ISBN: 9780190219208 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 120 Rok wydania: 2016
As Bill and Melinda Gates point out in their Foreword, Singer's classic essay "Famine, Affluence and Morality," is as relevant today as it ever was.
ISBN: 9780190944421 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2023
ISBN: 9780195342635 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 2009
Discusses the origins and early pioneers of biblical archaeology as a discipline, and the major controversies that prompted many explorers to go in search of sites that would prove the Bible.
ISBN: 9780190200589 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 168 Rok wydania: 2018
From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, and from dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of Americans have...
ISBN: 9780199330966 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 120 Rok wydania: 2016
In this Very Short Introduction, leading historian of science Owen Gingerich offers a fascinating portrait of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543), who developed the concept of a heliocentric universe...
ISBN: 9780199944521 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 176 Rok wydania: 2018
North American Indigenous literature reaches back thousands of years to when the continent's original inhabitants first circled fires and shared tales. Sean Teuton tells its story, from when...
ISBN: 9780195307542 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2010
When Europeans first arrived in North America, between five and eight million indigenous people were already living there. But how did they come to be here? What were their agricultural, spiritual,...
ISBN: 9780199765256 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2023
With a history stretching back nearly 1,500 years, written works originating from Japan encompass a vast range of forms and genres. Since the eighth century, poetry and the non-philosophical lyric...
ISBN: 9780195327052 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 144 Rok wydania: 2007
In Kabbalah: A Very Short Introduction, Joseph Dan, one of the world's leading authorities on Jewish mysticism, offers a concise and highly accurate look at the history and character of the...
ISBN: 9780195379389 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152 Rok wydania: 2012
This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in...
ISBN: 9780190915155 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152 Rok wydania: 2023
ISBN: 9780195373851 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152 Rok wydania: 2013
This concise volume fills a long-standing need for a sophisticated, brief primer on American national politics. A major theme of the book is the interplay between constitutional and...
ISBN: 9780190079819 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 144 Rok wydania: 2020
For 30 years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Linda Greenhouse bronicled the activities of the U.S. Supreme Court and its justices as a correspondent for the New York Times. In this Very Short...
ISBN: 9780195370874 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2010
For film-goers and film students, this new book in the }VSI{ series gives a behind the scenes look at the process of film composition and explains how music in films works.
ISBN: 9780199760275 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152 Rok wydania: 2013
Homer's tale of the abduction of Helen to Troy and the ten-year war to bring her back to Greece has fascinated mankind for centuries since he related it in The Iliad and The Odyssey. More...
ISBN: 9780199754915 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 152 Rok wydania: 2012
In the 1960s, Latin American literature became known worldwide as never before. Writers such as Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Pablo Neruda, Octavio Paz, and Mario...
ISBN: 9780199340071 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 176 Rok wydania: 2016
A concise and comprehensive account of pandemics throughout human history, including plague, tubercolosis, smallpox, malaria, cholera, and HIV.
ISBN: 9780190454791 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2020
The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Among its chief failures...
ISBN: 9780199328338 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2015
What does U.S. History look like with women at the center of the story? From Pocahantas to military women serving in the Iraqi war, this survey chronicles the contributions, recognized and...
ISBN: 9780199858934 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 160 Rok wydania: 2014
Part geographical location, part time period, and part state of mind, the American West is a concept often invoked but rarely defined. Though popular culture has carved out a short and specific...