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Author: Eloi Rylan Koios

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Desiya Murpokku Dravida Kazhagam is a regional political party formed by Tamil film actor Vi ...

Author: Sondra Cuban

This book explores the gendered geographies of skilled migration, specifically the practices, dispositions, relationships and resources of professional women who participate in the global care industry. Drawing on a weal ...

Author: Steven D. Gish

History will remember Desmond Tutu, who has been called South Africa's Martin Luther King, Jr., as a great leader in the struggle against apartheid. In this new biography, which includes original quotations from the a ...

Author: Sir Arthur Harris

This is the first time that Sir Arthur Bomber' Harris's own papers covering his three and a half years at Bomber Command have been published and made available to the general public. The book also contains an introductio ...

Author: Marquess Richard Colley Wellesley

Richard, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842) became one of the most controversial politicians of his generation during his time as Governor-General of Bengal (1798-1805). Although this period saw him achieve territorial gains ...

Author: Marquess Richard Colley Wellesley

Richard, Marquess Wellesley (1760-1842) became one of the most controversial politicians of his generation during his time as Governor-General of Bengal (1798-1805). Although this period saw him achieve territorial gains ...

Author: Michael S. Kimmel

The concept and reality of revolution has gripped the imagination of many writers over the centuries. This is a comprehensive historical examination of these key ideas and theories. Kimmel looks at the writings of Marx, ...

Author: Kristin P. Williams

Williams explores the effectiveness of various types of responses and strategies available to states when faced with demands for territorial revisions. She examines the situations surrounding the 19th-century unificat ...

Author: Kristin P. Williams

Williams explores the effectiveness of various types of responses and strategies available to states when faced with demands for territorial revisions. She examines the situations surrounding the 19th-century unificat ...

Author: Laura L. Betzig

"Much light will be thrown on the origin of man and his history," thus ended Darwin's "Origin of Species". For many years, the book provoked a flood of argument, but yielded little evidence. In the first century after th ...

Author: Kjell M. Torbiorn

This study interprets and interrelates the major political, economic and security developments in Europe - including transatlantic relations - from the end of World War II up until the present time, and looks ahead to ho ...

Author: Peter Li

Drawing on both empirical research and theoretical arguments, this book assesses the historical, social, demographic, and economic merits of Canada's immigration policies, arguing that scaling back Canada's immigration p ...

Author: G. H. Bennett

G H Bennett collects oral histories from the soldiers of three American regiments and weaves them into an intimate account of the D-Day invasion of 6 June 1944. Widely scattered during its drop into Normandy, the 507th P ...

Author: James DiEugenio

Twenty years after the first edition of "Destiny Betrayed", DiEugenio is back with a greatly revised and expanded version, including updates on all the topics it introduced back in 1992. DiEugenio has used the declassifi ...

Author: Jonathan Dimbleby

It was the British victory at the Battle of El Alamein in November 1942 that inspired one of Churchill's most famous aphorisms: 'This is not the end, it is not even the beginning of the end, but it is, perhaps, the end o ...

Author: Candice Millard

James A. Garfield was one of the most extraordinary men ever elected president. Born into abject poverty, he rose to become a wunderkind scholar, a Civil War hero, and a renowned and admired reformist congressman. Nomina ...

Author: Candice Millard

A" Booklist" Notable Book of 2012
The extraordinary "New York Times "bestselling account of James Garfield's rise from poverty to the American presidency, and the dramatic history of his assassination and legacy, ...

Author: Michael P. Riccards

What makes a great president? Certainly leadership, accomplishments, crisis management, political skill, character, and integrity are part of the equation, but the great presidents have something more. They not only gove ...

Author: Harry Plevy

Author: Arthur S. Evans

His Majesty's destroyers had a long and costly war. Some eight thousand destroyer men did not survive. At the height of the war the Royal navy was commissioning four new vessels a month, which was only sufficient to repl ...