3288 results for '"Shaw, Joseph W.'

After the Nazis came to power in Germany in 1933, the Associated Press (AP) brought news about life under the Third Reich to tens of millions of American readers. The AP was America’s most important...

Updated text and new maps bring this standard introduction up to date . . .Throughout Christian history, the works of Josephus have been mined for the light they shed on the world of the New...

In recent decades economic dislocation, immigration, new architecture, and other forces have transformed the physical, social, and even religious landscape of large cities. There gleaming skyscrapers...

M.in.: okoliczności przeniesienia dworu królewskiego do Warszawy - wydłużenie pobytu króla i dworu w Warszawie w 1596 r., początkowo planowanego tylko na czas sejmu, przyczyny polityczne decyzji o...

The Tractatus de Anima of John Blund was a discovery of Father Daniel Callus, but he did not live to complete the edition. The treatise was written c. 1200, and is the earliest known philosophical...

Nate Shaw's father was born under slavery. Nate Shaw was born into a bondage that was only a little gentler. At the age of nine, he was picking cotton for thirty-five cents an hour. At the age of...

The Chinese Roger S. Greene, Thomas W. Lamont, George E. Sokolsky and American-East Asian Relations (Studies of the East Asian Institute)

"The mighty Mississippi" has inspired writers and artists for centuries. During the nineteenth century, Mississippi River towns attracted artists who traveled throughout the United States producing...

Historisierung die Uberzeugung, dass die Phanomene, die eine Wissenschaft untersucht, wesentlich durch ihre spezifische Geschichtlichkeit bestimmt sind und dass daher Pflicht und Ziel der...

"A grand historical atlas of the region that would become New York City-its natural features, inhabitants, geography, flora, and fauna-from before Henry Hudson's arrival in 1609 up to the present day...

“The gold standard for Tesla biography.”—Science“Superb.”—NatureThe definitive account of Tesla's life and workNikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily...

"Ford's overlap of past and present, narrative and commentary is masterful, and makes this volume all the more valuable to those readers wise enough to allow the past to inform the future. Of Blood...

How society’s undervaluing of life puts all of us at risk—and the groundbreaking economic measure that can fix itLike it or not, sometimes we need to put a monetary value on people's lives. In the...

An essential introduction to Josephus’s momentous war narrativeThe Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of...

In Remembering Mr. Shawn's New Yorker, Mr. Mehta gives us the closest, most careful, and most refined description that has yet been written of Shawn's editorship of the magazine. He portrays in...

Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating between allure and colonialist stereotyping.Nicknamed...

"The author of the critically acclaimed The Viral Underclass is back with The Overseer Class, which explores what happens when members of historically minoritized groups are selected for...

Washington Crossing is one of America's most revered historic landmarks. The crossing site is marked by the creation of two historic parks: Washington Crossing State Park, New Jersey, created in...