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Proclus, ›Hypotyposis Astronomicarum Positionum‹: Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary with a Study of the Diagrams and Illustrations Argyro Lithari 9783111512846
RRP: £136.50£116.03Proclus’ Hypotyposis Astronomicarum Positionum, a late antique astronomical treatise, has been transmitted through Byzantine codices which usually record it among mathematical, philosophical or historical works. In the modern era, specific passages of... -
Unity is Strength: German Immigrant Associations in New York, 1890s–1930s Markus Bierkoch 9783111422831
RRP: £64.00£54.40Migration is one of the most pressing societal issues. Immigrant associations play a crucial role in understanding this phenomenon. They channel migration streams, influence the assimilation of their members, and serve as representatives of the entire... -
Our Jackie: Public Claims on a Private Life Karen M. Dunak 9781479830565
RRP: £25.99£22.09Tells the story of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis through her evolving public persona, from campaign wife to First Lady to fallen idol to treasured national icon When Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis became First Lady of the United States over sixty years ago, she... -
Royal Vengeance: The Assassination of Princess Diana and the Ancient Royal Cult of Human Sacrifice Sarah Whalen 9781634241489
RRP: £21.95£18.66Was Princess Diana murdered? Yes, she was. That part is easily seen-even the means are known. She was gravely injured in a deliberate car wreck that immediately killed two other people, and she was then allowed to slowly bleed to death from internal... -
Grief and Sorrow in the Roman World: Republic to Empire Anthony Smart 9781350511675
RRP: £85.00£72.25Engaging with the long history of emotions, this book provides a new narrative of how grief was defined, experienced and used in Ancient Rome. From studies of tears and weeping, to Roman funerary monuments and inscriptions, the role of female grief in... -
Heaven on the Hudson: Mansions, Monuments, and Marvels of Riverside Park Stephanie Azzarone 9781531508050
RRP: £19.99£16.99Winner, Victorian Society in America Book Award A colorful tale of a singular New York City neighborhood and the personalities who make it special To outsiders or East Siders, Riverside Park and Riverside Drive may not have the star status of Fifth... -
Charleston: An Archaeology of Life in a Coastal Community Martha A. Zierden 9780813080819
RRP: £27.95£23.76Choice Outstanding Academic TitleSociety for Historical Archaeology James Deetz Book AwardThe archaeology and history of one of the most storied cities of the American South. Charleston, South Carolina, is one of the most storied cities of the American... -
Black Freedom and Education in Nineteenth-Century Cuba Raquel Alicia Otheguy 9781683404767
RRP: £109.00£92.65Examining the educational legacy of Afro-Cuban teachers and activists In this book, Raquel Otheguy argues that Afro-descended teachers and activists were central to the development of a national education system in Cuba. Tracing the emergence of a Black... -
The Hammer Falls: Westmoreland's Season of Offensives, 1967 Arrigo Velicogna 9781804510209
RRP: £19.95£16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510209Author Arrigo VelicognaFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Building the Metropolis: Architecture, Construction, and Labor in New York City, 1880–1935 Alexander Wood 9780226836966
RRP: £28.00£23.80A sweeping history of New York’s urban development that chronicles the making of one of the world’s great cities. Between the 1880s and the 1930s, New York City experienced explosive growth, as nearly a million buildings, half a dozen bridges, countless... -
Koevoet Volume 2: South West African Police Counter Insurgency Operations During the South African Border War, 1985-1989 Steve Crump 9781804513613
RRP: £19.95£16.96Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513613Author Steve CrumpFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Sea Currents in Nineteenth-Century Art, Science and Culture: Commodifying the Ocean World Kathleen Davidson 9781350239265
RRP: £28.99£24.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781350239265Author Kathleen DavidsonImprint Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC -
The Bonds of Kinship in Dahomey: Portraits of West African Girlhood, 1720–1940 Jessica Catherine Reuther 9780253071439
RRP: £31.00£26.35From the 1720s to the 1940s, parents in the kingdom and later colony of Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) developed and sustained the common practice of girl fostering, or "entrusting." Transferring their daughters at a young age into foster homes,... -
Playful Classics: Classical Reception as a Creative Process Dr Juliette Harrisson 9781350418622
RRP: £90.00£76.50This is the first book to deal exclusively with ludic interactions with classical antiquity - an understudied research area within classical reception studies - that can shed light on current processes of construction and appropriation of the Greco-Roman... -
The Price They Paid: Slavery, Shipwrecks, and Reparations Before the Civil War Jeff Forret 9781620978863
RRP: £21.99£18.69A prizewinning historian uncovers the first instances of reparations in America—ironically, though perhaps not surprisingly, paid to slaveholders, not former slaves “A spectacular achievement of historical research. Forret shows for the first time just... -
Mountain Battery: The Alps, Water, and Power in the Fossil Fuel Age Marc Landry 9781503639775
RRP: £116.00£98.60By the end of the nineteenth century, Europeans had come to see the Alps as the ideal place to fashion an alternative to the era's dominant energy source: coal. After 1850, Alpine water increasingly became "white coal": a power source with the... -
Ground Forces in the Korean War 1950–53 (1): The North Korean People’s Army and the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army Benjamin Lai 9781472861016
RRP: £12.99£11.04Featuring full-color artwork, this book describes and illustrates the Chinese and North Korean troops who fought US and UN forces in Korea during 1950–53. In June 1950, North Korean forces armed and equipped by the Soviet Union invaded South Korea,... -
The Bonds of Kinship in Dahomey: Portraits of West African Girlhood, 1720–1940 Jessica Catherine Reuther 9780253071422
RRP: £76.00£64.60From the 1720s to the 1940s, parents in the kingdom and later colony of Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) developed and sustained the common practice of girl fostering, or "entrusting." Transferring their daughters at a young age into foster homes,... -
Historia Ilustrada - La antigua Grecia Miguel Ángel Saura 9788419898104
RRP: £11.95£10.16Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Huss Und Wiclif: Zur Genesis Der Hussitischen Lehre Johann Loserth 9783486750188
RRP: £134.50£114.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783486750188Author Johann LoserthFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Walter de GruyterPublisher Walter de GruyterWeight(grams) 603g -
Der Tierische Magnetismus in Preussen: VOR Und Nach Den Freiheitskriegen Wilhelm Erman 9783486751680
RRP: £100.00£85.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783486751680Author Wilhelm ErmanFormat HardbackPage Count 132Imprint Walter de GruyterPublisher Walter de GruyterWeight(grams) 390g -
Lustful Appetites: An Intimate History of Good Food and Wicked Sex Rachel Hope Cleves 9781509553631
RRP: £25.00£21.25We take the edible trappings of flirtation and infatuation for granted: chocolate covered strawberries and romance, oysters on the half shell and desire, the eggplant emoji and a suggestive wink. But why does it feel so natural for us to link food and... -
Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World Patrick Joyce 9780141998732
RRP: £10.99£9.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780141998732Author Patrick JoyceFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 500g -
Regesten Von 1025-1204 Franz D�lger 9783486751017
RRP: £100.00£85.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783486751017Author Franz D�lgerFormat HardbackPage Count 129Imprint Walter de GruyterPublisher Walter de GruyterWeight(grams) 608g -
Pride and Fall: The British Army in Afghanistan, 2001–2014 Sergio Miller 9781472868299
RRP: £30.00£25.50A detailed new account of the British military campaign in Afghanistan from 2001 to 2014, based on the experiences of those who served. Following the 9/11 attacks, the British Government supported the initial US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, and also... -
Strabo Dr Jessica Lightfoot 9781350160958
RRP: £60.00£51.00This book provides a short and accessible introduction to Strabo’s life, times and cultural context. It outlines the importance of geography and geographical writing in the Augustan period and its development in ancient Greece and Rome, as well as... -
Progressive Islam: A Social Study of Tan Malaka's Islamic Thought: 1 Reza Adeputra Tohis 9781804414910
RRP: £29.99£25.49Tan Malaka, 1897- 1949, was an Indonesian Muslim, Marxist, philosopher, teacher, and founder of the Persatuan Perjuangan (Struggle Front), a coalition of groups negotiating the terms of Indonesian independence in the1940s. He was awarded the Government... -
Soviet SCI_BERIA: The Politics of Expertise and the Novosibirsk Scientific Center Ksenia Tatarchenko 9781350165830
RRP: £85.00£72.25The education and technological centre of Russia, Akademgorodok in Siberia is home to the state university, 35 research institutes, a medical academy and the House of Scientists, and generates over 17 million roubles every year. As such, it is often... -
Engineers of Human Souls: Four Writers Who Changed Twentieth-Century Minds Simon Ings 9780349128597
RRP: £12.99£11.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349128597Author Simon IngsFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Little, BrownPublisher Little, Brown Book Group -
Demotica I W Spiegelberg 9783486750027
RRP: £100.00£85.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783486750027Author W SpiegelbergFormat HardbackPage Count 50Imprint Walter de GruyterPublisher Walter de GruyterWeight(grams) 259g -
Afghanistan 20/20: A History of the U.S. War in Declassified Documents Tom Blanton 9781620977590
RRP: £20.99£17.84An authoritative exposé of twenty years of U.S. failures in Afghanistan, based on twenty declassified documents The summer of 2021 saw the lid blown off twenty years of deception, obfuscation, and delusion in America’s war in Afghanistan. By analyzing... -
Peripatos: A History of Ancient Aristotelianism Luca Gili 9783110993226
RRP: £24.00£20.40With the exception of Paul Moraux’s Die Aristotelismus bei den Griechen (in German), the most recent books on the history of ancient Aristotelianism are H. Balthussen 2016 (The Peripatetics: Aristotle’s Heirs) and A. Falcon 2018 (Aristotelismo). Both... -
A Commentary on Plautus' Curculio T. H. M. Gellar-Goad 9780472077069
RRP: £64.00£54.40Lively and critically aware, T. H. M. Gellar-Goad’s A Commentary on Plautus’ Curculio is the new reference text on the play. Curculio follows the efforts of the title character to trick a sex-trafficker into handing over an enslaved woman to the young... -
Eric Bloodaxe The Viking: 'I Shall Die Laughing' John Sadler 9781398122338
RRP: £22.99£19.54Eric Bloodaxe (or Brother-Slayer) might well claim to be the last of the Vikings. His career a real-life episode of Game of Thrones. His life a true Norse saga, realities being teased out by the author from sparse chronicle sources, enigmatic and often... -
Genocide: A Thematic Approach Thomas Earl Porter 9781839987311
RRP: £80.00£68.00The purpose of this volume is not simply to compileyet another wearying chronicle of the horrors that have been committed by our fellow human beings.Most students who register for a course on Genocide assume that it will focus, perhaps exclusively, on... -
Basques and Vicuñas at the Mouth of Hell: A Documentary History of Potosí in the Early 1620s Kris Lane 9781647791384
RRP: £97.00£82.45In June 1622, the silver mining metropolis of PotosÍ, Bolivia, erupted in gangland violence, only halted three years later by a viceroy’s blanket amnesty. Basque immigrants were at the center of the controversy, squaring off against nearly a dozen other... -
Empires in Friction: Egypt in the Sixteenth Century Nelly Hanna 9780815638506
RRP: £52.00£44.20In 1517, the Ottoman Empire had finally defeated the Mamluk Sultanate in Egypt, completing their conquest of the Middle East and turning Egypt into a province of the Ottoman Empire. While much has been documented about the Mamluk period until 1517,... -
Dynastic Democracy: Political Families of Thailand Yoshinori Nishizaki 9780299338343
RRP: £34.95£29.71Since the overthrow of absolute monarchy in 1932, Thailand’s political history has conventionally been interpreted as a long series of popular struggles for representative democracy and against authoritarian military rule. Yoshinori Nishizaki proposes... -
Listening to the Voices of the Dead: The 3-11 Tohoku Disaster Speaks Jun'ichi Isomae 9780472077076
RRP: £60.00£51.00Listening to the Voices of the Dead is an account of the author’s search for disquieted voices of the dead in the wake of the March 11, 2011, Tōhoku Disaster and his attempt to translate those voices for the living. Isomae Jun’ichi considers the disaster... -
Listening to the Voices of the Dead: The 3-11 Tohoku Disaster Speaks Jun'ichi Isomae 9780472057078
RRP: £34.95£29.71Listening to the Voices of the Dead is an account of the author’s search for disquieted voices of the dead in the wake of the March 11, 2011, Tōhoku Disaster and his attempt to translate those voices for the living. Isomae Jun’ichi considers the disaster...