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Editorial Cartoon Awards 1922-1997
De Gruyter 1999; US$ 154.00The Pulitzer Prize Archive. A History and Anthology of Award-winning Materials in Journalism, Letters and Arts. more...
The American Civil War
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 50.00Defining the United States as a people and a nation, the Civil War was the bloodiest war in its history. Concise topical chapters are bolstered by biographies, primary documents, maps, illustrations, and an annotated bibliography. more...
Historical Record of 22nd Derajat Pack Battery
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 10.99This unit was raised at Dera Ghazi Khan (India) on 18th May 1849 as 2nd Punjab Light Field Battery becoming in 1851 No3 Punjab Horse Light Field Battery, Punjab Frontier Force (PFF). After many changes of designation it became in the 1903 Indian Army reorganisation (under Kitchener) No 22 (Derajat) Mountain Battery (Frontier Force) and finally, in... more...
Triumphs and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 161.00In early 2000, the Center for the Study of the Presidency organized a group of eminent scholars to examine key cases of Presidential success and failure and the lessons learned. Leading presidential researchers and writers provided 76 case studies organized in nine broad subject areas.||After surveying the broad sweep of presidential concerns, the... more...
Bad Presidents
Palgrave Macmillan 2013; US$ 90.00Bad Presidents seeks to interpret the meaning of presidential 'badness' by investigating the ways in which eleven presidents were 'bad.' The author brings a unique, and often amusing perspective on the idea of the presidency, and begins a new conversation about the definition of presidential success and failure. more...
Accidental Presidents
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 95.00Accidental presidents, those who assume office as a result of death, assassination or resignation, struggle to establish their legitimacy. This book examines and evaluates the strategies of nine accidental presidents, from John Tyler to Gerald Ford, to demonstrate authority and their capacity to govern. more...
America in an Arab Mirror
Palgrave Macmillan 2011; US$ 35.00This distinguished anthology presents for the first time in English travel essays by Arabic writers who have visited America in the second half of the century. The view of America which emerges from these accounts is at once fascinating and illuminating, but never monolithic. The writers hail from a variety of viewpoints, regions, and backgrounds,... more...
Mecca and Main Street
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 14.99Islam is America's fastest growing religion, with more than six million Muslims in the United States, all living in the shadow of 9/11. Who are our Muslim neighbors? What are their beliefs and desires? How are they coping with life under the War on Terror? In Mecca and Main Street, noted author and journalist Geneive Abdo offers illuminating answers... more...
Signs of the Times
University of California Press 2010; US$ 27.95Signs of the Times traces the career of Jim Crow signs?simplified in cultural memory to the ?colored/white? labels that demarcated the public spaces of the American South?from their intellectual and political origins in the second half of the nineteenth century through their dismantling by civil rights activists in the 1960s and ?70s. In this beautifully... more...
Advise & Dissent
Chicago Review Press 1989; US$ 14.95The life story of the founder of ADC, from his parents' farm in South Dakota to the halls of the Senate, where he refused to compromise his principles. more...









