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An exploration of queerness in visual and material culture with regard to the specific conditions of the making and experience of art in different cultural, sociopolitical, and historical contexts.ambivalent work*s presents case studies, close- and...

When Stalin came to power, making music in Russia became dangerous. Composers now had to create work that served the socialist state, and all artistic production was scrutinized for potential subversion. In The Sound of Utopia, Michel Krielaars vividly...

Contrary to the view that postmodern architects regarded themselves as self-referential artists, this book draws on the buildings, projects and writings of Charles Willard Moore (1925–1993) to reveal the architect’s socio-political aspirations.Moore, one...

Energy history is an approach to understanding the past that takes changes in the human exploitation of Earth's energies as its object of inquiry. This interdisciplinary field documents and analyzes how humans thought about, harnessed, stored, and...

A fascinating analysis of the World War II battle between Great Britain and France to ensure French ships were kept out of German hands during World War II. Following France's armistice with the Axis powers, Great Britain realized that if Germany or...

With ship profiles and original artwork, this study explores the warships that fought World War II's last pure surface battle, the battle itself, and why the outnumbered US Navy prevailed. The Battle of the Komandorski Islands was unique among World War...

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Fully illustrated, this absorbing study assesses the Commonwealth and Italian infantrymen pitted against one another during the First and Second battles of El Alamein in 1942. By July 1942, the Allied troops fighting in North Africa, the multinational...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804513705Author Tom CooperFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Perpetration and Complicity under Nazism and Beyond analyses perpetration and complicity under National Socialism and beyond. Contributors based in the UK, the USA, Canada, Germany, Israel and Chile reflect on self-understandings, representations and...

Argues that the foundation of Israel was a trauma that destabilized the kibbutz’s conceptual grounding State of Shock decodes one of the most iconic images of Zionism and Israel: the kibbutz. Lior Libman offers original theoretical and historiographical...

War Paint explores the enduring human desire to enhance attractiveness and youthfulness; a fascination dating back to the Stone Age. It charts the historical development of cosmetics, delving into their significance and ethical concerns in shaping...

The Commandos stand out as an iconic and fascinating formation who will always be of interest to the reading public. Created in June 1940, just after the fall of France, the commandos were established as a small, elite raiding and reconnaissance force...

The Civil War and early Soviet food policies left millions of children homeless and starving in Russia in the first half of the 20th century. Child mortality rates reached 95% in certain areas, and all of these problems remained endemic throughout the...

Since at least the Reformation, English men and women have been engaged in visiting, exploring and portraying, in words and images, the landscape of their nation. The Invention of the English Landscape examines these journeys and investigations to...

Investigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature, Cristina Salcedo González analyses six young adult novels which incorporate a reworking of this ancient Greek myth. Through the...

For decades historians argued for the downfall of communication, when early modern societies were hit by a natural disaster. After all, earthquakes caused the destruction of infrastructure, which hindered the spread of news. Instead, the last...

Captured from Great Depression-era Seattle newspapers, this narrative history of the city's business, labor, and political life traces a turbulent decade that scarred a generation and defined years of policy and culture. Underlying themes include the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512104Author Albert GrandoliniFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781957720029Author Kristina DownsFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of North Texas PressPublisher University of North Texas Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780713994124Author N A M RodgerFormat HardbackPage Count 800Imprint Allen LanePublisher Penguin Books LtdWeight(grams) 750g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783486751727Author Hans PrechtFormat HardbackPage Count 191Imprint Walter de GruyterPublisher Walter de GruyterWeight(grams) 476g

A groundbreaking new history of the shared legacy of expulsion among Jews and Christian moneylenders in late medieval EuropeBeginning in the twelfth century, Jewish moneylenders increasingly found themselves in the crosshairs of European authorities, who...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511247Author Peter CrooksFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

A bracing corrective to predictions of the European Union’s decline, by a leading historian of modern EuropeIs the European Union in decline? Recent history, from the debt and migration crises to Brexit, has led many observers to argue that the EU’s best...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262049016Author Theodora VardouliFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Listening to Survivors presents the voices of nineteen Holocaust survivors and two witnesses who shared their personal experiences with audiences at Oregon State University over the past four decades as part of the university’s Holocaust Memorial Week...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802163851Author James HollandFormat PaperbackPage Count 624Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802163684Author Jerry BrottonFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

In April 1967, twenty-year-old Doug Hegdahl was knocked overboard from a U.S. Navy cruiser in the Gulf of Tonkin. Initially believed to be a special ops commando, he was turned over to North Vietnamese who beat him and then turned him over to the prison...

Youth, ideals, and life of the “sent-down” (rusticated) youth during the cultural revolution.Journal of the Cultural Revolution is a collection of poems depicting the lives of educated youth during the cultural revolution. The author uses poetry to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515358Author Harry RaffalFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

ASMaRt is a deep dive into the beautiful, and often bizarre, world of ASMR. It is the first book on the subject that gets to the heart of the buzzword. The playful title considers the art of ASMR, both intentional and unintentional, and the work of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804515495Author Andrew AbramFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Ethos is a radical critique of Eurocentrism. In it, Ahmad Kasravi unleashes a scathing attack on Europe’s self-perceived superiority as well as on Eastern promoters of the idea. Kasravi proceeds to outline the ills of post-Enlightenment European...

A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern worldIn the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes—an...

Entering West Point from central Oklahoma, Raymond O. Barton’s prowess on the football field and wrestling team earned him the nickname “Tubby,” an appellation used by his friends and fellow officers for the rest of his life. Based on personal letters...

Much has been written about the Unites States air forces during the Second World War, but little has been written about the early days of American military aviation either before or during the First World War or in the immediate inter-war years. In...

Details of the lives of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte at Haworth Parsonage in 19th Century Yorkshire, England, are well-known. But what about the dogs with whom they shared their home; Grasper, Keeper and Flossy? And what about the dogs in their...

Christian–Islamic encounters through religious arts, architecture, and material culture in the medieval eraThe coexistence of Christianity and Islam in the medieval Mediterranean led to an interchange of knowledge in architecture and material culture...