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The Origins of UNICEF traces the history of the founding of the world's most well-known and often controversial relief aid organization for children. UNICEF modeled itself after several national organizations as well as some of the early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781480941083Author Herman W ReedFormat PaperbackImprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams) 245g

For over forty years much of the world was held captive by a conflict between two wholly incompatible economic ideologies - capitalism and communism - and the two primary superpower countries who practiced them, the United States and the Soviet Union...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439240229Author Arnold ReismanFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439220979Author Judith Kopacsi-GelbergerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781434928757Author R PauletFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Dorrance Publishing Co.Publisher Dorrance Publishing Co.Weight(grams) 152g

This book examines the U.S economy from 1967 to 2011 and utilizes a new method to predict the future of the economy as far ahead as 2030. This new method uses population subgroup data. Variables used in the cross-sectional matrix include ethnicity, sex,...

In To Be an Actress, Nava Shean tells about her life on the stage: from children's theater in Prague to traveling theater in the Czech countryside, to performances of prisoners in Terezin concentration camp, to Israel's national theater, Munich State...

Harlem once glittered as one of the world's most vivid entertainment centers during the 1920s and 1930s. Nightlife revolved around The Cotton Club, Smalls Paradise, and the Savoy Ballroom, featuring floor shows headlining glamorous African American women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250230706Author Daniel SchönpflugFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 272g

In The Impact of Illness on World Leaders, Bert E. Park explores the relationship between leadership and neurologic illness. Basing his study on a rigorous examination of primary and secondary source material from medicine, history, and political...

"When I go to sleep at night I try not to think about Berlin," said Dean Rusk; and in this first comprehensive reconstruction of that crucial period, Jack M. Schick demonstrates that Rusk's nightmare did not end for decades. He traces the East-West...

Why did some Communist and Middle-Eastern dictatorships, those in China, Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba, Syria, Iraq, Libya and Iran, remained defiantly stable during the onset of a democratic age in the 1980s and early 1990s? The book offers an explanation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Cundill Prize 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780199730032Author Susan PedersenFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University...

The Holocaust is often invoked as a benchmark for talking about human rights abuses from slavery and apartheid to colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. Western educators and politicians draw seemingly obvious lessons of tolerance and anti-racism...

On August 8, 1942, 302 people arrived by train at Vocation, Wyoming, to become the first Japanese American residents of what the U.S. government called the Relocation Center at Heart Mountain. In the following weeks and months, they would be joined by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820338958Author Christine KeinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 403g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143115052Author Tony JudtFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 421gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 139mm *...

Cold War Liberation examines the African revolutionaries who led armed struggles in three Portuguese colonies-Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau-and their liaisons in Moscow, Prague, East Berlin, and Sofia. By reconstructing a multidimensional story...

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Set in Japan during the early years of World War II, this game helps students understand the political and strategic reasons behind Japan's decision to enter the war. Taking on the roles of leading figures in Tokyo army or navy officers, bureaucrats, and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780853037217Author Donald BloxhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdPublisher Vallentine Mitchell & Co LtdWeight(grams)...

Greening the Past argues that "western civilization" is rapidly approaching a crisis unique in world history, and that a new world-view now emerging is best encapsulated by a Green, anarchist-ecological analysis. The approach outlined in this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156687461Author Octavio PazFormat PaperbackPage Count 213Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 227g

This interdisciplinary collection of primary and secondary readings encourages scholars and students to engage critically with current debates about the origins, implementation and postwar interpretation of the Holocaust. Interdisciplinary content...

Guerrilla Warfare covers a century of unconventional fighters at war, including the American hunt for Pancho Villa, Lawrence of Arabia's exploits during World War I, the showdown at Dien Bien Phu in 1954, France's long war in Algeria, the siege of Khe...

With the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe between 1989 and 1991, right-wing extremist parties have emerged and claimed a prominence that they have not enjoyed since the early 1940s. The Radical Right in Central and Eastern Europe Since...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743200288Author SHAWCROSSFormat PaperbackPage Count 460Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 581g

This book is about some of the largest events of the twentieth century, about international war, economic collapse, new science and technologies, and about the transformation of an old mill town region into a modern American metropolis. But it sees those...

Every year tens of thousands of Australians make their pilgrimages to Gallipoli, France and other killing fields of the Great War. It is a journey steeped in history. Some go in search of family memory, seeking the grave of a soldier lost a lifetime ago...

The Japanese captured 1500 Australian civilians during World War II. They spent the war interned in harsh, prison-like camps throughout the Asia-Pacific region. Civilian internees - though not members of the armed forces - endured hardship, privation and...

The life of Howard Johnson, nicknamed "Stretch" because of his height (6'5"), epitomizes the cultural and political odyssey of a generation of African Americans who transformed the United States from a closed society to a multiracial democracy. Johnson's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692454534Author Carl W Ford JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Acumensa SolutionsPublisher Acumensa SolutionsWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Beginning in the 1920s, Barbadians and other British West Indians began organizing politically in an international environment that was marked by a severe capitalist economic and financial crisis that intensified in the 1930s. The response in the British...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312326418Author Leonard SteinhornFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 435gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982712412Author William Ainger WigramFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Assyrian Academic SocietyPublisher Assyrian Academic SocietyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615974484Author Cody HopkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint WWW.Luvbearsedutainment.comPublisher WWW.Luvbearsedutainment.comWeight(grams) 104g

From Mother Teresa and the slums of Calcutta to a legendary matador in the bull rings of Spain to the final days of the British Raj in India, "A Thousand Suns" tells of the extraordinary individuals and events that have shaped the 20th century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780393333053Author Thomas M. CoffeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & Co

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190619121Author Susan PedersenFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Oxford University PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams)...