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Sacco and Vanzetti
Penguin Group US 2007; US$ 16.00In this groundbreaking narrative of one of America?s most divisive trials and executions, award-winning journalist Bruce Watson mines deep archives and newly available sources to paint the most complete portrait available of the ?good shoemaker? and the ?poor fish peddler.? Opening with an explosion that rocks a quiet Washington, D.C., neighborhood... more...
Bread and Roses
Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 16.00On January 12, 1912, an army of textile workers stormed out of the mills in Lawrence, Massachusetts, commencing what has since become known as the "Bread and Roses" strike. Based on newspaper accounts, magazine reportage, and oral histories, Watson reconstructs a Dickensian drama involving thousands of parading strikers from fifty-one nations, unforgettable... more...
Atlantic Convoys and Nazi Raiders
ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 59.00In November of 1940, the German pocket battleship Admiral Scheer attacked British Convoy HX-84. The merchant cruiser HMS Jervis Bay, a converted passenger liner that was the convoy's only escortarmed only with antique 6-inch gunscharged the Nazi raider. While the Jervis Bay did not stand a chance of surviving the battle, her crew's... more...
Freedom Summer
Penguin Group US 2010; US$ 27.95A riveting account of one of the most remarkable episodes in American history. In his critically acclaimed history Freedom Summer , award- winning author Bruce Watson presents powerful testimony about a crucial episode in the American civil rights movement. During the sweltering summer of 1964, more than seven hundred American college students... more...
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 165.00Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award-winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into planning theory and practice by planning academics around... more...
Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 2
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 165.00Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning offers a new selection of the best urban planning scholarship from each of the world's planning school associations. The award winning papers presented illustrate the concerns and the discourse of planning scholarship communities and provide a glimpse into planning theory and practice by planning academics... more...
The Correctness-by-Construction Approach to Programming
Springer 2012; US$ 79.99Recovering Five Generations Hence
Texas A&M University Press 2013; US$ 29.95Born in the 1880s in Jefferson, Texas, Lillian B. Jones Horace grew up in Fort Worth and dreamed of being a college-educated teacher, a goal she achieved. But life was hard for her and other blacks living and working in the Jim Crow South. Her struggles convinced her that education, particularly that involving the printed word, was the key to... more...
Rediscovering Political Economy
Lexington Books 2011; US$ 34.99The recent economic crisis in the United States has highlighted a crisis of understanding. In this volume, Bradley C. S. Watson and Joseph Postell bring together some of America's most eminent thinkers on political economy?an increasingly overlooked field wherein political ideas and economic theories mutually inform each other. Only through a restoration... more...
The Origins of Agriculture
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 29.95The eight case studies in this book -- each a synthesis of available knowledge about the origins of agriculture in a specific region of the globe -- enable scholars in diverse disciplines to examine humanity's transition to agricultural societies. Contributors include: Gary W. Crawford, Robin W. Dennell, and Jack R. Harlan. more...
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