Contains information and analysis of the history, politics, economics, and culture of the medieval world. These six volumes of A History of the Crusades stands as a history of the Crusades, spanning five centuries, encompassing Jewish, Muslim, and Christian perspectives. číst celé
During the Vietnam War the United States government waged a massive, secret air war in neighbouring Laos. Fred Branfman, an educational advisor living in Laos at the time, interviewed over 1,000 Laotian survivors. Shocked by what he heard and saw, he urged them to record their experiences in essays, poems, and pictures. Voices from the Plain of Jars was the result of that effort.
Born of Italian-American parents, Helen Barolini rediscovered her culinary heritage when she married Italian writer Antonio Barolini and lived for some years in Italy. Festa is a year-long feast of memories and delicious, traditional Italian dishes.
Mark Twain's ""Own Autobiography"" stands as the last of Twain's great yarns. This book covers a wealth of critical work done on Twain since 1990. It also includes a discussion of literary domesticity, locating the autobiography within the history of Twain's literary work and within Twain's own... číst celé
The wild, high-profile battle between newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst and brash young filmmaker Orson Welles over Welles's film Citizen Kane. John Evangelist Walsh illuminates the conflict between two outsize personalities and brings Hearst's vengeful anti-Kane campaign to the fore.
This is an analysis of Zionist Revisionist thought in the 1920s and 1930s and of its ideological legacy in modern-day Israel. Kaplan suggests that Revisionism's legacies can be found both in the right-wing policies of Likud and in the heart of post-Zionism and its critique of mainstream (Labor)... číst celé