Kuei, My Friend is an engaging book of letters: a literary and political encounter between Innu poet Natasha Kanape Fontaine and Quebecois-American novelist Deni Ellis Bechard.
The Skull That Yawns is a historical fiction about the civil war and the leaders' decisions that would lead to an unforeseen outcome of America's biggest legends like Lincoln, Geronimo, and Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
First published in 1991, Social Security and Social Control (now with a new preface by the author) takes a fresh look at social security policy and demonstrates how the disciplinary effects of social security and relief programmes are more extensive, pervasive, and subtle than is commonly supposed.
Continuity and Change in Medieval East Central Europe explores the crucial societal, political, and cultural dynamics that defined medieval East Central Europe during the early and high Middle Ages.
Examining how horror and science fiction films from the 1950s to the present invent and explore fictional "e;us-versus-them"e; scenarios, this book analyzes the different ways such films employ allegory and/or satire to interrogate the causes and consequences of increasing polarization in American politics and society.
Dialectical Materialism (1958) surveys the history of dialectical materialism from its Hegelian beginnings to the death of Stalin, and its sequel in the celebrated XXth Party Congress of the C.
From the author of The Family Tree Detective, this guide provides the amateur genealogist or family historian with the skills to research the distribution and history of a surname.
Este libro es una historia social de la infancia en Antioquia (Colombia) entre 1892 y 1936, cuyo propósito es dar cuenta del lugar que ocuparon los niños en la sociedad.
Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Welt der Scholastik – eine intellektuelle Bewegung, die Glaube und Vernunft in einer einzigartigen Synthese vereinte und das Denken des Mittelalters revolutionierte.
Esta enciclopedia ofrece un recorrido exhaustivo por la historia de la radio, destacando su desarrollo técnico y cultural desde los primeros experimentos de Hertz hasta su papel en la comunicación moderna.
This book takes a thematic approach to questions of how to define emotion and loneliness, breaking down loneliness into a range of different dimensions - estrangement, longing, homesickness, isolation - and considers how these phenomena appear across a range of global contexts.
Die Eroberung des Himmels begann nicht mit großen Maschinen oder modernen Flugzeugen, sondern mit Träumen, mutigen Experimenten und bahnbrechenden technischen Errungenschaften.
'A unique and thrilling insight into the brilliant mind of Anne Lister' Sally Wainwright, creator of Gentleman JackFemale Fortune is the book which inspired Sally Wainwright to write Gentleman Jack, now a major drama series for the BBC and HBO.
In postwar Britain, journalists and politicians predicted that the class system would not survive a consumer culture where everyone had TVs and washing machines, and where more and more people owned their own homes.
The seventh edition of this two-volume narrative of English history draws on the most up-to-date primary and secondary research, encouraging students to interpret the full range of England's social, economic, cultural, and political past from its first inhabitants to the 2020s.
During the long years of the Second World War, tea remained the cornerstone of British hospitality, drunk and enjoyed by civilians and members of the armed forces alike.
This book examines the cultural relations between the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg monarchies in the seventeenth century and explores the central role of transnational aristocratic networks in cultural transfer processes between Spain and Central Europe.
