Author: London, Samuel G. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Seventh-day Adventists and the Civil Rights Movement is the first in-depth study of the denomination's participation in civil rights politics. It considers the extent to which thedenomination's theolo...
Author: Szreter, Simon / Fisher, Kate Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What did sex mean for ordinary people before the sexual revolution of the 1960s and 1970s, who were often pitied by later generations as repressed, unfulfilled and full of moral anxiety? This book pro...
Author: Ruth Mazo Karras, Ruth Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: 'The best short introduction to medieval sexuality that I have read: a remarkable book.' -Vern Bullough, Reviews in History 'Undergraduate and graduate students will find in Karras' book an extremel...
Author: Ruth Mazo Karras, Ruth Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: 'The best short introduction to medieval sexuality that I have read: a remarkable book.' -Vern Bullough, Reviews in History 'Undergraduate and graduate students will find in Karras' book an extremel...
Author: Riffenburgh, Beau Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Shackleton's Forgotten Expedition is the story of Ernest Shackleton's epic journey toward the South Pole. Lacking funds and plagued by hunger, cruel weather, and unpredictable terrain, Shackleton and ...
Author: Goodell, Jessica Publisher: Casemate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 2008, CBS' Chief Foreign Correspondent, Lara Logan, candidly speculated about the human side of the war in Iraq: ""Tell me the last time you saw the body of a dead American soldier. What does that ...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The aim of this book was to cast light both on non-Spartan thought and on Spartan practice. Contributors were asked to examine possible effects of images of Sparta, whether realistic or not, upon the ...
Author: Millington, Ernest Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Several books have been written revealing how secret societies are entwined with Western governments, state intelligence, law enforcement, and judiciaries. Only a handful, however, have penetrated the...
Author: Jarausch, Konrad H. / Geyer, Michael Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Broken glass, twisted beams, piles of debris--these are the early memories of the children who grew up amidst the ruins of the Third Reich. More than five decades later, German youth inhabit manicured...
Author: Freitag, Barbara Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Here, Barbara Freitag examines all the literature on the subject, highlighting the inconsistencies of the various interpretations in regard to origin, function and name. By considering the Sheela-na-g...
Author: von Hassell, Agostino Publisher: Thomas Nelson Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: He was named after an enemy of the United States. He was proslavery despite his loyalty to the Union. He burned and pillaged an already beaten foe on a march history will never forget.If, as he fa...
Author: Jones, Justin Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Interest in Shi'a Islam has increased greatly in recent years, although Shi'ism in the Indian subcontinent has remained largely underexplored. Focusing on the influential Shi'a minority of Lucknow and...
Author: Cunningham, Edward Publisher: Savas Beatie Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The bloody and decisive two-day battle of Shiloh (April 6-7, 1862) changed the entire course of the American Civil War. The stunning Northern victory thrust Union commander Ulysses S. Grant into the n...
Author: Kalland, Arne Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Shing?, on the northern shores of Kyushu is today a suburb of Fukuoka City. Fishing is a slowly-dying occupation and this volume analyses how the fishermen adjust to changing circumstances. Although J...
Author: Kalland, Arne Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Shing?, on the northern shores of Kyushu is today a suburb of Fukuoka City. Fishing is a slowly-dying occupation and this volume analyses how the fishermen adjust to changing circumstances. Although J...
Author: Colledge, J. J. Publisher: Casemate / Greenhill Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The essential work, fully revised up to 2010 . . . This is the fourth fully revised edition of a book first published in 1970. This longevity is testimony to its enduring value as a reference work-in...
Author: Dixon, Wheeler / Foster, Gwendolyn Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The history of international cinema is now available in a concise, conveniently sized, and affordable volume. Succinct yet comprehensive, A Short History of Film provides an accessible overview of the...
Author: Richter, William L. Publisher: iUniverse.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: From Richard Lawrence to John Wilkes Booth to John Hinckley, Jr., Americans have preferred their presidential assassins, whether failed or successful, to be more or less crazy. Seemingly, this absolve...
Author: Hessler, James Publisher: Savas Beatie Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Sickles at Gettysburg: The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg, by licensed battlefield guide James Hessler, i...
Author: N/A Publisher: Hakluyt Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Documents published and unpublished, particularly journals kept aboard the ships, including the newly-discovered Leicester journal, with drawings of episodes made by the voyage's artist. This is a new...
Author: Newman, Barbara Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preac...
Author: N/A Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Kentucky and Tennessee were mirror images of one another during the Civil War. Both were slave states with large numbers of Union and Confederate sympathizers. Kentuckians and Tennesseans suffered the...
Author: N/A Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Kentucky and Tennessee were mirror images of one another during the Civil War. Both were slave states with large numbers of Union and Confederate sympathizers. Kentuckians and Tennesseans suffered the...
Author: Reitsch, Hanna Publisher: Casemate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Sky My Kingdom is the fascinating autobiography of the famous World War test pilot - Hanna Reitsch (March 29, 1912 - August 24, 1979). As the war progressed, Reitsch was invited to fly many of Ge...
Author: Flowers, Benjamin Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In Skyscraper, Benjamin Flowers explores the role of culture and ideology in shaping the construction of skyscrapers and the way wealth and power have operated to reshape the urban landscape....
Author: Archer, Leonie Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Bringing together normally self-contained areas of research, this book presents penetrating analyses of the nature and perpetuation of slavery through the ages. This title available in eBook format. C...
Author: Libby, David J. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In the popular imagination the picture of slavery, frozen in time, is one of huge cotton plantations and opulent mansions. However, in over a hundred years of history detailed in this book, the hard ...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In 1900 very few historians were exploring the institution of slavery in the South. But in the next half century, the culture of slavery became a dominating theme in Southern historiography. In the 1...
Author: Jordan, Winthrop D. Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In 1900 very few historians were exploring the institution of slavery in the South. But in the next half century, the culture of slavery became a dominating theme in Southern historiography. In the 1...
Author: Bradley, Patricia Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Under the leadership of Samuel Adams, patriot propagandists deliberately and conscientiously kept the issue of slavery off the agenda as goals for freedom were set for the American Revolution. By co...
Author: Steinberg, Theodore Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The drive to own the natural world in twentieth-century America seems virtually limitless. Signs of this national penchant for possessing nature are everywhere-from suburban picket fences to elaborate...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Until the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, Slovakia's identity seemed inextricably linked with that of the former state. This book explores the key moments and themes in the history of Slovakia from the...
Description: "Smokey and the Fouke Monster" tells a most interesting and unusual true story of how the town of Fouke, Arkansas became the center of attention for Monster hunters in the early and mid-seve...
Author: Crabtree, Smokey Publisher: eBookIt.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: "Smokey and the Fouke Monster" tells a most interesting and unusual true story of how the town of Fouke, Arkansas became the center of attention for Monster hunters in the early and mid-seve...
Author: Prickard (DSO MC), Major Publisher: Helion Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The first volume in the new Helion Library of the Great War, a series designed to bring into print rare books long out-of-print, as well as producing translations of important and overlooked material ...
Author: Brown, Curt Publisher: Voyageur Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: “Not since Sebastian Junger in The Perfect Storm has a writer captured so well the fury of the seas as Curt Brown.” —The Maritime Executive Through masterful research and eleg...
Description: This volume provides coverage of the latest social-psychological research into consumer behavior, including cognitive and affective processes, media influences, and self-regulation.
Author: Beer, Max Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: First published in 1924, Max Beer's work comprises the history of social thought from the fourth to the fourteenth century. He considers in detail the heretical social movement and the story is brough...
Author: N/A Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Combining established work with that of recent provocative scholarship on the antebellum South, this collection of essays puts students in touch with some of the central debates in this dynamic area. ...
Author: Phillips, Mark Salber Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: A deepening interest in both social and interior experience was a distinguishing feature of the cultural life of eighteenth-century Britain, influencing writers in all genres from fiction to philosoph...
Author: Montemurro, Beth Publisher: Rutgers University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Contemporary weddings in the United States can be extravagant, highly ritualized, and costly affairs. From the intricate details of the wedding dress, to the painstaking selection of flowers, to the f...
Author: House, Silas Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Something's Rising collects oral histories from a diverse group of individuals from Kentucky, West Virginia, Tennessee, and Virginia who are fighting mountaintop removal, an ecologically devastating f...
Author: Elm, Susanna Publisher: University of California Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This groundbreaking study brings into dialogue for the first time the writings of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman Emperor, and his most outspoken critic, Bishop Gregory of Nazianzus, a central fi...
