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Bloody Engagements
John R. Kelso’s Civil War
The first edited edition of a Union soldier’s remarkable memoir, offering a rare perspective on guerrilla warfare and on the larger meanings of the Civil War While tales of Confederate guerilla-outlaws...
The Long Space Age
The Economic Origins of Space Exploration from Colonial America to the Cold War
An economic historian argues that privately funded space exploration is not a new development, but a trend beginning with the astronomical observatories of the nineteenth century Over the last half-century...
The Fall of Hong Kong
Britain, China, and the Japanese Occupation
The definitive account of the wartime history of Hong Kong On Christmas Day 1941 the Japanese captured Hong Kong, and Britain lost control of its Chinese colony for almost four years, a turning point...
Christ Child
Cultural Memories of a Young Jesus
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Holy Resilience
The Bible's Traumatic Origins
A leading biblical scholar offers a powerful reexamination of the Bible’s origins and its connections to human suffering Human trauma gave birth to the Bible, suggests eminent religious scholar David Carr....
Jonathan Edwards's "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
A Casebook
Including the authoritative edition of the famous sermon Designed specifically for the classroom, this volume presents the accurate and definitive version of Sinners, accompanied by the tools...
Franco and Hitler
Spain, Germany, and World War II
Was Franco sympathetic to Nazi Germany? Why didn't Spain enter World War II? In what ways did Spain collaborate with the Third Reich? How much did Spain assist Jewish refugees?This is the first book in any...
The Feathery Tribe
Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds
Amateurs and professionals studying birds at the end of the nineteenth century were a contentious, passionate group with goals that intersected, collided and occasionally merged in their writings and organizations. Driven by a...
The Trouble with History
Morality, Revolution, and Counterrevolution
A brilliant meditation on politics, morality, and history from one of the most courageous and controversial authors of our age Renowned Eastern European author Adam Michnik was jailed for more than six...
Totally Unofficial
The Autobiography of Raphael Lemkin
The never-before published autobiography of Raphael Lemkin, a giant among twentieth-century ethical thinkers Among the greatest intellectual heroes of modern times, Raphael Lemkin lived an extraordinary...