Authors:Susan Taylor, Inc. Berlin History Foundation,
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: america, images, berlin
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-06-04
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738544256
ISBN-13: 9780738544250

Author: CIBA Foundation SymposiumCIBA Foundation Symposiu
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: symposium, suppression, tumour, analysis, genetic
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 1989-03-29
List price: $175.00
ISBN-10: 0471922994
ISBN-13: 9780471922995

Comprises the proceedings of a symposium held at the Ciba Foundation, London, February 1988. Contains the latest research results on the inverse relationship between cell proliferation and differentiation and the nature of the genes involved. Included are the studies of cell fusion experiments, the introduction of single chromosomes into malignant cells, and the transfection of individual genes. Also reports on the role of certain oncogenes in normal development, lineage commitment, and tumorigenesis.

Author: History Project
Publisher: Beacon Press
Keywords: puritans, playland, history, gay, bostonians, lesbian, improper
Number of Pages: 212
Published: 1999-06-01
List price: $23.00
ISBN-10: 0807079499
ISBN-13: 9780807079492

Surprising, fun, and magnificently illustrated with two hundred images, Improper Bostonians is the first book to depict Boston’s three centuries of gay and lesbian life, and—since it treats the American city with the longest gay and lesbian history—the most comprehensive and meticulously researched gay city history ever written.

Author: Society for Military History
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Keywords: history, military, companion, reader
Number of Pages: 573
Published: 1996-11
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0395669693
ISBN-13: 9780395669693

How did war originate? What makes a war popular or unpopular at home? How common is desertion or mutiny? What makes a successful guerrilla insurgency? How have armies been fed throughout history? The Reader’s Companion to Military History addresses these and other intriguing aspects of the most destructive, fascinating, and relentless of human enterprises -- war. Filled with surprising anecdotes, little-known facts, and rare illustrations, The Reader’s Companion to Military History covers major events and battles, commanders and theorists, weaponry and technological advances, and s

Author: Dr. Neil Gregor PhD (History)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: reich, third, benz, daimler
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 1998-04-20
List price: $64.00
ISBN-10: 0300072430
ISBN-13: 9780300072433

This powerful book examines the Daimler-Benz company-one of Germany’s most important armament and automobile manufacturers-from its formation in 1926 to the end of World War II and reveals for the first time its close association with the Third Reich. It is a timely contribution to the history of collaboration between German business and the Nazis.

Author: The History Students of SIUC
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Keywords: history, series, college, carbondale, illinois, university, southern
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2006-08-09
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0738540463
ISBN-13: 9780738540467

Student life at Southern Illinois University Carbondale has undergone remarkable changes since the Second World War. What had been Southern Illinois Normal University became Southern Illinois University, which in turn became Southern Illinois University Carbondale. The university grew from a campus with 2,000 students principally drawn from the immediate region to a university 10 times that size with students coming from throughout the nation and from overseas. This history focuses on the changes in student life during this era, including fashions and fads, homecoming parades and politics, and

Author: ASME International History and Heritage
Publisher: Purdue University Press
Keywords: technology, history, engineering, mechanical, landmarks
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1996-11-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1557530947
ISBN-13: 9781557530943

The book describes, and where possible illustrates, historic mechanical engineering landmarks, representing the accomplishments of mechanical engineers over the past 250 years-from the steam engine of Thomas Newcomen (1712), which launched the Industrial Revolution, to the Saturn V rocket (1967). Some of them are recognizable to us all, such as Xerography, Sikorsky’s helicopter, and Disneyland’s monorail. Others work behind the scenes or have been superseded, such as the Owens "AR" bottle machine and the Jackson Ferry Shot Tower. The landmarks are grouped into such categories as me