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In 'Wired Love' by Ella Cheever Thayer, readers are transported to the world of telegraphic courtship in the late 19th century. The book follows the unique relationship between two telegraph operato……続きを見る

A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week' 'Fascinating ... you'll never look at a Hello Kitty or a Pokémon the same way again' Mail on Sunday Why are some things cute, and others not? What happens to our bra……続きを見る

In The Wired City, Dan Kennedy tells the story of the New Haven Independent, a nonprofit community website in Connecticut that is at the leading edge of reinventing local journalism. Through close a……続きを見る

In the public imagination, Silicon Valley embodies the newest of the newーthe cutting edge, the forefront of our social networks and our globally interconnected lives. But the pressures exerted on m……続きを見る

In these pathbreaking essays, Roy Rosenzweig charts the impact of new media on teaching, researching, preserving, presenting, and understanding history. Negotiating between the "cyberenthusiasts" wh……続きを見る

This fully updated new edition offers a research-based analysis of the online social world of adolescence, incorporating additional research findings that have appeared during the last decade. Talmu……続きを見る

This report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. Understanding the impacts of cyber technologies on war and warfare is increasingly critical for a ……続きを見る

Miss Nattie Rogers, telegraph operator, lived, as it were, in two worlds. The one her office, dingy and curtailed as to proportions, but from whence she could wander away through the medium of that ……続きを見る

The completion of the Transcontinental Telegraph in 1861 completed telegraphy's mile-by-mile trek across the West. In addition to linking the coasts, the telegraph represented an extraordinary Ameri……続きを見る

Designed to be used on its own or as a companion volume to the American Cities and Technology textbook. Chronologically, this volume ranges from the earliest technological dimensions of Amerindian s……続きを見る

從Hello Kitty到米奇、唐老鴨，可愛是如何席捲世界的？ 人類大腦抗拒不了的可愛事物，都有什麼共通點呢？ 臺灣第一本探討可愛本質的書，帶你一窺可愛的魅力， 讓你了解我們內心最強大的心理衝動，是如何重塑全球風……続きを見る

For many years now, studies rejecting the idea of a direct causal link between the media and children's behaviour and beliefs, have been generating insights into children's interactions with all kin……続きを見る

Following months of negotiations after the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran on 4 November 1979, President Jimmy Carter ordered the newly formed Delta Force to conduct a raid into Iran to free the……続きを見る

This excellent report has been professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction. This monograph analyzes Operation Ajax as a historical case study of the inherent challe……続きを見る

An astonishing journey into the heart of Nazi evil: a portrait of one of the darkest figures of Hitler’s Nazi eliteーReinhard Heydrich, the designer and executor of the Holocaust, chief of the Reich……続きを見る

Nadat Geert Wilders in september 2004 uit de VVD-fractie was gestapt, slaagde hij er lange tijd in om met zijn Partij voor de Vrijheid het politieke debat te domineren. Als erfgenaam van Pim Fortuyn……続きを見る

The Grumman F4F Wildcat was a single-engine fighter embarked to media wing developed by the US Air Force Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corporation in the late thirties; produced between the end of th……続きを見る

The story of the Stuart dynasty is a breathless soap opera played out in just a hundred years in an array of buildings that span Europe from Scotland, via Denmark, Holland and Spain to England. Life……続きを見る

In Wives, Mothers, and the Red Menace, Mary Brennan examines conservative women's anti-communist activism in the years immediately after World War II. Brennan details the actions and experiences of ……続きを見る

Recorded over six centuries ago, the teachings of the 14th-century Master-at-Arms Johannes Liechtenauer have been given new life by a world-wide community of modern swordsmen and women, fascinated b……続きを見る

In Edwin Pears' historical masterpiece 'The Fall of the Greek Empire,' readers are taken on a compelling journey through the decline and downfall of one of antiquity's greatest civilizations. Pears'……続きを見る

Dr. John W. Baer’s scholarship on the Pledge of Allegiance is well respected, having been cited as the definitive history of the Pledge by the US Supreme Court in 2004. Written by the socialist mini……続きを見る

The definitive guide to Traditionalism: the world's least-known major philosophy, but one that is essential for understanding our past, present and future Traditionalism is founded on ancient teachi……続きを見る

Ellen Craft and William Craft were slaves from Macon, Georgia who escaped to the North in December 1848 by traveling openly by train and steamboat, arriving in Philadelphia on Christmas Day. She pos……続きを見る

****A Goodreads Choice Awards Nomination for Best History & Biography** **An NPR Book We Love** A race-against-the-clock narrative that finally illuminates a history-changing event: the IRA’s attemp……続きを見る

Published in 1919, thirteen years after Maitland's death, this volume was compiled from his own papers and the notes of his former students. The result is a scholarly but quite readable overview of ……続きを見る

This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia's high civilizations on the development of modern West……続きを見る

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, ALSO AVAILABLE FOR YOUNG READERS AS FRITZ AND KURT **DAILY MAIL & SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOKS OF THE YEAR The inspiring true story of a father and son's fight to sta……続きを見る

Arnhem's Kaleidoscope Children is a remembered story of a family's life in a distant world. The place, Oenpelli, in Australia's Northern Territory, is like remote Canada or Alaska, where few others ……続きを見る

A best-selling journalist’s illuminating tour through the hidden legacies and modern realities of British empire that exposes how much of the present-day United Kingdom is actually rooted in its col……続きを見る