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by James S. A. Corey
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2015
The fifth book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Nemesis Games drives the crew of the Rocinante apart, and as they struggle to survive, the inner planets fall victim to an enemy's catastrophic plan. Now a Prime Original series.
A thousand worlds have opened, and the greatest land rush...
by James S. A. Corey
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
The sixth book in the NYT bestselling Expanse series, Babylon's Ashes has the galaxy in full revolution, and it's up to the crew of the Rocinante to make a desperate mission to the gate network and thin hope of victory. Now a Prime Original series.
A revolution brewing for generations has begun...
by James Bohman, Jacques Derrida, Nancy Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2005
Across a spectrum of academic disciplines, the topic of globalization is at the forefront of contemporary efforts to understand a dynamically changing world society. How might critical social theory respond creatively to the challenge of thinking and theorizing globalization in its full complexity?...
An Archaeology of Social Space
Analyzing Coffee Plantations in Jamaica’s Blue Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
James Delle has solved a number of problems in Caribbean archaeology with An Archaeology of Social Space. He deals with most of the problems by using historical archaeology, and clearly implicates Ameri canist prehistorians. Although this book is about coffee plantations in the Blue Mountains area...
Jazz:West Records
Art Pepper on Jazz:West and Intro Records
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
A history of the Jazz:West label established by Herb Kimmel in 1954. Jazz artists recorded by Kimmel include: Jack Sheldon, Walter Norris, Zoot Sims, Jane Fielding, Kenny Drew, Joe Maini, Paul Chambers, John Coltrane, James Clay, Julius Wechter, and Art Pepper. Additional chapters examine Art Pepper's...
The Chicago of Fiction
A Resource Guide
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
The importance of Chicago in American culture has made the city's place in the American imagination a crucial topic for literary scholars and cultural historians. While databases of bibliographical information on Chicago-centered fiction are available, they are of little use to scholars researching...
by Charles Morris, Oliver H. G. Leigh, Harriet Martineau
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
This book contains multiple stories about travelling from the world's greatest travellers: New Dependencies of the United States (OLIVER H. G. LEIGH) Winter and Summer in New England (HARRIET MARTINEAU) Niagara Falls and the Thousand Islands (CHARLES MORRIS) From New York to Washington in 1866 (HENRY...
by James Luceno, Timothy Zahn, Michael A. Stackpole
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
The Star Wars novels have been expanding the universe of this popular epic for decades. Now ten thrilling, action-packed classics have been collected in one convenient eBook bundle, a perfect introduction to the vibrant and varied eras of Star Wars history, past and future. With a rich cast of characters...
by James A. Warren
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
General Vo Nguyen Giap was the commander in chief of the communist armed forces during two of his country's most difficult conflicts—the first against Vietnam's colonial masters, the French, and the second against the most powerful nation on earth, the United States. After long and bloody conflicts,...
by James A. Crank, Linda Wagner-Martin
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2012
Understanding Sam Shepard investigates the notoriously complex and confusing dramatic world of Sam Shepard, one of America’s most prolific, thoughtful, and challenging contemporary playwrights. During his nearly fifty-year career as a writer, actor, director, and producer, Shepard has consistently...
Sickles at Gettysburg
The Controversial Civil War General Who Committed Murder, Abandoned Little Round Top, and Declared Himself the Hero of Gettysburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2009
“Sickles is as dividing a figure in Civil War history as there is. In his masterful work . . . Hessler . . . puts him out there with all his wrinkles” (Confederate Book Review).
Winner of the Robert E. Lee Civil War Roundtable of Central New Jersey’s Bachelder-Coddington Literary Award
Winner...
The Colonial Caribbean
Landscapes of Power in Jamaica's Plantation System
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2014
The Colonial Caribbean is an archaeological analysis of the Jamaican plantation system at the turn of the nineteenth century. Focused specifically on coffee plantation landscapes and framed by Marxist theory, the analysis considers plantation landscapes using a multiscalar approach to landscape archaeology....
The Taste of American Place
A Reader on Regional and Ethnic Foods
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1999
Tracing the intertwined roles of food, ethnicity, and regionalism in the construction of American identity, this textbook examines the central role food plays in our lives. Drawing on a range of disciplines_including sociology, anthropology, folklore, geography, history, and nutrition_the editors...
by The Staff and Contributors at A.M. Costa Rica, James J. Brodell
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Every weekday for 16 years English-speaking expats and readers all over the world welcome A.M. Costa Rica to their computer to find out the latest about this country. The original news reports compiled here are geared to the needs of foreigners living here and those elsewhere with personal or business...