History of other geographical groupings and regions

The book is the first attempt to investigate how and to what extent authoritarian (personalistic) regimes fail to provide fundamental goods and services.

A major history of the shtetl's golden ageThe shtetl was home to two-thirds of East Europe's Jews in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, yet it has long been one of the most neglected and misunderstood chapters of the Jewish experience.

Throughout the ages, interpreters of the Christian scriptures have been wonderfully creative in seeking to understand and bring out the wonders of these ancient writings.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

A major production site of Soviet KV and T-34 tanks in WWII, the town of Cheliabinsk in the Urals was nicknamed 'Tankograd', its civilian machine-building factories swiftly converted to arms production.

Behind a gruesome ISIS beheading video lies the untold story of the men in orange and the faith community that formed these unlikely modern-day saints and heroes.

In The Greening of Antarctica Alessandro Antonello investigates the development of an international regime of environmental protection and management between the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959 and the signing of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in 1980.

The 9th iteration of this go-to textbook on contemporary Russian politics offers comprehensive and critical discussion of the country's most recent developments, providing substantive coverage of the key areas in domestic and foreign Russian politics.

How the fur trade changed the North and created the modern Arctic: "e;The history is fascinating.

As the host of one of National Public Radio's most popular interview programs, Michael Krasny has spent decades leading conversations on every imaginable topic and discussing life's most important questions with the foremost thinkers of our time.

The book examines prominent literary works from the past two decades by Russian women writers dealing with the Soviet past.

This book develops a novel way of thinking about crises in world politics.

This scarce antiquarian book is a reprint of the original.

This book discusses the reunification of Germany and the negative impacts that this had on East German intellectuals.

'An extraordinary book .

"El intercambio de ideas hace historia con tanta certeza como el intercambio de disparos.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ONSIDE NONFICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR 2018 The islands off the coast of Ireland have long been a source of fascination.

""Perfecto es esa clase de tipo que tiene aspecto de periodista romántico y que resulta ser un romántico periodista.

Positioned on the fault line between two competing Cold War ideological and military alliances, and entangled in ethnic, cultural and religious diversity, the Balkan region offers a particularly interesting case for the study of the global Cold War system.

After the Cold War, its history must be reassessed as the opening of Soviet archives allows a much fuller understanding of the Russian dimension.

Das Herzstück dieses Buches ist eine existenzielle Frage.

In The Greening of Antarctica Alessandro Antonello investigates the development of an international regime of environmental protection and management between the signing of the Antarctic Treaty in 1959 and the signing of the Convention on the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in 1980.

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This book examines the ways in which studies of science intertwined with Cold War politics, in both familiar and less familiar "e;battlefields"e; of the Cold War.

In many ways, we seem to be living in wintry times at present in the Western world.

Over thirty years in the making, the most comprehensive work in English on Ukraine is now complete: its history, people, geography, economy, and cultural heritage, both in Ukraine and in the diaspora.

Examining transnational ties between the USA and Australia, this book explores the rise of the Aboriginal Black Power Movement in the 1960s and early 1970s.

A new, definitive atlas of the European Reformations has been needed for many years.

This book is an insider's account of the search for missing American servicemen who became trapped in the Soviet Union and the US government's efforts to free them or discover their fates.

Ethiopia is an icon of freedom and indigenous Christianity across Africa due to its historic independence, ancient Christian identity and rich religious heritage.

This volume is the first to explore the vibrant history of Magna Carta in Aotearoa New Zealand's legal, political and popular culture.

This volume investigates energy as a shaping force in Russian and Soviet literature, visual culture, and social practice.

The Australian Study of Politics provides the first comprehensive reference book on the history of the study of politics in Australia, whether described as political studies or political science.

This book explores the people of the Kikori River Delta, in the Gulf of Papua, as established historical agents of intercultural exchange.

A historical analysis of economic thought in Islamic tradition which interrogates contemporary Islamic economics as a hybrid system.

Surrounded on all sides by Islam, the beloved Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew continues to impact the world for Christ from his seat in Constantinople, a city central to Christian history.

A gripping account of the Russian visionaries who are pursuing human immortalityAs long as we have known death, we have dreamed of life without end.

A 200 años de la independencia de España, la mayor parte de los guatemaltecos todavía no tienen claros los elementos clave que constituyen la base de su guatemalidad, es decir, de su pertenencia a un país que, por coincidencias históricas y quizás también por azares del destino llegó a llamarse Guatemala.

Moore traces and re-interprets the significance of the architecture of the Christian Holy Land within changing religious and political contexts.