Labeled “Amazons” by the national press, women played a central role in the Huk rebellion, one of the most significant peasant-based revolutions in modern Philippine history. As spies, organizers, nurses, couriers, soldiers, and even military commanders, women worked closely with men to resist f...

Newly available with an updated bibliographic essay, this highly acclaimed work explores the Huk rebellion, a momentous peasant revolt in the Philippines. Unlike prevailing topdown analysis, Kerkvliet seeks to understand the movement from the point of view of its participants and sympathizers. He ar...

★ WINNER OF THE 2020 PURPLE DRAGONFLY CHILDREN'S BOOK CULTURAL DIVERSITY AWARD ★ "The author of several books for children on learning new languages, Santos helps introduce the concept of multilingualism in a kid-friendly way, with an engaging plot. A friendly approach to the pleasures of multil...

“Essential reading for all serious foodies.”—Anthony Bourdain, author of Kitchen Confidential   Combining an insider’s passion with down-to-earth humor, chef and food writer Patric Huk traces the evolution of American high-style restaurants from the 1941 opening of Le Pavillon to the re...

SOMETIMES THE PAST REFUSES TO DIE... U.S. Navy helicopter pilot Bud Lammers was on the fast track to promotion when a botched raid in Vietnam tainted his career and threw his marriage into a tailspin. Now, a decade after the war, he and his men are on the verge of wrapping up a successful peacetime ...

This volume in the Praeger Security International (PSI) series Classics of the Counterinsurgency Era by two officers-one from the Philippines and the other from America-who fought as guerrillas against the Japanese occupation and went on to defeat the Huk rebellion after World War II. Unlike many ot...

In the wake of the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu in1954, three Americans came together in a clandestine alliance that would play a major role in establishing Vietnam as an important arena in the Cold-War contest for hearts and minds. The three were Edward Lansdale, the legendary CIA officer who had...

Die deutsche Bevölkerung wird immer älter. Damit rückt eine bislang vernachlässigte Kundengruppe in das Blickfeld von Versicherungsunternehmen. Rainer Reitzler analysiert anhand sekundärstatistischer Forschungsergebnisse und empirischer Erhebungen den Versicherungsmarkt sowie angrenzende Fin...