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Award-winning author-illustrator Lynn Curlee's "exquisitely detailed...reverent, absorbing homage" (Publishers Weekly, starred review) to the Statue of Liberty-now with a new look!"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593657225Author Caroline FraserFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 686gDimensions(mm) 243mm *...

But There Was Love-Shaping the Memory of the Shoah proposes a new paradigm for Shoah remembrance in today's cultural and political reality. It derives from the four-year workings of a group of researchers and artists at The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute...

The miraculous story of Madrid—how a village became a great world city For centuries Madrid was an insignificant settlement on the central Iberian plateau. Under its Muslim rulers the town was fortified and enlarged, but even after the Reconquista it...

After the first use of nuclear weapons in 1945, Albert Einstein warned that 'we thus drift towards unparalleled catastrophe'. Today we are no longer drifting but racing toward catastrophe at breakneck speed. This book analyses recent events that have...

Indispensable for understanding the historical forces that shaped modern governance. How did Enlightenment philosophy shape the modern bureaucratic state? While thinkers like Adam Smith and David Hume are celebrated for their contributions to...

This book provides fresh perspectives on a key period in the history of humanitarianism. Drawing on economic, cultural, social and diplomatic perspectives, it explores the scale and meaning of humanitarianism in the era of the Great War. Foregrounding...

The subject of Britain analyses key seventeenth-century texts by Bacon, Jonson and Shakespeare within the context of the English reign of King James VI and I, whose desire to create a united Britain prompted serious reflection on questions of nationhood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780826223364Author Patricia ClearyFormat PaperbackPage Count 462Imprint University of Missouri PressPublisher University of Missouri PressWeight(grams)...

Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approach to understanding games using theories from myth and...

The Greater Second World War challenges the traditional temporal and geographic frameworks of World War II, expanding the timeline to include a series of regional conflicts and revolutions that began in 1931 and continued into the mid-1950s. These...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798892925914Author Philip A BonneauFormat HardbackPage Count 460Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 1021gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 33mm

This book explores early modern Italian women as agents of doubt. While women were often considered prone to doubt as a result of their natural "weakness," the essays gathered here reverse this view, demonstrating how women were able to embrace doubt as...

Money in Imperial Rome offers an in-depth examination of the institutional framework within which money operated as an economic agent in the Roman empire, emphasising its systemic complexity. Analyses focus on classical Roman law as reflected in the...

Indonesia's capital city of Jakarta - home to over 10 million people with more than 30 million in its greater metropolitan area - stands as a testament to resilience, reinvention and the enduring spirit of its inhabitants.Inspired by the vibrant mix of...

Examines how the elderly have thought, felt and expressed themselves over 2,000 years.

The Iron Horse in Indian Country examines the relationships between Indigenous peoples and railroads that unfolded in the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Historians have long pondered the railroad's profound and...

During the 1950s and first half of the 1960s the Indonesian Communist Party grew from a few thousand members to become the third largest communist party in the world, before it was annihilated in a violent purge in 1965-6 that saw perhaps half a million...

When the Second World War broke out, Miss Daisy Baker of Kingsbury County School reached out to every former scholar serving their country. Two hundred Old Kingsburians replied, sending five hundred letters between them. Those letters survive - and they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398842120Author Anthony Tucker-JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint ArcturusPublisher Arcturus Publishing LtdWeight(grams) 303gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

During the Second World War Royal Air Force Bomber Command suffered unprecedented casualty rates. Those who served, were killed, and were found, now rest in Commonwealth War Graves Commission graves across the length and breadth of the United Kingdom and...

Saudi Modern: Jeddah in Transition, 1938-1964, edited by Abdulrahman and Turki Gazzaz of Bricklab, explores the urban and architectural transformation of the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, since the discovery of oil-highlighting the city's rapid...

The Big Smoke. The Big Apple. Bright lights and skylines set the scene for a housing tale of two cities: London and New York. Growing up in tandem and maturing as urban democracies during the 19th and 20th centuries, London and New York have both...

Some ten thousand years ago, hunter-gatherers moving through a landscape newly emerged from the grip of the last Ice Age reached four islands on the western seaboard. The shores they landed on were deserted. After making camp, they struck out to hunt and...

Anomie Collections is a London-based initiative that supports the work of contemporary British painters by acquiring works on behalf of a group of private collectors. Since its inception in 2022, Anomie Collections has acquired eighty-six paintings and...

The intriguing story of the WW2 airfield that wasn't there!Read stories from the people who held thise closely-guarded secret for yearsPart of the remarkable story of the war of deception to confound HitlerThe Dummy Drome is a well-researched story...

The Anatomy of Colorism in America addresses the significance that colorism, racial hierarchy, and white skin idealization have each had on the lives of individuals across multiple communities and how those experiences have compared with one another...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781804517291Author Ben ZweibelsonFormat HardbackPage Count 536Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

The Canadian postwar economic boom did not include one western coal-mining region. When the Canadian Pacific Railway switched to diesel power, over 2,000 coal-production jobs were lost in the Crowsnest Pass and Elk Valley. The Lights on the Tipple Are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916931206Author Ben JonesFormat HardbackPage Count 492Imprint Navy Records SocietyPublisher Navy Records Society

An "adrenaline junky," Ted Mataxis was the perennial volunteer who saw action in World War II, Korea and Vietnam. After just three and a half years in the Army, he was a battalion commander in brutal combat with the 2nd Battalion, 276th Infantry...

This book is about the Cannes Medical Conference of April 1919 and its long-lasting impacts in the humanitarian space. In the aftermath of the First World War, as the world order was being redesigned, this conference served to shift the Red Cross...

All my life I have dreamed of retreat. Of letting go each responsibility and cutting every tie. And I know I'm not the only one. But, in the vacant days of the pandemic, I began to ask myself: what is gained and what is lost when we withdraw from the...

This book explores the automata of the Medici Villa Pratolino, focusing on the intersection of art, engineering, and philosophy in the late sixteenth century. The author examines how these 'living sculptures' went beyond traditional Renaissance static...

"Remarkably ambitious in scope, Harte manages to knit together a social and cultural history of these years, including how Churchill both influenced the world and was defined by the issues of the day. Harte wants to show when and where the 'scrawny...

On Afghanistan's Plains tells the story of four gruelling tours of duty during Operation Herrick, the codename under which British operations in Afghanistan were conducted from 2002 until 2014 when the mission changed from direct combat with the Taliban...

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All monarchs have need of those to whom they give their trust. Never was this more essential than for the kings of Medieval England. From the Norman victory of 1066 to the bloody demise of Richard III in 1485, the stings and arrows of royal life bred...

Comic-operetta stage set, or ghost town haunted by the walking dead - Sigmaringen still fascinates long after its collapse at the end of the Second World War. This enclave of French Vichy officials and fascists on German soil - refugees and hostages...

Examines the struggle between factions debating the morality and impact on public behaviour of the theatre following the Glorious Revolution, and the political significance of public feeling around this controversy. In 1698 the Jacobite clergyman...