Biography: general

The Soviet experience in Afghanistan provides a compelling perspective on the far-reaching hazards of military intervention.

Edited by David Platt, Daniel L.

A 2016 study of the Afghanistan international intervention from perspective of an ambassador, a Navy SEAL, an Afghan businessman & a wind energy engineer.

This chronicle of observant Muslim women's daily challenges in secular settings is "e;a welcome contribution [that] can be useful in many disciplines"e; (Journal of Church and State).

Few topics in the news are more hotly contested than the Israeli-Palestinian conflict-and news coverage itself is always a subject of debate.

A Thrice-Told Tale is one ethnographer's imaginative and powerful response to the methodological issues raised by feminist and postmodernist critics of traditional ethnography.

In 1980, deconstructive and psychoanalytic literary theorist Barbara Johnson wrote an essay on Mary Shelley for a colloquium on the writings of Jacques Derrida.

In All I Want Is a Job!

American Evangelicals have long considered Africa a welcoming place for joining faith with social action, but their work overseas is often ambivalently received.

The relationship between traditional myths, fairytales and current fiction novels featuring women as crime-solvers is examined in this critical study.

When Franklin Delano Roosevelt founded the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933, newspapers relating to the organization were launched almost immediately.

Carl Alexander Krethlow öffnet mit seiner Darstellung den Blick auf den Krieg in einer Region, die bis heute im Brennpunkt des Weltgeschehens steht.

The little-known history of black soldiers and defense workers in the First World War, and what happened afterward: "e;Highly recommended.

';Leah Darrow uses her experience in the beauty industry to help the women of our culture see what true beauty looks like.

On the night of November 29, 1988, near the impoverished Marlborough neighborhood in south Kansas City, an explosion at a construction site killed six of the citys firefighters.

World War I propelled the United States into the twentieth century and served as a powerful catalyst for the making of modern California.

An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empireand a chief architect of the military and political realities of late nineteenth-century Europe.

Winner: Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book AwardWinner: Master Corporal Jan Stanislaw Jakobczak Memorial Book AwardNovember 1917.

Winner: Norman B.

Choice Outstanding TitleWhen on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: Im an American, and I never retreat.

Choice Outstanding TitleWhen on May 15, 1918 a French lieutenant warned Henry Johnson of the 369th to move back because of a possible enemy raid, Johnson reportedly replied: Im an American, and I never retreat.

Winner: Norman B.

This new (third) edition of Rethinking Public Relations continues the argument of previous editions that public relations is weak propaganda.

This new (third) edition of Rethinking Public Relations continues the argument of previous editions that public relations is weak propaganda.

Religion and politics are never far from the headlines, but their relationship remains complex and often confusing.

Religion and politics are never far from the headlines, but their relationship remains complex and often confusing.

While a majority of people identify as "e;heterosexual"e; if asked about their sexual identity, what does that really mean?

While a majority of people identify as "e;heterosexual"e; if asked about their sexual identity, what does that really mean?

The Routledge Handbook of Religion and American Culture explains where religion is made in the United States.

Dieses eBook: "Der Pfaffenspiegel - Historische Denkmale des christlichen Fanatismus" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

A rare, 15-year ethnography, this book follows the lives of individual, low-income African American youth from the beginning of high school into their early adult years.

The Quaker World is an outstanding, comprehensive and lively introduction to this complex Christian denomination.

The Quaker World is an outstanding, comprehensive and lively introduction to this complex Christian denomination.

The first sociology of religion textbook to begin the task of diversifying and decolonizing the study of religion, Sociology of Religion develops a sociological frame that draws together the personal, political and public, showing how religion - its origins, development and changes - is understood as a social institution, influenced by and influencing wider social structures.

The first sociology of religion textbook to begin the task of diversifying and decolonizing the study of religion, Sociology of Religion develops a sociological frame that draws together the personal, political and public, showing how religion - its origins, development and changes - is understood as a social institution, influenced by and influencing wider social structures.

"e;If the promises of online news are to be fulfilled, books like this deserve the widest possible readership"e;Paul Bradshaw, University of Central England, UKIn this exciting and timely book Stuart Allan provides a wide-ranging analysis of online news.

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Young Women and the Body sets out to examine why the current generation of young women seem to be deeply unhappy with their own bodies.

This international collection of historical work explores the breadth and creativity of women's struggles for human rights, citizenship and social justice across the world.

Secrets of the Cold War focuses on a dark period of a silent war and offers a new perspective on the struggle between the superpowers of the world told in the words of those who were there.

This book examines how the concept of the poet as a male professional emerged during the Restoration and eighteenth century.

On 1 June 1939 His Majestys Submarine Thetis sank in Liverpool Bay while on her diving trials.

The Territorials 1908-1914 is a unique, comprehensive record of the part-time soldiers who made up the Territorial Force that supported the regular army in the years immediately before the outbreak of the First World War.

The book starts with on the capture of Vimy Ridge and the nearly spur of Notre Dame de Lorette in October 1914.

The author of The Yompers details the history of Great Britain's innovation in combatting the German Zeppelin during World War I.

The Battle of the Somme is one of the most famous, and earliest, films of war ever made.

"e;A fantastic overview of one of Britain's untold stories from the Great War"e;-the Salonika Campaign that pitted Allied forces against the Bulgarians (Burton Mail).

An in-depth look at the contributions of the British cavalry during World War I.

Speaking to youth is challenging.