Mimi - History 1

The fifth installment of the “Odd True Tales” series… This volume focuses exclusively on the Inquisition, and is not for the faint of heart or weak of stomach. It’s divided into four chapters: Profi……続きを見る

Citizenship from Below boldly revises the history of the struggles for freedom by emancipated peoples in post-slavery Jamaica, post-independence Haiti, and the wider Caribbean by focusing on the int……続きを見る

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Kentucky Women, 2nd Edition celebrates the women who shaped the Bluegrass State. Short, illuminating biographies and archival photographs and paintings tell the stor……続きを見る

The Boulder Canyon Project Act, authorized by Congress in 1928, designated funds for the construction of the Hoover Dam. This monumental undertaking affected the interests of seven states and is con……続きを見る

**“Meticulously researched and beautifully illustrated . . . indispensable to anyone interested in the era.” ーTasha Alexander, New York Times–bestselling author of the Lady Emily series What did a ……続きを見る

In Island Futures Mimi Sheller delves into the ecological crises and reconstruction challenges affecting the entire Caribbean region during a time of climate catastrophe. Drawing on fieldwork on pos……続きを見る

Wild Swans meets Educated in this riveting true story spanning four generations 'Revelatory and remarkable' - TRENT DALTON 'Memorable and vivid' - RICHARD GLOVER 'Lands with a thump in your heart' -……続きを見る

While Los Angeles is known for beaches, film studios and a sunny climate, it’s worth digging deeper to discover the city’s soul created by an ethnically diverse culture dating to the 18th century. B……続きを見る

Medieval romances were widely condemned by early modern thinkers: the genre of questing knights and marvellous adventure was decried as bloody, bawdy and superstitious. Despite such proclamations, t……続きを見る

From Victorian cat funerals to a Regency-era pony who took a ride in a hot air balloon, a collection of history’s quirkiestーand most poignantーanimal tales. Meet Fortune, the Pug who bit Napoleon o……続きを見る

*“They’re still trying to hide the weenie,” thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the com……続きを見る

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “With the benefit of hindsight and good old-fashioned maturity, [Mimi Alford] writes not just about the secret, but the corrosive effect of keeping that secret. . . . ……続きを見る

Intriguing dreams, improbable myths, fanciful genealogies, and suspect etymologies. These were all key elements of the historical texts composed by scholars and bureaucrats on the peripheries of Isl……続きを見る

Enjoy a trip through historic Evanston. See how Davis Street and Sherman and Orrington Avenues appeared around the beginning of the 20th century. Learn how Fountain Square has evolved and how the Me……続きを見る

Widely praised as an outstanding contribution to social welfare and feminist scholarship, Regulating the Lives of Women (1988, 1996) was one of the first books to apply a race and gender lens to the……続きを見る

This book introduces "the poly gaze" as a cultural tool to examine how representations of polyamory and poly lives reflect or challenge cultural hegemonies of race, class, gender, and nation. What r……続きを見る

Huset Glücksborg har regeret Danmark siden 1863, da Christian 9. overtog tronen efter den barnløse Frederik 7., og det er den dag i dag en enorm slægt, der har tråde til mange af Europas nuværende o……続きを見る

Myths and Mysteries of Kentucky reveals the dark and ominous cloud of mysteries and myths that hovers over the Bluegrass State. This book offers residents, travelers, history buffs, and ghost hunter……続きを見る

Nta’tugwaqanminen-Notre histoire présente la vision, la relation à la terre, l’occupation historique et actuelle du territoire, de même que les noms de lieux et ce que révèlent ceux-ci sur l’occupat……続きを見る

An estimated 2 billion people around the world watched the catastrophic destruction of the World Trade Center. The enormity of the moment was immediately understood and quickly took on global propor……続きを見る

As the post-invasion reconstruction of Iraq has unfolded, the potential for Iraqi women to participate actively and visibly in the country's political structure has been one of its most notable resu……続きを見る

KUNST & POESIE AUS DEM IRAN: EINE WELT VOLLER HOFFNUNGEN UND WUNDER WAS MACHT DEN BESONDEREN ZAUBER DES IRAN AUS? Bist du vielleicht schon einmal NACH TEHERAN GEREIST, oder interessierst du dich für……続きを見る

'As in a good novel, the people, their feelings and reactions are instantly recognisable and as fresh and immediate today as they were then' GUARDIAN 'She writes vividly and movingly' DAILY TELEGRAP……続きを見る

Bodies That Work describes the redefinition of the invisible, fragmented, and commodified African American female body. In Progressive America, black women began to use their bodies in new ways and ……続きを見る

The Japanese Empire and Latin America provides a comprehensive analysis of the complicated relationship between Japanese migration and capital exportation to Latin America and the rise and fall of t……続きを見る

Книга "Из ада в рай" - это повествование об ужасных геноцидах СССР и России над Чеченским народом с февраля 1944 года и по сегодняшний день. В этой книге автор описывает, как русские заживо в сараях……続きを見る

**A Palestinian activist jailed at sixteen after a confrontation with Israeli soldiers illuminates the daily struggles of life under occupation in this moving, deeply personal memoir. “I cannot even……続きを見る

This fascinating study examines the discourse of science in Japan from the 1920s to the 1940s in relation to nationalism and imperialism. How did Japan, with Shinto creation mythology at the absolut……続きを見る

Lady Mary Wroth (c. 1587-1653) wrote the first sonnet sequence in English by a woman, one of the first plays by a woman, and the first published work of fiction by an Englishwoman. Yet, despite her ……続きを見る

The book has two themes based on my direct participation as Chairman of the Design Authority in Iraq's Atomic Organization (1987-1992). The first theme focuses on Iraq's engineering capacity to desi……続きを見る