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Varian Fry, the only American honored at Yad Vashem, Israel's Holocaust memorial, was a young New Yorker who rescued more than 1,500 Europeans from the Nazi's including Mar Chagall, Max Ernst, Hannah Arendt, and other intellectuals, political activists, and "degenerative" artists, many of them Jews. This moving Holocaust rescue story is set against the backdrop of American isolationism and anti-Semitism.

"The drama here is in the thrill...

Every day the media floods the airwaves with their often-contradictory version of the role and behavior of the police force. Based on this, you might think that police officers either brutally enforce their own interpretation of the nation s laws or use all the modern tools available to carefully and persistently uncover the special clues that lead to the identification and arrest of suspected criminals. Based on interviews with 26 police chiefs, Police Leadership in a Democracy: Conversations with America s Police Chiefs takes a poignant journey through the minds of the...

From their limited use in China during World War II, for example, to their often clandestine use in Vietnam ferrying supplies before the war escalated in 1964 and 1965 when their role became more prominent-and public-private military contractors (PMCs) have played made essential contributions to the success and failures of the military and United States. Today, with an emphasis on force restructuring mandated by the Pentagon, the role of PMCs, and their impact on policy-making decisions is at an all time peak. This work analyzes that impact, focusing specifically on PMCs in Iraq since the...

Fühlt sich der Hund nicht wohl, müssen wir aus seinem Verhalten und den körperlichen Anzeichen erkennen, was ihm fehlt für den Laien ist das oftmals gar nicht so einfach.
Die etablierte Hundetrainerin Simone Isenberg hilft mit all ihrer Erfahrung und der fachlichen Unterstützung von einer Tierärztin, den Körper des Hundes besser zu verstehen und Krankheitsanzeichen schnell und sicher zu deuten. Informativ und leicht verständlich erklärt sie die wichtigsten Funktionen und möglichen Erkrankungen der verschiedenen Körperteile und Organe von Hunden von der Schnauze bis zur...

Finalist for the 2014 Weber-Clements Book Prize for the Best Non-fiction Book on Southwestern America

In popular culture, Wyatt Earp is the hero of the Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, and a beacon of rough cowboy justice in the tumultuous American West. The subject of dozens of films, he has been invoked in battles against organized crime (in the 1930s), communism (in the 1950s), and al-Qaeda (after 2001).

Yet as the historian Andrew C. Isenberg reveals in Wyatt Earp: A Vigilante Life, the Hollywood Earp is largely a fiction--one created...

The plight of the new teacher has changed little during the last 30 years. Neophytes still confront the same conflicting demands--to foster students' academic development while controlling their behavior, often in crowded classrooms in ill-equipped and poorly administered schools. Thanks to five books, Isenberg (a 30-year veteran of urban classroom teaching) found solace and support. The five books are "Up The Down Staircase," "Teacher," "How Children Fail," "To Sir With Love," and "36 Children." As teaching narratives, these best-selling writings of classroom teachers are a precious...