It's 1936. Allentown, PA. After being deserted by her mother, fourteen-year-old Jesse Mae Maundy lives with her abusive father.

Jesse dreams of running away to New York to become a…

Documenting an audacious Franco-German movement for moral disarmament, instigated in 1921 by war veteran and French Catholic politician Marc Sangnier, in this transnational study Gearoid Barry examines the European resonance…

The definitive book on what is known about the Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene archaeological record in the Southeast. It is an updated, definitive synthesis of current archaeological research gleaned…

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

This work is in the public…

Taking the form of two companion volumes, Police Courts in Nineteenth-Century Scotland represents the first major investigation into summary justice in Scottish towns, c.1800 to1892. Whereas Volume 1, subtitled Magistrates…

This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing’s Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because…

Lettre de M. de Barry a M. G***, de l'Academie royale des sciences: contenant l'etat actuel des moeurs, usages, commerce, ceremonies et musique des habitants de l'isle de Malegache Date…

This is a comprehensive account of the dynamical behaviour and mechanisms of the global climate system and its components, together with a modern survey of synoptic-scale weather systems in the…