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The first comprehensive history of how Jews became citizens in the modern worldFor all their unquestionable importance, the Holocaust and the founding of the State of Israel now loom so large in...

A new edition of a classic book on viral catastrophes--the Avian flu, SARS, and now, Covid-19. In his book, The Monster at Our Door, the renowned activist and author Mike Davis warned of a coming...

National Book Award finalist Breathless tells the story of the worldwide scientific race to decipher the coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, trace its source, and make possible the vaccines to fight the Covid-19...

Zusammenfassung: "The untold story of West Berlin, the island city deep inside the Soviet bloc that withstood the decades-long confrontation between the USSR and the West. Located more than one...

From award-winning and bestselling author David Nasaw, a brilliant re-examination of post-World War II America that looks beyond the victory parades and into the veterans’—and nation’s—unhealed...

Meisterwerke der griechischen Kunst, Statuen und Gemälde, wurden ab republikanischer Zeit in großer Zahl von ihren originalen Standorten nach Rom entführt. Dort schmückten sie öffentliche Orte, genau...

How do historians, comparative linguists, biblical and textual critics and evolutionary biologists establish beliefs about the past? How do they know the past? This book presents a philosophical...

Though First Nations communities in Canada have historically lacked access to clean water, affordable food, and equitable health care, they have never lacked access to well-funded scientists seeking...

Droughts. Floods. Climate refugees. Global warming isn't just about polar bears anymore. Let's assume we do nothing about climate change. Imagine that we just continue to emit carbon at our current...

This book contains 217 pen-and-ink drawings of country music personalities from Roy Acuff to Carrie Underwood. Each 300 word biography is accompanied by an original pen-and-ink drawing done in...

"In this richly detailed cultural and political history, David Narrett shows how Cherokee nationhood emerged from the pressures of colonial encounter. Cherokee diplomats - primarily women - take...

Once of central importance to left historians and activists alike, the concept of the “bourgeois revolution” has recently come in for sustained criticism from both Marxists and conservatives. In this...

For the past one hundred years, Americans have argued and worried about the quality of their schools. Some charged that students were not learning enough, while others complained that the schools...

Winner of the 2010 Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association; Sex and Gender SectionThe Real Issue behind the Abortion DebateAn op-ed by Jeanne Flavin in the San Francisco...