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
Focusing on the Anglophone Caribbean, this book describes the rise and gradual consolidation of the visual arts avant-garde, which... Læs mere
Offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the heated debate about free-roaming cats. The debate pits conservationists against cat lovers, who disagree both on the ecological damage caused by the cats and the best way to manage them.
Whereas all texts produced in Iberia during the early modern period reflect the distinct social, political, and cultural... Læs mere
This fifth volume of the C-SPAN Archives research focuses on the Trump presidency in the first term. Chapters address his moral... Læs mere
A true story about German opposition and resistance to Hitler as revealed through the early lives of Eva Lewinski Pfister and Otto... Læs mere