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What 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...

How 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...

Apologies 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

In 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...

How 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...

A 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...

Apologies 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

More 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...

Based 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...

Apologies 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

Muhammad: 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...

Using 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...

Civil 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...

The 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...

An 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...

Illustrated 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...

The 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...

How 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,...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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...

Focusing in turn on history, powerful individuals, under-represented voices and the arts, the essays in this collection cover a wide variety of modern and contemporary narrative fiction from Jo Walton and L. Sprague De Camp to T. S. Chaudhry and...

This book demonstrates how the Romans constructed garden boundaries specifically in order to open up or undermine the division between a number of oppositions, such as inside/outside, sacred/profane, art/nature, and real/imagined. Using case studies from...

In this book readers will find stories about medieval heresies and “magic” from an unusual perspective: that of food studies. The time span ranges from Late Antiquity to the Late Middle Ages, while the geographical scope includes regions as different as...

In 1969 Greece withdrew from the Council of Europe (CoE), following pressure exercised by various European countries, organisations, social movements and individuals in response to the brutal conduct of the military junta that had taken power by force on...

One of the greatest ever sieges is masterfully brought to life by a leading expert on the Eastern Front. At the height of World War II the people of Leningrad endured a bitter 900-day siege, struggling against bombing, shelling, and starvation. Prit...

Emma Goldman’s life and work offer countless perspectives for study and analysis. As an anarchist activist she always attacked any form of inequality and was a lifelong agent for freedom. Goldman, who lived a transnational life, in her writings and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800353084Author Chris GibsonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint Crecy PublishingPublisher Crecy Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781785908668Author David LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Biteback PublishingPublisher Biteback Publishing

First published in 1980, Catalogue of Chinese Manuscripts in Danish Archives is a descriptive catalogue that gives the date, address, and a summary of the contents for some 500 Chinese manuscripts in three Danish archives: the National Archives, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161625435Author Carina Kühne-WespiFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr Siebeck

This study offers a radically new perspective on Dutch Neorealist work, one that emphasizes the role of film as an apparatus, the effects of which, when emulated in painting, can reproduce the affective experience of film-watching.More of a tendency than...

The Global Wireless charts a history of wireless beginning in the 1910s, when it was used as a tool for global communication, and ending as it declined and slowly fell from view. Located at a crossroads of media history and science and technology...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800087224Author Eva MillerFormat HardbackImprint UCL PressPublisher UCL Press

Through the diaries and personal papers of a German woman, Vera Conrad, this book documents her wartime experiences and deepens our understanding of the complex experiences of trauma and grief that National Socialist supporters experienced. Building on...

Over the course of the fourth through seventh centuries, Rome witnessed a succession of five significant political and military crises, including the Sack of Rome, the Vandal occupation, and the demise of the Senate. Historians have traditionally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910996645Author Ben GristwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Greenwich Exchange LtdPublisher Greenwich Exchange Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884025030Author Stefania GereviniFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & CollectionPublisher Dumbarton Oaks Research...

A surprising look at the 28 Catholic radicals who raided a draft board in 1971—and got away with it. When the FBI arrested twenty-eight people in connection to a break-in at a Camden, New Jersey, draft board in 1971, the Bureau celebrated. The case...

A Cultural History of Sport in Antiquity covers the period 800 BCE to 600 CE. From the founding of the Olympics and Rome’s celebratory games, sport permeated the cultural life of Greco-Roman antiquity almost as it does our own. Gymnasiums, public baths,...

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