by Site Owner | May 22, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
Looking at How Time Passes for a Super-Hero By Alan Cowsill & Matthew K. Manning DK Publishing, $50.00, 352 pages It’s hard for even a comic book geek to remember how much Spider-Man has been up to over the years. Spider-Man Chronicle: A Year by Year...
by Site Owner | May 22, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
By David Coles & Peter Sherrard Pen & Sword Military, $39.95, 172 pages The 20th century introduced a new dimension to warfare as aircraft increasingly supplemented soldiers on the battlefield. In The Four Geniuses of the Battle of...
by Site Owner | May 22, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
Illumination of an Often Overlooked Community By Saba Soomekh SUNY Press, $75.00, 224 pages, 4 stars Saba Soomekh explores a subject in From the Shahs to Los Angeles: Three Generations of Iranian Jewish Women Between Religion and Culture that few others...
by Site Owner | May 22, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
Life in Small-Town America By Sue Hunter Rohde & Debra Lea Meaghers Arcadia Publishing, $21.99, 127 pages The Images of America books are an important resource for historians who wish to see small-town America in pictures and learn how small towns...
by Site Owner | May 21, 2013 | Archived Reviews (pre-April 2020), History
Life in Imperial Japan By G.G. Rowley Columbia University Press, $40.00, 255 pages The 17th century was a time of turmoil in Imperial Japan, but also a time of great peace. It brought an end to wars that had ravaged the countryside for years and gave...