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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732074132Author Jeane SloneFormat PaperbackPage Count 456Imprint Walter J. Willey Book Co.Publisher Walter J. Willey Book Co.Weight(grams) 603g

This book is an edited transcript of over 900 pages of testimony, charges, interrogatories, examinations, and cross-examinations of many of the witnesses for and against Navy Captain Uriah Phillips Levy at the Naval Court of Inquiry in 1857. The goal was...

A companion to History of Oral History, Thinking about Oral History presents parts III and IV of Handbook of Oral History, an essential resource for scholars and students. Guided by Charlton, Myers, and Sharpless, the prominent authors capture the...

Augustine and History relates history to Augustine's thoughts, life, and writings in several distinct, but connected, ways. The essays place Augustine in his historical context, analyze his own theory and practice of historiography, and examine his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034548829Author Mrs Humphry WardFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

In this important and worthy book, Ellis Washington succinctly and convincingly proposes that the Framers of the United Nations and its international legal arm, the Nuremberg Tribunal, utilized a defective legal philosophy and jurisprudence sixty years...

Intelligence as a Principle of Public Economy offers the best expression of the life and thought of the nineteenth-century Italian political economist Carlo Cattaneo. Available here for the first time in English, this volume showcases pensiero come...

Augustine and History relates history to Augustine's thoughts, life, and writings in several distinct, but connected, ways. The essays place Augustine in his historical context, analyze his own theory and practice of historiography, and examine his...

As the world bears witness to the terror and warfare provoked by people's sense of who they are, how they are regarded, and what they deserve, we have entered into the 'age of identity.' Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was the prophet of this new age. His...

As the world bears witness to the terror and warfare provoked by people's sense of who they are, how they are regarded, and what they deserve, we have entered into the "age of identity." Erik Erikson (1902-1994) was the prophet of this new age...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006557880Author Robert Louis StevensonFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 236g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034303343Author Wilton Wallace BlanckeFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034892748Author Arthur DimockFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034470069Author Colonel G B MallesonFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034412465Author Abner DoubledayFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034168379Author Anne WarnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Winner of the Coral Horton Tullis, Summerfield G. Roberts, and Friends of the Dallas Public Library Awards Because Texas emerged from the western frontier relatively late in the formation of the antebellum nation, it is frequently and incorrectly...

Even though the United States was still officially at peace prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, it was secretly devising a chain of intelligence-sharing alliances with future allies in the impending war in the Pacific. This work is divided into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631571972Author Agata StopinskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783631386385Author Susan IngramFormat PaperbackPage Count 294Imprint Peter Lang AGPublisher Peter Lang AGWeight(grams) 420g

This text examines the origins, legitimacy and limitations of public administration from the perspective of the American Founders' thought. It shows that these men advocated an energetic public administration as an essential component of government.Book...

In the late eighteenth century, Matthew Gregory "Monk" Lewis, a notorious author of lurid Gothic novels and plays, began to gather this collection of horror ballads. Including original and traditional works, translations and adaptations, and even...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674729490Author G P V AkriggFormat HardbackPage Count 442Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 939g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781006941115Author Shelby M CullomFormat PaperbackPage Count 378Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 21mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034153023Author Sir E W WatkinFormat PaperbackPage Count 342Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

In the latter half of the 19th century, Gustave Pierre Trouve, a modest but brilliant Parisian electrical engineer, conceived and patented some 75 inventions, including the endoscope, the electric car and the frontal headlamp. He also designed an...

This revised Broadview Edition of Hobbes's classic work of political philosophy includes the full text of Part I (Of Man), Part II (Of Commonwealth), and the Review and Conclusion. The appendices, which set the work in its historical context, include a...

Gold! Gold! Gold! This seductive mantra, shouted throughout the Americas in 1848-49, convinced thousands of people that California's gold could be had simply by picking it up off the ground. Ramon Gil Navarro, an Argentinean political exile living in...

Drawing on studio files, newspaper critiques, internet sources and scholarly studies of Mexican cinema, this critical history focuses on film depictions, in Hollywood and in Mexico, of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. The political and military battles of...

The distinguished historian Winton U. Solberg presents a detailed case study of one institution's transformation into a modern American university. The years 1894 to 1904 mark the stormy tenure of Andrew S. Draper as president of the University of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788477209232Author Zecharia SitchinFormat PaperbackImprint ObeliscoPublisher ObeliscoWeight(grams) 640g

This is the first comprehensive biography of Thomas J. Walsh, the Democratic senator from Montana from 1913 to 1933 who was best known for his role in uncovering the Teapot Dome scandal. J. Leonard Bates places Walsh in his colorful and tumultuous times,...

Idaho is now seen as one of the most intriguing and attractive states in the Union. Any view of the Gem State is likely to be broadened and deepened by this superbly written history of it, In Mountain Shadows. Carlos A. Schwantes illustrates the extent...

Warring factions in the United States like to use children as weapons for their political agendas as Americans try to determine the role--if any--of the federal government in the lives of children. But what is the history of...

Aspects of Leicester 1 is the first Wharncliffe title to appear in the East Midlands. However in Yorkshire and Lancashire, our publications have gathered a devoted following and after only ten years of publication, earlier titles are already sought after...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034500711Author George E WaringFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034750383Author Booker T WashingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034156888Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034022596Author Maurus JokaiFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g

Through a series of critical readings this book builds a picture of the Roman reaction to, and adoption of, the Greek poetry of the last three pre-Christian centuries. Although the poetry of the greatest figure of Greek poetry after Alexander,...