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Settlement and Crusade in the Thirteenth Century sheds new light on formerly less explored aspects of the crusading movement and the Latin East during the thirteenth century.In commemoration of the 800th anniversary of the construction of 'Atlit Castle,...

In Britannia Graham Stewart traces two thousand years of an island's story - from Roman province to twenty-first century European nation-state - through one hundred historic documents. From the eighth-century Lindisfarne Gospels to the great testament of...

Exeter is one of the oldest cities in Britain: people have lived here without a break for more than two thousand years. The High Street has been in continuous use as a thoroughfare throughout that long period. For centuries Exeter was one of the largest...

This monumental project is the definitive work on the postwar American military occupation of France. In 1951, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, hero of the liberation of Europe, returned to Paris to command NATO forces. The US Army built a huge...

This collection offers a holistic understanding of the impact of both crusading and settlement on the literary cultures of Latin Christendom. The period between the First Crusade and the collapse of the "crusader states" in the eastern Mediterranean...

A BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR'Chillingly original' Max Hastings'A vivid and sparkling account, full of colour and dark drama' Observer'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony Beevor'Witty and elegant . . . Excellent background to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062748218Author Zora Neale HurstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014764355Author Diana Author Forbes-RobertsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)...

In 1872, a young archaeologist at the British Museum made a tremendous discovery. While he was working his way through a Mesopotamian 'slush pile', George Smith, a self-taught expert in ancient languages, happened upon a Babylonian version of Noah's...

This book portrays aspects of the life of a community of over 1,200 Jews who were either born in Yemen, or who were, in 1975-77, the young sons and daughters of immigrants from Yemen. It contains implications for the important and currently debated topic...

John Buridan (ca. 1300-1361) was the most famous philosophy teacher of his time, and probably the most influential. In this important new book, Jack Zupko offers the first systematic exposition of Buridan's thought to appear in any language. Zupko uses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538722374Author Benjamin BreenFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063070653Author Nina SiegalFormat HardbackPage Count 544Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 699gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781535352772Author MR Andreas P ParpasFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497424326Author Joseph L TroiseFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312616113Author Stephen R BownFormat HardbackPage Count 314Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsLong-listed for PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography 2023.Book InformationISBN 9780812989960Author David I. KertzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 672Imprint Random...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541600447Author Robin Lane FoxFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 680gDimensions(mm) 241mm * 155mm * 41mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070661Author Edward CrowtherFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780944142615Author Suhag ShirodharFormat HardbackPage Count 56Imprint Grantha CorporationPublisher Grantha CorporationWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 290mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935616139Author Theodore Parker BurbankFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Parker Nelson PublishingPublisher Parker Nelson PublishingWeight(grams)...

The sixth novel in Julia Quinn's globally beloved and bestselling Bridgerton Family series, set in Regency times and now a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. This is Francesca's story . . . About the AuthorJulia Quinn started writing her first...

The fourth book in Julia Quinn's globally bestselling, Regency-set, Bridgerton Family series. Witty, romantic, swoonworthy and now the inspiration for the Netflix series Bridgerton created by Shondaland. Welcome to Colin and Penelope's long-awaited story...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'This will be the most important political book of the year' MATTHEW D'ANCONA, EVENING STANDARD 'The first serious and consistently...

Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn as the Nakba - the catastrophe that led to the displacement and expulsion of more than 700,000 people - and the Israelis celebrate as the War of...

HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. Our life is what our thoughts make it The extraordinary writings of Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180), the only Roman emperor to have also been a...

'Truly wonderful... Anna Funder has written another brilliant human portrait.' - Claire Tomalin A BLAZING, GENRE-BENDING MASTERPIECE FROM ONE OF THE MOST INVENTIVE WRITERS OF OUR TIMELooking for wonder and some reprieve from the everyday, Anna Funder...

Medicine carries the burden of its own troubling history. Over centuries, women's bodies have been demonised and demeaned until we feared them, felt ashamed of them, were humiliated by them. But as doctors, researchers, campaigners and most of all as...

WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDWINNER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2016'A thrilling adventure story' Bill Bryson'Dazzling' Literary Review 'Brilliant' Sunday Express'Extraordinary and gripping' New Scientist'A superb biography' The...

The instant Sunday Times and Amazon charts bestseller"I found myself in the Auschwitz stables, and I felt an ember of hope. If I could make myself useful, helping these horses, maybe I could stay alive."In the darkest moment of history, one child found...

A Sunday Times bestseller (May 2023) - the incredible story of courage, resilience and survival. 'I am a survivor. That comes with a survivor's obligation to represent one and half million Jewish children murdered by the Nazis. They cannot speak. So I...

'A smart and highly entertaining portrait of a literary powerhouse'- THE TIMES BOOKS OF THE YEAR'A riveting portrait'- GUARDIAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR***'Worsley's sparkling biography brings a fresh eye to Christie's life and work, firmly busting the myth...

AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERCHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE TIMES * SUNDAY TIMES * TELEGRAPH * SPECTATOR * PROSPECT'Utterly brilliant . . . Authoritative, lively and profoundly human, it is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand...

'Masterful and entrancing - this is big history at its best.' Professor Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors'A real-life Indiana Jones takes readers on a dive through these underwater museums, revealing the sunken secrets of the past' The Times'Fascinating...

'A powerfully disruptive book for disrupted times ... If you're looking for transformative ideas, this book is for you.' KATE RAWORTH, economist and author of Doughnut EconomicsA Financial Times Book of the Year______________________________________Our...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612194196Author David GraeberFormat PaperbackPage Count 548Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House PublishingWeight(grams) 540g

With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins.In the summer of 1944, Eva Mozes Kor and her family arrived at Auschwitz.Within thirty minutes, they were separated. Her parents and two older sisters were taken to the gas...

Travel 20,000 years into the past and discover what life as a caveman was like in this prehistoric picture book by a prodigiously talented artist.One day a little boy is walking along when he trips, stumbles and falls ... into the Stone Age! He meets a...

From SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING author Bettany Hughes'A wondrous wonderful achievement' Stephen Fry 'Fascinating' Observer 'Thrilling' GuardianTheir names still echo down the ages: The Great Pyramid at Giza. The Hanging Gardens of Babylon...