Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Born January 1, 1993 after the split with Slovakia, the Czech Republic is one of the youngest members of the European Union. Despite its youth, this new state and the areas just outside it...

Robert the Bruce (1274-1329) famously defeated the English at Bannockburn and became the hero king responsible for Scottish independence. In this fascinating new biography of the renowned warrior, Michael Penman focuses on Robert's kingship in the fi...

The book, enterely in English, gives constructors and designers all the necessary notions for building a sailplane. The volume starts with a project phase, passing then to aerodynamic and stability. The Author explains it all with a series of formula...

This groundbreaking work rethinks conventional wisdom about Holocaust testimony, focusing on the power of language and place to shape personal narrative. Oral histories of Lithuanian Jews serve as the textual base for this exploration. Comparing the...

According to his kin, John Wompas was "no sachem", although he claimed that status to achieve his economic and political ends. He drew on the legal and political practices of both Indians and the English – even visiting and securing the support of Ki...

From the minute it opened – on Christmas Day in 1865 – it was Chicago's must-see tourist attraction, drawing more than half a million visitors each year. Families, visiting dignitaries, even school groups all made trips to the South Side to tour the...

How does a popular uprising transform itself from the disorder of revolution into a legal system that carries out the daily administration required to govern? Americans faced this question during the Revolution as colonial legal structures collapsed...

For sale in CIS only! This book is about a region on the fringes of empire, which neither Tsarist Russia, nor the Soviet Union, nor in fact the Russian Federation, ever really managed to control. Starting with the nineteenth century, it analyses the...

For sale in CIS only! For many in Israel and elsewhere, Benjamin Netanyahu is anathema, an embarrassment; yet he continues to dominate Israeli public life. How can we explain his rise, his hold on Israeli politics, and his outsized role on the world...

This groundbreaking book is the first to address the catastrophic results of centuries of conflict, imperialism, and colonialism by the global north – China, Russia, Europe, Britain, and America – in the Muslim world. We see this legacy in the flood...