"Turning to face north, face the north, we enter our own unconscious. Always, in retrospect, the journey north has the quality of dream." Margaret ...

‘The Imperial Japanese Navy (Nihon Kaigun) 1900-1945' is a comprehensive study that provides biographical information on several thousand Japanese ...

The product of thirty-one years of research, this book represents an extensive study of an intense decade in world history. The ten years, 1896-190...

Imprint is a profound and courageous exploration of trauma, family, and the importance of breaking silence and telling stories. This book is a fres...

Alfred Ebenbauer (1945–2007) had a profound influence on the international research landscape as an ordinary for older German language and literatu...

Southwestern tales more thrilling than fiction. History comes to life with humor, pathos and irony. Pioneer lives, bungled burglaries, shady deals,...

On 29 July 1776, Franciscan friars Francisco Atanasio Dominguez and Silvestro Velez de Escalante embarked on an expedition to seek an overland rout...

C J Wills was an English physician who travelled widely in Iran from 1866-81 while working for the Indo-European Telegraph Department. With a disce...

Searching through the annals of North American history uncovers the diverse and astounding contributions by the Natives of the Americas who formed ...

With the death of Abraham Lincoln on April 15, 1865, Andrew Johnson was plunged into a national political morass. Johnson, a Southern Democrat and ...

Over 500,000 Jews fought under the Soviet banner in World War Two, of which an approximate 40 percent gave their lives the highest percentage of al...

This book is a study of the Stalinist terror campaign in Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s, in particular for the period of 1934-38. This study is based ...

Did you know that Leonardo da Vinci proposed a bridge over Istanbul's Golden Horn to the Ottoman Sultan? This publication is a collection of constr...

Art and Culture of the Northwest Coast Indians. The Northwest Coast is the land whose aboriginal in habitants are distinguished by their large rect...

The Compilation of the Indian Hunters Series. Includes Hunters of Buffalo, Hunters of Eastern Forests, Hunters of the Ice, Hunters of the Northern ...

McGregor offers a holistic interpretation of the complex relationship between Indigenous and settler Australians during the midle four decades of t...

Indigenous Identity and Resistance brings together the work of Indigenous Studies scholars working in Canada, New Zealand and the Pacific in resear...

What happens when an old cultural institution is subjected to marketisation and individualisation? How does the institution do justice to the inner...

Indonesia’s flora -- with over 45,000 plant varieties -- is one of the most abundant in the world. Photographer Dennis A-Tjak has been making a nam...

Children's work is a controversial subject both in the sciences of sociology and history. It does not accord well with the modern idea of a good ch...

Text in Arabic. In 2017, the prominent Qatari diplomat Dr. Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al-Kawari was named a candidate for the post of Director-General of ...

This book explores how a civilization, specifically, Western civilization accommodates multiple cultures, their interactions and transformations, h...

Victoria's Chinatown is Canada's oldest Chinese neighbourhood and has a lineage unbroken since 1858. With large-format colour photos and photocolla...

The fascinating first-hand account by a top defector of the ruthlessness, spy intrigues and curious personalities of the Third Reich. A unique and ...

All of the uniform-specific insignia used by the Waffen-SS in World War II are presented in this concise, all-color book. Included are sleeve and c...

Intellectuals and the Chinese Communist Party: Radical Education during the Rising Age of Communism in China from 1920 to 1949 provides an analytic...

Though much has been written about the American Civil War itself, little has been written about the spy war that went on within. The chronicling of...