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The never-before-told story of the epic battle of wills between Andrew Mellon and Winston Churchill, as they debated the repayment of the enormous sums loaned by America to Great Britain during World War I.Andrew Mellon, one of the most accomplished...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783486751642Author August F�pplFormat HardbackPage Count 155Imprint Walter de GruyterPublisher Walter de GruyterWeight(grams) 463g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781119438830Author Waldemar HeckelFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint John Wiley & Sons IncPublisher John Wiley & Sons IncWeight(grams) 666g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350242920Author Robert HoughtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury AcademicWeight(grams) 454g

Connecting people with places, London’s distinctive Blue Plaque scheme highlights the buildings where some of the most remarkable men and women in our history and culture have lived and worked. From Richard Burton to Karl Marx, Marie Stopes to Jimi...

Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia are on the rise in twenty-first-century Europe, but these notions of the malevolent, conspiring Jew or Muslim are far more than a medieval trope. Over the last millennium, deep currents of exclusion have shaped not only...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636244358Author Ian BaxterFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Casemate PublishersPublisher Casemate Publishers

An innovative, up-to-date treatment of ancient Greek mobility and migration from 1000 BCE to 30 BCE A Companion to Greeks Across the Ancient World explores the mobility and migration of Greeks who left their homelands in the ten centuries between the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476696072Author Simon D BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 347Imprint McFarland & Co IncPublisher McFarland & Co Inc

As an outpost of empire, Scotland played a significant, if unusual, role in the Roman world. The south and east were occupied intermittently from AD 79 to the early third century, while the north and west remained outside Roman control, though certainly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802701005Author Georgios TheotokisFormat PaperbackPage Count 147Imprint Arc Humanities PressPublisher Arc Humanities Press

A chronicle of the diversity and wealth of cultures, predominantly from Eastern Europe, that have played a formative role in shaping contemporary Europe but now risk being forgotten. A Herodotus of Mitteleuropa, cultural historian Karl-Markus Gauß is...

'In 1953, at the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Princess Alice was dressed from head to foot in a long gray dress and a gray cloak, and a nun's veil. Amidst all the jewels, and velvet and coronets, and the fine uniforms, she exuded an unworldly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511278Author Michael PottertonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

From railway disasters and robberies to mycology and mountain biking, twelve authors tell true stories of Cumberland, BC, that highlight the diverse and eclectic history of the vibrant village.Established as a coal mining camp in the late nineteenth...

Discover the fascinating world of the Shang Dynasty through 99 questions and answersWhere did the Shang rule? Why is Fu Hao so famous? And did the Shang really invent chopsticks? Find out the answers to all these questions and many, many more in this...

This volume is the first manual book to address fire-cracked rock (FCR) or fire-affected rock analysis, thus filling a significant gap in the market and in the existing literature. This book develops a method and theory for how FCR was used, to...

An incredible story of courage, peril, secrecy and resistance.'You know you can change your mind, don't you? Even now. Even when you are halfway across the English Channel. Any time before you jump.''Yes, I know,' I quickly reassured her, 'and I won't...

The Baltic's time has come. It is not only critical to Europe's security and increasingly a centre of political and military power in its own right; it is a reservoir of ideas and experiences that could shape the continent's future.The Baltic offers by...

Worm-Time challenges conventional narratives of the Cold War and its end, presenting an alternative cultural history based on evolving South Korean aesthetics about enduring national division. From novels of dissent during the authoritarian era to films...

This anthology recalls Christmas in Shakespeare's day, when it was an expansive festival, dominated by strict religious observance on the day itself, but including a long season of merrymaking, feasting and, most important of all, masques and plays...

From acclaimed historian Michael Brenner, a mesmerizing portrait of Munich in the early years of Hitler's quest for powerIn the aftermath of Germany's defeat in World War I and the failed November Revolution of 1918–19, the conservative government of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822967330Author Zachary L BrodtFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781917045025Author Michael BarronFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Nomad PublishingPublisher Nomad PublishingWeight(grams) 700g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780850367928Author Greg AlboFormat PaperbackPage Count 356Imprint The Merlin Press LtdPublisher The Merlin Press Ltd

Mothers make history. But what it has meant for mothers to do the physical and emotional work of mothering has, for centuries, been neglected in the stories of the past. Patriarchal control of motherhood has relegated the acts of growing, birthing,...

Explore the arts, culture, and history of Italy. Famous for the Colosseum in Rome, the canals of Venice, the renowned fashion houses of Milan, and the beauty of the Tuscan countryside, Italy is a vibrant tapestry of ancient landmarks and modern industry...

This gripping biography documents the life and reign of Hattusili, one of the most famous and well-documented Hittite rulers. Hattusili ruled over the ancient kingdom of Anatolia (modern Turkey) during the 2nd millennium BC and was a political rival and,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804187807Author Daniel HuhnFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Bonnier Books LtdPublisher Bonnier Books Ltd

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERIn Cork Dork, Bianca Bosker trained her insatiable curiosity, journalist's knack for infiltrating exclusive circles and eye for unforgettable characters on the wine world as she trained to become a sommelier. Now she...

In the days of Egyptian antiquity, many of the gods were abstract concepts rather than the actual anthropomorphic god-pictures familiar to us today. Many of the later fully-morphed deities were originally theological concepts represented by a distinctive...

A superbly illustrated account of one of the key milestones in the development of modern US Special Operations Forces, the hugely complex POW rescue at Son Tay. On November 21, 1970, a meticulously prepared force of US Special Forces in HH-53...

A probe into corruption in late Imperial ChinaAt the beginning of China's long eighteenth century or "High Qing" era, a time of peace and prosperity when the foundations of Manchu rule under the Qing dynasty were established, a courageous official named...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510384Author Arda MevlutogluFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914377112Author Lindsay PeacockFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513330Author Bruno DottoFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Over the last century, the industrialization of agriculture and processing technologies have made food abundant and relatively inexpensive for much of the world’s population. Simultaneously, pesticides, nitrates, and other technological innovations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070623Author Stijn MitzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company