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Sea Currents in Nineteenth-Century Art, Science and Culture: Commodifying the Ocean World Kathleen Davidson 9781350239265
RRP: $60.88$51.74Apologies 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: $65.10$55.34From 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: $189.00$160.65This 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: $46.18$39.25A 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: $243.60$207.06By 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: $27.28$23.18Featuring 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: $159.60$135.66From 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
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Huss Und Wiclif: Zur Genesis Der Hussitischen Lehre Johann Loserth 9783486750188
RRP: $282.45$240.09Apologies 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: $210.00$178.50Apologies 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: $52.50$44.63We 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: $23.08$19.61Apologies 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: $210.00$178.50Apologies 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 -
Assembly by Design: The United Nations and Its Global Interior Olga Touloumi 9781517913328
RRP: $262.50$223.13How the United Nations headquarters became the architectural instrument and broadcast medium of global diplomacy For almost seven years after World War II, a small group of architects took on an exciting task: to imagine the spaces of global governance...Qty in Cart: 0Quantity:Price:RRP: $262.50$223.13Subtotal: -
Pride and Fall: The British Army in Afghanistan, 2001–2014 Sergio Miller 9781472868299
RRP: $63.00$53.55A 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: $126.00$107.10This 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: $62.98$53.53Tan 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: $178.50$151.73The 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: $27.28$23.18Apologies 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 -
Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City Alex Hannaford 9780063253056
RRP: $30.43$25.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063253056Author Alex HannafordImprint HarperAudioPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
Daily Life in 1990s America Richard A. Schwartz 9798216182702
RRP: $115.50$98.18With the end of the Cold War, the invention of the World Wide Web, the widespread availability to cellphones and personal computers, and remarkable advances in space exploration—the 1990s introduced a new era in human history. During that decade, the... -
Demotica I W Spiegelberg 9783486750027
RRP: $210.00$178.50Apologies 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: $44.08$37.46An 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: $50.40$42.84With 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... -
Weapons, Warriors and Battles of Ancient Greece and Rome Fernando Quesada-Sanz 9781781592762
RRP: $73.50$62.48This is an up-to-date and detailed, yet accessible, study of the weapons and armour of the Classical Greeks, Macedonians and Romans. Covering the period from the emergence of hoplite armies in Greece from the 8th century BC, through the Hellenistic age... -
A Commentary on Plautus' Curculio T. H. M. Gellar-Goad 9780472077069
RRP: $134.40$114.24Lively 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: $48.28$41.03Eric 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: $168.00$142.80The 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... -
Gesina ter Borch Adam Eaker 9781848225206
RRP: $73.50$62.48Gesina ter Borch (1631-1690) was a Dutch watercolourist and draughtswoman whose work survives primarily in the form of three albums of watercolours and calligraphy, now held at the Rijksmuseum. Despite the fact that her oeuvre is securely attributed and... -
Basques and Vicuñas at the Mouth of Hell: A Documentary History of Potosí in the Early 1620s Kris Lane 9781647791384
RRP: $203.70$173.15In 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: $109.20$92.82In 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: $73.40$62.39Since 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: $126.00$107.10Listening 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: $73.40$62.39Listening 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... -
M.I.9: The Official History of the Secret Escape and Evasion Organisation An Official History 9781399079556
RRP: $52.50$44.63It was every British serviceman’s duty, be he soldier, sailor or airman, to attempt to evade capture if stranded behind enemy lines or escape if captured. As there were potentially thousands of men who would find themselves cut off or captured during the... -
American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America Martyn Whittock 9781639367849
RRP: $31.48$26.75A vivid and illuminating new history—separate fact from fiction, myth from legend—exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America.Vikings are an enduring subject of fascination. The combination of adventure, mythology, violence, and exploration... -
The Invention of Sicily: A Mediterranean History Jamie Mackay 9781786637741
RRP: $23.08$19.61Sicily is at the crossroads of the Mediterranean, and for over 2000 years has been the gateway between Europe, Africa and the East. It has long been seen as the frontier between Western Civilization and the rest, but never definitively part of either... -
Reconnoitring Russia: Mapping, Exploring and Describing Early Modern Russia, 1613-1825 Denis J. B. Shaw 9781800085923
RRP: $84.00$71.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800085923Author Denis J. B. ShawFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press -
Peasantry in the Cheb City-State in the Late Middle Ages: Socioeconomic Mobility and Migration Tomáš Klír 9788024657066
RRP: $75.60$64.26A reassessment of fundamental scholarship on the Middle Ages, based on previously unknown medieval written source material. Medieval peasantry represents a particularly attractive unknown for historians, as it is crucial for understanding both later... -
Footsloggers: An Infantry Battalion at War, 1939-45 Peter Hart 9781800810716
RRP: $27.28$23.18Shortlisted for the 2023 Military History Matters Book of the Year Award The only way to truly understand what it was like to fight in the Second World War is to listen to the experiences of those men who were there. And often, there was nowhere more...