Authors:Linda J. Kershaw, Jim Pojar, Andy MacKinnon,
Publisher: Lone Pine Publishing
Keywords: mountains, rocky, plants
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1998-04
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1551050889
ISBN-13: 9781551050881

Over 1300 species of trees, shrubs, wildflowers, grasses, ferns, mosses and lichens are described and illustrated. Notes on origin of name, ecology, native uses, edibility and similar species are included, as are color-coded sections to allow for quick identification. 900 color photographs, 700+ line drawings.

Authors:The Alberta Native Plant Council, Linda Kershaw, Joy
Publisher: The University of Alberta Press
Keywords: alberta, plants, vascular, rare
Number of Pages: 528
Published: 2001-09-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0888643195
ISBN-13: 9780888643193

This exhaustively researched project brings together for the first time a complete listing of Alberta’s rare vascular plants with detailed plant descriptions, habitat information and notes of special interest. Accompanied by numerous colour photographs, B&W illustrations and frequency maps, this text is essential for naturalists, botanists, students, and others interested in the flora of Alberta.

Author: Ian Kershaw
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Keywords: hubris, hitler
Number of Pages: 912
Published: 2000-04-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0393320359
ISBN-13: 9780393320350

Noted for his excellent structural explanation of the Third Reich’s political culture in The Hitler Myth, eminent historian Ian Kershaw shifts approach in this innovative biography of the Nazi tyrant. The first of a two-volume study, Hubris is far from a simple rehearsal of "great man" history, impressively exploring the historical forces that transformed a shiftless Austrian daydreamer into a dictator with immense power. In his forthright introduction, Kershaw acknowledges that, as a committed social historian, he did not include biography in his original intellectual plans. However, hi

Author: Baz Kershaw
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: volume, theatre, british, history, cambridge
Number of Pages: 596
Published: 2004-12-13
List price: $212.99
ISBN-10: 0521651328
ISBN-13: 9780521651325

Volume Three explores the rich and complex histories of English, Scottish and Welsh theatres in the "long" twentieth century since 1895.Book DescriptionThis volume explores the rich and complex histories of English, Scottish and Welsh theatres in the ’long’ twentieth century since 1895. Twenty-three original essays by leading historians and critics investigate the major aspects of theatrical performance. The collection presents an exciting evolution in the scholarly study of modern British theatre history, skilfully demonstrating how performance variously became a critical litmus t

Author: Ian Kershaw
Publisher: Allen Lane - Pengui
Keywords: hubris, hitler
Number of Pages: 880
Published: 1998-06-18
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0713990473
ISBN-13: 9780713990478

Author: Ian Kershaw
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: world, changed, decisions, choices, fateful
Number of Pages: 656
Published: 2008-05-27
List price: $19.00
ISBN-10: 0143113720
ISBN-13: 9780143113720

The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw’s analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world’s six major powers made a series of related decisions that determined the final outcome of World War II and shaped the course of human destiny. As the author examines the connected stories of these profound choices, he restores a sense of drama and contingency to this pivotal moment, producing one of the freshest, most important b

Author: Ian Kershaw
Publisher: Longman
Keywords: hitler
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-08-31
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0582437563
ISBN-13: 9780582437562

Hitler’...this short book ought to be read by everybody with any interest, whether general or specialized, in Hitler and the Third Reich.’ History Adolf Hitler has left a lasting mark on the twentieth-century, as the dictator of Germany and instigator of a genocidal war, culminating in the ruin of much of Europe and the globe. This innovative best-seller explores the nature and mechanics of Hitler’s power, and how he used it. On the face of it, Adolf Hitler was an unlikely candidate for dictatorial power. Why, of all the fanatics in Germany after the First World War, was it