In the late 19th century, at the site of an old asylum for the poor on Coaster's Harbor Island off the city of Newport, Rhode Island, local residen...

Filled with portrayals of deception, love, murder, and revenge—yet defying traditional medieval epic conventions for representing character—the Nib...

The first squadrons of American-trained fighter pilots to enter combat in April 1918 during World War I were equipped with the Nieuport 28. Douglas...

From flying wings to polar explorers, from air racers to air liners, here is the full story of the single-engine airplanes designed and constructed...

Featuring Cecelia Eaton Luschnig's annotated verse translations of Euripides' Electra , Iphigenia among the Tauri , and Orestes , this volume offer...

Featuring Cecelia Eaton Luschnig's annotated verse translations of Euripides' Electra , Iphigenia among the Tauri , and Orestes , this volume offer...

In June of 2010, the University of Alberta's Bruce Peel Special Collections Library mounted an exhibit of documents, photographs, artifacts, and ep...

While Australians and New Zealanders have long debated which country invented the pavlova (a large meringue dessert cake said to emulate the lightn...

The Peak is Hong Kong’s top residential district, where property prices are as high as the altitude. How did it become an exclusive enclave in the ...

The first unabridged translation into American English, and the first to take into account the wealth of Thucydidean scholarship of the last half o...

By the time U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's squadron of four ships sailed into Tokyo Bay on July 8, 1853, the Japanese Tokugawa government had alrea...

By the time U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry's squadron of four ships sailed into Tokyo Bay on July 8, 1853, the Japanese Tokugawa government had alrea...

The old Hawaiian Air Force met the attack of the Japanese on 7 December 1941. Redesignated the Seventh Air Force, its bomber units moved on to comb...

As the first unit to fly the Merlin-engined P-51B in combat, the 354th Fighter Group adopted the nickname "Pioneer Mustang Group." Until D-Day, it ...

This book does not pretend to be a history of piracy, but is simply an attempt to gather, the particulars of pirates and buccaneers whose names hav...

After being overrun during the early Blitzkrieg in September 1939, and later in France in 1940, the Polish Air Force †flying British and American...

After being overrun during the early Blitzkrieg in September 1939, and later in France in 1940, the Polish Air Force †flying British and American...

The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources brilliantly frames the debates that captivated the world as former European ...

The Political Thought of African Independence: An Anthology of Sources brilliantly frames the debates that captivated the world as former European ...

Too often dismissed as the least philosophic of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin had a deep and lasting impact on the shape of American poli...

Too often dismissed as the least philosophic of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin had a deep and lasting impact on the shape of American poli...

The period 1995 to 2004 was the UN's International Decade of World Indigenous Peoples. This reflected the increasing organisation of indigenous peo...

Uriel Bachrach was born in Germany in 1926 and immigrated to Palestine in 1933. In 1945 he began studying chemistry at The Hebrew University in Jer...

From the ashes of the darkest event in human history, Australian Jews built a thriving community, one with proportionally more Holocaust survivors ...

Retrospectively, the Prague Spring appears to have been a coherent but unsuccessful experiment in finding a synthesis of Western democracy and soci...

The work deals in depth with Aristotle’s thesis that the change of location is in many ways the most important and fundamental form of change and t...

Now, for the first time, the private Afrikakorps photograph collection of Rommel's second in command, Generalleutnant Fritz Bayerlein, is presented...

This book is a comprehensive study of the Prussian army from its inception in the first standing troops, raised as his personal guards by the Elect...

The story of the railway has never been told in such a charming voice as in these letters by Bernice Medbury Martin. Bernice Medbury married railro...

This first-hand account of a Canadian pioneer -- the next title in TouchWood's Classics West series -- tells the story of a hard-won wilderness hom...

It was the summer of '43 on a Cariboo ranch. He was 12 and had to become a man. If you were a man, you could become a cowboy. Join the author on th...

The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures ...

The Italian Renaissance has come to occupy an almost mythical place in the popular imagination. The outsized reputations of the best-known figures ...

This new book is a comprehensive history of the wings and squadrons that operated the Republic F-105 Thunderchief. Detailed histories are provided ...

In The Right Fight: Bernard Lord and the Conservative Dilemma, CBC reporter Jacques Poitras provides a journalists account of how Bernard Lord rose...

In the first chapter of The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation, the history of the province while under French rule is rapid...

"What sets this text apart from many others is its focus on the socioeconomic, political, and cultural milieu in which a new religious movement was...

Since the last Ice Age, the only safe route into Canada's interior during the winter started at the Bay of Fundy and followed the main rivers north...

The book is the first comprehensive empirical study of transport infrastructure in two socialist countries in the years 1945–1989. In the case stud...

In 1945, the United States Army established a testing center for rockets and guided missiles in south-central New Mexico. Named White Sands Proving...

This essential document for the study of Roman history traces the story of Rome from Romulus and the foundations of Rome to the reign of the Empero...

This essential document for the study of Roman history traces the story of Rome from Romulus and the foundations of Rome to the reign of the Empero...

The first English language translation of Bedier's classic work in nearly seventy years, this volume is the only edition that provides ancillary ma...

The first English language translation of Bedier's classic work in nearly seventy years, this volume is the only edition that provides ancillary ma...

This new abridgment of both volumes of Livermore's classic translation presents those selections that comprise Garcilaso's historical narrative. Ka...