Reviews the book "Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia," by Stephen J. Pyne.Dunham, JaniceLibrary JournalPyne, Stephen. Burning Bush: A Fire History of Australia. New York: Holt, 1991...
Recent years have seen a record-breaking number of attempts to ban books. Here's how book banning emerged—and how it turned school libraries into battlegrounds.
and the thousands of brittle, self-righteous women all over the country who had done the same. And there were thousands of them, as Will Ellsworth-Jones makes clear in his fascinating account of a group of conscientious objectors, We Will Not Fight. After the war, Virginia Woolf suggested ...
9.ShangYang(商鞅):animportantstatesmanoftheStateofQinduringtheWarringStatesPeriodofChinesehistory.BornWeiYangintheStateofWei,withthesupportofDukeXiaoofQinYangenactednumerousreformsinQin.ThesewereinaccordancewithhislegalistphilosophyasrecordedinTheBookofLordShangandassistedQininitschangefromaperipheralstatetothatofa...
A history of "the Troubles" the radical politics of Republicanism The conflict in Northern Ireland was one of the most devastating in post-war Europe, claiming the lives of 3,500 people and injuring many more. This book is a riveting new history of the radical politics that drove a unique...
user-orientedsystems approachThe article reviews the book "Smogtown: The Lung Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles," by Chip Jacobs and William J. Kelly.doi:10.1080/19338244.2011.621837Tee L. GuidottiHeldrefArchives of Environmental & Occupational Health...
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Book Burning, May 10, 1933, Opernplatz Berlin Another expression, this time more from the bottom up than the top down, was the series of book burnings that occurred in a great number of communities throughout the Reich. Beginning with the seizure of power on January 30, 1933, and continu...
Chapter Four: Looting Burning and Destruction Part I. Looting Part II. Burning Part III. Destruction of the City Chapter Five: Relief Efforts of International Committee of the Nanjing Safety Zone Part I. Establishment of Nanjing International Safety Zone Part II. International Committee Refugee Protec...
of the Storming of Fort Griswold, the Massacre of its garrison, and the burning of New London by British Troops Under the Command of Benedict Arnold, on the Sixth of September, 1781." With an introduction by William W. Harris. Only 100 copies of the original printing of this title were...