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Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize Winner of the American Book Award Winner of the Merle Curti Social History Award Winner of the James A. Rawley Prize Winner of the Zora Neale Hurston/Rich……続きを見る

“Turn on, tune in, drop out,” Timothy Leary advised young people in the 1960s. And many did, creating a counterculture built on drugs, rock music, sexual liberation, and communal living. The hippies……続きを見る

«Una voz para los sin voz. Un viaje del exilio a la esperanza.» En Tránsito: Del Cielo al Infierno es un viaje autobiográfico conmovedor sobre supervivencia, desarraigo y resiliencia. A través de lo……続きを見る

Tagline: "A voice for the voiceless. A journey from exile to hope." The Stolen Years in Zurich is a powerful autobiographical journey of survival, displacement, and resilience. Through the eyes of L……続きを見る

Tagline: "Eine Stimme für die Stimmlosen. Ein Weg vom Exil zur Hoffnung." Die Gestohlenen Jahre in Zürich ist eine kraftvolle autobiografische Reise über Überleben, Entwurzelung und Widerstandskraft……続きを見る

Focusing on East Asia from the nineteenth century to the present, Crafting Everyday Food highlights the role of technology in transforming traditional foods into modern ones and in reinventing indus……続きを見る

This Fleeting World tells the story of the universe and history of humanity in only 100 pages. Prize-winning historian David Christian covers it all in this inspiring guide to the history of everyth……続きを見る

Our species, Homo sapiens, is the first and, so far, still the only species to possess the capability to think rationally. All of the amazing progress that we enjoy could not have happened without r……続きを見る

The groundbreaking Constitution of the United States has provided the framework and guiding principles that have enabled the country to flourish for 250 years. However, it is yielding to unrelenting……続きを見る

The Lebanese state is structured through religious freedom and secular power sharing across sectarian groups. Every sect has specific laws that govern kinship matters like marriage or inheritance. T……続きを見る

Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History discusses four different stories told in antiquity about the meeting between Alexander the Great and the Judeans of Jerusalem. In history, this mee……続きを見る

This beautifully written book, now in its second edition, tells the haunting saga of a quintessentially American family. In the late 1790s, Shoe Boots, a famed Cherokee warrior and successful farmer……続きを見る

**NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A renowned historian traces the life of a single object handed down through three generations of Black women to craft a “deeply layered and……続きを見る

**“This is the kind of book that haunts your dreams. Essential reading for anyone who has known what it is like to live within a totalitarian stateーor is worried they’re about to find out.”ーZadie ……続きを見る

Since the 1890s, New Jersey has attracted hundreds of thousands of Caribbean and Latin American migrants. The state’s rich economic history, high-income suburbs, and strong public sector have all co……続きを見る

This book is intended an introduction and a tribute to the visionary work of American futurist Lawrence Taub, author of The Spiritual Imperative: Sex, Age, and the Last Caste. Whether you are a seek……続きを見る

In December 1979 the USSR’s 40th Army crossed the border into Afghanistan. Special forces troops – the infamous GRU Spetsnaz – and KGB agents had already entered the country and in a fierce gun batt……続きを見る

This open access book is the first comprehensive and systematic study of Chinese Marxist literary criticism as an independent theoretical form. It discusses and describes the theoretical features of……続きを見る

NJSAA Edited Works Award Winner (2024) Histories of gay and lesbian urban life typically focus on major metropolitan areas like San Francisco and New York, opportunity-filled destinations for LGBTQ ……続きを見る

About the Author Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander enjoys building churches and partaking in church activities. He is an avid fan of all things sports. 続きを見る

About the Author Sobhy Fahmy Amin Iskander enjoys building churches and partaking in church activities. He is an avid fan of all things sports. 続きを見る

Historic Philadelphia has long yielded archaeological treasures from its past. Excavations required by the National Historic Preservation Act have recovered pottery shards, pots, plates, coins, bone……続きを見る

2021年美國國家書卷獎非虛構類得獎作品 《紐約時報》、《波士頓環球報》、《大西洋》、《亞特蘭大憲法報》、《科克斯書評》年度選書 《華盛頓郵報》、《出版人週刊》年度十大好書 ーーーー 從奴隸制度、南北戰爭到……続きを見る

**A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A Publishers Weekly and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by The Millions and Literary Hub “Thoro……続きを見る

Jewish anarchism has long been marginalized in histories of anarchist thought and action. Anna Elena Torres and Kenyon Zimmer edit a collection of essays which recovers many aspects of this erased t……続きを見る

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 'A……続きを見る

In this fascinating book, Hisila Yami traces her journey from being a young Nepali student of architecture in Delhi in the early eighties to becoming a Maoist revolutionary engaging in guerrilla war……続きを見る

Scholars have long recognized the relevance to Christianity of the many stories surrounding the life of Alexander the Great, who claimed to be the son of Zeus. But until now, no comprehensive effort……続きを見る

This book offers a challenge to the current study of nineteenth-century British medievalism, re-examining its general perception as an elite and conservative tendency, the imposition of order from a……続きを見る

In Making Martyrs: The Language of Sacrifice in Russian Culture from Stalin to Putin, Yuliya Minkova examines the language of canonization and vilification in Soviet and post-Soviet media, official ……続きを見る