What impact does 40 years of war, violence, and military intervention have on a country and its people? As the "global war on terror" now stretches into the 21st century with no clear end in sight, ……続きを見る
John Milton (1608-1674) is best known as the author of the masterful epic retelling of fall of man, Paradise Lost. But he was more than just the 17th century voice of Satan. Wise and witty scholar A……続きを見る
The familiar history of jazz music in the United States begins with its birth in New Orleans, moves upstream along the Mississippi River to Chicago, then by rail into New York before exploding acros……続きを見る
**Un percorso fantasmatico e suggestivo per ogni grande città e piccola provincia d’Italia: itinerari da seguire con il fiato sospeso!
Libro illustrato e ricco di mappe per trovare i fantasmi d'Ital……続きを見る
Un terremoto nell’ultimo angolo d’Italia, dove già si muore ogni giorno di fame e di soprusi. Un gennaio con un freddo eccezionale. I paesi distrutti. Anni di vita nelle baracche. Una ricostruzione ……続きを見る
Renato Salvetti durante la Seconda guerra mondiale fu richiamato nel corpo di Cavalleria corazzata di Pinerolo. Dopo l’8 settembre entrò nella formazione ligure dei partigiani Garibaldini di Savona.……続きを見る
著者:Anna M. Nogar
出版社: University of Notre Dame Press
発売日: 2018年06月25日
Quill and Cross in the Borderlands examines nearly four hundred years of history, folklore, literature, and art concerning the seventeenth-century Spanish nun and writer Sor María de Jesús de Ágreda……続きを見る
The 1970s have largely been overlooked in scholarly studies of the Cuban Revolution, or, at the very least, dismissed simply as a period of “Sovietization” characterized by widespread bureaucratizat……続きを見る
著者:Jo Anna Isaak
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2002年09月11日
Looks at the work of a diverse range of artists and explores the effect of feminist theory on art practice. The book provides a provocative and valuable account of the diversity and revolutionary po……続きを見る
IT was after midnight. Quiet had settled over the hospital, and in Ward 13 there was no sound and scarcely a movement. The nurse, a strong and beautiful figure, had fallen into a reverie, and the tw……続きを見る
This Brief discusses a unique mechanism to combine historical and archaeological evidence with statistical geodynamic modeling to study the historical development of the Eura region in lower Satakun……続きを見る
While we know a great deal about the benefits of regional integration, there is a knowledge gap when it comes to areas with weak, dysfunctional, or nonexistent regional fabric in political and econo……続きを見る
著者:Anna Sherman
出版社: Pan Macmillan
発売日: 2019年05月16日
As read on BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'
**Shortlisted for the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year Award
Longlisted for the RSL Ondaatje Prize
'Sherman’s is a special book. Every sentence, ever……続きを見る
Informative and entertaining essays on the accents, dialects, and speech patterns particular to Alabama
Thomas E. Nunnally’s fascinating volume presents essays by linguists who examine with affectio……続きを見る
Vorwort In allen Herzen klang noch die Erregung über die grauenhaften Einzelheiten nach, welche 1899 die Gerichtsverhandlung in der Reichshauptstadt Wien gegen das entmenschte Ehepaar Josef und Juli……続きを見る
In this unique, highly detailed examination, Gordon C Cook explores disease in the merchant navy through the history of the Seamen's Hospital Society. From its foundation in 1812, until the present ……続きを見る
著者:Anna Peterson
出版社: Oxford University Press
発売日: 2019年02月01日
This book examines the impact that Athenian Old Comedy had on Greek writers of the imperial era. It is generally acknowledged that imperial-era Greeks responded to Athenian Old Comedy in one of two ……続きを見る
Die "demographische Frage" ist aktuell ein prominenter Angstmacher in öffentlichen Debatten. In Debatten zur sozialen Schere, Altersarmut oder abnehmenden Wirtschaftsleistung Deutschlands wird stets……続きを見る
著者:Anna Marchi
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2019年02月01日
This book develops a corpus-assisted approach to the study of self-reflexivity in journalism and examines the ways in which news workers and subsequently, news organizations, choose to promote an id……続きを見る
The behind-the-scenes story of the rise and reign of the world's strangest and most elusive tyrant, Kim Jong Un, by the journalist with the best connections and insights into the bizarrely dangerous……続きを見る
著者:Anna Porter
出版社: Little, Brown Book Group
発売日: 2012年03月01日
The true, heart-wrenching story of Rezsö Kasztner, a Hungarian lawyer and journalist, who rescued thousands of Jews during the last days of the Second World War - and the ultimate price he paid.
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Sea Rovers, Silver, and Samurai traces the roots of modern global East Asia by focusing on the fascinating history of its seaways. The East Asian maritime realm, from the Straits of Malacca to the S……続きを見る
IT is with a prayerful heart and memories deep and reverent that I begin to write the story of my long and intimate friendship with Alexandra Feodorovna, wife of Nicholas II, Empress of Russia, and ……続きを見る
Originally published in 1978, this book contatins the 'Thirteenth Book of the Aeneid' - a canto of six humdred and thirty lines, written at Pavia in 1428, with a side by side translation and critica……続きを見る
A revised and updated edition of the internationally bestselling classic
Anna Pavord's now classic, internationally bestselling sensation, The Tulip, is not a gardening book. It is the story of a fl……続きを見る
Arrivato in Italia alla fine della Prima guerra mondiale, il jazz fu accolto, almeno in parte, come una forma artistica “indigena”. I futuristi ne lodavano l’energia virile, Mussolini lo descriveva ……続きを見る
著者:Anna M. Lawrence
出版社: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
発売日: 2011年05月05日
Originally a sect within the Anglican church, Methodism blossomed into a dominant mainstream religion in America during the nineteenth century. At the beginning, though, Methodists constituted a dis……続きを見る
Widely associated with avant-garde gastronomy and lavish food markets, Barcelona has become a top destination for gourmands and chefs around the world, especially after the spectacular rise of chef ……続きを見る
著者:Anna Clark
出版社: Henry Holt and Co.
発売日: 2018年07月10日
**Winner of The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism - 2019
When the people of Flint, Michigan, turned on their faucets in April 2014, the water pouring out was poisoned with lead and other toxins.**
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This second of two volumes continues the exploration of the history of Virginia women through the lives of exemplary and remarkable individuals. Seventeen essays written by established and emerging ……続きを見る