8,456円 Biblical texts have been one of the most potent sources in the Western political imagination. Presenting a new account of how the Bible's liberationist texts were deployed and disputed at critical junctures in British and American history from the Reformation to the Civil Rights Movement, Exodus ...

1,830円 Named one of the top religion books of 2002 by USA Today, Philip Jenkins's phenomenally successful The Next Christendom permanently changed the way people think about the future of Christianity. In that volume, Jenkins called the world's attention to the little noticed fact that Christianity's ce...

7,893円 More than two thousand years ago the Chinese strategist Sun Tzu advised us to know our enemies. The question has always been how. In A Sense of the Enemy, the historian Zachary Shore demonstrates that leaders can best understand an opponent not simply from his pattern of past behavior, but from h...

4,932円 When the world closed its borders to desperate Jews fleeing Europe during World War II, Shanghai became an unexpected last haven for the refugees. An open port that could be entered without visas, this unique city under Western and Japanese control sheltered tens of thousands of Jews. Shanghai Sa...

10,712円 This unique study offers a comprehensive analysis of American jurisprudence from its emergence in the later stages of the nineteenth century through to the present day. The author argues that it is a mistake to view American jurisprudence as a collection of movements and schools which have emerge...

790円 Vom Rat Pack bis Falco... Von Rudi Carell bis Mutter Teresa... Autor Tod Benoit bereiste die ganze Welt, um die Grabstätten von unseren Stars und Helden aufzuspüren. 341 Idole aus der Welt des Sports, der Musik, des Films, der Literatur und der Politik fanden Eingang in dieses eindrucksvolle Buch...

6,400円 Nicolas Berg untersucht die Schwierigkeiten der westdeutschen Geschichtswissenschaft im Umgang mit dem Holocaust. Geschichte und Gedächtnis, so Charles Péguy Anfang des Jahrhunderts, stehen im "rechten Winkel" zueinander: jene verlaufe parallel zum Ereignis, dieses gehe senkrecht durch es hindurc...

800円 "Das Buch '1984' von George Orwell war nicht als Anleitung gedacht!" skandieren Demonstranten in Berlin. Die Realität ist weit erschreckender. Der Geheimdienst NSA, sein britisches Pendant GCHQ und andere Dienste können digitale Kommunikation praktisch weltweit überwachen: Wie wir uns im Netz bew...

4,085円 The Shock of America is based on the proposition that whenever Europeans of the last 100 years or more contemplated those margins of their experience where change occurred, there, sooner or later, they would find America. How Europeans have come to terms over the decades with this dynamic force i...

2,536円 For over a quarter century, Iran has been one of America's chief nemeses. Ever since Ayatollah Khomeini overthrew the Shah in 1979, the relationship between the two nations has been antagonistic: revolutionary guards chanting against the Great Satan, Bush fulminating against the Axis of Evil, Ira...

4,227円 Inferior Politics explores how social policy was created in Britain in a period when central government was not active in making it. Parliament proved capable of generating national legislation nonetheless-and provided a forum for debate even when it was impossible to mobilise consensus behind an...

5,496円 A tour de force of writing and analysis, Down to Earth offers a sweeping history of our nation, one that for the first time places the environment at the very center of our story. Writing with marvelous clarity, historian Ted Steinberg sweeps across the centuries, re-envisioning the story of Amer...