Despite being perhaps the foremost British meteorologist of the twentieth century, Reginald Sutcliffe has been underappreciated.... Læs mere
Details the evolution of Eleanor Roosevelt from someone who harboured negative impressions of Jews to become a leading... Læs mere
Offers an inclusive overview that crosses disciplinary boundaries and helps define the next phase of global design practice. This book examines the interaction of design with advances in technology, developments in science, and changing cultural attitudes.
Focuses on the rapidly changing rhetoric colouring American politics. An increasingly polarized electorate combined with... Læs mere
Provides readers with an understanding of the Jewish experience of migration in the United States and elsewhere. The book describes the record of a wide variety of... Læs mere
Examines the aesthetic history and relations between Cuban film production and Italian... Læs mere
Tells the history of human migration. With a focus on the Habsburg Empire, this innovative work presents an integrated and creative study of spatial mobilities: from short to long term, and intranational and inter-European to transatlantic.
Artfully curated by James R. Hansen, A Reluctant Icon: Letters to Neil Armstrong is a companion volume to Dear Neil Armstrong: Letters to the First Man from All Mankind, collecting hundreds more letters Armstrong received after first stepping on the moon until his death in 2012.
A study of the 50-year career of Edward Charles Elliott is a study of the development of American education. Elliott had experience as a high school and college teacher,... Læs mere
More than 20,000 engineering students at Purdue University have been touched in some way by the ides or the warm personality of Andrey A. Potter, who served for 33 years as dean of the Schools of Engineering at Purdue, the world's largest engineering institution.
This biography details Hovde's life and times from his birth at Erie, Pennsylvania, through his boyhood at Devils Lake, North Dakota, and includes his... Læs mere
Examines the air defense of Australia and New Zealand during the interwar period. The... Læs mere