Product Description: This book explores the 'mental maps' of leading political figures of the era of two world wars. Chapters focus on those giants whose ideas cast a compelling shadow: Lloyd George, Lenin, Mussolini, Hitler, Roosevelt, Churchill, Briand and Stresemann, as well as other important figures: Poincaré, Atatuerk, Beneš, Chiang and Mao...read more

Product Description: Jonathan Wright explores the events, discusses rival interpretations and places the policies of Hitler in the context of Germany as a whole. Wright explains that support rose and fell, but, nevertheless, by December 1941 Hitler had succeeded in carrying Germany into a world war for racial empire...read more

Product Description: Gustav Stresemann was the exceptional political figure of his time. His early death in 1929 has long been viewed as the beginning of the end for the Weimar Republic and the opening through which Hitler was able to come to power. His career was marked by many contradictions but also a pervading loyalty to the values of liberalism and nationalism...read more

A five-hundred-year history of the Jesuits documents the Society's foundation by Ignatius of Loyola in 1534, its unexpected growth, its academic excellence, its powerful enemies, the expulsion of its members from Europe, and its significant influence on both the religious and secular worlds. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.

Product Description: The first, only and complete guide to Elvis Presley's movie career. The King remains a worldwide legend, and his fans love his movies as much as they do his music. From Love Me Tender to Jailhouse Rock to Kid Galahad, each of his most famous film appearances are discussed in depth here: * informative essays * filmography * introduction on Elvis' enduring star power * illustrated with movie stills and an 8-page color sectio...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Begging by nestling birds has become the model system for investigating evolutionary conflicts of interest within families and their theoretical resolution provided by honest signals of offspring need. In response to the recent explosions of scientific papers on the revolution of begging; we have brought together twenty-four original contributions from major researchers in all areas of this dynamic field...read more

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Product Description: Focuses on the stabilization and growth problems of Ireland, an archetypal peripheral member of the EC. A supply-side neo-Keynesian macroeconomic model of the country is developed, followed by a review of modern fiscal policy issues.