The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s (Hitchcock William I.)(Paperback)

The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s (Hitchcock William I.)(Paperback)

A New York Times bestseller, this is the 'outstanding' (The Atlantic), insightful, and authoritative account of Dwight Eisenhower's presidency.Drawing on newly declassified documents and thousands of pages of unpublished material, The Age of Eisenhower tells the story of a masterful president

The Story of Silver: How the White Metal Shaped America and the Modern World (Silber William L.)(Paperback)

DC: The New Frontier (Cooke Darwyn)(Paperback)

Welcome to the DC Universe in 1950s America -- a land of promise and paranoia, of glittering cities and segregated slums, of dizzying scientific progress and simmering Cold War conflict. A land without the Justice League--Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman. Or so it seems. The masked mystery men

The Hungry Grass (Power Richard)(Paperback)

A quiet, engaging novel about the death of a priest in 1950s Ireland and a world on the cusp of

The Second Coming of the New Age: The Hidden Dangers of Alternative Spirituality in Contemporary America and Its Churches (Peck Josh)(Paperback)

The Greatest Fury: The Battle of New Orleans and the Rebirth of America (Davis William C.)(Paperback)

British Diesel Locomotives of the 1950s and '60s (Morse Greg)(Paperback)

After the Second World War, the drive for the modernization of Britain's railways ushered in a new breed of locomotive: the Diesel. Diesel-powered trains had been around for some time, but faced with a coal crisis and the Clean Air Act in the 1950s, it was seen as a part of the solution for British

Nuclear Politics in America (Duffy Robert J.)(Paperback)

The promise and peril of nuclear power have been a preoccupation of the modern age. Though the nuclear industry has witnessed periods of expansion and retrenchment, there are now more than one hundred nuclear reactors providing America with almost a quarter of its electrical power. Robert Duffy now

Darkening Age - The Christian Destruction of the Classical World (Nixey Catherine)(Paperback / softback)

In The Darkening Age, Catherine Nixey tells the little-known - and deeply shocking - story of how a militant religion deliberately tried to extinguish the teachings of the Classical world, ushering in unquestioning adherence to the 'one true faith'. The Roman Empire had been generous in embracing

Hello World - How to be Human in the Age of the Machine (Fry Hannah)(Paperback / softback)

Stars and Bars (Boyd William)(Paperback / softback)

All Henderson Dores dreams of is fitting in. But America, land of the loony millionaire and the subway poet, and sharp-suited hood, of paralysing personal frankness and surreally fantasized facilities, is hard enough for an Englishman to fit in to. Henderson could never shed enough inhibitions to

The Conquest of America: The Question of the Other (Todorov Tzvetan)(Paperback)

The Conquest of America is a fascinating study of cultural confrontation in the New World, with implications far beyond sixteenth-century America. The book offers an original interpretation of the Spaniards' conquest, colonization, and destruction of pre-Columbian cultures in Mexico and the

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Wollstonecraft Mary)(Paperback)

Writing in an age when the call for the rights of man had brought revolution to America and France, Mary Wollstonecraft produced her own declaration of female independence in 1792. Passionate and forthright, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the prevailing view of docile, decorative

Cold War Cosmopolitanism: Period Style in 1950s Korean Cinema (Klein Christina)(Paperback)

South Korea in the 1950s was home to a burgeoning film culture, one of the many 'Golden Age cinemas' that flourished in Asia during the postwar years. Cold War Cosmopolitanism offers a transnational cultural history of South Korean film style in this period, focusing on the works of Han Hyung-mo,

A World on Edge - The End of the Great War and the Dawn of a New Age (Schoenpflug Daniel)(Paperback / softback)

'Moving and inspired book ... An evocative and deeply affecting requiem for what might have been.' - Douglas Smith, author of Rasputin and Former PeopleA World on Edge reveals Europe in 1918, left in ruins by World War I. But with the end of hostilities, a radical new start seems not only possible,

The Southpaw (Harris Mark)(Paperback)

The Southpaw is a story about coming of age in America by way of the baseball diamond. Lefthander Henry Wiggen, six feet three, a hundred ninety-five pounds, and the greatest pitcher going, grows to manhood in a right-handed world. From his small-town beginnings to the top of the game, Henry finds

Land at the End of the World (Lobo Antunes Antnio)(Paperback)

In the tradition of William Faulkner and Gabriel Garcia Marquez, one of the twentieth century s most original literary voices offers kaleidoscopic visions of a modern Portugal scarred by its Fascist past and its bloody colonial wars in Africa (Paris Review). Hailed as a masterpiece of world

Archaic State Interaction: The Eastern Mediterranean in the Bronze Age (Parkinson William A.)(Paperback)

In current archaeological research the failure to find common ground between world-systems theory believers and their counterparts has resulted in a stagnation of theoretical development in regards to modeling how early state societies interacted with their neighbors. This book is an attempt to

Journeys to the Other Side of the World : further adventures of a young naturalist - David Attenborough

Following the success of the original Zoo Quest expeditions, in the late 1950s onwards the young David Attenborough embarked on further travels in a very different part of the world. From Madagascar and New Guinea to the Pacific Islands and the Northern Territory of Australia, he and his cameraman

Outside Boy (Cummins Jeanine)(Paperback / softback)

A poignant, coming of age novel about an Irish gypsy boy's childhood in the 1950's from the author of AMERICAN

The End of Jewish Modernity (Traverso Enzo)(Paperback)

Jewish modernity flourished between the age of Enlightenment and World War II--and in fact was a major driver of intellectual, scientific, social, literary, and artistic progress in that period. But the age of Jewish modernity is over. That's the argument that historian Enzo Traverso mounts in this

William the Conqueror (Bates David)(Paperback)

A landmark reinterpretation of the life of William the Conqueror--a pivotal figure in British and European history '[The] definitive biography of the man who forever changed England with his invasion of 1066.'--Tony Barber, 'Best books of 2016,' Financial Times In this magisterial addition to the

The Ballymara Road (Dorries Nadine)(Paperback)

The final instalment of the family saga set in 1950s and 60s

Classical Mythology: A Guide to the Mythical World of the Greeks and Romans (Hansen William)(Paperback)