Oxford University Press Usa: 518 books
by Thomas Wynn, Frederick L. Coolidge
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2011
There have been many books, movies, and even TV commercials featuring Neandertals--some serious, some comical. But what was it really like to be a Neandertal? How were their lives similar to or different from ours? In How to Think Like a Neandertal, archaeologist Thomas Wynn and psychologist Frederick...
Homo Mysterious:Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
Evolutionary Puzzles of Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
For all that science knows about the living world, notes David P. Barash, there are even more things that we don't know, genuine evolutionary mysteries that perplex the best minds in biology. Paradoxically, many of these mysteries are very close to home, involving some of the most personal aspects...
Bismarck:A Life
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
This riveting, New York Times bestselling biography illuminates the life of Otto von Bismarck, the statesman who unified Germany but who also embodied everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Jonathan Steinberg draws heavily on contemporary writings, allowing Bismarck's friends and foes...
Sleuthing the Alamo:Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution
Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2004
In Sleuthing the Alamo, historian James E. Crisp draws back the curtain on years of mythmaking to reveal some surprising truths about the Texas Revolution--truths often obscured by both racism and "political correctness," as history has been hijacked by combatants in the culture wars of...
Royals and the Reich:The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany
The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
The link between Hitler's Third Reich and European royalty has gone largely unexplored due to the secrecy surrounding royal families. Now, in Royals and the Reich, Jonathan Petropoulos uses unprecedented access to royal archives to tell the fascinating story of the Princes of Hesse and the important...
Terror, Security, and Money:Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security
Balancing the Risks, Benefits, and Costs of Homeland Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2011
In seeking to evaluate the efficacy of post-9/11 homeland security expenses--which have risen by more than a trillion dollars, not including war costs--the common query has been, "Are we safer?" This, however, is the wrong question. Of course we are "safer"--the posting of a single...
The Flight of the Century: Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation
Charles Lindbergh and the Rise of American Aviation
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2010
In late May 1927 an inexperienced and unassuming 25-year-old Air Mail pilot from rural Minnesota stunned the world by making the first non-stop transatlantic flight. A spectacular feat of individual daring and collective technological accomplishment, Charles Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris...
Democrat and Diplomat: The Life of William E. Dodd
The Life of William E. Dodd
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2012
Robert Dallek, a luminary in the field of political biography--author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist Nixon and Kissinger and the New York Times bestselling biography of John F. Kennedy--offers here a look at the life of William Dodd, an American diplomat stationed in Nazi Germany. An insightful historical...
by Roberta Ness
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Genius can seem incomprehensible even to seasoned researchers. Einstein's theory of special relativity, Rutherford's glimpse into the invisible heart of the atom--such astonishing breakthroughs seem almost magical--like bolts of insight arising from nowhere. Genius Unmasked reveals the true nature...
Mendelssohn:A Life in Music
A Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2003
An extraordinary prodigy of Mozartean abilities, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was a distinguished composer and conductor, a legendary pianist and organist, and an accomplished painter and classicist. Lionized in his lifetime, he is best remembered today for several staples of the concert hall and for...
Death-Devoted Heart:Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde
Sex and the Sacred in Wagner's Tristan and Isolde
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2003
A tale of forbidden love and inevitable death, the medieval legend of Tristan and Isolde recounts the story of two lovers unknowingly drinking a magic potion and ultimately dying in one another's arms. While critics have lauded Wagner's Tristan and Isolde for the originality and subtlety of the music,...
The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler
Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2012
The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration. David Roll shows how Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the New Deal's implementation, became the linchpin in FDR's--and America's--relationships...
Assimilate: A Critical History of Industrial Music
A Critical History of Industrial Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2013
Noisy, confrontational, and controversial, industrial music first emerged in the mid-1970s around bands and performance groups that combined avant-garde electronic music with the provocative attitude and abrasive style of punk rock. In Assimilate, S. Alexander Reed provides the first ever critical...
Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter
The Life of a Singer-Songwriter
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2013
Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' "favorite group," he won Grammy awards, wrote and recorded hit songs, and yet no figure in popular music is as much of a paradox, or as underrated, as Harry Nilsson. In this first ever full-length biography, Alyn Shipton traces...