Interdisciplinary studies

A multidisciplinary and timely presentation of digital communication and multimodal texts from the perspective of media linguistics.

The B-17 Flying Fortress, a term coined by a Seattle Daily Times report in 1935, was a quantum leap in offensive air power.

Includes hundreds of period photos covering all the details of the trucks, vans and trailers vital to maintain the communications of the U.

In examining one of the defining events of the twentieth century, Doris L.

Human beings have succeeded as the most dominant species on earth in large part due to our need to connect and cooperate.

Until 1943 there was little effective resistance to the German occupation of The Netherlands.

The authors have created a competent, well-written, and very well-illustrated overview history of an important but lesser-known battle of World War II in the Pacific.

In this second volume detailing the service of the Fw 190, Chris Goss has assembled 190 photographs, many from the archive of the late Dr.

This contemporary text-the first in over a decade on the region-presents the geography of the Middle East and North Africa, defined as the Arab World, Israel, Turkey, Iran, and Afghanistan.

THE FOURTH YEAR began with intensified fighting on Guadalcanal in the southern Solomon Islands in September 1942.

This ebook contains Aristotle's complete works.

This ebook contains Aristotle's complete works.

American Book Award Winner: A "e;moving, intimate"e; account of serving as a translator for undocumented children facing deportation (The New York Times Book Review).

Taken together, Chomsky's essays present a powerful counter-narrative to official accounts of the major political events of the past four years: the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.

"e;Doug Nash addresses a crucial pe-riod of December 1944.

An illustrated history of the World War II British amphibious attack on a dry dock in the German-occupied French town.

Globalization brings far more benefits to the U.

The Third Millennium presents unprecedented opportunities and challenges to capitalism as a global economic system.

Bennett collects oral histories from men of three United States regiments that participated in the invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944.

Peimani challenges the practical indifference of many Western and non-Western countries with interests in Central Asia and the Caucasus to their plight.

Globalization, the return to a multi-party system of government, and the policies advocated by the IMF and the World Bank have led to near revolutionary labor relations in Ghana.

Perhaps the most famous and admired soldier to fight in World War II was Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, who achieved immortality as the Desert Fox.

During the Second World War, women pilots were given the opportunity to fly military aircraft for the first time.

The indispensable guerilla warfare manual, first developed by the Russian military during WWII-with a thorough introduction on its legendary history.

A key section of his book displays available model kits and aftermarket products, complemented by a gallery of beautifully constructed and painted models in various scales.

A detailed exploration of a critical month-long battle, which set the stage for German strategic-level defeats on both the Eastern and Western fronts.

Seventy-five years after the end of the Second World War the details of Soviet ships, their activities and fates remain an enigma to the West.

This book comprises interviews with the last veterans of the Jewish Fighting Organization (OB), accompanied by never previously published photographic postcards from ghettos in the Warsaw region, and a reconstruction of the only existing list of the (OB) soldiers.

Die Figur des Antichrist ist auch Echokammer der Heiligkeit, aus der kollektive wie individuelle Ableitungen und Legitimationen für gewalttätiges Handeln gezogen werden und wurden.

The first volume of the tactical and operational history of World War II Germany's fourth SS-Panzerkorps division and its leader.

Examine the everyday lives of ordinary Americans from the 1940s and 1950s and discover how very different the two decades were.

A topical presentation of firsthand accounts from some of the thousands of army and navy nurses who served both stateside and overseas during World War II, this book tells the stories of the brave women who used any and all resources to save as many lives as possible.

Finalist, 2024 Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Awards"e;.

The author of The Road to Victory delivers "e;a well-written, easy to read, and concise summary of the options available to Eisenhower and the Allies"e; (Journal of Military History).

This carefully crafted ebook: "e;The War That Will End War (The original unabridged edition)"e; is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents.

The author of The Road to Victory delivers "e;a well-written, easy to read, and concise summary of the options available to Eisenhower and the Allies"e; (Journal of Military History).

Das Verhältnis zwischen den Religionsgemeinschaften als soziale Konkretisierungsformen des Abstractums "Religion" und den Menschenrechten muss gerade in unseren Tagen aus einer sozialethischen Perspektive neu und präzise bestimmt werden.

"A base de toda mi variada y enriquecedora experiencia, he llegado a la profunda convicción de que una razonable comprensión básica de este campo no debería estar limitada a solo una pequeña banda de académicos o de expertos.

Ist es legitim, im öffentlichen Diskurs religiös zu argumentieren, oder ist Religion Privatsache?

"Renaissance, Niedergang, Transformation, Deinstitutionalisierung, Entprivatisierung, Bricolage - die Erwartungen an das Schicksal der Religion in der modernen Zivilisation sind vielfältig.

"e;Taylor provides short vignettes of actual flights and combat interactions revealing performance and flight procedures used to shoot and avoid being shot down.

This is the story of a wartime bomber, its crew and of a tantalizing detective story unfolding over nearly a quarter of a century of intensive research.

The Second World War Illustrated: 1944 follows the author's visual tour of the war by means of painstakingly researched and digitally restored pictures from the period of the key battlefields and events of the period from September 1943 to the late summer of 1944.

Throughout the Second World War, a shift occurred in the composition of the large armored units of armies which lead to an increase in the power of their tanks in particular.

Working toward an analysis of how photography has contributed to the construction of an Italian 'type' to serve the mandates of the new nation in the 1860s, this book engages writers and photographers who have attempted to address this in their works.

This work is designed as a reference tool for researchers investigating the what, when, and why of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.

Between Hitler and Churchill exposes an unknown facet in the World War II history: the attempt of a senior official in the Polish government-in-exile to collude with the Third Reich and a successful British intelligence operation which thwarted this move in its infancy.