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Repercussions of communism are still felt throughout Central and Eastern Europe. In fact, specters of communism remain vivid enough to inspire a wide range of contemporary cultural production, from video games to museum exhibits. This volume demonstrates...

The two-volume A Companion to Sparta presents the first comprehensive, multi-authored series of essays to address all aspects of Spartan history and society from its origins in the Greek Dark Ages to the late Roman Empire. Offers a lucid, comprehensive...

In this book, Ann Marie Yasin reveals the savvy and subtle ways in which Roman and late Roman patrons across the Mediterranean modulated connections to the past and expectations for the future through their material investments in old architecture. Then...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781836321996Author Mike AskewFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Key Publishing LtdPublisher Key Publishing Ltd

From the First World War's Zeppelins to the Second World War's large bombers, military aircraft were vulnerable to fast, manoeuvrable interceptors. To address this, fighter escorts were used, but their limited range often left bombers exposed. A solution...

The decisive Yorktown campaign of 1781 in Virginia, in which an American and French army and navy forced the surrender of the last major British field force in America, was the final Patriot victory of the Revolutionary War. The campaign was an immense...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681343235Author Drew M RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Minnesota Historical Society PressPublisher Minnesota Historical Society...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781836321835Author Tim RipleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Key Publishing LtdPublisher Key Publishing Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685624248Author Edward ChukukereFormat HardbackPage Count 578Imprint Austin Macauley Publishers LLCPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919242712Author Richard HenryFormat PaperbackImprint The Clausentum PressPublisher The Clausentum Press

Explores how psychiatry in Ghana was never just about medicine; it was about migration, exile, and the politics of who gets to stay and who must be cast out. For centuries, mental distress in West Africa has been subject to a mix of healing, harming,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798897100019Author Elizabeth DraysonFormat HardbackPage Count 592Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

The Imperial Japanese Navy was an early proponent of naval air power and commissioned the world's first purpose-designed aircraft carrier, the Hosho, in 1922. There followed a series of one-off designs of widely different sizes, some converted from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798897100118Author Fiona RobertsonFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639369973Author John ManFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 581gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 38mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374611071Author Sudhir HazareesinghFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226827414Author Clifton CraisFormat HardbackPage Count 664Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

A fascinating exploration of a little-known subject--the government-in-exile of Poland which existed in London for over 50 years.In the wake of the German and Soviet invasions in September 1939, the Republic of Poland's government re-established itself...

'TEN, NINE, EIGHT, SEVEN . . .' On April 12, 1961, the Soviet Union begins its countdown. From the steppes of Kazakhstan, the first human - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin - launches into space.In that moment, another countdown begins. How could it be that...

This volume explores the images of Alexander the Great from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, how they came about, and why they were so popular.In contrast to the numerous studies on the historical and legendary figure of Alexander, surprisingly few...

This exciting and wide-ranging volume examines the construction and dissemination of the image of female power during the Renaissance.Chapters examine the creation, promotion, and display of the image of women in power, and how the artistic and cultural...

This study concentrates on the discourses around animal death in arts and the ways they changed over time.Chapter topics span from religious symbolism to natural history cabinets, from hunting laws to animal rights, from economic history to formalist...

Political Economy, Race, and the Image of Nature in the United States, 1825-1878 is an interdisciplinary work analyzing the historical origins of a dominant concept of Nature in the culture of the United States during the period of its expansion across...

This study examines the role played by regional cultures in modern art and visual culture in Central Europe between 1918 and 1938.Analysing paintings, photographs, prints, and illustrated magazines in relation to topics such as tourism, social activism,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781068605871Author Martin LutherFormat PaperbackImprint Taylor Institution LibraryPublisher Taylor Institution Library

This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trading classes in Brighton during the period 1840-1914.Chapters focus on the collecting practices of five rich...

This volume focuses on the unstudied geographic margins of Dada, delving into the roots of Dada in Israel, Romania, Poland, and North America.Contributors consider some of the practices and experiments that were conceived a century ago, surfaced in art...

This comprehensive and insightful book brings scientific rigor to the problems of reconstructing the Pharos Lighthouse, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and understanding how it functioned as the archetypal lighthouse in antiquity, when it...

This study examines the five extant large Imperial cameos of the Early Roman Empire as a coherent whole, revealing that these gemstones were a referential group with complex interrelationships.Power and Propaganda in the Large Imperial Cameos of the...

The original research in this book analyzes the artistic activity of Santi Gucci (1533- c.1600), a Florentine sculptor active in Poland in the second half of the sixteenth century, and his workshop.Chapters examine the organization of the artistic...

The Art of the Eurasian Steppe is a contextual analysis which traces the stylistic transformation of artefacts depicting animals from various cultures of the Eurasian steppe, and investigates its possible influence on Central and Northern European art. A...

This book proposes new understandings of modern life in Britain by bringing constructs of female spirituality centre stage and examining three 'forgotten' artists identified with the Pre-Raphaelites and Victorianism. Thomas Cooper Gotch, Robert Anning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781789071894Author Judith Ross NapierFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint AcairPublisher AcairWeight(grams) 200g

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Thomas Jefferson called the Declaration of Independence "an expression of the American mind." Not merely a document, the Declaration is the common creed of our civic life, and it inspires the shared poetry of our political soul. In The Making of the...

The architecture of the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s was integral to shaping twentieth century modernism. Russian architect Konstantin Melnikov (1890–1974) was a key figure of this movement, with many of his realized projects becoming icons of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911043300Author Karon S. BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Carn Publishing ltdPublisher Carn Publishing ltd

A new look at the origins of humanitarian intervention We are encouraged to empathize with the suffering of distant strangers every day, from ads for UNICEF to the outcry over Russia's invasion of Ukraine. But where did this type of politics come from?...

Urban Markets and Women's Labor: Navigating Institutional Boundaries in Premodern EuropeWomen played a crucial role in medieval and early modern urban economies, yet their labor opportunities varied greatly depending on local institutions. This book...