This is an unusual book in that it is an important contribution to social psychology and also an absorbing story of four strange years in a German prison camp of World War I.
Finalist for the 2024 Casey Award and selected as a 'Best Baseball Book of 2024' by Sports Collector's Digest For twenty Major League seasons, the name Dwight Evans was synonymous with sterling defense and a potent bat.
Why would Rene Descartes, the father of modern rationalist philosophy, choose "e;meditations"e;-a term and genre associated with religious discourse and practice-for the title of his magnum opus that lays the metaphysical foundations for his reform of all knowledge, including mathematics and sciences?
Since media is omnipresent in our lives, it is crucial to understand the complex means and dimensions of media in history, and how we have arrived at the current digital culture.
A hard-hitting inside account of the Fast and Furious scandalthe government-sponsored program intended to win the drug war by providing and tracking gun sales across the border to Mexicofrom whistle-blower and ATF agent John Dodson.
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An anthropological study of the health system of the Dagara people of northern Ghana and southern Burkina Faso, Of Life and Health develops a cultural and epistemological lexicon of Dagara life by examining its religious, ritual, and artistic expressions.
Juvenile Delinquency, Eleventh Edition, discusses delinquency as it relates to and emerges from the youth's family, neighborhood, school, peer group, social class, and overall cultural and social environment.
As early modern Europe launched its multiple projects of global empire, it simultaneously embarked on an ambitious program of describing and picturing the world.
This tender and moving memoir by the great Yiddish writer Chaim Grade takes us to the very source of his widely praised novels and poems_the city of Vilna, the ''Jerusalem of Lithuania,'' during the years before World War II.
2016 Santa Fe literary awards - finalist 2016 Next Generation Indie Book awards - finalist 2016 USA Best Book Awards - finalist in the memoir category 2016 Author Awards, 2nd place in the memoir category A SheKnows.
Ground-breaking biography of the creator of fiction's best loved detectiveThough Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's name is recognised the world over, for decades he was overshadowed by his creation, Sherlock Holmes - one of literature's most enduring characters.
*WINNER British Sports Book Awards SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR*Ronda's new memoir OUR FIGHT is available on 4th April, in Hardback'I have this one term for the kind of woman my mother raised me not to be, and I call it a Do-Nothing B-tch'.
A light-hearted and touching memoir of Bill Sherk's 30-plus-year career as a Toronto high school history teacher with a creative flair and passion for his work.
AS SEEN ON NETFLIX'S AT HOME WITH THE FURYSTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AND AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR** TELEGRAPH SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR **DOUBLE WINNER: BEST AUTOBIOGRAPHY & BEST OVERALL SPORTS BOOK OF 2020________________________________ 'Incredible stories.
In a world that requires knowledge and wisdom to address developing crises around us, The Gatherings shows how Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples can come together to create meaningful and lasting relationships.
Cultivating Empire charts the connections between missionary work, capitalism, and Native politics to understand the making of the American empire in the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries.
This volume deals specifically with escape and evasion in the Netherlands, Belgium and France, an operation in which the author himself was directly involved, and discusses the role which these lines of escape played in the lives of airmen who were forced to bail out over enemy territory.
2020 Chicago Writers Association Book of the Year Award in Traditional Nonfiction 2021 Finalist in the Eric Hoffer Awards Jacqueline Saper, named after Jacqueline Kennedy, was born in Tehran to Iranian and British parents.
L'auteur présente ici les mémoires et récits inédits de Rodolphe Lemieux, politicien québécois du début du XXe siècle ayant occupé plusieurs fonctions importantes sur la scène fédérale.
