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For more than a century readers have found Herman Melville’s writing rich with philosophical ideas, yet there has been relatively little written about what, exactly, is philosophically significant a……続きを見る

This one-stop reference work is a governors’ hall of fameーa compendium of information about the 51 men who have held the chief executive post since the opening of the Kansas Territory in 1854. Usin……続きを見る

Dieser Band widmet sich der Frage, mit welchen Bildern, Stereotypen, Konstruktionen, Mustern und Deutungen die DDR in Literatur, Film und Internet rückblickend erinnert wird. Welche Themen, Probleme……続きを見る

When this book was originally published in 1960 no full-length study of the Parnell ‘split’ had been made, despite it being such a landmark in Irish history. The book treats the eleven months betwee……続きを見る

"A stunning work of history."ーDoris Kearns Goodwin, author of No Ordinary Time and Team of Rivals Beginning in 1935, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of FDR's agenda in ruins. Th……続きを見る

The Battle of the Crater is one of the lesser known yet most interesting battles of the Civil War. This book, detailing the onset of brutal trench warfare at Petersburg, Virginia, digs deeply into t……続きを見る

In "The Military Government of Germany," the Joint Chiefs of Staff present a comprehensive analysis of post-World War II administration in Germany, intricately detailing the military governance stru……続きを見る

During the Renaissance science was never separated from mysticism and alchemy. Some of the finest minds such as Leonardo da Vinci and Isaac Newton were all heavily involved in what they would of cal……続きを見る

In this masterly biography, F.S.L. Lyons tackles the life and times of one of the greatest Irish statesmen of modern times. One of modern Irish biography's great triumphs, Charles Stewart Parnell ha……続きを見る

Parade – A Tribute to Remarkable Contemporaries compiles many of the Honourable Jerry S. Grafstein's greatest speeches and tributes from over three decades in politics and public office. With chapte……続きを見る

IT is proposed, in the course of a few chapters, to put on record certain facts and statements on the “religious” (using the word in its technical signification) life of England from the seventh cen……続きを見る

The emergence of the city marks the beginning of a civilisation. The city, especially the leading cities of a country, is also where the major features of a country are contained and where historica……続きを見る

This is the third edition of "Lessons Learned from Star Trek". This updated e-book is a collection of articles, which in an entertaining way, discuss important philosophical and moral issues, that o……続きを見る

This book spans 70 years of the dark history of Anti-Muslim violence in India that has caused over tens of thousands of deaths and refugees. Violence against Muslims in India is frequently in the fo……続きを見る

Conozca las guerras en las que Napoleón conquistó su destino. Descubra las gestas de admirables hombres como Nelson, Suvorov, Hoche, Moreau, el archiduque Carlos, Pitt, Godoy, Bagration, Alvinczi y ……続きを見る

First published in 1961, this book provides a contemporary definition of race, the distinction between geographical, local and micro-races, as well as consideration of the major evolutionary mechani……続きを見る

Social Darwinism in American Thought portrays the overall influence of Darwin on American social theory and the notable battle waged among thinkers over the implications of evolutionary theory for s……続きを見る

This book evaluates the moral project of Olympism, analzying the changing value positions adopted in relation to the ideology of Olympism across the period from the 1890s to the present day. The boo……続きを見る

Geplant war eine Fahrt per Traktor und Wohnwagen durch sieben osteuropäische Länder, aber bereits vor Ungarn gab der Trecker auf. So musste Landolf Scherzer mit seiner alten Kraxe loslaufen, immer g……続きを見る

When originally published in 1952, this book filled a gap in the history of philosophy and science and remains an important work today, because it puts the main mathematical and physical discoveries……続きを見る

Born in an explosive boom and built through distinct economic networks, San Francisco has a cosmopolitan character that often masks the challenges migrants faced to create community in the city by t……続きを見る

The Cadillac area has a rich and interesting history. Timber Town Tales is a gathering of interesting snippets from a number of mostly Pre WWII sources as well as the author's personal life experien……続きを見る

A discussion of the development of secret societies within China and among Chinese communities in colonial Southeast Asia in the late 18th and 19th centuries. 続きを見る

In Richard Nixon and the Vietnam War, accomplished foreign relations historian David F. Shmitz provides students of US history and the Vietnam era with an up-to-date analysis of Nixon’s Vietnam poli……続きを見る

If natural law arguments struggle to gain traction in contemporary moral and political discourse, could it be because we moderns do not share the understanding of nature on which that language was d……続きを見る

This book studies everyday writing practices among ordinary people in a poor rural society in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Using the abundance of handwritten material produced, disseminated an……続きを見る

Master the art of KendoーJapanese Swordsmanship with this illustrated and comprehensive martial arts guide. Kendo or the "Way of the Sword" holds a special place within the martial arts as one of th……続きを見る

Naval hero for all the South, Raphael Semmes (1809-1877) sailed two famous Confederate raiders. He outfitted CSS Sumter in 1861 and captured 18 Union merchant ships in six months before the raider w……続きを見る

This volume provides an accessible, comprehensive, and up-to-date survey of the ancient Greek genre of historical writing from its origins before Herodotus to the Greek historians of the Roman imper……続きを見る

Group Discussions (GD) are commonly used to assess several personality aspects of candidates during various entrance tests and as a part of selection process for various jobs. It can be a game chang……続きを見る