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A revealing biography of Anne Frank, exploring both her life and the impact of her extraordinary diary In this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929-1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982198893Author Elle ReeveFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm...

Arctic explorer and American visionary Walter Wellman pioneered both polar and trans-Atlantic airship aviation, making history's first attempts at each. Wellman has been cast as a self-promoting egomaniac known mostly for his failures. Instead he was a...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998365364Author Tristin HopperFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint The Sutherland House Inc.Publisher The Sutherland House Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399542616Author Associate Professor Masayuki UenoFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467158381Author Clem C PellettFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593657225Author Caroline FraserFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm) 243mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467162180Author Nicki JacobsmeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 141g

But There Was Love-Shaping the Memory of the Shoah proposes a new paradigm for Shoah remembrance in today's cultural and political reality. It derives from the four-year workings of a group of researchers and artists at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute...

In the heart of Santiago, the infamous 38 Londres Street becomes the haunting backdrop for a riveting tale that intertwines the arrest of Augusto Pinochet in London, the post-war life of senior SS officer Walther Rauff in Chilean Patagonia and the...

The miraculous story of Madrid—how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it...

After the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945, Albert Einstein warned that 'we thus drift towards unparalleled catastrophe'. Today we are no longer drifting but racing toward catastrophe at breakneck speed. This book analyses recent events that have...

Indispensable for understanding the historical forces that shaped modern governance. How did Enlightenment philosophy shape the modern bureaucratic state? While thinkers like Adam Smith and David Hume are celebrated for their contributions to...

This book provides fresh perspectives on a key period in the history of humanitarianism. Drawing on economic, cultural, social and diplomatic perspectives, it explores the scale and meaning of humanitarianism in the era of the Great War. Foregrounding...

A wide-ranging history of the term "fascism," what it has meant, and what it means today. The rise of political figures like the United States' Donald Trump, Hungary's Viktor Orban, Italy's Giorgia Meloni, and Argentina's Javier Milei has spurred...

The subject of Britain analyses key seventeenth-century texts by Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare within the context of the English reign of King James VI and I, whose desire to create a united Britain prompted serious reflection on questions of nationhood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826223364Author Patricia ClearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint University of Missouri PressPublisher University of Missouri PressWeight(grams)...

Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approach to understanding games using theories from myth and...

The Greater Second World War challenges the traditional temporal and geographic frameworks of World War II, expanding the timeline to include a series of regional conflicts and revolutions that began in 1931 and continued into the mid-1950s. These...

In the 1970s, queer Jews became excited by the developments of the Gay Liberation Movement in both the US and Europe. Until then, they were not able to express their queerness in Jewish communities and hoped for new inclusive spaces. Yet, they quickly...

On a sunny day, men and women march through the streets wearing orange collarettes and carrying colourful banners. However, this is not the Orange Order in Northern Ireland but the same organisation in Africa. This book moves beyond the cliche to delve...

This book explores early modern Italian women as agents of doubt. While women were often considered prone to doubt as a result of their natural "weakness," the essays gathered here reverse this view, demonstrating how women were able to embrace doubt as...

During the 1950s and first half of the 1960s the Indonesian Communist Party grew from a few thousand members to become the third largest communist party in the world, before it was annihilated in a violent purge in 1965-6 that saw perhaps half a million...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781908638496Author Edward JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Glasgow Museums PublishingPublisher Glasgow Museums PublishingWeight(grams) 100g

When the Second World War broke out, Miss Daisy Baker of Kingsbury County School reached out to every former scholar serving their country. Two hundred Old Kingsburians replied, sending five hundred letters between them. Those letters survive - and they...

During the Second World War Royal Air Force Bomber Command suffered unprecedented casualty rates. Those who served, were killed, and were found, now rest in Commonwealth War Graves Commission graves across the length and breadth of the United Kingdom and...

Saudi Modern: Jeddah in Transition, 1938-1964, edited by Abdulrahman and Turki Gazzaz of Bricklab, explores the urban and architectural transformation of the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, since the discovery of oil-highlighting the city's rapid...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788793423541Author Torsten MadsenFormat HardbackPage Count 532Imprint Jysk Arkaeologisk SelskabPublisher Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab

Some ten thousand years ago, hunter-gatherers moving through a landscape newly emerged from the grip of the last Ice Age reached four islands on the western seaboard. The shores they landed on were deserted. After making camp, they struck out to hunt and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788793423107Author Tom ChristensenFormat HardbackPage Count 620Imprint Jysk Arkaeologisk SelskabPublisher Jysk Arkaeologisk Selskab

The Anatomy of Colorism in America addresses the significance that colorism, racial hierarchy, and white skin idealization have each had on the lives of individuals across multiple communities and how those experiences have compared with one another...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804517291Author Ben ZweibelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The Canadian postwar economic boom did not include one western coal-mining region. When the Canadian Pacific Railway switched to diesel power, over 2,000 coal-production jobs were lost in the Crowsnest Pass and Elk Valley. The Lights on the Tipple Are...

Henry Ward (b.1971) is an artist, educator and writer based in London. This monograph documents a major new body of work created during and following a residency at the Josef & Anni Albers Foundation in Bethany, Connecticut, in 2023, and a subsequent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798881807740Author Peter V N HendersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

This book is about the Cannes Medical Conference of April 1919 and its long-lasting impacts in the humanitarian space. In the aftermath of the First World War, as the world order was being redesigned, this conference served to shift the Red Cross...

New Directions in African Military History takes a thematic approach to the history of war and military structures in Africa and highlights the under-researched areas.African Military History represents a relatively new and fast-growing sub-field...

An in-depth look at how mortuary cultures and issues of death and the dead in Africa have developed over four centuriesIn My Time of Dying is the first detailed history of death and the dead in Africa south of the Sahara. Focusing on a region that is now...

"Remarkably ambitious in scope, Harte manages to knit together a social and cultural history of these years, including how Churchill both influenced the world and was defined by the issues of the day. Harte wants to show when and where the 'scrawny...