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Tanks : A Century of Tank Warfare by Romain Oscar E.; Cansiere Gilbert
Category: Military | Series: Casemate Short History
Taxation: A Very Short Introduction by Stephen Smith
Category: Business | Series: Very Short Introductions
Taxation is crucial to the functioning of the modern state. Tax revenues pay for public services - roads, the courts, defence, welfare assistance to the poor and elderly, and in many countries much of health care and education too. More than one third of national income in the industrialized (OECD) coun ...Show more
Terror: A Meditation On The Meaning Of September 11 by Carroll John
Category: unmapped | Series: Scribe Short Books Ser.
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The 9/11 Dogs - The Heroes Who Searched for Survivors at the Twin Towers by Isabel George
Category: Accessories | Series: HarperTrue Friend - a Short Read Ser.
Meet the dogs who searched for life amongst the ruins of the Twin Towers. Many heroes were made on 9/11 and in the weeks that followed. Not all of them showed human courage. Some of them could only show that they were truly man's best friend. German Shepherds, Labradors and Spaniels accounted for the ma ...Show more
The American South - A Very Short Introduction by Charles Reagan Wilson
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
The American South is a distinctive place with a dramatic history, and has significance beyond its regional context in the twenty first century. The American South: A Very Short Introduction explores the history of the South as a cultural crossroads, a meeting place between western Europe andWest Africa ...Show more
The Ancient Near East : A Very Short Introduction by Amanda H. Podany
Category: History | Series: Very Short Introductions
The Atmosphere: A Very Short Introduction by Paul I. Palmer
Category: Cultural Studies | Series: Very Short Introductions
The atmosphere is the thin, diffuse fluid that envelops the Earth's surface. Despite its apparent fragility, the existence of this fluid is vital for human and other life on Earth. In this Very Short Introduction Paul Palmer describes the physical and chemical characteristics of different layers in the ...Show more
The Australian Disease on the Decline of Love and the Rise of Non-Freedom: Short Black 1 by Richard Flanagan
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Short Blacks Ser.
Non-freedom to the Western mind is inevitably linked with images of backwardness - Soviet tractors, East German Trabants, Kim Jong Il's haircut. But non-freedom these days is also iPads, iPhones and a dazzling array of less iconic but ubiquitous consumer goods that flood our stores, our homes and which ...Show more
The Aztecs: a Very Short Introduction by David Carrasco
Category: Children's Non Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
This Very Short Introduction employs the disciplines of history, religious studies, and anthropology as it illuminates the complexities of Aztec life. Readers meet a people highly skilled in sculpture, astronomy, city planning, poetry, and philosophy, who were also profoundly committed to cosmic regener ...Show more
The Baron of Coyote River by L. Ron Hubbard
Category: Fiction | Series: Western Short Stories Collection
Lance Gordon's running out of time. He's killed the man who murdered his father, and now he has a price on his head. Lance wants to live in peace, but he'll have to go through hell to get there. He heads for the one place no lawman will go-into the territory ruled by the feared king of the cattle rustle ...Show more
The Beats by David Sterritt
Category: Fiction | Series: Very Short Introductions Ser.
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took aim at the hypocrisy and taboos of their time ...Show more
The Beauty Myth (Vintage Feminism Short Edition) by Naomi Wolf
Category: Culture | Series: Vintage Feminism Short Editions
This is Vintage Feminism: classic feminist texts in short form with a new introduction by the author. Every day, women around the world are confronted with a dilemma - how to look. In a society embroiled in a cult of female beauty and youthfulness, pressure on women to conform physically is constant and ...Show more