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Frommer’s books aren’t by A.I., or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and then consider the job done. We use seasoned, locally-based journalists like Elizabeth Heath, Donal……続きを見る

People drawn to Webster Groves by Webster University; the Opera Theatre or the Rep; the community’s schools, churches, parks, and restaurants; or just passing through have undoubtedly been struck by……続きを見る

Édition établie et présentée par Philippe Artières Victor Schœlcher est célèbre pour avoir été le principal artisan de l’abolition de l’esclavage en France en 1848. Pour mener ce combat, on sait moi……続きを見る

"In mir ist es finster, aber bei dir ist das Licht." In Gebeten, Gedichten und anderen Texten, die Dietrich Bonhoeffer während seiner Haft von 1943-1945 schrieb, verarbeitet er nicht nur die Trennun……続きを見る

Gifts, from objects to hospitality and from poems to support, are a means of establishing and maintaining social ties. This study focuses on the nature of seventeenth- century Dutch social relations……続きを見る

Verhoeff investigates the emergence of the western genre, made in the first two decades of cinema (1895-1915). By analyzing many unknown and forgotten films from international archives she traces th……続きを見る

This book offers a discussion of the screens, installations, and media architecture that populate contemporary urban public spaces. It proposes a methodological approach and conceptual toolset for t……続きを見る

As far as interaction with screens is concerned, the given technology of particular interactive devices entails an ambiguous status of screens: what is shown on the screen has to do with how one int……続きを見る

Oubliez tout ce que vous avez appris, car l’histoire de France est émaillée d’idées reçues héritées de notre scolarité : en réalité, Charlemagne n’a pas inventé l’école, le Moyen Âge n’était pas sal……続きを見る

This essential primary-source reader brings together documents collected over decades of research into security agency tradecraft and Chinese Cold War-era human intelligence. Michael Schoenhals' exp……続きを見る

The Bellevue War, the Driscoll lynchings, the mob killing of Latter-day Saints founder Joseph Smith, the violent collapse of a criminal family network in Illinois, the claim club violence of Nebrask……続きを見る

Ghosts abound in Manhattan, and with the aid of Dr. Philip Ernest Schoenberg's extensive guide, you can still hobnob with cultural icons such as Dorothy Parker and Sherwood Anderson or glimpse Harry……続きを見る

Jerusalem, Februar 1948: So hat sich David die Hochzeitsreise mit Ellie nicht vorgestellt. Von höchster Stelle erhält er den gefährlichen Auftrag, im Ausland ausrangierte, noch fahrtüchtige Flugzeug……続きを見る

Diagonaal door Nederland, van Goes naar Groningen, loopt een lijn die het land verdeelt in een helft beneden en een helft boven de zeespiegel. Maar de lijn is veel meer dan een natuurlijke scheidsli……続きを見る

Maria von Wedemeyer est une très jeune femme pleine de vivacité et rétive aux conventions lorsque son chemin croise celui du pasteur Bonhoeffer qui tombe sous son charme. De personnalités très diffé……続きを見る

Winner, 2010 Bennett H. Wall Award, Southern Historical Association In this fresh study Brian Schoen views the Deep South and its cotton industry from a global perspective, revisiting old assumption……続きを見る

From the Golden Age of the 1940s, through the Silver Age of the '60s, up until the early '80s--the end of the Bronze Age. Included are the earliest series, like American Comics Group's Adventures in……続きを見る

Wyjątkowa i przejmująca opowieść o Józefinie i NapoleonieFrancja, 1790 rok. Kobieta, która wiele lat później zasłynie jako Józefina Bonaparte, ucieka z ogarniętej zamieszkami Martyniki do Paryża. Ki……続きを見る

CONTENTS: Introduction, Jean H. Baker and Charles W. Mitchell “Border State, Border War: Fighting for Freedom and Slavery in Antebellum Maryland,” Richard Bell “Charity Folks and the Ghosts of Slave……続きを見る

On April 4, 1866, just as Alexander II stepped out of Saint Petersburg's Summer Garden and onto the boulevard, a young man named Dmitry Karakozov pulled out a pistol and shot at the tsar. He missed,……続きを見る

Full of colorful details and engrossing stories, Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles shows that the aspirations of individual Americans to be recognized as people worthy of others' respect was a ……続きを見る

Die nationalsozialistische Besatzung Luxemburgs (1940-1944) beeinflusste alle Lebensbereiche der Bevölkerung. Für den Koblenzer Gauleiter Gustav Simon war das kleine Land ein Experimentierfeld «neue……続きを見る

Machiavelli entwirft die Figur des modernen Herrschers im Spannungsverhältnis von Macht und Schein. Nichts sein – alles scheinen wird zur Bedingung für Erwerb und Erhalt von Macht. Dabei ist Machiav……続きを見る

The oldest Islamic biography of Muhammad, written in the mid-eighth century, relates that the prophet died at Medina in 632, while earlier and more numerous Jewish, Christian, Samaritan, and even Is……続きを見る

Abram J. Dittenhoefer was a young South Carolinian who embraced abolition and moved to New York in order to work for the newly formed Republican party and its antislavery platform. Even though he wa……続きを見る

Prix Jean-Baptiste Duroselle (2007) et prix Association des Anciens de I'Institut (2007) La réconciliation de la France et de l’Allemagne, depuis la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, a transformé l……続きを見る

Greece and Rome were quintessentially urban societies. Ancient culture, politics and society arose and developed in the context of the polis and the civitas. In modern scholarship, the ancient city ……続きを見る

This book focuses on the development of Platonic philosophy at the hands of Roman writers between the first century BCE and the early fifth century CE. It discusses the interpretation of Plato's Tim……続きを見る

The volume on a standard amp goes to 10. But, sometimes, that's just not high enough. Sometimes, you need to rock even harder than that-all the way to 11. Goes to 11books are short, opinionated intr……続きを見る

Since the end of the Cold War, the operations of secret police informers have come under the media spotlight and it is now common knowledge that vast internal networks of spies in the Soviet Union a……続きを見る