Piro - History 3

Myth into Art is a comparative study of mythological narrative in Greek poetry and the visual arts. Thirty of the major myths are surveyed, focusing on Homer, lyric poetry and Attic tragedy. On the ……続きを見る

This groundbreaking and innovative text addresses the deep ontological and epistemological commitments that underpin conventional positivist methods and then demonstrates how "method" can be underst……続きを見る

A young survivor of the Bosnian War returns to his homeland to confront the people who betrayed his family. The story behind the YA novel World in Between: Based on a True Refugee Story. At age elev……続きを見る

The French Writers' War, 1940–1953, is a remarkably thorough account of French writers and literary institutions from the beginning of the German Occupation through France's passage of amnesty laws ……続きを見る

From acclaimed journalist Walter Shapiro, the true life story of how his great-uncleーa Jewish vaudeville impresario and exuberant con manーmanaged to cheat Hitler’s agents in the run-up to WWII. Al……続きを見る

Can you name...Newton's 3 laws of motion?The 4 horsemen of the Apocalypse?The 5 pillars of Islam? The 6 wives of Henry VIII?The 7 kinds of plane triangles? The 8 Beatitudes?If you're not sure about ……続きを見る

Thoroughly revised and updated, this widely used text offers a concise introduction to the American legal system for students without a legal background. The book's coverage is cross-disciplinary, i……続きを見る

The new edition of Gender Circuits explores the impact of new technologies on the gendered lives of individuals through substantive sociological analysis and in-depth case studies. Examining the com……続きを見る

Sidney Hook (1902-1989) is known for his participation in the public debates about communism, the Soviet Union and the Cold War. These letters, drawn from the Hook collection at the Hoover Instituti……続きを見る

For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including The Earl of Oxford, Sir F……続きを見る

The senior years can be daunting, for spouses, children, other caregivers, and seniors themselves. Too often a sudden crisis leaves a family unprepared and feeling helpless. Chronic illnesses and li……続きを見る

The opening events of the French Revolution have stood as some of the most familiar in modern European history. Traumatic Politics emerges as a fresh voice from the existing historiography of this w……続きを見る

"One of the finest compact books on sumo today."-Sumo World Completely updated by the well known sumo authority David Shapiro, Sumo: A Pocket Guide describes the history, rules, rituals and techniqu……続きを見る

Speaks of Many Truths and Zoosh, through Robert Shapiro, explain that Planet Earth, the only water planet in this solar system, is on loan from Sirius as a home and school for humanity, the Explorer……続きを見る

EIN SS-OFFIZIER RETTET JÜDISCHES MÄDCHEN: Renée ist 6 oder 7, ganz genau weiß sie es nicht. Als elternloses jüdisches Mädchen wird sie im letzten Kriegswinter vor den Deutschen versteckt – bei den N……続きを見る

In 1891, thousands of Tennessee miners rose up against the use of convict labor by the state's coal companies, eventually engulfing five mountain communities in a rebellion against government author……続きを見る

At the beginning of World War II, professor Lauren Post, San Diego State College, asked his students entering military service to write to him. Thousands of letters arrived from places like Pearl Ha……続きを見る

La sera del 17 febbraio 1912, Giosuè Piroddi lascia il carcere dopo sedici anni di detenzione trascorsi nei reclusori di mezza Italia. Insieme con altri tre compagni di sventura – Nicolò Businco di ……続きを見る

In the last decade, with the success of review sites and online commentaries and the increased accessibility of travel information online, the job of a traditional travel journalist is being challen……続きを見る

This work represents the definitive account of the Jewish community in central Africa. It tells the story of the coming of the first Jews to the area in the late 19th century, the heyday of the Jewi……続きを見る

This wonderful book is a collection of nine tall tales from America by renowned children’s author Irwin Shapiro: Pecos Bill, Anthony and the Mossbunker, Old Stormalong, Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crocke……続きを見る

«I romani hanno spesso dimostrato che non amano né alzarsi al mattino né sollevarsi contro un nemico». Così il colonnello delle SS Eugene Dollmann aveva immaginato l’occupazione nazista di Roma. ……続きを見る

By the time he left office on May 16, 2011, Mayor Richard M. Daley had served six terms and more than twenty-two years at the helm of Chicago’s City Hall, making him the longest serving mayor in the……続きを見る

What do emotions actually do? Recent work in the history of emotions and its intersections with cultural studies and new materialism has produced groundbreaking revelations around this fundamental q……続きを見る

Options have been traded for hundreds of years, but investment decisions were based on gut feelings until the Nobel Prize -- winning discovery of the Black-Scholes options pricing model in 1973 ushe……続きを見る

This volume offers an overview of what it was like to be female and to live and die in Victorian England (c. 1837-1901), by situating this experience within the scientific and social contexts of the……続きを見る

"A casually wondrous experience; it made me feel like the city was unfolding beneath my feet.” ーJia Tolentino, author of Trick Mirror In place-names lie stories. That’s the truth that animates this……続きを見る

The destruction of tribal and traditional western life by modernization spawned groups separated from society. These groups often mobile and reaching into many nations re-emerged in history. They ha……続きを見る

Seventy years of oppressive labor laws have reduced organized labor and American Workers to legal servitude. Organized Labor's strong traditions of apprenticeship, organizing, political independence……続きを見る

In this last book, the author explicates that to promote the welfare “WF” is the only natural law that governs any individual in life. Given that individual is the community’s unit, to promote the g……続きを見る