Home Front in the American Heartland
This collection explores World War One’s impact on the American Heartland, a region often overlooked in wartime histories. It uncovers the complexities of the home front experience, from conscription and propaganda to patriotism, class tensions, and gender roles.
The Failure of Success
This book poses a provocative argument: the standard practice of employing outer-directed measures of success—notably wealth, power, and fame—has worked to the psychological disadvantage of many Americans. Ironically, the traditional model of success has been a failure.
The Story of Lutheran Sects
Explore the Reformation’s radical sects, born from the dissent of its founders. This history traces their path to Old Livonia, revealing the dramatic story of iconoclasm that swept through Tallinn, Riga, and Tartu.
To ancient Greeks, female hair was alluring, seductive, and dangerous. They placed an uncovered woman’s hair on the same emotional level as a bare breast. This book explores how men tried to deal with the danger and delight of female beauty, focusing on both hair and voice.
This book explores how casino capitalism in Macau propelled economic prosperity but also exacerbated inequality. To tackle this, the developmental state combined casino capitalism with social welfarism, but its path to economic diversification remains long and difficult.
The Mysterious and Obvious in American Diplomacy
This book analyses how the Monroe Doctrine established a US policy of interference and preventive strikes. It proves this doctrine remains the basis for American diplomacy, a tool of domination used by presidents from Monroe to Trump.
Leadership in Anaesthesia
Through the lens of leadership, discover five pioneers who forged modern anesthesiology. From William Morton’s discovery of ether to Virginia Apgar’s life-saving Score and Bjørn Ibsen, the father of intensive care, their stories reveal the birth of a medical specialty.
Realising Health
This book examines the Pioneer Health Centre, a world-renowned experiment in health-creation. Forced to close in 1950, its ideas continue to inspire. It investigates why such initiatives struggle against a culture that values cure more than prevention.
The Evolution of Stars
With anecdotes from 60 years’ experience as a research scientist on the world’s largest telescopes, this book exposes what is often glossed over. It details the basis for our knowledge of the universe, warts and all, and offers insights as to where the science is going.
This book provides a comprehensive account of the applications of radioactivity and ionising radiation. It covers topics such as radiation’s use in medicine, food, agriculture, and industry, making it of interest to professionals in these fields.
Executed during the Exclusion Crisis, Algernon Sidney (1623-1683) was a key figure in the English civil wars. This book investigates his political thought, which mixed the modern philosophy of natural rights with the republicanism of Machiavelli.
Peripheral Europe
This book connects the EU’s mismanagement of the financial and refugee crises to the integration of the post-socialist East. By turning Europe’s social contract into a cultural one, this process has betrayed core democratic values, both East and West.
Based on 45 years of experience, this book reveals how drugs that inhibit gastric acid lead to a predisposition to gastric cancer. It provides evidence of the pharmaceutical industry’s influence and highlights the danger of ignoring gastric acidity’s role in preventing microbes.
In Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley, a false myth denies the history of enslavement. This book challenges it by refocusing on the narratives of two enslaved individuals, asserting they were astute historians who knew they were amending the historical record that had kept them absent.
One Hundred Years in Galicia
Family members of the authors survived German concentration camps and the GULAG. They fought in opposing armies, were arrested by the Gestapo and the NKVD, tortured and even declared dead. They survived against the most unlikely odds. Their stories permeate this book.
Sir Stanley Rous and the Growth of World Football
This book takes the life of FIFA president Stanley Rous (1895-1986) as a lens to understand football’s global rise. It charts his ascent from a Suffolk village to the top of world football, through two World Wars, the 1948 Olympics, and volatile post-colonial diplomacy.
This volume brings together selected papers on Digital Humanities and cultural heritage. It provides insights into the description, access, and digitization of cultural heritage, and explores written heritage as a source for historiographic and linguistic research.
Genetics, the study of inheritance, is a powerful science. We can now unravel the human genome, understand cancer, solve serious crimes, and intervene with our crops, animals, and even ourselves. This book explains how this science emerged.
Living, Dying, Death, and Bereavement (Volume Two)
This unique book offers extensive interviews with pioneers in thanatology—the study of dying, death, loss, and grief. These in-depth conversations provide compelling life stories and a comprehensive, insightful review of the field for clinicians, researchers, and lay persons.
Living, Dying, Death, and Bereavement (Volume One)
This unique book offers in-depth interviews with pioneers in thanatology—the study of dying, death, and grief. Their compelling life stories provide a comprehensive, insightful, and personal review of the field for clinicians, researchers, and interested lay persons.
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