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Nazi Germany's War in the East, 1941-1945The story of the struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union - the ultimate confrontation between the two great totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century, and a conflict without precedent in human history in its destructive impact....

An Oral HistoryOver a span of eighteen years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded forty-seven oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues. These conversations, just released in 2011, form the heart of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, an intimate story of a shy young country girl&'s transformation into one of America&'s most effective...

A Musician's Guide to the Alexander TechniqueA thorough revision of a classic and essential guide, Indirect Procedures in its second edition is a comprehensive and practical guide to a musician's health and wellbeing....

Abolitionism and the Politics of Memory in MassachusettsExamining how memory both catalyzes and curtails social change, this book concerns how commemorative culture shaped antislavery politics in early national Massachusetts. Abolitionists drew on their state's Revolutionary heritage to mobilize opposition to Southern slavery, but black and...

Antarctica attracts great interest from political leaders, journalists, and public audiences around the world. In this Very Short Introduction, Klaus Dodds presents a modern account of Antarctica, looking closely at contemporary developments in commerce, science, sovreignty, and governance....

Francois Recanati presents his theory of mental files, a new way of understanding reference in language and thought. Linguistic expressions inherit their reference from the files that we associate with them, which are classified according to their function, which is to store information derived through certain types of relation to objects....