American History: The Early Years to 1877 immerses students in the rich early history of their country and presents American history before Reconstruction. The program includes the finest scholarship and maps from the world-renowned National Geographic. The Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, and the Citizenship Handbook are also included. The author team, including National Geographic, ensures accuracy in every detail of the narrative, maps, and charts.
Semiotics of International Law - Trade and Translation
Language carries more than meanings; language conveys a means of conceiving the world. In this sense, national legal systems expressed through national languages organize the Law based on their own understanding of reality. International Law becomes, in this context, the meeting point where different legal cultures and different views of world intersect.
Historians of theatre face the same temptations and challenges as other historians: they negotiate assumptions (their own and those of others) about national identity and national character; they decide what events and actors to highlight—or omit—and what framework and perspective to use for telling the story. Personal biases, trends in scholarship, and sociopolitical contexts influence all histories; and theatre histories, too, are often revised to reflect changing times and interests. This significant collection examines the problems and challenges of formulating national theatre histories.
India gave Zero to the world. It was a great idea. Zero does not mean `nothing'; in position it adds, creates. Learn the interesting story of zero through this book.Dilip M. Salwi is a Delhi-based science writer. A winner of several national awards and fellowships for popularising science, he also writes science fiction and plays involving science and scientists.
A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever
The ultimate biography of National Lampoon and its cofounder Doug Kenney, this book offers the first complete history of the immensely popular magazine and its brilliant and eccentric characters. With wonderful stories of the comedy scene in New York City in the 1970s and National Lampoon’s place at the center of it, this chronicle shares how the magazine spawned a popular radio show and two long-running theatrical productions that helped launch the careers of John Belushi, Bill Murray, Chevy Chase, and Gilda Radner and went on to inspire Saturday Night Live. More than 130 interviews were conducted with people connected to Kenney and the magazine
