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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780762489084Author Michael RobersonFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Running Press AdultPublisher Running Press Adult

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639368952Author James CrosslandFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Pegasus CrimePublisher Pegasus CrimeWeight(grams) 494g

The Habsburg Empire’s development into a modern nation state was, necessarily, bound up with the emergence of a vast bureaucratic network of civil servants. Responsible for addressing diverse social problems in areas such as education, public...

Explores how four public intellectuals in North India imagined freedom and Hindi-Hindu nationhood through their writings on caste, Ayurveda, travel, and communism.What did everyday Hinduism in India look like a hundred years ago? Were its practices more...

The Scottish Borders comprises the historic counties of Peeblesshire, Selkirkshire, Roxburghshire and Berwickshire, traditionally an area synonymous with woven cloth [tweed], knitwear and agriculture. It is also an area that suffered from rural...

Bernard Heyberger carved new paths in the study of Middle Eastern Christianity, helping to shed fresh light on aspects of the connected history of the Near East that had previously been neglected. His ground-breaking work has spanned many disciplines,...

Gendered Aesthetics of Blackness delves deeply into the visual artistry and activism of Afro-Cuban women in Cuba and the United States. Influential in their communities yet overlooked in the mainstream art world and academic discourse, Harmonia Rosales,...

Russia's twenty-first-century military aggression has inspired calls for re-thinking the Soviet era and its aftermath – in particular, for drawing attention to the non-Russian parts of the (former) USSR. At the same time, the present era of anthropogenic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789048568369Author Mieke KirkelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Amsterdam University PressPublisher Amsterdam University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157896Author Joshua ShanleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 141g

The most sacred site of Islam, the Kaba (the granite cuboid structure at the centre of the Great Mosque of Mecca) is here investigated by examining six of its predominantly spatial effects: as the qibla (the direction faced in prayer); as the axis and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780306832161Author Erik PiepenburgFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Hachette BooksPublisher Hachette Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781667205212Author Charles PhillipsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Thunder Bay PressPublisher Thunder Bay PressWeight(grams) 1161g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798990093713Author Daniel Joseph GonzalezFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Shodan PressPublisher Shodan PressWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541607118Author Judith ScheeleFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781526178022Format HardbackImprint Manchester University PressPublisher Manchester University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541619951Author Adrian GoldsworthyFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books

Stephen C. Russell tells the story of the Bible's role in Jamaica's 1865 Morant Bay rebellion and the international debates about race relations then occupying the Atlantic world. With the conclusion of the American Civil War and arguments about...

The Imperial Russian penny press was a vast network of newspapers sold for a single kopeck per issue. Emerging in cities and towns across the empire between the 1905 Revolution and the onset of the First World War, these sensational tabloids quickly...

Ibadi Muslims, a minority religious community, historically inhabited pockets throughout North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and the East African coast. Yet less is known about the community of Ibadi Muslims that relocated to Egypt. Focusing on the...

Archives are not only sources for history but have their own histories too, which shape how historians can tell stories of the past. This book explores the archival history of one of the most powerful polities of the late-medieval Middle East: the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538735121Author Jay WinikFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Grand Central PublishingPublisher Grand Central Publishing

Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and Johannes Vermeer were peers, extremely curious and grew up in the bustling Delft of the seventeenth century. Nowadays, they are world famous. Both explored and created new worlds. Van Leeuwenhoek discovered the miraculous...

Food is the physiological basis of man’s existence but is also an expression of a society’s culture and may play many roles other than physiological in terms of both personal and group relationships. Originally published in 1976, The Making of the Modern...

Stephen C. Russell tells the story of the Bible's role in Jamaica's 1865 Morant Bay rebellion and the international debates about race relations then occupying the Atlantic world. With the conclusion of the American Civil War and arguments about...

The senses in interior design examines how sight, touch, smell, hearing and taste have been mobilised within various forms of interiors. The chapters explore how the body navigates and negotiates the realities of designed interiors and challenge the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467162494Author The Center of WichitaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781009639699Author John OsborneFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Cambridge University PressPublisher Cambridge University Press

Compelling essays reveal Russia as a declining, fragile power that still harbors imperialist ambitions.In Russia Under Putin, editor Andrew S. Natsios brings together an esteemed group of scholars to explore the complex duality of Vladimir Putin's Russia...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681065861Author Caitlin YagerFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Reedy PressPublisher Reedy Press

The Augustan poet Ovid exerted significant influence over the Middle Ages, and his exile captured the later medieval imagination. Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile examines a variety of creative scholastic and literary responses to Ovid's exile across...

How do borders define political, cultural and social realms, influencing identity and community? Mind the Gap: Borders, Limits and Frontiers explores such questions and comprises two parts; the first section compiles interdisciplinary essays from leading...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798887771540Author Tegen EvansFormat HardbackImprint Nosy CrowPublisher Nosy Crow

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464226908Author Mike BezemekFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint SourcebooksPublisher Sourcebooks

The Life of an Enslaved African in the Ottoman Empire and Iran is a poignant and compelling account of one man’s journey through struggle, resilience, and unimaginable suffering. In the early twentieth century, Mahboob Qirvanian recorded his personal...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990771750Author Anne De VriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Paideia PressPublisher Paideia PressWeight(grams) 272g

Foregrounding the entangled history of China and the Philippines, Guingona brings to life an array of understudied, but influential characters, such as Filipino jazz musicians, magnetic Chinese swimmers, expert Filipino marksmen, leading Chinese...

The Edinburgh Companion to Irish Modernism presents a fresh perspective on received understandings of Irish modernism. The introduction draws connections between modernism in the arts and modernism as a resistant, liberal, relativist movement within the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316564472Author Alexander RoseFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Little Brown and CompanyPublisher Little Brown and Company

History is full of the weird, wild, and wacky—and in this interactive adventure book with 250+ photos, middle grade readers uncover the incredible mysteries of our worldKids ages 7+ will discover why history is the coolest subject ever with mind-blowing...