books by Andrew Borowiec

books by Andrew Borowiec

books:

Andrew Borowiec

Along the Ohio (Creating the North American Landscape)

Andrew Borowiec

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000

Photographs To Exercise The Mind
Professor Borowiec's photographs are like little delicious desserts for the brain. Each one is to be savored and almost every one of them gave my imagination a complete workout. The photographs of houses and streets made my mind say "Who lives here?", "What is around ...

Destroy Warsaw!: Hitler's Punishment, Stalin's Revenge

Andrew Borowiec

Praeger Publishers, 2001

Includes Seldom-Mentioned Information on the Warsaw Uprising
One especially valuable aspect of this book is its detailed introduction to the beginnings of the Polish Underground. Concrete strategy was planned even before the German guns of 1939 had fallen silent. During the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, even Polish firemen tried to ...

Cleveland: The Flats, the Mill, and the Hills (Center Books on American Places)

Center for American Places, 2008

The Flats, a district near downtown Cleveland, was once was the vibrant heart of Midwestern industry and is now in the throes of change: Some of its warehouses and factories have been transformed into nightclubs and restaurants, while homes in adjacent neighborhoods have been replaced by mini-mansions. In Cleveland , photographer Andrew Borowiec ...

Cyprus: A Troubled Island

Andrew Borowiec

Praeger Publishers, 2000

Best treatise on modern Cyprus
I am just completing a case study on Cyprus in my graduate studies. Borowiec's book is my NUMBER ONE source. Current, balanced, objective--he pulls no punches. His personal experience on the island and with the antagonists comes through but does not color his ...

Industrial Perspective: Photographs of the Gulf Coast
Andrew Borowiec

Center for American Places, 2005

The world of factories and industry is a crucial yet oft-forgotten fact that undergirds the bustling prosperity of contemporary American life. Photographer Andrew Borowiec has spent his career exploring the industrial fields of middle America, and he now turns his camera's eye southward in Industrial Perspective , exploring the panoramic ...

Modern Tunisia: A Democratic Apprenticeship

Praeger Publishers, 1998

How did Tunisia succeed in eliminating the threat of militant Islamic fundamentalism? Borowiec examines the actions, which begin with the removal of the senile President Habib Bourguiba in 1987, known in Tunisia as "the change." Today, while its next door neighbor, Algeria, is in the midst of an upheaval threatening modernization and a secular ...

Taming the Sahara: Tunisia Shows a Way While Others Falter
Andrew Borowiec

Praeger Publishers, 2003

Veteran North African observer Andrew Borowiec surveys the history of the countries surrounding the Sahara, showing that Tunisia is the only country actively resisting the encroachment. Using onsite visits, interviews, and an examination of government records and newspaper accounts, he examines how Tunisians are pursuing a bold approach to the ...