3983 results for '"Joseph H. Smith'

These essays, by thirteen specialists from Japan and the United States, provide a comprehensive view of the Japanese empire from its establishment in 1895 to its liquidation in 1945. They offer a...

"A harrowing history of the conflicts that swept Asia during the decade following World War II-and determined the fate of the continent. The end of World War II led to the United States' emergence as...

German-Jewish political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-75) fled from the Nazis to New York in 1941, and during the next thirty years in America she wrote her best-known and most influential works,...

Those who think otherwise, though they may fail, deserve our attention, says H. Stuart Hughes. In Sophisticated Rebels, Hughes shows what happened to the revolutionary spirit after the 1968...

Book XXX of Livy's great history of Rome describes the last fewyears (203-201 BC), of the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage,including Hannibal's final defeat by Scipio at Zama, the...

*Once again a New York Times bestseller! First the original edition, and now the new Final Edition*An essential new edition―revised and updated from cover to cover―of one of the most important books...

From two of the world's leading intelligence and espionage historians comes the definitive--and most unsettling--account of the assassination of Leon Trotsky. Exiled from the Soviet Union and...

The internationally bestselling guide to the extraordinary human story, for the curious of all ages The World has existed for over 4 billion years, but humanity arrived much more recently. Here E. H...

In Robert H. Bork's Slouching Towards Gomorrah, one of our nation's most distinguished conservative scholars offers a prophetic and unprecedented view of a culture in decline, a nation in such...

One of the most beloved icons of children's literature, Winnie-the-Pooh! Return to the Hundred Acre Wood in A.A. Milne’s second collection of Pooh stories, The House at Pooh Corner. Here you will...

Longlisted for PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award “A bulletproof case that sexual diversity exists in the natural world…The Sexual Evolution is a thoughtfully and delightfully written...

An award-winning best-seller from the UK recounts how the author, an experienced falconer grieving the sudden death of her father, endeavored to train for the first time a dangerous goshawk predator...

This book examines how legislators have juggled their passions over abortion with standard congressional procedures, looking at how both external factors (such as public opinion) and internal factors...

This newly translated Fear and Trembling, a foundational document of modern philosophy and existentialism, could not be more apt for our perilous times. First published in 1843 under the pseudonym...

The Iliad, Homer's epic tale of the abduction of Helen and the decade-long Trojan War, has fascinated mankind for millennia. Even today, the war inspires countless articles and books, extensive...

This book offers a definitive and wide-ranging overview of developments in behavioral finance over the past ten years. In 1993, the first volume provided the standard reference to this new approach...

"A fascinating history of the political theory of hegemony Few terms are so widely used in the literature of international relations and political science, with so little agreement about their exact...

If Cars Could Talk examines urban environments, how they are born, change, and die, and offers fresh approaches to unlocking our cities great potential. More than half of the world's population lives...