A brilliant Australian goldfields tale, in which a murder mystery, thrilling bushranging episodes and fine love story combine to make it one of the most popular of this widely read author’s books.
During the five years of the Second World War, the power of engines and speed of aircraft increased as much as it did during twenty years of peacetime.
Essential history of the indigenous people of North America in relation to America. This is not an indigenous peoples history related to their individual tribes.
Embedded in the grander historical perspectives of wars and revolutions are individual love affairs. Twentieth-century revolutionary China brought together people of widely different backgrounds and their love affairs crossed racial and cultural lines to create the unique stories of the twenty-two people featured in this book.
The revival of a classic work of journalism which exposes the gap between the official story and reality Proxy wars, it seems, are more openly practiced than ever--and yet one of the worst of these was suppressed and "forgotten" even in its own time. At the height of the McCarthy era and the inception of the Cold War, the great journalist ......
Proxy wars, it seems, are more openly practiced than ever--and yet one of the worst of these was suppressed and "forgotten" even in its own time. At the height of the McCarthy era and the inception of the Cold War, the great journalist I.F. Stone released The Hidden History of the Korean War, a courageous work of investigative journalism that ......
Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral, New Expanded Edition
"For us," said Amilcar Cabral, "freedom is an act of culture"--and these were not just words. Guided by the concrete realities of his people, Cabral called for a process of "re-Africanization," a Return to the Source, to African ways of thinking, being and acting. As a new imperialism has taken hold the world over, many have hearkened back to ......
Selected Texts of Amilcar Cabral, New Expanded Edition
"For us," said Amilcar Cabral, "freedom is an act of culture"--and these were not just words. Guided by the concrete realities of his people, Cabral called for a process of "re-Africanization," a Return to the Source, to African ways of thinking, being and acting. As a new imperialism has taken hold the world over, many have hearkened back to ......
The 1777 New Jersey Campaign and How General Washington Turned Defeat into the Strategy That Won the Revolution
The story of how the Continental Amys defeat in New York inspired George Washington to rethink his strategy and rely on surprise, deception, and small guerrilla units to defeat the British in the Revolutionary War.
Remember This tells the story of Holocaust witness Jan Karski, who risked his life to carry reports from war-torn Poland to the Allied nations and Oval Office. This play carries forward his legacy of bearing witness so others may follow his example to share the truth and fight for human rights.
Whitefella Way is the highly-anticipated sequel to the award-winning Cage of Ghosts, a nuanced and scholarly work of ‘unusual originality’, published in 2018.
A History of Its Black Community from the Founding of the "Town of Georg
Black Georgetown Remembered is a journey through more than two hundred years of history. This one-of-a-kind book invites readers to consider how the unique heritage of this neighborhood intersects and contributes to broader themes in African American and Washington, DC, history and urban studies.
What do the credit card, Oreo, school nurse, and crossword puzzle have in common? All originated in New York City. These and about 300 other New York originals fill the pages of New York City Firsts. From colonial times through the present day, first-of-their-kind achievements occurred in New York in every imaginable field, from the arts to ......
H. Leslie Moody and Frances Johnson Moody never owned the company outright, but their dreams shaped North Carolinas Hyalyn Porcelain, Inc. and drove it forward to the satisfaction of an emerging, increasingly modern post-World War II America.
Paul Wenz was born in France in 1869, lived in Australia, and wrote stories dealing mainly with his Australian experiences for the French. He wrote ten books from 'Nanima', his homestead in Forbes, New South Wales, including two collections of short stories and four Australian novels. He also translated Jack London and Joseph Conrad, both who came ......
Arthur Upfield is internationally known for his 29 crime novels featuring Bony, the Aboriginal Detective. In these thirteen stories written for Walkabout magazine between 1934 and 1949 and published in book form for the first time, readers will travel well beyond the cities, aided by maps and original photographs – through Cooper’s Creek, visiting ......
Man O War didnt compete in the1920 Kentucky Derby because owner Sam Riddle thought the distance was too long for a young three-year-old. But nearly two decades later, Riddle had a change of heart. In 1937, he agreed to run War Admiral, a son of the great Man O War, at Churchill Downs. War Admiral went on to sweep the Triple Crown and ......
Three murders, three perfect murders... near the rabbit-proof fence in desolate Western Australia. Perfect - except the process was exactly as described in Arthur Upfield’s crime novel The Sands of Windee (1931). It had all began in 1929, when Upfield was working on the fence and plotting a new novel featuring the Aboriginal detective, Napoleon ......
Paul Wenz was born in France in 1869, lived in Australia, and wrote stories dealing mainly with his Australian experiences for the French. He wrote ten books from 'Nanima', his homestead in Forbes, New South Wales, including two collections of short stories and four Australian novels. He also translated Jack London and Joseph Conrad, both who came ......
Covering wide-ranging topics including the arts and entertainment along with customs and traditions from the ancient imperial and modern eras, the Historical Dictionary of Chinese Culture provides more than 300 separate entries along with a comprehensive Chronology.
A history of Darwin's second decade, the 1880s. It was a boom decade of railways construction, gold rush, sugar plantations, pastoralism, massacres, murders and mayhem.
This fourth edition of the Historical Dictionary of Syria covers the recent events in Syria as well as the history that led up to these events. The cross-referenced dictionary section has over 500 entries on significant persons, places and events, political parties and institutions, literature, music and the arts.
This heart-wrenching story immerses readers in the dramatic survival of one outspoken man who illuminates the souls of a billion ordinary Chinese citizens.
Theodore Roosevelt, the Great War, and a Journey of Triumph and Traged
TR's Last War is a riveting new account of Theodore Roosevelt's impassioned crusade for military preparedness as America fitfully stumbles into World War I.
The story of five young Australian sailors seeking adventure in a far off war who fell foul of British Imperial authority and sparked one of the most controversial events in the annals of the Royal Australian Navy. Mutineers explores the use and abuse of power by our military and political leaders at a critical time in our nation’s history.
