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Dive into the history, geography, and culture of Texas in this installment of the 50 States series. From major cities to historic events, Where Is Texas? introduces you to the state in a whole new way, whether you’re proud to call it home or learning...

Dive into the history, culture, and heritage of the state of Texas with Who HQ! Learn about everything from the state's Hispanic influences to American BBQ and cowboys in this illustrated book for young readers.From the creators of the #1 New York Times...

Dive into the history, geography, and culture of Illinois in this installment of the 50 States series. From major cities to historic events, Where Is Illinois? introduces you to the state in a whole new way, whether you’re proud to call it home or...

Dive into the history, culture, and heritage of the state of Florida with Who HQ! Learn about everything from its native wildlife to the history of Disney World in this illustrated book for young readers.From the creators of the #1 New York Times...

Dive into the history, geography, and culture of Ohio in this installment of the 50 States series. From major cities to historic events, Where Is Ohio? introduces you to the state in a whole new way, whether you’re proud to call it home or learning about...

Dive into the history, geography, and culture of Georgia in this installment of the 50 States series. From major cities to historic events, Where Is Georgia? introduces you to the state in a whole new way, whether you’re proud to call it home or learning...

Dive into the history, geography, and culture of California in this installment of the 50 States series. From major cities to historic events, Where Is California? introduces you to the state in a whole new way, whether you’re proud to call it home or...

Dive into the history, geography, and culture of Georgia in this installment of the 50 States series. From major cities to historic events, Where Is Georgia? introduces you to the state in a whole new way, whether you’re proud to call it home or learning...

“For all those who want to understand American art and the art world, written by the best person to tell the story.”—Dr. Kathleen Foster, Curator, Philadelphia Museum of Art A sweeping history of changing critical standards and values in American art...

When the robe becomes a weapon, who can stop the violence? We think of Buddhism as a faith of peace—rooted in compassion, patience, and nonviolence. But across South and Southeast Asia today, the robe is being turned into a weapon as radical monks and...

This book presents for the first time the oldest surviving example of universal history to be produced in the Malay-Indonesian World. In the process it challenges previous scholarly assumptions about pioneering works in this genre. The study is based on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467162531Author Dr TaylorFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 141g

This book discusses the influence of ancient and medieval Platonism and Christian Platonism on the modern political concepts and experiences of freedom and tyranny in Central-Eastern Europe. The main claim of the book is that because the nations of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467162272Author Ryan A McRaeFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 141g

This book traces the role of technology in shaping, curating, disseminating, and archiving knowledge and life in South Asia. It focuses on empirical studies of transformative social processes unleashed by technological intervention in colonial and...

In the annals of India’s history, a monumental uprising unfolded in 2020, echoing the resilience and coming together of large sections of its agrarian base. Instigated by the contentious farm laws of 2020, the Farmers’ Movement burgeoned into a year-long...

This book examines crucial facets of the Russian invasion: among them, the Russian sexual violence against occupied Ukrainians, their “collaboration” and “filtration,” legal prosecutions especially relating to kidnapped Ukrainian children, the portrayal...

This is the first translation of the Hystoria de via or ‘Monte Cassino Chronicle,’ one of the few surviving crusader sources from Southern Italy, where it was probably compiled (partly from known sources) between the 1130s and 1140s. The chronicle’s...

This book offers an analysis of naval constabulary operations, in particular Australian fisheries patrols, and challenges the widely accepted Anglo-American school of maritime thought.In the Indo-Pacific, fisheries and the activities of fishing boats are...

This book undertakes a deep examination of mentor and disciple relationships in the development of artists. It draws upon a variety of relationships and models, including an in-person mentor, a mentor or apprentice scenario, and non-physical mentors such...

Blackman draws on original material and the work of many earlier researchers to paint a verbal picture of the evolution of a remarkable city. In an easy-to-read style, he highlights some of the conditions, key events, and individuals that have led to the...

This book examines two venerable cultures, art and technology, and uses the young "interdiscipline" of cognitive history combined with case studies of both ancient and modern artifacts to explore, and unveil, some of the bridges by which this...

This book is a study of selected texts of British writings on Indian wildlife published between 1860 and 1960.Set in the context of British colonial rule in India, this book also reflects on similar situations across the British Empire and other...

This book addresses Social Network Analysis (SNA) as a methodological approach in the field of Egyptology, exploring its possibilities, limitations, and applications within the discipline.Social Network Analysis is a sociological, graph theory-based...

Operation Husky, the combined American and British air and sea invasion of Sicily in July 1943, was one of World War II’s most critical campaigns with General George S. Patton Jr., inarguably America’s most dynamic, courageous, and controversial...

A "meticulously researched and comprehensive" (Financial Times) history of the devastating war in the heart of Africa's Congo At the heart of Africa is the Congo, a country the size of western Europe. It borders nine other nations, and since 1996 it has...

Between 1941 and 1944, the British army contributed relatively little to World War II. On the unremittingly bloody Eastern Front, no Russian or German soldier had experienced the luxury of having four years to prepare and train for a resumption of the...

This book comprises the biographies of the North Korean politicians whose actions played a pivotal role in shaping the formation of the country during the late 1940s, the Korean War of 1950-53 and the power struggles of the mid-1950s.Drawing from a rich...

This book is the first scholarly study to explore economic relations between brewers and publicans in the brewing industry over a century.Based on overlooked historical evidence, this volume examines over 400 interviews with candidates for public houses,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915487650Author Sandra CavalloFormat HardbackPage Count 199Imprint Harvey Miller PublishersPublisher Brepols N.V.

As part of a series exploring different religious traditions and beliefs in the ancient world, Pantheon: The Greeks�covers the basics of Greek mythology to ground readers and practitioners in history, mythology, cosmology, ritual, celebrations, rituals,...

Conservatism is not an ideology but a frame of mind, an outlook, a general approach, grounded in temperament, psychology, economic interest, or any combination of these factors. Attempts to analyse it largely in terms of a written body of carefully...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892410366Author James L HollowayFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Naval Institute PressPublisher Naval Institute PressWeight(grams) 617g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789383221646Author Sachin K.R. TiwaryFormat HardbackPage Count 200Imprint Sharada Publishing HousePublisher Sharada Publishing House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789383221615Author G.K. LamaFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Sharada Publishing HousePublisher Sharada Publishing House

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503616346Author Emily GalFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503611785Author Oskar Jacek RojewskiFormat HardbackPage Count 280Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503600253Author Paola D'AgostinoFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.

Cardinal Bessarion was a towering figure in the fifteenth-century Renaissance. His life spanned the century. In his sixty-nine years of life, he was a stellar student, a Basilian monk, a Greek Orthodox archbishop, a Roman cardinal, a papal diplomat, and...

This volume presents the surviving holograph correspondence of Margaret Tudor, queen of Scots (1489–1541). Published as a stand-alone edition for the first time, the 111 holograph letters (in Margaret's own hand) and 4 'hybrid' letters (written by a...