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The Diary of Joseph Farington
Volume 7, January 1805 - June 1806, Volume 8, July 1806 - December 1807
These seventh and eighth volumes of Farrington's diary chronicle a period of troubled time for the Royal Academy and record political events such as the battle of Trafalgar and the death of Pitt and Fox.
Encounters
Chinese Language and Culture, DVD Lab Pack 2
Encounters DVD Lab Pack 2 includes all the video and audio material for Student Book 2 of the Encounters program. This material is also available at
The Earth in the Attic
"The Earth in the Attic reads like a quiet storm of human emotions and experiences. . . . Joudah's poems explore loss, displacement, suffering, and longing. They drift from the personal and specific to the larger...
The Rise of American Air Power
The Creation of Armageddon
The Bancroft Prize-winning history of American strategic bombing"Sherry has given us more than just a major contribution to the literature about air power and World War Two. His real subject is nothing less than...
Common Ground
German Photographic Cultures across the Iron Curtain
A groundbreaking examination of post-war photography in East and West GermanyThis ambitious publication is the first book to thoroughly evaluate the photography that emerged during Germany’s...
Words Are Weapons
Inside ISIS’s Rhetoric of Terror
The first book to offer a rigorous, sophisticated analysis of ISIS’s rhetoric and why it is so persuasive ISIS wages war not only on the battlefield but also online and in the media. Through a close...
The Last Days of the Sioux Nation
Second Edition
“One of the finest books on the Indian wars of the West.”--Montana (on the original edition) This fascinating account tells what the Sioux were like when they first came to their reservation and how...
Portfolio Selection
Efficient Diversification of Investments
Applies modern techniques of analysis and computation to the problem of finding combinations of securities that best meet the needs of the private institutional investor. Written primarily with the nonmathematician in mind,...
Delia's Tears
Race, Science, and Photography in Nineteenth-Century America
In 1850 seven South Carolina slaves were photographed at the request of the famous naturalist Louis Agassiz to provide evidence of the supposed biological inferiority of Africans. Lost for many years, the photographs were...
Nobody’s Perfect
A New Whig Interpretation of History
Is history driven more by principle or interest? Are ideas of historical progress obsolete? Is it unforgivable to change one’s mind or political allegiance? Did the eighteenth century really exchange the civilizing force...