Seed - History 1

An engrossing analysis of the fiction of nuclear war In Pat Frank’s 1959 novel Alas, Babylon, the character Helen says of her children: “All their lives, ever since they’ve known anything, they’ve l……続きを見る

Kirkus Best Book of 2025 How the early Portuguese Empire facilitated the modern slave trade. The Portuguese conquered the challenges of sailing the unforgiving Atlantic Ocean, extending their coloni……続きを見る

By the spring of 1941, the enemy had taken much of Southern Europe: Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, and with Italy in the Axis it stood to dominate. The powerful British Naval Fleet and the a……続きを見る

The definitive, bestselling account of the company that changed the way we work and live, updated for the twentieth anniversary of Google’s founding with analysis of its most recent bold moves to re……続きを見る

For decades, the Louisiana political scene has been a source of interest and intrigue for scholars and casual observers alike. In recent years, the state’s political, economic, and environmental cha……続きを見る

God of War e Além mergulha no universo dos videogames para explorar a rica e complexa relação entre a mitologia grega e a cultura gamer. Através de uma análise profunda da franquia God of War e de o……続きを見る

La publicación forma parte de la Monumenta Landivariana, serie mayor, cuyo objetivo es ofrecer estudios generales y especializados en torno a la obra poético-literaria de Rafael Landívar. Autores de……続きを見る

For centuries the British developed a reputation as a nation of explorers. From Francis Drake’s circumnavigation of the globe to the ascent of Everest, British explorers crossed oceans and continent……続きを見る

"The one hundred-some stories depict the important role ghosts played in the lives of the Chinese, as well as revealing a great deal about sex, revenge, transvestism, corruption, and other topics ba……続きを見る

An infantry company commander in the U.S. Army's heralded 1st Infantry Division, Capt. Joseph Turner Dawson led his men through some of the most brutal battles of World War II. From the invasion of ……続きを見る

In this compelling new study, Louise Edwards explores the lives of some of China's most famous women warriors and wartime spies through history. Focusing on key figures including Hua Mulan, Zheng Pi……続きを見る

Saying that no generation of Americans has produced a finer array of combat commanders than that of World War II, a thirty-year army veteran examines combat leadership throughout the war at every le……続きを見る

On the hellish battlefields of World War II Europe, Major Dick Winters led his Easy Companyーthe now-legendary Band of Brothersーfrom the confusion and chaos of the D-Day invasion to the final captu……続きを見る

**“Tells the tales left untold by Stephen Ambrose, whose Band of Brothers was the inspiration for the HBO miniseries...laced with Winters’s soldierly exaltations of pride in his comrades’ bravery.”……続きを見る

We live in interesting times, and getting more interesting by the minute. That said, the new Path Finder: COVID-19 Edition is now out now and and is being sold at cost. If you share my certainty tha……続きを見る

In the early twentieth century China’s most famous commercial artists promoted new cultural and civic values through sketches of idealized modern women in journals, newspapers, and compendia called ……続きを見る

Winner of The Association of Black Women Historians 2020 Letitia Woods-Brown Award for the best book in African American Women’s History and the 2021 Western Association of Women Historian's Barbara……続きを見る

Angola, 1620: un prete poco più che ventenne, Francisco José da Santa Cruz, sbarca da una nave negriera su una spiaggia del Regno del Congo, per raggiungere la scuola dei gesuiti di São Salvador cui……続きを見る

In volume one of Henry Buckberry's stories (Get Poor Now, Avoid the Rush), we followed Henry from his early childhood in central North Dakota to the dark, dangerous woods of northern Wisconsin. Get ……続きを見る

It's hard to say, exactly, what's meant by the "modern world," but Henry Buckberry never really hooked into it. Born before the First World War and the oldest boy in a family of thirteen kids, he le……続きを見る

Jorge Luis Borges-one of the most important Latin American writers-has also attained considerable international stature, and his work is commonly cited in a wide array of scholarship on contemporary……続きを見る

April 15, 2012 Sunday marks the 100th anniversary of the fateful day the Titanic hit an iceberg in the frigid north Atlantic on its maiden voyage. Why is it that the Titanic still fascinate the worl……続きを見る