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The forgotten history of the occult foundations of the early-twentieth-century global city.Book InformationISBN 9781477331408Author Shiben BanerjiFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint University of Texas PressPublisher University of Texas...

Five hundred years ago, Thomas Wolsey endowed in Oxford a foundation he called Cardinal's College. Henry VIII, the monarch who dismissed and ruined him, re-established it as Christ Church later in his reign as an institution rich, spacious...

A comprehensive volume on historical mapping in Texas.ReviewsTexas Takes Shape is a beautifully illustrated and designed book of the most comprehensive map collection relating to Texas. Texas is unique in the Union in that it retained ownership of its...

Kurdistan has a storied and turbulent past, marked by a relentless struggle for self-determination and survival. Kurdish women have been at the forefront of this struggle: their lives are a testament to resilience in the face of relentless adversity, as...

The first ever critical biography of Helen Chadwick, who died tragically young but is now revered as a pioneering feminist artist. Helen Chadwick (1953-1996) embraced the sensuous aspects of the natural world, breaking taboos of the 'traditional' or...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781301340Author Grayson PerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Philip Wilson Publishers LtdPublisher Philip Wilson Publishers LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806195360Author Michael PhillipsFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625348845Author Francis G CouvaresFormat PaperbackPage Count 436Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

A wide-ranging history of the term "fascism," what it has meant in the past, and what it means today. The rise of political figures like the United States' Donald Trump, Hungary's Viktor Orban, Italy's Giorgia Meloni, and Argentina's Javier Milei has...

How Black Protestants in Chicago created Ethiopianism, a transnational religious movement against Western imperialism City of Black Souls uncovers the history of how, from the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century, Black Protestants in Chicago...

In James Cowles Prichard of the Red Lodge Margaret M. Crump offers the first in-depth biography of the early Victorian British scientist James Cowles Prichard (1786-1848). An intellectual giant in the developing human sciences, he was a pioneering...

Ties That Bind narrates five stories of how a transnational community helped shape American perceptions and understandings of Korea and Koreans, from a time when only a small number of Americans knew anything about Korea to a time when most Americans...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623179625Author Deatra CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint North Atlantic Books,U.S.Publisher North Atlantic Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 369g

The Pacific theater is often discussed in terms of its most famous battles: from Coral Sea and Midway to Guadalcanal and Leyte Gulf. The Sundowners, Pegasus, and Little Butch provides a new perspective on the Pacific War by following the exploits of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807019054Author Miguel Leon-PortillaFormat HardbackPage Count 216Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 567g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593735107Author Kareem Abdul-JabbarFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA...

Set in the golden age of whaling in the nineteenth century, this captivating book brings to life the adventures of the dynamic protagonist, Benjamin Clough, best known for single-handedly rescuing the ship Sharon from mutineers in 1842. Clough's heroism...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625348685Author Louis J ParascandolaFormat PaperbackPage Count 313Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625348623Author James C O'ConnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806195353Author Jonathan M HouseFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781586424060Author Francis S. BarryFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Steerforth PressPublisher Steerforth Press

No animal is so entangled in human history as the horse. The thread starts in prehistory, with a slight, shy animal, hunted for food. Domesticating the horse allowed early humans to settle the vast Eurasian steppe; later, their horses enabled new forms...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806195391Author Robert P WettemannFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma Press

How colonial conquest was driven by state-sponsored, profit-driven campaigns to murder and mutilate Indian peoples in North America From the mid-1600s through the late 1800s, states sponsored scalp bounties and volunteer campaigns to murder and...

For centuries, Europeans assumed that indigenous Americans lacked the sophistication to build cities and establish hierarchies. For over a millennium, prior to and after the arrival of white colonialists, however, native nations had been adapting to...

The transatlantic slave trade is too often reduced to a single module in a history course or chapter in a book. But - from the maps we use to the clothes we wear and the science that explains our world - its influence is everywhere. From the creators...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798890181138Author Linda Foard RobertsFormat HardbackPage Count 270Imprint Radius BooksPublisher Radius Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802164759Author John HaymondFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly PressPublisher Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press

How Africa's most notorious tyrant made his oppressive regime seem both necessary and patriotic Idi Amin ruled Uganda between 1971 and 1979, inflicting tremendous violence on the people of the country. How did Amin's regime survive for eight...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780700638659Author Jon K LauckFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint University Press of KansasPublisher University Press of Kansas

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781625348609Author Liam RiordanFormat PaperbackPage Count 245Imprint University of Massachusetts PressPublisher University of Massachusetts...

Your behind-the-scenes look at the historic showdown between President Donald Trump and the criminal justice system, told through the eyes of the journalist who was in the courtroom each day, capturing every dramatic twist and turn. A panoramic New York...

A new history of the American Jewish relationship with Israel focused on its most urgent and sensitive issue: the question of Palestinian rights "Provide[s] an essential backstory to one of the keenest debates today within Jewish communities."-Kenan...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781643365572Author Associate Professor Angela G RayFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint University of South Carolina PressPublisher University of South...

Trawling through a vast family archive and arcane sources in half a dozen languages, Adam Zamoyski has revealed the dramatic life of his great-great-great grandmother, an uneducated, vulnerable girl cast into a man's world. ...

The Tank Warfare Illustrated Atlas is a highly illustrated and accessible account of the development of tank warfare, from World War I to the present day. Featuring more than 120 complex computer-generated battle maps and graphics, the book ranges from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773856223Author Timothy Andrews SayleFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint University of Calgary PressPublisher University of Calgary Press

Global Germany Circa 1800 asks two interrelated questions: How did Germans participate in the European conquest of the world, and how were they different from other imperial powers? In other words, what is the relation between the German form of empire,...

The first in a new in-depth nonfiction series examining the devastating terrorist attacks that changed the course of history from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jack Carr and Pulitzer Prize finalist James M. Scott, beginning with the 1983 Marine...

Military aviation technology has developed enormously since the end of the Cold War, with new stealth aircraft and airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft augmenting the classic multirole fighters, strategic bombers and assault helicopters of...