the Other
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Northwestern University Press Deering Library An Illustrated History
Book SynopsisExplores the Deering and McCormick families, who funded the Deering Library project; the building's Collegiate Gothic architecture; its lore as a campus institution; and its role in the evolution of Northwestern University Library into one of the country's most prominent research libraries.
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The University Press of Kentucky The Kentucky Mint Julep
Book SynopsisJoe Nickell looks at the origins of the julep, offers a brief history of American whiskey and Kentucky bourbon, and shares some classic julep tales. The book includes numerous recipes -- for classic juleps, modern variations, non-alcoholic versions, and the author's own thoroughly researched "perfect" mint julep.
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The University Press of Kentucky Berea College An Illustrated History
Book SynopsisBerea College's spiritual motto, "God has made of one blood all peoples of the earth," has shaped the institution's unique culture and programs since its founding in 1855.Trade ReviewAll who read Wilson's account of Berea College will acknowledge the school's uniqueness and appreciate its contribution to American life. - MARION LUCAS, WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY
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The University Press of Kentucky Frank L McVey and the University of Kentucky A
Book SynopsisIn 1917, fifty-two years after its founding, the University of Kentucky faced stagnation, financial troubles, and disturbing reports of nepotism, resulting in a leadership crisis. Moyen chronicles McVey's triumphs and challenges as the president sought to transform the university from a small state college into the state's flagship institution.
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