Ru - History 83

Marking the 200th anniversary of his death, Napoleon is an unprecedented portrait of the emperor told through his engagement with the natural world. “How should one envisage this subject? With a gre……続きを見る

The second book by the bestselling author of Extraordinary Insects Trees clean air and water; hoverflies and bees pollinate our crops; the kingfisher inspired the construction of high-speed trains. ……続きを見る

Bruce Hoffman's Inside Terrorism has remained the seminal work for understanding the historical evolution of terrorism and the terrorist mind-set. In this revised third edition of his classic text, ……続きを見る

2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title A city of modest size, Providence, Rhode Island, had the third-largest Native American population in the United States by the first decade of the twentieth cen……続きを見る

La historia de Colombia desde su independencia difiere poco de las de sus hermanas latinoamericanas: distribución inequitativa de la tierra, grandes comunidades relegadas a la exclusión, caudillismo……続きを見る

Eve Lazarus is a journalist, blogger, podcaster, and author with a passion for unconventional history. She has written seven books about Vancouver, Canada, including Murder by Milkshake; Blood, Swea……続きを見る

The remarkable story of how a large public-private partnership worked to control and defeat riverblindnessーa scourge which had devastated rural communities and impeded socioeconomic development thr……続きを見る

Psicanálise Trilógica Analítica Estudo sobre os últimos cinquenta e cinco anos de vida no planeta. Época conturbada pela transmutação negativa dos valores. A instituição do avesso desta inversão do ……続きを見る

In beginning the study of the physical geography of North America, one of the first facts to claim attention is that the true continental border is in general many miles seaward from the present mar……続きを見る

The southern coast of Alaska is remarkable for the regularity of its general outline. If a circle a thousand miles in diameter be inscribed on a map of the northern Pacific with a point in about lat……続きを見る

Rudolf Herzogs Buch 'Das große Heimweh' ist eine faszinierende und emotionale Erkundung des menschlichen Verlangens nach Zugehörigkeit und Heimat. In einem einfühlsamen und nuancierten Stil porträti……続きを見る

Changed Forever is the first study to gather a range of texts produced by Native Americans who, voluntarily or through compulsion, attended government-run boarding schools in the last decades of the……続きを見る

Compunction was one of the most important emotions for medieval Christianity; in fact, through its confessional function, compunction became the primary means for an affective sinner to gain redempt……続きを見る

Founded in 1972 and now the largest NGO in the world, BRAC has been lauded for its efforts aimed at lifting the poor, especially women, out of poverty. In BRAC, Global Policy Language, and Women in ……続きを見る

Poor Buffaloーso rusty and abandoned, so sadly persistent in its despair, so abused by comedians, yet so close to serene and orderly Canada, and so blessed with an attractively resilient and rebelli……続きを見る

Dead reckoning is the nautical term for calculating a ship's position using the distance and direction traveled rather than instruments or astronomical observation. For those still recovering from t……続きを見る

‘’ Kijk als een kunstenaar is een toegankelijk en vermakelijk geschreven boek vol interessante feitjes en informatie. Je krijgt meteen zin om zelf aan de slag te gaan.’’ Museumtijdschrift Monica de ……続きを見る

Originally published in 2011, this volume publishes the letters of Jeremy Belknap and Ebenezer Hazard. The letters encompassed twenty years, from 1779 to 1798, during a time when the United States w……続きを見る

This text is among the first to reveal the intricacies of an airline’s Operations Control Centre; especially the thought processes, information flows, and strategies taken to mitigate disruptions. A……続きを見る

As comemorações do Sesquicentenário da Independência do Brasil, ocorridas entre 21 de abril e 7 de setembro de 1972, contou com mais de 50 eventos, entre os quais a Olimpíada do Exército, a Taça Ind……続きを見る

As a relief visitor, in a Unit authorized by the French Government au secours dans la région dévastée, I have lived recently in the Department of the Somme. There I had in my care a village with a p……続きを見る

"Avanti!", to gather strength from family and move forward, has been an inspiring motto guiding this unique Italian family and their descendants. Their story begins in the 1860's in Afragola, Italy,……続きを見る

La obra fundamental sobre la histórica civilización más antigua del Mediterráneo Occidental conocida como Tarteso. Dotado de una extraordinaria riqueza en metales y estratégicamente ubicado entre la……続きを見る

In examining the re-emergence of Russia's White Movement, Memory Politics and the Russian Civil War gets to the heart of the rich 20th-century memory debates going on in Putin's Russia today. The Kr……続きを見る

Paris has long been the world’s most popular destination and, in the view of many, the world’s most beautiful city – the product of two thousand years of continuous improvement and refinement. The M……続きを見る

This book explores the development of the discipline of Criminology on the island of Ireland, through conversations with leading criminologists. Adding depth and breadth to the understandings of thi……続きを見る

This book, first published in 1956, analyses the Red Army’s strategic planning for a war involving nuclear weapons – whereby the front line is thinned out to protect it from nuclear attack and repla……続きを見る

This book tellsーwith firsthand accounts as well as numerous, never-before-seen photographsーthe combat history of German Tiger Tank Battalion 503, the senior Tiger battalion of the German Army, equ……続きを見る

In his translator's preface to the revised edition of Gandhiji's autobiography, Mahadev Desai stated:It has now undergone careful revision, and from the point of view of language, it has had the ben……続きを見る

Autobiography of World War Two Luftwaffe pilot Hans Ulrich Rudel, the most highly decorated German serviceman of WW2, and the only one to be awarded the Third Reich’s most prestigious medal which wa……続きを見る