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The Bolshevik Revolution
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00It was a revolution that would change the world by bringing about the global transition from capitalism to communism in a single generation?or so its supporters believed. Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party hoped to carry humanity into a new day of equality, justice, and freedom. Toward this end, they brought down the Russian tsarist government... more...
The Ecology of Transportation
Springer 2006; US$ 139.99Human transport by land, sea and air has increased through time in intensity, paralleling rises in population, prosperity and rates of technological change. This book brings together international experts from a variety of disciplines to review the ecological effects and their causes in terms of road, rail, ship and aircraft transport. more...
The Internment of Japanese Americans During World War II
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00Describes the tragic tale of injustice and racial hatred against a minority caught in the crosshairs of a world war. more...
D-Day and the Liberation of France
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 35.00On the morning of June 6, 1944, the largest and most powerful armada of warships the world had ever seen left southern England bound for the beaches of Normandy. The thousands of American, British, Canadian, Polish, and Norwegian soldiers on board had one mission: invade France and liberate it from the occupation by Nazi Germany. Over the course of... more...
The French Revolution and the Rise of Napoleon
Infobase Publishing 2011; US$ 35.00Charles Dickens famously called the era of the French Revolution the best and worst of times. For 10 years, from 1789 to 1799, France struggled to inaugurate a new European order based on the principles of liberty, equality, and fraternity. In the process, men wrote constitutions, women marched for bread, politicians condemned innocent people to death,... more...
Narrative Identity, Autonomy, and Mortality
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 125.00In the last two decades, interest in narrative conceptions of identity has grown exponentially, though there is little agreement about what a "life-narrative" might be. In connecting Kierkegaard with virtue ethics, several scholars have recently argued that narrative models of selves and MacIntyre's concept of the unity of a life help make sense of... more...
Nature Journal
University of Alabama Press 2010; US$ 24.95Nature Journal is an innovative presentation of the best columns and photographs from L. J. Davenport’s popular column in Alabama Heritage magazine. Readers of the magazine have come to relish his artful and often witty descriptions of common species encountered in the Alabama outdoors. But Nature Journal is designed to be much... more...
Challenges to Marine Ecosystems
Springer 2009; US$ 159.99The world's marine ecosystems face multiple challenges, some natural, but many resulting from humankind's activities. The subthemes of the 41st European Marine Biology Symposium held in September 2005 in Cork, Ireland address all of these matters. This title presents a representative sample of contributions to this symposium. more...
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