In The Mediterranean World, Monique O’Connell and Eric R. Dursteler examine the history of this contested region from the medieval to the early modern era, beginning with the fall of Rome around 500 CE and closing with Napoleon’s ...
... The Untuning of the Sky : Ideas of Music in English Poetry , 1500–1700 ( 1961 ; rpt . , New York : W. W. Norton , 1970 ) ; Paula Johnson ( Form and Transformation in Music and Poetry of the English Renaissance [ New Haven : Haven : Yale ...
... Risks , Costs , and Lives Saved , pp . 208-53 . 13. Hahn , Risks , Costs , and Lives Saved , p . 218 , table 10.4 . 14. Tengs and Graham , “ Opportunity Costs , ” p . 167 . 15. Derek Bok, The Trouble with Government (Cambridge: Harvard ...
Praise for National Security through a Cockeyed Lens “Yetiv’s volume could be one of the key books for presidents and their advisers to read before they begin making decisions.” —William W. Newmann, H-Diplo “The principles in this ...
Richly documented with primary sources from political parties and civic groups, popular and ethnic periodicals, and electoral returns, The Big Vote examines the national Get-Out-the-Vote campaigns as well as the internal dynamics of ...
The chemical firm of DuPont de Nemours pioneered the development of both nylon and plutonium, among countless other innovations, playing an important role in the rise of mass consumption and the emergence of the notorious “military ...
This book explores the emerging post-Cold War international system and its implications for the future expansion and consolidation of democracy.
Two fled into exile, while the other six were tried and executed. In The Battle of Arginusae, historian Debra Hamel describes the violent battle and its horrible aftermath.
... Manhattan's waterfront has been transformed and made accessible . Anyone who knew New York in the 1970s could not have imagined the greenway that now almost entirely encircles Manhattan Island . Once a wasteland of abandoned piers ...
With Presidential Secrecy and the Law, Robert M. Pallitto and William G. Weaver attempt to answer these questions by examining the history of executive branch efforts to consolidate power through information control.
As József Illy demonstrates in this book, Einstein had an eminently practical side as well. As a youth, Einstein was an inveterate tinkerer in the electrical supply factory owned by his father and uncle.
Grand Central became a monument to the creativity and daring of a remarkable age. More than a history of a train station, this book is the story of a city and an age as reflected in a building aptly described as a secular cathedral.
In Liaisons Dangereuses, Mary Lindemann examines the mysterious circumstances surrounding the murder of a counterfeit Milanese count, Joseph Visconti, at the hands of a Prussian nobleman, the Baron von Kesslitz.
This volume explores Washington’s life and work through his writings and speeches.
John M. Henshaw ponders these and other surprising facts in this fascinating and fast-paced tour of the senses.