From one of America's leading reporters comes a deeply personal, extraordinarily powerful look at the most volatile crises he has witnessed around the world, from New Orleans to Baghdad and beyond. "Dispatches from the Edge of the World" is a book that gives us a rare up-close glimpse of what happens when the normal order of things is suddenly ...
In any given year, doctors diagnose over one million new cases of cancer. In this unique book, cancer-survivor Greg Anderson offers 50 simple, pro-active steps to combatting the disease, including hopeful advice on treatment, attitude, and survival. Inspiring and informative--must reading for anyone faced with the frightening diagnosis of cancer.
This detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of 'imperial' and 'African' history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward the recruitment, control, and institutionalization of African labor forces from the mid 1930s, when the ...
Philadelphia was a vibrant, exciting city in the first quarter of the 20th century. Tourists and native Philadelphians alike declared their passion for its sports arenas, theaters, movie houses, buildings of historic significance, amusement parks, and the heart-pounding pageantry of its parades and patriotic events. Through antique postcards, ...
Uplandaa more fitting name could not have been chosen. The city is nestled among the foothills at the base of the San Gabriel Mountainsabetter known to the old-timers as the Sierra Madres. Upland has a rich history, dating back to rancho days of the early 1800s, then through the land boom of the 1880s, into agricultural times, cityhood in 1906, ...
This detailed and authoritative volume changes our conceptions of 'imperial' and 'African' history. Frederick Cooper gathers a vast range of archival sources in French and English to achieve a truly comparative study of colonial policy toward the recruitment, control, and institutionalization of African labor forces from the mid 1930s, when the ...
This book is structured and presented to be a practical, quick reference for physicians to use when treating sports injuries. It will also be a useful tool to general practitioners, nuclear medicine specialists and orthopedic surgeons. The authors have drawn from their extensive, authoritative collection of nuclear images to present in the atlas ...
This beautiful and informative volume, inspired by the pioneering 1906 A&C Black book "The English Lakes", offers a new way of looking at the landscape and social history of a much-loved region. Every painting from the original book has been rescanned and enlarged, presenting them as they have not been seen for a hundred years. Opposite each ...
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