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Twisting in Air: The Sensational Rise of a Hollywood Falling Horse Carol Bradley 9781496239006
RRP: €23.79€18.67Twisting in Air chronicles the gritty and glittery era when an extraordinary group of horses made Western movies come alive and explores how one of them, Cocaine, overcame a debilitating injury to become the fastest falling horse of all. Falling horses... -
Clausewitz Myth, The: Or the Emperor's New Clothes Azar Gat 9781803416212
RRP: €16.65€14.58Carl von Clausewitz (1780-1831) is, by far, the most celebrated military theorist, whose prestige has reached new heights. However, this book argues that his reputation has been largely inflated because of the notorious difficulties of understanding his... -
Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses M. G. Sheftall 9780593472255
RRP: €35.69€23.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593472255Author M. G. SheftallFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Dutton / SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Arrival Neighborhoods in Europe since the mid-19th Century: Migrations, Cities, Infrastructures David Templin 9781032320502
RRP: €154.70€133.41This book uses the concept of "arrival spaces" to examine the relationship between migration processes, social infrastructures, and the transformation of urban spaces in Europe since the mid-19th century.Case studies cover cities from London to Palermo... -
Artisan Art: Vernacular wall paintings in the Welsh Marches, 1550-1650 Kathryn Davies 9781910839706
RRP: €29.75€24.16Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910839706Author Kathryn DaviesFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
The Burning Earth: A History Sunil Amrith 9781324007180
RRP: €29.75€24.45Ever since innovations in agriculture, transportation, and medicine brought great freedom to vast numbers of people—the freedom to move, to dream, to create, to discover—our remarkable achievements in reshaping nature have allowed billions of humans to... -
A Day in September: The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind Stephen Budiansky 9781324035756
RRP: €30.93€23.23The Battle of Antietam, which took place on September 17, 1862, remains the single bloodiest day in America’s history: more than 3,600 men died in twelve hours of savage fighting, and more than 17,000 were wounded. As a turning point in the Civil War,... -
Roadside Americans: The Rise and Fall of Hitchhiking in a Changing Nation Jack Reid 9781469684062
RRP: €35.64€34.11Between the Great Depression and the mid-1970s, hitchhikers were a common sight for motorists, as American service members, students, and adventurers sought out the romance of the road in droves. Beats, hippies, feminists, and civil rights and antiwar... -
Ending the Troubles: Religion, Nationalism, and the Search for Peace and Democracy in Northern Ireland, 1997-1998 John M. Burney 9781469683362
RRP: €35.64€33.75In June 1996, the British government convened multiparty talks trying to establish peace within Northern Ireland, after thirty years of bloody civil war based on religious, cultural, political, and economic tensions, known as ""The Troubles."" The talks... -
Policing and urban society in eighteenth-century Paris: 2024 Pascal Bastien 9781835536766
€102.33In the eighteenth century, as the forms, practices and spaces of urban sociability emerged and took shape (such as salons, clubs, theatres, public places and promenades), police forces and policing practices were undergoing far-reaching changes. Though... -
Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers Cornelia Homburg 9781857097016
RRP: €47.60€39.97An original interpretation of the final years of Van Gogh’s career, exploring the people and places in his late paintings The years prior to Van Gogh’s death in 1890 were pivotal to the painter’s brief artistic career. He was working in the South of... -
A Nasty Little War: The West's Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution Anna Reid 9781529326789
RRP: €15.46€10.82'Chillingly original' Max Hastings'Brilliantly depicts a disastrous failure' Antony Beevor'Witty and elegant . . . Excellent background to today's events' Anne Applebaum'Britain's most forgotten war, brilliantly remembered' Simon Jenkins'Vivid and... -
Supernatural Bodies: Stigmata in Modern Britain and Ireland Kristof Smeyers 9781526177230
RRP: €101.15€88.67This book is the first in-depth study of the changing perceptions and receptions of supernatural bodies in modern Britain and Ireland. It focuses on one phenomenon that became hotly contested and discussed in the public sphere between 1840 and 1940: the... -
The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England Sarah Rivett 9781469684079
RRP: €41.59€38.87The Science of the Soul challenges long-standing notions of Puritan provincialism as antithetical to the Enlightenment. Sarah Rivett demonstrates that, instead, empiricism and natural philosophy combined with Puritanism to transform the scope of... -
Sidonius Apollinaris' Letters, Book 2: Text, Translation and Commentary Judith Hindermann 9781399506311
RRP: €35.69€33.07The works of Sidonius Apollinaris, poet, politician and bishop, have long been the subject of interest in historical and theological studies, as he documents the life of the Gallo-Roman aristocracy and church in a time of social and political upheaval... -
Polychrome Art in the Early Modern World: 1200–1800 Ilenia Colón Mendoza 9780367436353
RRP: €160.65€139.56This book focuses on the techniques and materials of polychromy used in early modern Europe and the Americas from 1200 to 1800.Taking a trans-cultural approach, the book studies the production of polychrome sculptures, panels, and altarpieces, as well as... -
After Eden: A Short History of the World John Charles Chasteen 9781324086475
RRP: €20.22€16.10In After Eden, prominent Latin American historian John Charles Chasteen provided a concise history of the world, in which he explores the origins and persistence of the timeless phenomena of humanity’s inhumanity to itself. Where did it come from? Why... -
China and the Palestinian Organizations: 1964–1971 Shai Har-El 9783031578274
RRP: €130.89€119.73This book explores the relations between China and the Palestinian organizations and their development during the period of 1964-1971. It serves as a case study for understanding China’s relations with the Arab world, the superpowers’ competition in the... -
The Humans: Ancient civilisations and the astonishing things they taught us Jonny Marx 9781838916497
RRP: €17.84€11.88Let's delve into the past and discover what humankind has accomplished since the first civilisations were formed . . . The Humans showcases the greatest achievements of ancient civilisations, peoples and iconic figures from history. From the Nubians to... -
Empresses-in-Waiting: Female Power and Performance at the Late Roman Court Christian Rollinger 9781802075939
€129.25Empresses-in-Waiting comprises case studies of late antique empresses, female members of imperial dynasties, and female members of the highest nobility of the late Roman empire, ranging from the fourth to the seventh centuries AD. Situated in the context... -
The British, Soccer and Identity in the Caribbean: Class, Race, Ethnicity and Nation, 1908–1973 Roy McCree 9781032259017
RRP: €154.70€133.41This book examines the role of the British in the diffusion and development of soccer on the Caribbean islands of Trinidad and Tobago, in the light of issues of race, ethnicity, colour, class and national identity, in the period 1908–1973.This role was... -
Hannibal and Scipio: Parallel Lives Simon Hornblower 9781009453356
RRP: €41.65€34.30The Second Punic War between Carthage and Rome began in 218 BCE and ended in 202 with the dramatic defeat at the Battle of Zama of Carthage's commander Hannibal by his adversary, the Roman Scipio. The two men were born about a decade apart but died in... -
In Search Of Berlin: The Story of Europe's Most Important City John Kampfner 9781838954840
RRP: €13.08€8.71A WATERSTONES BEST HISTORY BOOK OF 2023LONGLISTED FOR THE 2024 ONDAATJE PRIZE'A masterful portrait of one of the world's greatest cities... A must-read' PETER FRANKOPAN'Such a delightful read' KATJA HOYER, The Times'Berlin may well be Europe's most... -
Realm of the Black Mountain: A History of Montenegro Elizabeth Roberts 9781911723332
RRP: €22.60€20.21Montenegro was admitted to the UN as its 192nd member in June 2006, thus recovering the independence it had lost nearly 90 years earlier at the Versailles Peace Conference. This is the first full-length history of the country in English for a century,... -
The Mentor-Disciple Relationship in the Visual Arts and Beyond: Mentoring as Human Nurturing Gaetano A. LaRoche 9781032586632
RRP: €59.49€51.77This book undertakes a deep examination of mentor and disciple relationships in the development of artists. It draws upon a variety of relationships and models, including an in-person mentor, a mentor or apprentice scenario, and non-physical mentors such... -
Mosaics, Empresses and Other Things in Byzantium: Art and Culture 330 – 1453 Liz James 9781032612744
RRP: €154.70€133.41This volume consists of 15 articles published between 1991 and 2018. It falls into three sections, reflecting different areas of Liz James’s interests.The first section deals with light and colour and mosaics: four articles considering light and colour... -
How to be a Renaissance Woman: The Untold History of Beauty and Female Creativity Jill Burke 9781788166676
RRP: €14.27€10.03*A Waterstones Best Book of 2023* *A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week* *A New York Times Editor's Pick* 'Terrific' SARAH DUNANT 'Lively and intriguing ... You'll never look at Renaissance portraits in the same way' MAGGIE O'FARRELL 'Highlights a rich... -
Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses M.G. Sheftall 9781035422685
RRP: €35.70€23.09The stories of hibakusha - Japanese for atomic bomb survivors - lie at the heart of this compelling minute-by-minute account of 6 August 1945 - the day the world changed forever as the Enola Gay dropped its payload over Hiroshima, ushering in the nuclear... -
German Jerusalem: The Remarkable Life of a German-Jewish Neighbourhood in the Holy City Thomas Sparr 9781914979040
RRP: €15.46€10.70Planned at the beginning of the 1920s as a garden city on the fringes of Jerusalem, the suburbs of Talbiyeh and Rehavia became a centre of emigration for German Jews from 1933 onwards, acquiring the nickname ‘Grunewald on the Orient’ – a reference to the... -
The Official U.S. Army Pistol Training Manual Department of the Army 9781493087488
RRP: €17.84€13.88The Official U.S. Army Pistol Manual provides the framework for training and using a service pistol, including equipment, ammunition, and shooting. The book is tailored to an individual's use of the M9 service pistol, including specific information about... -
Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Masterpieces Dominic Bradbury 9781838666934
RRP: €119.00€87.58An innovative and original survey of the best Mid-Century Modern architecture from around the world Featuring 450 of the very best works of Mid-Century Modern architecture from every continent, the Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Masterpieces showcases how... -
A History of Christianity in England E.O. James 9781032285894
RRP: €33.31€28.89First published in 1949, A History of Christianity in England is a kaleidoscopic view of the religious situation in England for readers and students who wish to eventually take it up as a serious study. The author asserts that the influence of the Church... -
Archive as Detour: Historical Re-enactment in Artist Archive and Archival Art Practices of Contemporary Hong Kong Sau Wai Vennes Cheng 9789819724871
RRP: €130.89€129.36The book brings a new approach to see the art history of Hong Kong as a historical mediator and offers alternative perspective to discern the current hype of archive research and archival art practices, which informs the commitment in the constant... -
HMS Pickle: The Swiftest Ship in Nelson's Trafalgar Fleet Peter Hore 9781803997186
RRP: €15.46€11.45The smallest ship in Nelson’s fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar was the curiously-named HMS Pickle. The ship was a topsail schooner and, though deemed too small to take part in the fighting it distinguished itself as the ship to bring Captain John... -
Facing the Victorious Turks: How the French Misread the Turkish War of Independence Andrew Orr 9780700637775
RRP: €64.26€52.21At the end of World War I, parts of the defeated Ottoman Empire were seized and partitioned by the Allied Powers. In response, the newly formed Turkish National Movement waged a military campaign to win Turkey’s independence, eventually leading to the... -
Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality Anna Clark 9781032655819
RRP: €41.64€36.71Sources and Methods in the History of Sexuality outlines some of the challenges of retracing sexual acts, identities, and desires in the past, and shows how historians have responded to these methodological challenges with ingenuity and creativity.The... -
American Body Snatchers: Merchandising the Dead in 19th Century New England and Washington, D.C. Richard S. Ross III 9781476695013
RRP: €42.83€35.22At the beginning of the 19th century, New England physicians teaching anatomy in their medical schools expected students to have hands-on experience with cadavers. The only bodies that could be dissected legally were convicted murderers, and this led to... -
This Earthly Globe: A Venetian Geographer and the Quest to Map the World Andrea di Robilant 9780857891808
RRP: €20.22€15.93DURING THE AGE OF DISCOVERY, in the autumn of 1550, an anonymously authored volume containing a wealth of geographical information new to Europeans was published in Venice under the title Navigationi et Viaggi (Journeys and Navigations). This was closely... -
Christian–Jewish Relations 1000–1300: Jews in the Service of Medieval Christendom Anna Sapir Abulafia 9780367552244
RRP: €154.70€133.41This new and revised edition of Christian–Jewish Relations 1000–1300 expands its survey of medieval Christian–Jewish relations in England, Spain, France and Germany with new material on canon law, biblical exegesis and Christian–Jewish polemics, along... -
Joseph Conrad's Eastern Voyages: Tales of Singapore and an East Borneo River Ian Burnet 9781915310309
RRP: €13.08€9.87The life of Józef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski reads like an adventure story, an adventure story written by somebody like Joseph Conrad. The young Conrad dreamed of a life at sea and eventually became a British merchant seaman, working his way up from...