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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781584351108Author Sergio Gonzalez RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Semiotext (E)Publisher AutonomediaWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 178mm *...

In a time before large banking systems, and with paper money just in its infancy, money during the Renaissance meant coinage (mainly gold and silver) and local credit systems. These monetary forms had a significant influence on the ways in which money...

Essays on the connections between politics and society in the middle ages, showing their interdependence. Christine Carpenter's influential work on late-medieval English society aspires to encompass a wide spectrum of human experience. Her vision of...

This book by a leading scholar of international relations examines the origins of the new world disorder - the resurgence of Russia, the rise of populism in the West, deep tensions in the Atlantic alliance, and the new strategic partnership between China...

In An American Brothel, Amanda Boczar considers sexual encounters between American servicemen and civilians throughout the Vietnam War, and she places those fraught and sometimes violent meetings in the context of the US military and diplomatic campaigns...

Few subjects bring out so well the differences between ourselves and our ancestors as the history of Christian charity. In an increasingly mobile and materialist world, in which culture has grown more national, indeed global, we no longer relate to the...

Red Squirrel Phonics is a new series of decodable readers from Raintree, packed with real stories using words that children can read. The programme teaches children phonics skills in a sequential and systematic way so that they can learn the sounds...

Welcome to the Graveyard of Dead Letters, where evil silent letters, like the W of swords and the K of knives, are buried. Here they can do no harm. But the wicked Spellbinder has plans to revive the letters . . . and use them to create a fierce weapon...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594980152Author Lon FendallFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Barclay PressPublisher Barclay PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781602065772Author John BeardFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 540g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983163787Author Apostle Julia D FordFormat PaperbackImprint Chosenbutterfly PublishingPublisher Chosenbutterfly PublishingWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615924083Author Atabey Sanchez-HaimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint La Jirafa TulipanPublisher La Jirafa TulipanWeight(grams) 132g

Grandma likes to stand out from the crowd. She chooses colourful clothes, covered in flowers, and her hair is bright red. AND she wears mis-matching socks. Everyone laughs at her, but when it's YOUR grandma, it's really not funny at all and something...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786375230Author Kirsty holmesFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife PublishingWeight(grams) 250g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781786375766Author Holly DuhigFormat HardbackPage Count 24Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife Publishing

Comprehensively surveys Ethiopia and Eritrea's rich and dynamic tradition of historical writing, from the ancient Aksumite era to the present day. Ethiopia and Eritrea are home to Africa's oldest written historical tradition, which began in the third...

This collection brings together historians, political theorists and literary scholars to provide historical perspectives on the modern debate over freedom of speech, particularly the question of whether limitations might be necessary given religious...

The world entered the atomic age in August 1945, when the B-29 Superfortress nicknamed Enola Gay flew some 1,500 miles from the island of Tinian and dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan. The "Little Boy" bomb exploded with the force of 12.5...

The world's biggest religion has a problem. There is zero archaeological evidence for the original Eucharist - the sacred wine said to guarantee life after death for those who drink the blood of Jesus. The Holy Grail and and its miraculous contents have...

This book fills a significant gap in the literature on eighteenth-century social and cultural history. Starting with their production and trade, Sorge-English looks at the intricacies of the staymaker's craft, the role of gender in the design and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345467928Author Terry AndersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 522gDimensions(mm)...

Preserving the childhood memories of some of the last generation of White Russian women to experience the revolution first-hand, this poignant collection of interviews and photographs provides a unique record of life in Russia.About the AuthorAnna...

No doubt, the feminist movement has come a long way, even though many of its aims have not been realized or, in fact, are still debated by its supporters and critics. It is sobering andinstructive to look back and examine the aspirations, achievements...

A wolf's howl is felt in the body. Frightening and compelling, incomprehensible or entirely knowable, it is a sound that may be heard as threat or invitation but leaves no listener unaffected.Toothsome fiends, interfering pests, or creatures wild and...

This book offers an accessible and lively survey of the global history of the age of industrialization and globalization that arose in the wake of the Napoleonic Wars and collapsed in the maelstrom of the First World War. Through a combination of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781629633510Author Julie PeriniFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PM PressPublisher PM Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789463361675Author Jerzy GawronskiFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint Harmonie, Uitgeverij DePublisher Harmonie, Uitgeverij DeWeight(grams) 1g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781845334147Author Hugh JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Mitchell BeazleyPublisher Octopus Publishing GroupWeight(grams) 232g

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Fully illustrated, this is the second volume in a detailed study of the German auxiliary troops who fought for Britain in the American Revolutionary War. During the American Revolutionary War (1775-83), German auxiliary troops provided a vital...

Was Princess Diana murdered? Yes, she was. That part is easily seen-even the means are known. She was gravely injured in a deliberate car wreck that immediately killed two other people, and she was then allowed to slowly bleed to death from internal...

"Akasegawa is the kind of artist who inspires everybody every time he makes a new piece of art." -Yoko Ono In the 1970s, estranged from the institutions and practices of high art, avant-garde artist and award-winning novelist Genpei Akasegawa...