Authors:Dr Andy Cundy, Andy Cundy, Steve Kershaw,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: perspective, science, earth, oceanography
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2004-03-18
List price: $73.95
ISBN-10: 0748754423
ISBN-13: 9780748754427

This work provides a wide perspective of the oceans by examining their places in the earth sciences, drawing together all the key strands of ocean study and presenting a holistic view of ocean processes, ancient and modern.

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

Author: Ian Kershaw
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Keywords: nemesis, hitler
Number of Pages: 1210
Published: 2001-09
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0393322521
ISBN-13: 9780393322521

The climax and conclusion of one of the best-selling biographies of our time. The New Yorker declared the first volume of Ian Kershaw’s two-volume masterpiece "as close to definitive as anything we are likely to see," and that promise is fulfilled in this stunning second volume. As Nemesis opens, Adolf Hitler has achieved absolute power within Germany and triumphed in his first challenge to the European powers. Idolized by large segments of the population and firmly supported by the Nazi regime, Hitler is poised to subjugate Europe. Nine years later, his vaunted war machine destroy