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The Tribal Challenge: Alliances and Confrontations in the Israeli Negev Havatzelet Yahel 9780253070791
$141.98Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic and historical sources, Havatzelet Yahel offers an engaging and sometimes surprising history of Israel's policy toward Bedouin tribalism in the Negev desert in southern Israel. The study opens with a detailed look at... -
The Tribal Challenge: Alliances and Confrontations in the Israeli Negev Havatzelet Yahel 9780253070807
RRP: $50.38$45.30Drawing on a wealth of ethnographic and historical sources, Havatzelet Yahel offers an engaging and sometimes surprising history of Israel's policy toward Bedouin tribalism in the Negev desert in southern Israel. The study opens with a detailed look at... -
All His Spies: The Secret World of Robert Cecil Stephen Alford 9780241423479
RRP: $63.00$44.84From the acclaimed author of The Watchers, the untold story of Robert Cecil - the ultimate Tudor spy-masterRobert Cecil, statesman and spymaster, lived through an astonishingly threatening period in English history. Queen Elizabeth had no clear successor... -
Demagogues, Power, and Friendship in Classical Athens: Leaders as Friends in Aristophanes, Euripides, and Xenophon Professor Robert Holschuh Simmons 9781350214491
$61.64What makes a demagogue? A much more friendly touch, or more importantly, a perception of a friendly touch, than has previously been explored. Demagogues, Power and Friendship in Classical Athens examines the ways in which a demagogic leadership style... -
Youth, Identity, and Re-Fashioning Popular Music in Israel: 1950s–1980s Oded Heilbronner 9783111234496
RRP: $153.30$138.85The book Youth, Identity, and Re-Fashioning of Popular Music in Israel. 1950s–1980s aims to refresh the understanding of the relationship between social power relations, youth culture, and popular music in Israel. The authors discuss various perspectives... -
Kawanishi H6K ‘Mavis’ and H8K ‘Emily’ Units Edward M. Young 9781472860620
RRP: $35.68$25.79An illustrated account of the little-known operations of the Imperial Japanese Naval Air Force’s flying boat units during World War 2. Respectively codenamed the ‘Mavis’ and ‘Emily’ by the Allies, Japan’s H6K and H8K flying boats outstripped their RAF... -
Politics of Feeling in Songs of the Dutch Revolutionary Period Renée Vulto 9789463727396
RRP: $237.30$225.86This book sheds new light on the intertwined history of music and politics through an exploration of Dutch political songs. In the emotionally charged climate of the Dutch revolutionary period at the close of the eighteenth century, songs became a... -
American Icons: The Iconic Architecture of the USA Gestalten 9783967041552
RRP: $115.50$81.14Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783967041552Author GestaltenFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint gestaltenPublisher Die Gestalten Verlag -
The Jesuits in Syria: 1625-1683 Mazin Tadros 9783031636073
RRP: $230.98$230.06This book examines cross-cultural encounters of the Jesuit missionary enterprise in early modern Southwest Asia. It analyzes the early mission to Syria, paying attention to the key interlocutors of the Jesuits and the many challenges they experienced in... -
Teaching Freedom: Stories of Anti-Fascist Teachers in Italy Massimo Castoldi 9781683934202
RRP: $170.10$156.45Starting in the early 1900s, male and female elementary schoolteachers in Italy gained increasing awareness of the role of social workers in the fight against illiteracy and in creating civic consciousness based on widespread, qualified education. In... -
Becoming Catawba: Catawba Indian Women and Nation-Building, 1540-1840 Brooke M. Bauer 9780817361907
$69.07The story of Catawba women who experienced sweeping changes to their world but held onto traditional customs to create and preserve a Catawba identity and build a nation Winner of the Anne B. & James B. McMillan Prize in Southern History Winner of the... -
Empire of Contingency: How Portugal Entered the Indo-Persian World Jorge Flores 9781512826449
$116.03Explores the information and communication practices of the Portuguese empire in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century India Empire of Contingency explores the information and communication practices of the Portuguese empire in late sixteenth- and... -
The Empire’s Reformations: Politics and Religion in Germany, 1495-1648 David M. Luebke 9781350253278
RRP: $31.48$28.43The Empire's Reformations provides a concise overview of reform movements in 16th-century Germany that gave birth to the modern division of western Christianity into multiple denominations – Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Calvinist, and more. It exposes the... -
A Cultural History of Medicine in the Age of Enlightenment Lisa Smith 9781350451605
RRP: $54.58$47.48The Enlightenment, as concept and time period, was haunted by ambiguities about the relationships between mind and body, humans and the natural world, and reason and imagination. The 18th century was inherently contradictory, particularly when it came to... -
Reading Herzl in Beirut: The PLO Effort to Know the Enemy Jonathan Marc Gribetz 9780691260525
$194.96How the Palestine Liberation Organization Research Center informed the PLO’s relationship to Zionism and IsraelIn September 1982, the Israeli military invaded West Beirut and Israel-allied Lebanese militiamen massacred Palestinians in the Sabra and... -
Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans: The British Occupation of Germany, 1945-49 Daniel Cowling 9781800243514
RRP: $23.08$15.77The untold history of the British occupation of Germany, told through the eyes of the people who were there. Following the end of the Second World War, between 1945 and 1949, British forces occupied the northern part of what would become West Germany... -
Chernobyl Roulette: A War Story Serhii Plokhy 9780241681251
RRP: $52.50$37.00What if Chernobyl was just the beginning?The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of warOn 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured... -
Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial Saree Makdisi 9780520409699
RRP: $48.30$45.61How denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel. The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in... -
Kaleidoscope Japan: A nation through the lens of literature Richard Nathan 9781912864140
RRP: $35.68$27.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912864140Author Richard NathanFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Circle EditionsPublisher Red Circle Authors Limited -
Self-Help in the Digital Age: TED Talks, Speculative Fiction, and the Role of Reading Loredana Filip 9783111388267
$62.01In an age where science and technology hold sway and the humanities face a crisis, this book explores the evolving role of literature. It delves into how American self-help culture shapes contemporary ideals of success, mindfulness, and happiness, with... -
An Alchemist in Chains: The Case Against the Mystic Johann Konrad Dippel in Altona Frederik Stjernfelt 9783111479729
RRP: $153.30$135.72How could a pious, Christian mystic spread radical Enlightenment ideas and freedom of thought? Johann Konrad Dippel was a radical pietist, an alchemist, a philosopher, a medical doctor, a renegade, a firebrand. He was also one of the most-read authors... -
Border History from a Borneo Longhouse: The Search for a Life that is Very Good Valerie Mashman 9789463723459
RRP: $224.70$214.05A headman of a remote Kelabit longhouse in Borneo is wrestling with recent changes caused by logging and roadbuilding. During this time of tension, he tells three historical narratives defining what makes the good life. His stories of history celebrate... -
Revisiting Myanmar Present Through Past Vinod Anand 9789390095834
RRP: $119.70$119.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789390095834Author Vinod AnandFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Pentagon PressPublisher Pentagon Press -
Documenting Socialism: East German Documentary Cinema Seán Allan 9781805396574
RRP: $224.70$182.43More than 30 years after the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, its cinema continues to attract scholarly attention. Documenting Socialism moves beyond the traditionally analyzed "feature film production" and places East Germany's documentary... -
Dreaming the New Woman: An Oral History of Missionary Schoolgirls in Republican China Jennifer Bond 9780197654798
RRP: $123.90$111.83Based on extensive oral history interviews, Dreaming the New Woman uncovers the experiences of girls who attended missionary middle schools in Republican China in the first half of the twentieth century. Chinese missionary schoolgirls were often labelled... -
British Aircraft of World War I Edward Ward 9781838864781
RRP: $37.78$26.02Organised chronologically by type, British Aircraft of World War I offers a highly-illustrated guide to the main types of aircraft used by British and Commonwealth air forces during World War I. At the start of the war, the fledgling Royal Flying Corps... -
World War II: What Can We Learn from the People Who Witnessed War? Kelly Roberts 9781916526983
RRP: $25.18$23.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916526983Author Kelly RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Cheriton Children's BooksPublisher Cheriton Children's Books -
Submarines of World War II E V Martindale 9781838864637
RRP: $37.78$26.02From the very beginning of World War II, the German U-boats proved their worth, attacking Atlantic shipping and imposing a trangulating blockade on Allied supply lines that seriously degraded Britain’s ability to wage war. In the Pacific theatre, US Navy... -
ClearRevise Edexcel GCSE History 1HI0 Anglo-Saxon and Norman England, C1060-88 PG Online Ltd 9781910523872
$14.93ClearRevise Edexcel GCSE History 1HI0 Anglo-Saxon and Norman England. Illustrated revision and practice. Covers Paper 2. Examination style question with answers provided for all questions within the book. Illustrated topics to improve memory and recall... -
Muhammad: A Critical Biography Robert Spencer 9798888453087
RRP: $52.50$44.94Muhammad: What can we really know about him?We know a great deal about Muhammad—or so it seems. Islamic tradition contains an astonishing wealth of information about the founding figure of the Islamic faith, and most historians take for granted that this... -
Modern Spain: Politics and Society since 1874 Dr Francisco J. Romero Salvadó 9781350455184
$157.75Using a wealth of varied sources, this book is an inspiring and essential gateway to understanding the foundations of modern Spain. Francisco J. Romero Salvadó employs a chronological framework to chart the country’s experience, commencing with the... -
The Fear of Robachicos in Mexico: Media, Childhood and Child Kidnapping 1900-1968 Susana Sosenski 9781350424432
RRP: $178.50$178.42Civil society organizations report that fourteen children disappear every day in Mexico. This book studies the origins of this social phenomenon and its consequences, not only in the emotional sphere, but also in how children have been treated. Focusing... -
Iran's Ministry of Intelligence: A Concise History Steven R. Ward 9781647125110
$151.26The first book about Iran's shadowy Ministry of Intelligence Steven R. Ward provides an accessible overview of Iran's Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) and its focus on tracking and countering domestic dissent and perceived foreign-inspired sedition. The... -
Craxton's Cats Andrew Lambirth 9780500028049
RRP: $31.48$20.58An appealing picture book of cats depicted by John Craxton, one of the major figures of modern British painting, with an introduction and commentary by Andrew Lambirth, who knew Craxton well. By concentrating on a single subject very dear to John... -
Beutepanzers of World War II: Captured tanks and AFVs in German service Steven J. Zaloga 9781472859389
RRP: $27.28$20.56Illustrated with original artwork and archive photos, this is the history of Germany's extensive use of captured tanks in World War II. In this book Steven J. Zaloga, one of the world's leading armor authorities, uncovers the history of one of the... -
God's Own Gentlewoman: The Life of Margaret Paston Diane Watt 9781837731640
RRP: $42.00$28.27The remarkable story of Margaret Paston, whose letters form the most extensive collection of personal writings by a medieval English woman. Drawing on the largest archive of medieval correspondence relating to a single family in the UK, God's Own... -
In Plain Sight: Muslims of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem Ann E. Zimo 9781512824896
RRP: $113.40$98.26How Muslims integrated themselves into the Kingdom of Jerusalem, founded in the wake of the First Crusade In Plain Sight draws from a wide array of interdisciplinary sources to show how Muslims, seemingly hostile to the entire crusading enterprise,... -
At Sea Alex Hall 9781805056034
RRP: $12.58$8.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805056034Author Alex HallFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife Publishing -
The Whirlpool That Produced China: Stag Hunting on the Central Plain Tingyang Zhao 9781438498966
$152.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438498966Author Tingyang ZhaoFormat HardbackPage Count 162Imprint State University of New York PressPublisher State University of New York... -
The Order and Disorder of Communication: Pamphlets and Polemics in the Seventeenth-Century Ottoman Empire Nir Shafir 9781503638952
$131.99The seventeenth-century Ottoman Empire was rife with polemical debate, around worshipping at saints' graves, medical procedures, smoking tobacco, and other everyday practices. Fueling these debates was a new form of writing—the pamphlet, a cheap, short,...