History

This Here Now explains how traditional Japanese buildings respond to distinctive materials, objects and moments, and argues that the built acknowledgment of such events can help to affirm the individuality of our own being. The book also shows how...

What is history - a question historians have been asking themselves time and again. Does "history" as an academic discipline, as it has evolved in the West over the centuries, represent a specific mode of historical thinking that can bedefined...

Christian Origins is an exploration of the historical course and nature of early Christian theology, which concentrates on setting it within particular traditions or sets of traditions.In the three sections of the volume, Reading Origen, Reading the...

This book compiles the 4-view color profiles, scale plans, and photo details of the single variant of the McDonnel F-4B Phantom II. Scale plans are in 1/72 scale, plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. It also includes photos of the details in B&W...

Incorporating the work of Ernst Titovets, this book explores the life of Lee Harvey Oswald, painting him as a real person-not as the straw man concocted to match the image of a lone assassin in search of greatness or infamy. Among other facets of his...

This modernized extract from The Great Chronicle of London covers the reign of England's first Tudor king, Henry VII (1485-1509). It gives an eye-witness account of events in London, and of news from elsewhere, from the viewpoint of a well-to- do citizen...

Text with facing English translation provides fascinating insights into medieval religious life. JOINT WINNER: 2023 BRITISH RECORD ASSOCIATION HARLEY PRIZE In 1397 the bishop of Hereford toured his diocese asking questions about its churches...

This book is about the impact of decolonisation on British civic society in the 1960s. It shows how participants in middle class associational life developed optimistic visions for a post-imperial global role. Through the pursuit of international...

Shows how the system of supply was perfected during the later part of the Napoleonic Wars, enabling fleets to stay at sea on a permanent basis. After the Battle of Trafalgar, the navy continued to be the major arm of British strategy. Decades of...

This book is compilations of the 4-view color profile, scale plans and photo details of the single variant of the PZL Karas II.Scale plans in 1/72 and 1/48 scales plus drawings from wartime technical manuals. Also photos of the details in B&W and color...

Lochaber is a sparsely-populated area, remote but romantic, centred on Fort William. It contains no mediaeval burgh, no major monastic site, and for its size, not even many castles. However, it does include the highest mountain in Great Britain (Ben...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262039079Author Tamar NovickFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400030705Author H. W. BrandsFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 488gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

This interdisciplinary edited volume presents twelve papers by Roman historians and archaeologists, discussing the interconnected relationship between religion and the Roman economy over the period c. 500 BC to AD 350. The connection between Roman...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780471739050Author John C. McManusFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher Turner Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

An edition of the early Middle English verse sequence contained in the thirteenth-century Oxford Jesus College MS 29 (II) with accompanying translations in Modern English and scholarly introduction and apparatus. The sequence is varied in subject, with...

Explores the lived experiences of civilian men on Clydeside during the Second World War'Masculinities on Clydeside' explores the experiences of civilian men on Clydeside during the war, using oral history interviews as a means to explore subjectivity and...

On Monday 19 September 1803, the most significant trial in the history of Ireland took place in Dublin. At the dock stood a twenty-five year old former Trinity College student and doctor's son. His name was Robert Emmet and he was standing trial for...

The archive has assumed a new significance in the history of sex, and this book visits a series of such archives, including the Kinsey Institute's erotic art; gay masturbatory journals in the New York Public Library; the private archive of an amateur...

From ancient times to the present day, Iranian social, political, and economic life has been dramatically influenced by psychoactive agents. This book looks at the stimulants that, as put by a longtime resident of seventeenth-century Iran, Raphael du...

Black communities have been making major contributions to Europe's social and cultural life and landscapes for centuries. However, their achievements largely remain unrecognized by the dominant societies, as their perspectives are excluded from...

According to William Gillette, recent reinterpretation of Reconstruction by revisionist historians has often tended to overemphasise idealistic motivations at the expense of assessing concrete achievements of the era. Thus, he maintains, the failure of...

This edited Adelphi volume brings together senior scholars as well as rising analysts of Egypt to examine the turbulent period from the January 2011 uprising to the consolidation of power of President Abdelfattah el-Sisi in 2014-15. The nine authors...

Since 2003, Hong Kong has changed dramatically. In recent years, the city has been rocked by social instability and Covid-19, yet Hong Kong endures, evolving as it always has. This book is a window into the events of a city that has been the author's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400026630Author Richmond P. HobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint McClelland & StewartPublisher McClelland & StewartWeight(grams)...

In Detestable and Wicked Arts, Paul B. Moyer places early New England's battle against black magic in a transatlantic perspective. Moyer provides an accessible and comprehensive examination of witch prosecutions in the Puritan colonies that discusses how...

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