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by David Potter
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2012
This year Christians worldwide will celebrate the 1700th anniversary of Constantine's conversion and victory at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge. No Roman emperor had a greater impact on the modern world than did Constantine. The reason is not simply that he converted to Christianity but that he did...
Rome:An Empire's Story
An Empire's Story
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2012
The very idea of empire was created in ancient Rome and even today traces of its monuments, literature, and institutions can be found across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa--and sometimes even further afield. In Rome, historian Greg Woolf expertly recounts how this mammoth empire was created,...
War From the Ground Up: Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics
Twenty-First Century Combat as Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
As a British infantry officer in the Royal Gurkha Rifles Emile Simpson completed three tours of Southern Afghanistan. Drawing on that experience, and on a range of revealing case studies ranging from Nepal to Borneo, War From The Ground Up offers a distinctive perspective on contemporary armed conflict:...
Out of the Mountains: The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
The Coming Age of the Urban Guerrilla
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
In Out of the Mountains, David Kilcullen, one of the world's leading experts on modern warfare, offers a groundbreaking look ahead at what may happen after the war in Afghanistan ends. It is a book about future conflicts and future cities, about the challenges and opportunities that four powerful...
Armageddon Averted : Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
The Soviet Collapse, 1970-2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Featuring extensive revisions to the text as well as a new introduction and epilogue--bringing the book completely up to date on the tumultuous politics of the previous decade and the long-term implications of the Soviet collapse--this compact, original, and engaging book offers the definitive account...
The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India
Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2011
Almost since the event itself in 1757, the English East India Company's victory over the forces of the nawab of Bengal and the territorial acquisitions that followed has been perceived as the moment when the British Empire in India was born. Examining the Company's political and intellectual history...
The Cold War: The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991
The United States and the Soviet Union, 1917-1991
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 1997
For half of the twentieth century, the Cold War gripped the world. International relations everywhere--and domestic policy in scores of nations--pivoted around this central point, the American-Soviet rivalry. Even today, much of the world's diplomacy grapples with chaos created by the Cold War's sudden...
The Acadian Diaspora:An Eighteenth-Century History
An Eighteenth-Century History
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012
Late in 1755, an army of British regulars and Massachusetts volunteers completed one of the cruelest, most successful military campaigns in North American history, capturing and deporting seven thousand French-speaking Catholic Acadians from the province of Nova Scotia, and chasing an equal number...
Dive Deeper:Journeys with Moby-Dick
Journeys with Moby-Dick
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
Herman Melville's epic tale of obsession has all the ingredients of a first rate drama--fascinating characters in solitude and society, battles between good and evil, a thrilling chase to the death--and yet its allusions, digressions, and sheer scope can prove daunting to even the most intrepid reader....
Without Copyrights: Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain
Piracy, Publishing, and the Public Domain
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
The names of James Joyce and Ezra Pound ring out in the annals of literary modernism, but few recognize the name of Samuel Roth. A brash, business-savvy entrepreneur, Roth made a name--and a profit--for himself as the founding editor and owner of magazines that published selections from foreign writings--especially...
Make It a Green Peace!: The Rise of Countercultural Environmentalism
The Rise of Countercultural Environmentalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
The emergence of Greenpeace in the late 1960s from a loose-knit group of anti-nuclear and anti-whaling activists fundamentally changed the nature of environmentalism--its purpose, philosophy, and tactics--around the world. And yet there has been no comprehensive objective history of Greenpeace's origins-until...
by Arnold M. Ludwig
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 1987
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 1987
Despite the immense obstacles they face, many alcoholics do manage to recover. In this groundbreaking book, Arnold M. Ludwig--a doctor with over twenty-five years of experience working with alcoholics--goes inside the minds of alcoholics in order to explain the behaviors and thought processes they use...
Thieves of Book Row: New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It
New York's Most Notorious Rare Book Ring and the Man Who Stopped It
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
No one had ever tried a caper like this before. The goods were kept in a secure room under constant scrutiny, deep inside a crowded building with guards at the exits. The team picked for the job included two old hands known only as Paul and Swede, but all depended on a fresh face, a kid from Pinetown,...
Pride and Joy:A Guide to Understanding Your Child's Emotions and Solving Family Problems
A Guide to Understanding Your Child's Emotions and Solving Family Problems
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Pride and Joy is a different kind of parenting book. In Pride and Joy, child psychologist Kenneth Barish brings together the best of recent advances in clinical and neuroscience research with the author's three decades of experience working with children and families. He shows how a deeper appreciation...