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The Planning & Preparation for the Battle of Kursk Volume 2 Valeriy Zamulin 9781915070821
RRP: $48.38$41.13Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915070821Author Valeriy ZamulinFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company -
Messiah Mode David Sheen 9781682195123
RRP: $19.34$16.43Journalist David Sheen reports reveals how Netanyahu's inclusion of far-right Jewish Power in the coalition marks a dangerous shift towards realizing Rabbi Meir Kahane's ethnocentric dreams. After Israeli voters made it the third largest party in the... -
Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape Dr Stejarel Olaru 9781350511507
RRP: $19.34$16.43Nadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first gymnast to be awarded a perfect score of 10.0 at the... -
Architecture and Affect in the Middle Ages Paul Binski 9780520402997
RRP: $54.18$46.05How did people living in the Middle Ages respond to spectacular buildings, such as the Gothic cathedrals? While contemporary scholarship places a large emphasis on the emotional content of Western medieval figurative art, the emotion of architecture has... -
The Art of Discovery: Digging into the Past in Renaissance Europe Maren Elisabeth Schwab 9780691237169
RRP: $25.80$21.93A panoramic history of the antiquarians whose discoveries transformed Renaissance culture and gave rise to new forms of art and knowledgeIn the early fifteenth century, a casket containing the remains of the Roman historian Livy was unearthed at a... -
Cassino '44 James Holland 9780857505545
RRP: $21.92$18.63There are no such thing as an easy victory in war but after triumph in Tunisia, the sweeping success of the Sicilian invasion, and with the Italian surrender, the Allies were confident that they would be in Rome before Christmas 1943.And yet it didn't... -
Beyond the Timeline: Resetting Historiography Julia Seeberger 9783111154749
RRP: $94.17$80.04Different from literary works (prose, drama etc.) with techniques like montage and contemporary media (film, documentaries, video games, internet) where time-lines are being questioned through flashbacks and flashwords, historiography seems to have... -
Architecture of the Theatre: Volume 1 Grigory Barkhin 9781906257361
RRP: $38.64$32.84Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906257361Author Grigory BarkhinFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint FontankaPublisher FontankaWeight(grams) 40g -
Panzerwrecks 26: Bulge 2 Lee Archer 9781908032270
RRP: $32.24$27.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908032270Author Lee ArcherFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Panzerwrecks LimitedPublisher Panzerwrecks Limited -
A Cultural History of Medicine Roger Cooter 9781350451643
RRP: $167.70$142.55How has our understanding of medicine evolved over the past 2,500 years? A Cultural History of Medicine, as the first comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of medicine from ancient times to modernity, discusses this. With... -
Prairie Oddities: Punkinhead, Peculiar Gravities and More Lesser Known Histories Darren Bernhardt 9781773371221
RRP: $36.06$30.65In Prairie Oddities Darren Bernhardt recounts historical anecdotes from middle-Canada's past that were never given top billing, the ones that faded away in time but left their marks behind. Laden with archival images, Bernhardt's stories restore focus on... -
A Moving Feast: The Bar and Bat Mitzvah across Jewish Cultures Hizky Shoham 9783111369709
RRP: $117.39$99.78Winner of the Goldberg Family Foundation Award 2021 What is the meaning of the Jewish rites of initiation known as “bar and bat mitzvah” in the modern age, when the concept of “mitzvah” (religious precept or obligation) means so little to most Jewish... -
Material Cultures of the Global Eighteenth Century: Art, Mobility, and Change Wendy Bellion 9781350259072
RRP: $32.24$27.40From porcelain to betel leaves, Chumash hats to natural history cabinets, this book examines how objects embody imperialism, knowledge, and resistance in various ways. While every era witnesses change, the eighteenth century experienced artistic,... -
Über Wasser gehen: Kunstroute Seseke Uli Paetzel 9783422800892
RRP: $22.58$19.20Wahrend der Industrialisierung wurde die Seseke - ein Nebenfluss der Lippe - begradigt, eingedeicht und in einen offenen Abwasserkanal umgebaut. Zwischen den 1980er-Jahren und 2014 hat der Lippeverband im Rahmen des "Sesekeprogramms" das Gewasser wieder... -
The Baton and the Cross: Russia's Church from Pagans to Putin Lucy Ash 9781837731831
RRP: $32.25$27.41For more than a millennium, the Russian Orthodox Church has shown astonishing survival skills - from the Mongol yoke, to tsarist demagoguery and enlightenment, Soviet atheism, the chaotic 1990s and now two decades of Vladimir Putin.In this provocative... -
Politics Unseen: Group f.64 Photography and the Problem of Purity Ellen Macfarlane 9780520399754
RRP: $54.18$46.05In Politics Unseen, Ellen Macfarlane radically reframes the "pure photographs" of California art photography society Group f.64, known for depicting Western landscapes, fruits and vegetables, flowers, and faces. By foregrounding f.64 members’ and their... -
19th-Century Hungarian Political Thought and Culture: Towards Settlement with Austria, 1790-1867 Dr Ferenc Hörcher 9781350202955
RRP: $37.40$31.79This volume presents the ideas of the main actors of the political scene in the Hungarian Kingdom during the long 19th century (1790-1920). Organised around key political thinkers, the book considers the most significant paradigms of thought associated... -
Dismembered Policing in Postwar Berlin: The Limits of Four-Power Government Dr Mark Fenemore 9781350334175
RRP: $37.40$31.79Assessing the impact of Germany’s defeat on the policing of Berlin, this book addresses the reconstruction of the police force as a crucial component of four-power government. As Mark Fenemore shows, getting four nationalities to work together to... -
Material Politics in Turkey: Infrastructure, Science, and Expertise Duygu Kasdogan 9780755647880
RRP: $116.10$98.69This book explores the role of material entities and processes in shaping political lives in Turkey. The unifying thread of its chapters is to challenge the rendering of the material world as a mere background to or object in politics, revealing the... -
Fada'i Guerrilla Praxis in Iran, 1970 - 1979: Narratives and Reflections on Everyday Life Touraj Atabaki 9780755651276
RRP: $37.40$31.79The Iranian People’s Fada’i Guerrillas have received little dedicated scholarly investigation in the shadow of the Iranian Revolution. This unique collection combines scholarly analysis of the movement, with first-hand accounts from those within the... -
Global Economic History Professor Tirthankar Roy 9781350290082
RRP: $34.82$29.59Guiding the reader through the many guises of global economic history, this book uncovers its key issues, debates and subjects. With contributions from leading scholars around the world, it delves into the economic histories of Africa, Europe, Asia and... -
The Book of Yokai, Expanded Second Edition: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore Michael Dylan Foster 9780520403888
RRP: $36.12$30.70Significantly expanded and updated—a lively excursion into Japanese folklore and its increasing influence within global popular culture. Monsters, spirits, fantastic beings, and supernatural creatures haunt the folklore and popular culture of Japan... -
The Songs of Queen Lili'uokalani Lili'uokalani 9798888971260
RRP: $28.37$24.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888971260Author Lili'uokalaniFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions -
Hattusili, the Hittite Prince Who Stole an Empire: Partner and Rival of Ramesses the Great Trevor Bryce 9781350341838
RRP: $83.85$71.27This 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,... -
Memories of Life at Home Ruth Owen 9781788564212
RRP: $10.31$8.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788564212Author Ruth OwenFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Ruby Tuesday Books LtdPublisher Ruby Tuesday Books LtdWeight(grams) 135g -
Nigel Hall: Sculpture & Drawings Jon Wood 9781848225657
RRP: $58.05$49.34Nigel Hall: Sculpture & Drawings is an ambitious monograph which looks at his work in relation to sculptural developments in Britain, Europe and North America. It presents the two main strands of Hall's practice - sculpture and drawing - as distinct but... -
Jahan Ara Begum 1614–1681: A Biographical Study Nausheen Jaffery 9788195839421
RRP: $41.28$35.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788195839421Author Nausheen JafferyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Tulika BooksPublisher Tulika Books -
The Observations of Gilles le Bouvier: A Medieval Herald’s View of Europe and its Neighbouring Lands Gideon Brough 9781350418950
RRP: $109.65$93.20Translated from the medieval French, this book is a landmark English-language version of the work of Gilles le Bouvier. As the senior herald to King Charles VII, the monarch on the French throne as they advanced to victory in the Hundred Years’ War... -
Privacy in Early Modern Saxony Natacha Klein Käfer 9783111263847
RRP: $94.17$80.04Concerns over privacy grow in our society. Understanding the historical roots of the phenomenon becomes more and more necessary to navigate our contemporary struggles with availability and control of personal information. When we ponder what people of... -
Shipwrecks of the Outer Banks: Dramatic Rescues and Fantastic Wrecks in the Graveyard of the Atlantic James D. Charlet 9781493035885
RRP: $23.21$19.72More than 6,000 ships have met their doom in the waters along the North Carolina coast, weaving a rich history of tragedy, drama and heroics along these picturesque beaches. Men have lost their lives and fortunes, and heroes have been made where the... -
British Internment and the Internment of Britons: Second World War Camps, History and Heritage Dr Gilly Carr 9781350266292
RRP: $37.40$31.79This edited volume presents a cutting-edge discussion and analysis of civilian ‘enemy alien’ internment in Britain, the internment of British civilians on the continent, and civilian internment camps run by the British within the wider British Empire... -
Iona, Kells and Derry: The history and hagiography of the monastic familia of Columba Maire Herbert 9781846829642
RRP: $32.19$27.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846829642Author Maire HerbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 700gDimensions(mm)... -
The Irish Volunteers, 1913-19: A History Daithi O Corrain 9781846826146
RRP: $32.19$27.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781846826146Author Daithi O CorrainFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press LtdWeight(grams) 367g -
Animal Sightings: Art, Animals, and European Court Culture, 1400–1550 Jodi Cranston 9780271097633
RRP: $108.30$92.05Animal Sightings challenges two common ideas about the depiction of animals in early modern European court art: first, that the human figure relegated animals to peripheral and often symbolic roles, both compositionally and conceptually, and second, that... -
The Lives of the Caesars Suetonius 9780241186893
RRP: $32.25$27.41A masterful new translation of Suetonius' renowned biography of the twelve Caesars, bringing to life a portrait of the first Roman emperors in stunning detailThe ancient Roman empire was the supreme arena, where emperors had no choice but to fight, to... -
Digital Political Cultures in the Middle East since the Arab Uprisings: Online Activism in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon Dounia Mahlouly 9780755645213
RRP: $37.40$31.79This book offers a ten-year perspective on ongoing and evolving practices of digital activism across the Middle East and North Africa, drawing on interviews and ethnographic evidence collected between 2012 and 2022. It examines the shifting narrative... -
52 Times Britain was a Bellend: The History You Didn't Get Taught At School James Felton 9781408733875
RRP: $19.34$16.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781408733875Author James FeltonFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint SpherePublisher Little, Brown Book Group -
In the Maze of Media: Essays on the Pathways of Art after Minimalism Andre Rottmann 9783837660500
RRP: $55.46$47.14Technologies and techniques have informed artistic practices and discourses since the avantgardes' heyday, and their proliferation, now in an increasingly digital culture, has continually transformed the very idea of the medium in global contemporary art... -
Promised Lands: The British and the Ottoman Middle East Jonathan Parry 9780691231440
RRP: $41.28$35.09A major history of the British Empire’s early involvement in the Middle EastNapoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798 showed how vulnerable India was to attack by France and Russia. It forced the British Empire to try to secure the two routes that a European... -
The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era Mark Atwood Lawrence 9780691264608
RRP: $28.38$24.12A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.S. liberal ambitions in the developing world and at home in the 1960sAt the start of the 1960s, John F. Kennedy and other American liberals expressed boundless optimism about the ability of...