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The Power of Large Numbers
French government officials have long been known among Europeans for the special attention they give to the state of their population. In the first half of the nineteenth century, as Paris doubled in size and twice suffered the convulsions of popular revolution, civic leaders looked with alarm at what they deemed a dangerous population explosion. After defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, however, the falling birthrate generated widespread fears of cultural and national decline. In response, legislators promoted larger families and the view that a well-regulated family life was essential for France.In this innovative work of cultural history, Joshua Cole examines the course of French t...
Lethal Provocation
Part murder mystery, part social history of political violence, Lethal Provocation is a forensic examination of the deadliest peacetime episode of anti-Jewish violence in modern French history. Joshua Cole reconstructs the 1934 riots in Constantine, Algeria, in which tensions between Muslims and Jews were aggravated by right-wing extremists, resulting in the deaths of twenty-eight people. Animating the unrest was Mohamed El Maadi, a soldier in the French army. Later a member of a notorious French nationalist group that threatened insurrection in the late 1930s, El Maadi became an enthusiastic supporter of France's Vichy regime in World War II, and finished his career in the German SS. Cole c...
On This Rock
The world's most secret society has been hidden behind the walls of Vatican City for twenty centuries. And even though he'd been working in the Vatican archives for ten years Father Joshua Cole had never heard of it, until he was invited to become a member. Over twenty years later his decision would come back to haunt him and throw him into a world of political intrigue and the age old battle between the Catholic Church and Freemasonry. A battle that began a thousand years ago when the Knights Templar discovered something in Jerusalem that would shake the Church to its core and finally come to a shocking end in a small New England town.
Leave Me Alone
In today's society the government seems to have control over our lives no matter which way we turn. The rules and reglations regarding what we can or cannot do seem to have no end. It wasn't that many years ago that a person could live a life free to do pretty much whatever they wanted as long as they didn't hurt anyone or interfere with someone else's freedoms. The courts are out of control and put people in jail for minor infractions. Prosecutors want convictions and don't care whether you are guilty or not, they just want a high conviction rate because they think it looks good on their record. People are tired of the endless laws and want a simpler life free of all the restrictions making...
Waterhole
In 1878, Dodge City, Kansas, is a dangerous place to live. When six-year-old Cole Herbert wakes one morning to find his mother, Katherine, missing and his father, Clint, out riding posse with Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson, he realizes just how dangerous it is. Clint and Cole embark on a mission to find Katherine, but after an unsuccessful, eight-month search, they find their way to the Oklahoma Territory, where they plan to begin a new, more secure life. As years pass, father and son adjust to life on a small ranch. But when an old prospector knocks on their door and informs them that Katherine may have been spotted alive in the Arizona Territory, they revive their search and head to Waterhol...
Capital Cities at War
This ambitious volume marks a huge step in our understanding of the social history of the Great War. Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert have gathered a group of scholars of London, Paris and Berlin, who collectively have drawn a coherent and original study of cities at war. The contributors explore notions of well-being in wartime cities - relating to the economy and the question of whether the state of the capitals contributed to victory or defeat. Expert contributors in fields stretching from history, demography, anthropology, economics, and sociology to the history of medicine, bring an interdisciplinary approach to the book, as well as representing the best of recent research in their own fields. Capital Cities at War, one of the few truly comparative works on the Great War, will transform studies of the conflict, and is likely to become a paradigm for research on other wars.
The Hope Within
Tragedy may tear the Selby family apart in this riveting conclusion to Tracie Peterson's wonderful and bestselling Montana saga.
Comets
David Levy brings these "ghostly apparitions" to life. With fascinating scenarios both real and imagined, he shows how comets have wreaked their special havoc on Earth and other planets. Beginning with ground zero as comets take form, we track the paths their icy, rocky masses take around our universe and investigate the enormous potential that future comets have to directly affect the way we live on this planet and what we might find as we travel to other planets. In this extraordinary volume, David Levy shines his expert light on a subject that has long captivated our imaginations and fears, and demonstrates the need for our continued and rapt attention.
