Jan: 4507 books
by Jan Blommaert
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2010
Human language has changed in the age of globalization: no longer tied to stable and resident communities, it moves across the globe, and it changes in the process. The world has become a complex 'web' of villages, towns, neighbourhoods and settlements connected by material and symbolic ties in often...
Hunt for the Jews
Betrayal and Murder in German-Occupied Poland
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
A revealing account of Polish cooperation with Nazis in WWII—a “grim, compelling [and] significant scholarly study” (Kirkus Reviews).
Between 1942 and 1943, thousands of Jews escaped the fate of German death camps in Poland. As they sought refuge in the Polish countryside, the Nazi death...
by Michal Jan Rozbicki
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2011
In his new book, Michal Jan Rozbicki undertakes to bridge the gap between the political and the cultural histories of the American Revolution. Through a careful examination of liberty as both the ideological axis and the central metaphor of the age, he is able to offer a fresh model for interpreting...
Instant Tagalog
How to Express Over 1,000 Different Ideas with Just 100 Key Words and Phrases!
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
It's amazing how 100 key words and phrases provide instant communication!
Do you want to speak simple Tagalog but are too busy to study it? Are you visiting the Philippines for a short time and want a Tagalog phrase book to help you communicate? If so, this is the book for you—it's the quickest...
by Jan Morris
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011
In its last days under British rule, the Crown Colony of Hong Kong is the world's most exciting city, at once fascinating and exasperating, a tangle of contradictions. It is a dazzling amalgam of conspicuous consumption and primitive poverty, the most architecturally incongruous yet undeniably beautiful...
Uncivil Society
1989 and the Implosion of the Communist Establishment
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Twenty years ago, the Berlin Wall fell. In one of modern history’s most miraculous occurrences, communism imploded–and not with a bang, but with a whimper. Now two of the foremost scholars of East European and Soviet affairs, Stephen Kotkin and Jan T. Gross, drawing upon two decades of reflection,...
by Jan Morris
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Through an exploration of her country home in Wales, acclaimed travel writer Jan Morris discovers the heart of her fascinating country and what it means to be Welsh. Trefan Morys, Morris's home between the sea and mountains of the remote northwest corner of Wales, is the 18th-century stable block...
The Court Book of Mende and the Secular Lordship of the Bishop
Recollecting the Past in Thirteenth-Century Gévaudan
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2008
Mende is a diocese in south-central France where, in the 1260s, scribes of Bishop Odilon de Mercoeur created an extensive court book or register of litigated cases. Their intention was to develop an archive for the use of the chancery as well as to preserve the causae of the episcopal court. These...
Toni Morrison's Fiction
Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2014
In this revised introduction to Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison’s novels, Jan Furman extends and updates her critical commentary. New chapters on four novels following the publication of Jazz in 1992 continue Furman’s explorations of Morrison’s themes and narrative strategies. In all Furman surveys...
Homer’s Iliad and the Trojan War
Dialogues on Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
In this new volume, Jan Haywood and Naoíse Mac Sweeney investigate the position of Homer's Iliad within the wider Trojan War tradition through a series of detailed case studies. From ancient Mesopotamia to twenty-first century America, these examples are drawn from a range of historical and cultural...
The Experimental Self
Humphry Davy and the Making of a Man of Science
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2016
What did it mean to be a scientist before the profession itself existed? Jan Golinski finds an answer in the remarkable career of Humphry Davy, the foremost chemist of his day and one of the most distinguished British men of science of the nineteenth century. Originally a country boy from a modest...
by Jan Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The great travel writer Jan Morris was born James Morris. James Morris distinguished himself in the British military, became a successful and physically daring reporter, climbed mountains, crossed deserts, and established a reputation as a historian of the British empire. He was happily married, with...
Price of Honor
Muslim Women Lift the Veil of Silence on the Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2002
ANEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK
“Explains powerfully how Muslim women are affected by the rise of fundamentalism.”—Dan Rather
In recent years, the expanding movement of militant Islam has changed the way millions think, behave, dress, and live, but nowhere has its impact been more...
Red China Blues
My Long March From Mao to Now
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2011
Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool...