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The Bends
Compressed Air in the History of Science, Diving, and Engineering
With the invention of compressed air in the 1840s, human divers could enter previously inaccessible deep water environments and engineers could design underwater mines and monumental bridges that had never been possible...
Literature and Revolution in England, 1640-1660
The years of the British Civil War and Interregnum constituted a turning point not only in the political, social, and religious history of seventeenth-century England but also in the use and meaning of English language and...
Understanding Ordinary Landscapes
How does knowledge of everyday environments foster deeper understanding of both past and present cultural life? In this book authorities in social history, architectural history, American studies, cultural geography, and...
The Rosenberg File
Second Edition
This highly acclaimed book—hailed as the definitive account of the Julius and Ethel Rosenberg case—now includes a new introduction that discusses the most recent evidence. It provides information from the Khrushchev and...
Most German of the Arts
Musicology and Society from the Weimar Republic to the End of Hitler`s Reich
This important book investigates the role played by German musicology in buttressing Nazi institutions and ideology. Pamela Potter examines the social, economic, and intellectual factors that caused some German musical...
New World Symphonies
How American Culture Changed European Music
This groundbreaking book shows for the first time the profound and transformative influence of American literature, music, and mythology on European music. Although the impact of the European tradition on American composers...
Daimler-Benz in the Third Reich
What was the relationship between German big business and the Third Reich? To what extent did business leaders collaborate with the Nazis? This book examines the experience of the Daimler-Benz company—one of Germany’s most...
We the Poor People
Work, Poverty, and Welfare
Current welfare reforms—including recently enacted federal legislation—are largely symbolic politics, argue two experts in this important new book. According to Joel F. Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld, the real problem we face...
Hannah Arendt/Martin Heidegger
This book is the first to tell in detail the story of the passionate and secret love affair between two of the most prominent philosophers of the twentieth century, Hannah Arendt and Martin Heidegger. Drawing on their...
Chekhov's Plays
An Opening into Eternity
The Cherry Orchard, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and other plays of Anton Chekhov have been acclaimed by audiences and readers since they first began appearing in the late nineteenth...