While playing baseball, Owen Meany hits a ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instruments.__
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While playing baseball, Owen Meany hits a ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instruments.__
In the 20th century, Ahmedabad was India's "shock city." It was the place where many of the nation's most important developments occurred first and with the greatest intensity -- from Gandhi's political and labor organizing, through the growth of textile, chemical, and pharmaceu…
Named the guardian of her murdered sister's troubled twins, Luce struggles to build a family with the children before being targeted by the twins' father--her sister's killer--who believes that the children are in possession of a stolen cache of money.
Describes how the United States attempted to suppress insurgencies and build nations during the Cold War. Employing a range of primary and secondary sources, the author explains how the Army in the 1950s and 1960s developed a dual strategy that combined military measures with po…
Johan Galtung is the world's foremost thinker in peace studies. This remarkable book is his response to the events of 9/11. It is a philosophical collection of essays on terror, war, and peace which engages with the key issues and obstacles we face in attempting to create peace …
Resolution of the sixty-year debate over continental drift, culminating in the triumph of plate tectonics, changed the very fabric of Earth science. This four-volume treatise on the continental drift controversy is the first complete history of the origin, debate and gradual acc…
Late in 1940, the young men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment stepped off the trucks at Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas, ready to complete the training they would need for active duty in World War II. Many of them had grown up together in Jacksboro, Texas, and …
"Historians have traditionally seen domestic service as an obsolete or redundant sector from the middle of the 20th century. 'Knowing Their Place' challenges this by linking the early 20th century employment of maids and cooks to later practices of employing au pairs, mothers' h…
An examination of border decomposition, re-creation and destruction in twentieth-century Hungary. It shows the evolution of a single set of borders over a century in response to a range of internal and external forces in a regional and global context. It illuminates the complexi…
This post-World War II survey of American cinema provides an in-depth exploration of how film acts as a powerful cultural expression of the American public's dreams and desires.
During World War one, the Ottoman Empire, one of the largest and longest-lasting empires in history, faced severe challenges to its structure and existence, which eventually resulted in its dissolution. This title describes the political and social climate of Constantinople as A…