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Devil’s Mile tells the rip-roaring story of New York’s oldest and most unique street The Bowery was a synonym for despair throughout most of the 20th century. The very name evoked visuals of drunken bums passed out on the sidewalk, and New Yorkers...

In 1577, a scientist who served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I proposed to her the creation of colonies in the New World. Nei2/5/2024ther Elizabeth nor Walter Raleigh imagined the task would be so difficult or take more than 30 years. The effort...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639730537Author Tabitha StanmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 454g

Military Jet Aircraft provides a detailed look at over fifty of the most important jet-engined aircraft developed between 1945 and the present day. Aircraft profiled include dedicated interceptors, bombers, and reconnaissance platforms, as well as modern...

'Stephen Fisher is one of the best kept secrets in military history. With his wealth of knowledge and exacting eye for detail, his book on D-Day is sure to impress a vast audience' Dan Snow'Stephen Fisher... is a very rare beast - a man who can bring...

Why did England’s one experiment in republican rule fail? Oliver Cromwell’s death in 1658 sparked a period of unrivalled turmoil and confusion in English history. In less than two years, there were close to ten changes of government; rival armies of...

Today, we perceive Gothic cathedrals as light-filled forms representing the sacred. The colored light projected from brightly-colored stained glass windows onto the walls and floors of these buildings suggests the presence of divinity. Suger...

This book tells the fascinating and thrilling story of Leonard R. “Lenny” Werner, who was assigned to the USAAF’s famed 4th Fighter Group in England in June 1944. It operated North American P-51 Mustangs to fight the Luftwaffe of Nazi Germany. Born in...

Twentieth-century painter, designer and wood engraver Eric Ravilious was responsible for a whole host of different works, including book illustrations, woodcuts and ceramic designs for the Wedgwood pottery firm. This fascinating wall calendar features 12...

Oxford Revise AQA GCSE History: America, 1920-1973: Opportunity and inequality is a complete revision and practice book covering the full topic specification, containing everything you need to revise for this choice of period study. All key knowledge is...

American Aurora explores the impact of climate change on early modern radical religious groups during the height of the Little Ice Age in the seventeenth century. Focusing on the life and legacy of Johannes Kelpius (1667-1707), an enormously influential...

A 'Cognitive Book' that everyone can enjoy and is suitable for people living with dementia or other cognitive difficulties. In collaboration with Alzheimer's Society, there's a contribution to the charity with each purchase. Includes a free audio...

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Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the ‘Lowry of filmmaking’ by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 1980s. The well-meant label stuck, even though it misses the variety of Hanna’s remarkable output.Hanna’s...

Richard Overy is not the first scholar to take up the title question. In 1931, at the request of the League of Nations, Albert Einstein asked Sigmund Freud to collaborate on a short work examining whether there was “a way of delivering mankind from the...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781648431296Author Kenneth WerrellFormat HardbackPage Count 312Imprint Texas A&M University PressPublisher Texas A&M University Press

The period of Egypt's Rammesside empire is best known for its foreign wars and monumental buildings but the chronological history of many of its rulers and preeminent priests and their genealogies was poorly understood. While it was not possible to fix...

This is the first volume that examines dangerous gift-giving across centuries and disciplines. Bringing to the fore the subject that features as an aside in gift studies, it offers new insights into the ambivalent and troubled history of gift-giving...

Today, the Mayflower II—the replica of the 1620 ship that brought the Pilgrims to America and launched a nation—is visited by some 2.6 million tourists annually and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. But there is much more to the...

A small French settlement thrived for half a century on the west bank of the Mississippi River before the Louisiana Purchase made it part of the United States in 1803. But for the citizens of Ste. Genevieve, becoming Americans involved more than simply...

This volume discusses the development of governmental proto-bureaucracy, which led to and was influenced by the inclusion of professional agents and spies in the early modern English government. In the government’s attempts to control religious...

This volume offers the first comprehensive survey of regime change in Italy in the period c.1494–c.1559.Far from being a purely modern phenomenon, regime change was a common feature of life in Renaissance Italy – no more so than during the Italian Wars...

A refreshing, insightful, sacrilegious take on African American history, Crazy as Hell explores the site of America’s greatest contradictions. The notables of this book are the runaways and the rebels, the badass and funky, the activists and the...

This book showcases the unique shape of urban development that took hold during the Roman Empire, beginning in the Mediterranean basin before spreading out across Europe, and offers a fresh perspective on the cities and territories of the Roman West.With...

The first major English-language history of Ukraine from its emergence after the demise of the Soviet Union through the current Russian invasion In 1991, after seventy years of imperial Soviet rule, Ukraine became an independent country. Since 2022, it...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804516072Author Hans KisselFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Ancient Roman Fort explores the architectural genius the almighty ancient Roman army.Step inside a Roman fort and discover the innovative techniques used to defend the structure from hostile neighbours and marauding bands. Walk every inch of the Roman...

Journey through thousands of years of human history (now with the women put back in).From the earliest human civilizations through to the present day, the stories of countless influential women – leaders, artists, warriors, scientists and more – have...

An examination of the failures of the Mexican Revolution through the visual and material records. The Mexican Revolution (1910–1920) introduced a series of state-led initiatives promising modernity, progress, national grandeur, and stability; state...

A look at some of the biggest challenges facing our world today - war and conflict - and how we are tackling themHow can we build a better, fairer, more equal, cleaner world? This series seeks to answer this by exploring some of the greatest challenges...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250335661Author Peter MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 454g

A masterful account of the global Cold War’s decisive influence on Soviet economic reform, and the national decay that followed.What brought down the Soviet Union? From some perspectives the answers seem obvious, even teleological—communism was simply...

This book studies the history of intercultural human rights. It examines the foundational elements of human rights in the East and the West and provides a comparative analysis of the independent streams of thought originating from the two different...

The Battle of Stalingrad was the bloodiest battle of the Second World War. An estimated 2 million individuals, military as well as civilian, became casualties in a savage struggle which lasted for more than five months. Stalingrad’s strategic position on...

Roswell, 1947. Washington, DC, 1952. Quarouble, 1954. New Hampshire, 1961. Pascagoula, 1973. Petrozavodsk, 1977. Copley Woods, 1983. Explore how sightings of UFOs and aliens seized the world's attention and discover what the fascination with flying...

A primary source collection that offers a window into the mind of nineteenth-century author and public intellectual, William Gilmore Simms. William Gilmore Simms was in his lifetime considered the South's preeminent man of letters, and Edgar Allen Poe...

Originally published in 1976, this is the account of British society’s response to the threat of disease. It is the story of an administrative fight to exclude the disease by quarantine and to persuade commerce and working-class people to observe...

Rest occupies a space outside of sleep and alertness: it is a form of recuperation but also of preparation for what is to come, and is a need felt by human and animal alike. Through the centuries, different and conflicting definitions and forms of rest...

Discover the key events in the war that shaped the modern world - moment by moment.An accessible overview of the moments and milestones of the Second World War, Timelines of World War II offers a fresh angle on the subject, bringing the conflict to life...