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Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve by MS Harwood 9781467161374
RRP: $48.73$32.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467161374Author MS HarwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia Publishing (SC)Publisher Arcadia Publishing (SC)Weight(grams) 9g -
Circle! Square! Progress!: Zurich's Concrete Avant-garde. Max Bill, Camille Graeser, Verena Loewensberg, Richard Paul Lohse and Their Times by Thomas Haemmerli 9783039421640
RRP: $87.75$57.04They were reviled, ridiculed, and ignored. Today, the Zurich Concretists — along with Dada — are considered the most important art movement originating from Switzerland. Circle! Square! Progress! tells the story of the city’s avant-garde movement, which... -
Guardians of Discourse: Journalism and Literature in Porfirian Mexico by Kevin M. Anzzolin 9781496233370
$107.07During Porfirio Díaz’s thirty-year rule, Mexico dealt with the press in disparate ways in hopes of forging an informed and, above all, orderly citizenry. Even as innumerable journalists were sent to prison on exaggerated and unfair charges of defamation... -
Rediscovering Corbett: A Practical Appraisal of Some Principles of Maritime Strategy by Donald Mackinnon 9781032306056
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book explores the value of Corbett’s seminal work Some Principles of Maritime Strategy over time in a changing context and with evolving technology. It has been over a century since Sir Julian Corbett published Some Principles of Maritime Strategy... -
Warships in the War of the Pacific 1879–83: South America's ironclad naval campaign by Angus Konstam 9781472861245
RRP: $25.33$17.73Superbly illustrated with original artwork throughout, this book explores the ironclad warships that fought the little-known battles of South America's War of the Pacific. In the late 19th century, a war erupted between Chile and Peru, the catalyst for... -
Values in Cities: Urban Heritage in Twentieth-Century Australia by James Lesh 9780367371067
RRP: $77.98$68.37Examining urban heritage in twentieth-century Australia, James Lesh reveals how evolving ideas of value and significance shaped cities and places. Over decades, a growing number of sites and areas were found to be valuable by communities and... -
Japanese Woodblock Prints by Andreas Marks 9783836585545
RRP: $29.25$22.15From Edouard Manet’s portrait of naturalist writer Émile Zola sitting among his Japanese art finds to Van Gogh’s meticulous copies of the Hiroshige prints he devotedly collected, 19th-century pioneers of European modernism made no secret of their love of... -
Beyond Molotovs - A Visual Handbook of Anti-Authoritarian Strategies by International Research Group on Authoritarianism and Counter-Strategies 9783837670554
RRP: $97.50$72.42Authoritarianism operates on a visceral level rather than relying on arguments. How can we counter authoritarian affects? This publication brings together more than 50 first-hand accounts of anti-authoritarian movements, activists, artists, and scholars... -
The Changing World of Caste and Hierarchy in Bengal: Depiction from the Mangalkavyas c. 1700–1931 by Sudarshana Bhaumik 9780367704186
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book challenges the prevalent assumptions of caste, hierarchy and social mobility in pre-colonial and colonial Bengal. It studies the writings of colonial ethnographers, Orientalist scholars, Christian missionaries and pre-colonial literary texts... -
United States Marine Reconnaissance in the Vietnam War: Ghost Soldiers and Sea Commandos, 1963-1971 by Leo J. Daugherty III 9781476690964
RRP: $56.53$45.59Tracing the history of U.S. Marine Force and Battalion Reconnaissance from its formation in 1898 through its operations during the Vietnam War (1963-1971), this book provides insight into Force Recon's selection, training and deployment. Emphasis on... -
Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism by Richard Rorty 9780674295476
RRP: $33.05$25.08“Provocative and engaging…The array of urgent questions and crises facing our democracy makes one miss Richard Rorty’s voice: insistent, relentlessly questioning, and dedicated to the proposition that we can’t afford to let our democracy fail.”—Chris... -
We Refuse: A Forceful History of Black Resistance by Kellie Carter Jackson 9781541602908
RRP: $58.50$35.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541602908Author Kellie Carter JacksonFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Seal Press (CA)Publisher Seal Press (CA) -
City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque by x Mike Rapport 9780349128160
RRP: $58.50$37.83Paris in the Belle Époque is remembered as a golden age of cultural flourishing and political progress. The period between the revolutionary 1870s and the outbreak of war in 1914 saw the modern French capital take shape: by day Parisians could admire the... -
Capital, Race and Space, Volume I: The Far Right from Bonapartism to Fascism by Richard Saull 9798888902295
RRP: $58.50$38.77In this first volume of Capital, Race and Space, Richard Saull offers an international historical sociology of the European far-right from its origins in the 1848 revolutions to fascism.Providing a distinct and original explanation of the evolution and... -
Come Fly with Us: NASA's Payload Specialist Program by Melvin Croft 9781496238627
RRP: $50.68$37.93Winner of the 2020 Space Hipsters Prize for Best Book in Astronomy, Space Exploration, or Space HistoryCome Fly with Us is the story of an elite group of space travelers who flew as members of many space shuttle crews from pre-Challenger days to Columbia... -
The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future by Jonathan Chatwin 9781350435711
RRP: $42.88$35.30On a freezing January afternoon in 1992, Deng Xiaoping, China’s former paramount leader and now a revered elder statesman, set off on a month long trip around China’s south in defence of the reforms he had set in motion to open up China’s economy and... -
A Cultural History of the Home in the Renaissance by Dr Amanda Flather 9781350412255
RRP: $50.68$44.09This volume addresses the relationship between people and their homes in Christian areas of Western Europe in the Renaissance, traced from the late fourteenth century to around 1650. The two centuries after 1450 were characterised by a cluster of... -
A Cultural History of the Home in the Medieval Age by Professor Katherine L. French 9781350412231
RRP: $50.68$44.09The period covered by this volume, roughly 800-1450, was one of enormous change in the way people lived in their houses. Medieval people could call a grand castle, a humble thatched hut, or anything in between home, but houses were more than physical... -
Urban Battlefields: Lessons Learned from World War II to the Modern Era by Gregory Fremont-Barnes 9781682477243
RRP: $87.65$71.58Urban Battlefields: Lessons Learned from World War II to the Modern Era offers a detailed study of the complexities of urban operations, demonstrating through historical conflicts their key features, the various weapons and tactics employed by both... -
Churchill's Challenges, 1918–1940 by John Harte 9781036100360
RRP: $48.75$34.36Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis by George Stephanopoulos 9781538770184
RRP: $31.18$21.31George Stephanopoulos, former senior advisor to President Clinton and for more than 20 years anchor of This Week and co-anchor of Good Morning America, recounts the crises that decided the course of history, from the place 12 presidents made their... -
The Wrong Stuff: How the Soviet Space Program Crashed and Burned by John Strausbaugh 9781541703346
RRP: $58.50$35.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541703346Author John StrausbaughFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint PublicAffairsPublisher PublicAffairs -
Reds: The Tragedy of American Communism by Maurice Isserman 9781541620032
RRP: $68.25$39.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541620032Author Maurice IssermanFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic BooksWeight(grams) 594g -
Welsh Wonders Series Full Pack by Various 9781914303395
RRP: $97.48$97.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914303395Author VariousFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Llyfrau Broga BooksPublisher Llyfrau Broga Books -
Russia in the Context of Global Transformations: Capitalism and Communism, Culture and Revolution by Aleksandr Buzgalin 9798888902257
RRP: $48.75$32.62In Russia in the Context of Global Transformations (Capitalism and Communism, Culture and Revolution) the authors focus on the dramatic changes in Russia’s socio-economic system over the past hundred years.The contradictions of Russia’s triumphs and... -
Ecologies of Bronze Age Rock Art: Organisation, Design and Articulation of Petroglyphs in Eastern-Central Sweden by Fredrik Fahlander 9798888571392
RRP: $78.00$63.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798888571392Author Fredrik FahlanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Casemate PublishersPublisher Casemate Publishers -
Made in Manchester: A people’s history of the city that shaped the modern world by Brian Groom 9780008608521
RRP: $42.90$28.43A rich and vivid history of Britain's second city through the people who have made it ‘What Manchester thinks today, England thinks tomorrow.’ Long before Manchester gave the world titans of industry, comedy, music and sport, it was the cosmopolitan... -
The Amazing History of Medicine by Heather Murphy Capps 9781398251502
RRP: $17.53$12.58Going to the doctor today looks a lot different than it did in the past. In fact, the entire history of medicine is riddled with unusual, amazing and sometimes strange facts. Learn about how people used inventions, treatments and more to survive and... -
Jahangir And The Jesuits: With An Account Of The Travel Of The Benedict Goes And The Mission To Pegu by Fernão Guerreiro 9788119139583
RRP: $102.38$101.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788119139583Author Fernão GuerreiroFormat HardbackPage Count 318Imprint Manohar Publishers and DistributorsPublisher Manohar Publishers and Distributors -
World War I: The Definitive Visual History, New Edition by DK 9780744098518
RRP: $78.00$46.39Now revised and updated, World War I: The Definitive Visual Guide takes you from the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand to the Treaty of Versailles. Experience some of the most prominent battles, such as the Somme and Verdun, through compelling... -
Lessons In Liberty: Thirty Rules For Living From Ten Extraordinary Americans by Jeremy S. Adams 9780063311077
RRP: $58.50$34.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780063311077Author Jeremy S. AdamsFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc -
The Good Forest: The Salzburgers, Success, and the Plan for Georgia by Karen Auman 9780820366098
$48.28Georgia, the last of Britain’s American mainland colonies, began with high aspirations to create a morally sound society based on small family farms with no enslaved workers. But those goals were not realized, and Georgia became a slave plantation... -
Exploring the Mid-Republican Origins of Roman Military Administration: With Stylus and Spear by Elizabeth H. Pearson 9780367745547
RRP: $77.98$68.37This volume demonstrates the development of Roman military bureaucracy during the Middle Republic, expanding on recent research to examine these administrative systems that made possible Rome’s expansion in this period. Bringing together literary works,... -
US Battle Tanks 1917–1945 by Steven J. Zaloga 9781472858825
RRP: $58.50$42.88A comprehensive and detailed illustrated examination of the development and combat performance of US battle tanks from World War I to the end of World War II. In this, the first of two highly illustrated volumes examining the complete history of US Army... -
Confucian Reform in Chosŏn Korea: Yu Hyŏngwŏn's Pan’gye surok (Volume III) by Woosung Bae 9781032181592
$79.99Pan’gye surok (or "Pan’gye’s Random Jottings") was written by the Korean scholar and social critic Yu Hyŏngwŏn(1622-1673), who proposed to reform the Joseon dynasty and realise an ideal Confucian society. It was recognised as a leading work of political... -
Nell Walden, Der Sturm, and the Collaborative Cultures of Modern Art by Jessica Sjöholm Skrubbe 9780367566876
RRP: $77.98$68.37Based on hitherto overlooked archival material, this book reveals Nell Walden’s significant impact on the Sturm organisation through a feminist reading of supportive labour that highlights the centrality of collaborative work within the modern art world... -
Unattached Women, Able-Bodied Men: Partition, Migration and Resettlement in Bengal by Tista Das 9781032342160
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book is one of the few gendered histories of the Partition experience in Bengal. Tracing the afterlife of the Partition in Bengal through the gendered experience of displacement and resettlement, it analyses the spatial reconfigurations that were... -
Poverty in Ancient Greece and Rome: Realities and Discourses by Filippo Carlà-Uhink 9781032330044
RRP: $77.98$68.37This volume presents an innovative picture of the ancient Mediterranean world. Approaching poverty as a multifaceted condition, it examines how different groups were affected by the lack of access to symbolic, cultural and social – as well as economic –... -
Wilkie Collins: The Complete Fiction by Stephen Knight 9781032293523
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the complete works of Wilkie Collins’s. Examining his vast array of novels and short stories, this volume includes analysis of the social, historical, and political commentary Collins offered within... -
The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State by Derek Fraser 9780367765361
RRP: $77.98$68.37This book provides the definitive account of the making of the 1942 Beveridge Report and its influence on wartime and post-war social policy. The Beveridge Report: Blueprint for the Welfare State aims to offer a definitive analysis of the famous...