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The War Underground 1914–18: Tactics and Equipment by Simon Jones 9781472861054
RRP: $19.34$14.13This absorbing illustrated study reveals the evolving tactics and techniques used by all sides in the underground war during 1914–18. Covering the Western Front but also the Gallipoli and Italian theatres, this study explores three aspects of World War I... -
Fifty-Three Days on Starvation Island: The World War II Battle That Saved Marine Corps Aviation by John R Bruning 9780316508650
RRP: $36.12$23.47On August 20, 1942, twelve Marine dive-bombers and nineteen Marine fighters landed at Guadalcanal. Their mission: defeat the Japanese navy and prevent it from sending more men and supplies to "Starvation Island," as Guadalcanal was nicknamed. The... -
Embracing Emancipation: A Transatlantic History of Irish Americans, Slavery, and the American Union, 1840-1865 by Ian Delahanty 9781531506872
RRP: $38.69$35.32Challenges conventional narratives of the Civil War era that emphasize Irish Americans’ unceasing opposition to Black freedom Embracing Emancipation tackles a perennial question in scholarship on the Civil War era: Why did Irish Americans, who claimed to... -
Eerie Delaware: Chilling Tales from the First State by Josh Hitchens 9781467157452
RRP: $32.24$22.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467157452Author Josh HitchensFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g -
Being in Being: The Collected Works of a Master Haida Mythteller by Skaay 9781771623759
RRP: $21.92$15.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771623759Author SkaayFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyre -
House of Lilies: The Dynasty That Made Medieval France by Justine Firnhaber-Baker 9781541604759
RRP: $45.15$27.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781541604759Author Justine Firnhaber-BakerFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic Books -
A Global Sourcebook in Protestant Political Thought, Volume I: 1517–1660 by Matthew Rowley 9781032162102
RRP: $46.43$40.88Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Vintage Georgia Signs by Hollis 9781467155793
RRP: $34.82$23.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467155793Author HollisFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g -
Everest 24: New Views on the 1924 Mount Everest Expedition by Norbu Tenzing 9781588347824
RRP: $51.54$33.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781588347824Author Norbu TenzingFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Smithsonian BooksPublisher Smithsonian BooksWeight(grams) 1157g -
Arming the World: American Gun-Makers in the Gilded Age by Geoffrey S. Stewart 9781493078585
RRP: $38.70$28.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493078585Author Geoffrey S. StewartFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & Littlefield -
Late Antique Portraits and Early Christian Icons: The Power of the Painted Gaze by Andrew Paterson 9780367697587
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book focuses on the earliest surviving Christian icons, dated to the sixth and seventh centuries, which bear many resemblances to three other well-established genres of ‘sacred portrait’ also produced during late antiquity, namely Roman imperial... -
Courtly Pastimes by Gloria Allaire 9781032307916
RRP: $51.59$45.23The modern concept of passing leisure hours pleasantly would, in the Middle Ages, have fallen under the rubric of Sloth, a deadly sin. Yet aristocrats of past centuries were not always absorbed in affairs of state or warfare. What did they do in moments... -
The Southern Tour: Deng Xiaoping and the Fight for China's Future by Jonathan Chatwin 9781350324053
RRP: $83.85$59.68On 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... -
The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1 by Joseph Jung 9781032152264
RRP: $51.59$45.23The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small, backward, mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse, a hub of innovation, a touristic mecca and a... -
Japan Runs Wild, 1942–1943 by Peter Harmsen 9781636244310
RRP: $29.03$20.59A comprehensive view of World War Two in the Asia Pacific.In early 1942, the Japanese Army and Navy were advancing on all fronts, humiliating their US, British and Dutch foes throughout the Asia Pacific. In a matter of just months, the soldiers and... -
Wide Awake: The Forgotten Force That Elected Lincoln and Spurred the Civil War by Jon Grinspan 9781639730643
RRP: $32.25$24.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639730643Author Jon GrinspanFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USA -
Agent Zo: The Untold Story of Fearless WW2 Resistance Fighter Elzbieta Zawacka by Clare Mulley 9781399601061
RRP: $28.38$18.78'Gripping, moving and important' Simon Sebag Montefiore'Clare Mulley tells the tale of the remarkable Elzbieta Zawacka with flare, passion and insight' James Holland'Agent Zo is a triumph. Absolutely essential reading' Hallie RubenholdThis is the... -
Rethinking the Red Power Movement by Sam Hitchmough 9781032012582
RRP: $46.43$40.88Rethinking the Red Power Movement examines Red Power ideology with a focus on its many forms of solidarity with African Americans, the role of gender in shaping the movement, its international expansion, and its current meaning in contemporary activism... -
Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen by Christian Raffensperger 9781032350776
RRP: $47.72$41.96Name Unknown: The Life of a Rusian Queen offers an example of an eastern European queen as a corrective to the western European focus of medieval queenship studies.Through a chronological approach, this book looks beyond the popular biographies of royal... -
Women and the American Experience: A Concise History by Nancy Woloch 9781032284897
RRP: $46.43$40.88The third edition of Women and the American Experience: A Concise History is a comprehensive survey of U.S. women’s history from the seventeenth century to the present that illuminates the diversity of women’s experience and underscores the roles that... -
A History of Competitive Gaming by Lu Zhouxiang 9780367559625
RRP: $51.59$46.99Competitive gaming, or esports - referring to competitive tournaments of video games among both casual gamers and professional players - began in the early 1970s with small competitions like the one held at Stanford University in October 1972, where some... -
The Stalin Affair: The Impossible Alliance that Won the War by Giles Milton 9781529398519
RRP: $32.25$21.65'Delivered with flamboyance, it features a sparkling cast of chancers' KATJA HOYER, Daily Telegraph 5* review'Page-turning . . . a sizzling high-stakes tale' JAMES HOLLAND'This book might read like the screenplay of a gripping movie, yet every word is... -
Vanishing Vienna: Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City by Frances Tanzer 9781512825343
RRP: $69.66$59.28In Vanishing Vienna historian Frances Tanzer traces the reconstruction of Viennese culture from the 1938 German annexation through the early 1960s. The book reveals continuity in Vienna’s cultural history across this period and a framework for... -
Dreaming of the Colorado Plateau by Sarah Nettuno 9781467197526
RRP: $12.89$10.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467197526Author Sarah NettunoPage Count 16Imprint Arcadia Children's BooksPublisher Arcadia Children's BooksWeight(grams) 9g -
Charles J. Connick: America’s Visionary Stained Glass Artist by Peter Cormack 9780300272321
RRP: $77.40$64.13The first comprehensive account of Charles J. Connick, America’s most innovative and influential stained glass artist working in the first half of the twentieth century When Charles J. Connick (1875–1945) began his stained glass career in Pittsburgh in... -
Weapons in Late Shang (c.1250-1050 BCE) China: Beyond Typology and Ritual by Qin Cao 9780367630843
RRP: $51.59$45.23Weapons in Late Shang (c.1250-1050 BCE) China: Beyond Typology and Ritual explores the large quantities of bronze and jade weapons, such as dagger-axes, spears and arrows, found at the World Heritage site of Yinxu, the late Shang capital located near... -
The Hot Trod: A History of the Anglo-Scottish Border by John Sadler 9781398119628
RRP: $15.47$10.14The 2014 Scottish independence debate and the re-ignition of the SNP’s call for a second vote in the wake of Brexit ‒ and indeed Brexit itself ‒ begs a reappraisal of what nationality and borderer identity actually mean in the twenty-first century and... -
Women in the French Enlightenment: From Femme Savante to Mother of the Family by Anna Maria Marchini 9781032110714
RRP: $51.59$45.23This volume deals with philosophical, scientific, and ideological images of women during the French Enlightenment, examining their emergence in the reflections of the philosophes, in Catholic morality, in biological and medical knowledge, in novels, in... -
Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain by John Benson 9780367766863
RRP: $51.59$45.23Respectability, Bankruptcy and Bigamy in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth-Century Britain explores the vexed question of middle-class respectability in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. It focuses upon the life of London solicitor Hamilton Pawley... -
Biopolitics in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th Century: Fearing for the Nation by Barbara Klich-Kluczewska 9780367751241
RRP: $51.59$45.23The field of biopolitics encompasses issues from health and hygiene, birth rates, fertility and sexuality, life expectancy and demography to eugenics and racial regimes. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive view on these issues for Central... -
The Indigenization of Christianity in China I: 1807–1922 by Qi Duan 9781032370316
RRP: $47.72$41.96As the first volume of a three-volume set on the indigenization of Christianity in modern China, this book focuses on the presence of Christianity during the late Qing dynasty and the early twentieth century, discussing the early waves of Christian... -
Ancient Chinese Academy, Confucianism, and Society I: The Rise and Growth by Xiao Yongming 9781032364896
RRP: $47.72$46.10As the first volume of a two-volume set that studies the ancient Chinese academy from a socio-cultural perspective, this title explores the history of the academy and its relationship with the development of Confucianism in the Song, Yuan, and Ming... -
Vikings of the Steppe: Scandinavians, Rus’, and the Turkic World (c. 750–1050) by Csete Katona 9781032340753
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book explores the relationship between Vikings, Rus’ and nomadic (mostly Turkic) steppe dwellers during the course of the Viking Age (c. 750–1050) in a geographical area stretching from Eastern Scandinavia through the Kievan Rus’, Byzantium, the... -
Where is Art?: Space, Time, and Location in Contemporary Art by Simone Douglas 9781032291666
RRP: $51.59$45.23Featuring chapters by a diverse range of leading international artists and theorists, this book suggests that contemporary art is increasingly characterized by the problem of where and when it is situated. While much advanced artistic speculation of the... -
Confucian Reform in Chosŏn Korea: Yu Hyŏngwŏn's Pan’gye surok (Volume IV) by Woosung Bae 9781032181622
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The Routledge Handbook of the Senses in the Ancient Near East by Kiersten Neumann 9781032065663
RRP: $56.75$49.59This Handbook is a state-of-the-field volume containing diverse approaches to sensory experience, bringing to life in an innovative, remarkably vivid, and visceral way the lives of past humans through contributions that cover the chronological and... -
The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective by Steven Johnson 9780593443958
RRP: $34.83$23.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593443958Author Steven JohnsonFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Rediscovering Objects from Islamic Lands in Enlightenment Europe by Isabelle Dolezalek 9780367615956
RRP: $51.59$45.23This book argues that the provenance of early modern and medieval objects from Islamic lands was largely forgotten until the "long" eighteenth century, when the first efforts were made to reconnect them with the historical contexts in which they were... -
Homes of the Past: A Lost Jewish Museum by Jeffrey Shandler 9780253069993
RRP: $36.11$32.19Homes of the Past tells the powerful story of how immigrant Jewish scholars in 1940s New York sought to build a museum to commemorate their lost worlds and people. Among the Jews who arrived in the United States in the early 1940s were a small number of... -
Greek Captives and Mediterranean Slavery, 1260-1460 by Alasdair C Grant 9781399523837
RRP: $116.10$94.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781399523837Author Alasdair C GrantFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh University Press