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Cairo’s synagogues shed new light on the transformation Egyptian society and its Jewish community underwent from 1875 to the present Sacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo’s synagogues...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982186852Author Rachel Louise MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 259g

Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize 2023A Telegraph Book of the YearA Times, Spectator and Prospect Book of the YearOne of the great contemporary historians of France on one of the most controversial periods of twentieth-century French historyFew images more...

'You have given a faithful portrait of a Thug's life, his ceremonies, and his acts' Often overshadowed by Kipling's Kim or Forster's A Passage to India, Philip Meadows Taylor's forgotten classic, Confessions of a Thug (1839), is nevertheless the most...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781338794779Author ScholasticPage Count 64Imprint Scholastic USPublisher Scholastic US

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635425352Author Raja ShehadehFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593318508Author Alan Pell CrawfordFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

Analyses data from the Bristol Port Books to rewrite the history of trade in Bristol, including the city's early involvement with the slave trade. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were a transformative period for global commerce, with the...

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Featuring a new foreword by Molly Jong-Fast, THE NAUGHTY NINETIES is a sexual history of the 1990s when the tabloids, the tawdry, and the titillating took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue.THE NAUGHTY NINETIES examines the scandal-ridden...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398836891Author Art Historian John FinlayFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Sirius EntertainmentPublisher Sirius Entertainment

The history of Macclesfield goes back to a Saxon settlement once held by Edwin, Earl of Mercia. It became a centre for silk-button making and by the eighteenth century had become one of the world’s largest manufacturers of finished silk. Several imposing...

Discover the pivotal political, military, and cultural events that have shaped British and Irish history - from the earliest Stone Age settlers to the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.This edition includes over 700 photographs, maps, and artworks with...

'On the Shadow Tracks harnesses the railway lines of Myanmar’s complicated past to its turbulent present, and the result is part travelogue, part history and completely absorbing. An astonishing achievement’Joanna LumleyIn 2016, while working as a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900540Author Bruce NeuburgerFormat PaperbackPage Count 408Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.

From coast to coast on a motorbike...on the trail of the people, places and events that created Scottish history. Covering moor, mountain and battleground as well as film locations and place names, this book provides an intelligent, passionate...

A powerful new work of history that brings President Roosevelt, his allies, and his adversaries to life as he fought to transform America from an isolationist bystander into the world’s first superpower. “In today’s troubled times, with authoritarianism...

At the end of World War II, a young Japanese Canadian would stand trial and face execution for having committed war crimes and betraying his country.One of the most bizarre stories to emerge at the end of the Second World War was that of Kanao Inouye...

A new account of the renowned Baroque painter, revealing how her astute professional decisions shaped her career, style, and legacyArt has long been viewed as a calling—a quasi-religious vocation that drives artists to seek answers to humanity’s deepest...

A groundbreaking look at the transformation of SoHo. American cities entered a new phase when, beginning in the 1950s, artists and developers looked upon a decaying industrial zone in Lower Manhattan and saw, not blight, but opportunity: cheap rents, lax...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781984877406Author Edward WongFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint VikingPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 680g

The Labottières were the largest printing and bookselling dynasty in eighteenth-century Bordeaux. From the 1680s to the sale of their business in 1794 three generations of this family acted as major cultural brokers in this booming Atlantic port, serving...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804512388Author Grant NewellFormat HardbackPage Count 616Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Seventy-five years after 1984 first published, George Orwell is back. Progressives denounce ‘Orwellian’ untruths by Trump, Johnson, Putin et al, while conservatives accuse governments and mainstream media of ‘Orwellian’ censorship. But what does...

Nestling in an exquisite glen just seven miles from the centre of Edinburgh, Rosslyn Chapel is one of the world's most extraordinary places. Ever since it was built in the mid fifteenth century it has cast a mesmerising spell over all who have visited...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538742716Author Nathan CanestaroFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central Publishing

A Medieval Castle examines the architectural achievements and hidden secrets held within the walls of some of history's greatest fortifications.Explore the motives behind medieval castle building in this informative visual guide to the most fascinating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501523076Author Delfi I Nieto-IsabelFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Medieval Institute PublicationsPublisher Medieval Institute Publications

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781595911346Author Fawn WeaverFormat HardbackPage Count 376Imprint Melcher MediaPublisher Melcher Media

In the 1930s, through the prose of Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), the Polish language became the linguistic raw material for a profound exploration of the modern Jewish experience. Rather than turning away from the language like many of his Galician Jewish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111344768Author Joan Carbonell ManilsFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint De GruyterPublisher De Gruyter

Reconstructing the Development of Somerset’s Early Medieval Church uses Somerset as a case study in order to contribute to a broader understanding of how the Church developed across the British Isles during the transition from the post-Roman Church to...

Oxford Revise AQA GCSE History: Britain: Health and the people: c1000 to the present day is a complete revision and practice book covering the full topic specification, containing everything you need to revise for this choice of thematic study. All key...

First published in 1935, Queen Elizabeth and Her Subjects presents a comprehensive history of the Elizabethan Age. Most of the sketches in the book were with exception of the last, originally delivered as talks for the B.B.C. The main bulk of the book,...

Sources for the History of Western Civilization is a primary source reader designed specifically to allow undergraduate students to interact with historical documents. Michael Burger provides only the editorial guidance that students truly require,...

Under Spain's twentieth-century dictators, state agents not only censored, eradicated, and attempted to prevent the circulation of obscenity, but also contradictorily engaged in curation and even restoration initiatives that have bequeathed us an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467152921Author Joseph S PeteFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

A major new history of North and South Korea, from the late nineteenth century to the present day “Cha and Pacheco Pardo have years of expertise in Korean international relations. . . . A crisp and balanced account.”—Christopher Harding, The Telegraph ...

In 1532, the Dutch painter Maarten van Heemskerck (1498–1574) travelled from Haarlem to Rome. With pencil in hand he discovered Antiquity and the Renaissance. His remarkable drawings lead us in masterly pictures on a journey through time through...

Ralph Ottey's memoir provides fascinating detail about his life, from his birth and childhood in Little London, Jamaica to his wartime years in the RAF and his post-war career in Lincolnshire. The first part of the book describes the details of his life,...