This book is a gripping account of the murky world of the international oil industry and its role in world politics. Scandals about oil are familiar t ...
Driven by high tech foreign investment, the ''Celtic Tiger'' economy in the Republic of Ireland was one of the economic ''success stories'' of the 199 ...
This book extends the critical scope of the previous volume, De-Medicalizing Misery, into a wider social and political context, developing the critiqu ...
Development of the thermionic valve. Historical survey of early research in semiconductors. Development of the transistor. Major technical processes u ...
Following his book on the origin of control engineering (1800-1930 (see separate entry), the author now traces development through the critical period ...
* An active, engaging approach that brings History alive in the classroom! * Exam tips, activities and sources in every chapter give students the conf ...
From his first book, From Spanish Court to Italian Ghetto, to his well-known volume on Jewish memory, Zakhor, to his treatment of Sigmund Freud in Fre ...
This book studies on how soccer became professionalized in Scotland in the late nineteenth century. It shows how the sport turned from an organized bu ...
Introduction to Greek cinema --Early Greek cinema (1905-1945) --Constructing a visual language (1945-1960) --Glory and demise (1960-1970) --The formal ...
The book is an interesting experiment focusing on the way that archaeology and the various arts have cross-pollinated each other. 19 essays from diffe ...
For most of history, people trusted mythology or religion to provide an answer to the pressing question of the earth's age, even though nature abounds ...
Other Kinds of Dreams' provides an invaluable insight into the political activity of black and Asian women in the UK both inside and outside the black ...
This first history of cattle raising in a southern state documents the development of the industry in Alabama from colonial times to the present withi ...
After a long era of military rule, South American nations have been working on the construction of a new democratic order. This book provides a long-t ...
