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Visualizing Christ's Miracles in Late Byzantium: Art, Theology, and Court Culture Maria Alessia Rossi 9781009387620
RRP: £85.00£72.25This book investigates the political and spiritual agenda behind monumental paintings of Christ's miracles in late Byzantine churches in Constantinople, Mystras, Thessaloniki, Mount Athos, Ohrid, and Kastoria. It is the first exhaustive examination of...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £85.00£72.25Subtotal: -
Vienna: How the City of Ideas Created the Modern World Richard Cockett 9780300279368
RRP: £12.99£11.04How can one European capital be responsible for most of the West’s intellectual and cultural achievements in the twentieth century? Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to... -
Intrepid's Fighting Squadron 18: Flying High with Harris' Hellcats Michael I. Fink 9781682473214
RRP: £34.95£29.71USS Intrepid’s Fighting Squadron 18 (VF-18) was one of the U.S. Navy’s highest-scoring carrier units of World War II. Despite having only one combat veteran in its roster, its aviators—including Cecil “Speedball” Harris, the Navy’s second-ranking... -
Engaging with Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9–1) History: Medicine in Britain, c1250–present and The British sector of the Western Front, 1914–18 Dale Banham 9781398389229
RRP: £21.00£17.85Trust the power of cognitive science to help students to understand more, remember more and feel more confident about their exams.This textbook is guaranteed to make learning more effective. The approach was created by author and teacher Dale Banham, who... -
A History of England Llewellyn Woodward 9781032828794
RRP: £90.00£76.50First Published in 1947, A History of England combines a concise record of events with an absorbing picture of England’s evolution in the political, social, economic, and cultural spheres. It brings important themes like Britain under the Romans; the... -
Empires and Indigenous Peoples: Comparing Ancient Roman and North American Experiences Michael Maas 9780806194523
RRP: £46.95£39.91The Romans who established their rule on three continents as well as the Europeans who initially established new homes in North America interacted with communities of Indigenous peoples with their own histories and cultures. Sweeping in its scope and... -
Back into Focus: The Real Story of Robert Capa's D-Day Chuck Herrick 9781636244730
RRP: £34.95£29.71Although Capa's Falling Soldier image from the Spanish Civil War has been definitively proven to be a staged propaganda fake, no one has applied a similarly critical eye to his later work. This book is the first effort to establish the facts behind the... -
North America Ancient Origins: Stories Of People & Civilization James Ball 9781804178041
RRP: £10.99£9.34Gorgeous Collector's Edition. In this new history, James Ball gathers together the ancient story of North American History, tracing it to today's many still-thriving native cultures. Records of the pre-Columbian era rely heavily on archeological... -
Fragments of Victory: The Contemporary Irish Left David Landy 9780745348759
RRP: £18.99£16.14There is much to learn from modern left-wing activism in Ireland. A rich tapestry of movements, including republicans, social democrats, trade unions, Trotskyists and anarchists, they have been battling neoliberalism and austerity with vigour,... -
The Guardian Angel: Michel Hollard: The Resistance Leader who stopped Hitler's Plans to destroy London Florian Hollard 9781526780058
RRP: £19.99£16.99This book tells the story of an important yet little-known episode of 20th century history. Just as General de Gaulle did, Lieutenant Michel Hollard refused to accept France's surrender in June 1940. A spirited soldier during the First World War, a... -
Writing Resistance in the Second World War: Secrecy and Participation in Newspapers Jane L. Chapman 9783031607417
RRP: £109.99£93.49This book aims to extend existing historical, literary and media knowledge of neglected written voices as a form of print participation in the Second World War. Uniquely, it is framed by an awareness of contemporary requirements for both secrecy and... -
Citizen Cowboy: Will Rogers and the American People Steven Watts 9781108495936
RRP: £30.00£25.50Citizen Cowboy is a probing biography of one of America's most influential cultural figures. Will Rogers was a youth from the Cherokee Indian Territory of Oklahoma who rose to conquer nearly every form of media and entertainment in the early twentieth... -
Slavic Ancient Origins: Stories Of People & Civilization Barbora Jiřincová 9781804176184
RRP: £10.99£9.34The ancient roots of the Slavs can be traced through language and archeology to the time of late Babylon, and the Vedic culture of India, but more distinct records reveal them as a military force supporting the many tribes, the Avars, the Scythians,... -
Paleoart. Visions of the Prehistoric Past Walton Ford 9783836593205
RRP: £75.00£63.75It was 1830 when an English scientist named Henry De la Beche painted the first piece of paleoart, a dazzling, deliciously macabre vision of prehistoric reptiles battling underwater. Since then, artists the world over have conjured up visions of... -
The Origin and Evolution of China's Names I: The Reigning Dynasties HU A-Xiang 9781032815817
RRP: £135.00£114.75This is the first volume of a two-volume set on the names of China, focusing on the country's official titles throughout history.Using interdisciplinary approaches from fields such as history, geography, ethnic studies, linguistics, psychology and... -
My Dear Kabul: A year in the life of an Afghan women's writing group Untold Narratives CIC 9781399727983
RRP: £20.00£17.00'A hugely important book... I want everyone to read it, share it, discuss it, support it' BERNARDINE EVARISTO'A unique chronicle of the everyday and the earth shattering' LYSE DOUCET'Tender, devastating narratives from some of the bravest women of our... -
A Criminal Hero: Justice, Politics and Media Culture in Eighteenth-Century Naples Pasquale Palmieri 9781032722252
RRP: £130.00£110.50In the spring of 1757, the Augustinian friar Leopoldo di San Pasquale was tried in Naples by the hierarchies of his own religious order on charges of financial fraud, heresy, and sexual immorality. He responded by accusing the heads of the convent of... -
Stone Circles: A Field Guide Colin Richards 9780300235982
RRP: £30.00£25.50The definitive guide to the stone circles of Britain and Ireland From Stonehenge and the Ring of Brogdar to the Rollright Stones and Avebury, the British and Irish Isles are scattered with the stone circles of our prehistoric ancestors. Although there... -
Jurisdictional Battlefields: Political Culture, Theatricality, and Spanish Expeditions in Charcas in the second half of the sixteenth century Mario Graña Taborelli 9781835537091
RRP: £115.00£97.75The book examines three expeditions by the Spanish to the borders of Charcas, a district that covers present-day Bolivia and the northwest of Argentina, in the second half of the sixteenth century, through an approach that has not been attempted until... -
Training Churchill's Secret Army: Special Operations Executive s Training Section, 1940-1945 An Official History 9781399069984
RRP: £20.00£17.00Shortly after the creation of the Special Operations Executive in July 1940, the first of its Special Training Schools was formed at Brickendonbury in Hertfordshire. The object of the school was to train men of different nationalities as instructors and... -
The Atlanta Campaign: Volume 1: Dalton to Cassville, May 1-19, 1864 David Powell 9781611216950
RRP: £31.99£27.19The Atlanta Campaign in 1864 was second only to Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign in Virginia for scope and drama. Once Grant decided to personally lead the Federal armies in Virginia against Robert E. Lee and his Army of Northern Virginia, he chose... -
Ancient Egyptians (2 Vols) J. Gardner Wilkinson 9780415645836
RRP: £35.99£30.59Written in 1836, this two-volume study has enduring importance in the field of Egyptology. Covering topics including Egyptian homes, ceremonies, hunting, religious rites, and castes, it provides a comprehensive account of ancient Egyptian life and... -
Cromwell's Convicts: The Death March from Dunbar 1650 John Sadler 9781399021203
RRP: £14.99£12.74On 3 September 1650 Oliver Cromwell won a decisive victory over the Scottish Covenanters at the Battle of Dunbar – a victory that is often regarded as his finest hour – but the aftermath, the forced march of 5,000 prisoners from the battlefield to...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £14.99£12.74Subtotal: -
Overflow, Afterglow: New Work in Chromatic Figuration Liz Munsell 9780300275797
RRP: £25.00£21.25An investigation of how seven cutting-edge contemporary artists use high-key, kaleidoscopic color to express the hybrid and multiform nature of identity As contemporary artists reckon with the immense destructive forces of today’s world, including... -
The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence Susan Stronge 9781838510367
RRP: £40.00£34.00The Great Mughals presents, for the first time the opulent, internationalist culture of Mughal Hindustan in the age of its greatest emperors: Akbar (r.1556-1605), Jahangir (r.1605-1627) and Shah Jahan (r. 1628-1658). Providing a compelling new narrative... -
Fashion and the Floating World: Japanese ukiyo-e Prints Anna Jackson 9781838510503
RRP: £35.00£29.75This sumptuous book explores the important world that woodblock prints played in the fashionable world of Edo-period Japan (1603-1868). 140 ukiyo-e - 'pictures of the floating world' offer us a vivid view of the culture of entertainment, style and... -
The Fall of the III Waffen SS Panzer Korps: A History of the Final Battles, 1945 Wilhelm Tieke 9781399075978
RRP: £25.00£21.25A masterfully researched, factual and expansive examination of the III SS Panzer Korps in its final years as the tide of war turned against Germany. Translated from the original German, this book represents the best English account of many of the SS...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £25.00£21.25Subtotal: -
Rethinking Japan's Modernity: Stories and Translations M. William Steele 9780674297562
RRP: £49.95£42.46History is not one story, but many. In Rethinking Japan’s Modernity, M. William Steele takes a new look at the people, places, and events associated with Japan’s engagement with modernity, starting with American Commodore Matthew Perry’s arrival in Japan... -
Engaging with Pearson Edexcel GCSE (9-1) History: Early Elizabethan England, 1558-88 Ben Armstrong 9781398389342
RRP: £18.99£16.14Trust the power of cognitive science to help students to understand more, remember more and feel more confident about their exams.This textbook is guaranteed to make learning more effective. The approach was created by author and teacher Dale Banham, who... -
Forts of the Northern Plains: A Guide to Military and Civilian Posts of the Plains Indian Wars Jeff Barnes 9781496235053
RRP: £21.99£18.69As the first official symbols of U.S. government presence on the western frontier, the forts of the northern plains were both centers of commerce and sources of conflict. The integral roles these forts played during decades of warfare with the Plains...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £21.99£18.69Subtotal: -
Indigenous Sacraments: Christian Rituals and Local Responses at the Fringes of Spanish America, 1529–1800 Oriol Ambrogio Gali 9781496235770
RRP: £63.00£53.55Indigenous Sacraments provides the first study of Indigenous perceptions of the Christian sacraments at the fringes of colonial Spanish America, particularly in the missions established by the Jesuits in northwestern Mexico, central southern Chile, and... -
A Brutal Reckoning: The Creek Indians and the Epic War for the American South Peter Cozzens 9781838959067
RRP: £12.99£11.04'Cozzens is a master storyteller' The Times'Extremely well researched' Times Literary SupplementFrom the devastating invasion by Spanish conquistadors in the sixteenth century to the relentless pressure from white settlers 150 years later, A Brutal... -
Burgenland: Village Secrets and the First Tremors of the Holocaust David Joseph 9781398122567
RRP: £12.99£11.04When Hitler marched into Austria in March 1938, he was given a rapturous reception. Millions lined the streets and filled the squares of Vienna. Tobias Portschy, a self-appointed regional Nazi chief, considered what to give the Fuhrer for his birthday,... -
The Unnatural Trade: Slavery, Abolition, and Environmental Writing, 1650-1807 Brycchan Carey 9780300224412
RRP: £49.00£41.65A look at the origins of British abolitionism as a problem of eighteenth-century science, as well as one of economics and humanitarian sensibilities How did late eighteenth-century British abolitionists come to view the slave trade and British colonial... -
Black Humor and the White Terror Béla Bodó 9781032124032
RRP: £36.99£31.44This book examines political humor as a reaction to the lost war, the post-war chaos, and antisemitic violence in Hungary between 1918 and 1922. While there is an increased body of literature on Jewish humor as a form of resistance and a means of... -
Let's Make Things Better: Finding Hope in the Darkest Days Gidon Lev 9781035043989
RRP: £20.00£17.00“To me, hard times are like hide-and-seek: where is the solution, where is the hope? We can never give up looking for these things because they are just waiting to be found.” Gidon Lev, an 89-year-old Holocaust survivor, has lived an extraordinary life... -
Poetry in Byzantine Literature and Society (1081-1204): New Texts, New Approaches Baukje van den Berg 9781009467322
RRP: £100.00£85.00The twelfth century was one of the most fertile periods in Byzantine literary history and this volume is the first to focus exclusively on its abundant poetic production. It explores the broader sociocultural tendencies that shaped twelfth-century... -
Hockney and Piero: A Longer Look Susanna Avery-Quash 9781857097221
RRP: £16.99£14.44A celebration of the National Gallery’s history of collaborating with contemporary artists, with a particular focus on David Hockney This book celebrates how artists have responded in a host of ways to the Gallery’s collection over the last 200 years. A... -
Dive Bomber: How Low-Level Attacks Changed World War II in the Air Peter C. Smith 9780811776592
RRP: £18.99£16.14• Details on planes like the German Stuka, the American Dauntless, the Japanese Aichi D3A1 "Val," the Soviet PE-2, and numerous others • Riveting accounts of aerial combat • Includes maps, diagrams, tables, and photos For many, it is a dive bomber that... -
Boredom and the Architectural Imagination: Rudofsky, Venturi, Scott Brown, and Steinberg: Rudofsky, Venturi, Scott Brown, and Steinberg Andreea Mihalache 9780813951577
RRP: £29.95£25.46Boredom as an impetus for architectural theory and practice Any theorist or practitioner of architecture must confront, and even be compelled by, boredom. Called ennui, Langeweile, or acedia, boredom is a pressing concern, as the production and...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: £29.95£25.46Subtotal: