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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987008961Author Ivor W. HartmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 406Imprint StorytimePublisher StorytimeWeight(grams) 440g

Aimed at students of African politics and political sociologists interested in rural revolution and revolt. Although Mau Mau was militarily crushed in the mid-fifties, the struggle for land rights was only contained in Kenya's post-independence era...

The first comprehensive account of the linkage between natural resources and political and social conflict in Africa. Conflict over natural resources has made Africa the focus of international attention, particularly during the last decade. From oil...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439102336Author Jonathan AmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm)...

In A Feast of Creatures, Craig Williamson recasts nearly one hundred Old English riddles of the Exeter Book into a modern verse mode that yokes the cadences of Aelfric with the sprung rhythm of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Like the early English riddlers...

What Kind of a Thing Is a Middle English Lyric? considers issues pertaining to a corpus of several hundred short poems written in Middle English between the twelfth and early fifteenth centuries. The chapters draw on perspectives from varied disciplines,...

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The Posterior Analytics contains some of Aristotle's most influential thoughts in logic, epistemology, metaphysics, and the philosophy of science. The first book expounds and develops the notions of a demonstrative argument and of a formal, axiomatized...

Courage and outrage inform 13 essays about black womanhood.Searing in its emotional honesty, Womanish is an essay collection by award-winning author Kim McLarin that explores what it means to be a Black woman in today's turbulent times. Writing with...

Syrian poet Samir Tahhan collected folktales from old men sitting outside their houses in Aleppo, drinking tea. Afraid these stories would disappear with the passing of this generation, Tahhan also went to halls and events to hear professional...

A Sword of Bronze and Ashes combines the fierce beauty of Celtic myth with grimdark battle violence. It's a lyrical, folk horror high fantasy. Kanda has a good life until shadows from her past return threatening everything she loves. And Kanda, like any...

A collection of insightful and personal essays on the role of food in our lives In an age of mass factory farming, processed and pre-packaged meals, and unprecedented food waste, how does one eat ethically? Featuring a highly diverse ensemble of...

The Book of Black Magic is Arthur Edward Waite's magnum opus of occult lore; this edition contains the author's original icons, symbols, seals and illustrations. The first part is entitled ""The Literature of Ceremonial Magic."" Here,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254523Author Kenneth F Kitchell JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 904Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

This is a book about ownership. It begins with an essay about being given a man's furniture while he's on trial for murder and follows with essays that question corporeal, familial, and intellectual forms of ownership. What does it mean to believe that a...

This anthology aims to challenge stereotypes of women travellers. Rather than simply presenting writings by Victorian women who travelled bravely around the world disregarding social convention and danger, the editors present a range of writing and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614982913Author H P LovecraftFormat PaperbackPage Count 498Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476795041Author Andrew SolomonFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm)...

Aldous Huxley was one of the most prophetic intellectuals of the twentieth century, and his best-known work was a novel of ideas that warned of a terrible future then 600 years away. Though ""Brave New World"", was published less than a century ago in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941051712Author PlatoFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602060784Author Harry HoudiniFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

This volume offers a strikingly innovative account of Propertius' relationship with Virgil, positing a keen rivalry between two of the greatest poets of Latin literature, contemporaries within the circle of Maecenas. It begins by examining all of the...

Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925-2006) was one of Scotland's leading twentieth century public intellectuals, and famously one of its most brilliant and combative correspondents. His letters raise issues of particular and widespread interest both within Scotland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781626540248Author John SinkankasFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Churchill & Dunn, LtdPublisher Churchill & Dunn, Ltd

American history told from the bottom up by Howard Zinn himself-and the perfect all-ages introduction to his eye-opening viewpoint, published on Zinn's hundredth birthdayTruth Has a Power of Its Own is an engrossing collection of conversations with the...

This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684873206Author Hunter S ThompsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 221mm *...

At the end of the nineteenth century, a homeless runaway teenager in New York found a job in a bar and discovered Malory. So began the lifelong interest of the future Poet Laureate, John Masefield (1878-1967), in the story of King Arthur. After becoming...

Bruce Boone is a critical figure at the crossroads of late twentieth-century avant-garde and social movement writing. Dismembered is the long overdue collection that spans nearly five decades of Boone's life, from the early 1970s to the present...

In the autumn of 1933 the 27-year-old Bonhoeffer accepted a two-year appointment as a pastor of two German-speaking Protestant churches in London. It was during this time that he began his friendship with Ernst Cromwell, one of his confirmands - a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781582433202Author Penelope FitzgeraldFormat PaperbackPage Count 418Imprint CounterpointPublisher CounterpointWeight(grams) 369g

The first Latin American to receive a Nobel Prize for Literature, the Chilean writer Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) is often characterized as a healing, maternal voice who spoke on behalf of women, indigenous peoples, the disenfranchised, children, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612192949Author Marek HlaskoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 151g

BE THE BEST AT... A series of brilliant how to guides for sports enthusiasts. With an easy guide to rules, equipment, clothing, diet and mental attitude, these are must-have guides to achieving sporting success. BE THE BEST AT GYMNASTICS Do you want to...

Classical Mythology in English Literature brings together a range of English versions of three classical myths. It allows students to explore the ways in which they have been reinterpreted and reinvented by writers throughout history. Beginning with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486227276Author Alexander SchmidtFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Innovative study of the relations of the peoples of West Africa in the precolonial period. Covering a period of some 400 to 500 years up to the last decades of the nineteenth century, the author takes a wide range of examples from those societies...

This international bestseller is an encyclopedic A-Z masterpiece-the perfect introduction to the very core of Western humanism. Clive James rescues, or occasionally destroys, the careers of many of the greatest thinkers, humanists, musicians, artists,...

This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912916825Author Alfred DoblinFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Galileo PublishersPublisher Galileo PublishersDimensions(mm) 203mm * 140mm * 51mm