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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085916Author Denis J. B. ShawFormat PaperbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356409743Author Dr Abbas PannakalFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bloomsbury Academic IndiaPublisher Bloomsbury India

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781335018281Author Daphne Palmer GeanacopoulosFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Mills & BoonPublisher Harlequin (UK)Weight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804510315Author Jose Daniel Fernandez DugarteFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Imagine a world without sight. Is it dark and gloomy? Is it terrifying and isolating? Or is it simply a state of not seeing, which we have demonised and sentimentalized over the centuries? And why is blindness so frightening? In this fascinating...

This timely text charts the metamorphosis of Russian media and culture in the 21st century. It considers how, when Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000, Russia's media and culture industry had enjoyed nearly a decade of almost unrestricted freedom and...

This edited collection examines Mass-Observation as an innovative research organization, a social-movement, and an archival project. It features essays that highlight the research of contemporary scholars and focuses on the thematic interdisciplinary use...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511360Author Terence DooleyFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111058399Author Erich PerniceFormat HardbackPage Count 70Imprint De GruyterPublisher De GruyterWeight(grams) 540g

During the war hundreds of German panzer commanders and gunners accomplished the feat of personally destroying at least 20 enemy tanks. In this book they are for the first time all gathered together, with their individual stories examined in detail using...

The period covered by this volume, roughly 800-1400, considers genocidal massacres and actions within the context of the pre-modern state, a time when the term “genocide” did not yet exist. In considering rhetoric, discrimination, and political and legal...

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COIN - counterinsurgency - is a major element in international relations - both historical and 'IR theory' - and in military history. It was a vital component in the Cold War and decolonisation. COIN is now widely contrasted with 'Big War' theory in the...

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Military commanders matter. They win or lose battles, determine the outcomes of wars and often shape the history of nations. But they are also human individuals. This study of thirty-four British commanders, from Boudica to Bomber Harris, reflects on...

In June 1609, two judges left Bordeaux for a territory at the very edge of their jurisdiction, a Basque-speaking province on the Atlantic coast called the Pays de Labourd. In four months, they executed up to 80 women and men for the crime of witchcraft,...

A vivid look at the wartime experiences of a Jewish woman in the Confederate South Emma Mordecai lived an unusual life. She was Jewish when Jews comprised less than 1 percent of the population of the Old South, and unmarried in a culture that offered...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781784274542Author Keith SomervilleFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Pelagic PublishingPublisher Pelagic Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780811773713Author Don TroianiFormat HardbackPage Count 152Imprint Stackpole BooksPublisher Stackpole Books

Aesthetic practices shape and are shaped by spatial formations. The essays of this volume survey configurations of spaces as macro, micro and meso, and study from a transregional perspective the ways they are created, described, negotiated and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788564243Author Ruth OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Ruby Tuesday Books LtdPublisher Ruby Tuesday Books LtdWeight(grams) 135g

A highly illustrated, authoritative exploration of Operation Apache Snow, including the infamous Battle of Hamburger Hill (Ap Bia Mountain), one of the most significant and well-known actions in the Vietnam War. Operation Apache Snow was the result of a...

**AWARDED THE GERMAN NON-FICTION PRIZE 2022**‘Stephan Malinowski's brilliant book strikes a balance between the forensic analysis of individual behaviour and a new understanding of how the toxic political culture of a defeated monarchy helped to disrupt...

This volume aims to merge theoretical models with methodological approaches on ceramic technology and artisanal networks in the Classical world. This convergence of analytical frameworks allowed scholars to explore some traditional archaeological topics...

A NEW STATESMEN BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 ‘A lasting work of social history’ THE TIMES ‘A genuinely new history of our nation’ DAN JONES ‘This celebration of women is a triumph of popular history’ SPECTATOR FROM THE MULTI-MILLION BESTSELLING...

Proclus’ 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...

Migration 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...

Tells 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...

Was 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781890951993Author Irene V. SmallFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Zone BooksPublisher Zone Books

Engaging 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...

Winner, 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...

Choice 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...

Examining 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...

While premodern kabbalistic texts were not chronicles of historical events, they provided elaborate models for understanding the secret divine plan guiding human affairs. Hartley Lachter analyzes innovative kabbalistic doctrines, such as the idea of...

Apologies 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

A 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...

Apologies 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