The Pinkster King and the King of Kongo - Prijzen

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 French Canadians of Michigan

Most information regarding the French Canadians in Michigan concerns those who settled during the French period. However, another significant migration occurred during the industrial period of the nin...

After the War

Yellow Dogs, Hushpuppies, and Bluetick Hounds

Who lived at the P.O. in China Grove, Mississippi? What does NASCAR stand for? Where is the Redneck Riviera? When is Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday? What are Yellow Mama and Old Sparky? Entertainin...

Outline of the Geology of the Globe, and of the United States in Particular

Bonn Plattegrond

-Bewährte Falk-Faltung-Handliches Format-Straßenverzeichnis-Cityplan-Herausklappbare Stadtumgebungskarte-Wichtige Adressen und touristische Informationen

Divine Comedies

'Uniquely twisted ... cracking gags' - Rob Grant 'Frantically wacky and wilfully confusing ... gratifyingly clever and very amusing' - Mail On Sunday HERE COMES THE SUN The sun rises late, dirt...

Poseidon's Warriors: Classical Naval Warfare 480-31 BC

Poseidon's Warriors is a set of wargaming rules for large-scale naval actions between fleets of Classical galleys from the Greek and Persian clash at the battle of Salamis to the battle of Actium that...

Carrie's War

Adapted from a novel by much-loved childrens' writer