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Byzantium Unbound Anthony Kaldellis 9781641891998
RRP: $31.10$30.65Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781641891998Author Anthony KaldellisFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press -
Seeing Race Again: Countering Colorblindness across the Disciplines by Kimberle Williams Crenshaw 9780520300996
RRP: $54.60$42.51Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines' research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising... -
Beloved Community: The Cultural Criticism of Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford by Casey Nelson Blake 9780807842966
$87.42The ""Young American"" critics -- Randolph Bourne, Van Wyck Brooks, Waldo Frank, and Lewis Mumford -- are well known as central figures in the Greenwich Village ""Little Renaissance"" of the 1910s and in the postwar debates about American culture and... -
Idealism beyond Borders: The French Revolutionary Left and the Rise of Humanitarianism, 1954-1988 by Eleanor Davey
RRP: $60.43$44.56This is a major new account of how modern humanitarian action was shaped by transformations in the French intellectual and political landscape from the 1950s to the 1980s. Eleanor Davey reveals how radical left third-worldism was displaced by the... -
12th Ss Panzer Division Hitlerjugend by Massimiliano Afiero
RRP: $48.65$33.87Created in 1943 from members of the Hitler Youth born in 1926, the division was attached to I SS Panzer Corps in March 1944 and transferred to Normandy. Based around Caen, it was intended to repel a possible and expected invasion from the sea. When the... -
Hawker Hunter by Tony Buttler
RRP: $31.18$22.64This fully illustrated volume looks at the classic jet fighter, the Hawker Hunter. The type's development, entry into service and operations are examined in detail.About the AuthorTony Buttler was born in England. He joined High Duty Alloys in 1974 as a... -
The Oxford History of the Crusades by Professor Jonathan Riley-Smith
RRP: $45.81$32.45Written by a team of leading scholars, this fascinating book presents an authoritative and comprehensive history of the Crusades, from the preaching of the First Crusade in 1095 to the legacy of crusading ideas and imagery today. Reflecting the recent... -
Swedish Bomber Colours 1924-1958 by Mikael Forslund 9788365958372
RRP: $78.00$72.68This latest book in the Rainbow Series covers Swedish bomber aircraft deployed during World War Two and in early 50s.Camouflage and markings on the bombers obtained from different countries are described in unparalleled detail by the well-known Finnish... -
Rediscovering Traces of Memory: The Jewish Heritage of Polish Galicia [First edition] by Daniel Renshaw 9781906764036
RRP: $38.51$23.28Since the Holocaust, traces of memory are virtually all that remain in Poland today after more than eight hundred years of Jewish life there. This remarkable album, published on behalf of the Galicia Jewish Museum in Krakow, offers a sensitive way of... -
The Second World War by Sir Winston S. Churchill
RRP: $48.73$46.04"I am perhaps the only man who has passed through the two supreme cataclysms of recorded history in high executive office... I was in this second struggle with Germany for more than five years the head of His Majesty's Government. I write therefore from... -
Daily Life in Ancient Egypt by Don Nardo
RRP: $17.53$12.77This book explores what life was really like for everyday people in Ancient Egypt. Using primary sources and information from archeological discoveries, it uncovers some fascinating insights and explodes some myths. Supported by timelines, maps and... -
Soldiers and Silver: Mobilizing Resources in the Age of Roman Conquest by Michael J. Taylor
RRP: $87.75$75.80By the middle of the second century BCE, after nearly one hundred years of warfare, Rome had exerted its control over the entire Mediterranean world, forcing the other great powers of the region-Carthage, Macedonia, Egypt, and the Seleucid empire-to... -
Sex Before Sexuality: A Premodern History by Barry Reay 9780745625232
$33.40Sexuality in modern western culture is central to identity but the tendency to define by sexuality does not apply to the premodern past. Before the 'invention' of sexuality, erotic acts and desires were comprehended as species of sin, expressions of... -
The Mighty Eighth: A Glimpse of the Men, Missions & Machines of the U.S. Eighth Air Force 1942-1945 by Military Gallery
RRP: $58.50$54.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780954997083Format HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Griffon International LimitedPublisher Griffon International LimitedWeight(grams) 1000gDimensions(mm) 240mm... -
Queen Anne: Patroness of Arts by James Anderson Winn 9780199372195
RRP: $83.83$65.89As the last Stuart monarch, Queen Anne (1665-1714) received the education thought proper for a princess, reading plays and poetry in English and French while learning dancing, singing, acting, drawing, and instrumental music. As an adult, she played the... -
Nazi Germany by Jane Caplan 9780199276875
RRP: $64.33$58.79The history of National Socialism as movement and regime remains one of the most compelling and intensively studied aspects of twentieth-century history, and one whose significance extends far beyond Germany or even Europe alone. This volume presents an... -
Longing for the Lost Caliphate: A Transregional History by Mona Hassan
RRP: $68.25$55.28In the United States and Europe, the word "caliphate" has conjured historically romantic and increasingly pernicious associations. Yet the caliphate's significance in Islamic history and Muslim culture remains poorly understood. This book explores the... -
A Merciless Place: The Lost Story of Britain's Convict Disaster in Africa by Emma Christopher 9780199695935
RRP: $37.03$27.32This is a story lost to history for over two hundred years; a dirty secret of failure, fatal misjudgement and desperate measures which the British Empire chose to forget almost as soon as it was over. In the wake of its most crushing defeat, the... -
China in One Village: The History of One Town and the Future of the World by Liang Hong
RRP: $33.13$27.50After a decade away from her ancestral family village, during which she became a writer and literary scholar in Beijing, Liang Hong started visiting her rural hometown in landlocked Hebei province. What she found was an extended family torn apart by the... -
In the Cool Shade of Compassion: The Enchanted World of the Buddha in the Jungle by Kamala Tiyavanich
RRP: $33.13$23.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611806496Author Kamala TiyavanichFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications Inc -
The Rifle: Combat Stories from America's Last WWII Veterans, Told Through an M1 Garand by Andrew Biggio
RRP: $25.33$24.08Tales of American combat and comradery in World War II all connected to the iconic rifle of the era, the M1 Garand. An award-winning author puts one such rifle into the hands of a series of vets, records their stories, and gathers their signatures on the... -
So Close to Freedom: A World War II Story of Peril and Betrayal in the Pyrenees by Jean-Luc E. Cartron
RRP: $46.78$40.64Many organizations contributed to the Allied cause during World War II by funneling hundreds of downed airmen, escaped POWs, Engelandvaarders, and Resistance fighters out of occupied Europe and allowing them to rejoin the fight against Nazi Germany. The... -
Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires by Anca Parvulescu
RRP: $58.48$51.27How are modernity, coloniality, and interimperiality entangled? Bridging the humanities and social sciences, Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca provide innovative decolonial perspectives that aim to creolize modernity and the modern world-system... -
St George, Redfield and Whitehall: Images of England by David Cheesley 9780752422206
RRP: $25.33$19.25In this intriguing selection of archive images the areas of St George, Redfield and Whitehall have been evocatively recreated using over 200 photographs, postcards and engravings which illustrate the diverse history of this east Bristol district. From... -
Writing in the Dark: Bloomsbury, the Blitz and Horizon Magazine Will Loxley 9781474615723
RRP: $19.48$13.46As the streetlamps flickered out and lights were obscured behind brown-paper screens, a subdued atmosphere took hold of London in 1939. Cloistered in pubs and gloomy sitting rooms, London's young writers and artists faced being sent to the front, trading... -
Diet for a Large Planet: Industrial Britain, Food Systems, and World Ecology by Chris Otter
RRP: $83.85$71.00We are facing a world food crisis of unparalleled proportions. Our reliance on unsustainable dietary choices and agricultural systems is causing problems both for human health and the health of our planet. Solutions from lab-grown food to vegan diets to... -
Wings of Empire: The Forgotten Wars of the Royal Air Force, 1919-1939 by Barry Renfrew 9780750989381
RRP: $39.00$29.78At the end of the First World War, British power in the colonies was at an all-time low. That was until a ragtag band of visionaries, including Winston Churchill and T.E. Lawrence, proposed that the aeroplane, the wonder weapon of the age, could save the... -
Everything Now: Lessons from the City-State of Los Angeles by Rosecrans Baldwin
RRP: $27.28$22.04America is obsessed with Los Angeles. And America has been thinking about Los Angeles all wrong, for decades, on repeat. Los Angeles is not just the place where the American dream hits the Pacific. Not just the end of the line anymore. Not just the... -
An Artilleryman in Stalingrad by Wigand Wuster
RRP: $58.50$49.22In August 1942, Wigand Wuster was a twenty-two-year-old officer in the German Wehrmacht. The short life expectancies of the Eastern Front made him a veteran commander even at that age. He led a battery in an artillery regiment as it approached Stalingrad... -
Critical Approaches to International Security by Karin M. Fierke
$50.02During the Cold War the concept of international security was understood in military terms as the threat or use of force by states. The end of EastDWest hostilities, however, brought 'critical' perspectives to the fore as scholars sought to explain the... -
Seven Seconds to Die: An Analysis of Recent Wars and the Future of Warfighting by John Antal
RRP: $35.08$30.24The Second Nagorno-Karabakh war - fought between Armenia and Azerbaijan between September 24 and November 10, 2020 face=Calibri>- was the first war in history won primarily by unmanned systems.This 44-day war resulted in a decisive military victory for... -
Appian's Roman History: Empire and Civil War by Kathryn Welch 9781910589007
RRP: $146.25$139.70Appian of Alexandria lived in the early-to-mid second century AD, a time when the pax Romana flourished. His Roman History traced, through a series of ethnographic histories, the growth of Roman power throughout Italy and the Mediterranean World. But... -
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
RRP: $50.68$30.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063097681Author Eddie JakuFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint HarperPublisher Harper -
Reorienting the Sasanians: East Iran in Late Antiquity by Khododad Rezakhani
RRP: $48.73$39.57In the mediaeval period, Central Asia rose to prominence as a centre of Persian-Islamic culture, from the Seljuks to the Mongols. Khodadad Rezakhani tells the back story of this rise to prominence, the story of the famed Kushans and mysterious 'Asian... -
Calton Hill: Journeys and Evocations by Stuart McHardy 9781908373854
RRP: $15.58$11.78Lord Cockburn, Victorian defender of Edinburgh's beauties, describes Calton Hill as 'the Glory of Edinburgh'. 'It presents us,' enthused Cockburn, 'with the finest prospects both of its vicinity and the city... it is adorned by beautiful buildings... -
When the Clouds Fell from the Sky: A Daughter's Search for Her Father in the Killing Fields of Cambodia Robert Carmichael 9781472143761
RRP: $19.48$14.06'An outstanding book of astonishing power . . . One finishes it with an ache in the heart'JON SWAIN, writer and foreign correspondent, author of River of Time'Through a profoundly moving tale that weaves together the connected stories of a victim, his... -
Zarafa: A Giraffe's True Story, from Deep in Africa to the Heart of Paris by Michael Allin 9780385334112
RRP: $37.05$26.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385334112Author Michael AllinFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Delta (imprint of Dell Publishing)Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)... -
The Calder Woodland Way by Christopher Goddard
RRP: $11.68$10.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995450240Author Christopher GoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 19Imprint Christopher GoddardPublisher Christopher Goddard -
Collecting Shakespeare: The Story of Henry and Emily Folger by Stephen, H. Grant 9781421411873
RRP: $56.55$50.47In Collecting Shakespeare, Stephen H. Grant recounts the American success story of Henry and Emily Folger of Brooklyn, a couple who were devoted to each other, in love with Shakespeare, and bitten by the collecting bug. Shortly after marrying in 1885,... -
Pioneers in Bloomers: The True Story of the Pedestriennes - British Sport's First Female Celebrities by Rob Hadgraft
RRP: $19.48$14.06Women's sport is finally flourishing in Britain. But still largely unrecognised are the pioneering efforts of the Victorian era 'pedestriennes' who laid the foundations for modern woman to participate in professional sport. Dozens of these...