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The Improbable Wendell Willkie - The Businessman Who Saved the Republican Party and His Country, and Conceived a New World Order by David Levering Lewis
Category: Politics
In the wake of one of the most tumultuous Republican conventions ever, the party of Lincoln nominated in 1940 a prominent businessman and former Democrat who could have saved America's sclerotic political system. Although Wendell Lewis Willkie would lose to FDR, acclaimed biographer David Levering Lewis ...Show more
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art by David Lewis-Williams
Category: History
Emerging from the narrow underground passages into the chambers of caves such as Lascaux, Chauvet, and Altamira, visitors are confronted with symbols, patterns, and depictions of bison, woolly mammoths, ibexes, and other animals. Since its discovery, cave art has provoked great curiosity about why it a ...Show more
The Story of the Bayeux Tapestry: Unravelling the Norman Conquest by David Musgrove, Michael Lewis
Category: History
Political intrigue and treachery, heroism and brutal violence, victory and defeat - all this is depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, an epic account of one of the pivotal episodes in English history embroidered on a strip of linen. Famously, it shows the stricken Anglo-Saxon king Harold dying on the battlef ...Show more
The Unseen Face of Japan by David C. Lewis
Category: Politics
The things which are right in front of us can often be the things which are most hidden. In Japan, the word omote means 'face'. But it also means 'mask' - something that a person uses to hide an inner reality. Face-value questions - 'Are the Japanese religious?' 'What do they believe?' - produce face-va ...Show more
Water by David Lewis Feldman
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Polity Resources Series
Water is our planet's most precious resource. It is required by every living thing, yet a huge proportion of the world's population struggles to access clean water daily. Agriculture, aquaculture, industry, and energy all depend on it - yet its provision and safety engender widespread conflict; battles ...Show more
We, the Navigators - The Ancient Art of Landfinding in the Pacific by David Lewis
Category: History
This new edition includes a discussion of theories about traditional methods of navigation developed during recent decades, the story of the renaissance of star navigation throughout the Pacific, and material about navigation systems in Indonesia, Siberia, and the Indian Ocean.