Ellen Ruppel Shell - Cheap; The High Cost of Discount Culture (2009).jpg
How did Americans become the most voracious consumers in the world? This book unmasks the transformation of a frugal nation into one made up of the world's most notorious spendthrifts. Shell offers a historical perspective that spans the various steps of this transition at ...
Tom Kuntz.jpg
Frank Sinatra, with his mob ties, his ardent New Deal politics and his friendship with John F. Kennedy, was a natural target for J. Edgar Hoover's FBI, which spied on countless citizens. The Bureau's secret 1,275-page dossier on the singer was released in 1998 in response to ...
Ernest Volkman - Science Goes to War; The Search for the Ultimate Weapon.jpg
"It was a thing blameworthy, shameful and barbarous, worthy of severe punishment before God and Man, to wish to bring to perfection an art damageable to one’s neighbor and destructive to the human race."This anguished statement from the fifteenth-century Italian ...
Richard J. Goldstone - For Humanity; Reflections of a War Crimes Investigator (2000).jpg
In this stirring book Richard J. Goldstone chronicles his progression from a youthful activist opposing South Africa's racial policies to the world's first independent war crimes' prosecutor. A justice of the Constitutional Court of South Africa, Goldstone has also ...
Christopher Clark - Iron Kingdom; The Rise and Downfall of Prussia.jpg
Chris Clark's new history of Prussia trumps all existing accounts. It commands four centuries of complicated history with extraordinary assurance. Its clear and confident argumentation, illuminating concreteness of detail, and sheer richness of texture make it the ...
Yinan He - The Search for Reconciliation; Sino-Japanese and German-Polish Relations since World War II (2009).jpg
Why have some former enemy countries established durable peace while others remain mired in animosity? When and how does historical memory matter in post-conflict interstate relations? Focusing on two case studies, Yinan He argues that the key to interstate ...
Arthu Keaveney - The Army in the Roman Revolution (2007).jpg
The Roman Revolution is one of the most momentous periods of change in history, in which an imperial but quasidemocratic power changed into an autocracy.This book studies the way the Roman army changed in the last eighty years of the Republic, so that an army of imperial ...
Patrick Barclay - Football-Bloody Hell!; The Biography of Alex Ferguson (2010).jpg
Sir Alex Ferguson is without doubt the most controversial and compelling figure in football today. For many he ranks as the greatest manager of all time. He is certainly the most successful. This title reveals Ferguson to be a relentless character whose ability to ...
Badanie kultury; Elementy teorii antropologicznej (2005).jpg
Zbiór najbardziej znaczących dla współczesnej antropologii społecznej i kulturowej tekstów, prezentujących podstawowe pojęcia, założenia, problemy i kontrowersje tej dyscypliny.Książka powstała z myślą o studentach socjologii, etnologii, ...
Cooper Lawrence - The Cult of Celebrity; What Our Fascination with the Stars Reveals About Us (2009).jpg
America’s fast-growing religion is—let’s face it—celebrity worship. From gossip magazines to entertainment TV, from blogs to ads featuring famous faces, the stars are our new gods and goddesses. Their lives often seem as (or more) important than our own. But why ...
Chris Rojek - Celebrity (2004).jpg
In contemporary society, the cult of celebrity is inescapable. Anyone can be turned into a celebrity, and anything can be made into a celebrity event. Celebrity has become a part of everyday life, a common reference point. But how have people like Elvis Presley, John Lennon, ...
Stephen Fortescue - Russia's Oil Barons and Metal Magnates; Oligarchs and the State in Transition (2007).jpg
Russian politics have been dominated over the last decade by the relationship between the oligarchs and the state. The existing literature is damning of the oligarchs, on two major grounds: they won their wealth and power corruptly, and rapaciously stripped the assets ...
Addison Wiggin.jpg
The United States has been spending its way deeper and deeper into the red, and saddling future generations with the mess—but who's paying attention? To answer that question, the companion book to the critically acclaimed documentary I.O.U.S.A. talks with some of the ...
Ronald Bruce St.John - Historical Dictionary of Libya (2000).jpg
The Historical Dictionary of Libya is the one-hundredth book in the Jon Woronoff-edited series of historical dictionaries of Africa that began in 1974. A well-established and independent Libyan-focused scholar, Ronald Bruce. St. John provides a historical backdrop to ...
Deborah Strober.jpg
With his arrest on Dec. 11, 2008, the world first learned that Wall Street trader and former NASDAQ chairman Bernard Madoff was allegedly running the largest Ponzi scheme in history, a $50 billion scam constructed over decades. Husband and wife writing team the Strobers ...
J. Rufus Fears - History of Freedom (1999).jpg
It can be argued that one simple idea—the concept of freedom—has been the driving force of Western civilization and may be the most influential intellectual force the world has ever known.But what is freedom, exactly?Join historian and classical scholar J. Rufus ...
normal 2x17 3.jpg
Serwis Vampire-Diaries.net upoblikował oficjalny opis siedemnastego odcinka Know Thy Enemy, podany przez CW TV. Epizod zostanie wyemitowany 7 kwietnia 2011.
UKRYĆ NA WIDOKU - Elena i Alaric oboje rzucają się na Johna, kiedy niespodziawanie przybywa Isobel, ...
