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Sacred Signsby Penelope Wilson
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 12.99Hieroglyphs were far more than a language. In this study, Penelope Wilson explores the cultural significance of the script with an emphasis on previously neglected areas such as cryptography, the continuing decipherment post-Champollion, and the powerful fascination hieroglyphs still hold for us today. more...
Words cannot be foundby J Silvester
BRILL 2003; US$ 86.00The year 2004 marks the centenary of the outbreak of the Namibian war against German rule. It is intended that this annotated re-publication of the suppressed "Blue Book" - a rare document of African voices describing their encounter with a colonial power - will be a memorial to those that died. more...
A History of Nigeriaby Toyin Falola; Matthew M. Heaton
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 22.00An exploration of Nigeria's pre-colonial and colonial past, and its journey from independence to statehood. more...
Decision-Making in Medieval Agricultureby David Stone
Oxford University Press, UK 2005; US$ 140.00David Stone reconstructs the mental world of medieval farmers and reveals that agricultural decision-making was as rational in 1300 as in modern times. Arguing that man's impact on agriculture has been significantly underestimated, he challenges the view that the medieval period was devastated by ecological and economic crises. - ;This fascinating and important book uses a wealth of contemporary sources to reconstruct the mental world of medieval farmers and, by doing so, argues that these key figures in the Middle Ages have been unfairly stereotyped. David Stone overturns the traditional view of medieval countrymen as economically backward and instead reveals that agricultural decision-making was as rational in the fouteenth century as... more...
Brazilby Ignacy Sachs; Jorge Wilheim; Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro
The University of North Carolina Press 2009; US$ 65.00Brazil, the largest of the Latin American nations, is fast becoming a potent international economic player as well as a regional power. This English translation of an acclaimed Brazilian anthology provides critical overviews of Brazilian life, history, and culture and insight into Brazil's development over the past century. The distinguished essayists, most of whom are Brazilian, provide expert perspectives on the social, economic, and cultural challenges that face Brazil as it seeks future directions in the age of globalization.All of the contributors connect past, present, and future Brazil. Their analyses converge on the observation that although Brazil has undergone radical changes during the past one hundred years, trenchant legacies... more...
General and Mrs. Washingtonby Bruce Chadwick
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2007; US$ 15.95Here is the story of the fateful marriage of the richest woman in Virginia and the man who could have been king. In telling their story, Chadwick explains not only their remarkable devotion to each other, but why the wealthiest couple in Virginia became revolutionaries who risked the loss of their vast estates and their very lives. "One of George Washington's secret weapons in his rise to power and immortality was the extraordinary woman he married. The story of the half-century-long married love affair of George and Martha Washington is truly inspiring." -Willard Sterne Randall, author of George Washington, A Life "Chadwick puts a more human face on Washington by creating a very detailed portrait of how he and the outgoing Martha lived:... more...
A Time to Betrayby Reza Kahlili
Simon & Schuster 2010; US$ 12.99A true story as exhilarating as a great spy thriller, as turbulent as today’s headlines from the Middle East, 2010 National Best Books Award-winning A Time to Betray reveals what no other previous CIA operative’s memoir possibly could: the inner workings of the notorious Revolutionary Guards of Iran, as witnessed by an Iranian man inside their ranks who spied for the American government. It is a human story, a chronicle of family and friendships torn apart by a terror-mongering regime, and how the adult choices of three childhood mates during the Islamic Republic yielded divisive and tragic fates. And it is the stunningly courageous account of one man’s decades-long commitment to lead a shocking double life informing... more...
The Atlantic Slave Tradeby Herbert S. Klein
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 20.00The Atlantic Slave Trade examines the four hundred years of Atlantic slave trade. more...
The Constitutional Origins of the American Revolutionby Jack P. Greene
Cambridge University Press 2010; US$ 18.00Explores the constitutional issues at the heart of the conflict between Britain and its American colonies in the eighteenth century. more...
Dereliction of Dutyby H. R. McMaster
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99"The war in Vietnam was not lost in the field, nor was it lost on the front pages of the New York Times or the college campuses. It was lost in Washington, D.C." - H. R. McMaster (from the Conclusion) Dereliction Of Duty is a stunning new analysis of how and why the United States became involved in an all-out and disastrous war in Southeast Asia. Fully and convincingly researched, based on recently released transcripts and personal accounts of crucial meetings, confrontations and decisions, it is the only book that fully re-creates what happened and why. It also pinpoints the policies and decisions that got the United States into the morass and reveals who made these decisions and the motives behind them, disproving the published... more...









