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Trailblazing women of Australian Public Broadcasting, 1945 – 1975 offers a compelling new perspective of Australian radio and television history. It chronicles how a group of female producers defied the odds and forged remarkable careers in the...

Secret operations, corruption, crime, and a city teeming with spies: why Miami was as crucial to winning the Cold War as Washington DC or Moscow.The Cuban Missile Crisis was perhaps the most dramatic and dangerous period of the Cold War. What's less well...

This new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to a single pirate haven, Nassau. Angus Konstam, one of the world's leading pirate experts, has brought his 30 years of research to create...

In this horror graphic novel, American Gods meets Get Out in a dark retelling of the West African legend of Anansi the SpiderIn the Deep South, something evil waits in the darkness . . . This horror graphic novel tells the story of the Turner family, who...

The best-selling author of Black Flags, Blue Waters tells the story of a wild encounter between an American sealing vessel, a shipwrecked British brig and a British warship in the Falkland Islands during the War of 1812. Fraught with misunderstandings...

A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II  “When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages, Kennedy can be dazzling.”—Ian W. Toll, New York Times  “The book makes for enjoyable...

The gripping account of the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier force—and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy   Task Force 58 was World War II’s most powerful battle fleet. Made up in mid-1944 of sixteen...

Ranging from math to literature to philosophy, Uncountable explains how numbers triumphed as the basis of knowledge—and compromise our sense of humanity. Our knowledge of mathematics has structured much of what we think we know about ourselves as...

Hebrew Union College Annual is the flagship journal of Hebrew Union College Press and the primary face of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion to the academic world. From its inception in 1924, its goal has been to cultivate Jewish learning...

When we talk about racism in America, we usually talk about what’s been denied to people of colour. But what if we started measuring what white people get? In The White Bonus, McMillan examines the monetary value of whiteness in this country through her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623716776Author Lena JayyusiFormat PaperbackPage Count 550Imprint Olive Branch PressPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

A history of early modern libraries and the imperial desire for total knowledge.   Medieval scholars imagined the library as a microcosm of the world, but as novel early modern ways of managing information facilitated empire in both the New and Old...

A panoramic history of the Muslim world from the age of the Prophet Muḥammad to the birth of the modern eraThis book describes and explains the major events, personalities, conflicts, and convergences that have shaped the history of the Muslim world. The...

The history of Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, begins in May 1917 when, as part of its wartime mobilization, the Army authorized four training camps for signal troops. One camp, located in central NJ, would eventually be known as “Fort Monmouth,” in honor of...

Untangling the private feelings, ambitions, and fears of early Americans through their personal writings from the Revolution to the Civil War.Modern readers of history and biography unite around a seemingly straightforward question: What did it feel like...

This is an action-filled, illustrated history of 17 history-making aircraft, bringing to life the stories of their creation and of the men who flew and fought in them. Each chapter then goes beyond the story of the aircraft to relate the experiences of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781793607805Author Victoria CalabreseFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Lexington BooksPublisher Lexington Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683934110Author Thomas AdamFormat HardbackPage Count 262Imprint Fairleigh Dickinson University PressPublisher Fairleigh Dickinson University Press

This book examines the collaborative process that produced the outstanding carving and sculpture on many of the most remarkable buildings of what was Britain’s greatest period of wealth and global power. Investigating the processes and methodologies...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802162861Author Patrick K O'DonnellFormat HardbackPage Count 432Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

Paris Review contributor Katy Kelleher explores our obsession with gorgeous things, unveiling the fraught histories of makeup, flowers, perfume, silk, and other beautiful objects. April recommended reading by the New York Times Book Review, Vanity Fair,...

St Giles-in-the-Fields: History of a London Parish resurrects a neglected area of Central London, rich in history and incident. St Giles is at the centre of one of the greatest cities in the world – but you’ve probably never heard of it. But it is an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781801511209Author Joseph MannionFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Four Courts Press LtdPublisher Four Courts Press Ltd

The unofficial guide to the home of the Tigers! The Princeton University Trivia Book features a wealth of historic and recent facts, with over 650 questions (with answers!) and quotations spanning nearly three centuries of Princeton history, ranging from...

Seven minutes past midnight on March 10, 1945, nearly 300 American B-29s thundered into the skies over Tokyo. Their payloads of incendiaries ignited a firestorm that reached up to 2,800 degrees, liquefying asphalt and vaporising thousands; sixteen square...

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, technological innovation made possible dramatic increases in industrial and agricultural productivity; by 1919, per capita gross national product had soared. But this new wealth and new power were not...

In the mid-20th century, at the cusp of the Cold War, some Americans were so afraid of communists living among them that they began to hunt them like witches. As McCarthy took up this mantle to hunt down communists in the US, people became so afraid of...

How international oil companies navigated the local, segregated landscape of north Louisiana in the first decades of the twentieth century. In 1904, prospectors discovered oil in the rural parishes of North Louisiana just outside Shreveport. As rural...

A history of food in the Crescent City that explores race, power, social status, and labor.   In Insatiable City, Theresa McCulla probes the overt and covert ways that the production of food and the discourse about it both created and reinforced many...

A history of food in the Crescent City that explores race, power, social status, and labor.   In Insatiable City, Theresa McCulla probes the overt and covert ways that the production of food and the discourse about it both created and reinforced many...

Who was Rome’s greatest general, statesman, and nation-builder: Caesar or Pompey? Few people have had as many words written about them down through the centuries as Julius Caesar—the brilliant general who made Queen Cleopatra of Egypt his mistress. He...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781538197653Author David R MarplesFormat PaperbackPage Count 314Imprint Rowman & Littlefield PublishersPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Psychiatric Contours investigates new histories of psychiatry, derangement, and agitated subjectivities in colonial and decolonizing Africa. The volume lets the multivalent term madness broaden perception, well beyond the psychiatric. Many chapters...

A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath. In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopolitical thought emerged and...

A wide-ranging history tracing the birth of biopolitics in Enlightenment thought and its aftermath. In Enlightenment Biopolitics, historian William Max Nelson pursues the ambitious task of tracing the context in which biopolitical thought emerged and...

This stirring and vibrant account of women’s athleticism throughout history “will leave readers feeling inspired and powerful” (Ms. magazine).Part group biography, part cultural history, Strong Like Her delves into the fascinating stories of our muscular...

“Impressively researched and written with storytelling verve” (The Wall Street Journal), this is the definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and...

The Official U.S. Army Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Operations Field Manual is the newest edition of this critical U.S. Army field manual about the nuclear, chemical, and biological threats to our military members and civilians and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493081486Author Judd SwiftFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781493072958Author Daniel PattersonFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint The Lyons PressPublisher Rowman & Littlefield