A timely, evocative, and beautifully written book, Not Even Past is essential reading for anyone interested in the Civil War…

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• Rok vydání 2010

He urges his fellow Christians to refuse to participate in the intellectually stifling debate over evolution and…

Lionel Casson's encyclopedic study is the first of its kind to use underwater archaeological data to refine and area of…

\nComplicating historical narratives associated with the history of lynching in the city of Salisbury, The Silent Shore…

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One of the world\'s foremost scholars of Roman and comparative law here describes the nature of legal traditions and…

\nConnecting the emergence and development of certain dog breeds to both scientific understandings of race and blood as well…

\nWas he influenced by the environment, he asks himself, and if so, how? Ginzburg uses his own experience to examine the…

In his new preface, Ginzburg reflects on the interplay of chance and discovery, as well as on the relationship between…

• Rok vydání 2016

This illuminating book remains essential to both ancient historians and students of modern strategy.…

In this new reading of maps and map making, Harley undertakes a surprising journey into the nature of the social and…

In this first comprehensive literary history of Baltimore and Maryland (with notes on Washington writers), Frank R. Shivers,…

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Tells the history of the facsimile machine. The author recounts the multigenerational, multinational history of that device…

Touching on critical regionalism and mobility studies, this book is a boundary-pushing cultural history of expertise, an…

The book should be of interest not only to earth scientists, students of polar travel and exploration, and historians but to…

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• Rok vydání 1993

This introductory text offers a chronological account of the main Greek myths in surviving literary and artistic sources,…

President Jimmy Carter, this edition features a new foreword by Lachlan Forrow, president of The Albert Schweitzer…

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• Rok vydání 2015

For seasoned professionals as well as students, A History of Public Health is visionary and essential reading.…

\nAn exciting interdisciplinary study based on new literary, historical, and bibliographical evidence, this book will appeal…

The Economy of Renaissance Florence offers both a systematic description of the city's major economic activities and a…

Reid, Daniel K. Richter, Rebecca Shumway, Sujit Sivasundaram, Nicole Ulrich…

The first book to tell the story of Iridium in this context, A Telephone for the World is a fascinating look at how people,…

McClellan as commander of the Army of the Potomac through the Confederate invasion, the siege and capture of Harpers Ferry,…

Garrett and the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad is a vivid account of Garrett's twenty-six-year reign.…

Bred for Perfection provides the historical context in which this system arose, adding to our understanding of how…

Behind the glories and tragedies that make headlines and move the nation, the story of the space shuttle is inextricably…

Before the Refrigerator is ideal for history of technology classes, food studies classes, or anyone interested in what daily…

Mathematicians and historians of mathematics and science will find in The Chinese Roots of Linear Algebra new ways to…

This illuminating book remains essential to both ancient historians and students of modern strategy.…

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• Rok vydání 2015
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Reflecting the authors' masterful use of archival sources and their magisterial knowledge of the era's complex metropolitan…