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A concise history of Azerbaijan
Par Jahangir Zeynaloglu. 1997
"This brief but informative book is one of the first works by the 20th century Azerbaijani historians. The author describes…
the rich and turbulent history of Azerbaijan covering essentially all major periods of the Azerbaijani history: ancient times, various Azerbaijani Turkic dynasties in the Middle Ages, Independent Khanates, and the events preceding the establishment of the Azerbaijani Democratic Republic, the first Turkic and Muslim republic in history. The book contains interesting facts for the general reader as well as experts on Azerbaijan." -- Provided by publisherThe Battle of Midway (Pivotal moments in American history)
Par Craig L Symonds. 2011
"There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as…
at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled the Pacific. By sunset, their vaunted carrier force (the Kido Butai) had been sunk and their grip on the Pacific had been loosened forever. In this absolutely riveting account of a key moment in the history of World War II, one of America's leading naval historians, Craig L. Symonds paints an unforgettable portrait of ingenuity, courage, and sacrifice. Symonds begins with the arrival of Admiral Chester A. Nimitz at Pearl Harbor after the devastating Japanese attack, and describes the key events leading to the climactic battle, including both Coral Sea-the first battle in history against opposing carrier forces-and Jimmy Doolittle's daring raid of Tokyo. He focuses throughout on the people involved, offering telling portraits of Admirals Nimitz, Halsey, Spruance and numerous other Americans, as well as the leading Japanese figures, including the poker-loving Admiral Yamamoto. Indeed, Symonds sheds much light on the aspects of Japanese culture-such as their single-minded devotion to combat, which led to poorly armored planes and inadequate fire-safety measures on their ships-that contributed to their defeat. The author's account of the battle itself is masterful, weaving together the many disparate threads of attack-attacks which failed in the early going-that ultimately created a five-minute window in which three of the four Japanese carriers were mortally wounded, changing the course of the Pacific war in an eye-blink. Symonds is the first historian to argue that the victory at Midway was not simply a matter of luck, pointing out that Nimitz had equal forces, superior intelligence, and the element of surprise. Nimitz had a strong hand, Symonds concludes, and he rightly expected to win.." -- Provided by publisherVuelos vespertinos (Colección Argumentos (Editorial Anagrama) #564)
Par Helen Macdonald. 2021
"In Vesper Flights Helen Macdonald brings together a collection of her best loved essays, along with new pieces on topics…
ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to the tribulations of farming ostriches to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Helen invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing songbirds from the Empire State Building as they migrate through the Tribute of Light, watching tens of thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk's poplar forests. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about wild boar, swifts, mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds' nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife. By one of this century's most important and insightful nature writers, Vesper Flights is a captivating and foundational book about observation, fascination, time, memory, love and loss and how we make sense of the world around us." -- GoodreadsPickett's charge at Gettysburg: a bloody clash in the Civil War (X-books. Total war)
Par Jennifer Johnson. 2020
"On the afternoon of July 3, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee ordered more than 12,000 Southern infantrymen to undertake what…
would become the most legendary charge in American military history. This attack, popularly but inaccurately known as "Pickett's Charge," is often considered the turning point of the Civil War's seminal battle of Gettysburg." -- AmazonHigh minds: the Victorians and the birth of modern Britain
Par Simon Heffer. 2022
"Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest, and uncertainty; there were attempts to assassinate the queen…
and her prime minister; and the ruling class lived in fear of riot and revolution. By the 1880s it was a confident nation of progress and prosperity, transformed not just by industrialization but by new attitudes to politics, education, women, and the working class. That it should have changed so radically was very largely the work of an astonishingly dynamic and high-minded group of people-politicians and philanthropists, writers and thinkers-who in a matter of decades fundamentally remade the country, its institutions and its mindset, and laid the foundations for modern society. High Minds explores this process of transformation as it traces the evolution of British democracy and shows how early laissez-faire attitudes to the fate of the less fortunate turned into campaigns to improve their lives and prospects. The narrative analyzes the birth of new attitudes in education, religion, and science. And High Minds shows how even such aesthetic issues as taste in architecture collided with broader debates about the direction that the country should take. In the process, Simon Heffer looks at the lives and deeds of major politicians; at the intellectual arguments that raged among writers and thinkers such as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, and Samuel Butler; and at the "great projects" of the age, from the Great Exhibition to the Albert Memorial. Drawing heavily on previously unpublished documents, he offers a superbly nuanced portrait into life in an extraordinary era, populated by extraordinary people-and show how the Victorians' pursuit of perfection gave birth to the modern Britain we know today." -- Provided by publisherMummies and murder: bodies in the swamp (X-books. Strange)
Par N. B Grace. 2020
"When a mummy is discovered in Denmark, museum experts are brought in to determine the body's origin. With many clues…
and facts, scientists try to discover why this ancient man was murdered." -- Provided by publisher"La Malinche, a foundational figure in the history of Mexico, has been adorned with the halo of suspicion that enveloped…
Eve after her expulsion from paradise; condemned to silence and turned into one of the most frequent characters of Creole writing. Deified by some and demonized by others, she has inspired tragedies, romantic dramas, chronicles, poems and even cartoons. Like all mythical and historical characters, it is necessary to revisit her periodically, delve into our roots, review the mestizaje and rethink her present and past wanderings to clarify the multiple meanings of one of the most powerful cultural enigmas in Mexico and Latin America. This volume brings together the memories of the colloquium entitled La Malinche, her Parents and Children, with the participation of Carlos Monsiváis, Roger Bartra, Hernán Lara Zavala, among other well-known writers; and two new essays on this controversial character: a panoramic look at the myths, uses and customs that have consolidated Malintzin as the paradigm par excellence of mestizaje." -- Translation provided by NLSThe figure of the detective: a literary history and analysis
Par Charles Brownson. 2014
"This book begins with a history of the detective genre, coextensive with the novel itself, identifying the attitudes and institutions…
needed for the genre to emerge in its mature form around 1880. The theory of the genre is laid out along with its central theme of the getting and deployment of knowledge. Sherlock Holmes, the English Classic stories and their inheritors are examined in light of this theme and the balance of two forms of knowledge used in fictional detection--cool or rational, and warm or emotional. The evolution of the genre formula is driven by changes in the social climate in which it is embedded. These changes explain the decay of the English Classic and its replacement by noir, hardboiled and spy stories, to end in the cul-de-sac of the thriller and the nostalgic Neo-Classic. Possible new forms of the detective story are suggested." -- Provided by publisherThese interconnected stories illuminate what it means to belong to a place and why the Texas Hill Country has become…
the spiritual, if not actual, home of many people. The author listens to the stories that his aunts, uncles, and cousins tell about life in the Hill Country and grapples with their meaning for his own search for a place to belong. He also collects short stories focused around Honey Creek Church to consider how places become containers for memoryWilliam Bollaert's Texas (American exploration and travel series #21)
Par William Bollaert. 1956
Bollaert's journals present as good a picture of social life in Texas on the eve of annexation as any record…
that has survived. From England, he landed at Galveston in February, 1842, and traveled extensively around the state. He wrote scientific articles, articles about Texas, and twice he tried his hand at drama. His pictures of life in the frontier republic stand as some of the most interesting, most unprejudiced, and most sympathetic that have come down to usThe steamboat era: a history of Fulton's Folly on American rivers, 1807-1860
Par S. L Kotar. 2020
Originally published in 1907, this is one of the most important first-hand accounts of buffalo hunting. Described in detail are…
the organization of hunts, camp routines, and marketing of buffalo hides. Battles with the Cheyenne and Comanche Indians are part of the accountThe deadliest fires then and now (Deadliest #03)
Par Deborah Hopkinson. 2022
"As the sun sank over the town of Peshtigo, Wisconsin, one warm October night in 1871, a smoky haze hung…
in the dry air. There had been little rain, and small fires had been rolling through town continuously since the summer. For weeks the people had tried to protect their homes and businesses from fire. But they could not protect themselves from what would culminate in the deadliest fire in American history. As industrialization surged across the country, and Westward colonization leveled forests to build cities, fires became a mainstay in American life. And as populations grew, so too did the human toll that fire could exact. Through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Americans searched for new and innovative ways to combat the threat of fire. And with climate change threatening to set the whole world aflame, we are once again in a fight for our planet's future. Through the eyes of scientists, witnesses, and survivors of terrible fires alike, Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson brings the horrific history of deadly fires to life, tracing a line from the Peshtigo and Great Chicago fires of 1871 to the wildfires raging in the western United States today." -- Provided by publisherביום נקם: פרשת הנקם היהודי בנאצים = Be-yom naḳam : parashat ha-naḳam ha-Yehudi ba-Natsim
Par Michael Bar-Zohar. 1991
"This book chronicles the long hunt for Nazi war criminals and the swift justice they are dealt by Jewish avengers.…
Beginning with accounts of Jewish vengeance, the book then describes the complicated escape plans of top Nazi leaders and their underground aid network, and ends in Mato Grosso, the jungle located on the Brazilian and Argentine borders that, when the book was written, was a sort of renegade Nazi badland." -- Provided by NLS. Marrakesh titleDanny and the boys: being some legends of Hungry Hollow (Great Lakes books)
Par Robert Traver. 1951
Anatomy of a Murder author, Robert Traver, tells tales full of mischief and pranks pulled by Danny an his four…
friends who live in Hungry Hollow, deep in the backwoods of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. AdultFolklorist Elton Miles offers new tales of Texas' Big Bend region, from mysteries in the desert to cowboy revivals. Included…
is a story about the controversial Big Bend Tablet discovered at Hot Springs, said to prove that Europeans were there about 300 A.DNaked in Baghdad: The Iraq War As Seen By National Public Radio's Correspondent Anne Garrels
Par Anne Garrels. 2003
Veteran National Public Radio correspondent Anne Garrels, embedded with the U.S. military forces in Baghdad, chronicles her observations before and…
during the 2003 second Gulf War. Includes e-mails that her husband, Vint Lawrence, sent while she was gone and describes hardships endured by her Iraqi driver, Amer.Posterity: letters of great Americans to their children
Par Dorie McCullough Lawson. 2004
Presents parental messages of advice, wisdom, humor, and affection from authors, explorers, presidents, inventors, and soldiers. Includes Carl Sandburg, Theodore…
Roosevelt, Thomas Edison, George Patton, Woody Guthrie, Abigail Adams, and Eleanor Roosevelt among others. Grouped by general theme, the selections span four centuries and are introduced with contextual commentary. 2004Red dust: a path through China
Par Jian Ma. 2001
Disgusted with his personal problems and job in Beijing, a thirty-year-old artist becomes a Buddhist monk and buys a train…
ticket to Urumqi. He embarks on a three-year journey to reach Tibet, searching for spiritual enlightenment and describing the hardships of traveling in China's remote areas. Some strong language.Forever a soldier: unforgettable stories of wartime service / [edited by] Tom Wiener
Par Tom Wiener. 2005
Veterans recall experiences of battle from World War I to the war in Iraq. Soldiers' letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral…
histories provide personal accounts of D-Day, the Tet offensive, heroic actions, and sinking ships. Includes an interview with Senator John McCain about his captivity in Vietnam. 2005