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The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, Si-Z
Volume 6
The most extensive Bible dictionary ever created:- The first major Bible dictionary to be published in America in 30 years- 6 volumes of approximately 1,200 pages each- ...
The Art of Survival
France and the Great War Picaresque
An astute literary and cultural history of World War I in France that offers a fresh perspective on the popular culture of the Great War The First World War soldier has often been depicted as a helpless...
Cool Cities
Urban Sovereignty and the Fix for Global Warming
A pointed argument that cities—not nation-states—can and must take the lead in fighting climate change Climate change is the most urgent challenge we face in an interdependent world where independent...
Reporting War
How Foreign Correspondents Risked Capture, Torture and Death to Cover World War II
Luminary journalists Ed Murrow, Martha Gellhorn, Walter Cronkite, and Clare Hollingworth were among the young reporters who chronicled World War II’s daily horrors and triumphs for Western readers. In this fascinating book,...
The Encyclopedia of Historic and Endangered Livestock and Poultry Breeds
The hardy, multipurpose Dominique chickens that came to the New World with the Pilgrims and later traveled in pioneer saddlebags to help settle the West were once too numerous to count; by 1990 a mere 500 hens survived. This...
Dancing with the River
People and Life on the Chars of South Asia
An intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world of “hybrid landscapes” and their inhabitantsWith this book Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt and Gopa Samanta offer an intimate glimpse into the microcosmic world...
Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union
An authoritative study of food politics in the socialist regimes of China and the Soviet Union During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In...
Works in Progress
Plans and Realities on Soviet Farms, 1930-1963
What really caused the failure of the Soviet Union’s ambitious plans to modernize and industrialize its agricultural system? This book is the first to investigate the gap between the plans and the reality...
Earthmasters
The Dawn of the Age of Climate Engineering
An essential book that comes to grips with the events that will determine the fate of the Earth This book goes to the heart of the unfolding reality of the twenty-first century: international efforts to...
No Freedom without Regulation
The Hidden Lesson of the Subprime Crisis
A tour de force that corrects a misconception long embraced by both the left and the right about markets and regulation Almost everyone who follows politics or economics agrees on one thing: more regulation...