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  • The Stuff of Soldiers

    A History of the Red Army in World War II through Objects

    de Brandon M. Schechter ...
    Series series Battlegrounds: Cornell Studies in Military History
    The Stuff of Soldiers uses everyday objects to tell the story of the Great Patriotic War as never before. Brandon M. Schechter attends to a diverse array of things—from spoons to tanks—to show how a wide array of citizens became soldiers, and how the provisioning of material goods separated soldiers from civilians.Through a fascinating examination of leaflets, proclamations, newspapers, manuals, ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Hunger and War

    Food Provisioning in the Soviet Union during World War II

    de Brandon M. Schechter, Rebecca Manley, Alexis Peri ...
    Drawing on recently released Soviet archival materials, Hunger and War investigates state food supply policy and its impact on Soviet society during World War II. It explores the role of the state in provisioning the urban population, particularly workers, with food; feeding the Red army; the medicalization of hunger; hunger in blockaded Leningrad; and civilian mortality from hunger and ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Unthinkable (Revised and Updated)

    Who Survives When Disaster Strikes--and Why

    de Amanda Ripley ...
    Discover how human beings react to danger—and what makes the difference between life and death“Fascinating and useful . . . [shows that] the most important variable in an emergency is your own behavior.”—The New York TimesToday, nine out of ten Americans live in places at significant risk of earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, terrorism, or other disasters. Tomorrow, some of us will have to make ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Big Truck That Went By

    How the World Came to Save Haiti and Left Behind a Disaster

    de Jonathan M. Katz ...
    On January 12, 2010, the deadliest earthquake in the history of the Western Hemisphere struck the nation least prepared to handle it. Jonathan M. Katz, the only full-time American news correspondent in Haiti, was inside his house when it buckled along with hundreds of thousands of others. In this visceral, authoritative first-hand account, Katz chronicles the terror of that day, the devastation ... Leer más

    $15.19 USD

  • The World is Moving Around Me

    A Memoir of the Haiti Earthquake

    de Dany Laferrière ...
    Traducido por David Homel ...
    On January 12, 2010, novelist Dany Laferrière had just ordered dinner at a Port-au-Prince restaurant with a friend when the earthquake struck. He survived; some three hundred thousand others did not. The quake caused widespread destruction and left over one million homeless.This moving and revelatory book is an eyewitness account of the quake and its aftermath. In a series of vignettes, Laferrière ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Fukushima: the First Five Days

    de Mr. Leslie E. Corrice ...
    For five days beginning March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station in Japan experienced the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986. Why was the accident possible? What happened during these crucial five days? Who might have been responsible? A combination of government complacency, industrial arrogance, and an economic conflict of interest are unquestionably involved. ... Leer más

    $3.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Volcanoes & Earthquakes, What & Why? : 2nd Grade Science Series

    Second Grade Books

    de Baby Professor ...
    Series series Children's Earthquake & Volcano Books
    Why do volcanoes and earthquakes happen? Is Earth throwing a tantrum? Let your child decode the answers for these on his/her own through this interactive educational book. Composed of pictures that allow for the understanding of geology and vulcanology, this is a great resource that would complement the heavy school textbooks. Grab a copy now! ... Leer más

    $4.99 USD

  • Rainy Season

    Haiti-Then and Now

    de Amy Wilentz ...
    Considered the best book ever written about Haiti, now updated with a New Introduction, “After the Earthquake,” features first hand-reporting from Haiti weeks after the 2010 earthquake.Through a series of personal journeys, each interwoven with scenes from Haiti’s extraordinary past, Amy Wilentz brings to life this turbulent and fascinating country. Opening with her arrival just days before the ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • Survival Preparation

    Local Emergency or Global Cataclysm

    de Alan Ingram ...
    We have not been without an national emergency since the end of WW2. During the last few years they have become a lot more severe, and a hell of a lot closer. A complete collapse of social systems, or public utilities could be imminent. This is not a doomsday book. It is a preparedness guide book. The contents of this book are intended to be acted on immediately, then, and only then, will you have ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Politics and Civics of National Service

    Lessons from the Civilian Conservation Corps, VISTA, and AmeriCorps

    de Melissa Bass ...
    In 1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt created America's first domestic national service program: the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). As part of this program-the largest and most highly esteemed of its kind-nearly three million unemployed men worked to rehabilitate, protect, and build the nation's natural resources. It demonstrated what citizens and government could accomplish together. Yet ... Leer más

    $27.59 USD

  • Surviving Tracy

    de Patti Roberts ...
    In 1974, the most destructive tropical cyclone recorded in Australia's history devastated Darwin on Christmas Eve, turning the city into a war zone. This book is a collection of survivor stories.When I first began putting this book together, I had no idea how gut-wrenchingly sad it would be. While working on the formatting of this book, and reading a few passages here and there, I found myself ... Leer más

    $2.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Western Intellectuals and the Soviet Union, 1920-40

    From Red Square to the Left Bank

    de Ludmila Stern ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    Despite the appalling record of the Soviet Union on human rights questions, many western intellectuals with otherwise impeccable liberal credentials were strong supporters the Soviet Union in the interwar period. This book explores how this seemingly impossible situation came about.Focusing in particular on the work of various official and semi-official bodies, including Comintern, the ... Leer más

    $82.99 USD