Regional / International studies

An inside view of the experimental practices of cognitive psychology-and their influence on the addictive nature of social mediaExperimental cognitive psychology research is a hidden force in our online lives.

Marceline Loridan-Ivens was just fifteen when she was arrested by the Vichy government's militia, along with her father.

'The best one-volume study of Churchill yet available.

Churchill's Bomb - from the author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man - reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain's policy on atomic weapons.

Ever since the Second World War and the Holocaust, historians, psychologists and theologians alike have attempted to explain how a single personality could bring about some of the greatest horrors of the modern era.

Seven-year-old Che was abandoned by his radical Havard-student parents during the upheaval of the 1960s, and since then has been raised in isolated privilege by his New York grandmother.

The real story of how Winston Churchill and the British mastered deception to defeat the Nazis - by conning the Kaiser, hoaxing Hitler and using brains to outwit brawn.

A 2012 Top Ten Sports Book as selected by Booklist, winner of the 2011 Seymour Medal and Larry Ritter Award from the Society for American Baseball Research, and finalist for the Massachusetts Book Award for nonfiction, Fenway 1912 is the remarkable story of Fenway's very first year.

Researchers frequently experience sexualized interactions, sexual objectification, andharassmentas they conduct fieldwork.

American Studies has long been a home for adventurous students seeking to understand the culture and politics of the United States.

Tracing the rise of evangelicalism and the decline of mainline Protestantism in American religious and cultural lifeHow did American Christianity become synonymous with conservative white evangelicalism?

A major new history of how the Enlightenment transformed people's everyday livesThe Secular Enlightenment is a panoramic account of the radical ways that life began to change for ordinary people in the age of Locke, Voltaire, and Rousseau.

The surprising similarities in the rise and fall of the Sunni Islamic and Roman Catholic empires in the face of the modern stateCoping with Defeat presents a historical panorama of the Islamic and Catholic political-religious empires and exposes striking parallels in their relationship with the modern state.

This revised and updated eleventh edition of the bestselling textbook Politics UK is an indispensable introduction to British politics.

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'A deeply humane memoir of immense power - there is nothing more affecting than a first-hand experience finely told' - Philippe Sands, author of The Ratline'A fabulous memoir .

Our churches are beset by challenges.

Critical acclaim for William B.

Triumph of Hope From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to IsraelNow available in English, here is the award-winning and internationally acclaimed testament of a Jewish woman who was taken to Auschwitz while several months pregnant, where she was forced to confront perhaps the most agonizing choice ever imposed upon any woman, upon any human being, so that both she and her newborn infant should not die in a Nazi "e;medical"e; experiment personally conducted by the infamous Dr.

Critical acclaim for William B.

"e;cracking stuff .

A rare treat for World War II history buffs and fans of the strange, absurd, and unexplained Acclaimed military historian William Breuer takes readers on a trip through the looking glass to acquaint them with the weirder side of World War II.

Advance Praise for The Rescue "e;Steven Trent Smith grapples boldly with several big subjects: the Japanese occupation of the Philippines; the capture of Japan's 'Z Plan' (the decisive-battle strategy for destroying the U.

Critical acclaim for William B.

Young Men Surviving Child Sexual Abuse examines a largely neglected area in child protection: the sexual abuse of boys.

Redundant Masculinities?

THE BLACKWELL COMPANION TO EASTERN CHRISTIANITY Consistently highly readable and engrossing.

Men Talk draws on rich conversational material from a wide range of contexts to illuminate our understanding of men and masculinities at the turn of the millennium.

This volume brings together leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain to illustrate the contribution that geographical thinking can make to understanding modern Britain.

Perspectives on Las Am ricas: A Reader in Culture, History, and Representation charts new territory by demonstrating the limits of neatly demarcating the regions of Latin America and the United States .

An in-depth look at a crucial, little-known World War II episode the failed Allied policy in Yugoslavia and its ramifications in the Balkans and beyond Winston Churchill called it one of his biggest wartime failures the shift of British and U.

Quartz crystal-a technology that changed the tide of World War II Some of the defining leaps in technology in the twentieth century occurred during the Second World War, from radar to nuclear energy.

China has endured a century of turmoil, beginning with the anti-dynastic revolution associated with Sun Yat-Sen, through the military and tutelary rule of Chiang Kai-shek, the revolutionary regime of Mao Zedong, and the radical reforms of Deng Xiaoping.

From its beginnings, Confucianism has vibrantly taught that each person is able to find the Way individually in service to the community and the world.

Since the mid-1980s, Vietnam has experienced remarkable economic, political, and social change.

Since China entered the post-Mao "e;Reform Era"e; in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the Chinese economy has taken off as few economies ever have.

Womanhood in the Making is an ethnographic study of Brahman women's ritual practice that focuses on relations between religious practice, class and caste inequalities, and nationalist discourses.

The Grameen Bank of Bangladesh has been extending small loans to poor borrowers (primarily women) to promote self-employment and income generation since 1976.

This book provides an overview of Uganda, a country that represents the hope and despair of modern Africa.

"e;I have read Arthur Herman's Introduction to Hinduism with considerable interest and pleasure.

This book provides an account of actual African experience and African criticisms.

For much of the second half of the twentieth century, the Asian economic "e;miracle"e; has fueled the greatest expansion of wealth for the largest population in the history of mankind.

This definitive biography of George Antonius tells the life story of a man who lived during a dramatic period of history, amid challenge that remains unresolved: the Palestine-Zionist conflict.