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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541602922Author Lloyd Llewellyn-JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books

Antarctica. Winter 1912.Hunkering down in the windiest place on earth, eighteen young Australians eagerly await a chance to prove themselves as polar explorers and scientists. The spring sledging season will bring adventure, danger, and the discovery of...

This book provides a concise and incisive introduction to the Teutonic Knights, or Teutonic Order, the last of the great military orders established in the twelfth century. Evolving into a powerful religious institution, the Knights left a profound and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998968957Author Jennifer WingateFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Pritzker Military Museum & LibraryPublisher Pritzker Military Museum &...

In A Mirror for History, author Marc Egnal uses novels and art to provide a new understanding of American society. The book argues that the arc of middle-class culture reflects the evolution of the American economy from the near-subsistence agriculture...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594164262Author Shawn David McGheeFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Westholme PublishingPublisher Westholme PublishingWeight(grams) 454g

In Kings of the Garden, Adam J. Criblez traces the fall and rise of the New York Knicks between the 1973, the year they won their last NBA championship, and 1985, when the organization drafted Patrick Ewing and gave their fans hope after a decade of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541645912Author Hugh WilfordFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 590g

This book is Volume IV in the Official History of Criminal Justice in England and Wales. Previous volumes have focused on the moral reforms of the 1960s, the changes to the criminal courts and the introduction of an independent prosecution service, and...

On the Trail of William Wallace offers a refreshing insight into the life and heritage of the great Scots hero whose proud story is at the very heart of what it means to be Scottish, and whose effect on the ordinary Scot through the ages is manifest in...

In Too Far on a Whim, Tyler A. Pitrof presents a high-spirited revision of the US Navy’s commitment to high-steam propulsion systems, the mainstay of its World War II fleets. Pitrof’s research persuasively demonstrates that in its war against the...

Originally published in 1987, South Africa in Crisis documents the perceptions and policies of all the major interest groups in South Africa during the 1980s when the long-running struggle for ultimate political power in South Africa entered a new phase...

This book brings together critical essays on time, history and narrativity and the explorations of these concepts in philosophy, music, art and literature.The volume provides a comprehensive introduction to narrative theories as well as philosophical...

To most of us, Celtic culture is at once distinctive and enigmatic. Though we may acknowledge the Celtic heritage of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Spain (Galicia) and France (Brittany), and be familiar with the mythology and literature that has given us...

'Fascinating, masterful ... gems scattered throughout the book' Peter Frankopan, Spectator'Quirkily original but also scholarly and authoritative, to be read for pleasure and serious reflection' Telegraph*The dramatic history of Europe's shape-shifting...

The formation of modern European states during the long 19th century was a complicated process, challenged by the integration of widely different territories and populations. The Science of State Power in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1790-1880 builds on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119139606Author Abdul KarimFormat HardbackPage Count 234Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and Distributors

Originally published in 1994, Portrait of a Racist is an astonishing biography of Byron De La Beckwith (1920–2001), who murdered Black civil rights leader Medgar Evers in June 1963. Written by Beckwith’s nephew by marriage, the book is based on dozens of...

Originally published in 1981, this book took a position which was unpopular within the academic establishment at the time of its publication. It argued that the extraordinary social and economic changes that came over South Africa in the 20th Century...

First published in 1942, Palestine is a brief history of Zionism, interspersed with a wealth of observation stimulation for the seeker of objective truth. The author develops his own theories of Jewish racialism, nationalism and colonization, and...

The Confederate Navy's medical service is usually overlooked in histories of the Civil War, yet it was vital in maintaining the fighting strength of the South's navy and marine corps. Confederate medical officers not only manned war vessels, they staffed...

Following emancipation, African Americans continued their quest for an education by constructing schools and colleges for Black students, mainly in the U.S. South, to acquire the tools of literacy, but beyond this, to enroll in courses in the Greek and...

In the 1890s, conflict erupted on the Ottoman island of Crete. At the heart of the Crete Question, as it came to be known around the world, were clashing claims of sovereignty between Greece and the Ottoman Empire. The island was of tremendous...

Conspicuously missing from narratives of the Lebanese Civil War are the stories of women who took part in daily social activism and political advocacy during the tumultuous conflict. What the War Left Behind gives voice to their stories, with eight women...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781685900557Author Bruce NeuburgerFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Monthly Review Press,U.S.Publisher Monthly Review Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 703g

In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Like today, this was a time of progress and dread, characterised by political and technological breakthroughs and waves of immigration that swelled the populations...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911658955Author Dr Ron SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Mortons Media GroupPublisher Mortons Media GroupWeight(grams) 1305g

Charts the social and cultural life of private insurance in postwar America, showing how insurance institutions and actuarial practices played crucial roles in bringing social, political, and economic neoliberalism into everyday life. Actuarial thinking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783111323411Author Poppy TushinghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 297Imprint De GruyterPublisher De Gruyter

During the 19th century, coming under the increasing military pressure exerted by the colonial military powers of Europe, several Muslim countries of both Africa and Asia were forced to modernize – in a progressive way – their armies in order to face the...

The British in the Adriatic, 1800–1825 brings together three detailed studies of British naval and military, diplomatic and commercial activity in the eastern Adriatic during the Napoleonic wars, drawing on original research in various British archives...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119953745Author Leena MoreFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and Distributors

Blood, fire and iron: An unforgettable portrait of the most feared soldiers of World War TwoIn the closing years of the 1930s, German agent-provocateurs worked in secrecy. These crack units of elite soldiers paved the way for the invasions of...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119139484Author Abdur RahmanFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and Distributors

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781569027400Author Katharina OguntoyeFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Red Sea Press,U.S.Publisher Red Sea Press,U.S.

Originally published in 1979, The Liberal Dilemma in South Africa discusses the dilemma of how to overthrow an oppressive social order maintained through violence in a non-violent manner. The contributors to this volume were all established social...

How we dress today looks a lot different than it did in the past. From clothing as a status symbol to the invention of denim and rise of blue jeans, the history of fashion includes some unusual, amazing and fascinating facts. Learn more about how people...

Germany, like many countries, has witnessed the rise of extremist far-right groups and parties in recent years, and no more so than in the eastern regions. Why have those parts of Germany that used to be part of the old GDR turned out to be so supportive...

In the summer of 1944 the Red Army crushed Army Group Centre in one of the largest offensives in military history. Operation Bagration - launched almost exactly three years after the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union - was Stalin's retribution for...