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Castro

The story of Fidel Castro has few parallels in contemporary history. None of the outstanding Third World leaders of the twentieth-century played such a prominent and restless part on the international...

From Slave Ship to Harvard

From Slave Ship to Harvard is the true story of an African American family in Maryland over six generations. The author has reconstructed a unique narrative of black struggle and achievement from pain...

Negroland

The daughter of a successful paediatrician and a fashionable socialite, Margo Jefferson spent her childhood among Chicago's black elite. She calls this society 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro Am...

Media and the Cold War in the 1980s

The Cold War was a media phenomenon. It was a daily cultural political struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary people-and for government leaders, a struggle to undermine their enemies' ability t...

The American Conflict; A History of the Great Rebellion in the United States of America, 1860-'65

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains...

Personal Recollections, From Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville. With Selections From Her Correspondence. by Her Daughter, Martha Somerville.

Memoirs of Joseph John Gurney, With Selections From His Journal and Correspondence.Vol. 1

Anatomy of the Invertebrata. by C. Th. V. Siebold, Tr. from the German with Additions and Notes, by Waldo I. Burnett, M.D.

50 Jahre Porsche 914

Der Porsche 914 - der kleine Bruder des 911 "Des Elfers kleiner Bruder", "Volks-Porsche", "Hausfrauen-Porsche" - der Porsche 914 musste sich viele unrühmliche Spitznamen gefallen lassen, als er 196...

Theories Models And Concepts In Ancient

Morley's book offers the first accessible guide for students to show how theories, models and concepts have been applied to ancient history. Showing readers how they can use theory to interpret histor...

Napoleon's Other War

The wars of Napoleon are among the best-known and most exciting episodes in world history. Less well known is the uproar the armies stirred up in their path, and even more, the chaos they left in thei...

Creative Accounting Exposed

Worldcom, Enron, Parmalat...a succession of financial scandals has made front page news throughout the world in recent times. In this book the author investigates the origin of creative accounting and...