AKO - History 7

In 2008, Waltz with Bashir shocked the world by presenting a bracing story of war in what seemed like the most unlikely of formatsーan animated film. Yet as Donna Kornhaber shows in this pioneering ……続きを見る

Robert J. Sierakowski's Sandinistas: A Moral History offers a bold new perspective on the liberation movement that brought the Sandinista National Liberation Front to power in Nicaragua in 1979, ove……続きを見る

Historien om Charles Christian Lauritsen er den fantastiske fortælling om tømrerlærlingen fra Holstebro, der deserterede fra militærtjeneste i Danmark og var med til at konstruere verdens første ato……続きを見る

Maskwork is a new way of looking at the art of masks and mask-making: a unique combination of ethnography, design and practical advice. Jenny Foreman's book for teachers and practitioners of drama, ……続きを見る

Nous ne connaissons dans l’histoire aucune catastrophe que nous puissions comparer, pour sa soudaineté, son étendue, sa puissance de destruction, à la chute de la monarchie russe. Un miracle du mal ……続きを見る

First Published in 1990. Volume Two of Studies of Economic History of South Africa, looks at the Lesotho and Swaziland regions. The unfolding history and historiography of Southern Africa pose profo……続きを見る

Although multilingualism is the norm in the day-to-day lives of most sub-Saharan Africans, multilingualism in settings outside of cities has so far been under-explored. This gap is striking when con……続きを見る

Lost in a Quatrain is a relatable, inspiring, thought provoking memoir on a journey to becoming, a journey of hope and healing. Cathartically written over 18 years, Lost in a Quatrain is a select co……続きを見る

O organizador reuniu pesquisadores de diversos países para explicarem a identidade de suas respectivas nações em ensaios críticos e concisos, apresentando assim Argentina, Austrália, Brasil, Canadá,……続きを見る

The Iranian nuclear crisis has dominated world politics since the beginning of the century, with the country now facing increasing diplomatic isolation, talk of military strikes against its nuclear ……続きを見る

An eyewitness and harrowing account of the brutal life in a Soviet labour camp. An unwavering determination to survive against the odds. The heroic sacrifice and bravery of the Polish Resistance and……続きを見る

This book provides the first detailed analysis of how interactions between government policy and Fleet Street affected the political coverage of the Greek civil war, one of the first major confronta……続きを見る

Авторы книги ー Яков Верховский и Валентина Тырмос ー коренные одесситы, ныне живущие в Израиле. Будучи детьми, они пережили все ужасы румынской оккупации Одессы во время Второй мировой войны и лишь……続きを見る

On May 14-15, 1905, in the Tsushima Straits near Japan, an entire Russian fleet was annihilated, its ships sunk, scattered, or captured by the Japanese. In the deciding battle of the Russo-Japanese ……続きを見る

A saga of love and lust, personal tensions and rivalries, antagonisms and hatreds, The Flight of the Romanovs describes the last century of the Russian imperial dynasty, the Romanovs, from the yout……続きを見る

Discover a feminist pop history that looks beyond the Ton and Jane Austen to highlight the Regency women who succeeded on their own terms and were largely lost to history -- until now. Regency Engla……続きを見る

What is one to make of this very complex man? Reactionary feudal chieftain, rebel against Habsburg modernity? Freedom-fighter seeking the independence of his people, and their natural leader? Religi……続きを見る

NATIONAL BESTSELLER “The Way Forward will help every reader master their own challengesーthis is a must-read book!” ーAdmiral Bill McRaven, U.S. Navy (Retired) and author of the #1 New York Times be……続きを見る

Although physicians during World War I, and scholars since, have addressed the idea of disorders such as shell shock as inchoate flights into sickness by men unwilling to cope with war's privations,……続きを見る

At the end of World War II, a young British architect was appointed to design a series of cemeteries and memorials across Asia for the war dead. Colin St Clair Oakes, who had fought in the brutal Bu……続きを見る

Our lives are filled with objectsーones that we carry with us, that define our homes, that serve practical purposes, and that hold sentimental value. When they are broken, lost, left behind, or remo……続きを見る

At 5:29 a.m. on July 16, 1945, the Trinity Test explosion of the first atomic bomb changed the world forever. The dropping of the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan followed soon after, but it……続きを見る

In many parts of the world, the Roman Catholic Church in the twenty-first century finds itself mired in scandal, and its future prospects appear fairly dim in the eyes of many social critics. In Fro……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1997, examines the forced merger between national security interests and environmental policy makers arising from the Chemical Weapons Convention and its requirement to……続きを見る

The leading elements in this volume are the cultural representation of birth and the forms through which its narration and representation develop in the figurative arts, through historical reference……続きを見る

In this first complete translation into English of the História do Futuro by António Vieira, a famous Portuguese/Brazilian preacher, diplomat and missionary who lived in the 1600s. Karl A. Kottman J……続きを見る

**From the bestselling author of Devotion, now a Major Motion Picture, comes an unflinching firsthand chronicle of the heroic US Marines who fought on Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and in other pi……続きを見る

Nachdem die DDR 1975 die KSZE-Schlussakte von Helsinki unterzeichnet hatte, forderten immer mehr Bürger ihre Freiheitsrechte ein. Bis 1989 verließen fast 400.000 Menschen die DDR, indem sie ihre »st……続きを見る

"Don't ask the bird why it emigrated. Ask about that reason that pushed it to emigrate." This statement isn't just for birds but it also applies to human beings. Over the years, people migrate for s……続きを見る

This book presents the first cross-regional analysis of post-transitional justice periods and the conditions that influence states’ behaviors. Specifically, the book examines why states that adopt a……続きを見る