-Examines the development and use of Tanks in war from their introduction in WWI through the present day. -Jeremy Black is one of the pre-eminent military historians writing today. -Black's narrative style should appeal to scholars and armchair generals alike.
-Revised and expanded 2nd Ed of the award-winning, Comprehensive English-Yiddish Dictionary. -Includes more than 85,000 words, and approximately 1000 new terms. First edition sold over 3500 copies.
While the contributors focus on the discipline of political science, their findings about gender in higher education are relevant to SoTL practitioners, other social-science disciplines, and the academy at large.
Keough puts scholarship on gender and migration into dialogue with postsocialist studies and offers a critical assessment of international anti-trafficking efforts.
Italian Ecocinema Beyond the Human is an ecocritical study of five Italian films. It explores the ways in which on-location filming impacts the relationships between the production crew and the environment, and ultimately the story told in the resulting cinematic narrative.
A megamusical is an epic, dramatic show featuring recurring melodies in a sung-through score; impressive sets; and grand ideas. This is a study of some of the popular megamusicals. It... Læs mere
Probes into the meaning of death and into the human capacity for suicide or voluntary death. This book presents an analysis of the state of mind of those who are suicidal and who actually do commit suicide.
A new translation of Heidegger's monumental work
Presents Martin Heidegger's important 1924 Marburg lectures that anticipate much of the revolutionary thinking which he subsequently articulated in "Being and Time". This book interprets Aristotle's "Rhetoric" and looks at the Greek notion of pathos.
Using a wiki to share data and research across time and space, this volume is a model for collaborative cross-cultural research and is centered on the home as a primary research site for children's musical engagement.
A glorious wedding of science and art that celebrates the remarkable diversity of the life of the not-so-distant past.
Rembrandt's Religious Prints brings together stunning and virtually unknown religious etchings from the Dutch master that reveal fresh insights and discoveries with each new encounter.