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Western democracy is now at a critical juncture. Some worry that power has been wrested from the people and placed in the hands of a small political elite. Others argue that the democratic system gi……続きを見る

Esta edición digital en formato ePub se ha realizado a partir de una edición impresa digitalizada que forma parte de los fondos de la Biblioteca Nacional de España. El proyecto de creación de ePubs ……続きを見る

«Si legge come un thriller.» The New York Review of Books «Acuto, eccezionale.» London Review of Books «Accurato nelle ricerche ed elegantemente narrato.» The Wall Street Journal «Una lettura fondam……続きを見る

Guardians of Eden (Vol. II of God’s Country) identifies what is wrong in the chiefdoms and Zambia as a whole and provides a plan for the future. It is a legal, policy and organizational aid, a refer……続きを見る

“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” ーTime Volume 3 of the Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece: Solzhenitsyn's moving account of resistance within the Soviet labor camps and his own re……続きを見る

The official, one-volume edition, authorized by Solzhenitsyn "BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" ーTime The Nobel Prize winner’s towering masterpiece of world literature and a landmark of Rus……続きを見る

This edition represents a thoroughly written history of Marines' military campaigns in Europe, Africa and the Pacific during the Second World War. Marines played a central role in the Pacific War, a……続きを見る

In the compelling anthology, "Napoleon's Appeal to the British Nation, on His Treatment at Saint Helena," the overarching themes of exile, justice, and diplomacy resonate through a diverse range of ……続きを見る

From the ashes of World War II to the conflict over Iraq, William Hitchcock examines the miraculous transformation of Europe from a deeply fractured land to a continent striving for stability, toler……続きを見る

Illustrated with 29 maps/diagrams and 44 photographs "The second of the eight volumes dealing with the Mediterranean and Middle Eastern theatres in the 18-volume official British History of the Seco……続きを見る

Lenin's originality and importance as a revolutionary leader is most often associated with the seizure of power in 1917. But, Zizek argues in his new study and collection of original texts, Lenin's ……続きを見る

In 1900 over five million Jews lived in the Russian empire; today, there are four times as many Russian-speaking Jews residing outside the former Soviet Union than there are in that region. The New ……続きを見る

The story of Somalis in Minnesota begins with three words: sahan, war, and martisoor. Driven from their homeland by civil war and famine, one group of Somali sahan, pioneers, discovered well-paying ……続きを見る

The United States and its allies have been fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan for a decade in a war that either side could still win. While a gradual drawdown has begun, significant nu……続きを見る

Muchos de los mitos griegos continúan vivos hoy. Este libro los explica. Recuerda también cómo imaginaban los griegos el origen del mundo y la aparición de los humanos, sin olvidar el papel esencial……続きを見る

First Published in 1982. Nigerians on the whole have a strong sense of history and a rich heritage of historical traditions. This collection of essays is a contribution to the total effort of the st……続きを見る

Around Oxford features vintage postcards and photographs from Oxford and the surrounding area, including Lincoln University'the oldest African American institution of higher learning in America'and ……続きを見る

Established in 1811, Amherst has been actively engaged in the quarrying of high-quality sandstone since before the American Civil War. The products of the town's quarries have graced buildings and o……続きを見る

Chester County was one of the three original counties established by William Penn, giving it a long history of settlement and growth. Around Avondale and West Grove features historic postcards from ……続きを見る

In 1922, the US Forest Service offered one of the largest timber sales in the agency�s history, encompassing 890 million board feet of mostly Ponderosa pine timber in the mountains north of Burns, O……続きを見る

During the early 1800s, about two dozen men of African descent lived in Hawai'i. The most noteworthy was Anthony D. Allen, a businessman who had traveled around the world before making Hawai'i his h……続きを見る

For two centuries before it was sculpted into a modern marina, the curve of the Pacific coast that is now Dana Point Harbor was a natural anchorage within Capistrano Bay for winddependent trading sh……続きを見る

The Cairo Geniza is the largest and richest store of documentary evidence for the medieval Islamic world. This book seeks to revolutionize the way scholars use that treasure trove. Phillip I. Ackerm……続きを見る

Izzy Stone was a reporter, a radical, an idealist, a scholar and, it is clear, a writer whose insights have more than stood the test of time. More than fifteen years after his death, this collection……続きを見る

This volume makes available transcripts and commentary from the secret correspondence between former Chechen foreign minister Ilyas Akhmatov and Chechen President Aslan Maskhadov. This correspondenc……続きを見る

This volume seeks to revise the Saidian analytical framework which dominated research on the subject of colonial knowledge for almost two decades, which emphasized colonial knowledge as a series of ……続きを見る

With a focus on colonial Bengal, this book demonstrates how the dynamics of agrarian prosperity or decline, communal conflicts, poverty and famine can only be properly understood from an ecological ……続きを見る

Silencing Race provides a historical analysis of the construction of silences surrounding issues of racial inequality, violence, and discrimination in Puerto Rico. Examining the ongoing racializatio……続きを見る

Elite Romans periodically chose to limit or destroy the memory of a leading citizen who was deemed an unworthy member of the community. Sanctions against memory could lead to the removal or mutilati……続きを見る

In this political history of twentieth-century Mexico, Gladys McCormick argues that the key to understanding the immense power of the long-ruling Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) is to be ……続きを見る