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The Mammoth Book of Modern Battles
Constable & Robinson 2011; US$ 5.82From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John Strawson, Charles Mey, John Pimlott, and John Laffin. All the major conflicts are covered, from two world wars, through... more...
Escape from the World Trade Center (Ebook Shorts)
Baker Publishing Group 2011; US$ 3.99A 9/11 Survivor?s True Story This is the riveting account of Leslie Haskin?s escape from the World Trade Center after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. The former insurance executive shares what she saw and endured as she struggled down 36 floors in a doomed and dying building and away from a life focused on perks, prestige, and power. ?For... more...
Arbeitnehmer zwischen Beruf und Familie
Diplomica Verlag 2008; US$ 52.40Hauptbeschreibung Die Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie als Handlungsfeld der Work-Life-Balance-Thematik wird in der personalwirtschaftlichen Literatur zunehmend diskutiert, wobei sich die Betrachtung zu einem großen Teil auf weibliche Arbeitnehmer konzentriert. Die Untersuchung dieser Thematik im Hinblick auf männliche Arbeitnehmer gewinnt jedoch... more...
Die zweite Erschaffung der Welt
Campus Verlag 2010; US$ 27.17Hauptbeschreibung Schon Aristoteles und Ptolemaios, aber auch arabische Gelehrte des Mittelalters wussten erstaunlich viel über die Zusammenhänge in der Natur, über Mathematik, Astronomie und Physik. Doch erst Descartes und Tycho Brahe, Kepler, Galilei und Newton gelang es, durch eine wissenschaftliche Revolution die Welt neu zu erschaffen. Spannend... more...
Quellen und Forschungen aus italienischen Archiven und Bibliotheken 2008
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2009; US$ 161.00The specialist historical journal Sources and Studies from Italian Archives and Libraries first appeared in 1898, and is published by the German Historical Institute in Rome. The articles and miscellaneous contributions (with abstracts in German or Italian respectively) deal with topics in Italo-German relations and in Italian history from the Early... more...
Enseignement de la traduction et traduction dans l'enseignement
Les Presses de l'Universite d'Ottawa 1998; US$ 16.99Cet ouvrage sonde deux grands types de transfert interlinguistique : la traduction professionnelle, enseignée dans les écoles et instituts de formation de traducteurs, et la traduction didactique, pratiquée en enseignement des langues. Les auteurs des textes réunis ici, tous des pédagogues d?expérience, tentent de répondre à quelques-unes des questions... more...
Crescent and Iron Cross
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 4.99Though primarily remembered today as a novelist and playwright, British author E.F. Benson was also an insightful historian and critic who published several volumes of analysis pertaining to the emergence of Europe and its cultural, political, and economic legacy. Crescent and Iron Cross is a fascinating history of Turkey and its role as the crossroads... more...
Fighting In Flanders
The Floating Press 2011; US$ 3.99Readers who appreciate top-notch chronicles of battlefield conflict won't be able to put Fighting in Flanders down. American journalist E. Alexander Powell had decades of front-line reporting experience before traveling to Belgium to get a closer look at the emerging conflict. He put his experience to good use reporting on the new military technologies... more...
Discourses Surrounding British Widows of the First World War
Bloomsbury Publishing 2012; US$ 240.00Using extensive data - mostly gleaned from the National Archives - this book examines the way in which British widows of servicemen who died in the First World War were represented in society and by themselves, exploring the intertwining discourses of social welfare, national identity, and morality that can be identified in these texts. Focusing on... more...
In the Shadow of Gallipoli
University of New South Wales Press 2013; US$ 19.99The fighting Anzacs have metamorphosed from flesh and blood into mythic icons; the war they fought in is distant and the resistance to it within Australia has been forgotten. This book corrects such historical amnesia by looking at what occured on the Australian home front during WWI, showing that the war was a disaster and many Australians knew... more...









