The Tiffin Glass Company, of Tiffin, Ohio, produced hand made Depression Era glass, modern wares, and other collectible glassware, especially from ...

From concrete dinosaurs of Bongoland and the Citrus Hall of Fame, to underwater scenery of Silver Springs and alligators of Gatorland, 1950s Florid...

Relive an era when the kitchen was kitsch -- melamine bowls were pink and purple, cocktail shakers and party glasses sported fun themes, iced tea w...

Edith Roosevelt was one half of one of the most powerful and influential political couples in American history. She proved to be a perfect compleme...

Mary E. Folsom Blair was just a name on a listing sheet when young writer Phil Primack bought her Epping, New Hampshire, property in 1974. As he le...

Our country is awesome, and Geordie Telfer tells you why! Read about the weird and wonderful things that make Canada a great country to live in.

Algorithms are not to be regarded as a technical structure but as a social phenomenon - they embed themselves, currently still very subtle, into ou...

(Dis)Orientation appears to be a phenomenon that is connected to media in numerous respects: today, finding your way in the world often means findi...

Taking its cue from contemporary western debates on presence in the social sciences and the humanities, this volume focuses on 'presence' both as e...

Which everyday practices allowed women to sustain and fulfill individuality and agency under dictatorial rule? This book adds to a rich scholarship...

This book illustrates that the idea of a 'national' literature is profoundly problematic. Chapters on boundaries and crisscrossing show how a natio...

When the fictional is fused with the real, the theoretical with the practical, and the line demarcating these spheres of knowledge is blurred there...

The Earth's water is always in movement, and the water cycle describes the continuous movement of water on, above, and below the surface of the Ear...

In this book, authors present current research on the implementation of reform mathematics in order to identify, explore, and evaluate five specifi...

The documentary My heart of Darkness (Sweden 2011) tells the story of a South-African paratrooper returning to Angola: Facing former enemies, he tr...

Media depictions of Arabs and Muslims continue to be framed by images of camels, belly dancers, and dagger-wearing terrorists. But do only Hollywoo...

Johann Georg Hamann is accused of the ›dark style‹ like hardly any other author. This accusation became a topos of Hamann reading and criticism, wh...

The books of Samuel are not only an important source on the history of Israel, they also set important ethical and theological standards, and they ...

Discover the imaginative world of the On the Fingertips series with Lili Mouse and her friend Henri. Notes of humour echo in their dialogue as thes...

From 1 to 10, follow along as the animals discover how each of them poops in this hilarious counting tale that is sure to have toddlers and prescho...

Over 1,240 beautiful museum quality hats reveal the milliner's ingenuity from the 1790s to the 1970s. Among the styles displayed are ascots, bourre...

Biblical prehistory considers the origin of the world and its order, the origin of man and the origins of culture. It is an expression of the basic...