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Originally published in 1986, this book investigates the relationship between the Communist Party and the military establishment in the Soviet Union. It indicates that there are several factors influencing the dynamics of that relationship, and thus the...

Recounts the incredible stories of more than 50 archaeological treasures recently found by ordinary people, and which are reshaping our understanding of British history. Britain has a rich past, with incredible archaeology. Every day, new discoveries...

"Akasegawa is the kind of artist who inspires everybody every time he makes a new piece of art." -Yoko Ono In the 1970s, estranged from the institutions and practices of high art, avant-garde artist and award-winning novelist Genpei Akasegawa...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781802065206Author Steve CollFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint PenguinPublisher Penguin Books Ltd

When the call went out in 1917 for volunteers willing to serve both at home and on the Western Front in a newly founded Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, young women from every province of Ireland responded just as eagerly as those from homes in Scotland,...

The untold history of Czechoslovakia's complex relations with Middle Eastern terrorists and revolutionaries during the closing decades of the Cold War In the 1970s and 1980s, Prague became a favorite destination for the world's most prominent terrorists...

Der Begriff „Fluchtgut" bereitet Unbehagen, da es für ihn im Unterschied zur „Raubkunst" noch keine international anerkannten Richtlinien oder Vereinbarungen gibt. Während sich Raubkunst geographisch und zeitlich auf die Herrschaft des NS-Regimes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914093678Author Liliuokalani KalakauaFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anulap BooksPublisher Island Ink Publishing Co. Ltd.

This book presents a social, political, cultural, and socioeconomic history of Iranian Kurdistan since the 1979 Revolution. In this study, Marouf Cabi shines a spotlight on the modern history of Iranian Kurdistan – an area of Greater Kurdistan...

The fifteen contributions to the multilingual volume together chart Cicero’s presence in the cultural history of Basel – from the city’s foundation to the heyday of humanist print culture, to the cultural politics of the modern day. Written by scholars...

Pages from some of the most celebrated and exquisite medieval manuscripts in the British Library provide the inspiration for twenty-one practical art and calligraphy projects. Seven classic scripts are explored in turn by expert Patricia Lovett. She...

Between the world wars, America embraced an image of the Ozarks as a remote land of hills and hollers. The popular imagination stereotyped Ozarkers as ridge runners, hillbillies, and pioneers—a cast of colorful throwbacks hostile to change. But the real...

Drawn to the Promised Land charts the dramatic history of Palestine from the Balfour Declaration to the creation of the state of Israel. Through the acerbic wit of leading political cartoonists from Britain, the United States and other countries, we see...

We live in a world riven through with standards. To understand more of their deep, rich past is to understand ourselves better.The two volumes, Standardization in the Middle Ages. Volume 1: The North and Standardization in the Middle Ages. Volume 2:...

Pugliese’s More-Than-Human Diasporas breaks the confines of existing scholarship in its vision of the way that more-than-human diasporic entities—such as water, trees, clay, stone and architectural styles—have functioned as agents within the context of...

Taking on historical events in Latin America as its starting point, this book examines the migration of its inhabitants to the U.S. with case studies from seven nations: Colombia, Cuba, Haiti, Honduras, Guatemala, Mexico, and Venezuela.Combining the...

Robert Hardy is famous throughout the world as an actor. Not so widely known is his deep interest in archery and its history. An acknowledged expert on the longbow, he is a Trustee of the Royal Armouries at HM Tower of London, and of the Mary Rose Trust...

A History of Polar Exploration in 50 Objects covers just over 150 years of polar exploration during which a mysterious southern continent and an elusive northern sea-route became less incognita and increasingly charted and understood.The objects of the...

Step back in time to the captivating world of 16th-century Europe with this compelling portrait of Margaret of Parma, governor of the Netherlands for Philip II of Spain, and a woman who left an indelible mark on history. Through vivid storytelling and...

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Culinary Technology of the Ancient Near East discusses the technical aspects of meal preparation, cooking, and baking in the ancient Near East, exploring a wide range of topics including kitchens, cooking equipment, cooking and baking vessels, and...

This engaging survey of the Space Age links science and technology with politics and popular culture, war and peace, and crises and controversies. It examines the history of spaceflight as a mirror of human thought and action across the Earth.The volume...

In the summer of 1944, the SAS were charged with the most crucial D-Day missions, taking on the might of the Nazi Reich deep behind enemy lines. Facing Hitler's armoured legions - his fearsome Panzer divisions - with little more than raw courage and...

Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class—especially discussion of the working class—to a broad audience across scholarship and social debate. This introductory volume shows how the history of the working class has, is, and can...

Economic and political uncertainty has brought the language of class—especially discussion of the working class—to a broad audience across scholarship and social debate. This introductory volume shows how the history of the working class has, is, and can...

'Elegant, erudite and entertaining ... a superbly detailed picture of an architectural era' The Times 'A magnificent monument in itself to a fine architectural writer' Simon Heffer, Telegraph British architecture between the wars is most famous for the...

In the summer of 1944, the SAS were charged with the most crucial D-Day missions, taking on the might of the Nazi Reich deep behind enemy lines. Facing Hitler's armoured legions - his fearsome Panzer divisions - with little more than raw courage and...

This engaging survey of the Space Age links science and technology with politics and popular culture, war and peace, and crises and controversies. It examines the history of spaceflight as a mirror of human thought and action across the Earth.The volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529092233Author Kate MosseFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Pan PublishingPublisher Pan PublishingWeight(grams) 454g

This volume provides a concise synthesis of human-animal relations over time, charting shifting attitudes towards animals from domestication to the present day. It asks how non-human species have shaped human history, and how humans have reconfigured the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780349704364Author Edna BonhommeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Dialogue BooksPublisher Dialogue

What is a “detail” in architecture? The concept of detail has long played an important role in the discourse and practice of architects, but the meaning of the term has been understood in radically different ways, from construction detail to ornament...

A History of the World in Six Plagues is a timely examination of the role that confinement has played in fostering and hindering epidemics.In a rare blend of rigorous research and truly compelling story-telling, Dr Edna Bonhomme traces the long history...

The war in the Far East from 1939 to 1945, as witnessed first-hand by Scottish soldier and celebrated documentarian Harry Birrell From the moment he received a cine-camera at age 10, Harry Birrell devoted his life to documenting the world around him,...

Examining the identity and belonging of native and non-native speakers of Greek during the time of the High Roman Empire, Eleni Bozia closely studies grammarians, lexicographers and literary writers who used Attic Greek. Bozia argues that...

Esteemed Pacific War historian Jeffrey Cox has produced a fast-paced and absorbing read of the crucial New Georgia phase of the Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign during the Pacific War. Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally managed...

Discover the fascinating world of the ancient Greeks through 99 questions and answersWhere did the ancient Greeks do their shopping? Why did the Athenians worship Athena? And just what happened in a hippodrome?! Find out the answers to all these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781472863454Author Thomas McKelvey CleaverFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Osprey Publishing (UK)Publisher Osprey Publishing (UK)Weight(grams) 454g

In the 1980s concern throughout the world was growing about the use of the oceans by nuclear-powered naval vessels and naval vessels carrying nuclear weapons. Many countries were keen to keep their ports and the waters off their coastlines "nuclear-free"...

Originally published in 1951, this study of the Irish nationalist movement examines social forces behind the ceaseless agitation in Ireland from the 18th to the 20th Century and gives an account of the influence of the Irish question on the political...