Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land (Brinkley Joel)(Paperback)

Cambodia's Curse: The Modern History of a Troubled Land (Brinkley Joel)(Paperback)

A generation after the Khmer Rouge, Cambodia shows every sign of having overcome its history--the streets of Phnom Penh are paved; skyscrapers dot the skyline. But under this fa ade lies a country still haunted by its years of terror. Joel Brinkley won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in Cambodia

How Literatures Begin: A Global History (Lande Joel B.)(Paperback)

A comparative history of the practices, technologies, institutions, and people that created distinct literary traditions around the world, from ancient to modern times Literature is such a familiar and widespread form of imaginative expression today that its existence can seem inevitable. But in

Tibet, Tibet - A Personal History of a Lost Land (French Patrick)(Paperback / softback)

From the author of India: A Portrait, Patrick French's Tibet, Tibet: A Personal History of a Lost Land has been acclaimed as the book that showed the real Tibet for the first time. Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our romantic image of a Buddhist mountain kingdom of

The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation (DeLaney Janice)(Paperback)

Aims to explore a range of hidden assumptions and attitudes about

Owning the Earth - The Transforming History of Land Ownership (Linklater Andro)(Paperback / softback)

History of the Metropolitan Railway and Metro-Land (Hawkes Irene)(Paperback / softback)

Thousand Years of Nonlinear History (De Landa Manuel)(Paperback)

More than a simple expository history, A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History sketches the outlines of a renewed materialist philosophy of history in the tradition of Fernand Braudel, Gilles Deleuze, and F lix Guattari, while also engaging the critical new understanding of material processes derived

You're Next (Schachte Kylie)(Paperback)

When a girl with a troubled history of finding dead bodies investigates the murder of her ex, she uncovers a plot to put herself--and everyone she loves--on the list of who's next. Flora Calhoun has a reputation for sticking her nose where it doesn't belong. After stumbling upon a classmate's body

Homeland (Kempowski Walter)(Paperback / softback)

A sharply evocative novel of one man's journey into his family history and the troubled legacy of World War II, from the author of All for

A History of Romania: Land, People, Civilization (Iorga Nicolae)(Paperback)

Nicolae Iorga's A History of Romania: Land, People, Civilization is an intimate portrait of a land and its people written by its greatest historian. Much like Herodotus in antiquity, Iorga can be considered 'the father of history' for his country. Like a true artist, he paints a portrait of

Cambodia: From Pol Pot to Hun Sen and Beyond (Strangio Sebastian)(Paperback)

A fascinating analysis of the recent history of the beautiful but troubled Southeast Asian nation of CambodiaTo many in the West, the name Cambodia still conjures up indelible images of destruction and death, the legacy of the brutal Khmer Rouge regime and the terror it inflicted in its attempt to

A Concise History of Hungary (Molnr Mikls)(Paperback)

This book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary, from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the 1988 elections. It tells above all the thrilling story of a people who became a great power in the region and then fought

The Deepest South of All: True Stories from Natchez, Mississippi (Grant Richard)(Paperback)

Bestselling travel writer Richard Grant 'sensitively probes the complex and troubled history of the oldest city on the Mississippi River through the eyes of a cast of eccentric and unexpected characters' (Newsweek). Natchez, Mississippi, once had more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in

Women and the Land, 1500-1900 (Capern Amanda)(Paperback)

Women and the Land examines the pre-history of gendered property relations in England, focusing on the four-hundred-year period between roughly 1500 and 1900. More specifically, the book is about how gender shaped opportunities for and experiences of owning property, particularly for women. The

A History of Modern Oman (Jones Jeremy)(Paperback)

The ideal introduction to the history of modern Oman from the eighteenth century to the present, this book combines the most recent scholarship on Omani history with insights drawn from a close analysis of the politics and international relations of contemporary Oman. Jeremy Jones and Nicholas

A Little History of Canada (Nelles H. V.)(Paperback)

This lively and opinionated history is a whirlwind tour of the Canadian land and inhabitants from the earliest human occupation to the present. The country has undergone several fundamental changes--from Indigenous occupation, to French and British colonization, to the rise of an independent nation

Land Rover Military One-Tonne (Taylor Sean)(Paperback)

A fully illustrated history of the Land Rover 101 One-Tonne - the forward-control military vehicle developed as a gun tractor for the British Army, in production from 1975-1978. Including specification guides, production histories and original photography, Land Rover Military One-Tonne is an

Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait (Demuth Bathsheba)(Paperback)

Floating Coast is the first-ever comprehensive history of Beringia, the Arctic land and waters stretching from Russia to Canada. The unforgiving territories along the Bering Strait had long been home to humans--the Inupiat and Yupik in Alaska, and the Yupik and Chukchi in Russia--before American

Phnom Penh - A Cultural and Literary History (Osborne Milton)(Paperback / softback)

Forever linked in the public mind with the Pol Pot tyranny, Phnom Penh only became Cambodia's permanent capital in 1866. This book presents the cultural and literary history of Cambodia's capital, exploring its colonial past, the long reign of King Sihanouk and the horror of the Pol Pot

A History of Modern Europe (Lindemann Albert S.)(Paperback)

A History of Modern Europe surveys European history from thedefeat of Napoleon to the twenty-first century, presenting majorhistorical themes in an authoritative and compellingnarrative. Concise, readable single volume covering Europe from the earlynineteenth century through the early twenty-first

Land of Promise: An Economic History of the United States (Lind Michael)(Paperback)

A sweeping and original work of economic history by Michael Lind, one of America's leading intellectuals, Land of Promise recounts the epic story of America's rise to become the world's dominant economy. As ideological free marketers continue to square off against Keynesians in Congress and the

A History of the Modern Middle East (Cleveland William L.)(Paperback)

A History of the Modern Middle East examines the profound and often dramatic transformations of the region in the past two centuries, from the Ottoman and Egyptian reforms, through the challenge of Western imperialism, to the impact of US foreign policies. Built around a framework of political

The Modern History of Iraq (Marr Phebe)(Paperback)

The Modern History of Iraq is a remarkably readable account of contemporary Iraq, placing in historical perspective the crises and upheavals that continue to afflict the country. This text weaves together several important themes, including the search for a national identity, the struggle to

The Ghost of Freedom: A History of the Caucasus (King Charles)(Paperback)

The Caucasus mountains rise at the intersection of Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. A land of astonishing natural beauty and a dizzying array of ancient cultures, the Caucasus for most of the twentieth century lay inside the Soviet Union, before movements of national liberation created newly